*CSI DOES NOT BELONG TO ME! *
Okay, I'm very excited about this chapter, because I just thought up a cute
scene for Warrick and Catherine. (Since my friend who's giving me ideas on
the story is reprimanding me for giving all the attention to Sara and Gris)
I'm hoping I can write it as fluently as I see it in my mind and I am
thankful to my reviewers on the last chapter for making me feel so good
about my writing.
Hope you enjoy this next chapter. I know I will. Also, so you know, the way
that Sara's hair is curled, is the same is it was in "Suckers".
CSI HAWAIIAN VACATION
Chapter 5
"Hello Catherine." Sara said with an excited pitch in her voice.
"Hey Sara, we're about five minutes from your place. Are you ready to go?"
"Yeah, I'm just finishing up making the 'Snacks'."
Catherine smiled. "Don't mock me Sara."
"I'm not, just wondering when I turned into a sixth grader again."
"Okay Miss Sidle, we'll be there in a minute."
"Yeah. Bye Cath."
Sara pressed end on her cell and zipped shut the last plastic bag full of Chex Mix.
She knew it'd be the easiest way to go, and that fruit would get too messy.
But knowing the rest of her coworkers, they'd bring their own stuff and wouldn't give a second thought to Sara's stupid little bags of Chex.
She grabbed all the bags and cell phone and dropped them into her large carry on bag that Catherine said she should buy because it was so cute and versatile.
Sara found the dark blue, white trimmed "Puma" bag more overwhelming than cute, but it did hold everything as Catherine had said it would.
"Okay, am I forgetting anything?" Sara dropped her hands to her sides and surveyed the room, looking for the slightest clue that she was missing anything.
Her eyes rested on her CD player.
"My Minidisk."
Sara ran down the hall to her room and opened the drawer of her beside table.
She picked up the small dark blue box and grabbed the small plastic case that held all of her discs.
"Lets see, one, two, three, four, five... okay I have all of them."
She walked over to the bathroom and checked to make she'd gotten everything and smiled at herself in the mirror.
On the advice of Catherine yesterday, saying that she looked so cute "that way", she curled her hair. Then decided that the dark blue jeans and the pink "Maui'92 Dreamin" tank she'd bought looked nice enough together.
She also decided that the golden blonde highlights she'd had put in looked better than the ones she'd gotten last time. "I guess going to a fancier place and paying more makes all the difference."
She slipped on the white flat sandals that she'd bought at the mall the day before and walked down the hall, Minidisk and Discs in hand and dropped them into her carry on when there was a loud knock at the door.
She smiled, "Come in!"
Greg pushed the door open and smiled.
"Hey Sar, well don't you look cute."
Sara blushed. "Shut up Greg and stop staring at me?"
"Of course why would I ever do that? Now, where are your suitcases? I've been assigned to help the "Ladies".
Sara smiled, "I think I can handle them myself."
"No, no, I'm more capable, where's your stuff?"
"In my room."
Greg smiled. "Okay be back in a minute."
Sara stepped in front of him. "Nope! You just want to snoop around. I don't think so."
Just then Grissom appeared at the door, seeing Greg about to push by Sara.
"Greg, go back to the car, you're taking too long."
Greg turned and looked sheepishly at Grissom. "Just doing my job Sir."
"No your not, and stop calling me "Sir", get back out to the Denali."
Sara looked down and smiled as Greg sneaked by Grissom, who was giving him a "Hurry it up" stare.
As soon as he was gone, Grissom turned and looked at Sara.
~She looks nice. No wait a minute, shut up and do the job that you were just yelling at Greggo about! ~
"Need help with your bags?"
Sara looked up and pursed her lips. "I can handle them, but if you want to help, by all means."
She led him down the hall to her room, seeing his evident pause at entering and smiled.
~It's just my room, he acts like I'm gonna corner him in it... hmmm, not a bad idea. ~
Grissom seeing three bags on the bed, quickly walked in and discretely as possible took in his surroundings.
It was very clean and simple. Everything was a plush, comfortable white except for the bedposts and side table, which were a light oak.
There were fragile colored glass vases filled with brightly colored daisies and large blue and purple glass butterfly and dragonfly figurines. He grabbed the handles of two of the bags and quickly rushed out of the room.
