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He didn't know what he was going to do now. He'd tried to make himself explain to her, but it was too late for her to let him. He'd wanted to tell her how he felt years ago when she came to Vegas; that was why he'd contacted her. It was just that then, it was too early and now it is too late. He paced the room at least thirty times, trying to think of what he could do and then Catherine walked by and noticed he looked stressed.
"Gil? Want to tell me what's wrong?" she asked.
"No, not really, though I have no doubt that you don't know what's going on in my mind." He replied and continued pacing.
"Let me guess, this has something to do with either Sara or Sophia… or both?"
"The latter."
"This had something to do with that dinner you had with Sophia."
"Yes."
"Sara found out, didn't she?"
"Women are much smarter than men give them credit for. How is it that you know what's wrong even though you didn't witness anything?"
"Actually, I was just around the corner, heading back to my office from Trace."
"So, what am I supposed to do?"
"Well, you should have gone after her, but its too late for that…"
He cut her off, "It's been too late for the past three years."
"If you told her how you really felt it wouldn't be too late. She's just angry that for three years you made her think that you felt something for her and then you ask Sophia out to dinner. I've got to go; I've got to look some stuff over for the case. Good luck."
Sara got home and thought about what Greg said. Maybe he was right and Grissom would come around and tell her that she was beautiful again. That night three years ago Sara knew he felt something for her, she hoped her still felt that way now and she wasn't just dreaming.
She fell onto her bed and tried to think of what she was going to do. Once again, she'd have to confront Grissom and make him find out what to do about "this." He had led her on for so long, only to turn her down. Sara knew that Grissom wasn't one of those men; well, that was what she wanted to believe.
She went back to the break room to see if Greg was in yet so they could get working on the case again. Instead of finding Greg, she found Grissom.
"Good evening, Sara." He said simply, not sure whether he should continue about their conversation from the night before.
"Yeah, is Greg in yet? I wanted to get started, but I needed to get some from him on that doctor."
Aparently, she didn't want to talk about last night… or so he assumed and replied, "Did you check Trace? I think he just headed back down there to get something from Hodges."
"Yeah, look. Can we talk…later?"
"Sure, end of shift, my office?"
"Hey," Greg said as he saw Sara walking down the hallway. "Ready to get back to work on this?"
"Since when have I not been ready to get to work and put a case to rest?" she rolled her eyes, "Do you have the information on the doctor? I need to look at it again."
"Yeah, right here." He pulled out a folder from the stack of papers in his arms.
"Thanks." They left Trace after Greg got his information from Hodges and started down the hallway, "You think Grissom will come around?"
"He's intelligent, though he lacks common sense, but yeah… he'll learn, eventually."
"I wish he'd asked me to dinner… instead of her. I wish he'd said yes three years ago when I asked him."
"Come on," he said, changing the subject, "Uh, let's see if we can wrap this up."
She turned around to glance towards Grissom's office before she walked to the layout room with Greg.
… Thanks for reviews. Next chapter should be up soon. Yeah, Grissom and Sara talk and try to figure out what to do. Mind you this will still be Greg/Sara in the end D and a Grissom/Sara friendship.
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