CSI : HAWAIIAN VACATION
Chapter 15
"Catherine, do you really expect me to walk out that door looking like this?" Sara asked, staring at her self in the full-length mirror.
Catherine smiled, walking into the bedroom, pushing an earring through her ear.
"Sara, you are a knockout! There is not one guy that we will run into tonight that won't want a piece of you, even Grissom."
She walked over to the mirror and stood next to Sara.
"Anyways, we both look hot." She said quietly, hoping Sara would relent, though leather and high heels with dark make-up wasn't exactly anything Sara would wear of her own accord in her lifetime.
Sara sighed and looked into the mirror, staring at her reflection.
"I still don't know how you managed to figure out my pants size...or shoe size." Sara said quietly.
"Sara I am a CSI, I observe, I listen...it was no task figuring out your sizes."
Sara once again sighed and then looked towards the door, gulping, wondering how the hell she would be able to take one step towards the door.
Tan leather pants, and a multicolored halter-top weren't exactly her taste in clothing.
To be truthful, she liked the 2-inch tan sandal heels, and the make-up kind of reminded her of how she did her make up in high school, when her mother tried to get her to act girly. She had very much expressed her dislike for fancy make-up to her mother, but when she really thought about it, she had to agree that she kind of liked it and that it looked good.
Catherine had swept Sara's hair up in an elegant half up, half down ponytail and had pushed Chinese pins through it.
Sara took a step forward to the mirror and looked closer at her face.
The dark eye make-up made her think of a temptress, and her lips were a delicate peach with a bit of gloss.
The halter-top was the only thing that belonged to her. Catherine had said she looked nice in it and that she could wear it on the beach with a pair of shorts. Sara hadn't liked it much, especially because it showed almost the whole of her stomach, but thanked God that she was a vegetarian and worked out regularly, so it actually looked as if it went with the pants.
"I am really gonna regret wearing these pants Cath."
"Oh Sara, beauty is pain, besides, you'll enjoy yourself tonight, believe me. I'll make sure your having so much fun that you don't even think about what you're wearing, or what you might not be later."
Sara gave Catherine a dirty look and Catherine just smiled and walked over to the door.
"Well Sara you look absolutely gorgeous, how bout me?"
Sara smiled at Catherine; she wore a tight, black cocktail dress with black shiny beads at the bottom and black stilettos. Her hair was straightened out and she wore dark make-up as well.
"You look great Cath."
Catherine opened the door and headed out.
"Let's roll!"
Sara sighed and took one last look in the mirror.
"Oh God, I don't think I can do this." Sara said quietly to herself, an evident whine in her voice.
~Just do it...you only live once, take a few chances!~
Sara smiled at herself in the mirror as she heard Catherine call out her name.
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"So what did you do to Sara that has her hiding away?" Warrick said smiling.
"Oh a few things." Catherine stated, taking his outstretched hand and coming down the last step.
"Ooh, I cannot wait to see this!" Greg said, running over to the stairs and standing next to Catherine.
"Give her some space guys, she's in hell already I'm sure." Nick said, sitting on the couch, flipping through a car magazine.
"Oh and how would you know Nicky?" Greg said, rolling his eyes.
"Sara!" Catherine yelled, getting impatient.
Just then Grissom walked in, he walked over to the couch and sat down next to Nick.
"Your just in time for the show Gris." Nick said animatedly, setting his magazine down.
Grissom rolled his eyes. There was always a show, the moment Sara walked in a room, it was as if beauty came to life.
"Alright, I'm coming!" Sara yelled drawing close to the stairs.
~Okay Sidle, you can do this. Think of the models, act like it's the runway, only don't be so formal...have fun!~
Sara took a deep breath and started down the stairs.
She immediately saw Greg. His face went from all smiles to immediate surprise.
Sara fought the urge to run and only smiled trying to keep her nerve.
"Whoa, what's got Greggo turning serious?" Warrick said, turning around to look as Sara came down the steps.