Sara followed quietly behind him smiling cutely carrying the last bag.
They walked out to the Denali and threw the bags in on top of everyone else's.
Grissom turned and looked at her, "Have everything?"
Sara thought a moment, "Oh, just one last thing."
She ran back and grabbed her carry on and locked the door behind her and rushed out to the car.
Everyone had already gotten in and the only seat left was the front passenger seat.
She got in finding Grissom as the driver, Cath and Warrick sitting awfully close on the bench seats in the back, and Nick and Greg sitting in the middle bench seat, piling things in the middle.
Sara smiled and buckled her seat belt as Grissom pulled out.
The ride to the airport was spent talking of nothing important.
Catherine and Warrick chatted and laughed in the back, while Nick and Greg talked about their latest catch.
Sara couldn't help but smile. It was like they were a family.
Grissom and her played the role as parents, while the other four were the loud, crazy teenagers.
Sara smiled at the thought. Grissom and her starting a relationship, eventually marrying, having kids...the beginning and middle sounded very dream like, but the end, she didn't even want to think about, their friends in the back were 'children' enough.
When they finally arrived Nick and Greg were the first out, already heading in for a cart so they wouldn't all have to lug their bags in on their own.
Catherine and Warrick headed to the back and started getting everyone's bags out and Sara and Grissom went back to help.
Once everything was outside on the curb, they checked the Denali to make sure they all had what they needed and Grissom took off to park it in their saved parking spot.
Nick and Greg appeared a minute later and they all dropped their stuff onto the cart and waited for Gris.
He returned on a shuttle and they all went into the building. Baggage check would be hell, because of September 11th two years ago, so now they would have three hours to get their bags checked and then wait for their flight to leave at 3:00pm.
Everything in baggage check went without a hitch and they ended up on the benches near their gate an hour and a half before their flight.
Sara sat across from Grissom and everyone else sat in a group talking.
Finally Sara decided to join in on the conversation and Grissom soon followed.
"Okay, so the house is by itself, on a deserted side of the island, with the nicest sunset, it sounds too fake." Warrick said, smiling at Catherine.
"Yeah I totally agree, but that's what Darrin told me, and he's not one to "spice" things up."
Greg smiled and said, "Well the only two things I'm going for is..."
Nick quickly cut in, " The coffee and the girls. We know you told us twice on the way here."
Greg leaned back in the chair, and brought his arms together at the back of his head.
"Okay "Mr. Know it all", what exactly are you going for?"
Nick smiled, "Well that's simple, one, for the experience, two for the relaxation, three to get to know everyone better as Catherine said, and four..."
Greg smiled, "The girls."
Nick looked up at Greg and broke into a defeated smile.
"The girls."
Greg and the rest of the group laughed and then looked at Catherine.
"Well we already know why Catherine's going, how about Grissom?" Warrick said smiling at Catherine.
Everyone turned in their seats and looked expectantly at him.
"Okay, I guess you could say I'm going for the learning experience and the relaxation..."
"Hey, get your own lines boss!" Nick said loudly, smiling.
Grissom smiled and said,
"Okay, okay, and a original one, I'm going because I want to let you guys get to know me."
Everyone sat there with perplexed looks on their faces and noticed immediately Grissom's eyes fall on Sara.
Sara blushed at the same time Grissom did, and looked down at the floor knowing she'd never get out of this with Catherine. There'd be plenty of questions.
Sara then looked up and over at the gate.
~Oh my gosh, this is not happening, he is openly showing a little tiny bit of caring towards me, this is not our Grissom. ~
"Okay, so, Sara, why are you going?" Catherine said, noticing Sara's embarrassment.
Sara smiled lightly and said, "Um, kind of the same reasons as Nick and Grissom...well take the girls part out, I'm definitely not going for that."
Everyone broke into smiles.
~Nice one Sara, push all the attention away from you as quickly as possible. ~ Catherine thought, wishing Sara would let herself be loved for more than a moment in time, she swore the girl had never had any attention spent on her by anyone her entire life.
Sara suddenly stood and stretched.
"I'm gonna go buy some gum for the plane, they say it helps your ears."
