Before Grissom walked through the door he stopped, with his hand was on the handle, frozen. He got a fright when the door opened suddenly.
"Oh I'm sorry." said a nurse from night staff.
"It's ok." said Grissom. "How is she?" He nodded towards Sara.
"I'll be honest with you, its not going to be easy. Sara has had a major knock to the head and with fluid around the brain…" She shook her head in wonder. "but with Sara? Its amazing that she didn't come out with something other than memory loss." She placed a supportive hand on his arm. "You have to bare with her and let the memory come back on its own accord, without any help."
Grissom nodded slowly. "I'll keep that in mind and, I'll tell that to my friends too." With that, Grissom walked into the room and approached the hospital bed cautiously. When he reached her side, he cradled Sara's hand in his own, trying very hard not to look at the monitors and wires helping to keep the woman in the bed alive.
" Oh Sara." He whispered, looking at her from head to toe.
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Meanwhile, Brass was reminiscing when and how Sara came into their lives. But when he started to laugh, Catherine and Warrick looked at him funny.
"Hey man, what's so funny?" asked Warrick. "This isn't funny. Sara is in there, fighting for her life, and you sitting there laughing?"
"I was just remembering when I came across Sara." Brass told them. "It was during the Holly Gribbs case. You remember? Catherine, you had your nose out of joint because she took over from were Holly left off and you tried to make it unbearable for her? But she stuck out?"
"Yeah. That she did." commented Warrick. "But the ones that really got close to her was Grissom and Nick."
"What are you on about? We all did." snorted Brass. "We all became a family, whether we wanted to or not. Its funny how when Sara came into our lives, as if she just fitted in like she was there all along. She knows what we think even before we do."
"Man, she's like Grissom everyday." Chuckled Warrick.
"That's what's so funny." said Brass with tears in his eyes.
"She's gonna be ok Jim. We'll be here for her when she's going through the tough stages." said Catherine. "My God! Where is she gonna stay? She can't be on her own. We could take turns, you know?" she panicked.
Hospital - Sara's Room
Grissom was holding Sara's hand and talking to her in a soft voice when she woke up. He leaned forward and offered her a warm smile. "Hey. How're you feeling?"
"My head hurts." She whispered groggily. After a moment to get her bearings, her eyes snapped open and focused on Grissom. "Do I know you?"
Grissom was silent for a time, letting her remember in her own time, not pushing her like the nurse suggested.
She winced at the pain in her head and mumbled. "You look familiar, like I've seen you before."
"It's ok. It'll come to you in time. It all will." Grissom smiled comfortingly. "Just get better ok?"
Sara was still staring at him through hooded eyes. "That's where I've seen you before. It's the voice. I know that voice." She tried to put the pieces of her memory back together, but it was slow going. "Yeah, you were one of my professors in Harvard. I just can't remember what studies…" She sighed tiredly. "I'm sorry." Her voice was getting quieter as sleep began to take her away again. "I'm tired." She said on a mumble.
Keeping his hold on her hand, his smile faded a little. "Then go back to sleep. You have friends here. We'll be here when you wake up." When she was sleeping again, Grissom reached up his free hand and quickly wiped his eyes.
...TBC...