Chapter 8: Vegas My Home

"Grissom would you help me with this please," Sara yelled from the bedroom.

"Hold on a minute." Grissom said as he walked out to the Tahoe and put his bags on top. He reentered the bedroom to see Sara sitting on top of a large suitcase.

"Could you close this please?" She said pointing to the latches on the suitcase.

"Sure," he stepped forward and latched them before faking a fall and trapped Sara between him and the bed.

"Get off me you idiot or I'll have to hurt you." She threatened as she ran her hands over his shoulders.

"Why would you want to do that?" He said as he got up and pulled her with him.

"Because I can." She said as she kissed him tenderly.

They arrived in Vegas at eight thirty and went to the crime lab to see what they could find out.

"Catherine, hey, you got any new information on Greg." Grissom said as he and Sara walked in the break room.

"No he's stable but it's not looking good." Catherine turned and noticed that her friends looked despite the situation, happy. "What's going on you two are beaming?"

"Nothing," they said at the same time.

"Whatever." Catherine said as she walked past them, she stopped beside Grissom and whispered to him. "There's something going on and I will get to the bottom of it I can promise you that." She smiled and walked out before Nick appeared and smiled at the two of them.

"Hey Grissom, I didn't think you'd be back till the end of this week and Sara I thought you wouldn't be back till the end of September." He too noticed the two of them where beaming.

"We came back early when we heard about Greggo." Sara said as she walked over and poured a cup of coffee.

"What are you two doing here?" Ecklie came storming into the break room almost knocking over Nick in the process.

"One of my CSI's is hurt Ecklie and I will not stay away from here. Fire me." Grissom said grabbing a cup and pouring himself a cup of coffee. Ecklie stood and watched as he and Sara talked over the coffee and sat at the table.

"Well, if you two must come back early I have an assignment for you." He said stepping forward and handing them a file. "It's the file on Greg Sanders I want you two to handle it." Ecklie turned and walked out of the room.

"Well, looks like you two have work to do." Nick said walking out of the room and turning down the hall.

"What dose that say?" Sara said as she looked over his shoulder.

"I don't know I haven't made it past the first page." He said smiling at her over his shoulder. He reach behind him and ran his hand over her hips.

"Hey you stop that." She said swatting at his hand playfully and kissing his forehead.

"I love you Sara." Grissom said tenderly looking at her.

Her eyes teared up; she blanked back the tears but a lone one slide down her check. She just stood there letting his words cover her like honey. She finally let herself say words she hadn't said in years. "I love you too Grissom."

"No I mean it Sara I really do love you." He pulled her over to the table and sat her down on his lap.

"I know you do Grissom and I really love you." She kissed him and the grabbed the file from his hand getting up she smiled and plopped down on the couch.

"I was thinking we could have a nice homemade dinner tonight." Grissom said when she handed him the file back twenty minutes later and stretched.

"That sounds great, your place or mine." She turned her head toward him and smiled.

"Yours or mine doesn't matter." Grissom said as he got up and walked past her toward his office.

"Mine." She said walking past him to the evidence locker.

Two hours later Grissom walked into the layout room and found a very tired looking Sara lining over a piece of material from the crime scene.

"Ready to go?" He questioned as he walked over to her and looked down at her progress.

"Not, yet." Sara said as she raised up and stretched her aching back.

"I didn't think so." Grissom said as he rubbed her shoulders and her back.

"That feels so good." Sara said lining her head over and closing her eyes. Grissom massaged her back and shoulders till she turned to putty in his hands. He kissed her crown and sat down beside her. The lad was practically deserted because shifts were changing.

"So what have you found?" Grissom asked picking up a DNA report and looking it over.

"No blood at the crime scene except for the vics and Greg's, no prints except for the vics and her husbands, and no eyewitnesses or statement from Greg." Sara sighed and went back to examining the material again.

"Sara why don't you save that till tonight when we come in. I thought you wanted to go see Greg before we made dinner." Grissom asked rubbing her back and shoulders.

"I do but I want to find out who did this to him too." Sara looked at Grissom tears in her eyes. He felt sorry for her; he had never known Greg was this important to her.

"Sweetheart, I promise we'll find out who did this if it's the last thing I ever do I promise we'll find him." Grissom smiled at her and kissed her hand.

"I know we will Grissom," Sara said starting to pick up the material and putting it back in the evidence bag. When she was finished putting everything away she came back in and grabbed Grissom by the arm.

"Come on let's get out of here." She said and pulled him toward the door. He fallowed willingly as they walked out to his car.

Sara sat silently in the passenger sit and looked out the window. Grissom drove toward her apartment. They held hands and every once in a while Sara would bring his hand up and kiss his fingers. She aroused him with her gentleness. He'd heard her story and it surprised him that she was able to trust this much. He loved her for being as strong as she was though and for being his after all this time.

When they reach her apartment they walked up together hand in hand. Sara smiled up at him and he bent over and kissed her. When they reach her front door a woman stood there waiting and watching them.

Sara froze in her tracks.

Grissom looked at the woman and had to do a double take. She looked just like Sara, the same hair, eyes, skin, and complexion, all of it.

Grissom looked over at Sara who was still watching the other woman.

"Sara is that you?" The woman even sounded like Sara.

"Mom, what the hell are you doing here?" Sara asked letting go of Grissom and approaching the other woman.

"I'm out on probation, good behavior and I wanted to see how you turned out sweetheart."

Grissom kept his distance. If he knew Sara as good as he thought her did then she would not like him interfering.

"I turned out fine, no thinks to you of course." Sara's mother looked at her with hurt eyes.

"I did what I thought was best for you Sara." Sara's mother tried to hug her but she pushed her away.

"Yeah well, you could have picked another way." Sara looked back at Grissom. "Grissom honey let's go inside and fix that dinner you were talking about."

Grissom obeyed Sara and walked toward her.

"I'm going back to San Francisco in the morning come and visit me will you." Sara's mother said to her as she opened the door.

"I wouldn't come and visit you if you were on your death bed no get the hell away from my home." Sara slammed the door and turned to Grissom. She burst into tears.

Grissom wrapped his arms around her tightly. "Shh, it's ok, calm down." He said running his hand over her back and her hair.

"God I can't believe she would just come here like that. She just…god I hate her for what she did." Sara balled her fist up in Grissom's shirt.

"I know you do sweetheart but it's not going to make things any better by getting all worked up over this." Grissom moved her to the couch and sat her down.

"I love you and want you to be happy so cheer up before I have to make you cheer up." Grissom tried a joke to make her feel better.

Sara smiled her beautiful gapped tooth smile and said: "Just what would you do to make me cheer up."

Grissom took her hand and led her down the hall were her located her bedroom with ease and they climbed in.

TBC…