-Chapter 1-

'Why does he keep looking at me, does he think I cant see him?' She thought to herself as she looked at Grissom in the rear view mirror of his Tahoe. It was two hours till swing shift and Grissom had told everyone to meet him at the lab so he could take them out to breakfast.

"So, where do we want to go?" Grissom asked everyone. A million places were suddenly shouted to him from everyone, except Sara. She was looking out her window, entransed in the lives passing by. "Chinese", "Mexican", "Subway". None of these sounded good to him so he shook his head at each.
"Sara, What do you want?" He asked looking in the mirror again. "Sara"
"Huh?" She said as she caught Grissoms eyes.
"Breakfast, what do you want?" He hated to look away from her brilliant brown eyes but he had to watch the road.
"Somewhere I can get a salad or something"
"Okay the usual it is!" He said, everyone nodded in agreement. He looked back at Sara who continued to stare out her window. ' Could she really be that oblivious to the way he felt about her' She had been so obviouse about liking him that he wasnt sure it was true. But apparently it was, because when she asked him out after the lab explosion she seemed to put as much distance between him as possible.

They pulled into the restaurant parking lot, Carthine, Nick, and Warrick ran inside to get the usual booth leaving Grissom and Sara still in the car. "Grissom?" She hesitated, closing the car door behind her.
"Yes?"He said facing her, he was looking at her with his warm caring smile.
"Never mind" She said as she walked inside closely followed by Grissom.

Even though they were only outside a few minutes, they had apparently become the main topic of conversation, because as they approached the booth everyone fell silent. "What were you two talking about?" Asked Cathrine intregingly, Grissom and Sara had been distant from one another ever since the lab explosion and she didnt quite know why. She always thought they would make the best couple.
"Nothing" Grissom and Sara said simaltaneously. Both looking at each other with amusement while everyone else looked at them suspiciously. Their food came adn they talked about everything each adding something to the conversation.

'Why does she keep staring at me?' Grissom thought in between bites of his delicious stack of waffles and the interesting conversation of recent cases, including there newest case in which a serial killer has been going around killing young women after holding them hostage for a week.
"I just don't get it, why is the person only killing women?" Nick asked while eating his burger and fries.
"I dont think we will ever know." Says Cathrine.
"I want to know why he keeps them alive for so long before killing them?" Sara says before going back to munching on her salad. "Did anyone find evidence of rape or something like that"
"I dont know the answer to any of those questions." Said Grissom. "But i do think we will find the answer when we solve the case."
"Wow... Did Grissom just admit he didn't know an answer?" Chuckled Warrick.
"Yes, I dont pretend to know everything." He smiled his 'enthusiastic smile' and kept on eating.
"Why can't people just learn to get along?" Sara asked, shaking her head.
"Well Sara some of the most important lessons are learned later in life." Grissom said catching Sara's gaze and winking at her when he was sure no one would see. 'What are you doing? What if she takes it as a like kind of wink? Oh well maybe thats what I want her to think.'

'Did he just wink at me? Oh well it was probably just an itch or something.' She thought.
Finally breakfast was over and it was time for work, Sara seemed to be alot happier and more talkative on the ride back to the lab. As they reached the lab they were greeted by a not so happy Brass. "What have we got?" Asked Grissom as he walked from his car to Brass.
"Well, you know that latest killing spree?" They all walked inside.
"Yeah we were just talking about it earlier"
"Well they have struck again and guess what it's another woman." He sounded tired he had probably been working the case all night.
"Okay Brass we'll be right on it just let me pass out the other assignments" He said reading and handing each person a file with all the information they would need for their own cases. "Cathrine and Warrick you two have a break and entering. Nick you have a casino robbery gone rong, and Sara you are working with me on this new case"
'Yes!' She thought trying to look as disapointed as possible. Grissom watched her and knew exactly how she felt, he was feeling the same way.
"So where is the newest killing?" Sara asked Brass before going to change.
"Not to far from here in the Hotel 6." Brass said as he started to walk to the front door, but turned to Grissom "Hey, Grissom can i get a ride with you?"
"Yeah sure." He and Brass walked out the door and Sara walked into the locker room to change.

At the Hotel, The body of a young woman was found, she had multipul stab wounds just like the others. She was tied up and face flat on the floor. By the time Sara arrived David was already getting the body ready to leave, and Grissom had just finish taking photos of the body. "Where do you want me to start?" She asked putting of some gloves.
"Well it looks as though most of the action happened in here so I guess look in here." He said.
"Okay." She began to walk around the room searching for anything out of place, she lifted the shoe prints of the carpet and the fingerprints off the door knob. "I think this hotel belonged to the victim." She said walking into the kitchen.
"Why do you say that?" He questioned as he followed her into the kitchen.
"Well look at the pictures on the fridge they are of our vic." She said pointing to the pictures of what looks to be pictures of her and her boyfriend, Grissom nodded in agreement. "Hey, Grissom?"
"Yeah?"
"Never mind." She said finding keys to a car on the counter top.
"Sara if there is something wrong tell me." He moved over to her and put his hand on her shoulder gently.
"No, It's nothing." She smiled at him and walked into another room with the keys.
"Well if your sure." He said to himself when she was out of earshot.
"Hey Grissom? Im going to go look outside." She said walking to the front door.
"Okay, Did you finish the other rooms?"
"There are only 3 rooms, I left you the bath room." She walked outside into the hot afternoon sun and left Grissom to finish the bath room.

She made her way down to the hotel parking lot to look for the car that belonged to the keys she had. It didn't take her long to find it, the key had a Suzuki "S" on it and had blue paint from the key scratching the car. As she unlocked the door, a hand swung out of no where and knocked her to the ground, a gun pointed in her face. She could see the person very clearly they had no mask or anything to cover their face but she had a feeling they didnt expect her to live to tell what she had seen.

"Get up, slowly." Said the figure, Sara did as she was told. But as she rose up she grabbed the gun, wresling to get it away from them the gun was flung out of both their reaches leaving them to fight hand to hand. They fought for two minutes, each one taking painful blows, by then they were both bleeding but neither willing to give up. Sara punched one last time sending the person stumbling backward onto the ground. "You...Are...Under arrest." She said in between breaths.
"I dont think so..." They said reaching for the gun behind them. Bang... Sara hit the ground and with that the person was gone. Grissom had heard the shot and ran outside to see what it was, when he saw Sara lying in the parking lot he ran down the stairs so fast he missed the last eight steps. He ran to her side. "Sara, you are going to be alright." He said looking at the bullet hole in her left arm, thank god it wasn't that bad.
"I'm sorry Grissom." Was all she had time to say before passing out in his arms.