All I Want Is You

Disclaimer: If you don't know by now that I don't own CSI, I have a bridge I'd like to sell to you.

Chapter Nine: About Your Relationship

A/N: I'm not sure if there's an actual "Director of Personnel", but I'm having it be a character I made up. I know Cavallo is the director of the lab, but this is a different job. So any who, I made up a name for this person.

Grissom had not been in the building for ten minutes when Catherine caught up to him.

"Hey Gris," she greeted him, "you're supposed to go see the director of personnel right away."

"Okay," Grissom sighed and turned to leave.

"Wait, not right away, right away. Tell me how things turned out," Catherine shook her head, "it's not like he knows you're here."

"It went great," Grissom said, "Sara will tell you about it, I'm sure. I should get to the director's office before he does find out I'm here."

"You're no fun," Catherine crossed her arms.

"I know," Grissom smirked as he walked away.

Grissom took a deep breath before entering the Director of Personnel's office. Mark Tompkins was not a person Grissom had to deal with very often, so he wasn't sure what to expect when he knocked on the door.

"Ah, Dr. Grissom, please have a seat," Tompkins directed him, "and close the door behind you."

Grissom sat in the lone chair in front of Tompkins' desk, "Hello."

"I'm going to get right to the point, Grissom, I know you don't like to beat around the bush. It was brought to my attention that you and a CSI Sidle took a week vacation at the same time. Normally, that would not be a problem, but there has been talk around the lab that you and Sidle are romantically involved," Tompkins stated bluntly.

Grissom froze for a moment, unsure of how to respond, "CSI Sidle had to take a trip to deal with a family thing and I went with her for support."

"I see," Tompkins folded his hands on his desk, "and are you going to comment on the second part?"

"Miss Sidle and I have recently started to see each other outside, work yes," Grissom closed his eyes briefly, "but that's not against lab policy."

"Not exactly, no," Tompkins said slowly, "but you can see where it might create problems. Other people might start to think you're giving Sidle special treatment because she's your girlfriend."

"I don't give anyone special treatment for any reason," Grissom defended.

"I know that, but other people might not see it that way," Tompkins countered.

"Don't talk to me like you're my friend and you don't want to be the bad guy," Grissom scoffed, "if you have a problem with my relationship, say it."

Tompkins sighed, "I can't really do anything about it because it's not against lab policy."

"My team knows that if they have a problem with me, they are welcome to talk to me," Grissom said, "so if any of them think I'm giving Sara special treatment, they will surely let me know. Therefore, we really don't have a problem here, do we?"

"What about people on the other shifts?" Tompkins asked, "here's the deal, since you're technically not breaking any rules, I can't tell you to stop dating CSI Sidle, but I don't want to cause a lot of problems around here, so you are not to work a case alone with her unless there is absolutely no other choice. If anyone lodges a legitimate complaint about you two, there will be repercussions. Do we understand each other?"

"I understand you just fine," Grissom said flatly, "are we done here? I have a lot of work to catch up on."

"We're finished," Tompkins replied.

Grissom spun around and left Tompkins' office, feeling like he had just won something. His relationship with Sara could now be completely out in the open, not that he had really been hiding it before. It was now officially okay that he was dating her though. He had a huge smile on his face as he rounded the corner and heard his team gathering in the break room. He decided to stop in for a minute before getting down to business.

"Well, you sure look happy," Greg spotted Grissom entering the room.

"I am very happy," Grissom replied.

"Good to see you back," Warrick said.

"We missed you. Blondie over there has been running a tight ship around here," Nick gestured to Catherine who was in charge while Grissom was gone.

"Blondie?" Catherine shot a nasty look in Nick's direction.

"Did I say Blondie? I meant to say Miss Willows," Nick flashed his brilliant grin.

"That's what I thought," Catherine smiled, "so Sara was just telling us how well your trip went."

"Oh?" Grissom raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah, I told them my mom's coming to visit next month," Sara added.

Grissom was surprised that Sara had even told them why they were gone. It seemed that things were really changing. Both of them were suddenly being a lot more open and friendly. Everyone noticed the change and attributed it to their recent admission of feelings and dating. It was working wonders on both of them, not only in their own relationship, but in all their relationships with their friends.

"How did your little meeting go?" Catherine asked, turning to Grissom.

"Fine. Tompkins said that there was not really anything he could do about Sara and I having a relationship. He just suggested that we not work cases alone unless it was necessary, just in case anyone got jealous of Sara and thought I was giving her special treatment or some nonsense like that," Grissom explained.

"The only person around here who would even think about raising trouble for you is Conrad Ecklie," Nick said, "who else around here has a personal vendetta against Grissom?"

"So in other words, nothing around here is going to change," Greg announced, "none of us would be jealous of you two."

"Yeah, we're all really happy to see you guys together," Warrick added.

"If you're happy, we're happy for you," Catherine said.

"Good," Grissom smiled at his team, "I think Catherine needs to come catch me up on where we are case-wise. We'll be back in a little while with assignments."

A/N: That turned out longer than I even expected it to. One more chapter and I think I'll be calling it quits on this story.