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Previously:
Sara was pacing around in the living room, trying to figure out if this was all a horrible nightmare, when there was a hard knock on the door.
"Open up, I think we need to talk"
That's an understatement, she thought and then she came to realize that the voice she heard belonged to
"Are you in there?"
"Yeah, I'm coming"
She opened up the door and came face to face with
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"We seriously need to talk" the woman said, pushing her way past Sara as she closed the door.
"I thought this was all a horrible dream" Sara responded in shock.
"Well so did I at first, but after a couple of hours I knew this was real. Why in hell, didn't you pick up the phone!"
"Because it isn't mine, and you're really in my body while I'm in yours?" She more stated the fact then asked a question.
"Well, yeah" he replied coldly.
"Sorry, but I'm just trying to figure out how this could happen" Sara responded angrily.
"Ok, let's just sit down and talk things over"
Sara nodded and they both sat down on the couch, facing each other.
Sara suddenly laughed and then cried.
"Why are you laughing?" He asked.
She dried her tears and took a deep breath.
"Because it's better then crying, but I ended up doing both"
"I can understand that...I think."
"Well, I'm ok now I guess. So...what's the last thing you remember?"
"Dinner, the drive to your apartment, saying goodnight, I went home, got ready for bed and fell a sleep, you?"
"Pretty much the same" Sara responded, not telling him that she was staring at him out of her window while he was standing on the parking lot, and was disappointed when he drove away, or that she had trouble sleeping because of it.
"And now I have a real big problem" she added, looking at the floor in embarrassment.
"What?" Grissom snapped.
"I need to go to the bathroom"
"So?" He knitted his eyebrows in confusion and then turned red "Oh."
"Yeah"
"Well, you were bound to see it eventually"
Sara looked up and raised an eyebrow
"I don't mean it like that, I...wellyou were..?" His embarrassment was spelled out all over the face that once had belonged to Sara.
Sara smiled at his fumbling for words.
"Are you making fun of me?" He asked crossly.
"Sorry, it's just that it still doesn't feel real, you know?"
"I know what you mean" he responded, running his hand through his long hair and almost immediately pulled it back as if it had burned him.
Sara knew how he was feeling and stood up "Well I'll be back in a minute, it feels like my bladder is about to explode, I mean you're bladder, I mean now it's mine but" She shook her head and just walked away.
Just get it over with, she thought and pulled her sweatpants and boxers down with her eyes closed.
She did it like she normally would do and quickly pulled her pants back on when she finished, still without looking, washed her hands and went back into the living room.
She couldn't believe that they switched bodies, it all felt so surreal. Sure, she'd had many fantasies about him and his body, but never anything like this.
Sara hoped this would all go away tomorrow and that everything would go back to normal again, or as normal as it could get for both of them after this.
"So Grissom what about work?" she asked, as she sat back down next to him.
"Sara, I really don't care about work right now, I just want to know how to fix this"
"I know me too, but isn't it going to be suspicious if we both don't show up at work tonight?"
Grissom looked at her like she had grown two of his heads and sighed. "Probably"
"Are you kidding? Two workaholics, both having the sudden flu after being the only ones left at dinner last night. Rumors would be flying faster then you can say "GSR (gun shot residue...)"
"Well do you have a better idea? If so, I'm open to suggestions" He replied, getting a little fed up with this.
"No, not really"
"Then this will do for now, until this is over"
He grabbed his phone and dialed the lab.
"Yeah, hi this is Gilehm Sara Sidle and I'm calling in sick tonight"
"No, nothing extremely serious, probably the flu"
"Yeah, thank -you, bye" he hung up and gave it to Sara.
"Call Catherine and ask her to cover for me"
Sara nodded as Grissom gave her Catherine's phone number.
"Hey Cath, It's GriGil, I need you to take over Graveyard tonight."
"No, no, yes, well I'm not going to tell you"
"Only that I won't be in tonight, I don't feel so good"
"No!" Sara cleared her throat "I mean, there is no need to come over, I would properly be a sleep anyway"
"Yeah, thanks, bye" Sara hung up and gave the phone back to Grissom.
"What did she ask?"
"If you had a hot date, if you're bugs gave you an disease, you know personal questions" Sara responded, not telling him about Catherine's assumptions of her being here with him and that it was the real reason for him to call in sick, thank god she didn't know that she was right, but on a whole other level, Sara thought.
"What now?" She asked, scratching her beard, wow that felt weird.
"We could just see this as another case that needs to be solved"
"Well then it is the weirdest case I've ever been on and we have no physical evidence of anything"
"Yeah, I know"
"So where do we start?"
He shook his head "I don't know"
"Well we could just wait it out, you know sit here until we are tired, then we could sleep and tomorrow everything would probably be just fine"
Grissom wondered if it really was that easy, sure he wanted Sara, but not like this, he hoped it would be over soon.
"Well we can eat and then watch a movie or do something else?"