Grissom sighed.
"Well you're not going alone, I don't want anyone getting lost and missing the flight and I also don't think it'd be a good idea for you to go off by yourself."
Sara studied him a moment and was about to say that she could take care of herself when Greg stood and said, "I'll go."
Sara raised an eyebrow.
"And you trust him to go with me and manage to "keep me safe"?"
Grissom looked at Greg a moment and said, "No, I'll go, Greggo you stay here."
Sara about fell on the floor.
~Grissom go off alone with me? This is certainly a change. He hasn't gotten a foot near me since a week or two ago. ~
Sara smiled as she turned and grabbed her wallet out of her carry on.
"Okay, guys watch my bag, we'll be back in a minute."
Catherine reached for her bag and held it.
"Okay Sara, I'll keep it safe."
Sara smiled, "Thanks Cath." She said as she felt Grissom touch the back of her shoulder and lead her off.
Sara couldn't help but smile as she felt him near her as they walked.
~Is it just me, or is he in a "protector" mode? We're just in an airport for goodness sakes. ~
"Sara hold your wallet closer to you. Someone might reach out..."
Just then Grissom reached out and snatched it from her grasp and said, "And grab it just like this."
Sara smiled.
~Okay, where did Grissom go, this isn't anything like he's been lately. Maybe he was like this before Vegas, but he's never played around with me like this since I moved here. ~
Sara reached out and took it back as they walked into the small shop and said sweetly, " Yes, but I can kick the shit out of the person who does that to me for real."
Grissom smiled and followed her over to the rack of candy and watched as she grabbed two packs of gum and two boxes of Raisinettes.
She then looked over the racks of magazines and books and picked up a thin hardback book.
"A journal. I didn't know you write."
Sara smirked and looked at him, "There's a lot of things you don't know about me."
Grissom looked down.
~Yeah I know and it's my own damn fault for pushing you away. ~
Grissom smiled, "Well like I said earlier, during this trip we'll have a chance to talk."
Sara smiled and pulled the book close to her. "Yeah maybe."
She set it down and ran her fingers over the next few until she found a tan, aged looking one that had a butterfly on the cover.
She smiled. ~This one's nice. ~
She put her gum and candy on top and looked at the magazines real quick, and picked up a new issue of Vogue.
Grissom smirked. "You read Vogue?"
"Sometimes, some of the sections can be interesting and I like to look at the pictures."
She then walked to the counter and set down her items.
The clerk was a kind looking elderly woman.
"Oh, someone finally bought that beautiful vintage butterfly journal in the back."
She smiled and looked at Sara, "Yep, you look like the type."
Sara smiled and could sense Grissom standing behind her smiling. She could somehow always tell when he smiled.
Like when you walked into a room and could sense that a TV was on even when there was no one there watching it and it made no sound.
The woman looked up and behind Sara and said, where are you and your husband vacationing to?"
Sara blushed and turned around to see Grissom doing the same.
"He's not my husband." She said trying to stay cheerful, but not doing a very good job at it.
The woman smiled and said, "Oh, I'm sorry, he just looks so happy around you, almost proud."
Sara almost started laughing.
~Well this is wonderful. This woman doesn't even know him and she can sense something about him and his feelings towards me when I can't. Maybe I should come back and talk to her after we get back? ~
She quickly brushed the thought away as she took the bag of her purchases from the woman and smiled.
"Thank you Ma'am." She said trying to keep from laughing.
The woman winked and smiled as she walked away and said, "Your welcome."
Sara had to keep from looking at Grissom; afraid she'd laugh at the look on his face.
~Maybe that woman was right. Is he really happy when he's around me, is he proud of me? ~
They turned the corner and Sara smirked when she took in the site of Catherine lying across the bench, her head in Warrick's lap.
Catherine and Warrick were talking and laughing.
She could sense Grissom about to say something about it, but he shut his mouth and they kept walking towards the group.
Nick and Greg sat across from them with amused smirks on their faces and looked up at Grissom and Sara as they came to join the group.
Sara sat down next to Nick and whispered, "Is it just me or have they suddenly turned into two flirting teenagers?"
"Your guess is as good as mine, it seems quite evident thought that the two have a "thing" for each other."
