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Brass was working at his desk when Grissom appeared at his doorway. Grissom cleared his throat. "I uh…I need to talk to you about something."

Brass looked up and smiled. "Come on in. Anything for an old pal."

He stepped inside, closed the door, sat down and took a deep breath. Brass gave him a puzzled look. "Shoot."

"I need to tell you something and I need you to try your best to just keep it between us and my, uh, bodyguard out there."

"I'm intrigued." Brass smirked.

"This is serious Brass."

"Okay, okay. I'm sorry. Please, continue."

"I uh…I won't be going home alone today and I uh…I probably won't be going home alone tomorrow. And I mean that besides my guard."

Brass gave him a questioning look. Grissom closed his eyes. "Sara and I are together."

"Together? Together as in…."

"Um yeah. So I'll talk to you next shift." He got up out of his seat and walked towards the door. He really didn't want to go into further detail and drag out the painful embarrassment. Not that he was embarrassed of Sara but he knew Brass.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Not so fast."

Grissom sighed. "Jim, I know you have a lot of questions but I'm tired and I want to get out of here. I'm asking you as a friend. Please try to keep this between us."

"Alright Gil. You're off the hook. For now. All I have to say is it's about damn time. Take care of her." Brass had a huge smile on his face.

"Thanks Jim. I will. I appreciate this. Really." And with that he was off to take Sara home.

They were lying in bed. Her head was on his chest with her arm around his waist. She spoke softly. "Griss?"

"Hmmm." She barely heard him.

"Are you awake?"

"No." He said as he released a breath.

She poked him in the ribs and he flinched. "Alright!"

He grabbed her arms and flipped them so she was on her back with him on top. She screamed and laughed as he locked her legs with his and held her hands above her head. "What!" He really tried to make it sound like he was upset but it didn't work out so well. His smile came through then she showed hers. He rubbed her nose with his. They looked deep into each others eyes.

"I love you."

"That's what you woke me up for?"

He noticed the slightly hurt look in her eyes. "I love you too." He kissed her. "Can I go back to sleep now?"

"Yeah, I'm sorry." He started to move off of her when he noticed that look. He had seen it many times. Something was bothering her. He moved to the side of her and slid down a little so his head was on her stomach.

"Okay, I'm not going to sleep until you tell me what's bothering you." She looked surprised for a moment then understood how well they knew each other. It still impressed her though. Ten minutes passed and nothing. "Personally, I don't know how you're going to live with the guilt tomorrow. You know, after you see the bags under my eyes and all." She rolled her eyes.

He looked over at the clock. "I could still get in another 4 hours of sleep but-"

She smiled. "Okay! I'm sorry. It's just…nothing really."

He smirked and was very proud of himself. "Talk."

She was rubbing his head, stopping occasionally to play with the curls. He was finding it very difficult to stay awake but he knew she needed to get something off her chest.

"I can't stop thinking about this one. I can feel it in my gut. Baker's either in on it or he knows who did it. I don't think he's totally innocent."

Grissom moved up and turned on his side, leaning on his elbow and looking at her. "I know Sara. There's a connection somewhere but we're not going to find it if we're too tired to see it."

"Yeah, you're right. God, I hate admitting that."

He laughed. "Well, I get it a lot. I'm used to it." She smacked his arm. Then she turned on her side and put her arms around him and kissed his chest. They held each other until they both fell to a deep slumber.

The Baker brothers were in Sam's living room watching cartoons. "Kev, what did he do to make you want to kill him and his wife?"

Kevin was laughing at the TV. when he looked to his brother. "Me and Sheila were at the mall when this dude walked up and was totally checking out her ass. His chick was right there with him. I caught him and he tried to deny it. He should have just admitted he was a perv. The dick started talking trash and putting me down. There was no way I was gonna let him get away with that. Anyway, we got into a screaming match and the rent-a-cops came. I backed off and made it look like I let it go. But I was pissed man. I followed him out of the mall and then all the way to his house. Sheila was bitching at me the whole way."

Sam laughed. "I don't know how you put up with her man."

"Yeah, me either sometimes man. Anyways, that's when we got into a fight. And that's when she said what she said about you guys doing it. Man, I lost it. I came here cause I knew you weren't gonna be here. I put on some gloves and took one of your knives. I really am sorry man."

Sam shook his head. "Forget about it bro. You took care of it. You should have known I would never do your girl though."

"Yeah I know."

"I got problems of my own now. That damn cop was so smug. Like he knew everything, you know. And I told him I didn't do it. He made me look stupid. He's going to get what's coming to him. That's for damn sure."

Kevin looked over to Sam with a huge smile on his face. "Can I help man? I mean you are my brother. He makes you look stupid then he makes me look stupid. He can't dis our family like that, right?"

"Easy bro. I need to take my time and plan this just right. But I'll let you help if you really want to. Come on, let's go get something to eat and we'll talk about it."

TBC