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Chapter 3: And it doesn't seem quite fair
That night Kyra started babysitting Mandy. Mandy turned out to be the sweetest girl, no problem at all. As promised, Kyra brought her tennis Barbie and she and Mandy played for almost an hour. Clearly, Kyra had already become Mandy's favorite babysitter so far!
"Hey, Greg!" Sara said as she entered the locker room. "Did you have a nice day?"
"A bit busy, but, yeah, nice," Greg nodded. "How about yours?"
"Not bad," Sara smiled. She closed her locker. "Come on, let's see what kind of surprise Grissom has in mind for us tonight!"
They walked to the break room together where Catherine and Grissom were talking. When they entered, the two older CSI's both raised their eyebrows.
"What?" Sara exchanged a look with Greg. "Did we do something wrong?"
"No, not at all," Catherine said. She cleared her throat. "I… I should probably get back to work, Gil. I'll see you in a minute." She left the break room. Grissom looked up.
"Catherine is working with me on that case, Sara. I had no one else when you suddenly rushed out yesterday!"
"I'm really sorry, Grissom, but it was an emergency," Sara apologized. "It's all okay now, I promise I won't rush out again."
"Well, you're not the only one to blame here, someone else was in a rush after shift as well…" Grissom said while moving his look to Greg.
"Grissom, I don't work doubles, you know that!" Greg said, sounding a bit angry now. "And I never will, so leave it alone. Do we have a case or not?"
"Yes, the two of you have to work together," Grissom said. "Catherine and I are doing a case together and Warrick and Nick are still working on a case together as well. You have a robbery at a bookstore!"
"A bookstore?" Sara stared at Grissom. Greg grabbed the paper with the case. "Oh, I think I know why, this is the only bookstore in town that already has the new Harry Potter book."
Now Sara stared at Greg. "You read Harry Potter?"
"Let's go!" Greg quickly said, not answering Sara's question. "My car or yours?"
"Yours."
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"Not another word, Greg!"
"What? I didn't say anything!"
"No, but that smile of yours…"
"Sara, just admit you hate me being right!" Greg smiled.
Sara sighed. "Okay: I hate you being right about this dumb case. I've never had such an easy case to solve in my entire life! I can't believe it, though, are some Harry Potter fans really that… weird?"
"They want to know what's going to happen in the new book, don't you?" Greg asked.
"Greg, I don't even know what the whole book is about… No, no, I don't want to know either!" Sara quickly said when she saw Greg wanted to give her the details. "Just… Just turn on the radio."
Greg did this and a man's singing voice filled the car.
"Michelle's at home, the cats are purring,
She doesn't know what purring is.
She's safe and warm, and she's not sorry,
She doesn't know what sorry is.
And Michelle's smiling
Michelle's smiling
Michelle's smiling"
"Wow," Sara softly said. "Who's singing this?"
"John Stamos," Greg replied. "It's from the series Full House, you know it?"
Sara shook her head. The song had touched her deep inside, it was so beautiful! She looked at Greg and suddenly saw him in a whole different point of view. This Greg was sweet… romantic… Was she starting to fall for him? She had finally gotten over Grissom, was she now falling in love with another CSI? He was concentrating on the road and didn't see her stare at him. Her heart started to beat a little faster when he smiled.
"I love this song."
"I think I just started to love it as well," Sara said with a smile. "Can you put it on a CD for me?"
"Yeah, of course!" Greg said. "Anything for you, honey!"
And for the first time, Sara didn't correct him for calling her 'honey'.