Grissom sat down next to Sara and took in the site of the two "lovebirds."
~I wonder if I would have ever acted like that when I was a teenager if I'd been close to a certain girl. I wonder if I could ever act that way with Sara?"~
He quickly brushed the thought away.
~Don't be stupid, she's not like Catherine, she's more of a serious type you know that... Well at least you used to. ~
Grissom sat back watching Catherine and Warrick who suddenly realized that Sara and him were back.
"Well what took you two so long?" Catherine said, a smug look on her face.
Grissom looked at her with a bored look on his face and said, "Line."
Sara smiled.
~Oh shopping is such a big thing for us now that he as to lie. Wow he needs to lighten up, well you don't have too much to talk about yourself."
Sara looked at Catherine. "And what exactly have you been doing while we were gone?"
Catherine looked up at Warrick and said, "Flirting."
Warrick and her started laughing and Warrick brushed a wisp of hair from Catherine's face.
Everyone sat there watching them with confused looks on their faces.
"Well, I am going to sit here and chew my gum and look through my magazine." Sara said with a smile on her face, "Anyone else want a piece?"
Greg smiled and jumped over to her and sat down next to her, "Please?"
Sara rolled her eyes and opened the pack and handed him a piece, then handed one to everyone else.
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"What time is it Gris?" Nick asked looking around for a clock.
"2:30." Gris replied taking his glasses off and putting on his sunglasses, the sun had changed its position and was now shining in his eyes.
He looked over to see Sara and Greg sitting close looking through her magazine.
~I wish I could sit that close to her without making it a big deal. It's so simple. They're just looking at a magazine and yet I feel so jealous. Why do I do that, you know from talking to Catherine that she's thought of no one but you, why won't you let her closer when you know she doesn't want anyone else? Maybe you should ask her during the trip why she thinks so highly of you, when you treat her like nothing, which is going to change from here on. ~
Just then Sara broke through his thoughts by laughing and he couldn't help but smile.
~I definitely am going to talk to her and try to show her how I feel, I'm tired of hiding, no more worrying about everything and everyone else, right now she's your main priority. ~
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Okay I liked this a lot, I had to re-write it twice, but I'm finally happy with it, it's very long, but I had all these ideas at once and just decided to do a very long chapter. I tried hard to make Grissom seem realistic and hope that he came across as himself. Write more tonight or tomorrow. Bye!
CSI HAWAIIAN VACATION
Chapter 5
"Hello Catherine." Sara said with an excited pitch in her voice.
"Hey Sara, we're about five minutes from your place. Are you ready to go?"
"Yeah, I'm just finishing up making the 'Snacks'."
Catherine smiled. "Don't mock me Sara."
"I'm not, just wondering when I turned into a sixth grader again."
"Okay Miss Sidle, we'll be there in a minute."
"Yeah. Bye Cath."
Sara pressed end on her cell and zipped shut the last plastic bag full of Chex Mix.
She knew it'd be the easiest way to go, and that fruit would get too messy.
But knowing the rest of her coworkers, they'd bring their own stuff and wouldn't give a second thought to Sara's stupid little bags of Chex.
She grabbed all the bags and cell phone and dropped them into her large carry on bag that Catherine said she should buy because it was so cute and versatile.
Sara found the dark blue, white trimmed "Puma" bag more overwhelming than cute, but it did hold everything as Catherine had said it would.
"Okay, am I forgetting anything?" Sara dropped her hands to her sides and surveyed the room, looking for the slightest clue that she was missing anything.
Her eyes rested on her CD player.
"My Minidisk."
Sara ran down the hall to her room and opened the drawer of her beside table.
She picked up the small dark blue box and grabbed the small plastic case that held all of her discs.
"Lets see, one, two, three, four, five... okay I have all of them."
She walked over to the bathroom and checked to make she'd gotten everything and smiled at herself in the mirror.
On the advice of Catherine yesterday, saying that she looked so cute "that way", she curled her hair. Then decided that the dark blue jeans and the pink "Maui'92 Dreamin" tank she'd bought looked nice enough together.
She also decided that the golden blonde highlights she'd had put in looked better than the ones she'd gotten last time. "I guess going to a fancier place and paying more makes all the difference."
