Note: The hair comment is for my funny and absolutely brilliant friend Emx, read her stories if you like POTC! (Especially Cap. Jack Sparrow). She sent me a pic of the guy who plays Nick blonde, it was cute and funny. Plus I don't know how anyone uses eyelash curlers, they look painful, if anyone out there does use them I have to hand it to you, you're defiantly braver than I am.
Truth time"Hey Greg. Do you have something for us on our case?" Catherine said as she entered the lab.
"Yeah man, please say you do have something, because our lead was a bust. The wife has an alibi of about 20 people for some yoga class, and we are told she took no breaks." Warrick explained, as he too walked in to the lab and stood behind Greg.
"Yoga, huh? Well my new girl's into yoga, as well as some of that candles and aromatherapy junk." Greg said with a dismissive attitude.
"Don't knock it 'til you've tried it." Nick, who came in with the others, surprisingly said and ended up with three curious faces watching him. They were waiting for an explanation. "I had a girlfriend who was into all of that stuff and she had a certain shower wash which was jasmine or something. I have to say from my experience it was one of the best showers of my life." A wide grin in memory of the event spreads across his face.
"Oh, for a moment there I thought you were going soft on us." Warrick said with a laugh.
"Yeah, next thing you know you would have dyed your hair as blonde as mine, and have brought an eyelash curler." Catherine joked as she leant across the table.
"Ouch, those things hurt." Greg said at the mention of the eyelash curler.
"You know from experience?" Nick questioned with a smirk of curiosity. He was ready to laugh at whatever Greg said next.
"Repressed childhood memory of some neighbourhood girls who thought it would be fun." Greg said, by way of an explanation. "Now I'm so scared of the sight of those damn things."
"Wow, you mean you didn't hibernate in your room as a child with a "My first lab kit" and only come out for meals and more supplies of latex gloves?" Catherine asked.
"Hey, there is nothing wrong with a kid like that." Nick defended as he took a seat next Greg.
"Yeah, that's just because you were one." Warrick chortled.
"Catherine, you may be surprised to learn that I was a ladies man from a young age. It had its bad parts like the said example, but when it came to the girls wanting to try out French kissing it was definitely worth it." Greg boasted while he lent back slightly and put his arm across the back of the chair.
"Now, you know, I am actually shocked by that, but please could we have the results of the tests?" Catherine said redirecting the conversation towards work.
"But first has anyone talked to Sara? I know she's working with Grissom. Bummer, huh?" Greg queried quickly.
"Yeah, Cath did, but things haven't exactly gone well." Nick said.
"Ok." Greg said sensing danger. "Anyways, the stuff from the sample of the guy's hand was golden syrup, I know because I love the stuff."
"I can't stand the taste of it." Nick added.
"Golden syrup, that's odd." Warrick stated.
"Yeah, you're right because I always had Nick pinned as a pancakes with syrup man myself." Greg felt the need to put in. However a second later he realised they were not amused so he continued. "I'll leave it to you to see why a handyman had golden syrup on his hand." Greg said.
"Is that all you got? What about the hairs I grabbed off the vic's clothes." Catherine inquired still leant slightly across the table.
"I'm getting there, don't rush me. You see this is where it gets fun." Greg said before launching into an annoyingly longwinded fast spoken explanation, but unfortunately he was soon interrupted.
Sara entered, she looked uncomfortable and said "Erm... can I borrow Catherine for a while?" Then turning to look at the woman in question. "I need to talk to you."
Greg quickly forgave the interruption and greeted her. "Hey Sara."
"Hi." Sara replied rather distracted.
Catherine, who was surprised at Sara's seeking her out, was intrigued at what Sara wanted to say to her. "Ok."
Catherine was giving Sara a look that said 'so talk', but Sara simply stated after a moment or two, "I was wondering if we could talk alone?" She still kept staring at Catherine.
"Well, I guess that's ok." She looked at the guys as if to see if anyone had any objection. Catherine said "You lot can catch me up on the case later." Then the two women walked out.
"Right." Catherine announced, once they had reached the break room.
Sara, with a look of worry, simply looked around then turned to the other woman and said. "I'm sorry I stormed off, it's just I... well I couldn't keep that up."
Catherine only said, "Couldn't keep what up?"
Sara now gave Catherine a look of loss of patience and plainly said. "You know as well as I do that I can't lie, and that you keep making me try."
Catherine, almost laughing at the need to hear Sara actually say it, "So what are you saying that you lied about exactly?"
Sara with a scowl and knowing perfectly well what Catherine was after, said, "Stop digging or you'll be digging your own grave."
The blonde decided to have one last try at naivety. "What?"
"You forget that I know how to pull off your murder and not get caught." Sara said as she gave Catherine a finishing glance.
"Ok, so you caught me, but could you please just tell me beyond any doubt that you, Sara Sidle, have feelings for Grissom?" Catherine pleaded.
