Ok, our relationship was stressed from the get go, her having been brought in by Grissom to investigate me and my gambling habits. At first sight she was cocky, maybe a bit too much so, but very capable. Her tenacity in my case was worthy of applause, but not by me. I'll admit that I really didn't like her at all, but as time went by and we got to know each other I began to understand and even like her.
I like to think of her and other colleagues as family members, so that would make her my little sister, I guess. I've got her back and I know she's got mine. It took a bit of time for us to get on good terms but once we were we were gold.
I'll admit that I'd contemplated asking her out on more than one occasion, but given her luck in the "lovin'" department I decided not to. After all that Hank business and her long running thing with Grissom I figured I'd forget about it and if she wanted, come to me...which she never did.
I remember during the Debbie Marlin case, when Griss found that Sara clone in the bathroom, I could tell by the look on his face that something was up. Later I went to the morgue to see the vic and I was shocked to see how much she resembled Sara. For a long moment, as I stared down at Ms. Marlin, I saw Sara. It scared me, to be completely honest. I had this image in my head that it was Sara on that slab and not Debbie Marlin. I never realized, until then, how much Sara meant to me...to all of us. The buzz around the lab was impossible to avoid, but when I heard that Sara had been down there to print the young woman her reaction was vague, detached.
Ever since then she'd been almost distant with a lot of us. Maybe that was the turning point in her life that made her start thinking about change. Standing in the hall outside the observation room, where she was watching Grissom and Dr. Lurie, I could see through the crack in the door, her expression at Griss's soliloquy. After that she was never the same.
Though in the beginning I didn't care for her much, now I'm truly sad to see her go. ...my little sister is leaving home for, hopefully, bigger and better things. Damn, I'm really gonna miss her.
