Title: Wash Away part fifteen

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Vegas

Grissom caught Catherine's eye as she and Greg walked past. Motioning her into the lab, he waited as she made a comment to Greg and then veer into the room as the younger CSI continued towards the locker room.

"What's going on?" Catherine asked. It had been a long night and she was ready to go home, take a shower, and crawl into bed.

"I need to get a flight out of here today, but I can't leave this timeline in limbo." Grissom motioned towards the paperwork and the larvae. He knew that Sara would not have asked him to fly out to see her if it was not urgent. "Catherine, call Warrick for me and see if he will tell you what is going on with Sara? I'm going to check on flights."

He was one step from the door to the hallway when he turned back towards Catherine and said with a shake of his head. "I don't know how to leave my research up in the air if I just take off. It would invalidate the entire project."

Catherine had no idea what was going on here, but she saw the hunted look in his eyes and recognized it for what it was. "Go check on flights. I'll check with Warrick." Catherine offered him a small smile. "Gil? Your work is important, but it isn't like you can't start over with more larvae."

Grissom shook his head at her statement. Hours of pain staking work and he could 'just start over'? His thoughts went to Sara as he hurried down the hallway towards his office and the parallels stood out in stark contrast. Years of pain staking work. The past few months of pain and lonliness. He reached his office and pulled a phone book from a desk drawer.

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West Coast

Sara was in an OR room.

'Just in case we need to do an emergency C-section.' Iris had reassured her with a calmness that did not reassure Sara.

She tried to count the number of people that were piled into the small room and each time lost count as another contraction altered her mental status. She knew that there would be a set of doctors and other assistants for each baby. She also knew that the hustle and bustle of people meant that it was not going to be long before she would finally get to meet her sons.

"I need to speak to Warrick." said Sara when Iris asked how she was holding up."My friend, Warrick, he should be here by now."

Iris assured her that she would get a message to him, but Sara was adament. "Ask him if he spoke with Grissom."

She tried to focus on a point on the wall. A clock. She watched the minute hand turn slowly. Iris returned and informed her that her friend, Warrick had assured her that he had spoken with Grissom. 'But, is he coming?' Sara wondered as she watched that minute hand spin in circles.

"Iris? I need my cellphone." Sara said with a renewed urgency.

She had not wanted to tell Grissom over the phone, because it seemed like the cowards way out. She watched as Iris slipped out of the room to locate her cellphone and asked herself if trying to honor Grissom's wish to not have children was somehow selfish. For her, selfish would be trapping a man you loved in a position of parenthood that had adamently stated he did not want the responsibility.

Telling the man you loved that you were carrying his babies and not being able to read the expressions on his face and in his eyes was the last thing she wanted. If that made her selfish, then maybe she was. As another pain spiked, she felt a new emotion. She wanted him to know.

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West Coast

"I can't tell you what's going on, Catherine, only that it is important." Warrick had been arguing with Catherine for the past ten minutes. "Is he going to fly out here?"

"Is Sara having an operation, Warrick? Is she sick?" Catherine wanted to throttle the man for being so evasive. She needed a concrete reason to convince Grissom to abandon his case. "I need something, Warrick."

Warrick considered his options. If he told Catherine he would betraying a trust, if he did not tell her then Grissom would possibly ignore the urgency of Sara's request.

Watching her husband struggle with indecision, Tina grabbed the phone from his hand. "Catherine? This is Tina. Sara is pregnant and in the process of having Grissom's babies without him. You decide what to tell him, but Sara would like for him to be here."

Warrick's mouth dropped open and he grabbed the phone. "Catherine? Don't tell him that! Sara wants to speak to him face to face and I think it would be a mistake if it came from you or me. Besides, you know Grissom as well as anybody. Do you think the Grissom that you know would hop a plane to rush to a womans side that is carrying his babies?"

On the other end of the line, Catherine was struggling with the shocking announcement Tina had so bluntly delivered. Sara pregnant? Babies? As in plural? "I think that Grissom would hop on a plane to Timbuktwo first. He has been adament about not having children." Catherine tried to process everything Warrick had said. "But, this is Sara, and Grissom would never shirk his duties to anyone."

"That's just it, Cath. His duties. Sara doesn't want him to be with her and their kids just because it is the right thing to do. Except, now that she's in labor she isn't thinking along the same lines." She was thinking along emotional lines, he thought to himself as he asked. " Do you think he is planning on flying out here?"

"If I have to knock him out myself and put him on the plane." Catherine gathered her thoughts. "How close is she?"

"He won't make the delivery even if he leaves right now." Warrick thought of his conversation with Sara's doctor, and knew that was a fact.

They said their goodbyes and Warrick wondered how Catherine would approach Grissom.

TBC