"Oh my gosh." He said quietly as Sara drew nearer.
Grissom and Nick looked at the Sara as she came down the last step and both stared in awe.
~Oh my God! I'm gonna die!~ Sara's mind screamed as she stepped to the side, crossing her arms in front of her.
Both Grissom and Nick stood suddenly.
Everyone stood frozen, except for Catherine who smiled, and stepped forward towards Sara and linked arms with her.
"Well boys, it's becoming quite late and if you'd all like to stop staring, we'd like to go party."
Catherine and Sara turned and started for the door, all four men turning their heads giving strange looks.
Greg quickly smiled as Catherine and Sara walked out the door. "Oh yeah...This is great!"
"Stay away from her Greg." Grissom said quietly, suddenly stepping forward and walking to the front door.
He quickly disappeared out the door, leaving the guys staring after.
"Whoa...well, seems Catherine's plan is working, he just now claimed Sara for the night." Warrick said laughing and heading out the door.
Nick smiled and slowly walked over to the gaping Greg and put his arm around his shoulder.
"Sorry Greggo, but it was staring you straight in the face. There has always been something going on with those two, even though they couldn't even tell."
Nick patted Greg hard on the back and ran after the group leaving Greg standing there staring.
"Am I the only one that finds that so totally wrong?...ick!"
Greg slowly trudged after them, shutting the door soundly behind him.
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"I am not sitting on someone's lap again." Sara said, standing next to the car, trying to maintain control of herself as she noticed out of the corner of her eye, all four of the guys still eyeing her.
"It seems I failed to remember that we only had room for five of us." Catherine said, rubbing the side of her head.
~I've got it!~ Catherine snapped her fingers and walked quickly back to the house, leaving everyone standing there, watching.
She disappeared into the house and not a sound was made.
"Um...think someone should go in there after her?" Greg said, looking at everyone, his eyes stopping on Sara, a small grin forming on his face.
"Ohh." Sara mumbled, rolling her eyes and looking towards the house.
Just then they heard a sound coming from their right and looked over to the garage door opening.
"Are we really that dumb?" Nick asked, smiling and walking down the concrete driveway to the open garage door.
"Walla!" Catherine exclaimed, holding car keys out in front of her.
Everyone walked down towards the garage, looking in behind Catherine to see a brand new looking, black SUV.
"Sweet!" Sara exclaimed walking over to Catherine taking the keys from her hand.
Catherine brought both hands to her hips, raising her eyebrows in question.
Sara blushed, remembering that she'd just practically ripped the keys from Cath's hand.
"Sorry...I've always wanted to drive one of these when I saw a picture of them in the paper. May I drive?"
Catherine smiled, "I was just pretending to be hurt...of course Sara."
Sara smiled and walked into the garage and opened the driver's door and got in.
~A Volvo SUV. This is my kinda car. Safe, reliable, and cool.~
She started it up, relishing in the sweet sound of the purring engine and looked in the rearview mirror to see everyone standing to one side waiting.
~Let's get going!~
Sara put the car in reverse and slowly backed out.
Sara rolled down the window once out in the open and looked at the group. "Well, you guys gonna get in or am I going out by myself?"
Everyone smiled and started to get in.
~Go to the front. Sit in the front with her.~ Grissom thought, making himself go around the front to the passenger side and opened the door.
Sara smiled as he moved into the seat and sat down, buckling his seat belt.
Catherine and Warrick sat in the middle seats, while Nick and Greg took the back.
"We all set? So Catherine, where are we going?" Sara said quietly, turning slightly to look at her.
"Well, I called Darrin's house yesterday and talked to my niece, Amy. She said her and her friends go to this great dance club on Blue Lagoon Ln., she gave me the directions, which I looked up on the computer in the office and here they are..."
Catherine reached into her black handbag and pulled out a piece of white paper and handed it to Sara.
"Okay, let me look this over and we'll be off."
