Finally! Thanks for having so much patience, I was just having a horrendious time with this chapter. Any way, I might warn you, this chapter containts referance to femslash, so don't hurt me. Also, any imput as to what you wnat in the next chapter can be emailed to me, and I'll try to work it in along with my ideas!

"Sara?" It's a statement and a question all in one.

"Hey," Sara says quietly, moving to sit on the couch with me.

I smile uncertainly at her. I reach for her hand, and she smiles, taking my fingers and admiring my ring.

"Beautiful," She breaths. She gently releases my hand and looks out the window, "Cath, you know why I was jealous, don't you?"

I nod sadly, and lightly brush my fingers against her cheek, "Sara, I know. I'm not trying to make you feel bad, and I'm certainly not trying to make what we had seem unimportant, it's just… When you left, I felt so alone, so cold. I couldn't ever imagine loving someone the way I had loved you," She turns to look at me when I say this, with love etched onto her face. And I continue, "Then when I started to… to dream about Gil, my feelings of friendship for him turned to something so much more, and I couldn't help it, I couldn't fight it. And when I knew that he felt the same, I wasn't going to abandon that, I couldn't. I've finally started to feel again Sara, after a long year I can finally feel," I break off, tears coming into my eyes.

"Cath," She begins, "I still love you, but if you're happy with Gil…," Her statement goes unfinished as the headlights of Gil's car flash through the window.

Sara quickly makes to stand, and I reach for her hand murmuring, "Stay."

She sits down silently, and looks at me questioningly. I sigh, and ask, "Sara, Do you want to tell him? I think that he should know, it might explain…"

"Cath! Who's here? There's another car in the drive and…" Gil comes around the corner stopping suddenly as he sees Sara on the couch next to me. Of all the people to be here, Sara wasn't the one he was expecting to see.

She looks at me and nods while saying, "Hi Gil."

He looks puzzled, but returns the sentiment, "Hey, Sara."

"Come sit down Gil. We all need to talk."

Moving slowly, he sits in the chair across from the couch, looking from one of us to the other.

"Gil," I begin, "What we're going to tell you starts about two years ago…"

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In the morning, I wake up on the couch. Sitting up slowly, I look around for an explanation, when suddenly, the events of last night come flooding back into my mind.

Telling Gil about Sara and I, how violently he had reacted, how he had… My hand flutters to my forehead, and I feel the giant bump from where he had hit me.

I remember Sara leaving after that, I don't know why. And Gil… what did he do? Where did he go? A voice from behind me makes me jump, "Mom? You ok?"

"Linds, what are you doing home," I turn to face her, but the whole room is spinning all of a sudden.

"It's Saturday Mom. I heard all the yelling, but I didn't know what it was about so I stayed in my room. After it sounded like everyone had left I came out, and you were passed out on the couch. I put a hot cloth over your forehead, and then I made you take some aspirin. Do you remember any of that?"

I'm reeling as the realization hits that my daughter heard that huge fight, "N-no, I don't sweetheart."

"Maybe I should call Warrick? Or do you want me to call Un- Dad? I only ask because it sounded like he was really pissed at you last night," She looks at me worriedly, "Mom what happened?"

I cough lightly, and the slight movement of my head causes pain to shoot against my skull, "You remember how me and Sara…?"

"OH! You told him? Why?"

"Sara was jealous. Needed to…" The room was spinning again, and those little dots on my eyes can't be good… "We needed to…," and I fell back into the cushions, darkness enveloping me.

A/N- I hope it was worth the wait... NOW REVIEW! If you want to keep me on track with this, try emailing me periodically, I'm easily side-tracked by other projects :-)