Thanks so much for the reviews, and guys you get to find out just what happened to Sara in this part...enjoy

Part 5

Catherine paced the break room, her mind running over everything that she had just read – she was in disbelief. How could anyone do this to a person? Knowing now why Sara was the way she was, she could only feel her heart pulling into for her.

"Hey…" A guys voice cut into everything that was running threw her mind, she had no idea how she was going to approach Sara now, after what she had just found out – would Sara even want her to. Maybe it would have been better if Grissom had called in Day shirt to cover this one, she though, as it may have been easier on Sara.

Catherine looked up to see Nick walk into the break room, "Cath, everything okay?"

"err…" She rose her hand to her forehead, and pushed her hair from her face "Not really…"

"Anything I can do?" he offered.

"Not really. Have you seen Sara?"

"Yeah, she's sitting on the bench outside the morgue…I think she's just come out of there from ID-ing the bodies. I came to get her a drink" he explained.

Catherine nodded, she looked to him "mind if I take it?" She asked.

"no go ahead, just make sure she's okay" He bent down and took a bottle from the fridge and then passed it to the other woman, "Is she going to be okay right?"

"Honesty…I don't know Nicky" She explained.

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"Need a bottle of water…"

"Could do with something stronger" Sara explained lowly, as she hesitantly looked up to her friend – taking the water. "Thanks" She then looked back to the floor. No way did she even want to look Catherine in the face- she knew everything about her now, everything that she had pushed further away than was possible – just proves that you can't run from anything.

Catherine took a seat next to Sara, "I…" She stopped, not sure how to do this. She did want to make it harder on her than it already was.

Sara made it a little easier for her, "Can we get out of the lab to do this…I can't do it here."

"Sure, I'll drive…"

Sara just nodded and stood up; the two CSI's walked down the corridor. They had made it a little of the way down the lab when Sara finally found her voice again, "Who's doing the autopsy?"

"Warrick's going through the evidence we found, there's not a lot and then…he will supervise the Autopsy" Sara nodded her head. The thought of an autopsy before tonight hadn't even caused her to raise a thought but knowing that someone who she loved was going to be cut up…it killed her. The rest of the walk to the car was in silence.

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"I have a package…for a Sidle, S. Sidle" A guy walked in holding a brown package, the woman at the front desk nodded.

"I can get that to her" She looked up at the guy, he was wearing a ball cap pulled down over her face and a white t shirt with a black jacket – "Will she know who it's from?"

"she'll know" before any more could be said between the two the guy turned, and began to walk away – a smirk on his face.

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" 'Rick how's the case…you got anything from the car?"

"Nothing…" Grissom walked into the room and looked at the evidence on the counter top, "Well Sara ID the guys for us. The driver is called David Richards, himself and Sara they go a while back, since she was 19 - so this is personal – and this is priority."

"Well, the car gave us no evidence to work on Gris – no fingerprints nothing – all I have are the bullets."

"Well keep working on it, Catherine should have something to help the case when she gets back" He explained.

"Where is she?"

"She's talking with Sara…"

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"I got the case file"

"Makes for interesting reading huh?" Sara asked, the two were sat in the far corner of a restaurant that the two often showed up in either during or after a shirt to pick up a coffee. It was pretty quiet, not many people inside.

"Sara…" Catherine sounded so sympathetic, so saddened.

Sara looked to her hands around a dark, black coffee – "...did you tell 'rick?"

Catherine shook her head, "I'm the only one that knows so far…"

"Grissom knows something happened but…he doesn't know the details" Sara explained.

"I so sorry"

"You need to ask questions I get that so lets just do it" Sara explained.

Catherine took a deep breath, this was going to be the hardest thing that she had done, "Sara, if you want the case passed onto Day shift…just tell me I'll get it done"

Sara looked up, she locked eyes for the first time with her friend, "What? Pass the case to every god damn CSI in that lab, I don't want that." She shot at Catherine; she took a deep breath and lowered her voice and tone. "I… I want you to be the one on the Case…"

"Have you talked to anyone a bout this? Ever?" Catherine asked.

"Yeah, the guy whose lay dead in the morgue" She spat. "He stood by me threw it all…I still can't believe that's him" She explained, "lay on the slab I mean, it can't be"

"I'm sorry" Catherine offered. Sara just nodded head. "I sorry this happened to you"

"Who else is going to find out?" Sara asked.

"Warrick and Grissom probably…they'll need to know."

Sara just looked back into her coffee, and after a few moments spoke, "I still see everything that happened that night…when I close my eyes"

"Not something you can forget" Catherine replied.

"No…I mean, even now when I lay in bed and hear a noise I'm convinced that – he's there." Sara stopped, "You're the first person I've ever told you get that right – and I feel like, I don't know…some how you wont look at me in the same way"

"Sara, your you...no matter what happened in you past. Your still the woman who works way too much over time, who knows how to make that whole lab look at you and smile and who means more than anything to the team. We are a family, nothings going to change what we all have back there, weather they know that you were raped or not."

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