Okay a new chapter.

Disclaimers: See chapter 1. again.

Chp. 11.

Some hours after Sara, Grissom and I enter his townhouse. While Grissom and Sara drops off their stuff, I am left to look around, standing in the middle of the big open space, serving as kitchen and living area. I am not surprised to see that the walls is decorated with bugs all over, given that the guy is an entomologist. In between there's framed diplomas from various colleges and universities, blended in with framed articles, featuring the famed Dr. Grissom. I turn around as I hear clatter of bowls, and I see my sister and Grissom, starting to prepare for the makings of a big breakfast.

It's now my time to take on the investigator glasses as I watch them interact. It's like seeing a well-oiled machine running. It's like they're been together for several years, and not just for some weeks, and I'm sort of curious as to know just how long they've known each other.

I have never seen my sister glowing like she does now, as she and her boyfriend are around each other preparing for the breakfast. I am happy for her, and I know by heart that Grissom is a good guy, but as any big brother would do, I need to make sure that he really is the good guy. Not that I want to interrogate the poor man, I'll just ask Sara if he's of the good kind, since I whole heartily know, what temper my sister can show off, if I go ahead and ask Grissom about stuff behind her back. But somehow I need to know, since I don't want her to end up with a man, who is like our father. I loved our father, dearly, but he was a bastard. I know that Grissom is no such kind, given the profession that he's in, but me being the over protective older brother, I just need to be absolutely sure.

I've got to admit that I was a bit blown away, when I was told that they're romantically involved. Sure I don't know their back-story, but I believe it to be a very long story, and Sara will tell me almost the whole length, once we get talking. My wristwatch chimes to announce, that the clock has hit nine, and everybody will soon be showing up. No long after have I finished that thought, the doorbell goes and Sara went to answer the said door. I hear her greet a Nicky, combined with some good naturedly bantering, about the said Nicky always being on time, before a dark haired guy steps in giving her a hug in the process. She waves me over.

"Gareth, Nick Stokes of the swing shift." She says. "Nicky, my brother Gareth."

"Nice to meet you Nick." I say.

"You too." The other pipes up in a perfect Texas drawl. "Great finally meeting the real life brother of Sara Sidle." He says with a smile. I must have looked confused by his statement. "Your sister and I are barely born one month apart, me being the oldest, so I feel like Sara's my baby sister." He elaborates.

Nicks statement of Sara being his "baby sister", causes the two of them to banter good naturedly about whether or not, she should be called that or just "younger sister", now there's only this month between them. I can't help feel a bit jealous, since that could have been me there, bantering with her, so I get one step closer to a definite decision, of something that I've been thinking about.

The next person to enter the breakfast scene is Jim with the coroner Al Robbins in tow. Al is a bear and seems to adore Sara, just as much as Jim does. Greg follows next in a loud outfit, and then the rest of the apparent swing shift, Catherine Willows and Warrick Brown, pops up. Warrick is also sort of a brother to Sara I understand. The strawberry blond Catherine, mother of the just dropped off at school, Lindsay, is very attractive. But I can feel something not yet defined between her and that Warrick guy, so I better stay away here. Soon the breakfast is in full swing and there's chatter all over. I have to answer questions about my work, of where I have been and if I've blown some known buildings down.

Sara and Gil, that's what he finally asked me to call him, casually hold hands, whenever they don't need to hold their knives and forks. And she still has that glow over her, and I realize that my sister is gone. Gone for good this time, and that Gil's who's filling her whole life. So my sister is finally in love, something that I doubted after our experiences. I was afraid that she'd never wanted to settle down, of fear that the man she settled down with would change character when a fight comes up and suddenly hit her. Gil wouldn't do that, I realize now, so I put my plans to rest, the ones about me making sure that Gil is not that kind of guy. What I do realize is, that I should probably begin to adjust to the thought that Gil could end up being my Brother-In-Law, at some point in the future.

As we eat I'm also told about some of the strange cases, that they have been solving over the years. There are a lot of them and when Warrick shares Sara's self-combustion theory, when an elderly woman burned to death in her chair, I am left to gape at my sister, who's blushing madly and giggles. She's then quick to tell me, what really caused the elderly woman to burn up. I'm also told about the gym bag, carrying a very much-decamped man, and how Sara smelled after that. I have no idea of, how they can handle seeing what they see, and then eat right after that. I guess that they get used to it after a while. I am told though, that Sara became a vegetarian, after she and Gil had followed a dead pig, and how it decamped, for a whole night. Not a pleasant sight, according to my sister, so after that she switched to become a vegetarian.

The breakfast comes to an end. Greg, Jim and Al have to go home and sleep. Nick, Warrick and Catherine has to catch their shift, so soon they all thanks for the breakfast invitations, tells me it was great meeting me, hopes that I'll stay in town for a while and files out the door. We all, Sara, Gil and I, shares the task of cleaning up after the breakfast.

There's some decision to makes, whether Sara and I should head for her place to stay. But given that she has no guest room, and only an uncomfortable couch, it's decided that we're to stay at Gils place, since he has a guest room. Sara says a bit shy, as we head for my stuff which is still in Gils car, that she's been staying almost all the time there anyway.

"So are you happy, little sister?" I ask her as we reach the car.

"Very much." She sighs happily I can tell and smiles. "Even more now that you're here. I've missed you so much big brother."

"I know, Princess." I say as she unlocks the door to the backseat. "I've missed you too, so when Gil called me and said that you needed me, I just had to get here." I grab my stuff, closes the door and she locks it again.

"We need to talk." She says as we're heading back inside.

"I also know that." I agree. "But first we need to get some sleep." She nods.

Sara shows me to the guestroom, and guest bathroom, and then we hug for a goodnight. It sounds weird saying "goodnight", but I guess that how it is, when you work all night and have to sleep during the day. As I get comfortable under my cover, the thought of Sara, sleeping in the arms of Gil, is quite unsettling to me. But I have to get used to it, since she'd done that for some time now. Not long after finishing that thought, sleep over comes me, and soon I suspect we're all asleep.

Will start chapter 12 soon.

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