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breaking my own heart

chapter 9

He stopped his car in the parking lot in front of Nick's parents ranch. He left the car, well knowing, that if he could make it to the entrance door, without being killed, he still had to pass Nick's father, his mother…and everybody else. But he had to talk to Sara, he needed to see her, he needed to know why she had left the hotel room, he needed to know why she was here.

He had made his way to the veranda, when the door opened.

The next thing he remembered was laying on the ground, in the dust of the parking lot. Nick kneeled on him and punched him into his stomach. Grissom tried to get him off of him, but Nick was too furious and aroused. Grissom felt the pain of Nick's fists, one punch hit him in the face. He felt how his nose broke, then his head sank down to the ground and he lost his conscience.

When he gained conscience again, he felt cold water on his face, he opened his eyes. All the pain he had felt was forgotten when he saw Sara leaning over him, now he felt her soft hands caressing his cheek. With her other hand she softly pressed a cold watered rag on his forehead. He ignored the taste of blood in his moth. He couldn't help, only the view of her let him smile brightly.

"Bastard!", Nick shouted. He stood a few meters away from them. Warrick did his best to calm him down, gladly he managed to hold him back from jumping down on Grissom again.

"Are you okay?", Sara asked Grissom worried.

"As long as you are here I am.", he whispered.

She forced herself to smile, but Grissom could see that tears were rising up in her eyes.

He reached up to caress her cheek, but she pulled away. "We should go Grissom, let's go back to the hotel.", she whispered softly.

He nodded. She helped him back on his feet.

"I'll drive, give me your keys."

He nodded softly and handed his keys to her. He saw that her hands were shaking. He wanted to put his arms around her, but he knew, that would have been even harder for Nick.

Sara brought him to his car, helped him to take seat on the passengers seat and helped him to buckle up his seatbelt.

"I'll be right back. I've got to get my suitcases."

"I'll help you.", he offered.

"No…you stay here! I'll lock the car…I wont let him go after you again."

"You don't have to treat me like…"

"Grissom, he could have killed you.", she said worried, then closed the door, locked the car and ran into the house.

Grissom leaned back on the seat, trying to swallow the pain, but the only thing he swallowed was the blood in his mouth. He grimaced, knowing he would have to get checked by a doctor. His nose was obviously broken and the pain from his chest promised at least two broken rips.

He saw how Warrick dragged the still furious Nick back into the house. He hoped Nick wouldn't lay a hand on Sara, knowing that he sure wouldn't. Well knowing, that if he would, he'd kill him with his bare hands.

After a few minutes that seemed to be hours, Sara left the house, one big bag hanging around her shoulder, one suitcase in each of her hand. He wished he could help her carrying the suitcases to the car, but due to the locked doors and his headache he decided that any try to help her would be in vain, she wouldn't let him help her anyway.

She opened the trunk of the SUV and put her suitcases into it. Then she entered the car and took seat on the drivers seat. She stroke softly over his arm, caressed him and then squeezed his hand softly.

"It's over.", she said softly. "I told him that I love you…and that I…that I always loved you more than everybody else, I said him that I am sorry for hurting him…I said, a lot…but…I don't think he really listened to me."

He smiled softly. "So…you now know what you…want to do?", he asked still concerned that, although she had now officially broken up with nick, wouldn't stay with him.

She nodded. "I want to be with you.", she said softly and squeezed his hand carefully. "We have to take you to the hospital."

"I'm okay honey."

"You're bleeding."

He sighed. "I am okay as long as you are with me."

She started the engine and they left the parking lot.

While she was driving he watched her. Every single move was observed by him.

The way her eyes glanced over the street, the way she turned on the radio. The way the air blow through her hair when she had opened the car window.

"Sara?"

She glanced at him. "Yeah?"

"When I woke up and you weren't there anymore, I thought you had left to…", his voice became sad.

Sara swallowed hard. "Grissom…I love you. I…I will be with you as long as you want me to be with you. I know that I will always love you."

"Would you…stay with me and love me until death does us apart?"

Sara pulled the car to the side of the street, she stopped and turned off the engine. She stared at him, swallowed hard and stroke a strand of hair out of her face. "Okay…let me get that straight Grissom…have you just asked me what I think you asked me?"

He nodded softly. "Sara I know…this is maybe way too fast, because…because the day that I told you that I love you, was….yesterday….but Sara I love you since…years, and I know that you came to Vegas because of me. Because you…"

"…because I had a serious crush on you."

He grinned. "Will you marry me Sara?"

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END OF CHAPTER NINE

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