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Chapter 15

Grissom was now spending a large amount of time at Sara's when he wasn't at work. They were busy looking for a home for the five of them to move into that would accommodate all their needs. Owen and Olivia were thrilled that there was someone else in the house to dote over them as well. Owen was beginning to speak more, but he still kept it to a minimum. Olivia had started calling Sara momma which had thrilled her to no end.

One afternoon Grissom sat on Sara's laptop perusing the internet for houses, while Sara sat on the floor with the children. Olivia was happily perched in her lap hard at work driving one of her brother's cars up and down Sara's arms, while Owen sat close by. He was equally occupied, driving his cars around on a mat of a city with roads on it.

Sara felt that things truly couldn't get any better. Their family was finally beginning to meld beautifully, Grissom was turning into a wonderful father figure, and the kids had begun to settle in once Sara had assured them they wouldn't be uprooted again. She was still pondering the situation when the phone on the desk next to Grissom began to trill loudly. Startled, he

quickly grabbed it up.

"Hello," he had become used to not answering with his last name when at Sara's apartment. "Yes, this is Gil Grissom."

Sara had added Grissom's name to guardian of Jeremy on his school forms, even if it wasn't yet legally true. Aside from which, she'd needed an emergency contact that the children would be comfortable with.

"What happened?" Sara looked up at him curiously, she assumed it was Jeremy's school because no one would ask for him on her home phone. The team knew about their relationship, but if they needed him they usually called him on his cell.

She sat Olivia on the floor next to her brother and moved toward Grissom. The girl was unhappy with this though and toddled after her clinging to her pant leg.

"He did what? When? Yes, we'll be there shortly to pick him up. Thank you." Grissom hung up the phone with a sigh.

Sara scooped the needy Olivia into her arms. "What's going on?"

"Jeremy hit another boy."

"What! Why would he do that?" Surprise and concern laced her words.

"They don't know. He's locked himself into a closet and won't come out or answer any questions. They've asked us to come down to resolve the situation." Sara groaned and glanced down and Owen who was still happily playing with his cars, Olivia on the other hand was almost asleep on her shoulder.

"I guess we have to take these two with us. I would call Greg, but I'm sure he's still asleep." She moved around the apartment gathering things and shoving them into a recently purchase tote. They weren't going to be gone for long, but she'd learned never to leave home without a few supplies.

"Yeah, he and Nick worked a double last night. He probably is just getting to bed now," Grissom remarked glancing at his watch.

"Well alright, lets go I guess." She slipped the bag over her shoulder while shuffling Olivia a little to make it easier to hold the girl. "Owen we have to go to your brother's school, come on lets go ok?"

The boy looked up from his play a small scowl on his face.

"Wanna play!"

Grissom bent down to the boy's level and scooped him up along with a couple of Owen's favorite cars.

"I know you do Owen, but we have to go get Jeremy. When we come back you can play some more ok?"

Two little arms wrapped around Grissom's neck and the boy nodded resolutely and laid his head on Grissom's shoulder.

The four made quick time to Jeremy's school and were ushered into an empty classroom by the principal.

"He's in here." The principal indicated a closed door. at the end of the room.

"What exactly happened?" asked Grissom as Sara walked over to the door and tapped on it lightly. Olivia was still tighly gripped in her arms, so she shifted the small girl onto the other shoulder and tapped again..

"The other boy says that Jeremy just punched him for no reason, but I find that hard to believe. Of course Jeremy isn't speaking so we can't actually get his side of the story." The man shrugged.

"Well, can you leave us alone for a bit so we can try to get him out of the closet. We'll bring him to you when we do of course, but he may feel more comfortable with just us here."

"Sure, sure." The principal nodded and turned on his heel. "I'll just be in my office."

"Jeremy?" Sara tapped again, at the same time trying not to wake the little girl in her arms up. "It's Sara. Will you come out of there?" She tried the doorknob and it turned easily in her hand. She glanced over at Grissom. "Evidently they didn't try that." She pulled the door open the rest of the way and found Jeremy sitting on the floor surrounded by books and sound asleep.

"Oh! Griss, come here." There was a smile in her voice as she stepped back to give him a clear view of the boy.

Grissom came over. smiled, and then crouched down and shook him lightly to wake him up.

"Jeremy, come on you have to wake up."

The boy stirred and his eyes opened on Grissom and Sara.

"Hey, what are you guys doing here?" He groaned and stood up stiffly before making his way to one of the desks. Beside him Owen sat playing with his cars.

"We were called down here because you hit a boy." Grissom intoned calmly. He didn't want appear even remotely judgmental.

Jeremy propped his head up on his hand.

"Oh, yeah, I guess I forgot about that."

"Why did you hit him?" Sara asked.

"He was calling me names and I didn't like it."

"So you hit him?" Sara shook her head slightly.

Jeremy shrugged his shoulders.

"Jeremy you can't hit people for calling you names. No matter how bad they are." She reasoned.

"What did they call you?" asked Grissom.

"Orphan boy."

Sara's eyes closed, and she held back the anger his statement had caused. She knew how it felt to be taunted. "Oh, baby, you aren't an orphan!" Sara exclaimed. She quickly handed the sleeping Olivia to Grissom and crouched down in front of Jeremy. "You aren't an orphan. You have a family who loves you very much and you will be a part of this family for a really long time."

Tears flooded Jeremy's eyes, "are you sure?"

"I promise. In fact we both promise, don't we Grissom."

"Of course, I'm not going anywhere Jeremy and neither are you!" He moved over and ruffled the boy's hair.