Greg had told her that Sara he wanted to talk to Erzsébet after work, so she'd called before the end of the shift and asked her to come to the diner down the street from the apartment. The rest of the old night shift was going to show up and keep an eye on the whole situation, save Grissom and Catherine. Catherine had some parent-teacher thing at school, and Grissom… he just gave them both a look before he left.
"Greg," Erzsébet said, sitting down across from him, "I tried to sit with Sara and she said to come over to your table." Her hand rested on the table and Greg could see the bracelet there. "Care to tell me why?"
Greg looked at the girl, well now Erzsébet was a woman, across from him and went speechless; he couldn't remember why he'd given up, why he'd stopped talking to her. Somewhere in the back of his mind he knew, but he didn't' want to think about it. Erzsé was here NOW, and he was going to take every moment he could with her.
"We have to talk," he said, "about… us."
There was a raised eyebrow from Erzsébet before she answered Greg. "Didn't we agree there wasn't a chance of an us?" Then she held up her left hand, displaying her engagement ring. "Also, have we forgotten I'm engaged?"
The waitress came over before Greg could answer, and his words were bursting to come out; unfortunately, he had to wait until both of them had ordered before he could release them. "Why didn't you SAY something, Erz? I mean, we could have discussed it if I'd..."
"What? If you'd known?" Erzsébet shook her head. "No, you're my Grissom. I'm like Sara, and you're the unattainable." She looked down after her tea came. "No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't tell you…. Then you just stopped talking to me."
Greg reached out and grabbed Erzsébet's hands in his own, causing her to look up; her green eyes looked into his own and he could see now. He could see how she'd felt. "That isn't why you-"
"Oh, no." She pulled her hands away from his, and settled back into her seat. "He's been cheating on me for at least the past six months, and… I'm hoping he'd change once we married, but…"
"Talk about parallel…" At Erzsébet's confused look, Greg felt the need to explain. "You see, Sara was seeing this guy, and found out… well, under awful circumstances in fact, that he was cheating on his girlfriend with her."
"So it runs in the family then, making poor choices…" Erzsébet sighed, and took a drink of her tea. "Well, at least we didn't' get the killer gene."