"Sure"
"Ok, just sit back while I fix us something"
Sara nodded and sat back, she could feel a massive headache starting just behind her right eyebrow.
"Grissom, do you have an aspirin or something?"
"Migraine?"
"Feels like it" she grumped, trying to rub it away, but only succeeded in making it worse.
"Here" He came back with sandwiches and threw her a prescription bottle "I will get you a glass of water too"
Grissom handed the glass over while Sara swallowed the pills.
"Do you get these a lot?" She asked with her eyes closed.
"About once a year; when I'm upset about something or did something stupid, well you get the idea"
"So you're telling me that you only do these things once a year?"
Grissom chuckled, at least she hasn't lost her sense of humor.
"No, that happens daily, but thank god the headache's don't or I would never be able to work properly. Try to eat something" Grissom handed her the sandwich.
Sara wrinkled her nose; she really didn't have an appetite right now.
"Relax, it's vegetarian and it would make you feel slightly better"
She took a chance and chewed on a piece.
"It's quite good, thanks"
"No problem. Have you figured out what we are going to do with the rest of the day?"
She sat straight up as she finished her meal "Well I was thinking about just staying in here at the risk of being seen and then we could talk"
"About?" Grissom asked, curious about where this was going.
"I don't know; about ourselves is a good place to start as we hardly know each other outside of work"
Grissom swallowed and nodded.
They cleaned up the plates and sat back down on his small couch.
"I don't know if I can answer all you're questions Sara" Grissom confessed honestly.
"How about that you ask me a question and I just redirect it so you have control over what questions we both ask, is that ok?"
He didn't know if he should be happy with that; sure it was convenient, but he also wanted to know what was on her mind even though he was afraid of what it might be.
"Yeah, that's fine, so I get to ask anything about everything?"
"Well not everything if you don't want me to ask the same, but yeah pretty much whatever you want"
Grissom pursed his lips in thought and after a moment smiled as if he had a Eureka moment.
"What was you're favorite candy when you were a kid?"
Sara looked at him as if he suddenly went green "That's it? I would have guessed that with that smile of yours that you would have come up with something better"
Grissom grinned "Yeah, but then I would get the questions right back at me, besides the best way to know about each other is; by starting right at the beginning, with the small stuff"
"Oh, ok, whatever you want then, ehm I guess; chocolate. I could have eaten tons of that stuff day in day out, it was almost an addiction and I think I even have some pictures of myself covered in it"
Grissom smiled at the mental picture of a young Sara covered in dark chocolate with her smile brighter then the sun.
"So now you bugman or better buggirl"
"Hey, even though I'm in you're body doesn't mean you have to act like that" he joked back, trying really hard not to smile, but failed anyway.
"Ok, ok. I know for certain that it was chocolate too, only I was cleaner and took small bites, instead of eating the whole thing in all at once"
"Are you seeing I was a dirty kid?" Sara asked, raising an eyebrow.
"No, well yes" That earned him a playful smack on the arm, only Sara didn't know her own strength and almost pushed him of the couch.
"Sorry, you are stronger then you look"
"Thank you and since do guys hit girls?" He whined rubbing his arm.
"Well I'm not exactly a guy and besides I would feel the pain tomorrow so suck it up girl"
Grissom stared at her with his mouth agape, the last time someone said that to him, was in high school and he didn't like it, even though this time she was technically right.
"I'm going to forget you said that, next question?"
"Sure"
This went on and one for a long time, they momentarily forgot the situation they were in and saw each other like they were before they switched bodies.
"So you seriously told her that she looked like Frankenstein?" Sara asked, laughing hard.
"Well it's not like she could hear me, I mean my mom was deaf, I was angry and said the first thing that came up in my mind so. I do think she noticed though that I said something bad, she was deaf not dumb. I even used to wish sometimes that I was deaf too just too be just like her"
"So I figure you loved her?"
"Still very much do, she IS my mother."
"I wish it was like that at our house"
"Well if it wasn't the way it was, then you wouldn't have become the woman you are today, and that is certainly a woman to be proud of"
Sara snorted in disbelief "You mean the stubborn, hard headed woman I've become"
"No, I mean the loving, beautiful, and generous woman that you have become" He responded looking into his own blue eyes, but clearly saw the emotions of Sara.
"Though you can be a stubborn, hard headed woman sometimes" he added with an smile.
"Watch it or I'll have to smack you again"
Grissom chuckled "It's you're body"
"Yeah, but you'll feel the pain" Sara said, she couldn't believe they were making jokes about there situation, but was glad that they could.
Grissom stood up and walked towards the living room door.
"Where are you going?"
"The bathroom"
"Oh well good luck and don't stand" She joked, while her mind screamed that he was going to see her most intimate part.
"I will keep that in mind" he responded in a calm voice, while he was about to face the same dilemma Sara did.
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He found Sara looking at his book collection when he came back.
