"Wake up sleepyhead, we have some place we need to be!" He leaned in a kissed her forehead.

"What?" she croaked out trying to get up, she was sore form their last encounter. "I want to stay here, it is comfy! Where do we have to go?"

"Well since we only have a day left here, I thought that maybe you would want to see mom's gallery and the house I grew up in."

"Oh…I guess I should get up then, egh?"

"Only if you want to, it is up to you!"

"I do want to, care to join me in the shower?"

"I thought you would never ask," he leaned in for a kiss and followed her to the bathroom.

The art gallery was amazing. She had paintings from all over the world donning the walls. Sara was amazed and Adele took her on the grand tour, telling her about each piece and she listened attentively. They left Adele with an invitation to dinner at six at her favorite restaurant. They then left to go see his childhood home.

The house was small, but adequate. Grissom reached into his pocket and removed the key and put it in the lock. The door swung open, everything was covered in cloths. There was a small kitchen, a small living room, one bathroom and two bedrooms. It was small and quaint; nothing like what Adele lived in now. Sara looked at the walls there was artwork adorning them, the smaller of the two rooms had some paintings of bugs on them, she figured it must have been Grissom's room when he was a kid, she grinned as she pictured a young blue eyed Grissom running about this house. Grissom noticed her smile and questioned her about it.

"What are you smiling about?"

"I'm just picturing what you were like as a kid, running through the house all blue eyed in search of bugs, you must have been so cute!"

"Do you want to see pictures?"

"Sure"

He removed the cover from the couch and offered Sara a seat, he retrieved the photo albums from the cabinet and began to tell Sara the stories from his past. He showed her pictures of Holly, she was beautiful, not that different in likeness to Sara, same thin figure and same dark hair, she was very excited that he was sharing this chapter of his life with her.

"So is this house yours?"

"Yup, mom left it to me, I come check up on it, keep it up, I haven't decided what I want to do with it yet."

"I think you should keep it, it is cosy and homey!"

"Done! I won't even consider selling it!"

They sat there for hours before they left to meet Adele for dinner. The next day would be long; they had to drive to Tamales Bay to see Sandra and Jim. They parted his mother's house early in the morning and set out for Tamales Bay.

The B & B was quite large and centered right on the ocean. Sara was not exaggerating when she said that these people were hippies. The woman, who Sara introduces as Sandra, was wearing a bright floor length dress and sandals, he long hair flowing behind her. Her husband was not much different, he was wearing old army fatigues and a tie-died shirt, and his hair wasn't much shorter than his wife's. Sara showed them to their room and they got settled in and took their gifts downstairs. She passed them their gifts and they opened them, they were excited at the thought of new tie-died shirts.

Sara showed Grissom around Tamales Bay, it was a quaint oceanfront community and everyone knew their neighbors. He could see how Sara would have fit in so easily with these people, they were so easy going, they really seemed to adore Sara too, she began to tell Sandra about Laura and she got a bit choked up and went upstairs. Grissom followed her to offer her some comfort. They gained their composure and joined their hosts for dinner at their inn.

The drive back to Vegas was not long enough; Sara didn't want this surreal experience to end. She had learned so much in the past two weeks and she didn't ever want to lose that. She was scared that once they got back to work, everything they had would be lost.

"What now, what about when we get back to work?"

"What do you mean, Sara?"

"I mean us, what is gonna happen to us?"

"Well I was figuring we could alternate between my place and yours until we are comfortable to get a place together, we will keep our professional lives professional and separate form our personal lives, if it gets complicate then we will deal with it then, what do you think?"

"I think I love you!"

The sign on the side of the road read Now entering Las Vegas Nevada she looked over at her partnerand she knew everything was going to be all right.