So yet another chapter.
Disclaimers: Chapter 1. please.
Chp. 9.
Sara throws her arms around Gareths neck, and he just put his around his upper body. Then I watch as brother and sister cling to each other, with a very happy heart, albeit that Sara is now sobbing into the neck of Gareth, but thankfully the tears is now of pure joy. They rock back and forth as they babble to each other. I can quite catch the words, since they're muffled. After a long time they release one another, but they still keep their arms around each other. They are studying each other's faces, as if getting to know the faces of each other again.
"I can't believe that you're here, older brother." Sara says with amazement after a while. She still looks like she's in shock.
"But I am princess." Gareth says to her and they shares huge smiles.
"What are you doing here?" She asks him bewildered I can tell.
"Why don't you ask your friend Grissom over there?" Answers Gareth and look over her shoulder at me. She turns around, in her brothers' arms, and looks in surprise at me.
"You did this?" She asks me softly. Her eyes is sparkling and there's love in them too. I only nod. "But how? Why? When?" She fires questions at me and I hold up my hand to stop her firing at me.
"As for answering the why… You told me that you missed him and needed him." I start. "As for the other things… I had Cath and Jim helping me out in finding him, by using the few details I had gotten out of you." I say.
"Thank you so much." She says, moves out of her brothers arms and over to me. She throws her arms around me. I snake my arms around her, and pulls her into me.
"You are welcome." I tell her. I then whisper into her ear: "I did it only because I love you. And I haven't to Gareth about us being together, since I thought I'd leave that to you. I've only said that we're friends." I look over at Gareth, and he watches us with interests as Sara moves back. She nods at me and then addresses her brother.
"Gareth." She says. "I have something to tell you." She says holding her hand out to her brother, which he takes and allows himself to be pulled over by his sister. "I know that Grissom told you we're friends, but we're much more than that." She says. I see Gareth study her and her eyes, gears turning in his head, until the proverbial light bulb is switched on, and has obviously connected the dots.
"You mean…?" He asks.
"Yes big brother." She answers him and takes my hand in hers. "We are together." She sends me a smoldering smile that I return. "I'll tell you the very long story, about how that happened later." She says just as Greg pops his head into my office. He is about to say something, when he spots Gareth. Sara waves him in and places a hand on his shoulder. "Greg, this is my brother Gareth." She says in an introducing mode. "Gareth, meet Greg Sanders, former lab rat turned CSI recently, and not to forget: The resident little brother." She says as a good-naturedly way of teasing Greg, who mocks injure, by the time she spouts the "little brother" comment. He furthermore slaps her lightly, and playfully, on the hand located on his shoulder.
"Hey!" He quips but smiles all the way. He then turns his attention to Gareth. "It's nice to meet you." Holding his hand out to him, Greg waits for Gareth to grab it.
"You too." Gareth says while they shake hands.
"I just came to tell you, that I delivered the evidence to the right lab techs." He informs Sara, who nods as an approval. He then turns on his heel and leaves the office, closing the door behind him.
There's a silence for a while, where I can feel Gareths probing eyes on me. I feel rather self-concius, right now, since I really want Gareth to approve of my relationship with his sister, who's dating her boss. Her much older boss nonetheless and Gareths her only family. Sure there's their mother, Laura, but she can't really have any say in this, since she's jailed for life. So nowadays, it's his responsibility, as the older brother, to be the guard of his sisters heart, making sure that no one breaks it and hurts her more than she already have.
"So you two are dating?" Gareth finally asks us.
"Yes." Sara answers him with a big smile. "Yes we are dating. We've only been together for about three weeks, but there a lot more to this thing as I told you before." She tells him. "It's a secret around here that we're together, since the fraternization between boss and employee is frowned upon. The team knows about us, but that's also about it." Gareth nods and pulls her into a tight hug again, and I watch them, until they pull back again. Gareth once again studies her.
"You look great." He tells her; then he seems to remember something. "Where did all of your curls go?" He touches a strand of her hair.
That's right I can't help thinking. One day she had gorgeous curls all over her head, the next day they were all gone. Where did they go?
"Well, I decided that I was tired of them." She says. "So I began to straightening it every day."
"Well, you should start wearing you hair all natural again." Gareth says.
"You really should." I say. "They make's you look absolutely beautiful." I say to her and she blushes as she sends me her only-issued-for-me smile.
"Thanks Gil." She says and dares to kiss me lightly in front of her brother, who only looks at us both with a smile.
"I don't know about you, but I could do with a cup of coffee." I say. "So why don't we head for the break room to grab one?"
"That sounds good to me." Answers Sara and looks at her brother. "You still drink coffee right?"
"I do still drink coffee." He answers her.
"Then lets go." She says excited. She grabs a snickering Gareths hand, and drags him after her toward the office door. "You coming Gil?"
"Yes. Yes I'm coming Honey." I say as she pulls the door open.
One our way to the break room, we tell Gareth about what we pass by. We waves at Archie as we pass his lab, and he waves back to us. Reaching the break room, we see Greg inside, in the middle of starting a new pot of coffee, which can only mean one thing.
"Hey!" He greets us as we enter. "I was just starting a new pot of coffee."
"We can see that." Sara says as Greg packs away a bag of coffee beans. "Hey is that your Hawaiian blend?"
"It's is." Greg says smiling.
"You won't believe how great that coffee tastes." Sara says excited to Gareth. "You'd think you'd died and gone to the big man upstairs, that's how great it is."
I can't help but smile of the affect that her brothers' presents have done to her. She's so excited and upbeat, that she so much more adorable right now. When Greg goes and put his coffee beans back into his locker, we three moves to the couch. I suddenly remember the comments about the 'h', and I just have to know.
"What was it with these comments about the letter 'h'?" I ask.
Brother and sister looks at each other, then burst out laughing.
"It's just inside jokes." Sara begins to explain. "All the while growing up, people would constantly assume that Sara is spelled as S-A-R-A-H. And everyone would always assume that Gareth was spelled as G-A-R-R-E-T." She says.
"And we were constantly correcting them." Gareth takes over. "So we had our standard responses, whenever someone misspelled our names. Sara's was: 'it's Sara without the 'h'. Mine was: 'my name is with an 'h' in the end.' I would then precede to spell it out correctly to whoever it was."
"Well that explains it." I say just as Greg comes back and heads for the coffee maker, which had begun the sputtering, announcing that the coffee is almost done brewing.
In the mean time, Greg gets four mugs out of the cupboard above the coffee maker and lines them up, so they're ready for the coffee. Once the sputtering has died out, he pours the coffee and brings the filled mugs over to us. I look as Gareth takes his first sip, and I almost see the stars in his eyes, when he has the liquid in his mouth.
"It's good, right?" I ask him.
"It's heavenly." Gareth says in amazement, causing both his sister and the resident "little brother" to laugh at him. He just smiles at them and takes another sip.
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