She slipped on the white flat sandals that she'd bought at the mall the day before and walked down the hall, Minidisk and Discs in hand and dropped them into her carry on when there was a loud knock at the door.
She smiled, "Come in!"
Greg pushed the door open and smiled.
"Hey Sar, well don't you look cute."
Sara blushed. "Shut up Greg and stop staring at me?"
"Of course why would I ever do that? Now, where are your suitcases? I've been assigned to help the "Ladies".
Sara smiled, "I think I can handle them myself."
"No, no, I'm more capable, where's your stuff?"
"In my room."
Greg smiled. "Okay be back in a minute."
Sara stepped in front of him. "Nope! You just want to snoop around. I don't think so."
Just then Grissom appeared at the door, seeing Greg about to push by Sara.
"Greg, go back to the car, you're taking too long."
Greg turned and looked sheepishly at Grissom. "Just doing my job Sir."
"No your not, and stop calling me "Sir", get back out to the Denali."
Sara looked down and smiled as Greg sneaked by Grissom, who was giving him a "Hurry it up" stare.
As soon as he was gone, Grissom turned and looked at Sara.
~She looks nice. No wait a minute, shut up and do the job that you were just yelling at Greggo about! ~
"Need help with your bags?"
Sara looked up and pursed her lips. "I can handle them, but if you want to help, by all means."
She led him down the hall to her room, seeing his evident pause at entering and smiled.
~It's just my room, he acts like I'm gonna corner him in it... hmmm, not a bad idea. ~
Grissom seeing three bags on the bed, quickly walked in and discretely as possible took in his surroundings.
It was very clean and simple. Everything was a plush, comfortable white except for the bedposts and side table, which were a light oak.
There were fragile colored glass vases filled with brightly colored daisies and large blue and purple glass butterfly and dragonfly figurines. He grabbed the handles of two of the bags and quickly rushed out of the room.
Sara followed quietly behind him smiling cutely carrying the last bag.
They walked out to the Denali and threw the bags in on top of everyone else's.
Grissom turned and looked at her, "Have everything?"
Sara thought a moment, "Oh, just one last thing."
She ran back and grabbed her carry on and locked the door behind her and rushed out to the car.
Everyone had already gotten in and the only seat left was the front passenger seat.
She got in finding Grissom as the driver, Cath and Warrick sitting awfully close on the bench seats in the back, and Nick and Greg sitting in the middle bench seat, piling things in the middle.
Sara smiled and buckled her seat belt as Grissom pulled out.
The ride to the airport was spent talking of nothing important.
Catherine and Warrick chatted and laughed in the back, while Nick and Greg talked about their latest catch.
Sara couldn't help but smile. It was like they were a family.
Grissom and her played the role as parents, while the other four were the loud, crazy teenagers.
Sara smiled at the thought. Grissom and her starting a relationship, eventually marrying, having kids...the beginning and middle sounded very dream like, but the end, she didn't even want to think about, their friends in the back were 'children' enough.
When they finally arrived Nick and Greg were the first out, already heading in for a cart so they wouldn't all have to lug their bags in on their own.
Catherine and Warrick headed to the back and started getting everyone's bags out and Sara and Grissom went back to help.
Once everything was outside on the curb, they checked the Denali to make sure they all had what they needed and Grissom took off to park it in their saved parking spot.
Nick and Greg appeared a minute later and they all dropped their stuff onto the cart and waited for Gris.
He returned on a shuttle and they all went into the building. Baggage check would be hell, because of September 11th two years ago, so now they would have three hours to get their bags checked and then wait for their flight to leave at 3:00pm.
Everything in baggage check went without a hitch and they ended up on the benches near their gate an hour and a half before their flight.
Sara sat across from Grissom and everyone else sat in a group talking.
Finally Sara decided to join in on the conversation and Grissom soon followed.
"Okay, so the house is by itself, on a deserted side of the island, with the nicest sunset, it sounds too fake." Warrick said, smiling at Catherine.
"Yeah I totally agree, but that's what Darrin told me, and he's not one to "spice" things up."
Greg smiled and said, "Well the only two things I'm going for is..."
Nick quickly cut in, " The coffee and the girls. We know you told us twice on the way here."