Sara opened it up and read through it, noticing that Grissom watched her intently. She felt a smile pulling at the corner of her lips and suddenly felt very bold.
She looked up and met his eyes, "Something wrong Gris?"
Grissom quickly reverted his eyes away and smiled nervously, "No, just uh...trying to read it."
"You can read upside down?"
"If I try hard enough."
Sara smiled and turned back to the wheel and brought her foot off the break and slowly backed out down the long driveway to the street.
"Let's roll." Sara said quietly, starting down the street.
At first the drive was quiet, everyone looking out the windows as they passed various buildings and beaches.
"Am I the only one that's being driven crazy by the silence?" Warrick said, absentmindedly running his fingers through Catherine's hair.
"Actually No." Sara said, pressing the power button on the stereo, and keeping her eyes on the road, pressed various buttons going through stations.
Sara quickly landed on a station playing one of her favorite songs, as they went on, she slowly started humming along with it, not caring what anyone else thought.
Grissom smiled, hearing her sweet voice humming to the music.
~I didn't know Sara could be so innocently beautiful and excrutiatingly sexy that I have to fight myself not to touch her.~
Grissom snuck a look out of the corner of his eye, and smiled to himself as he noticed her quickly look away, and back at the road.
~I wish I could know what he was thinking...I'm hoping he's planning on initiating something at this dance club. Wait a minute, a dance club, how could I have been so deaf...I only know how to dance one way, thanks to my friends, and that is one way I can't dance around these guys.~
Sara thought, looking into the mirror to see Catherine smiling into at her.
~Catherine is going to be so surprised. There's no way I'm gonna be able to hide it. She'll make me dance, and I'll have to do it the only way I know how. I can only wonder how much more surprised the guys can take before they explode with curiosity about me...there's so much about me that none of them know.~
Sara smiled as she stopped at a light, noticing they were one street away from their destination.
~This is your time to shine, even Cath said so. Do what you know, let all barriers be broken, treat this like what they say about Vegas, "What's done in Vegas, stays in Vegas."
Chapter 15
"Catherine, do you really expect me to walk out that door looking like this?" Sara asked, staring at her self in the full-length mirror.
Catherine smiled, walking into the bedroom, pushing an earring through her ear.
"Sara, you are a knockout! There is not one guy that we will run into tonight that won't want a piece of you, even Grissom."
She walked over to the mirror and stood next to Sara.
"Anyways, we both look hot." She said quietly, hoping Sara would relent, though leather and high heels with dark make-up wasn't exactly anything Sara would wear of her own accord in her lifetime.
Sara sighed and looked into the mirror, staring at her reflection.
"I still don't know how you managed to figure out my pants size...or shoe size." Sara said quietly.
"Sara I am a CSI, I observe, I listen...it was no task figuring out your sizes."
Sara once again sighed and then looked towards the door, gulping, wondering how the hell she would be able to take one step towards the door.
Tan leather pants, and a multicolored halter-top weren't exactly her taste in clothing.
To be truthful, she liked the 2-inch tan sandal heels, and the make-up kind of reminded her of how she did her make up in high school, when her mother tried to get her to act girly. She had very much expressed her dislike for fancy make-up to her mother, but when she really thought about it, she had to agree that she kind of liked it and that it looked good.
Catherine had swept Sara's hair up in an elegant half up, half down ponytail and had pushed Chinese pins through it.
Sara took a step forward to the mirror and looked closer at her face.
The dark eye make-up made her think of a temptress, and her lips were a delicate peach with a bit of gloss.
The halter-top was the only thing that belonged to her. Catherine had said she looked nice in it and that she could wear it on the beach with a pair of shorts. Sara hadn't liked it much, especially because it showed almost the whole of her stomach, but thanked God that she was a vegetarian and worked out regularly, so it actually looked as if it went with the pants.
"I am really gonna regret wearing these pants Cath."
"Oh Sara, beauty is pain, besides, you'll enjoy yourself tonight, believe me. I'll make sure your having so much fun that you don't even think about what you're wearing, or what you might not be later."
