Title: Pushing Forward or Pulling Back
Rating: PG (for now)
Disclaimer: Wish they were mine… alas they are not
Summary: 1st fic… Just trying things out. Is Sara moving on without Grissom? GSR
A/N: Thanks for all the reviews so far! And now on with the show!
The doorbell rang exactly at 7:00.
Of course he would be right on time. Sara thought as she hopped down the hallway while putting on her shoe. He lives like three doors down.
Sara was dressed in a nice, but not too revealing lilac dress. The top was halter styled with the bottom of the dress just reaching above her knee. As she got right in front of the door she slipped on her strappy off white sandals, smoothed her tousled hair, and opened the door to reveal…
"Mark Hey, come on in!"
Mark Brennan took a step into the hallway. He looked about 6'5 with a dark brown hair. His blue eyes stood out against his somewhat pale face. He was dressed in a nice dark suit and held a bunch of yellow roses which he handed to Sara.
"Wow, thank you! The flowers are beautiful"
"I thought that yellow roses would be more appropriate. A trial date. Tonight we are going out more as friends first and then we'll see where we go from there." Mark replied
"Sounds perfect" Sara stated as she ran her fingers over the petals. "Let me get these flowers into a vase and then we'll go"
She put the flowers in some water and set them in the kitchen and headed out the door closely following Mark.
"Sara! What are you doing here? I though you had a hot date tonight." Nick exclaimed when he saw her in the layout room.
"Well duty calls. I got pulled in for the McLaren case" Sara sighed.
"So?"
"So what Nick? I have work to do."
"Tell me about your date! Come on you can use a break. Walk and talk with me to get coffee from the break room" Nick pleaded.
"Fine" Sara huffed and the both walked towards the breakroom "His name is Mark. We went to dinner, and I got called in on a case. He dropped me at home. I came to work. The end."
"No, no there has to be more than that or else you would not have that smile on your face" Nick chided.
Just then they walked into the breakroom to reveal Grissom and Greg going over notes from the McLaren case.
"Nick just drop it" Sara hissed upon seeing Grissom.
"What are you talking about? Your hot date?" Greg chimed in.
Sara glared at Nick "You are worse than a bunch of high school girls".
Sara glanced at Grissom to gauge his reaction. But then again he had his stone cold unemotional demeanor on. Grissom refused to lift his head from the case fine in fear that she would see the hurt in his eyes.
"Guys please just drop it. My personal life in none of your business. Can we get this case closed now?"
"Why, so you can go back to your house for a little lovin' with the new boy toy?" Greg chided as he nudged Sara's side.
"Greg, she said to drop it!" Came an unexpected outburst from Grissom.
Everyone stood there at a loss for words.
Grissom took a deep breath and continued. "Work time is not the place to be disgussing these kinds of things. Lets get back to the case at hand. Now I believe Mrs. McLaren was standing on the steps when her husband…"
As Grissom continued with running the case, Sara thought about everything that just happened. She never expected Grissom to react like that. Maybe he does care. No wait you are supposed to be moving on with your life. He will only hurt you again. She mentally shook her head. It's time to move on. After all you have another date with Mark. He's a really nice guy. You should give him a chance. Glancing over at Grissom she thought But he'll never be Grissom. Shut up! She told her thoughts and went back to listening to the case.
TBC… Is it bad? Should I continue? Should I stop writing all together? Reviews are always appreciated!