Sara gave a defeated glance and hesitated, but finally with a slight sigh she replied in barley more then a whisper. "Yes."
"That is all I wanted to hear." Catherine said with a reassuring smile.
Sara realizing exactly what she had done, suddenly panicked, "Oh God, you can't tell a soul about this, or you really will be having a mysterious disappearance. Alright?"
Now Catherine had to think, because the moment she got out of there she had planned to tell a lab full of three very curious men, who were probably waiting for her to come back and dish the dirt. Catherine may have forced it out of Sara in many deceitful ways but there was no way she was going to stand there and lie to her. She simply made an agreement noise and decided to say, "I really need to get back now, and don't you need to get your results form Greg?"
Sara, quickly wanting to forget the earlier conversation, instantly clung for dear life to the idea of getting back to work. So she nodded and they found their way back to the lab.
They just heard the final understanding that Warrick had made of Greg's rambling, because upon entering Warrick said straightforwardly, "What? So, what you're saying is this: this is not the handyman who works for the company; he is just some guy who has been dressed in Roger Clarks work suit and killed?"
Greg agreed and Catherine tried not to attempt to understand this because at the present time her mind was set on her task. "Hey guys, did you miss me?" She asked to get Nick's and Warrick's attention.
They greeted her with mild curiosity but they still appeared confused from the results, which was not what Catherine had hoped for.
Sara walked over to Greg and demanded, "Do you have my results then?"
The lab rat just complained, "I have just finished with their case, could I have a minute? I mean, you guys don't realize how hard I work for you, do you?"
"Yet you can still find time to be bored enough to go around plotting and making plans?" Catherine decided to add. She gave him a harsh glare and shock her head in Sara's direction. Suddenly she found herself wishing she had taught Greg one more female look when he asked her to 'the please ask her about if she loves him because I'm sworn to secrecy look'.
Greg only looked at her confused, so she left Greg to deal with Sara and her results for now.
Catherine decided to approach one of the others to attempt this plan, so she turned to Nick. She was glad to realize he had recovered from his momentary state of confusion because of Greg and the case, so she began to run her fingers thought her hair and looked at Nick. However, he totally ignored the signal which she had used on him before. This only made her wonder if she did this often enough to look like a normal habit and if so, she thought she needed to change secret signals.
Giving up hope on Nick's observation skills, she turned to Warrick and gave him a look similar to the one she gave Greg and the same head motion towards Sara. He looked at her but less blankly than the other two had. Then he remembered he wanted to know what happened with Catherine and Sara. Then his expression gained some revelation and he assumed that Catherine wanted him to ask Sara, maybe because she couldn't. He spoke up. "Sara, do you like Grissom?"
Then everyone but Sara spoke in response to this question.
A relieved Catherine said a muttered, "Thank you."
Nick hearing Catherine and remembering his cue for the earlier plan said in revelation, "Oh."
Greg of course was totally swept away by the randomness of this comment because he had not picked up on Catherine's hints, said in bewilderment, "What?"
Sara eventually responded with the same words. She stared with, "What?". Then she looked around at a guilty looking Catherine and said, "Oh.". And finally, in a despaired sarcastic voice said, "Thank you Catherine for not telling anyone."
Then Warrick jumped in with, "She didn't tell me anything, I just want to know."
"Yeah, we kind of had a theory that you liked him." A sheepish Nick explained.
Sara was surprised; she didn't think it was that obvious. Then she rounded on Greg, the only one not to have shown that he already knew as much as this and asked, "What about you? Did you know about this too?"
Greg, who had by now caught up on the conversation, ignored her and let himself ask what he was just burning to ask, "Why Grissom? What do you see in him?"
Sara, knowing that everyone in the room knew and that she was a terrible liar, grudgingly decided to answer him; she knew they would get an answer out of her one way or another. "I guess... he's smart and funny and sweet. He can be kind and generous. He's handsome and attractive, and so level headed; he can be so calm in any..."
"Ok, I'm sorry I asked." Greg said; he heard as much as he possibly could.
"Oh, so that is the look you were on about Cath." Warrick said with pride that he had recognised it.
Nick looked at Sara and joked. "I missed it; can we make her do it again?"
Greg took a step towards Sara who was sat on one of the stools and said, "She still is doing that funny look thing. I think she's deep in thought, otherwise she would have already hit me for getting this close to her."
But then Catherine said, quietly giving some wisdom to their mockery, "No, that's not just the look of a woman hiding a special thought of someone; that is the look of a woman in love with someone."
The men all looked a bit taken aback, they figured Sara had feelings for Grissom but never thought love. The whole room went silent and they all watched Sara as she sat there, lost in thought. Then they all decided to retreat to the break room. Althought they had to drag an unhappy Greg from his room, but pointed out to him he had just given Sara her results so he deserved a break.