A/N I like this chapter but then again i don't. Tell me what you think please.

My office was dark…the blinds were drawn and my door was shut and locked. I had a migraine. Two rape/murders in five days and by the looks of it…it had been done by the same guy.

I sighed my mind interweaving two thoughts…the case…and how if Sara had been here…this case would have been closed by now.

I could imagine her getting worked up over these two cases. Anger and maybe a bit of sadness…I could almost see her face playing those emotions as my migraine progressed…getting worse.

Suddenly the phone started to ring…sounding like a siren in my ears. I had to make it stop so I picked it up.

"Grissom." I answered.

"Dr. Grissom…this is Jack Bernard from New York PD crime lab, have a moment?" And unfamiliar voice asked from the other end.

I wanted to say no…that I had no time for whatever he had to say but instead I said "Of course."

"We have a serial rape/murder case on our hands that's at a dead end…well not so much anymore. We ran the DNA we had through the data base as sort of a last hope and it came up with a match…it matched the semen you collected from your last two rape/murders." This man named Jack almost sounded excited as he told me this tale.

I must admit…I became a little excited myself. We were getting somewhere it seemed.

"We want to send a team out there to help and continue on with the case …would that be alright with you and your team?" Jack asked expectantly.

"Of course it would be…when will you be sending your team out?" I asked.

"I can have them out in Vegas by tomorrow night…is that alright?" Jack asked hopefully.

"Yeah that's fine…I can have one of my team members pick them up from the air port." I said almost happily…but that's when I heard the voice in the back ground…a voice that sounded so much like hers.

"Jack I know Vegas pretty well…I can find my way to the lab and to the hotel." The voice said softly…I couldn't be sure if it was hers, but it sounded so familiar, I felt the pang in my heart and my gut.

"Grissom…I have a team member here you was originally from Vegas…says she knows the area well." Jack said confidently.

"Okay…so they'll be here at the lab tomorrow night then?" I asked double checking.



"Sure thing…talk to you later Dr. Grissom…thank you for your time." Jack said getting ready to hang up.

"No problem…I'll talk to you later." I said before I hung up the phone.

I felt better…surprisingly my migraine was gone.

I got up and walked out of my office to tell the team the news. I walked into the break room to find that they were all there.

I cleared my throat and everyone looked up at me with blank stares.

"We have a break…of sorts. Semen we collected matched the semen that a New York team collected on a serial rape/murder case they've been working on. They're sending a team out here tomorrow to help us to solve the case." I said.

The table smiled. "Hey any chance its Sara's lab? Are they sending Sara?" Nick asked excitedly.

My blood suddenly ran cold. Was it Sara coming out to Vegas…had it been her voice I had heard?

"I…I have no idea." I said softly.

No one seemed to be paying any attention to me and Nick, Warrick, and Greg all turned and talked excitedly to each other….the anticipation of seeing Sara was thick in the air suddenly.

Catherine looked at me with an emotion in her eyes I couldn't place.

Though my heart was racing and my hands were clammy I reached out to her. She took my hand gratefully.

We walked to my office slowly, holding hands the whole way there. I shut the door once we walked in and suddenly I found Catherine's body pressed close to mine.

"Promise me you won't love her…I couldn't take it…promise me you won't love her." Catherine half pleaded half cried into my shirt.

"I love you Catherine." I said softly as I rubbed her back soothingly.

I knew I hadn't answered her question…but I couldn't…I just couldn't find it in myself to say I wouldn't…I knew it, and so did she.

Catherine held me tighter and cried harder.

"I love you." She breathed out.



"I love you too honey." But suddenly it felt like a lie…and I felt sick