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"There is no secret better kept than secrets that everybody guesses."

George Bernard Shaw

Catherine and Lindsey climbed into their car and headed back to their house. Catherine was going to tell Lindsey how pleased she had been with her behavior, but Lindsey had already put on her MP3 player and was off in the land of teenagers. Catherine just smiled.

After a quick meal and dropping Lindsey off at Catherine's sister's, Catherine made her way to the lab. Hoping that the night would be slow enough that she could make up for her loss of sleep in her closet of an office. Checking her mailbox on the way to the break room, she was pleased to see one case. A basic B&E. Something that any of them could easily do solo, but figured that she might as well send both Nick and Warrick so that they could finish it quickly in case something more trying came in. As she walked into the break room she noticed both men flicking a paper football across the table, apparently deeply engrossed in some game.

"You know, most guys stop doing that once they reach high school." Catherine teased.

"Well, good afternoon to you too." Warrick smiled. "We're just staying young at heart."

"Man, that's sappy." Nick retorted, distancing himself from Warrick. "What have you got for us today Cath?"

"Basic B&E, think you guys are 'man' enough to handle it?" Catherine replied. She loved teasing the guys, and knew they'd give it right back to her. Nick took the slip from Catherine and started to look it over. "Work quickly, I'm going to be in my office until something comes in."

"You ok Cath? You look kind of tired." Warrick worried, he noticed the tired expression, and was well aware that the only time Catherine worked in her office was while trying to catch a few zzz's. Usually Catherine was reading in the break room or torturing the lab techs if there wasn't anything else to do.

"Thanks Rick, and you look beautiful too," Catherine snorted. "Sara called me at the crack of dawn needing help. I got her calmed down and we meet a couple hours later for food and shopping."

"Wait a second, did you just say Sara called you? Needing help? Needing to be calmed down? And you meet up for food and shopping? What's going on?" Nick looked up shocked. Both men were staring at Catherine as if she had three heads. They both like Sara, and she was like a sister to them, but Sara and Catherine were rarely on speaking terms the past few months, and everyone knew it.

"Yeah, she had this case where the wife stabbed the husband to death and Sara found the missing little girl. Grissom sent her to the hospital with the little girl, and eventually DCFS told Sara they couldn't find a place to put the little girl for the weekend so Greg volunteered Sara, since she is off the rest of the weekend. And Sara ended up taking the little girl home." Catherine replied, but was interrupted by Warrick.

"Is Greg still alive? Man, Sara must have killed him for volunteering her. She hates kids."

"Yes, yes, Greg, Sara and Sadie, that's the little girl, are all still alive as of this morning. Sara called me in a panic when she got back her apartment with the kid. I think this just might have been the first time that Sara was clueless. We met in the morning for breakfast with Sadie and Lindsey in tow, and then went shopping so that Sara would have the basics to survive the weekend with a 5-year-old. She's a cute kid, looks exactly like Sara."

Nick and Warrick sat there stunned. Neither knew what to say. They knew Catherine would joke around with them but this was too far out of left field to even be a joke.

"We got to see this for ourselves." Nick replied and Warrick nodded.

"Well maybe later, right now you have a case. When you're done I'll be in my office."

With that Catherine left the two men who were still sitting in the break room stunned. She thought about what had happened during the morning, and how adamant and distance Sara had been when saying that the emergency family and group homes were going to be an awful experience. They all knew how Sara became sensitive with cases dealing with abuse, but no one knew why.

A thought flashed before Catherine. Now that she was a supervisor, she had access to the employee's personnel files. Maybe there would be something in Sara's file that would explain her behavior. Catherine made it back to her office and closed the door. She had the authority to look at employee's personnel files, but she knew digging into Sara's background just wasn't an admirable thing to do. Well, she figured, it wasn't the first time she had done something less than professional.

The only information that Catherine was able to find was that Sara grew up in a Bed and Breakfast in Tamales Bay, California, and that she had graduated from high school a year early. Catherine wanted more. She wanted to find out just what set Sara off. Going into the national crimes database Catherine input Sara's name. Numerous files came up referencing work that Sara had done for each case. Catherine guessed that whatever had happened to Sara would have happened before her work as a CSI so Catherine searched again, limiting the dates to before Sara began working.

One article came up. Catherine quickly searched it but did not find Sara's first name at all in the article. The article described how Laura Sidle stabbed to death husband Michel Sidle. There was one line that mentioned that a child was taken into protective custody. Intrigued, but still ill informed, Catherine needed another source of information.

She had known Grissom for years, but had also known that there was a special bond between him and Sara that most gossiped was sexual. Catherine knew that Grissom had chosen his work over a relationship with Sara, but did not like to push the subject. No surprised to see Grissom in his office, Catherine decided that he may be the one person that would know the mystery that is Sara Sidle.

"Hey Griss, you're here early."

"Well, Cath, these little guys are in training and I need to keep them to a strict schedule." Grissom stated as he held up a jar of cockroaches. Catherine just shook her head in disgust.

"So I hear you're letting you're CSI's take home their work?" Catherine asked, wondering if Grissom would pick up on her sarcasm. Grissom looked at her strangely, so Catherine when on. "Sara? You let her take the kid that was part of her case home."

"Oh, yeah, it'll just be for the weekend, and it seems like it was more of Greg's proactive." Grissom replied finally understanding what Catherine had been referring too. "If the child stays with her, she won't be accumulating any more overtime, hanging around here."

"Did you think about this before letting Sara take the kid home? She called me at the crack of dawn not knowing what to do. I got her settled and met with her earlier today. She has no idea what she's doing, you do know that right?" Catherine asked, curious to see if Grissom had even thought before allowing Sara to take the kid.

"Catherine, I had my objectives as to why I sent Sara to the hospital with the child, as well as allowing Sara to take care of the child over the weekend. Frankly, I am surprised she called you. I told her if she needed any help to call me." Grissom simply stated.

"Are you really surprised she didn't call you? You're not exactly a people-person, Griss, we all know that. I was surprised to get a call, but she explained her reasoning to me. And as for you're objectives, what are you talking about?" Catherine wasn't sure, but thought that whatever Grissom's objectives were had something to do with Sara's past and somehow related to what Catherine was so desperately trying to figure out.

"My objectives are to protect my CSI's at all times. I felt Sara needed to be removed from the situation and sending her to the hospital with the child provided an excellent alternative."

"Remove Sara? She's your best CSI. That just doesn't make sense." Catherine retorted. She was getting nowhere fast.

"And since when do you have such interest in other CSI's lives? You and Sara have never exactly been 'close'. If you're trying to prove she is fallible for some alterative motive, I will have no part of that." Grissom replied obviously annoyed at Catherine for placing him in the position to have to defend his decisions.

"After talking to Sara about Sadie's future, there are some things that I don't understand. Why is Sara so against DCFS group homes? What is it about Sara that you know and the rest of us don't?"

"Catherine, drop it. Now." Grissom replied going back to his work making it obvious to Catherine that he was not going to discuss the subject any further. Infuriated, but even more intrigued, Catherine secretly refused to follow any of Grissom's commands.