YES, YES, YES...! She finally came back to me. What a joy!
NOTE: Grissom's POV here.
Disclaimers: Shall we refresh here... CBS is the only Bosses of any know CSI character. So again I plead, don't sue me please. Gareth is my very own though.
Chp. 15.
When I enter my townhouse, I see Gareth pacing the living room floor, as he holds my cordless phone to his ear. Sara is still at the lab, so Gareth has been 'home alone' for the night, since she had an out of town body. He could have come in with me, stayed in my office or in Jacquis domain, since I've heard from Sara that those two get along exceptionally. But Gareth chose to stay 'home', since he just needed to relax a lot. I don't blame him, since he has been tagging along a lot over these days.
"Can you by any chance get to Vegas sometime?" I hear him ask whoever's on the other end. "I mean the whole team here, since I want you to meet my sister." He then says and listens. "Okay just call me if you're all able to break away. If you can't I'll have to come to you, because there's something that I need to discuss with you all, as a team, since it will affect all of you somehow."
It's not my intention to eavesdrop, but catching that last comment, has my curiosity peaked. I am an investigator, and the head of a team, so naturally my ears peaks by that. I go about putting away my stuff and soon Gareth ends his phone call. He drops the receiver into the charger before heading towards me.
"Hey Gil." He greets me.
"Hi." I say back. "Had a good night?"
"Yes I had." He says as he sits down on a chair by the counter, while looking around as if he is seeking someone, or something. "Sara still at the lab?"
"Yes she is." I answer him. "This case of hers proves to be very difficult, so she told me, that she'll probably pull a double shift on this one." I am now starting the preparations for my breakfast. "You hungry?"
"No thanks." He answers me but accepts the mug of coffee I hand him.
This is the first time we've been all alone in my home, since Sara's always been here too, so I should try getting to, for lack of a better word, 'bond' with her brother. I know that he thinks good of me, since Sara has told me that, but regardless of that, I need to show him my true colors. Meaning that I need to let him know, just how good my intentions is towards his little sister, his 'Princess'.
The dept of my feelings for Sara is like a bottomless hole. It scared me witless, at first, so I found it hard to breath, but now I'm used to them. I love my Honey, more than life itself. She's so amazing, so brilliant, so clever, and so beautiful, that I'm in awe of her every time that I see her. I decide to take the plunge, right out into the deep end of a proverbial swimming pool.
"We really haven't had much time to chat alone." I start. "I don't know if you're like your sister, always having a million questions, but nonetheless I gather that you have some at least if that's not the case." I say.
"I'm not as inquisitive as my sister, and believe me I know how she is, but I do have a few questions." Gareth says.
"Like the one of my true intentions?" I ask him and he nods. "Believe me when I say, that they are honorable." I say that in my most serious tone of voice.
"I know that but still I have to look out for her heart." He tells me.
"And you are the only one present to do that." I say. "You are the only one she has got left to do that. You are her older brother, and I would never break her heart. I can tell you that, with absolutely sincerity, since she is everything to me." Now that is said in a deadly serious tone. I don't ever want to hurt her ever again. I've done that too many times over the last years of us working together. Then I ask, "Any concerns about the age difference between us?"
"At first I was a bit bewildered by the great age gap." He tells me. "But then I thought about it. Sara's always been a person, who's been more mature and serious than those her own age. She has never been comfortable with guys her age, since they're too immature for her liking." I see him contemplate his next words. "But you are the man she's been looking for Gil. You're committed to your job, your dependable, and your steady; you're everything Sara has always wanted. And most of all, and the most important factor of all factors, you have the total opposite character straits of our 'daddy dearest'. And I couldn't be more thankful for that. And I don't care that you're her boss either, because I have never seen her as happy as she is now. She's practically radiating with happiness, and that's all that counts here. I can see that you treat her as her name commands: As a Princess, or Lady if you will. It means so much to me, that you love her, and cherish her, just the way she is. So to answer your question, no the age difference does not bother me at all." He takes a sip of his mug. "You have been granted my approval. But mark my words, if you every do anything to hurt her…" He trails off in warning.
"Then you have my permission to shoot me, if that's your wish if ever." I assure him.
"Then we are on the exact same page here." He says.
"Indeed we are. I love with everything I've got." I say as we shake hands as a way of sealing the deal. As if I could, or would, ever do anything to hurt my Honey again?
My home had now become her home somehow, and that felt really good to me. After my talk with Gareth, and finished my breakfast, I had headed to bed while he volunteered to clean up after me. A while later, I wake up and feel Sara's left arm around me, and her body spooning me from behind. Small puffs of breath can be felt on my neck and I can't help snuggle more into her. Life is very good, I think, and more so after having Gareths final approval of my relationship with his sister. After a while I gently turn in her grasp, so I can look at her.
Sometimes my mind still stumbles over the fact that I finally got the beautiful Sara Sidle in my life. As I look at her, I can just about see her face in the dim light of my bedroom. I remove a strand of hair, which has fallen into her closed eyes, and push it out of the way. Then she makes some small sounds in her sleep and reaches for me. I gladly obey and scoots a bit closer to her sleeping form. I spend, what seems forever, just being close to her, while I softly run my fingers through her hair. I can smell that she took a bath, before she went to sleep, meaning that she had to wash off, what ever it was she had to process at the lab. I bury my nose in her hair, and inhale the vanilla scent that is her shampoo and conditioner. The scent that I have become to know as hers, and the scent which always tells me that she's in the room, when ever I enter it. I tighten my grip around her, kiss her on her forehead, and then I'm off to dreamland again. With a smile on my lips.
More about Gareths phone call in one chapter or two. Don't know when just yet.
So what do you think?