Ready to find out who this tall dark haired boy is…

"Felix?" Alyssa ran forward to hug her lifelong best friend, "What are you doing here?"

The young man hugged Alyssa before answering.

"I heard about your dad. I knew you'd be here" he looked past her shoulder, as though anxious. Alyssa sensed it and knew immediately what he was looking for.

"Don't worry, Greg is watching an interview. He won't interrogate you." Felix sighed and looked back at Alyssa.

"I can't believe he still thinks I'm your boyfriend, I mean, even if I was, I wouldn't harm you. You know that right?"

"Of course I know that. He's just an over protective big brother, still gotta love him though." She unwound herself from Felix, though he kept his arm around her shoulders, and they began to walk back down to the break room.

"Are you OK?" he had wanted to ease into the subject, but was never good at subtlety, it made him all the more happy when she answered rather than change the topic.

"I'm getting there; I don't think it's quite sunken in yet. I mean, I saw him there and everything, but I still reckon he's gonna walk in here and tell me to 'Get home before mum realises my curfew is up.' It's so surreal, like I'm in a bad dream or something. Ever get that feeling?"

"Lyss, look who you're asking. I've been wanting to wake up from our family's nightmare all year."

"Your mum still in debt is she?" Alyssa was the only one at school to know about Felix's family's money issues.

"Yeah, but not for long. I have a feeling things are about to get a lot better!"

"Really? How so?"

"Oh, er…I don't know. I just have a feeling."

She wrapped her arms around him again, "OK, I believe you."

"OI! Get off her."

Alyssa and Felix jumped away from each other at the sound of Greg's voice.

Felix walked forward to meet Greg. "Greg, before we even go there, could I just explain some things?" and without waiting for and answer he continued. "Lyss and I are just good friends, I'm not gonna hurt her. We were just hugging coz she needs some comfort at the moment, I'm her best friend and I thought I could give her that comfort."

"Yeah, well, I'm her brother and I can give her all the comfort she needs." Felix sensed he wasn't going to get anywhere with the conversation so he decided to walk out of the building before he caused to much trouble, telling Alyssa he'd talk to her one things had settled down.

Alyssa and Greg stood glaring at each other. Alyssa was the one to break the silence this time.

"You had no right to do that. He was just hugging me, I'm not sure if you'd noticed, but I'm a bit more than upset at the moment." Greg looked like he wanted to scream at his sister, but he held it in, swallowed and answered and question that wasn't asked.

"I'm upset too, you know where I just was? Watching our mother admit to something I can't believe she'd do." He looked like he was going to cry at this. "It's going to be hard, and I don't want to see you hurt anymore than what's already been done." He took a step towards Alyssa, trying to read her reactions. She didn't look like she was about to kill him so he took another step, "I know you probably can't see it, but standing where I am, I can see you and Felix becoming more than friends, I'm just afraid that he'll hurt you. Can you see my point of view, Lyss?"

She had started to cry at Greg's words, "I guess…you do actually care about me, don't you?"

"Course I do. You're my little sister no matter what, I love you." he took a final step forward to hug her.

Her tears were warm through his shirt, and her words were muffled against him as she spoke.

"She actually admitted to it?"

"Um…not exactly…look, how about we go outside to talk about this." Alyssa looked confused but nodded, temporarily forgetting about Felix.

Sara ran to catch up with Grissom outside his office.

"Hey, Griss, how'd the interview go?"

"She admitted to it, but not directly, she said she hired someone."

"Hit man?"

"We don't know, not ruling anything out. How about the rest of the autopsy? Any findings I should know about?"

"Nothing out of the ordinary, one stab hit the spinal cord, he died instantly. Two stabs were post mortem. All the same weapon, single bladed."

"I think we can establish that the weapon was a kitchen knife, Cath, Warrick and Nick are still searching for it at the house." As if on cue, Grissom's phone rang. He looked at the caller ID before answering it with "What do you got?" he waited a while and then said "OK, keep looking, we need that knife" He hung up.

"Catherine?"

"Yeah, she says they've almost finished, they're just looking for the knife. Nick found a trail of blood drops that look like they could have dripped from the end of the knife. She said she'd call if they find it."

"OK, I better get going." She turned and began to walk away.

"Uh, Sara…" Grissom called out to her retreating back. She turned back,

"Yeah?"

"You doing OK?" he truly looked worried.

"If you're asking if I'm going to pull a double to solve this case, I probably am. At least now you know, I guess."

"Don't do this to yourself Sara" he walked up to her and put his hands on her shoulders, "Please."

Sara took his hands off her shoulders and held them.

"Griss, you're the only one who knows my past, you know why I have to do this, please don't make it harder than it already is. I know I'm tired, but I have to find out what happened."

"Alright, but if you need anything, anything at all, please ask me, make it as easy as you can on yourself. OK?"

"OK, thanks Griss."

"That's alright…um…Sara, can I talk to you about something?" he lightly rubbed his thumbs along the backs of her hands, then…his phone rang.

"Sure" she said, "But maybe later would be better."

"OK" he said, letting go of her hands. She walked away as Grissom picked up his phone. "You got it?" from the other end of the phone he heard Catherine's excited voice say "We did"

It was as simple as that and she was gone, a mere 10 seconds. He could have been confessing to Sara.

"Work first tonight" he reminded himself.

oOoOoOoOoOo

Thanks for your awesome reviews! Made my day:) y'all rock!

Oh, by the way, I also own FELIX! (love that name!)

I'll be writing again soon!

Mwa mwa

Em!