CHAPTER 6:

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She hadn't meant to say it. She certainly hadn't meant to scream it, that loud. In the break room. At work. She had rehearsed it so many times in her head, how she would calmly tell him but instead she fired it out like a weapon intending to hurt.

Even though it was her that said it, she couldn't believe that she had and then she realised that he was still standing there, looking at her as if she had ten heads but speechless. Literally speechless.

Grisssom's brain went into standby mode and he literally could not process the information that was right before him.

As he kept his stance, he could not string four words to make a sentence or ask a question.

Just as it looked like he was about to speak, Catherine and Greg bounded in the door loudly completely oblivious as to what had just transpired between Sara and grisssom.

" grisssom what do you think?" said Catherine, grisssom had not been listening, in fact the word "pregnant" seemed to be constantly on loop in his ears and he could not get it to stop. "What?" he said irritably at Catherine and Greg. " I said do you think its right that we don't have more of a say in criminal investigation from an observant and experienced criminalists?"

Grisssom was so unfocused on them " Catherine we are interpreters of the evidence and that's all we'll ever be, if you don't like it, find a new career." And with that he was gone.

Sara didn't know where to look or what to say, she finally made eye contact with Catherine and gave her a shrug of her shoulders as if to say, "I dunno".

Sara was so shaken by the whole event that she thought she better focus on getting this case finished because she cannot go missing from shift again.

As she walked through the hallways of the lab, she admittedly felt a bit relieved, she knew grisssom wasn't going to come bounding out at her, no, she knew he was cowering away somewhere licking his wounds and trying to process the information she shared with him.

In a way she felt kinda glad he knew, I mean she couldn't hide it forever. She had one question that she was afraid to voice until now. "where do we go from here?"

Back in his office, grisssom paced up and down the floors, if anybody walked in they would have thought he was on the trail of a high profile serial killer. There was nearly steam coming off the carpet. He had so many questions just swirling around in his brain.

"how could this happen?" "when did this happen?" " why didn't she tell straight away?" " what am I going to do, what are WE going to do?" " I can't be a father at my age" "how can she expect this to go well?" " how are we going to tell people?"

Oh god, then it hit him, they were going to have to tell people and he wasn't sure if he could do that right now. He knew that he had to see Sara and at least finish off their conversation/argument.

No that was not what he wanted another argument, he wanted to talk to her calmly. But he still needed at bit of space at the moment, he was in shock. He looked at the paperwork on his desk and realised that it was going to be there a lot longer than he previously thought.

After sifting through two hours of evidence and photos, she got a call from David saying he was ready at the morgue. She got there 20minutes later and thanked David for his patience, "so, what can you tell him David?"

"Well your victim did not drown. Her lungs were clear, COD is blunt force trauma to the head. I got an impression of the weapon used. She also had sex 24hours prior to being killed, semen present I collected a sample for you. And that's all I really have for you"

"thank you David, that's more than I've gotten all day. IL get this back to hodges and hopefully wel get a hit on CODIS and nail the bastard"

After dropping off her sample at Hodge's desk she went to her locker to grab an energy bar as she was feeling weak and washed out. "tough day?" nicky peered round the corner, with his sweet southern smile.

"ya, ive had no break in my case and I'm exhausted. What about you, hows your case going?"

He sat down beside her " well I finished off the Kandinsky case and just gave it to grisssom but he barely said two words to me, I don't know man, something is definitely up with him, he's acting stranger than usual"

Sara just rolled her eyes, shed heard enough about grisssom to last her a lifetime, " I don't know. Nick do you ever think about taking a break and getting away from it all?"

" every damned day, but its what we do, we show up, solve the cases, reign victorious a clock out. Look whattya say we all go out for breakfast after shift, IL even buy ya pancakes?"

Sara contemplated running off home the minute she was finished but then thought for what? To be alone crying in her apartment again? " yes nick I would love too, IL just wrap up my case, you tell Greg and Catherine and IL meet ye back here when we are finished"

For once Sara felt like she wasn't completely alone. She decided right in that moment, that no matter what grisssom reaction was or what he decided to do, she was going to have this baby whether he like it or not and she would have the support of the team.