I hated days like these…when you were working on an important case and the evidence just stopped. I hated it even more when your brain just stopped along with the evidence.

My coffee had gone cold as I sat in the break room contemplating my current situation. I knew the break I had taken was long overdone and that Sara was waiting or not waiting for me to return to the layout room, but I couldn't bring myself to go. Either way I knew I had to get back to work. I don't know why, but it was like my backside was glued to the chair I had chosen to sit in and there was no getting up.

I knew I should've gotten back to work and I moved to do so, when I heard footsteps coming down the hall.

"Sara was right." I heard the familiar voice of Warrick say.

"She usually is, in all the time I've work with her she's hardly ever been wrong. And in all the time I've loved she has NEVER been wrong." I heard the not so familiar voice of Mike say

Even though his comment hurt somewhat, I couldn't keep the smile off of my face, because I knew his statement must be true.

"She's going to love what we have to tell her." Warrick said excitedly.

"I have no doubt. Not only will she be able to say I told you so, but it might bring her some rest. I cannot tell you how many nights she's tossed and turned over this case."

I shuddered at the thought of Mike and Sara sharing a bed, but I kept listening, intrigued.

Warrick gave out a sober laugh. "Yeah, Sara loves to say 'I told you so'."

There's a short pause then I heard Mike say "Believe me…I know."

Something had happened, or was about to happen. I suddenly felt no need to get up and go back to Sara. If it was important, Sara would come find me, and then I would get back to work. Besides the less time I had to spend in the same room as Sara and Mike, the better.

True to my prediction, about ten minutes later, Sara came and found me. She practically ran into the break room, eyes searching until they landed on me.

"Grissom…we have a break…a lead." Sara huffed out; I guessed she had run all over the lab before she ended up here.

"Yes, I figured…I heard Warrick and Mike when they came back from the field."

Sara frowned slightly "Yes they found something, but that's not the break…well I mean it is…but there's more." She seemed to be in some sort of disarray, like her brain was trying to process to much all at the same time.

I frowned myself "What do you mean?"

"Come…I'll show you." Sara said as she turned to leave.

When I didn't get up, she turned back around and looked at me.

"Grissom…come on…I have to show you this." Sara said a sense of urgency in her voice.

I don't know why I didn't get up, but I couldn't. I wanted to follow her, wherever she took me, I wanted to go…but I couldn't bring myself to get up.

Sara sighed after a moment of waiting passed. She walked up to me and put her hands on her hips.

"Grissom…what the hell is wrong with you?" Sara looked down at me with…concern…anger…exasperation?

I sighed "Sara…"

"Griss, let's go." Sara said, reaching down and taking me by the hand. She pulled me up from my seat, with a surprising amount of strength and started to drag my down the hallway…still holding tightly to my hand.

It was all I could to do but to not go with her. With her touch, my legs followed willingly, knowing she was taking me somewhere I wanted to be.

We arrived at the layout room, and to my relief it was empty. When Sara pulled up in front of the table, she let go of my hand, and I suddenly felt…cold.

"I was going over the evidence from you first murder and noticed this…" Sara began, pointing to a picture taken at the first crime scene. It was a gym membership card that we had found discarded near her body. "At first I didn't think anything of it, a lot of people belong to a gym…but as I began to reprocess I noticed this…" Sara pointed to another picture.

I looked at the picture from the second murder. "What am I looking at?"

"This…" She said pointing to the far corner of the picture. "Look at the man."

I looked…and I saw. "Yeah…it's a bystander…what about it?"

"Look at his shirt." Sara said exasperatedly.

I looked…the man was wearing a shirt that advertised the same gym the first victim belonged to. "What about it?" I asked.

Sara sighed "I sent Warrick and Mike to the second crime scene of yours…guess what they found on the victim's dresser?" I could feel her excitement building.

"What?" I asked knowing that she wanted to tell me.

"Your second victim belonged to the same gym. They found her membership card on her dresser."

"Sara, I don't see the relevance in this unless…"

"Grissom, I don't know if you know this but this gym is a nationwide company. Gyms in forty-nine states…Alaska never caught on. The relevance is this…there is a Body Tone gym in New York. All three of our victims belonged to that gym, and the two of your victims belonged to that gym as well." Sara said cutting me off.

"Sara…that's great but how does this give us a break?"

"The gym has traveling instructors…'World renowned' that's how they get away with it…that's how this gives us a break." Sara said sighing slightly.

Suddenly it dawned on me. All tiredness and self pity dissipated and excitement much like Sara's, became evident in my blood stream.

"Sara…that's great! How did you…I mean where did you…"

"Grissom calm down…I just noticed something that tied all of our victim's together. CSI's do it all the time." Sara said modestly, but smiling all the same.

"But you figured out the common link! We didn't even see that our two victims shared the same gym…you saw that all the victims shared the same gym…we've been tripping over our selves for two weeks now…and you…"

"I get it Griss." Sara said smiling, placing a soft had on my shoulder. "I'm amazing…I know."

"Yes…you are amazing." I said smiling at her, taking her hand off my shoulder, and holding it.

Sara smiled at me questioningly. "What would we do without you on this case?" I asked.

"Oh I don't know…chase your tails in circles?" Sara asked squeezing my hand.

"Yes…most likely." I said staring to close the space between us. When Sara didn't protest or move away, I was encouraged, and my heart began to pound as her face neared mine.

"Sara?" I heard a voice down the hall. I shut my eyes tight as I heard Sara's loud intake of breath, then I felt her jump back from me and tare her hand away from mine.

I opened my eyes to see her staring apologetically at me and then shift her eyes to the door, where I felt a new presence.

"Baby…I'm taking my break now…I wanted to know if you would join me in the break room for some coffee." I heard Mike's voice behind me.

I saw Sara smile brightly, much like she had done minutes ago and then she said "Yeah…of course…but is this your way of forcing me to take a break?"

I heard a chuckle behind me "Someone's got to."

"Yeah, I'll be right there." Sara said before she looked back to me.

I heard Mike walk way and then Sara said "Will you lock this up when you're done?"

I hung my head and nodded. But looked up, shocked when I felt her soft hand caress my own. "Thanks Griss…I owe you one."

I nodded, too surprised to say anything. Sara walked away from me and out of the room. I heard her say "Waiting to make sure I came?"

"Well someone has to look after you and make sure you're taken care of."

"And what good care you do give me." I heard Sara giggle.

"That's cause I love you."

"I love you too."

I couldn't help myself, I hung my head again.

A/N I hope this chapter was worth the wait. I'm still trying to work through this writter's block. Thanks for all the reviews!