Chapter 6

Grissom was in his office finishing his paperwork. For the past few hours, he felt as if his head was going to explode and brain matter would be all around his office. "I hate paperwork." He muttered. For the few hours he was in his office he couldn't help but be grumpy. First, he has a fever. Second, paperwork felt like hell. Third, his wallet was missing.

As Grissom finished off his paperwork, he couldn't help but think about his wallet. He didn't actually care about the money or the credit cards that were inside his wallet. All he cared was Sara's picture.

He slumped back in his seat and started massaging his temples. "Sara's picture…" he muttered. He can't believe that he lost Sara's picture. He quickly opened his desk drawer and picked up a small ring box. He slowly opened it and saw the engagement ring that was studded with diamonds. He gave himself a small smile.

"I actually wanted to ask Sara to marry me" he sighed. He closed the ring box and buried his head to his hand.

"Grissom?"

Grissom looked up and saw Sofia in his door

"Are you alright?" she asked "You look like hell."

"It's just the work." He replied trying to be kind. He did ask Sofia to dinner, but he never thought it would be much of a big deal, until the rumors.

"Alright then," smiled Sofia "I'll be in the break room."

Grissom gave her a shrug, and then she was off. After three estimated seconds, Catherine, Nick, Warrick and Greg together with the whole lab came charging in his office. They closed the doors and sat themselves in.

"What the hell is going on!" complained Grissom

"Why don't you tell us that." Argued Catherine

"Wha?" said Grissom

"You say you love Sara but you take Sofia out to dinner?" stated Nick "What is that about?"

Grissom only gave them a face that said 'huh?'

"You buy her a half a million dollar bracelet and now you close her out." Stated Warrick

"Wait!" Now it's Grissom's turn to wonder "How do you guys know about the bracelet?"

Silence

"Tell me!" shout Grissom. His face was already red with anger

Silence

"Alright!" complained Grissom "You guys have no right to come to my office and try to talk me to tell you things that only me and Sara should know!"

"Gil…" said Catherine

"No!" argued Grissom "It's my turn to talk. You guys spread rumors about me all the time. And ninety-nine percent of the time, their wrong. You guys have no right to actually argue with me by stating that I don't love Sara just by asking Sofia to dinner. !"

Silence

Grissom slumped in his chair. He started massaging his temples. Nobody even dared to move or to breath. But Grissom was already going to break the silence.

"I know you guys have my wallet." He replied "When I bumped to Greg, he answered to fast when I asked him if he saw my it."

All eyes turned to Greg.

"It doesn't matter." Said Grissom "All of you just wanted to know what's really going on. Well, there's nothing going on. You hear me. Nothing…"

"We're sorry, Griss." Apologized Warrick

"We didn't really know what we were doing." Said Catherine

"We were just really concerned." Replied Nick

At that moment, Brass entered Grissom's office. "Am I interrupting anything?"

"No." said Grissom "The lab just wanted to cram up my office."

"Here's the Fever Pills you asked." Said Brass, he gave the pills to Grissom and at once he gulped two of the pills like they were candies.

"You guys better watch your backs." Said Brass to the rest of the guys before he left "Sara got Grissom's fever just by sticking around him in the crime scene, and now all of you are in his office."

Everyone looked at Greg as if he were their last meal.

"Don't kill me." He pleaded

"Don't kill him." Ordered Grissom "We can do this in two different ways. You guys give me my wallet back and everything in it, and we can forget that this ever happened. On the other hand, you guys give me my wallet back and make so much of a big deal about it and kill Greg and spend the rest of your lives being stunned."

Everyone started to look at Catherine. She fished the wallet out of her pocket and gave it to him.

"Alright!" said Grissom "You guys are probably wondering where the hell I got so much money to buy Sara a half a million dollar bracelet. My father gave me some responsibility with his Import/Export business when I stayed in San Francisco. And up to now, I still help him with his deals here in Vegas. So don't get any ideas."

He then went out of his office and started to walk to the exit when Greg came running in his direction.

"What's the rush Greg?"

"You told me that we should spend time with the one I love. With the ones I care about. With those I want to be with as a man. Now, I'm telling it to you. Spend the rest of your life with Sara. Spend it not because you don't deserve her, but because you love her and you know that in all means, she loves you."

"Greg. . ."

"No Grissom! You go to Sara's apartment and tell her how you feel like how you just told the whole lab. You love her Grissom! What the hell is wrong with you?"

"There's nothing wrong Greg." He said giving him a small smile "Did you ever wonder why I bought a promise ring instead of an engagement ring?"

"You proposed to Sara?"

"It wasn't an engagement ring. It was a promise ring. I gave it to her when we were in the airport and I made a promise to her that when I'm ready, I'll ask her to spend the rest of her life with me. She said that she'll be waiting for me."

"Mr. Vi didn't tell us that."

"That is why I'm telling you this." Grissom took out the small ring box from his pocket and showed Greg the ring inside "I asked Mr. Vi to come here in Vegas. I asked him to get the best engagement ring he has. He gave me that. And yes, I'm planning to tell Sara. But not now."

Greg smiled at Grissom. "I don't know what to say."

"Good." Exclaimed Grissom "Don't say anything. The last thing I need is the whole lab in Sara's apartment."

END

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