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The Accident and the Hospital Smell – Ch. 3
"I'm pregnant," said Sara. "We're gonna have a baby!"
"Sara that's so great! Are you happy? Is this what you want?" Grissom stood up to hug her.
"Well, at first I wasn't sure but…"
"But?"
"If you're happy then I'm definitely happy!"
"That's great! But now we definitely have to tell the team about us," said Grissom.
"Good! I'm tired of having to be all sneaky so they don't find out. Do you think we should tell them now? With Cath in a coma and all…"
"I think we should. We don't know when she'll…if she'll…" Grissom frowned at his shoes.
"She will live Griss, I know it! I mean, she has too. For Lindsey."
Lindsey watched her mother breathe in and out. She was sitting in a wheelchair beside the bed, holding her mom's hand. The nurse with the curly red hair had allowed her to visit for 15 minutes.
"Wake up mom," she whispered. "Please wake up."
Nick observed Warrick working, just to make sure he wasn't mixing up any prints. Warrick had been offered the day off, but refused. He had said he was fine, and wanted a case to take his mind of Catherine.
"You can stop staring, Nicky. I don't need a babysitter."
"Sorry man, I'm just making sure you don't…"
"I won't mess up! When I'm at work, my mind is only thinking of work, ok?"
"Ok, that's cool…"
"And I don't need your pity eyes either, so just go back to work."
Nick started to walk away, but then spun around and faced Warrick.
"Do you think you're the only one that's affected by this? We're Catherine's friends too, probably her closest ones."
Hodges walked in and handed Nick some test results.
"The substance on the murder weapon matches the substance on the suspect's coat. Oh, sorry, am I interrupting something?"
Nick glared at him and he darted out the door faster than Nick thought Hodges could run, colliding with a deep-in-thought Grissom.
"Hodges!" boomed Grissom, but Hodges was already around the corner. "Oh, Warrick, I thought you got the day off?"
"I did. I'm just leaving." With that, Warrick left and went in the direction of the locker room. Grissom watched him go, and then turned to Nick, who sighed.
"I better go and apologize." He walked down the hall, passing Sara on the way.
"Did you see Warrick…?"
"Locker room, he was there when I left."
"Thanks."
Greg woke up and felt something wet dribbling down his chin. He quickly sat up and wiped the drool away, fixing his attention on the scrap of metal he was trying to identify.
He had been up all day mulling over the kiss he had seen Sara and his boss share. He was talking to Lindsey, and when he left her room he walked down the hall and passed the waiting room, where he was timely enough to catch a glimpse of them.
He had known that they had a thing for each other, but he wondered who had made the first move. The image was stamped in his mind, and the more he pondered it, the more he thought it was a hallucination. Yeah. Just an apparition, an idea, a…foresight? No, it could never happen, right?
"Greg, you got anything for me?" Greg would've jumped a mile into the air if it wasn't for the hand clamped down on his shoulder.
"Um, no, sorry Sara. I've was…day dreaming."
"Well, if Grissom catches you you'll be having nightmares." Greg managed a nervous laugh and watched her walk away.
Catherine was tired. Well, not physically really, just mentally. She'd been having dreams of a monster chasing her nonstop, and all the running was just too much. Now she saw…blackness. Was this another dream? Was a monster going to pop out at her any second now, and chase her all the way through no-where land? No, wait. There was a thin sliver of light. It was getting bigger, she could see…white. White light. Was this heaven? Had she died and gone through hell so she could make her way up to paradise? Whoa! What is that? A big head of blond hair…
Lindsey lifted her head and saw a peculiar thing. Her mom was staring at her. Her mom, staring, not in a coma, OH MY GOSH!
"Mom? Mom, are you ok? Can you hear me? Oh my gosh, you're awake!"
"L-Liindseeey?" Catherine drawled. "Wh-where am I?"
"Mom, you're in the hospital, don't you remember? Our car was hit and you went into a coma!"
Catherine remembered, all too well.
They were on their way to Lindsey's school. The light turned green and Lindsey was telling her to hurry or they'd be late. She drove across the intersection and suddenly she heard someone screamed and something smashed into her side. The airbags popped out and then she sunk into a black oblivion..
"Sweetie are you ok?" Catherine noticed Lindsey was in a wheel chair.
"I'm fine mom; it's just a broken leg." Lindsey smiled, tears running down her face onto the blanket. "I'm going to call Brass ok? He gave me his number, he'll tell everyone else."
Lindsey reached over to the table and grabbed the phone.
