A/n- oh my gosh guys, thank you soo much for the reviews. They make me so happy! I love knowing what you think of the story so far. Some bad language in this chapter, but nothing too serious. So here is chapter 3…
"So what if she's late? She is human you know," Greg said in between sips of his famous coffee.
"I know she's human Greg. But I think something is wrong." Grissom said very knowingly. He knew she was upset about him talking to Brian so maybe she went back to the bottle and now that she is more depressed she could have hurt herself. "I'm going to go check on her," he said.
"Griss, don't you think you're over reacting? She's what, 15 minutes late? You're acting like she's been kidnapped." Greg continued not knowing about the break up or any of the after maths. Grissom only got the first few words because he left to go see if Sara was alright, whether she like it or not.
After three minutes of knocking on her door and call her house and cell he couldn't take not hearing her voice anymore. He kicked the door open and ran in a little more frantic now. He quickly observed his surroundings. Empty beer bottles on the table. About six from what he could. He didn't see her on his way down the hall so he ran to her bedroom. Pushing the door open he saw Sara Sidle lying disturbingly still on her bed. He ran to her side and began to try and wake her up.
"Sara, honey, wake up. Let's go. Get up baby. C'mon Sara, please." She would not even move. He pulled out his cell phone and called the paramedics. They arrived in 7 minutes flat, took Sara away not even letting Grissom come in the back of the ambulance. He jumped in the Tahoe and followed the ambulance to the hospital. On his way Catherine called and if Sara was all right and he told her he was going to the hospital. She freaked and said she would go right over. Although he tried to tell her to stay, there was no way of changing the mind of Catherine Willows. She left the lab immediately telling Nick and Warrick she would call with news.
Grissom was sat in the waiting room when Catherine came in. She sat beside him and patted his shoulder. Her and Grissom have been friends for a very long time. She had helped him with his social skill and they would always share moments talking about Sara without actually bringing up her name. He knew he could trust his friend with everything and he was quite glad to her here to support him and Sara of course.
"Any news?" She said calmly.
"No," was all he could manage.
"Gil, come on, I'm sure she's okay. Let's go ask."
"Catherine, you should have seen her when I found her. She looked so lifeless. It scared me so much." Grissom was now letting his tears fall freely in front of his friend. Catherine gave him a reassuring hug.
"It's okay. I'll go see what's going on." Catherine stood up and walked to the front desk reading the nurse's name.
"Hi Amy, I'm Catherine Willows and that's my friend Gil Grissom," she pointed to the slouched man wiping his tears in the waiting room. "Can you please tell me when we can see a Sara Sidle." The nurse didn't even get a chance to respond when an elderly man in a white lab coat came up to Catherine.
"Hello, I'm Dr. Tapper. Are you looking for Miss. Sidle?"
"Yes could you please tell me if she's alright?" Grissom saw Catherine talking to the doctor and walked to her side so he could hear what the doctor had to say.
"Well, Sara is a very lucky woman I must say. She took dangerously large quantities of sleeping and antidepressant pills. She actually slipped into a coma for a few minutes. There was absolutely no food in her stomach except for quite a bit of alcohol. If she had taken one more pill she would still be in a coma right now. I think something has happened in her life that made her really stressed and it led to this. If she is still like this when she gets released I encourage someone to watch over her for a while. We can't have a repeat of tonight." He finished. He waited for the blank expression on Grissom's face to fade but it never did so he spoke again.
"She is in room 212, down the hall to the left. Her meds should be fading by now so a nurse will be in there shortly. I shouldn't be doing this but I can let you two only go in one at a time to see her. But please not for long." With that last statement he walked off.
"You should go in first. I know you want to see her."
"Oh Catherine, she's so mad at me. I can't go now," he was still puffy- eyed from tears he was holding back.
"Gil, how did you know she was hurt?" She looked at him questioningly. He couldn't lie to her so he told her everything from beginning up till now where Sara was in the hospital.
"It's all my fault she in the hospital." He finished.
"Gil, bad things happen. What's important now is that Sara is going to be fine. Go and see her."
"I can't do it. I don't want to make her more angry. Can you just go?"
"Okay, but you have to go in after me. I'll talk to her. I'm sure she needs to see you too." She walked down the hall and soon disappeared into a room.
She slowly walked to Sara's side and sat on the chair. She was surprised to see her eyes open and look at Catherine.
"Hey girl, how you feeling'"
"Fine." She wasn't in the mood to talk. She didn't want anyone's sympathy.
"Sara, do you want to talk about it?" Catherine said trying to make Sara feel comfortable.
"No,"
"Honey, we were so worried about you and Grissom is waiting outside to see you."
"Oh like he gives a shit. Thanks but I don't need any sympathy from you guys." She said bitterly.
"Sara, he blames himself for all of this, the break up, and you being in the hospital. He really cares about you. I can see it. He has been at the hospital this whole time. He was crying thinking you weren't going to come out of the coma."
"It's not his fault. How did you know about Brian anyway?"
"Grissom just told me. He's scared to come in here thinking you will get more upset than you already are."
"Okay, fine." She said.
"Thank you." She gave Sara a hug and said she was glad she was all right and went out to get Grissom.
"Go slow. She's still upset."
Grissom entered the room and saw Sara lying on the hospital bed looking so vulnerable and weak, nothing he had ever seen her like before. He sat on the same chair Catherine had sat on and began to talk.
"Sara, I'm so sorry."
"Okay,"
"Sara please, tell me you are okay and you will never do this again. I don't ever want something like this to happen to you again."
"Okay," her only response again.
"Please say something else."
"Look, I know Catherine probably made you come in here against your own will so you can go whenever you like."
"She didn't made me come in here. And I am not leaving this hospital until you get released because I'm going to take you home and watch over you for a while until you get better. You scared me so much and I know it's all my fault so I'll make up for it. "
"No you're not. I can take care of myself."
"Sara, I don't think you're in the right position to say something like that. Don't argue with me now please. I am taking you home when you get released and that is that." He said and then he walked out the door leaving Sara with her thoughts.
TBC… Please let me know what you think. Hopefully chapter 4 will be up on Tuesday. If I get reviews I'll go for Monday or maybe Sunday…Is this at all tempting?…..lol.
