I know this is a short chapter but it's worth it in my opinion, but of course I wrote it so... Anyways...Please enjoy and review.

STORY TIME
Sara's POV

Grissom was loosing it. He was yelling at Galsen when I heard him say that Allison was his child. Before I could stop him he had continued on about Allison and Kate. Brass was standing in the corner, his mouth hanging open and the suspect just had a lost look to him. I grabbed Grissom by the arm and dragged him through the empty hall to another empty interiogation room.

"Gil?" I asked.

He now had tears rolling down his cheeks and I just held him while he cried, whispering in his ears that everything was going to be alright. After a little while he pulled away from me, drying his eyes.

"I'm sorry," he said.

"Don't be. I'm always here for you."

"Thanks but I shouldn't have lost it back there. I wonder who was standing behind the glass?"

"Everyone: Catherine, Warrick, Nick and Greg," I told him.

"Oh God," he placed his head in his hands. "Everybody knows now. I bet the people with the day off already know."

"It's nothing to be ashamed of," I said. "They were your family, it's ok if people know about them."

"Would you want everyone to know your secrets?"

"No."
"Then you know why I never told anyone."

"Yeah, I do."

There was a knock at the door and Catherine entered. I saw Grissom hang his head. Catherine just stood there, looking at us. "You knew," she stated to me.

I nodded.

"Why didn't you tell us Gil?"

"Because I didn't want anyone to feel sorry for me."

"I don't feel sorry for you, I'm worried about you."

"I'm fine."

"No, you're not," she walked over and hugged him. "I know what it's like to lose a child. Before Lindsay was born I miscarried twice. We were about to give up when I finally carried Lindsay all the way through."

"I never knew," he said.

"We all have our secrets. Come on now, the team's in your office. We all want to talk."

"I was just a little kid when it happened," Nick started out. "She was a last minute babysitter for me and 2 of my older sisters. I'm the youngest of 7 so a lot of them were in collage or had moved out. My 2 sisters were 12 and 11, I was 9. She asked me to come upstairs with her to show her around. I didn't think anything of it until we were in my room-," he stopped, taking a deep breath. I took his hand and held it. "She molested me and all I could do was sit on my bed until my parents came home. I never told anyone except for Catherine and that was a while ago."

We are all sitting in a circle on the floor of Grissom's office. Nick had volunteered to go first and now it was my turn. "I was 14 when my mother killed my father. He was an alcoholic and he would hit us everytime he got drunk which was basically ever night. My brother was older so he got out before it got bad. I thought our family was normal but when I was put into foster care I figured out that everyone wasn't like us. It started when I was about 6, my father lost his job and all we had left was the Bed in Breakfast that my mother's family had passed down to her. My father started drinking and he started to hit us. My brother was 17 when it started and he left as soon as he graduated the following year.

"My mother never tried to protect me, she only cared about herself. Sometimes she would get drunk with him to avoid being hit and she'd watch as he beat me up. My teachers never noticed, or they chose not too. But when I was 14 my mom had had enough of it. I was layed out in the hall but I could still hear them arguing. I couldn't see because of the blood running in my eyes from me head wound but I could hear when she stabbed him over and over again. I never tried to stop her, I was glad that it was all going to be over soon.

"So I was sent into foster care for four years before I went to Harvard. I learned that what my father had done to me was wrong and I know that he's never going to hurt me again...but when I sleep I still have nightmares that I'm back in that house and that he's still there, waiting for me to screw up so that he can hit me." I can feel the tears running down my cheek but it's ok because Grissom pulls me close to him.

"I was 20 when I met Kate. We had the normal collage relationship but not long after we started dating she told me that she was pregnant. We broke up but managed to stay close for Allison. She was born on July 29th and I was the first one to hold her after the doctor. Kate had to stay at the hospital for a week after the birth so I took Allison Miranda home with me. She was the most beautiful little girl. She had curly blond hair and blue eyes. She was tall and at the top of her class. I brought her to the morgue when she was 5 and she wanted to see a body. I don't know what came over me but I let her see one and she asked me questions about it.

