A/N: Hello, sorry it's taken me so long to update, but here's the next chap!

Chapter 6

"I know you'll wait for me Nick, but I just…I don't know. I've been down this road before. I met a guy, fell in love, got married, had a kid, and it didn't go so well. And now I have Grace to worry about, and I don't want her to get hurt, I don't want to get hurt."

"Sara, I'll never hurt you. Whoever did, I'm not that person."

"I know, it's just, I'm scared."

"What did he do to you?"

Sara took a deep breath and started her story, " I met him in San Francisco, right after college. I was working at my parents B&B, and he was staying there. We started talking over breakfast and dinner. We began dating and about a month later we moved into an apartment, he asked me to marry him, I said yes. We got married, bought a house, and everything was going great until I got pregnant. At first he was OK with it, then he found out I was having a girl. He started hitting me, and I ended up going into premature labor."

"How far along were you?"

"About 6 and a half months, she was so small, and so helpless, for the first month and a half I couldn't even hold her without wearing gloves." Sara had begun to cry. " After the we took Grace home, he started to beat me more saying that it was my fault that we had a girl, and not a boy. It wasn't until later that I found out he had a record for battery, and he was manic. He never told me, and I thought I knew him."

"It's not your fault Sara,"

"Yea, I try to believe that. Any way, when Grace was about two I filed for divorce, and sole custody of Grace. Well I lost, horribly. He made up some lie that I was a drunk and that Grace was scared of me and that I tried to hit her on more than one occasion and that if he hadn't of been there, I would have killed Grace. The son of a bitch also forgot to mention that he was loaded with money and his lawyer made sure the judge knew that I didn't have a place to live, because our house was in his name. And that I also didn't have a job at the time. The judge granted him sole custody of my baby, and he filed a restraining order on me. The bastard wouldn't even let me call her. So a year later when Grissom called and asked me for my help on an investigation, I didn't hesitate. I left. I had nothing anyway. No husband, no daughter, and my parents were upset with me because my ex wouldn't let them see Grace either."

"Oh, Sara. I'm so sorry. So why did he bring Grace to you now?"

"I don't know. He might of picked up drinking again, his depression could have gotten worse. At least he was smart enough to not put Grace through him being sick."

"Sara, I'm not him. I won't hurt you. I want to get to know you and Grace and you know that I love you and you daughter and maybe someday when you're ready we could be a family. But for right now, I'm OK with living with you, but sleeping in separate rooms, and being there for you and your daughter. But for now, let's just get some sleep, and tomorrow we can look for a house, if you want."

"I would like that Nick" They laid down comfortably together on the couch, falling asleep instantly in the comfort of the other's arms.