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AN: second chapter: ) hee...I'll start writing chap 3 later today, I think I'll upload it on Monday. Last AN was long enough, let's start with the chap ; )

chapter 2

Grissom swallowed hard. Sara waited for an answer. Impatiently. She stood there in-front of him, her arms folded in front of her chest. "Grissom?"

"I…Sara…I don't know what you mean."

"You don't?", she laughed out. "Oh sure you do! Grissom your mother was here. I didn't know who she was, ...and she was in your office, looking at all your stuff. So I walked in, I usually don't do this, but I knew that you were on that crime scene and I thought you wouldn't want a stranger in your office. So I asked her if I could help her. She asked me after you, I told her you weren't there. Then I drove her to her hotel, where she…wait.", Sara foraged her purse. "Here, this was what she wrote!" she handed him a folded paper of the notepad.

With a shaking hand Grissom reached out for the note. Unfolding it slowly. He looked at it. Stared at it. Then stared back at Sara. She stared at him, waiting for an answer. "Sit down…please.", he said with the last power of his voice.

"No Grissom. I am not going to sit down. I am…"

"Please let me explain it to you…"

"…explain it…oh yeah. I want to see that.", she said with an sarcastic undertone.

"How do you mean this?"

"Forget it."

"No, Sara…listen. Please. You have to listen to me now."

Sara noticed the panic in his voice. She bite down on her bottom lip, swallowed her anger and nodded. "Okay."

Grissom sat down on the edge of his desk. He took a deep breath, trying to rearrange his thoughts. "I have to start a couple of years ago…three to be precise. I had a conversation with my mother, about her wish to become grandmother. I told her that I would never become a father…and she said that there were also ways for gay people to become parents.", he made a pause.

Sara tried her best to not burst out laughing. She tried to avoid looking at him, bite down on her bottom lip and tried to think of something else…but she couldn't.

"That's not funny Sara.", Grissom said slightly desperate.

"Sorry.", she said, trying to calm down again. "Okay, go ahead."

Grissom sighed. "I tried my best to tell her that I'm not gay. But she didn't believe me. She told me that she'd know it since I'm 20…she said that she had figured my 'secret' out because I never introduced any of my girlfriends to her…Then I…and I don't know why I did it, I just…I don't know, I didn't want my mother to think that I am gay. And then I told her that there is a woman that I am interested in. And from this point on it ran out of hand. She beganto askme questions about her, all the time! And I had to explain why I wasn't with this woman…I told her that she had a boyfriend. But that didn't seem to be a problem for her…But I made clear to her that it was one for me. From then on I had thought that now everything would be okay."

"Why was it such a problem for you that your mother thought that you'd be gay? She seemed to accept it."

"Because she accepted it too much. She had already found 'the perfect guy' for me and wanted me to meet with him."

Sara broke out in laughter again. She didn't want to laugh but she just couldn't help it. Grissom was so desperate, and she felt bad for laughing about his situation, it was just the fact that something like this happened to him…she actually didn't know why it was that funny…

Grissom cleared his throat. "But then she got ill. Very ill and the doctor told me that she wouldn't make it. I visited her in the hospital…and she told me how much she had hoped that me and…", he swallowed hard. "…you…would get together. And how happy this would have made her."

"Why me? Grissom…"

Grissom shrugged. "I don't know. You were the first one I thought of."

Sara bite down on her bottom lip. "And then you told her that we'd be together? Because you wanted her to be happy."

Grissom nodded. "I thought she wouldn't make it…and that she would never find out. But then she got well again. As you could probably see she is still totally vital…but it was too late to tell her the truth…she was so happy. And I didn't want to break her heart. I was drawn into this lie…deeper and deeper…and now I am going to be punished for it. She is here…now I have to tell her the truth."

"How deep have you been drawn into this lie?"

"Let's just say, the first thing that she's going to ask me is why you weren't wearing my grandmother's engagement ring."

Sara swallowed hard. "Oh my God, Grissom.", she slowly shook her head. "You're in deep sh…"

"…I know."

"Just be glad that you didn't tell her that you're engaged to Catherine. The whole lab would know tomorrow."

"You're not telling anyone, are you?", he asked worried.

She shook her head. "No. No…I'm not like that. I can imagine how…embarrassing this must be.", she said softly.

"It's more embarrassing since you seem to know that I'm embarrassed.", he confessed.

Sara nodded. "Your mother has booked a room at the Bellagio. You should clear it up unless you…"

"…unless what?"

"Nothing."

"Sara?", he paused andtook a deep breath."Can I ask you for a favor?"

"Yes."

He took a deep breath. "You planned to work for the next days, didn't you?"

"Yeah, double shifts. I figured the lab would be short staffed and…"

"…it's actually not. Greg and Sophia are also working double shifts, Warrick comes in for his usual shifts too…only Catherine and Nick took time off, and there are three more CSIs from day shift who will work double shifts…"

"…what are you trying to tell me with that?"

"How long did my mother say she'd stay?"

"I didn't ask.", Sara threw an asking look at him, then she realized what he wanted to ask. Her mouth dropped open. "You…Grissom…you do not honestly plan to include me into this lie, are you?"

"You're already part of it anyways."

"What?"

"You could have told her that you're not my girlfriend or fiancée or whatever."

"You're kidding, are you?"

"Please Sara."

Sara shook her head, unable to understand him. "You…Grissom this is insane!"

"I know. But I can't help it!"

"You can! You have to tell her the truth."

"It's going to break her heart Sara.", he sounded so desperate, Sara just couldn't help it…she wanted to help him. "Just for…three days. Then…we could try to…I mean, maybe she doesn't like you. And then she will ask me to leave you. And then I will leave you and she will be happy, and we do not have to lie anymore. Then everything is perfect."

"Not perfect…your problem is gone but…" I can't believe he really means this!

"Just a couple of days Sara…please."

Sara knew how hard it was for him to ask her for such a favor, what a huge overcoming this was for him, to tell her about this, to ask her to do this. For him it would mean to totally let her into his life, not only his house but they had to pretend to know everything about each other, and she knew that he was totally aware of this. He must really love his mother…and this must really mean so much to her that he is really totally afraid to break her heart with telling her the truth!

"I know that you don't lie, that you're an honest person…and it pains me that I have to ask you to lie for me. I'll make it all up, somehow, I promise Sara. It's not easy for me to ask you to do this and…", he looked at her, with such a desperate expression in his eyes that it squeezed her heart...

"Okay.", Sara sighed. "Okay, I will do this."

TBC

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