Disclaimer: CBS is just being stingy now. They won't even answer my asking if I can have CSI except to laugh at me. Okay, so I made that up. I never wrote them a letter. But you can imagine they would react that way if I did. At any rate, I don't own CSI and recieve no profit from producing this story.

Help Me

Chapter 13

"Hey guys, good to see you," Warrick spotted Sara and Grissom as they entered the lab together.

"Hello Warrick," Sara smiled.

"Hi," Grissom greeted.

"How was your vacation, boss?" Warrick inquired.

"It was very relaxing," Grissom smiled.

"Good, and how are you Sara?" Warrick asked.

"I'm feeling good, glad to be getting back to work," Sara said truthfully.

"It's been too long, it's good to have you back," Warrick said seriously.

"I've missed you guys all," Sara sighed, "all that time just laying around and taking it easy. It drives me nuts when I'm not allowed to come to work."

Warrick laughed, "Yeah, you are definitely the type who loves to work."

"So, what's wrong with that?" Sara asked.

"Absolutely nothing, at least not when you're as good at your job as you are, Sara," Grissom put in.

"Sara!" Greg popped out of the locker room.

"Hey Greg," Sara laughed, "happy to see me?"

"You could say that, I'm sorry, I get excitable," Greg smirked.

"Like an annoying little dog," Warrick added.

"Hey! What'd I ever do to you?" Greg pouted.

"Nothing man, you're just annoying at times," Warrick said.

"Well I have to get to my office, I'll see you in a little while for our briefing," Grissom left the trio of CSIs standing alone.

"So how are you feeling these days?" Greg asked.

"I'm feeling so much better," Sara started, "I mean it might take me a few days to get back into the groove of working. My sleep schedule got all thrown off on my time off, but I think I will be fine."

"Good to hear," Greg crossed his arms over his chest.

"It was pretty boring this last week, sitting around at home," Sara lied, the rest of them still didn't know about her and Grissom and she intended to keep it that way.

"We missed you around here, especially this last week, with a new person working with us. The girl that filled in from dayshift was nice enough, but she's not you," Warrick explained.

"How about Catherine, I hear she filled in for Gris for a week?" Sara inquired.

"She handled the job like a pro, too bad Grissom's not going anywhere any time soon, I think she liked being in his position," Greg answered.

At this point, Nick Stokes spotted his three friends standing around talking and took his opportunity to sneak up on them. Sara was the only one with her back directly turned to Nick, so he made a signal to Greg and Warrick not to pay attention to him. He got right behind Sara and she swung around.

"Hello Nick!" she exclaimed.

"How did you do that?" he jumped back slightly.

"Come on, I saw Warrick and Greg look behind me and I knew it was you," Sara smiled, proud of herself.

"Good to see you, Sidle," Nick hugged his friend.

"Good to see you too, Nicky," Sara embraced him.

"How are you doing?" Nick inquired in a brotherly way, "you ready to come back to work?"

"I'm fine," Sara assured him, "I was the one who insisted to Grissom that I come back."

"Hello Catherine," Grissom leaned against the door frame, smiling at the sight of Catherine sitting at his desk.

"Oh hi, Gil," Catherine looked up from her work, "feeling rested?"

"Very," Grissom replied, "is the place driving you nuts yet?"

"No, actually I enjoyed the job. I mean, the paperwork is no picnic, but other than that, I felt very at home in your office," Catherine smiled.

"I shouldn't be worried about you trying to steal my job, now should I?" Grissom asked teasingly.

"I'd never steal from you, Gil," Catherine assured him.

"That's very good to hear," Grissom said, "so, how did things go around here?"

"Pretty smooth. Oh! We caught our 'Raspy Robber' on Thursday night," Catherine suddenly remembered.

"Good, I was getting tired of coming in to hear that he had struck again," Grissom sighed in relief, "how did you find him?"

"He got careless," Catherine said with a slight grin, "he forgot to wear his gloves, he left fingerprints all over a gas station. Turns out that gun he was carrying was a fake. He said he knew that he would get caught at some point and when the time came he'd give up without a fight. Sure enough, when we showed up at his place, he was waiting for us."

"That guy was so cocky," Grissom shook his head, "glad he's off the streets. Anything else interesting happen around here?"

"Not really, the girl from dayshift fit in fine," Catherine stated, "but of course everyone went on about how much they missed Sara. They'll all be thrilled to see her again. Oh and I'm sure they missed you too, they just didn't say so."

"Thanks Cath, that makes me feel so loved," Grissom pretended to be hurt.

Catherine laughed, "Well I think it was more of a matter of everyone was just so happy to see you finally take a vacation."

"Yeah, I'm not the type who takes time off for the heck of it," Grissom smiled at the memories of the week he'd spent with Sara.

"Did you do anything exciting?" Catherine asked.

"Actually I did, I went to the Six Flags theme park in Denver, I rode all the roller coasters," Grissom replied.

"Ah, the man who loves roller coasters," Catherine said knowingly, "I bet you had a blast."

"They had a couple of unique coasters there, it was just nice to ride something different, coasters I'd never been on before," Grissom said.

"I'm glad you had took some time off to just enjoy yourself, Gil, you needed it," Catherine said.

Just then, Greg popped his head into Grissom's office, "Am I interrupting anything important?"

"Not really, why Greg, what is it?" Grissom asked.

"Uh, I needed to speak to Catherine…about that case from last night," Greg explained nervously.

"What? We didn't work on a case last night," Catherine started, but caught a look from Greg and suddenly realized, "oh! Okay, let's go."

Grissom gave Catherine a questioning look, but she waved it off as she followed the youngest member of their team away from Grissom's office. Once they were safely away from Grissom, Greg began to speak.

"So I looked into it, like you asked me. Turns out Grissom bought two tickets to Colorado," Greg grinned, "between that and Sara not being home like she said, I'd be willing to make a bet on who went with Grissom."

"I think you would be correct, Greg," Catherine smiled, "so Grissom and Sara, after all these years."

"We don't know it for sure," Greg warned.

"Oh come on, they took a vacation together, what other signs do you need from them?" Catherine asked.

"You're right. Grissom would never go on a trip with her unless they were a couple," Greg agreed.

"The fun is now, how do we let them know we have it figured out?" Catherine wondered aloud.

"You have what figured out?" Sara asked innocently as she entered the room.

"Nothing," Greg said a little too quickly.

Sara frowned, "O-kay. I'm going to pretend I never heard that and just back away."

"Whatever we do, it has to be soon," Catherine whispered, "they're both suspicious of us now."

"They'll never guess what we know," Greg said, "they just think we're weird."

"Greg, they know you're weird," Catherine couldn't help but add.

"So are we going to have fun with this or what?" Greg asked.

A/N: I am trying to think of some way for Catherine and Greg to have a little bit of fun with Grissom and Sara…I may have an idea, but I'm not sure. If you have a brilliant idea, please share it with me. I think the next chapter may be the final.