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Nick, Greg and Warrick stood in one of the labs. Laura Sidle was gone, but the chaos she'd brought with her was still in the labs. The news was spreading like wildfire already. Everybody knew.
They had all picked up on Sara's reluctance and down right refusal to discuss her past and her family. Now they knew why. Sara's Mother was a monster. They'd seen child abuse and child neglect. They'd cleaned up after killers and rapists. They had worked with Sara through thick and thin. They'd never seen that look in her eyes. She'd looked...terrified and helpless, two things that Sara Sidle definitly was not.
Nick shook his head, "No wonder she gets so upset about domestic abuse." Greg nodded, silently. Warrick crossed his arms over his chest. "We can't let that bitch near Sar again, did you see how pale she went? No way she'd getting near our girl again." Both men shook their heads. Greg sighed, "The one time Griss goes out of town…Sara really needs him now."
Catherine stood in the door. "Sara needs all of us." She came in and rubbed her forehead. She answered their questions before they voiced them. "She's really shaken up. I left her with Sofia, though, so she's all right for the time being." She looked at each of them. "What are we going to do?"
Nick sighed, "We've gotta protect Sara." Catherine chuckled, "Don't let her hear you say that, Nicky. She's not helpless, she's the strongest person I know, that any of us knows." All three men nodded, but Greg shrugged his shoulders. "She's strong, but she's not Super Woman. We have to keep that woman away from her. I won't let her hurt Sara anymore." Catherine nodded, "I'm with you there, Greggo, I'm with you there."
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Wendy had heard from Hodges who'd overheard the whole thing. She'd promptly threatened to rip his balls off and feed them to him if he even breathed half a syllable about the incident to anyone else. She respected Sara Sidle and more importantly, she counted her as a good friend. So call her the leader of the Sara Sidle Anti-Defamation League because she wasn't going to let anyone think poorly of a woman who had obviously survived and forged herself in the hot fires of Hell itself.
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Catherine had told herself that she wouldn't let anyone else ever hurt Sara. She wasn't willing to break that promise. Laura Sidle didn't have a prayer. Catherine couldn't imagine treating Lindsey like that. The way Laura had looked at Sara had chilled her to the bone. There had been no love there. There had been hate, and worse, there had been the cagey look of a starving predator, of one who would try anything.
Cases be damned, she went back to the Break Room. Sara was still sitting on the couch and Sofia had both of the woman's hands in her own. The Detective, who wasn't on the best of terms with Catherine, looked up. From the shattered shadows in the other woman's blue eyes, Catherine knew that Sara had told her something. She was privy to a couple of Sara's secrets and knew that there were many dark things eating away at the woman's good soul. She sat on the other side of Sara and smiled. "She's gone, Sara, Honey. You're safe now." Sara turned to her and blinked owlishly.