"I'm coming…"

Sara Sidle's groggy voice probably wasn't reaching the door, but she didn't care; she'd been woken an hour after she'd returned from a very LONG shift. They had needed extra help on swing shift, so Catherine had put in the paperwork and called her and Greg before it had been approved. Grissom was a lead, so he was stuck until night shift had started.

The entire office had been in chaos and likely it still was, but Sara had been allowed to go, as had the rest who had been there for over twelve hours. It seemed as though it hadn't really happened now, but Sara thought she halfway remembered Grissom having a smirk on his face when they all left to get some rest; Ecklie was not their favorite person, and any downfall on his part brought them all a small amount of joy.

As the knocking began again, Sara grabbed for the knob and said, "I said I was COM-" But all bets were off when she opened the door and saw someone standing there, someone she knew. "Erzsé?" She hadn't seen her sister since she herself was almost ten years old, and her sister was four years younger than Sara; they had been separated when Sara's mother had killed their father in '84. TO see her standing on her doorstep now…

"Could I come in?" Erzsébet's voice said, immediately reminding Sara of the way she felt when they'd been separated, "I didn't know if it was you, but I thought it was worth a try." She and her older brother had been sent to live with relatives in Tamales Bay, over four hours from San Gabriel, where Sara had heard that Erzsébet had been sent to live with their grandparents.

With almost no second thought, because Sara always had some type of reservation, she ushered Erzsébet in, and closed the door. Suddenly, Sara was wide awake. "How did you find me?" was the first, and most obvious question on her mind, "I mean, it's been…"

"I work as a lab technician in Atlanta, for the VCTF." Erzsébet's face spread into a smile as she pushed back her hair and revealed olive green eyes that mimicked their father's. "I'm also engaged, but needed to get away from it all." She rolled her eyes. "You know how some people can get when someone's getting married…"

Sara bit her lip. "What are you doing in Vegas, then?" She was half worried that she'd be having some strange guy come to the door any minute now and say that he was looking for Erzsébet. "I mean, you're not… eloping?"

Erzsébet shook her head, and sat at a stool that was at Sara's kitchen counter-bar. "I'm running away, at least for now." She smirked. "Matt's going to find a note written totally in Italian when he leaves for work, if he hasn't found it already…"

"I guess you could stay with me until you've finished relaxing…" Erzsébet hugged Sara then, and for the first time in over ten years now, she was able to wrap her arms around her sister; Sara felt different, and hugged Erzsébet with all she could, lest she went away again. She needed to call their brother, and they could have a family dinner… or breakfast, rather. It would be awkward at first, but the Sidle family was all about being awkward. Suddenly, Sara remembered something… "Did you say lab technician?"

"Uh-huh…"

"Look, we've got this big case, and there are some techs out sick…"

"Clear it with your boss, I'll clear it with mine."