"Hey guys." Sara walked into the break room.

"Sara." Catherine turned they were all surprised to see her. "Not that it's not nice to see you but what are you doing here?"

"Nick went to bed with a headache and forgot to set the alarm. The kids were asleep, so I thought I'd come in and leave him at home."

"You're still on maternity leave for another six weeks." Grissom reminded her.

"I had my six week check up at the beginning of the week, the doctor says I'm fine. And honestly I need to do something where my brain is working. Only trying to remember if I've made enough bottles, have enough diapers and if I remember to do the laundry kills brain cells. And it's only for one night."

"Take a seat." Grissom told her.

"Does Nick know you've left him to play Mr Mom for the night?" Warrick asked.

"I left him a note."

"I'd love to be there when he finds out." Greg smiled.

"He's never actually been alone with them in the house before." Sara realised. "I mean I figured out how to handle feeding them both at once."

"He'll be fine." Catherine assured her. "So Grissom have you got any interesting cases for Sara's first night back?"

"Dead pirate on the pirate ship at the Treasure Island."

"Sounds good." Catherine took the slip from him.

"Warrick go with them." Grissom instructed.

"What have we got?" Greg asked.

"Something right up your street." Grissom told him.

"What?" Greg was almost excited.

"A man with a knife through his heart who drove his car into a telephone pole a block from your apartment building."

"So when you said right up my street you were being literal."

"Well almost." Grissom stated.

"Just think it will give you an opportunity to go home and change that shirt." Catherine said optimistically.

"What's wrong with this shirt?" Greg asked.

"It's pink." Sara said. "And you should wear vertical stripes rather than horizontal it will make you look taller."

"When did you two become the fashion police?" Warrick asked.

"Do you like his shirt?" Sara inquired.

"No but that's not the point."

"We have a pirate waiting for us." Catherine said. "And unfortunately it's not Captain Jack Sparrow."

Grissom looked confused.

"Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean." Greg supplied.

CSI CSI

Sara was in the process of taking wood scrapings when her cell phone rang.

"Sidle." She answered.

"You went to work?"

"Hi honey, how are the kids?" She asked.

"Sara what were you thinking?"

"That you were asleep and I needed to use my brain before it permanently turned to mush. Grissom is fine with it and it's only for one night."

"So you just went to work and left me a note?"

"Nick you can manage to take care of the twins for a few hours while I'm at work. I manage it."

"I've never actually watched both of them by myself for more than an hour."

"It's a good experience for you. You'll be fine." Sara assured him. "And you're not being a babysitter; this is just being their father."

"How do you manage when they are both hungry?" Nick inquired.

"Put Ben in the bouncy chair with his pacifier while you feed Lizzie, he's a lot more laid back about it than she is. They you can swap them over. There is a CD in the CD player in the bedroom, just play it on low when you put them back to sleep. You'll have to rock Lizzie until she's completely asleep but if Ben's half asleep he usually falls back to sleep by himself."

"They don't do that in the day."

"When they wake up at six it's best just to get up and not go back to sleep. I'm sure you can figure out how to keep them entertained you have a whole lot more experience with kids than I do and I'll see you when I get home." She hung up.

"Sounds like you've figure out what you're doing." Catherine commented.

"It only works half the time. It does help that Ben has inherited the Texas laid back attitude to life."

TBC