"Here, can I talk to him?" asked Catherine.
"Sure." Lindsey dialed his number and then put the phone to her mom's ear.
"Brass."
"H-hey Jim. It's C-Catherine."
"Who? What? Catherine?"
"Yeah, I just woke up."
"That's great! Are you ok? I'm heading to Grissom's office right now. Oh! Here's Sara!" Brass handed her his phone. "It's Catherine! She's awake." Sara gasped and grabbed the phone.
"Catherine! Oh my god, how are you feeling?" asked Sara.
"I'm still pretty woozy, but I can't really feel much else."
"We'll be there right away! This is so great!" Sara handed Brass the phone and ran the rest of the way to her boyfriend's office.
Grissom's office door flew open and when he turned around Sara planted one right on his cheek.
"Sara? Wha…?"
"Catherine's awake! We have to go to the hospital, now!"
Grissom had never seen Sara so eager before.
"Well, of course we should go…I'll call Warrick." He managed to grab his phone before Sara pulled him out the door.
Nick had apologized to him, and him to Nick. Then, not knowing what else to do with a day off, he had gone to the hospital. Actually he just sort of ended up there, and now, standing in front of her door, he heard laughing from inside. What he saw inside brought him to tears. Catherine was sitting up, and Lindsey was recounting to her was she had missed.
"Well, Greg does love his coffee!" chuckled Catherine. Then she looked up and saw Warrick standing there. There were tears running down his cheeks.
"Warrick. Hey."
"Hey Cath. Um, I'm glad you're awake. We were all really worried." His cell rang, but he just ignored it. Suddenly the door burst open and Nick, Sara, Greg, Brass, and Grissom all piled in. Everyone took turns hugging her until she demanded some space to breathe.
"Ok, what I want to know is how long I was out?"
"Oh, about 3 days," answered Brass.
"Well I guess that's not too long, so what's the damage?" The team filled her in on her injuries, and then the doctor came in and told them only 1 visitor at a time. Sara stayed and confessed to Catherine how much she admired her, and Catherine admitted that she admired Sara. They laughed and decided to be better friends. Then Greg came in and joked that with Catherine gone from work, he had taken her place in the field, and when she got back he would be stuck in the lab again. Nick went next, then Brass, then Grissom. Warrick chatted a bit and then Lindsey went back in to be with her mom. Grissom gently took Sara aside to talk to her.
"When are we going to tell them about…us?
"I guess now is perfect, since Catherine's awake," answered Sara.
"So we just tell them, just like that?"
"I think…I'll tell Catherine and then we'll go from there."
Sara went into Catherine's room and sat in the extra chair next to the bed.
"Cath, I have some big news, and I…well, I wanted to tell you first."
"You're pregnant, aren't you?"
"Yeah, how'd you know?"
"Oh, you just have that glow about you. So who's the father?"
Sara glanced at Lindsey, who smiled at her.
"I think you'll be happy to know me and Grissom are together."
"Finally! After all those years of flirting, I knew it would happen sometime!"
"You-you did?"
"Yeah, we all did! So the guys don't know yet?"
"No-"
"WARRICK! GREG! Guys, get in here!"
Greg peaked his head in the door and asked "What?"
"Sara's pregnant with Grissom's baby!" squealed Catherine, a gleeful look on her face.
"Really?" asked Nick. "That's great, congrats you two!"
More hugs and congratulations followed, until an annoyed doctor told them all to leave so Miss Willows could get her rest. Everyone went home but agreed to meet for dinner.
After dinner followed dessert, and then Grissom got down on his knee in front of Sara.
"Sara Sidle, will you marry me?"
Sara gasped and tears sprung from her eyes.
"Yes, yes I will!"
Grissom slipped the ring on her finger, and then she slipped her arms around his neck and he kissed her.
"I love you Sara."
"I love you too, Griss."
Everyone in the restaurant clapped for them and then the Greg patted Grissom on the back.
"Good job man, this day just keeps getting better doesn't it."
"Well, excuse us gentlemen but its getting late, we should get going." Grissom helped Sara up and they walked out of the restaurant to Grissom's car.
"I don't think they realize it, but now they'll have to get us wedding presents and baby shower gifts," laughed Sara.
"Well, let's not break it to them yet while they're in a good mood.
"Okay." Sara watched her fiancé as he concentrated on the road. This day couldn't possibly have been any better.
Well that's it for this story, but there might be a sequel to do with the baby and the wedding. Please review, thanks for reading!