"Nick sit down we need to talk."
"Sounds serious." Nick took a seat next to her on the couch.
"I go back to work in about three weeks, what are we going to do?"
"About what?" Nick inquired.
"Ben and Lizzie. We can't just leave them in the break room and hope someone goes and checks on them when they start screaming."
"I hadn't really thought about it." Nick admitted.
"Well have I came up with four options."
"What were they?"
"I quit." Sara asked.
"Do you really want to do that?"
"No, and honestly unless we suddenly hit big at a casino I doubt we can afford it."
"Okay, what else?"
"One of us switches to a different shift, so at least one of us is here with the kids and we can use the departmental day-care as a backup during the day when necessary."
"We'd never see each other."
"Then we either have to see if we can get them into one of the twenty-four hour a day daycares and have to drag them out every night or we hire someone to watch them here at night and one of us has to leave on time."
"If we can find someone the last option would probably be best, although we'd be paying them to hopefully sleep most of the time."
"We need to start looking soon, especially since I want to get them checked out." Sara pointed out.
"I know."
"Are you going to be okay with leaving them with someone?" Sara asked knowing of Nick's past.
"I don't know." Nick admitted. "But we don't have much choice."
"We could probably manage if I worked three double shifts a week for a few months." Sara suggested. "Grissom would probably go for it. On those three days you'd only be able to do your normal shifts."
"If we can find someone and you can convince Grissom, it shouldn't be a problem."
"Okay." Sara agreed.
CSI CSI
Sara pulled open the door and held it open with her foot as she tried to manoeuvre the double stroller through the lab door.
"Let me help you with that." A familiar voice suggested.
"Thanks Jim." Sara replied.
"So what are you doing here?" He asked once they were inside.
"I came to talk to Grissom." Sara replied.
"He's down at the prescient." Jim told her.
"I can wait until he gets back. I'll camp out in the break room."
"They're getting bigger." Jim commented looking at the twins.
"You have no idea." Sara replied.
"They grow up quickly. They'll be off to college before you know it."
"I'll be happy when they sleep for more than a couple hours straight."
"When are you back?"
"Three weeks, if I can convince Grissom to agree to my suggestion and we can find a babysitter we trust to watch them overnight."
"It's got to be tougher finding someone to cover a night shift rather than departmental day care."
"We'll figure it out. So what brings you by the lab?" Sara inquired.
"Greg. He called and said he wanted to show me something."
"Well I'll be in the break room, I'll see you later."
"It was nice to see you again."
Jim wondered through the lab until he found where Greg was.
"I'm here what did you want to show me?" Brass inquired.
"Hey Greggo have you seen…" Nick paused. "Hey Brass."
"Your wife and kids are in the break room." Jim supplied.
"Sara's here?" Nick questioned.
"She said she'd come to see Grissom. Isn't that who you're looking for?"
"No, I was looking for Archie, he seems to have vanished." Nick explained. "I think I'll go and say hello."
"He had a breakfast date he couldn't miss." Greg told Nick. "He'll be back in half an hour."
"Thanks."
TBC