"The Underdog"
Couples: Sara/Warrick and a little bit of Grissom/Catherine
Rating: It depends on your part. But now KSummary: Sara and Warrick discover Catherine and Grissom are together but, in trying to make them jealous, they slowly fall in love. Set after Season 5 with the team back together again.
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Part 4 ( Megara )
Warrick moved apart from Sara and was confused to discover that he missed her.
"It's Grissom. There could have been a fire he would continue walking, reading his paper," Sara sighed. "What do we have to do if we want a reaction!"
"Find ourselves another place than the lab, a place which isn't attached to work," suggested Warrick.
Sara smiled and nodded. "Good idea, but he only leaves his office when he's giving us cases or if he's working with us."
"We'll find the moment soon, Sara," he assured her, touching her shoulder lightly.
"I hope so." Sara shook her head. "It makes me angry to imagine him with Catherine, don't you think?"
"Yes," answered Warrick. "But not now," he thought, surprised. None of them imagined just how fast a rumor propagated in the lab but Greg, walking through the corridors of the crime lab, would soon be the next to hear it.
"They arrived this morning together," said a young lab-tech.
"It's weird…the only couple I couldn't ever imagine together," replied another one.
Greg stopped. Being what he liked to call 'inquisitive' but everyone else called 'nosy', he really loved gossip and loved to spread it; this could be interesting.
"But I think she only uses him as a substitute," the lab tech went one. "She couldn't have the boss so she took the next good guy."
"Boss?" thought Greg. "That's either Ecklie or Grissom. Please, say names." A young lab-tech girl opened the door of the lab, very excited and very breathless.
"You'll never guess what I just saw," she exclaimed, hustling Hodges out of the way.
"Please, a little more calm here!" shouted an angry Hodges. "We are not in Gossip Heaven." But she ignored him because her news seemed to be just too interesting.
"Sara and Warrick kissing!" she burst out eagerly. "And not just a little kiss, but a really slow kiss!"
"What!" exclaimed Greg, entering. "Sara and Warrick? But they're just friends!"
"We don't kiss like what I saw and we're only friends, Greg," answered the young lab-tech girl.
"You sincerely believed Sidle could be interested in a guy like you, Sanders? She is too hot for you." said Hodges, grumpily, before returning to his work. But Greg chose to ignore him and to see with his own eyes what was happening between Warrick and Sara when Grissom gave them their cases.
Nick entered in the break-room and found Sara and Warrick talking in low voices like they were to hiding some secrets.
"Guys!" he exclaimed. They jumped, both of them startled. "Sorry," Nick said. "But usually I'm here when there's some important gossip or secrets going on."
"What do you mean Nicky?" replied Sara innocently. "We're only talking." Nick looked carefully at the two of them but seemed satisfied with the answer as he shrugged his shoulders and went off to search for some coffee. As Greg came in, Nick offered him one but Greg did not seem to hear him, instead, he looked intensely at Sara and Warrick.
"Greggo!" Nick repeated. Greg started, surprised.
"Today, I'm the King of startling you guys!" smiled Nick. "Do you want a coffee?"
"No, thanks," Greg shook his head. "I've already prepared a pot of my famous Blue Hawaiian in my lab this morning." Then he decided to test Sara, "Sara, I don't see your car in the parking lot today; is it still running alright?" he asked on purpose.
"Mmm," she nodded. "I came with Warrick. He bought me dinner before work," she lied.
"And you won't go to dinner with me?" exclaimed an offended Nick. "I thought I was your best friend!" Sara went to Nick and kissed his cheek, offering him her best smile.
"You will always be my best friend Nick" she reassured him. Nick grinned and gave her a hug.
Warrick, carefully watching the scene, felt something he recognized as a pang of jealousy but after a few seconds decided to ignore it.
In the next moment, Grissom entered followed by Catherine and Sara's smile erased. She turned to sit down next to Warrick as she needed the support and Warrick, without thinking of the role he should be playing, took her hand and squeezed it. His actions, though subtle, did not go entirely unnoticed, but unfortunately, it was only Greg who picked up on the small gesture.
"So, it must be true," he thought. "But I'd rather have confirmation from them."
His mind drifted as Grissom gave out the different cases; Greg with Catherine, Nick with Grissom and Sara with Warrick. Greg's eyes flitted up at the last pairing but Sara and Warrick didn't seem to notice.
"Good idea," Sara whispered to Warrick who raised his eyebrows in the now-empty room. She nodded to his hand, still entwined with hers. "Reaching for my hand – it was a good idea, but it wasn't big enough. Nobody saw it."
"Oh." Warrick uttered, realizing and nodded obligingly. He wondered why everything racing through his head right now clearly didn't mirror hers. Sara seemed only focused on the task at hand but even she couldn't imagine that, on their return, the gossip would be on everybody's lips.
Even their colleagues would all hear it soon. Catherine, by the time she came back with Greg, had heard all the whispers, and as she didn't like gossip, decided to ignore them until she heard Grissom's name.
"So, I thought she had a crush on Grissom…the rumors said they met at the university, maybe she thought she felt something which wasn't there."
"Maybe Sara always thought that, with her, he would be more extroverted, but he wasn't."
"Yes, but Warrick and her? I can imagine her better with Nick, or even with Dave Phillips, or even Greg!"
Catherine opened her eyes wide and held back from striking Greg who didn't look at all surprised by the rumor, only happy to know some people can imagine him with Sara.
"You know what this is about, Greg?" she asked him, incredulous.
"A lab-tech saw them arriving together at the lab, and another one saw them kissing," said Greg, then he added, piqued, "I would never have imagined them together"
Catherine shook her head in disbelief and went to Gil's office, hoping he would come back soon with Nick so she could ask him what he thought. When she passed Nick, laughing, she was glad to know he was already back.
"Nick, what is so funny?" she asked in passing.
"Catherine, have you heard the latest gossip?" he remarked with a grin. "Warrick and Sara are apparently together; these lab-techs really have some imagination. Just because they had dinner together…"
"You didn't listen the whole story, Nick," said the receptionist, over-hearing. "Another one saw them kissing…and not any ordinary kiss."
"Yes, we get it!" exclaimed Catherine, annoyed that there might be less work because of a rumor. "I'm going to talk to Gil."
"They'll never admit to it if it's true," said Nick cunningly. "I should invite them to a breakfast, to test their reactions and their behavior" He nodded to Catherine and Greg.
"I'll invite you too."
Catherine sighed at Nick's puerile behavior but began to think that maybe he was right, they should test them. She only shrugged her shoulders and said nothing as she disappeared to find Grissom; while Greg knew Nick was right, surprised that he had the idea before him.
"Now we should know if it's true or not," he thought.
TO BE CONTINUE...next Saturday or Sunday :)