Greg leaned back in the chair, and brought his arms together at the back of his head.
"Okay "Mr. Know it all", what exactly are you going for?"
Nick smiled, "Well that's simple, one, for the experience, two for the relaxation, three to get to know everyone better as Catherine said, and four..."
Greg smiled, "The girls."
Nick looked up at Greg and broke into a defeated smile.
"The girls."
Greg and the rest of the group laughed and then looked at Catherine.
"Well we already know why Catherine's going, how about Grissom?" Warrick said smiling at Catherine.
Everyone turned in their seats and looked expectantly at him.
"Okay, I guess you could say I'm going for the learning experience and the relaxation..."
"Hey, get your own lines boss!" Nick said loudly, smiling.
Grissom smiled and said,
"Okay, okay, and a original one, I'm going because I want to let you guys get to know me."
Everyone sat there with perplexed looks on their faces and noticed immediately Grissom's eyes fall on Sara.
Sara blushed at the same time Grissom did, and looked down at the floor knowing she'd never get out of this with Catherine. There'd be plenty of questions.
Sara then looked up and over at the gate.
~Oh my gosh, this is not happening, he is openly showing a little tiny bit of caring towards me, this is not our Grissom. ~
"Okay, so, Sara, why are you going?" Catherine said, noticing Sara's embarrassment.
Sara smiled lightly and said, "Um, kind of the same reasons as Nick and Grissom...well take the girls part out, I'm definitely not going for that."
Everyone broke into smiles.
~Nice one Sara, push all the attention away from you as quickly as possible. ~ Catherine thought, wishing Sara would let herself be loved for more than a moment in time, she swore the girl had never had any attention spent on her by anyone her entire life.
Sara suddenly stood and stretched.
"I'm gonna go buy some gum for the plane, they say it helps your ears."
Grissom sighed.
"Well you're not going alone, I don't want anyone getting lost and missing the flight and I also don't think it'd be a good idea for you to go off by yourself."
Sara studied him a moment and was about to say that she could take care of herself when Greg stood and said, "I'll go."
Sara raised an eyebrow.
"And you trust him to go with me and manage to "keep me safe"?"
Grissom looked at Greg a moment and said, "No, I'll go, Greggo you stay here."
Sara about fell on the floor.
~Grissom go off alone with me? This is certainly a change. He hasn't gotten a foot near me since a week or two ago. ~
Sara smiled as she turned and grabbed her wallet out of her carry on.
"Okay, guys watch my bag, we'll be back in a minute."
Catherine reached for her bag and held it.
"Okay Sara, I'll keep it safe."
Sara smiled, "Thanks Cath." She said as she felt Grissom touch the back of her shoulder and lead her off.
Sara couldn't help but smile as she felt him near her as they walked.
~Is it just me, or is he in a "protector" mode? We're just in an airport for goodness sakes. ~
"Sara hold your wallet closer to you. Someone might reach out..."
Just then Grissom reached out and snatched it from her grasp and said, "And grab it just like this."
Sara smiled.
~Okay, where did Grissom go, this isn't anything like he's been lately. Maybe he was like this before Vegas, but he's never played around with me like this since I moved here. ~
Sara reached out and took it back as they walked into the small shop and said sweetly, " Yes, but I can kick the shit out of the person who does that to me for real."
Grissom smiled and followed her over to the rack of candy and watched as she grabbed two packs of gum and two boxes of Raisinettes.
She then looked over the racks of magazines and books and picked up a thin hardback book.
"A journal. I didn't know you write."
Sara smirked and looked at him, "There's a lot of things you don't know about me."
Grissom looked down.
~Yeah I know and it's my own damn fault for pushing you away. ~
Grissom smiled, "Well like I said earlier, during this trip we'll have a chance to talk."
Sara smiled and pulled the book close to her. "Yeah maybe."
She set it down and ran her fingers over the next few until she found a tan, aged looking one that had a butterfly on the cover.
She smiled. ~This one's nice. ~
She put her gum and candy on top and looked at the magazines real quick, and picked up a new issue of Vogue.
Grissom smirked. "You read Vogue?"
"Sometimes, some of the sections can be interesting and I like to look at the pictures."
