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A/N Thanks for all the reviews; I always enjoy reading them! D
This is the last chapter for this story. A summary of my next fanfic will be at the end of this chapter.
Actually, he had the night off, but something made him get and up and drive to the lab. He parked the car and got out. As he started walking towards the building, he wondered what Ecklie would say if he saw him there on his night off. Oh well, he thought, I can always say I left something in the locker room. As he walked down the hallway, he spotted Grissom.
"Good evening, Greg. What exactly are you doing here?" he asked quizzically.
"I hate being home, so somehow I wandered over to the lab…"
"You work hard, Greg. Use your time off while you can. You never know, you might need some time off when we're backed up, but you won't be able to take it."
"I'd just sit at home and watch TV. What fun is that?"
"You could sleep."
"Or drink coffee…" Greg said as they walked past the break room, "Sorry, but my coffee is calling me." Little did Grissom know, Greg was also stopping by the break room to say hi to Sara who was busy reading over some notes.
"Hey," he said quietly, as to not startle her, "Thirsty? I'll let you have some of my coffee if you want."
"Sure, if it will help wake me up. I've been sitting here reading for hours."
He handed her the Styrofoam cup, "Here, it should help."
"Thanks. So, what have you been up to?"
"Not much. Tonight is my night off, but I've been so bored at my apartment and frankly, I've run out of interesting things to do. I've been to the parks, read all my books a few times over, watched TV; including really strange episodes of Dr. Phil…I even vacuumed my apartment this week."
"Wow, Greg vacuuming, now that's something I have to see." She said, rolling her eyes.
"You laugh, but at least my rugs are clean. Okay, that was pretty lame, but what have you been up to besides reading this?"
"Eh, not much; technically, shift just started so I have a whole lot more time to sit here and try get the evidence straight so we can get a conviction. Ecklie was just in here…seemed angry today and I mean more than just the regular angry Ecklie. He was reading over my shoulder and I heard him mutter something about Sophia. I have absolutely no idea what all that was about." She flipped over the paper and began reading the back side of it. She skimmed through and circled a paragraph and a few other bits and pieces of the paper before getting the next paper and briefly reading it.
"I really don't feel like doing work like this. I guess you know what its like; being cooped up inside all day. It's chilly in here, too. I think it's a bit early for them to already have the air conditioning on."
"Yeah, and you're a bit crazy for wearing a tank top. Do you want my sweatshirt? I'll probably be leaving anyway. Grissom suggested sleeping; that doesn't sound like a bad idea."
She shivered, "Sure, thanks." She threw the sweatshirt over her head and slipped her arms in the sleeves, "Now I might be able to stop shivering and be able to get more work done."
"You just read five pages while you were talking to me, I think you're working fast enough." He laughed.
"Yeah," her pager went off, "Hey, that's Mia with my results."
"You want me to go pick it up for you?"
"I'll come with you, get my blood circulating." She said, getting up and bringing along her cup of coffee.
They walked down the hallway and Sara spotted Catherine in her office, "Hey Greg, I'll meet you up there."
He shrugged his shoulders and continued down the hallway, Sara, however knocked on the door to Cath's office.
"Hey, Sara, I heard you've been here since my shift started," Catherine greeted her.
"I've been trying to wrap up this case, it won't take long now. I just have to piece together all the evidence and double check a thing or two. Anyway, how did the other night go?" Sara asked.
"It was great. Lindsey did a really good job and we met Warrick for ice-cream afterwards, so that was nice; Lindsey really enjoyed that. And did I hear correctly… you and Greg went on a date?"
"Whoa, what? Who did you hear that from? Well, I'm not saying it isn't true, but it wasn't really a date… We just sat talked over at New York, New York. I talked to him about Grissom and he was trying to cheer me up."
"I must take a mental note; Sara and Greg went on a date." She laughed, "Just joking. Sounds nice, but I can tell maybe you wish it was Grissom you went on a date with."
"Yes and no," she started, "I've wanted to date Grissom for a while, but last night, just hanging out and talking to Greg was really fun. Greg changed and maybe it's time I've given him a chance."
"Maybe letting Grissom go is what you needed; maybe it's better for the both of you. Plus, I heard from Nicky that you and Greg seemed happy when you were out last night. If Grissom and you weren't meant to be, it doesn't mean there isn't someone else out there for you." She smiled, "I have to go, good luck with Greg. I'll talk to you later."
"Yeah, see you, Cath." She smiled and followed her out of the office.
Realizing that she was supposed to get her results back from Mia, she hurried down the hallways and found Greg and Mia standing there.
"Look who finally decided to show up," Mia said and rolled her eyes, "Here's your results. Greg said he'd explain everything in order to save me from saying my little speech again."
"Thanks," she said, taking the paper from Greg. Both of them started off down the hallway again.
"Sara, I've been thinking," Greg said as they rounded another corner.
"Yeah, me, too."
"Last night, who were you talking about?"
"Well, I was talking about…" Grissom was coming towards them and interrupted her.
"Greg, you're still here? Anyway, I took the liberty of reading through the notes and am pretty sure we can wrap this up soon. I just needed one more thing to compare something, which I believe you have the results in your hand…"
"Oh, yeah, just got this from Mia." She handed him the paper.
"If you don't mind I want to check this over with something in my office. If you want to join me, you can."
"I think I'm going to go grab another cup of coffee and stretch my legs; I've been going through everything for hours."
"You've been doing a great job on this case, Sara. And you, too, Greg, both of you."
Once Grissom was down the hall and they were back in the break room, Sara continued what she was saying before, "I was talking about…well, you." She turned away, too shy to look at him.
He smiled at her, "I was thinking maybe we could do something like last night again some time…?"
"Yeah, that would be really nice." She smiled.
He smiled in return, and then said, "I'd better go. I can tell you've got a lot more work to do." He hugged her and then headed out to his car.
As he walked into the hallway, he noticed that Grissom was standing there; he'd been watching them through the window. Greg nodded, not really knowing what to say, and then quickly left…leaving Grissom, standing there, still watching Sara. He watched her sit there, smiling.
I wish I could have been the one to make you smile like that, He thought, but at least you're smiling now.
"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain." He thought of the quote by Emily Dickinson.
As long as you're happy, He thought, that's all that matters to me.
A/N
Well, that is the end of this story. I hope you enjoyed it. Thanks for all the reviews and for reading this! D
Here's a short summary of the fic I'm working on now
Title: In the Midst of it All
Grissom/Sara
It takes place in the summer, but after the team split, so Greg will be out in the field and Sofia will be in there as well.
I'm not going to give a hole lot of details here, mainly because I just come up with the story as I go, but I don't want to give too much away. It's not really fun to read a fic if you know a character is going to get hurt or something like that. At least, it isn't for me. So, basically, I'll say that something is going to happen to Sara, which will end up with Grissom realizing he made some mistakes over the past five years since Sara came to Las Vegas. See, pretty vague there. I'll leave it at that. D I hope you'll read. The first chapter or so just give a little bit of information. The plot will develop more so in chapters 3+.
