Summary: See chapter one, cuz if you start here you'll be lost!
Disclaimer: I don't own any of them except Emily! She's from my imagination! Promise!
Catherine and Sara walked into Grissom's office and were surprised to find it empty. Trading confused looks, the two women walked down to the break room. Grissom and Warrick were sitting at the table and it looked like Warrick was attempting to question Grissom about the confusing events that had taken place. Grissom, typically,was just staring into his coffee like it held the answers to every question ever asked by mankind.
"C'mon, Gris! Why won't you tell me what happened! Is Sara ok or what!" Warrick was becoming increasingly frustrated.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Sara said from the doorway.
"Sara!" Warrick exclaimed, jumping up and going over to her. "Are you sure you're ok?" he asked anxsiously. He was doing nothing to hide the worry and concern in his eyes and on his face.
Sara gave him a small smile and placed a hand on his arm. "I'm fine." At Warrick'sdoubtful look, she added. "Really."
Warrick wrapped her in a hug, suddenly feeling like a protective big brother. "Alright. I'm just worried, ya know?"
"Yeah, I know." Sara said hugging him back. "Thanks." They parted and Warrick returned to his seat as Catherine sat down next to Grissom. Sara looked around the break room. "Where's Nick?" she asked looking nervous and disappointed.
"I don't know." Warrick said. "After you and Cath left, he disappeared."
"Oh."
"Why?"
"Well I just, uh, wanted to –to explain what happened, but it's ok. I'll just, tell him later, I guess." Sara sat down across from Warrick. He watched her take a deep breath and clear her face of emotion before she spoke. When she had explained everything and finished telling her story, Sara was starting to feel emotionally drained. The look on Grissom and Warrick's faces weren't helping her feel much better.
Warrick had a shell shocked expression on his face (much like the one Sara had worn when she found out she was pregnant five years ago) and Grissom…..well she couldn't really read his expression and that's what disturbed her about it.
When a few moments had passed and niether of the men had said anything, Catherine broke the silence. "Uh, guys? You still with us?" Warrick shook his head as if to clear it and snapped back into reality. Grissom's eyes focused and he looked at Catherine and Sara.
"Umm, Sara?" Warrick said reluctantly.
"Yeah?"
"Now don't bite my head off or anything! But , I gotta ask." He paused uneasily. "Who's the father? Do you know? I mean, is it, uh…" he glanced in Grissom's direction. "Is, uh, you know, Gris –"
"No!" Sara cut him off. "No!" she repeated. "Emily's not his, I mean, Grissom's not….her father." She looked over at Grissomjust in time to see a look of relief wash over his features. Suddenly Sara felt angry. 'He's relived!' she thought crossly. 'I can't believe him! What's wrong with having a child? Is it because she's my child? How dare he try to make a move on me in his office! How dare he be relived!'
"Sara? Sara!"
Sara came back to the conversation. "Huh? I'm sorry, I –I zoned out." She said pushing her angry thoughts aside. For the moment at least.
"Warrick was just asking you if you're seriously going to adopt Emily." Catherine told her kindly.
"Oh. Well of course I am! At least I'm going to try……. Why wouldn't I? Especially now that the foster system has failed her!" 'Like it failed me!' she thought. "It's the right thing to do, ya know?" she continued, her voice taking on a different tone. "After all….she is my daughter." As Sara said this a small smile tugged at the corners of her mouth. When Catherine noticed Sara's smile, she smiled too.
"What about who's daughter?" Greg asked cheerily, coming into the break room. "Isee you two didn't kill each other." he told Catherine and Sara."I was afraid my DNA lab was going to get destroyed again!" They both gave him their respective death glares and he took a few steps away from them pretending to head for the coffee pot. "Uh, anyways, who's daughter?" Sara, Catherine, Warrick, and Grissom all traded glances.
Deciding to lay all her cards on the table, (the lab was bound to hear about it soon anyways, right? So what did she care if Greg passed the word around. At least it'd be accurate if she told him.) Sara said, "My daughter."
That wiped the smirk off Greg's face. "What was that? Sorry, I think I just pulled a Grissom and went temporairally deaf. See, I thought you said you had a daughter, Sara." Greg laughed.
"No, you heard me right." Sara replied, giving him a completely serious look.
He stared at her, his smile slowly fading. "C'mon! You guys are messin' with me, right? This is all a joke to get me back for filling your lockers with frogs last week, right?"
"Aww, man! That was you!" Warrick asked angerly. "Man that was so nasty! My stuff was covered in frog slime!"
Greg grinned sheepishly at him, but when nobody said anything to deny the fact that Sara did indeed have a daughter his face faultered. "Y-you're serious? You, you really have a-a daughter, Sara?"
"Yes, Greg." Sara confirmed, nodding. Without taking his eyes off her, Greg stumbled over to a chair and plopped down in it.
"You ok, Greg?" Catherine asked with a small smile. Everybody knew that Greg had been nursing a crush on Sara since she started working here.
"Is the father here?" he asked suddenly, looking around. "I mean are you, like, hooking back up with him or something?"
"Uh…….." was all Sara could say as her eyes darted from Cathereine to Warrick and back.
"So then there's still hope for me?" he asked, sitting up straighter. "I like kids!" he added.
Sara couldn't help but smile as Catherine and Warrick snorted a laugh into their coffed cups. Even Grissom bestowed him a half-smile. "Uh, look, Greg. It's not that I don't like you, but…..you're just……I just don't like you in that way." Sara explained gently. Greg looked crestfallen. "I'm sorry." She added.
He was silent for a few seconds. Finally he said, "Um, I think smell something burning in the DNA lab." And got up and left the break room dejectedly.
"I think you just made his whole world come crashing down on him, Sara." Warrick said jokingly.
"Great, now I feel even better! Thanks, Warrick!" Sara said sarcastically, shooting him a look.
"Don't worry, Sara. Knowing Greg, he'll get over it as soon as he sees Mia in the DNA lab." Warrick told her, adding under his breath, "I know I would."
"Besides, you've got more important things to worry about right now." Catherine said with a serious expression.
"Yeah. I've got to tell Emily. And Nick." Sara was starting to feel those annoying little butterflies in her stomache again. An akward silence fell over the room.
Grissom, who had remained completely silent during all this, finally spoke. "Well, since Nick is no where to be seen, I think you need to go talk to your daughter." Sara looked over at him, as did Catherine and Warrick, and slowly nodded. Without a word she stood up and walked towards the door. Catherine and Warrick got up and followed her, Grissom bringing up the rear.
When they had reached the interrigation room where Emily was quietly coloring, Sara stopped outside the door. Closing her eyes, she put her hand on the door knob and took a deep breath.
"Do you want me to go with you?" Catherine asked, shifting back into mother mode.
Sara glanced at her and smiled. "Thanks, but this is something I need to do alone." Warrick gave her shoulder a reassuring squeeze. Then he, Catherine, and Grissom filed into the observation room.
Sara took another deep breath and entered the room where her daughter was, unsure of what was about to take place.
A/N: Hey ya'll! Sorry for my lack of updates! I've been really busy getting ready to start school tomorrow and then my TV and internet have been down since Wednesday! (it's been so awful!) Anyways it's fixed now...so yeah! I hope you liked this chapter (I kinda got stuck when I was writing it)! Don't forget to leave me a review! I see that a lot of ya'll have read this and haven't reviewed! I hope my writing isn't that bad:( Oh well! It might be a while 'till my next update but don't worry cuz it is coming along with the N/S fluff and stuff ya'll are waitin' for! Thanks for reading! Remember to drop me a review! Please and thank you!
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