Note: I'm sorry for the wait. School...ahhh, teachers...double ahhh and coursework...ahhhhhhh. I hope that explains why I couldn't find time to write sooner. Please R&R.

The confrontation complication

Luckily for Catherine the next night was slow so that meant she could get to 'talk to' Sara in the break room. She had entered the break room shortly after meeting up with her two accomplices, which were Nick and Greg. Warrick had the night off and since it was slow he might actually get to enjoy it instead of being paged into work. Catherine was to start the operation and attempt some 'girl talk'. Nick was to enter later at her signal, which would be given when Sara began to become resistant to talking.

Greg was the watchdog and his job was to make sure that nosy lab techs or, god forbid, Grissom, didn't disturb them. Greg decided he could stand by the vending machine and have a good view of the action that was taking place within the room. So he took his time choosing what he would drink, eventually getting a soda. Then he turned his attention to the two women in the break room, and watched as if they were on some reality TV show. Nick joined him and watched as well, he was awaiting his cue to enter.

Sara looked up and acknowledged her co-workers presence. "Hi Cath."

"Hi, how are you?" Catherine asked in order to start a conversation.

"Fine, just bored." She answered briefly.

"Yeah, it is a slow night. Do you want coffee?"

"No I just had a cup."

"So what's new in your life?" the blonde continued.

"Nothing much." Sara stated slightly curious why her co-worker suddenly took an interest in all things her, but put it down to the lack of cases that night. "How's things with you and Lindsey?" She said wanting to change the subject to anything but her.

"Ok, I mean it's not great but ok, because with kids it's hard, one day they hate you the next they love you." Catherine changed the subject back quickly. "I like your hair, have you had it cut?"

"No, just the same as ever." Sara said giving Catherine a curious look.

"Well, I guess we've talked about most things already, how we are, how our lives are going and even hair." Catherine said with resignation "So I guess all we have left to talk about is guys."

Sara gave a slight laugh at Catherine in response. "Ok so who's the guy in your life?"

"I don't need a guy I have a kid, the last thing I need is a man to act like one." Catherine said dismissively. "How about you, I mean you're young and single."

"Oh so when you said 'we were gonna talk about guys' what you meant was 'your gonna talk about your love life.' Right?" Sara said half laughing at Catherine's bluntness.

"Well, that's what is implied." Catherine said innocently.

"Well, sorry Cath, but nothing to tell."

"Oh come on, Sara there's gotta be someone, you know that you think of more than you should or that you listen to with a bit more enthusiasm than is necessary."

Sara seemed in a bit of a dream as if Catherine's words had started her mind thinking about that 'someone'.

Catherine not missing a beat said. "I knew it, you were thinking of him just then weren't you? So who is it?" even though she already knew, she wanted to see if she could get Sara to confide the information voluntarily.

"No one." Sara said almost automatically.

At this Catherine knew she was not going to just tell her so Catherine began running her fingers in her hair. Then only moments later, responding to her signal Nick appeared and greeted both the women.

"Hi" the women simultaneously said to Nick as he took a seat next to Sara on the sofa.

Moments later Nick turned to Sara and began "So how are things with you and Grissom?"

This made Sara utter a confused "What?"

"I mean how are things with the case you guys were working last night." Nick corrected and smiled to himself because he knew his question had achieved the desired effect.

"Oh." Sara understood now and felt foolish for thinking that he meant something else. She decided to put her thoughts down to the earlier conversation with Catherine. "It was just neighbourhood kids ruining lawns, getting drunk and being inventive with throwing sparklers. It was pretty easy to get them with the beer cans full of fingerprints and footprints on the lawn, even one of their sweatshirts thrown on the ground with a hand sown name label. To top it all off as we headed back in the car to process the evidence, we actually ran into the group in the act a couple of streets over and the police officer took it from there."

"How stupid can you get?" Nick said after she finished. He was about to start his round of confronting Sara, when all their heads turned to the corridor to see what was going on out there.

Greg was practically yelling at someone, he seemed to be attempting to stop them from entering the break room. Unfortunately this was not a person who could be stopped from going anywhere around the lab because this was the supervisor, Grissom. He was trying to get rid of Greg so he could enter the break room but Greg was not going to let him, he was talking him to death in a last attempt to distract him.

"Greg go do some work please." Grissom said calmly.

"I'm on break and anyway you've gotta see this game, it's really fun to control these girls playing volleyball and it's quite easy. Plus if you get past a certain level they take their tops..."

Grissom cut him off before he could finish his sentence. "Greg I don't want to play your game. I just want some coffee."

Greg relented as he realized the inhabitants of the break room were already disturbed by their display.

As Grissom entered Greg entered and gave his accomplices a helpless look.

"Hi, anyone else for coffee." An oblivious Grissom asked, then proceed to make himself a cup.

The group greeted Grissom in their own little ways.

Catherine gave Greg and Nick looks that said 'Ok game over', before she picked up a magazine and buried her head inside of it, just as Sara was with her science journal. Grissom opened his book that he had brought through from his office with him and sat down with it.

A disappointed Nick then turned to Greg "Hey, Greg I'm not much of a reader, are you?"

"No. I think we should leave them to it."

With that they walked out of the break room together, but as they went Nick began with a wild grin "Yeah, so, what was this game you were on about then Greg? You know how much I like sports."

TBC