Greg went over to Sara and helped her over to a chair, so that she didn't collapse in a faint. Nick and Warrick took seats as well. Then mom cleared her throat and spoke, rather anxiously, to the group.

"Well, I guess you two should find out what the rest of us know already. This is Lydia, she is my daughter. It's a very long story, so I won't tell it now, because we need to get back to work shortly. Anyway, she ran away when she was younger and now she's back. We had Greg run a DNA test to see who her father is, and to close her case. Gil and I had often suspected it, but this confirms it."

"So wait," Nick said, he looked so confused, it was sort of funny. "This woman is your daughter and Grissom's daughter?"

"When did this happen?" Warrick asked.

"A little over 22 years ago," Lydia answered. She was still smiling, but she finally sat down next to me.

The general shock of finding out that Lydia was Grissom's daughter was fading from me, as well as from mom, Greg, Grissom, and Sara. Warrick still looked slightly puzzled, but poor Nick still looked totally confused.

"Well, we need to get back to work or Ecklie might start to wonder what's up." Grissom told them. So they left. Then it was just mom, Grissom, Lydia, and I in the break room. We stood up.

"I don't really know what to say to you Liddy," said Grissom. "I guess I'll be working on this relationship just as much as Cath and Linds."

"Don't worry about," Liddy began. "It'll be hard for all of us, but I'm glad that you're my father, it's better than not knowing, plus I already knew you."

Grissom smiled, and the two of them held out their hands towards one another. They shook hands, but then they also hugged; I'm pretty certain that there were tears in his eyes, I know that the other three of us were close to tears. Then they released from their embrace, and Liddy laughed slightly as she wiped away a tear.

Mom spoke, "Hey Gil, why don't you come over to my house tomorrow, that way the four of us can talk?"

"Alright, I guess I'm a part of this family now, so I should."

"Good, you can come whenever, you know where we live."

He nodded and then he left the room. Then mom hugged Lydia and I and we left to go back home.

Sara was sorting through the evidence from a case when Grissom came into the room.

"Greg's in the A-V lab with Archie looking through the surveillance video for any leads. Meanwhile, I'm trying to make sense of the evidence, do you want to help, or are you going to wonder about your daughter?"

He could tell that Sara was upset by it all, and as much as he wanted to feel sorry for her, he was not happy about how she was acting. "I'm going to help you," he said as he started to sort the evidence as well. "What gives you the right to act like this? So I have a daughter with Catherine, what difference does that make to you? We're both grateful for all of your help, but why do you have to get such an attitude about it?"

She looked up from her work, and they looked straight into one another's eyes. "Do you really want to know? Fine, I'll tell you. Maybe I don't have a right to be mad, but I am. Both you and Cath screw up as parents and two kids suffer. Then both Greg and I are drug into all of this because of what you two messed up. You were willing to make a child with her, but you aren't even willing to have dinner with me. So maybe I'm more upset because you have always enjoyed Cath more that me, but I'm also mad because now Lindsey has to feel out of place and confused! She's hurt and vulnerable, and all of these complications don't help her at all!"

For once, Grissom was completely speechless. Sure it was one of Sara's talents regarding him, but this time it was for a reason that completely astounded him. He had figured that she would be upset about his once being involved with Catherine, and that she was upset that they had a child. But he had never thought that she would be so upset for Lindsey's sake.

"I'm sorry," was all he managed to say.

As they were processing a car in the garage, Catherine explained Lydia's story as completely as possible to Nick and Warrick. They finally understood everything, but they were still very surprised by it all.

"It's strange, I never thought that you and Grissom had ever been together like that," Warrick said. "I mean, you guys never even act like there's a hint of sexual tension between the two of you."

"Yeah, I've never noticed anything either, and from the look on Sara's face, neither had she. So what gives."

"We didn't have a very one on one relationship, on my part anyway. It bothered him then, so we didn't see each other again for several years, when Liddy was about nine. He was on a case that I had a vague connection to, and when he saw Lydia, he wanted to know if she was his. From that point on, we became friends again. Then Eddie came into my life, and Gil helped me through the rough times. Then Liddy ran away, and I wanted my life to change, so I came to work here. We never had the same feelings for one another that we had so long before, and we both worried about Liddy. But we just became better friends and that's all that mattered between us. Now I guess we'll see where the relationship goes, but I don't want to become his lover, and I don't think he wants that either."

Warrick smiled. "Ah, I get it. What's past is past, this is the present."

Catherine smiled back. "Exactly."

So they, along with Greg and Sara all saw a new part of their supervisors. They also realized how little they truly knew about them. They were intrigued.

Two chaps left until the next story begins : )

Thanks to CatStokes and Sitarra for reviewing love ya both for it.

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I also am practically dying because I'm not shipping in this story, so I want to know what you guys think I should do. If no one wants to have a ship, I won't do it. I'll go with the most popular suggestions, but I already have some ideas of my own. Then I'll start to introduce it in the epilogue, but it will be in the next story.

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