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 14

"Are you really going to make me do this?" Greg asked for the tenth time.

"Come on Greg, don't you want to have fun with them?" Catherine asked.

"Yeah, you're the best man for the job anyway, everyone knows you used to have a crush on Sara," Warrick added. Catherine had filled Nick and him in on the fun.

"Just do it man," Nick urged.

"You're all nuts, you know that right?" Greg asked.

"And you're a big chicken," Catherine countered.

"Fine!" Greg gave in, "but only to toy with them."

"This should be fun to watch," Warrick grinned.

"Wait, how are we all going to watch this without being obvious?" Nick asked.

"Greggo, here, is going to do it when we're all waiting for assignments. I'll give him a signal when Grissom is about to show up and then he can start the fun," Catherine explained.

"You guys are going to owe me big time if Grissom flips out, you know that, right?" Greg asked.

"Just let us worry about that if it happens," Warrick said.

"We'll bail you out if it starts looking bad," Nick assured him, "besides, I'd be more worried about Sara if I was you."

"I believe I just saw Sara go into the break room," Catherine announced with a smile.

"Okay, we can't all go at the same time, it'll look funny," Greg said, "I'll let you guys go first."

"You better not run," Catherine warned him.

"I won't!" Greg exclaimed.

Nick shook his head and stepped forward to be the first to enter the room. He strolled casually into the room where Sara was settling down with a cup of coffee.

"Hey Nicky," she smiled brightly.

"Hello Sara," Nick poured himself a cup of coffee, "how are things going?"

"Good," Sara answered, "it's nice to be back at work."

"I bet, I don't think I could take all that time off, just sitting alone at home. I know Grissom visited you a couple times, but then he left town, so you must have been nearly insane with boredom," Nick said.

"Just about," Sara laughed, "there's not a whole lot to do when you are stuck in your apartment and ordered to rest."

"Hey guys, what's up?" Warrick entered, closely followed by Catherine.

"Hi," Sara greeted them.

"Talking about anything interesting?" Catherine asked.

"No, not really," Nick replied.

"Here you all are, I was wondering where you disappeared to," Greg made his entrance. He made a point to go directly to sit next Sara.

"Where else would we be? Grissom should be here any minute to hand out assignments," Catherine said.

"Oh, right," Greg said, "so…um…I…I…I can't do it!"

"Do what?" Grissom asked as he entered the room.

"GREG!" Catherine exclaimed.

"No! You can't order me around. Look, Grissom, Sara, we know you two went on vacation together. These guys wanted me to hit on Sara in front of you to make you admit that you're dating," Greg blurted.

"What?" Sara jumped up.

"We might as well tell them," Grissom grabbed her hand as she moved to stand next to him, "Sara and I are dating. This is sure not how I would have wanted to tell you guys, but you're smart, I knew you'd figure it out. How did you figure it out?"

Catherine was incredulous, "You're not mad?"

"No, we would have told you soon enough anyway," Sara said.

"I had a hunch and I made Greg do some dirty work for me," Catherine admitted, "I went to visit Sara last week, figuring she'd be lonely. When she wasn't there, I had Greg find out that Grissom bought two tickets to Colorado. So we figured Sara must have gone with you. Last night I decided to have some fun with you, but Greg can't even play a joke right!"

"I'm sorry, but I didn't want to mess with Grissom and Sara," Greg crossed his arms defensively, "I respect them."

"You're just kissing up because you want to be a CSI," Nick shook his head.

"It's actually probably a good idea you didn't try to hit on me Greg," Sara laughed, "I just might have hit you."

"You really thought you could trick this information out of us?" Grissom asked.

"I just thought it would be a fun way to get you two to admit that you were dating," Catherine said.

"We all knew you two liked each other, it's been obvious to us for years," Warrick piped up.

"Has it?" Sara asked in surprise.

"Don't tell me you guys didn't notice it?" Nick asked.

"I didn't," Grissom furrowed his brow.

"Man, I always thought you were just playing games with each other," Warrick laughed.

"You seriously didn't notice it?" Catherine questioned.

"I have liked Grissom for a while, but I never thought my feelings would be returned," Sara answered honestly.

"You guys really all thought we should be dating?" Grissom inquired.

"I've thought so ever since Sara came to Las Vegas," Catherine grinned, "but that doesn't matter now. I'm glad to see you two happy together. How was your little trip to Colorado?"

"Nice. It was relaxing. We stayed at this little cabin in the mountains. Then he drug me to an amusement park," Sara said teasingly.

"You said you wanted to go," Grissom defended himself.

"Grissom and his roller coasters," Warrick shook his head.

"What else did you do?" Nick asked.

"When we were in the mountains, we took a couple hikes, nothing terribly exciting," Sara said.

"Are there any pictures?" Greg asked mischievously.

"As a matter of fact, I brought them with me tonight," Sara pulled out some pictures, "I just had them developed, haven't even looked at them myself."

"Anything good?" Greg teased.

"If by good you mean beautiful scenery, then yes," Grissom answered pointedly.

They flipped through the pictures: snow capped peaks, fiery and golden leaves, the crystal blue lake, all the wonderful fall scenery of the Rocky Mountains. There was a picture of Sara sitting on a rock with the lake behind her, snow capped mountains in the background. Then they came to pictures from Six Flags. There was one of Grissom with his arm around Sara under the Ferris wheel.

"Looks like you two really had a good time," Catherine said slyly.

"Yes we did," Grissom agreed.

"It was just what I needed to get myself ready to come back to work," Sara admitted, "sorry we lied to you guys."

"It's all right," Nick responded, "I, for one, am just glad to see you two happy."

"Nick's right, we just want to see you guys have some fun for a change. You both work too hard sometimes," Warrick added.

"I think we will be happy for a long time," Grissom smiled and turned to Sara.

She raised her eyebrows, "Is that so?"

"Yes, Sara, I love you," Grissom said.

"I love you too," Sara wrapped her arms around him.

"I think that's our cue to leave," Catherine ushered the rest of them out, "don't worry, Gil, I'll hand out the assignments, you two take your time."

A/N: I'm not sure that turned out precisely the way I wanted it to. I hope that you enjoyed the ending and that it's not too...phony sounding. I had a hard time trying to get the ending right. At any rate, thank you to all who have read and all who have reviewed the story. I may have another CSI story in the works.