"When she was 9 she told me that she wanted to be an M.E., I was so proud of her. She was only 9 and was talking forensics with the CSIs upstairs. She was the one who invented the Red Creeper power I use, she loved hanging out with the lab techs. She had a crush on Dr. Casity, the M.E. She wanted to watch an autopsy too, she even promised not to puke. I told her that since her birthday was only 3 months away that she could see one when she turned 10. But she never got too.

"Kate and I worked things out a few days before they were killed. We were even thinking of moving in together so that we could be a real family, but then the shooting happened. Soon after I left LA to come here, there was no reason for me to stay in LA, and Allison were gone."

"My parents died when I was 5 in a car crash," Warrick said. "My grandmother took me and my older brother in. She didn't have a lot of money so my brother took a job as soon as he was old enough. We were 5 years apart but we were really close. He joined a gang because we lived in a bad neighborhood and he wanted to protect me. One night he was out late and so I snuck out to look for him.

"I found his body in an alley behind a store; he'd been shot multiple times chest. I remember it was a cold night and when I touched his face it was cold too. He was only 17 when he was killed. It turned out that a member of another gang saw him walking through their territory so he shot him. I found out later that he stayed out later after work to buy me a present for my birthday which was the next week."

"I left home when I was 16 because I thought I was in love with this one guy. He was addicted to crack so I tried it. I became addicted and after he left me I took a job as a dancer in a club so that I could pay for the drugs. I woke up one day in some guys bed that I had never seen before and that's when I knew I had to make a change in my life.

"I got off crack, got my G.E.D., got into collage, and met Eddie. We tried for years trying to have a baby but I miscarried twice and then finally had Lindsay. I was so careful with her because of the other babies I had lost. I was afraid to touch her at times because she was so tiny. She was the only reason Eddie and I stayed together for as long as we did. But then he was killed and Lindsay started to become distant. It didn't help that I was never home.

"She's gotten better, though. Her grades are pretty good and she's made better friends now that she's in private school. I just hope she'll be ok, I worry about her a lot."

"I was born in California and played midget league football for 2 years before I got sick. When I was 9 my parents started to notice that I had stopped eating and didn't have any energy. I could barely walk up a flight of stairs and I started to bruise easily. I had to quite the football team and my parents took me to our family doctor. He ran some tests and referred me to the hospital for some more tests.

"I found out a few weeks that I had leukemia. I started all the treatments available and soon after I lost all my hair. I couldn't eat without getting sick and puking so they put a tube down my throat so that I could eat. This went on for 2 years before the cancer went into remission. I thought it was all over, and it was, for a while at least. I spent 3 years being a normal kid, I still couldn't play sports because I was still skinny and I had developed asthma when I had leukemia. .

When I was 15 the cancer came back worse than ever. I lost my hair again because of the treatments and my family moved to New York. The hospital I was admitted to in New York was one of the best in the country and after another 2 years the cancer went away again. I finish high school and went to collage and the rest you guys know."

"Can the leukemia come back?" Catherine asked.

"It could but my doctors don't think it will because it's been so long. I still have to go in twice a year for them to check for it though."

"Now everyone knows everyone else's secrete," I said. It was nice, being so close to people. It was true, everyone has a skeleton in their closet. It was hard knowing some of their secrets, I can't believe they managed to keep them for so long.

"We really are a family," Greg said.

"Yeah, a pretty weird family, but a family all the same," Nick commented.

"I couldn't ask for a better family," Grissom said. Everyone looked at him for a moment before they all agreed.

"Come on guys, we still have to make that scum bag confess to the murders and robberys," I said.

"Let me talk to him," Nick said. "You can't go back in there Griss, let me and Warrick go."

"Yeah, we'll shove so much evidence in his face that he'll crumble under all of it. We could take this to court right now but I want a solid confession."

"Me too," Grissom said.

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