Four hours later Grissom had finished processing the clothing and went back to trying to determine a pattern between all of the murders. He was plotting points on a map in front of him, but a pattern wasn't really being developed. He sighed and looked at the evidence in front of him again when Catherine poked her head in the door. "I thought you were going to stay home longer."

"No, I had enough rest, and I didn't want to wake Lindsey up, so I figured I'm come back here and start working again."

"What time is it anyway?"

"Five AM. Why don't you go home to Sara for a while?"

"Yeah, I would like to. The guys should be here in another two hours, they should be able to help with developing a pattern."

"If there's anything pressing I'll give you a call. Otherwise, stay with Sara."

"Thanks Cath."

Grissom made a quick stop to his office, then happily headed home.

Grissom let himself into the house and found Sara asleep on the couch. He turned the television off and carried her into the bedroom. After he tucked her into bed, he stripped down to his boxers and got in next to her. She turned over and wrapped her arms around him. "How's the case?" she asked, kissing his chest.

"The DNA from the hair is running now, but that'll take awhile. Cath is back at the lab working on the pattern, and the guys are going to help her out when they get back. Since they didn't really need me anymore, I'm all yours."

"You're all mine anyway," Sara joked, nestling closer into his chest.

"How are you?"

"I'm feeling a little better. My head doesn't hurt so much, I'm just really tired."

"Well, that's good."

Sara pulled herself up to eye level and looked Grissom in the eye. "Do you think I would make a good mother?"

Grissom brought his hand up and caressed her face. "Sara, you would make a fine mother," he said, kissing her lips.

"You would make a good father too."

"You think so?"

"Yeah," Sara said, kissing him back, "I don't know why I'm so bothered about this."

Grissom wrapped his arms tight around Sara and kissed her forehead. "Sara, you're not in this alone. Any question you want to ask, go ahead and ask it. Do anything you need to try and feel better. I can't help you if I don't know how you feel about some things."

Sara nodded her head and snuggled back into Grissom's chest again. Grissom started to hear sniffles, and he kissed the top of her head. "Don't cry honey," he said, pulling her tighter to him.

"I'm so lucky," she whispered in between sobs.

Grissom wiped her tears away and whispered, "So am I, so am I."

A week and a half passed and they still hadn't gathered any more information on the murders. Sara peeked her head into Grissom's office. "Griss, you want to come with me to get some food?"

"I can't, I have to go talk to the sheriff, can you bring me back a salad?"

"Sure, I'll be back in half an hour."

Sara left Grissom's office and headed to an all night deli not far from the lab.

Grissom once again found himself sitting across from the sheriff. "Have you talked to Ecklie?"

"He still hasn't reported back to work."

"I thought he just took a week off, it's been way more than a week."

"He extended his time off."

"This is unreasonable, we shouldn't have to wait just because he decided to flee the country or something."

"I need his account of why he split up the teams in the first place. If there was a good reason to break you up, I'm not just going to stick you all back together again."

"Here's a good reason to put us back together. There is a serial killer out there who is raping and murdering innocent women. We need the team together to be able to work together and catch him."

"Gil, I'm sorry, but I'm not putting the team back together until I talk to Conrad. For the interim, you can try and work as a unit to catch the killer. As soon as I talk to Conrad I'll let you know my decision."

Grissom got up from his chair and left the room.

At the deli, Sara ordered two salads and sat down to eat hers. When she finished, she picked up Grissom's salad and headed back out to the parking lot. She was readying her keys to get into the car when she got hit with a blunt object from behind. She tried to react and fight back, but everything went black.