Point of View - Grissom
"Sara, I am so glad you're awake now. There was a point there when I thought you would never wake up. But you're awake now.", I said to her, as I knelt by her bedside, holding her hand.
"Yes I am Grissom. I am awake. And I was wondering, can we go out to dinner sometime?"
I froze.
Why didn't she ask me what happened? Why is she so calm? She still doesn't know about the surgery, the coma. What is she talking about?
"Sara, I think you should know what happened to you before we start with that."
"Why? I don't care why I am in the hospital. I care about you. I love you."
Did she just tell me she loves me? What is she doing?
"Sara, you were in a coma. You had emergency surgery. They removed your kidney."
"Shut up.", she said. Her voice was low and cold. I sat there like a dimwit with my mouth open and she continued.
"I am telling you that I love you, and this is your answer? What is wrong with you! I am telling you what I have been trying to tell you for years, and when I finally do, you ignore me? Why are you doing this to me!". She started to sit up, and she glared at me.
"I think you're too late now, Grissom. I think you have really done it. I hate you Gil Grissom!"
And then she was gone. She was dead, in her hospital bed. The heart rate moonitor had stopped. I tried to yell for help, but I knew she was gone. I had let her die, right in front of me. All I heard was a voice in the back of my head calling my name.
"Gil, Gil, Gil.", the voice got louder. Something was shaking me. It wouldn't stop.
The voice was Catherine. She was trying to wake me up. It was all a dream...
"Gil, wake up. It's okay. Sara's okay. It was just a dream, Gil."
I rubbed my eyes and my surroundings came back. I was asleep in the waiting room. I was not alone.
"Catherine, where is Sara? When I fell asleep I was in her room. Is something wrong?"
"No, Sara's just fine. She came out of the coma, but she is asleep now. Tara forced the doctors to move Sara into a nicer room. She's even more stubborn than me, you know?"
"Not possible to be more stubborn than you. Where is Sara's new room? I have to be there when she wakes up. I have to...", I said as I stood up. Catherine motioned for me o sit back down, and I wasn't in the mood for a fight, so I did.
"It's okay, Gil. She'll be asleep for another hour or so, no sooner. When she came out of the coma, her body was still exhausted and weak, so the nurse gave her a mild sedative to help her body gain some energy. Everyone else is on there way over now. I called them when she came out of the coma. I also had the doctors help me move you out of the old room. I didn't wake you, because you really needed your rest. You want some breakfast? The cafeteria is open."
"Can you just grab me some coffee? I'm not hungry."
"You are going to eat, Gil. It's been 12 hours since your last meal. I am getting you a bagel. I'll be right back."
I do wonder why she asks me questions, and then doesn't accept my answer...