NOTE 1: Chapter 12.
NOTE 2: Still in Gareths POV.
NOTE 3: Had a lot of troubles typing this chapter up, so forgive me if it's lame.

DISCLAIMERS: You know the drill by now... See chapter 1.

Chp. 12.

I wake up to a faint noise, which I detect comes from the kitchen and I stretch and rubs the sleep from my eyes. I grab my watch from the nightstand, and squints to see what the time is. The time is nearly 5:30 pm, so I roll out of bed, put on my pants, shrug on my shirt and starts for the kitchen. I find Sara in the midst of putting on some coffee, and she smiles when she sees me.

"Hey brother." She says.

"Hey yourself." I say and give her a hug. I take in her sleep tousled bed hair, and her flushed sleepy cheeks and bleary eyes. It's been so long since I've seen her, just as she's woken up. She's always been looking like this, and I have really missed waking up, and having her just in the next room. I then look around. "Umm where's Gil?"

"Oh he got called in." She answers. "Apparently the swing shift has a bug infested body on their hands, so Gil had to get up and get to the crime scene, since the body can't be moved for the fear of cross inseminations." She explains to me. I have no idea of what she talks about, the cross insemination that is, but I'm sure I'll get an explanation sometime. In the mean time I just nod as an okay.

"How long will he be?" I ask.

"He never knows." She says. "It depends on what he is dealing with, once he's on the scene. And it depends on how many species he'll be finding, and stuff like that. Then he has to go back to the lab, and examine each specimen for traces of evidence. It's a long process at times."

"Okay." I say.

"Anyway… before he left, he told me that if your interested, you are more than willing to tag along tonight and experience a somewhat busy night at the Las Vegas Crime Lab." Says she.

"I'd like that." I say since I'm nosey as to see, what it is my sister is really doing.

"So how did you sleep?" She asks me as we're waiting for the coffee maker to finish it's sputtering.

"I slept great." I say. "It's so much different, sleeping in a real bed, than the hotel bed which was originally waiting for me in Alaska."

"I'd imagine." She says.

"So how are you sleeping?" I ask her since I know to the nightmares; she began having after that night. "Still nightmares?" I see her face turn into an interesting shade of red, and she smiles a bit shyly at me.

"I used to have a lot of them, but after I've started sleeping in Gils arms every night, I haven't had a single one." She admits to me in a quiet shy voice as she looks down on her feet. "He gives me the peace I need in my sleep, so I can get a good sleep. I feel protected in his arms." She almost whispers of embarrassment having to reveal such a personal intimate thing to me.

I can't help but smile. I knew it! He definitely is one of the best guys around, and I now know that he'll do anything to protect her and take care of her. I put a hand on her shoulder, and that causes her to look up again, and she still looks flustered.

"You don't have to be embarrassed." I say and squeeze her shoulder. "I can see how he acts towards you, how extraordinary good he treats you, and I can tell that he is one of the best guys around. I can see that he has made you happier than I've ever seen you being. You are practically glowing with happiness, and I've never seen you be like that, when you've been with the other few guys I've met. I like him." She suddenly breaks into a huge smile and jumps into my arms and hugs me tight.

"It means so much to me, all of what you just told me." She says. "And I especially appreciates that you like him. I needed to hear that, since you're my only brother, my only remaining family, so I needed your acceptance." I only hug her back.

We then grab our respective coffee mug, fills them to the brim and balance with them over to the couch, where we both breathes a sigh of relief, once they're safely sat down on the coffee table. After making ourselves comfortable we reach for our first sip of the coffee. We sit there a while, letting the caffeine set in, and then I decide to ask her some questions.

"So how long have you and him known each other?" I ask her.

"To be entirely correct, about thirteen years." She says. "But we saw each other nearly fourteen years ago at a seminar at Harvard."

"Fourteen years?" I ask her. She nods. "But then you were only 20, weren't you?" She nods again. "Okay." Then she starts out telling me all about how they met.

They met each other at Harvard, at a seminar, where Gil had come to teach about how to solve crimes through forensics science. She tells me about how she approached him and about the coffee sessions which lad them to become friends. She tells me about how Gil took her under his wings, once she had arrived in San Francisco, and helped her to choose the right courses and classes at Berkley, so she could qualify to become a CSI. She tells me that she solved her first solo case to perfection, and about Gil recommending her to the San Francisco Crime Lab. About the sad loneliness she felt when he had to move here, and then the pride she felt, when Gil on his very own, slowly pulled the Las Vegas Crime Lab from the bottom of the rank list, up to being the number two lab in the country. She tells me about the absolute happiness when he called her for help, and about the giddiness when she was finally around him again.

She tells me about the joy she felt, when Gil offered her the chance of transferring to Las Vegas and therefore a chance to work alongside him again. She tells me about the very happy times, as well as some of the bad times, when it came to their friendship then. She tells me that somehow it all took a wrong turn, and they lost their connection, their communication, making them both miserable.

She tells me about when everything came crashing down, during that case which led to her breakdown, and finally a reason for the two of them starting to communicate again, leading to mutually revelations. Sara tells me that she fell in love with Gil, the moment she saw, and heard, him at that very first seminar, where she only asked one question, and didn't see him for another year. She tells me that Gil had felt just like she'd done all these years.

So to make a very long complicated tangled story short, as she says, after nearly fourteen years of being ignorantly in love with each other, and the lot of pain and troubles following that, they are finally together.

Or as they'd heard their friends put it in their own eloquent way: The smoldering Geek Love bonfire finally started to blaze the way it should blaze. I can't help but thinking, that it's a very poetic way of looking at it. Especially after Sara elaborates just why it is, everybody else at the lab calls Gil and her for geeks. Apparently my sister and Gil could live in the lab, before they got together.

By the time Sara's done sharing, the time is to get ready. I give Sara a big hug, thanks her for telling me about everything and then we head for our respective showers.

Chp. 13 coming up soon.

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