Title: She's Back
Chapter Title: Drifting Off
Disclaimer: Please don't remind me, but I don't own CSI
Summary: Someone from Sara's past comes back.
Spoilers: Nesting Dolls
"Sara!" Gil Grissom said, trying to get her attention. The two of them were supposed to be investigating the murder of Ms. Antonia Ricardo.
"Huh? Oh, sorry, process the room, right?" she said, coming out of her own world.
"No, I told you to check the perimeter," Grissom corrected her, "Are you okay? I mean, you just seem a little out of it lately."
"I'm fine, just a little tired, that's all," she told him.
"Come on Sara, stay focused! Let it go, she's not coming!" Sara told herself as she walked out the front door to check for evidence. She silently promised to herself to forget about it. She tried so hard to convince herself that Lexis was wrong, that she wasn't out.
After finding a piece of cloth snagged onto some bushes and some tire treads that didn't match the cars in the garage, she headed back to the lab. Sara had also found some blood on the doorstep that didn't match the victim's. There had been defensive wounds on the woman. She was preparing to run the DNA through CODIS when her mind drifted off again. She just couldn't seem to get her out of her head.
She kept telling herself, "It's not true. She's not back. She can't be." Deep down inside of her, however, she knew that it was true, that it was only a matter of time before she came to see her.
"Hey, Sara," said Catherine Willows, walking into the room, "did you find a match on that blood yet?"
"Um, no," Sara told her, Catherine had startled her, and she came back to the world, "I was just about to run it through CODIS now. I'll let you know if I find anything."
"You've been back from the crime scene for almost an hour. What the hell have you been doing all this time?" Catherine asked, she was beginning to get fed up with Sara's recent behavior.
"I'm sorry, okay?" Sara answered. She just wished that she could tell someone what was bothering her, but she knew they wouldn't understand. After talking to Gil about what her mother did, she felt better, but now it was even worse than before.
"Whatever, just get back to work," Catherine said, disgusted.
"Hey, Grissom, I need to talk to you," Catherine said, walking into Grissom's office.
"About what?" he inquired.
"About Sara; she's been so distant lately. She zones out, she forgets about things, and she shows up late. She needs to get her act together. I don't know what's going on, but she needs to keep it out of the lab," Catherine told him.
"Okay, I'll see if I can talk to her and see what's up," Grissom replied, before going to back to the paperwork he had been filing.
"Hey, Sara, are you okay?" Nick asked, he, too, had noticed the change in her over the past couple of weeks. She had just spaced out while they were supposed to be processing a car that they had picked up that had matched the tire treads found at the scene.
"I'm fine!" she snapped, "Why does everyone keep asking if I'm okay? You're focusing on me more than the case!"
"Sorry," he apologized, "it's just that, you haven't been yourself lately, and I'm worried about you."
"Well, don't be," she said, "I'm fine, but Antonia Ricardo isn't, and we need to find out what happened to her."
"Okay," said Nick, beginning to spray the car with luminol.
After the shift had ended, Grissom approached Sara and asked, "Sara, could I talk to you for a minute?"
"If this is going to be about the way I've been acting lately, there's nothing wrong," she told him, She wished that she could just let it go, so people would stop bothering her.
"Look, Sara, I don't think that's the case, and I want to know the truth..." Grissom began to say.
"Um, Sara, there's somebody here to see you. She says she's your mother," Greg interrupted him as he walked into the room.
a/n: Please review! This is my first CSI fanfic, so I didn't know how it would turn out. Let me know if I should continue, or if I should just stop!
