Okay I FINALLY got this chapter typed up. I had all the worlds troubles with this one, but I finally got it down pat. Sorry about thewait people and enjoy.

Disclaimers: As always see chp 1.

Chp. 6

"I went to Harvard for a forensics seminar in mid October, 1991." I was still holding Sara, in my arms, when I started on the part of 'our story'. "I didn't really know what to expect once there. I did expect the students to be bored and ask a lot of questions, which was born out of the said boredom. I wasn't disappointed, of my predictions, since everyone's questions, except for one young student's excellent ones, was just like that. That single student and her questions amazed me. She made me work on my answers. I wanted to know her name, I wanted to ask her about her name, but I never got around to it. And then I went back to California, but couldn't altogether forget about this female student, who made me work so hard on it. I was pretty amazed by her, as you can probably tell."

I look around and I see nods.

"About a year pass, still thinking about that one bright student. I hadn't been able to forget about I'm once again summoned to Harvard, to once again holding a similar seminar." I start again. "I expected the worst once again, until a hand shoots up, demanding attention. When see the person the hand belongs to, I am once again faced with this student, whom I now pay more attention to, as well as promise myself to catch her after that seminar. Turns out that I don't have to catch her myself, since she stays put in her seat when everyone else files out of the auditorium. She just sits there patiently as questions surprisingly assaults me; other attendances have stayed behind to ask me. So after they're done and have left, she rose from her seat and approached me. She introduced herself as Sara Sidle, and then began to ask questions. Very fast one thing lead to the other, and we ended up getting coffee as we talked, and learned a few things then."

"Like the fact that I also wanted to talk to him that year earlier." Sara was now composed enough to take over for a while. "But since it was the beginning of the semester, I really didn't have time to stay back and chat then. I was extremely busy, and before I knew it he was gone again. I wasn't able to forget about him and his brilliant lecture either, so a year after I saw his name on a list for an upcoming seminar, I couldn't help to jump at the chance and I signed up for it. So after his lecture I stayed put, and as Griss said, I introduced myself to him, and we had coffee and talked about stuff." I look at her and send her a smile that she returns.

"I learned that Sara had just turned 21 under a month earlier, that surprised me a bit, since she had a wit as sharp as the edge of a knife." I recall as I picks up from where Sara ended. "It was so much beyond her age and I really admired that in her."

"We kept on meeting up all the while he was there, and as our coffee drinking outings went by, we found that we became friends." Sara begins again. "But eventually he had to go back to California. But we stayed in touch by using the phone and writing letters." She pauses. "The time went by and I graduated Harvard and I then went to San Francisco, where I met up with him and settled down there. By that time I was very interested in becoming a CSI, after listening to Griss here rambling on about it. So with the help from him, I enrolled Berkley, and took the classes there, so I could be fully equipped in the act of becoming a CSI. Griss also took me under his wings and he became my mentor." She sends me a smile that warms me.

"So after she was done with all of her classes, I recommended her the San Francisco crime lab." I am now taking over again. "She solved her first solo case and that to the absolute perfection, so she then became a full time CSI." I say proudly and look fondly at her.

"Shortly after that, he got the job here in Las Vegas, and had to move here of course." Sara turn again to take over the story. "So while I did my job in San Francisco, he settled into his new job as a CSI here, all while pulling the lab up from, literally, the bottom of the rank list to becoming the # 2 lab in the country." A look of absolutely pride adorns her face as she trails off. And I know, that this face is aimed at me.

"We still kept contact, and I managed to drive to San Francisco every other month, so I could see Sara." I say and then look over at Catherine. "Yes Catherine. Those trips were the reason, as to why I disappeared for whole weekends at times, these every other month." I explain to her, and she nods as Sara takes over once again.

"The years passed by, and suddenly Griss called me for urgent help." She says. "He needed an outsider to come help him on a matter, and you all know what happened after that." She says referring to Warrick and Holly Gribbs." Then Grissom come to me, at my hotel, to offer me a job here." She smiles. "And obviously I accepted since I'm here now."

"We were extremely happy to be able to be around one another again. Albeit that we never mentioned that to each other." I take over again. "We went into the old pattern, with the likes of sharing inside jokes and just enjoyed talking again. We were happy then. But it all went wrong, because of one simple thing."

"Yeah." Sara pipes up beside me.

"While we say we were talking, we never delved into one of the simplest things." I say again. "We actually never really talked about us. Meaning that all we ever talked about was our jobs and everything related to it. We're both very private persons, with each of our painful pasts, so our private life never became the subjects, because of that reason. And somehow over the years here, our friendship took a wrong turn, down the sour route, and we didn't really know the reason to that."

"But deep down inside, we really knew what the problem were, but we were too stubborn to acknowledge it." Sara says as she takes over. "This one made us avoid each other, since we mutually knew where it all came from. We just wanted to avoid the main reason, since we were both somehow scared of that one. That made us both miserable. But after the past weeks events, we decided to finally face it, and look it into it's eyes."

I take a look at everybody in the room. I can see that they are bursting to ask what, mostly Catherine, but they kindly holds their tongues, awaiting us to tell them about it. I look at Sara, my love, and she's biting her lip of nervousness. I take her hand in mine and hold her gaze.

"We were scared of each other, because of the way that we made each other feel." I say.

"Namely the feel of love." Sara says softly and squeezes my hand. "We've were scared of each other, simply by the mere fact that we love each other. We have loved each other since we saw one another on that first seminar." She looks at the other, who's now wearing astonished face expressions. "Yes it sounds crazy, we know, but that the facts."

"We have been in love with each other, for close to fourteen years, but didn't know how to handle it." I say. "Even if we knew about the mutually attraction, we buried it so deep inside of ourselves, that it threatened to get us both. But the day that Sara was suspended, I knew that I had to find the courage to tell her, about how I feel about her."

There's still a silence in the room, as everyone takes in the news.

"Well, Gil and I," Sara then begins with the use of my given names nickname, and that cause everyone to gasp of surprise, causing her to stifle a small chuckle I can tell. "Oh come on you guys. We're together so I'm calling him Gil." She says point-blank. "I know that you Nicky, Warrick and Greg, have tried to find me at my place and Gil told you all that I was away." There was affirmative nodding from the boys. "Well I have been away sort of, since I've been staying here for most of this week because I really didn't want to be alone. So we've been having some really long talks these days, used them to clear up a lot of things, which have been happening after I came to Vegas."

"Now were good. We finally have each other after years of agony." I admit. Sara looks at me and I look into her eyes, her beautiful wonderful chocolate brown orbs, and I almost get lost in them. Not really caring that there are six other people in the room also, and they're not used to my showing affections in public, but I really don't care right now, I raise my hand to her left cheek. Touching it much the way she did, long way back claiming that she wiped off chalk from MY left cheek. I then put a finger under her chin, and I lean in and give her a soft kiss on her lips, much to her surprise, and say as the truth is in front of everyone. "I love you, Sara Sidle. I always have and I always will."

"I love you too Gil Grissom." Says Sara. "And I will always love you too." She tells me.

I hear different variations of "aww" flowing through the air, and when I turn my head, and Sara does the same, she and I see everyone's jaws hanging open of astonishment and wearing ditto looks on their faces. And I notice that Catherine's eyes are shining, bearing unshed tears.

So that was that chapter. More to come...

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