"Want to watch a movie?"
Sara spun around so fast she almost lost her balance.
"Don't ever do that" she warned, while she placed her hand on her chest.
"Sorry, I forgot that my heart isn't as strong as yours" He joked.
"No that's ok I'll--, no.. .You'll survive. By the way, why do you have this book?"
Grissom read the cover "Dating over 50. Oh, that was a joke from Catherine"
"You aren't even 50 yet!"
"No, but it's getting closer"
"Well they do say with age comes wisdom. I don't think they were talking about you though."
"Hey easy on the insults"
"You're ego can take a hit"
Grissom scowled "Not when I look like this!"
"And what's wrong with the way you look?"
"Nothing, absolutely nothing if you don't count the fact that I have breasts and missing a certain part of my anatomy"
Sara laughed "And what Part would that be?" she asked, arching an eyebrow.
Grissom blushed and shifted uncomfortable "Forget I said anything"
"Ok, have it you're way"
Grissom took it as a cue to change subjects.
"Are you hungry?"
Sara's stomach growled in response.
"I guess I am.."
Grissom stood up and made his way into the kitchen.
"Hey Grissom"
"Yeah"
"How come in all of this, I didn't even hear you mentioning you're father once?"
Grissom stopped with what he was doing and pursed his lips in thought.
"I guess there isn't much to tell"
"Ohh" Sara responded, trying to mask her disappointment. Like they could fix their friendship in one day. She thought.
To her surprise, Grissom spoke up.
"He died when I was 9"
Sara looked at his sad expression and immediately felt guilty for bringing it up.
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have"
"No, it's ok. I don't even miss him; I guess I miss what he should have been. Coffee?"
It took a moment for Sara to catch up with the abrupt change of subject.
"Sure"
And much to her delight he kept on talking, opening himself up.
"He divorced my mom when I was 5. They loved each other deeply, but sometimes love just isn't enough"
Sara felt a pang in her heart, maybe that's the reason he didn't let anybody get too close, he was just afraid of getting hurt.
She was startled out of her thoughts when he spoke again.
"When he left, my mom cried for days. I thought it was my fault, that he left because I was different. The other boys all played ball with their fathers, but I was more interested in bugs so one day he stopped asking and gave up"
Sara smiled sadly at the image of a young Grissom with big blue eyes watching the little insects. Always watching and learning, but at the same time missing other wonders of life.
"One day I came back and there was my father sitting in his usual chair watching baseball. I was glad he came back and tried everything in my power to be normal, so he would stay for good. I even began loving watching baseball. It didn't matter though, he died the next week"
Sara felt her eyes beginning to prickle with tears, but held them in. Never would she have thought that Grissom would have told her.
"I can make some vegetable soup, if you want?"
Sara was sure she would get a whiplash of his constant switching of tracks, but sensed that he wasn't going to talk anymore.
"That sounds great"
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"Which movie do you want to see?" Grissom asked after they cleaned up their dishes.
"I don't know, anything that doesn't involve bugs" Sara said. They moved on to lighter subjects at dinner and had a great time, like they were before all of this happened.
"And what is wrong with them?"
"They are you're friends, not mine. By the way what is it with you and insects?"
"They are perfect creatures. They do their jobs and then die"
"That's kind of sad, but it doesn't surprise me that you find them perfect."
Grissom raised an eyebrow and sat down in one of the chairs, facing her.
"And why is that?"
"No emotions"
"At least they don't hurt each other. What I don't like about certain emotions is that you can't control what you feel"
"I know, but you can suppress them"
"Is that what you think I do?"
Sara shrugged "I don't know, you tell me"
Grissom sighed "I do acknowledge them, I just don't show them often. Intervenes with my line of work"
"Well I do one some level, but I can't help it. I wish I had you're ability to hide them"
"No you don't" Grissom said sharply, almost making Sara jump out of her skin.
"I mean, don't change. Everyone has their own way of investigating and this is what makes you an incredible CSI and a great person. Don't change one bit, I lolike you just the way you are"
Even though she almost heard the confession in her own voice, it hit her straight in her heart.
"Thank you, that means a lot to me"
Grissom gave her a small smile and leaned in to squeeze her hand, but pulled back when he realized that he was reaching out for his own hand. He hoped everything would return to normal soon or he would go nuts.
Sara saw his hesitation and gave him a reassuring smile "It's ok Grissom, I feel the same"
Grissom let out a breath in relieve and grabbed the remote control to start the TV and DVD player.
"Which movie is this?"
"Antz" Grissom responded almost guilty.
"Grissom; bugs and it's a children's movie"
"So, I like it"
Sara chuckled "Never in a million years would I have pictured us, sitting here, watching cartoons"
"First of all, they are not cartoons and secondly I like it"
Sara smiled "Ok, whatever you want. Show me the bugs."
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Next time:
Will each return to their respective bodies or will the nightmare continue?
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