Sara gave Catherine a dirty look and Catherine just smiled and walked over to the door.
"Well Sara you look absolutely gorgeous, how bout me?"
Sara smiled at Catherine; she wore a tight, black cocktail dress with black shiny beads at the bottom and black stilettos. Her hair was straightened out and she wore dark make-up as well.
"You look great Cath."
Catherine opened the door and headed out.
"Let's roll!"
Sara sighed and took one last look in the mirror.
"Oh God, I don't think I can do this." Sara said quietly to herself, an evident whine in her voice.
~Just do it...you only live once, take a few chances!~
Sara smiled at herself in the mirror as she heard Catherine call out her name.
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"So what did you do to Sara that has her hiding away?" Warrick said smiling.
"Oh a few things." Catherine stated, taking his outstretched hand and coming down the last step.
"Ooh, I cannot wait to see this!" Greg said, running over to the stairs and standing next to Catherine.
"Give her some space guys, she's in hell already I'm sure." Nick said, sitting on the couch, flipping through a car magazine.
"Oh and how would you know Nicky?" Greg said, rolling his eyes.
"Sara!" Catherine yelled, getting impatient.
Just then Grissom walked in, he walked over to the couch and sat down next to Nick.
"Your just in time for the show Gris." Nick said animatedly, setting his magazine down.
Grissom rolled his eyes. There was always a show, the moment Sara walked in a room, it was as if beauty came to life.
"Alright, I'm coming!" Sara yelled drawing close to the stairs.
~Okay Sidle, you can do this. Think of the models, act like it's the runway, only don't be so formal...have fun!~
Sara took a deep breath and started down the stairs.
She immediately saw Greg. His face went from all smiles to immediate surprise.
Sara fought the urge to run and only smiled trying to keep her nerve.
"Whoa, what's got Greggo turning serious?" Warrick said, turning around to look as Sara came down the steps.
"Oh my gosh." He said quietly as Sara drew nearer.
Grissom and Nick looked at the Sara as she came down the last step and both stared in awe.
~Oh my God! I'm gonna die!~ Sara's mind screamed as she stepped to the side, crossing her arms in front of her.
Both Grissom and Nick stood suddenly.
Everyone stood frozen, except for Catherine who smiled, and stepped forward towards Sara and linked arms with her.
"Well boys, it's becoming quite late and if you'd all like to stop staring, we'd like to go party."
Catherine and Sara turned and started for the door, all four men turning their heads giving strange looks.
Greg quickly smiled as Catherine and Sara walked out the door. "Oh yeah...This is great!"
"Stay away from her Greg." Grissom said quietly, suddenly stepping forward and walking to the front door.
He quickly disappeared out the door, leaving the guys staring after.
"Whoa...well, seems Catherine's plan is working, he just now claimed Sara for the night." Warrick said laughing and heading out the door.
Nick smiled and slowly walked over to the gaping Greg and put his arm around his shoulder.
"Sorry Greggo, but it was staring you straight in the face. There has always been something going on with those two, even though they couldn't even tell."
Nick patted Greg hard on the back and ran after the group leaving Greg standing there staring.
"Am I the only one that finds that so totally wrong?...ick!"
Greg slowly trudged after them, shutting the door soundly behind him.
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"I am not sitting on someone's lap again." Sara said, standing next to the car, trying to maintain control of herself as she noticed out of the corner of her eye, all four of the guys still eyeing her.
"It seems I failed to remember that we only had room for five of us." Catherine said, rubbing the side of her head.
~I've got it!~ Catherine snapped her fingers and walked quickly back to the house, leaving everyone standing there, watching.
She disappeared into the house and not a sound was made.
"Um...think someone should go in there after her?" Greg said, looking at everyone, his eyes stopping on Sara, a small grin forming on his face.
"Ohh." Sara mumbled, rolling her eyes and looking towards the house.
