Post-Butterflied

Disclaimer: Does anyone actually read these? I guess just in case I should note that I do not now, nor will I ever own the rights to CSI.

Chapter Twenty Five

Grissom and Sara decided to also ditch the last day of the seminar and spent the day out enjoying their time together away from work. They stopped by to see Mrs. Grissom one more time as they wanted her to be the first one to hear their good news. She was very thrilled with Grissom's decision to marry Sara as she had liked her the instant they met. Their trip was over soon and they had to fly back to Las Vegas.

"I wonder how everyone is going to react to our news," Sara mused, "how should we break it to them?"

"I don't know," Grissom said, "we could wait and see how long until someone notices the ring, but we're dealing with CSIs here. They pay attention to detail."

"True, we should probably just come out and announce it when we go to work tomorrow," Sara said.

"Frankly, I don't care what everyone else thinks," Grissom kissed her, "because I love you and no one else's opinion on that matter is really important."

"I bet Ecklie will have a field day with this, how much do you want to bet that he will try to get us in trouble?" Sara rolled her eyes.

"Who cares about him? We've proven that we can work together while dating, so what would marriage change about that? No matter what, we love each other and in the end, that's what's important," Grissom reminded her.

"I keep asking myself how I ended up with such a wonderful man," she smiled, "I must be the luckiest woman alive."

"Ha," he spat out, "I was thinking just about the same thing. How did I get such a perfect woman?"

"I'm actually kind of looking forward to seeing what kind of reactions we get from our co-workers," she said, "it could turn out to be amusing."

"Yes it could," he agreed.


"I'm sorry, but did you just say what I thought you just said?" Nick sputtered.

"Why? Was I not speaking clearly enough?" Sara laughed.

"Congratulations!" Catherine flew over to the couple and embraced them both.

"Wow, Grissom's getting married, never thought I'd see the day," Warrick chuckled.

"I've got even better news," Greg started, "okay, well maybe not, but I found a permanent replacement for me in the DNA lab. As soon as I'm finished training her, I'm going to be able to devote all my time to becoming a CSI."

"Good for you Greg," Sara told him.

"Oh and uh, congrats on that whole marriage thing," Greg added with a laugh, "sorry to detract from your moment, I couldn't hold it in any longer."

"That's a beautiful ring, Sara," Catherine took her hand and admired the ring.

"I picked that out myself," Grissom added.

"You have wonderful taste," Catherine said.

"Thank you," Grissom smiled.

"So have you guys even began to think about setting a date yet?" Nick asked.

"Hasn't even crossed my mind," Sara laughed.

"Mine either," Grissom added, "don't worry, you'll all be invited though, so you'll know when we know."

"I'm stuck on the fact that you two are actually getting married," Nick shook his head.

"It's hard to believe. If you told me a year ago that it was going to happen, I would have checked you into a mental hospital," Warrick laughed.

"I had the feeling it was coming some day," Catherine said, "of course I guess I know these two better than they know themselves."

"Oh really?" Grissom asked.

"I knew you two would end up together before you did!" Catherine reminded them.

"If you knew, how come you didn't let us in on it?" Sara joked.

"I was waiting for you two to come to your senses on your own. Didn't know it was going to take this long," Catherine teased.

"We should have been taking bets on it," Greg laughed.

"Yeah, I think that might have been fun," Warrick agreed.

"Hey, hey! We're standing right here you guys!" Sara reminded them.

"Aw, we're just teasing you," Nick smiled, "and boy is it fun."

"Go ahead, have your fun, just keep in mind who assigns cases," Grissom smirked.

"Well I for one am glad that you guys are together, both of you are so much more loose and fun to be around," Greg said.

"Yeah, we're really good for each other," Sara smiled at Grissom.

"I couldn't agree more," Grissom kissed her briefly, just in case Ecklie or someone else was around that wasn't wild about their relationship.

"Oh! We're so caught up in your news that I forgot to ask, how was your seminar?" Catherine asked suddenly.

"It went well," Grissom said.

"At least the one part we were actually present for," Sara laughed, "we basically gave our own presentation and skipped out on the rest of it.

"You mean to tell me you were playing around when you were on CSI time?" Warrick joked.

"Technically, we didn't get paid by CSI for the seminar, so it was fine," Grissom corrected, "and those forensics seminars can be so boring."

"Wow, did Grissom just say 'forensics' and 'boring' in the same sentence?" Nick pretended to be shocked.

"If you've been to one lecture, you've been to them all. At least to people at our experience level. I don't know if you've noticed, but we've all been out of college for a little while now," Grissom shot back.

"Grissom took me to meet his mother while we were there," Sara said.

"You met his mom?" Catherine asked, "I've never met her and I've known him for longer."

"You've also never been to California with me," Grissom told her, "I wanted my mother to meet the woman I want to spend the rest of my life with before I proposed to her. She loved Sara."

"I'm glad you guys enjoyed your little vacation because we're in the middle of a fun case here," Catherine sighed, "we found a body dump site in the desert. So far we've dug up five bodies. All of them male, around the same age. I'm sure you'll be joining us on the case, I can brief you on it before we head out tonight."

"Sounds like we came back just in time then," Grissom said, "it is almost time for work. I better go to my office and grab assignments."