The next night was Grissom and Sophia's night off, leaving Greg and Sara to wrap up the Henderson case. Luckily the evidence was solid making it a slam dunk case and after a mere 3 hours they had a signed confession.
Just as Sara and Greg were leaving the lab to go and meet Brass at a hit and run, they ran into Catherine and Nick.
"Hey guys, what are you doing here?" Sara asked.
"Well we just finished that serial rape case and we're running high on adrenaline. You want a hand on your hit and run?"
"Sure Nicky"
"So what have you been doing with yourselves lately? I've missed talking to you" Nick asked as he slid into the backseat of the SUV.
"The usual, works been swamped, but i got Sara to agree to go to the Muse concert with me on Friday" Greg said, unable to keep the excitement out of his voice.
"Yeah, as friends right Greggo." Sara emphasised the friends so that Nick and Catherine wouldn't start making fun.
"Of course, unless you wan't it to be something else Sar" Greg winked in the rear view mirror
"Hey hey now, I'm feeling a little left out here, how about next tuesday I take you out and show you a real good time hey Sar?" Nick called
Laughing at the friendly banter, Cath listened as Nick and Sara made arrangements to go to one of Nick's favorite country clubs to dance. She knew that to an outsider it would look like a date but she knew better. They were best friends and she knew that Sara had always been there for Nick after his ordeal with the kidnapper. They had an extremely strong bond and Nick and Greg were some of the few guys Sara allowed to get close to her. Cath was just happy that both Sara and herself had become good friends over the past few months.
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Pulling up alongside the patrol cars. The foursome jumped out and waited to be updated by Brass.
"The victim was taken to Desert Palms but died en route. So far no witnesses but that resturant has tables near the window so they may have seen something and there are cameras over on that junction." Brass stated, motioning behind where Greg was.
"Okay Greggo, you can go get the tapes from that camera. Nicky can you start to process and i'll go with Cath and Brass to get the statements then come back and help you."
"Sounds good see ya"
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Walking into the resturant the threesome quickly made their way to the back where the window was. There were three tables along the window, all occupied. The table in the middle was the one that caught the attention of the CSI's first. There sat Sopiha Curtis and Gil Grissom.
"I'm gonna head back out and help Nicky." Sara strode from the room before someone could see the tears in her eyes. Sure she had heard the rumors and she had seen the way they acted around each other but she had always had the small notion of the fact that they were only rumors. Now she had to face that they were in fact together and there was nothing she could do about it.
Catherine walked over to Grissom and started to question him on the accident outside, keeping professional, but as soon as she was through with the questions she flipped into her mother mode.
"You bastard, I hope you're happy with you're whore, 'cause you have just screwed up any chance you had with Sara."
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Walking swiftly through the door that Sara had just run through, Grissom silently thanked God that Sophia was currently being questioned by Brass. At least he could try to make things right with Sara before she caught up with him.
"Sara, Sara wait!" He shouted as she headed over to where Nick was bending over the blood pool.
Catching up with her he quickly pulled her over to the side.
"We need to talk"
"Go on then, talk." Sara said, trying to keep her voice level.
"Look, Sophia was upset because of the earplug incident yesterday. We both had the night off so we had dinner. It means nothing."
"Oh I get it, so when Sophia is upset because someone doesn't like her processing technique you take her out but when my best friend and myself nearly got blown up you just laugh in my face."
"It wasn't like that Sara"
"Then what was it like Grissom." Sara shouted
"You know what, my relationship with Sophia has absolutely nothing to do with you." Grissom shouted, equally as angry.
"You're right, she's perfect for you because she doesn't shut up and you don't talk at all, so when your just sat there being a prick or feeding your damn bugs she can keep herself amused by having her own conversation. Just don't do to her what you did to me because i don't think she would let you off so easily."
"Let me off! Sara that was 8 years ago! 2 years before you came here! You were to young for me. You still are."
"Yeah well you may have just forgotten about it but i haven't. You must get off on hurting people. You let me believe that I was special, that i actually meant something to you. Then as soon as you get me into bed you go back to Vegas without even a note, and you know what Grissom, you left behind more than you think. You left behind a son." Sara screamed the last bit before turning her back on him and walking over to Nick who quickly wrapped her in a massive hug.
Getting into the car Nick left Greg and Cath to finish the scene and drove towards his townhouse. Sara could stay with him for as long as she wanted.
He would make sure that Grissom heard how he felt about him the next time he saw him.
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AN: I have a feeling that the timeline is off but its too late to change it now. So just imagine that the team split is still there. Its set like right at the end of season 6 though but before the GSR scene coz i need the nesting doll scene to have already happened along with all the other little bits. I'll try and sort the mistakes out in the next few chaps. Sorry.