Just then they heard a sound coming from their right and looked over to the garage door opening.
"Are we really that dumb?" Nick asked, smiling and walking down the concrete driveway to the open garage door.
"Walla!" Catherine exclaimed, holding car keys out in front of her.
Everyone walked down towards the garage, looking in behind Catherine to see a brand new looking, black SUV.
"Sweet!" Sara exclaimed walking over to Catherine taking the keys from her hand.
Catherine brought both hands to her hips, raising her eyebrows in question.
Sara blushed, remembering that she'd just practically ripped the keys from Cath's hand.
"Sorry...I've always wanted to drive one of these when I saw a picture of them in the paper. May I drive?"
Catherine smiled, "I was just pretending to be hurt...of course Sara."
Sara smiled and walked into the garage and opened the driver's door and got in.
~A Volvo SUV. This is my kinda car. Safe, reliable, and cool.~
She started it up, relishing in the sweet sound of the purring engine and looked in the rearview mirror to see everyone standing to one side waiting.
~Let's get going!~
Sara put the car in reverse and slowly backed out.
Sara rolled down the window once out in the open and looked at the group. "Well, you guys gonna get in or am I going out by myself?"
Everyone smiled and started to get in.
~Go to the front. Sit in the front with her.~ Grissom thought, making himself go around the front to the passenger side and opened the door.
Sara smiled as he moved into the seat and sat down, buckling his seat belt.
Catherine and Warrick sat in the middle seats, while Nick and Greg took the back.
"We all set? So Catherine, where are we going?" Sara said quietly, turning slightly to look at her.
"Well, I called Darrin's house yesterday and talked to my niece, Amy. She said her and her friends go to this great dance club on Blue Lagoon Ln., she gave me the directions, which I looked up on the computer in the office and here they are..."
Catherine reached into her black handbag and pulled out a piece of white paper and handed it to Sara.
"Okay, let me look this over and we'll be off."
Sara opened it up and read through it, noticing that Grissom watched her intently. She felt a smile pulling at the corner of her lips and suddenly felt very bold.
She looked up and met his eyes, "Something wrong Gris?"
Grissom quickly reverted his eyes away and smiled nervously, "No, just uh...trying to read it."
"You can read upside down?"
"If I try hard enough."
Sara smiled and turned back to the wheel and brought her foot off the break and slowly backed out down the long driveway to the street.
"Let's roll." Sara said quietly, starting down the street.
At first the drive was quiet, everyone looking out the windows as they passed various buildings and beaches.
"Am I the only one that's being driven crazy by the silence?" Warrick said, absentmindedly running his fingers through Catherine's hair.
"Actually No." Sara said, pressing the power button on the stereo, and keeping her eyes on the road, pressed various buttons going through stations.
Sara quickly landed on a station playing one of her favorite songs, as they went on, she slowly started humming along with it, not caring what anyone else thought.
Grissom smiled, hearing her sweet voice humming to the music.
~I didn't know Sara could be so innocently beautiful and excrutiatingly sexy that I have to fight myself not to touch her.~
Grissom snuck a look out of the corner of his eye, and smiled to himself as he noticed her quickly look away, and back at the road.
~I wish I could know what he was thinking...I'm hoping he's planning on initiating something at this dance club. Wait a minute, a dance club, how could I have been so deaf...I only know how to dance one way, thanks to my friends, and that is one way I can't dance around these guys.~
Sara thought, looking into the mirror to see Catherine smiling into at her.
~Catherine is going to be so surprised. There's no way I'm gonna be able to hide it. She'll make me dance, and I'll have to do it the only way I know how. I can only wonder how much more surprised the guys can take before they explode with curiosity about me...there's so much about me that none of them know.~
Sara smiled as she stopped at a light, noticing they were one street away from their destination.
~This is your time to shine, even Cath said so. Do what you know, let all barriers be broken, treat this like what they say about Vegas, "What's done in Vegas, stays in Vegas."