She then walked to the counter and set down her items.
The clerk was a kind looking elderly woman.
"Oh, someone finally bought that beautiful vintage butterfly journal in the back."
She smiled and looked at Sara, "Yep, you look like the type."
Sara smiled and could sense Grissom standing behind her smiling. She could somehow always tell when he smiled.
Like when you walked into a room and could sense that a TV was on even when there was no one there watching it and it made no sound.
The woman looked up and behind Sara and said, where are you and your husband vacationing to?"
Sara blushed and turned around to see Grissom doing the same.
"He's not my husband." She said trying to stay cheerful, but not doing a very good job at it.
The woman smiled and said, "Oh, I'm sorry, he just looks so happy around you, almost proud."
Sara almost started laughing.
~Well this is wonderful. This woman doesn't even know him and she can sense something about him and his feelings towards me when I can't. Maybe I should come back and talk to her after we get back? ~
She quickly brushed the thought away as she took the bag of her purchases from the woman and smiled.
"Thank you Ma'am." She said trying to keep from laughing.
The woman winked and smiled as she walked away and said, "Your welcome."
Sara had to keep from looking at Grissom; afraid she'd laugh at the look on his face.
~Maybe that woman was right. Is he really happy when he's around me, is he proud of me? ~
They turned the corner and Sara smirked when she took in the site of Catherine lying across the bench, her head in Warrick's lap.
Catherine and Warrick were talking and laughing.
She could sense Grissom about to say something about it, but he shut his mouth and they kept walking towards the group.
Nick and Greg sat across from them with amused smirks on their faces and looked up at Grissom and Sara as they came to join the group.
Sara sat down next to Nick and whispered, "Is it just me or have they suddenly turned into two flirting teenagers?"
"Your guess is as good as mine, it seems quite evident thought that the two have a "thing" for each other."
Grissom sat down next to Sara and took in the site of the two "lovebirds."
~I wonder if I would have ever acted like that when I was a teenager if I'd been close to a certain girl. I wonder if I could ever act that way with Sara?"~
He quickly brushed the thought away.
~Don't be stupid, she's not like Catherine, she's more of a serious type you know that... Well at least you used to. ~
Grissom sat back watching Catherine and Warrick who suddenly realized that Sara and him were back.
"Well what took you two so long?" Catherine said, a smug look on her face.
Grissom looked at her with a bored look on his face and said, "Line."
Sara smiled.
~Oh shopping is such a big thing for us now that he as to lie. Wow he needs to lighten up, well you don't have too much to talk about yourself."
Sara looked at Catherine. "And what exactly have you been doing while we were gone?"
Catherine looked up at Warrick and said, "Flirting."
Warrick and her started laughing and Warrick brushed a wisp of hair from Catherine's face.
Everyone sat there watching them with confused looks on their faces.
"Well, I am going to sit here and chew my gum and look through my magazine." Sara said with a smile on her face, "Anyone else want a piece?"
Greg smiled and jumped over to her and sat down next to her, "Please?"
Sara rolled her eyes and opened the pack and handed him a piece, then handed one to everyone else.
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"What time is it Gris?" Nick asked looking around for a clock.
"2:30." Gris replied taking his glasses off and putting on his sunglasses, the sun had changed its position and was now shining in his eyes.
He looked over to see Sara and Greg sitting close looking through her magazine.
~I wish I could sit that close to her without making it a big deal. It's so simple. They're just looking at a magazine and yet I feel so jealous. Why do I do that, you know from talking to Catherine that she's thought of no one but you, why won't you let her closer when you know she doesn't want anyone else? Maybe you should ask her during the trip why she thinks so highly of you, when you treat her like nothing, which is going to change from here on. ~
Just then Sara broke through his thoughts by laughing and he couldn't help but smile.
~I definitely am going to talk to her and try to show her how I feel, I'm tired of hiding, no more worrying about everything and everyone else, right now she's your main priority. ~
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Okay I liked this a lot, I had to re-write it twice, but I'm finally happy with it, it's very long, but I had all these ideas at once and just decided to do a very long chapter. I tried hard to make Grissom seem realistic and hope that he came across as himself. Write more tonight or tomorrow. Bye!