AN: Sorry that it took me so long to update this story. I had some serious personal problems. Thanks for all the reviews.
~*~Chapter two~*~
When Sara woke up, she immediately felt a pair of eyes watching her. Searching for his eyes, she found them examining her closely. She smiled.
Grissom turned his head and he pulled back his hand. "Go!" he said harshly. Grissom turned away from her, pulling his hand out of her grasp.
Stunned momentarily, Sara sat there. He had done it again. He always managed to hurt her. But not this time. Rising from her chair, she walked around the bed and sat next to him on the bed, giving him a stern look.
"Sara! Go!" he shouted.
She flinched from his tone of voice and the harshness of the sound in the enclosed room and looked at him in shock. She grabbed a piece of paper and a pen off his nightstand and wrote something down. Why?
"I want to be left alone." His voice was softer now, having realized how he must have sounded for her to flinch when he spoke.
When he tried to push her away, Sara grabbed his hands and shook her head.
Grissom looked at her in mock irritation. "Just go," he groaned.
Sara released his hands and grabbed the piece of paper. Why are you trying to push me away? I just want to help you. You are my friend. Why didn't you tell me about your surgery?
"To avoid these questions!" he almost yelled. "I don't want any help."
Sara looked at him and pushed herself off the bed, throwing her hands in the air. "Ok, you made your point." She turned around and left the room.
Grissom looked at the door. What did I do! I did it again! I'm the biggest asshole in the world! Why did she have to come? How did she know? Suddenly a wave of pain ran through his head. He grabbed at it with both of his hands.
A nurse ran into Grissom's room when she heard someone cry out in pain. She immediately paged his doctor and gave him some pain medication.
Two minutes later, Dr. Karen Roth walked into the room. When she saw Grissom's face she knew that the infection was spreading. She removed the bandages and looked at his ears. The area around his ears was red and the wounds were clearly infected. The antibiotic that she'd given Grissom apparently didn't work. Now they had to find out what kind of bacteria was causing this. She asked the nurse for a sterile test-tube and a swab.
The nurse left the room and two minutes later she appeared with both items.
Dr. Roth snapped on some gloves and opened the package from the swab. She carefully swabbed the back of his ears. Meanwhile the nurse had opened the package of the test-tube and unscrewed it. When the doctor was ready she placed the swab into the test-tube and closed it. She put some new bandages around Grissom's head. She took a piece of paper and a pen. She then wrote down on her notepad, The antibiotics didn't work. I'm going to try to find out what kind of bacteria this is. Grissom read the note and nodded.
Dr. Roth left the room and walked straight towards the lab. She walked immediately towards the office of the bacteriologist, knocked on the door and went in. She gave her the sample and explained what the problem was. Dr. Zahi nodded and grabbed the sample. "When I have the results I will page you," she said and walked into the lab.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Ten minutes before shift started, Sara walked into the breakroom. She grabbed a mug and filled it with coffee. She sat down next to Catherine and sighed.
"I guess it didn't go well." Catherine looked at her friend and saw her shake her head.
"He is an asshole!" raising her voice when she said it.
Catherine's head snapped up and looked at her. "What happened?"
"I don't want to talk about it." She pushed herself off the chair and walked out of the break room.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
After shift, Sara walked towards her SUV when she heard someone call her name. Oh no, not Catherine! Sara turned around and saw Catherine approaching her.
"What happened between you and Grissom?" Catherine looked at her and saw that Sara struggled not to cry in front of her.
"He…" Sara tried to hold back her tears but she couldn't.
Catherine stepped closer and hugged her. "Give me your keys," Catherine said when she let go of her.
Sara gave Catherine the keys and looked at her.
"Get in the car." Catherine pushed Sara towards the car and opened the door.
Sara climbed into the car and buckled herself up.
Catherine walked around the car, got in and drove away.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Back in the hospital, dr. Zahi was looking down the microscope when dr. Roth came in the lab.
"Did you find anything?" dr. Roth hoped it was a common bacteria.
"Yeah, I did." Dr. Zahi pointed at the microscope.
Dr. Roth looked into the microscope and saw Gram-negative red rods. "Don't tell me we're dealing with Pseudomonas aeruginosa." Dr. Roth looked at her.
"I'm sorry, but the tests were positive for it," dr. Zahi told her.
"Shit." Dr. Roth turned around and left the lab. Great! That bacteria is resistant against most antibiotics.
Grissom looked up when he saw some movement across the room. It was dr. Roth, and she didn't look happy.
Dr. Roth walked into Grissom's room, sat down next to him and grabbed a piece of paper and a pen. I have some bad news. The bacteria that is causing this infection is Pseudomonas aeruginosa. It is resistent against most antibiotics. She gave Grissom the piece of paper.
Grissom read the note and looked up. This can't be happening. It's not true. He looked up and saw a nurse coming into the room with a bag of fluid and something he did not know.
Dr. Roth grabbed another piece of paper. It's a bag with antibiotics and the other things are ears wicks. I'm going to place those into your ears and putting some fluid into your ears. The ear wicks hold the fluid in contact with the skin of the canal.
Grissom nodded.
Dr. Roth removed the bandages and placed the ear wicks in his ears and three drops of fluid. She placed new bandages around his head and hooked him up onto the bag with antibiotics.
When dr. Roth walked out of Grissom's room, she ran into Catherine and Sara.
"Hi dr. Roth," Catherine said, but saw that something was wrong. "How is he?"
"Not great, the infection is spreading and it turns out that the bacteria is resistant against most antibiotics." Dr. Roth looked at them worried.
"Can we see him?" Catherine asked.
"Sure, but not too long. He needs his rest."
Catherine nodded and pushed Sara towards the door. "Talk to him." Catherine turned around and left.
Sara looked at the door. I'm not going in. He will hurt me again. I can't let him do that again. Against the feeling that she had, she opened the door and walked into the room.
TBC…