Catherine and Grissom looked between each other, uncertain of how to answer. Sara took a seat next to Catherine and waited for their answer.

Finally Grissom let out a sigh and answered. "We don't know," he said simply.

"How," Sara started, but she realized the answer herself.

Catherine stated her thought out loud. "He doesn't know because he wasn't the only man I was with. I don't even know if she's his or not."

"So you two were together at one time?" Sara was still looking at them in disbelief.

"Yes, but it didn't work out. After awhile, we became friends again, and we've remained good friends. I was in Lydia's life enough to know who she was. I also told Catherine many times to tell Lindsey about Lydia. We're both glad that she's back."

"You're both being pretty reticent about her running away. You act like she doesn't exist for over ten years and now you treat it like nothing bad happened. Are you even going to bother being tested to see if you are her father?" Sara wasn't happy with them.

Catherine looked off into a corner of the room and Grissom looked directly at Sara.

His tone was hard as he spoke to her. "Yes, I'm planning on finding out if she is my daughter or not. It's been over ten years since that day; we've moved past it the best that we can. Do you expect us to punish her like she is still a child?"

Sara's eyes looked to her hands; her voice was almost apologetic and gentle as she spoke; yet it was still laced with her usual sarcastic tone. "No, I'm sorry. I guess I'm out of line. But she looks a lot like you Grissom. And I didn't ask to be involved in this, but I am involved now."

Catherine looked back at Sara. "It's alright. Really, I'm thankful to you for helping Lindsey, you didn't have to, and you're right, we could have tried to do things differently. We should have, but we can't change what has happened, we can only work on the present. I know that you didn't ask for this and we shouldn't be upset with you because you helped us."

Sara nodded.

Lydia and I slept on sofas in Sara's living room that night. In the late morning, we woke up again. Sara was up too, and she offered to make us breakfast. After we ate, we discussed our plans for the rest of the day.

At noon, Lydia and I were to meet our mom at a diner. We could have gone home of course, but still neither of us felt up to it. So until then the three of us went shopping at a local mall, where Liddy got me two new outfits. Then we went back to Sara's place where the two of us took showers and got changed. Then Liddy and I packed our stuff in her car and we went off to see mom. We were both nervous, and I expected to get into trouble, but we had to go.

We went into the small diner, were we were planning to meet mom. I walked in first; when mom saw me she rushed up to me and hugged me tightly. I hugged her back.

"I'm sorry mom," I said.

"It's ok Lindsey," she replied, her voice full of emotion.

She looked up and saw Lydia standing next to the door. We stopped hugging, and she put an arm around my shoulders as I put one around her waist.

Lydia smiled tentatively at mom. "Hi mom, it's me, Liddy."

TBC...

Yes, I was kind and I gave you two chapters in one day.

This is the second time I have said this, but it's true, I don't like the C/ G/ S conversation, I hope you did though. Tell me what you think, all comments and suggestions are welcome.

Thank you guys for reviewing.

Extra special thanks to CatStokes for the help with the Grissom/ Catherine story, I would still be lost with this story without your suggestion.