Two Years, Two weeks and Three Days of Personal Moments

Spoilers: Season Five: Committed, Iced, Grave Danger.

Season Six: Bodies in Motion, Bite Me, Shooting Stars, Gum Drops, Dog Eats Dog, Daddy's Little Girl, Pirates of the Third Reich, The Unusual Suspect, Rashomama, Time of Your Death and Way to Go.

Season Seven: Toe Tags, Double Cross, Leaving Las Vegas, Laws of Gravity, Fallen Idols, Empty Eyes, Ending Happy, Leapin' Lizards, TGTBTD and Living Doll

Grave Danger:

Grissom looked at Sara as she sat cradling a cup of tea while they sat in his townhouse living room. Only together three weeks and hell had decended on them. Going over, he sat beside her, Sara moved into his arms and he held her.

"Thank you!"

Grissom kissed her head and smiled, placing both their cups aside. He pulled her chin to allow her to face him.

"For what?"

Sara smiled and looked down at her hands.

"I don't know, just thank you."

Resting her head against his shoulder again, Sara closed her eyes and remembered three weeks before when he held her the exact same way while she cried.

Sara sat on the couch as she cried, the last time she had been like that was when she was twelve. A knock on her door made her walk over and open the door, she knew who it would be. Grissom looked at her and she looked at him.

"Honey?"

She just hugged him without thinking and he hugged her back.

"Shh, it's going to alright. You're safe now, shh."

Sara began crying harder and he walked into the apartment, shuting the door with his foot. Getting to the couch, Grissom managed to sit down and held Sara. She calmed after almost ten minutes and pulled from him.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done that."

"No problem really. How long have you been crying?"

"I don't know, maybe half the day."

"Looks like it, memories resurfacing?"

"My father threatening me to make my brother leave the house, Mark has always the protective one. Being ten years older and in the way at twenty-two, my father told him to get out of the house. Mark said not without me, my father grabbed the nearest gun and me. Pressing the gun to my head, my father told him to leave or he'd kill me. My brother said he'd be back for me. That night was the night my mother stabbed my father, I never saw Mark again although I'm sure he would've come back for me."

"Have you tried looking for him?"

"I'm too scared to, maybe one day I will."

"Sara...things between us are..."

"Going well compared to four months ago!"

"...Not where I want them."

Sara looked at him and got ready for a long speech of how they shouldn't be together in a intimate sense, only friendship or co-workers.

"I know, we can only be co-workers."

"I don't want to be too late, I felt like I almost lost you and my chance to change things today."

"Wait, did you just say the word 'change' in a sentance? Call the press, Gil Grissom said the word 'change ' in a sentance!"

She began smiling and laughed, he smiled knowing he had lead her from crying to laughing.

"I'm serious Sara, am I too late?"

"For what?"

"A chance to be with you."

Sara's mouth dropped, had she heard him correctly?

"Did you just say you wanted a chance to be with me? I'm loosing my mind, I think I need to be in the hospital!"

"Honey look at me."

He pulled her to face him, his eyes told the tale.

"You're serious! Oh God, you're serious!"

"I want to have a chance with you. Not a fling or just two weeks or two months, I want a life Sara, with you! I almost lost you, I want to have a chance before something happens again. I know you heard the speech, that was then, I'm ready now."

"Brass told you didn't he?"

"No, I've always had a feeling. I know when you're within twenty feet of me."

"I guess it goes both ways, so what do you want to do because the ball's in your court or should I say the expirement is in your hands."

"Science and you! Dinner later, tomorrow night. I'll cook because from what I've heard, you can't even boil water. My house at eight."

"I'm going to kill Nick for that."

"Now don't start killing and beig put in jail before we have dinner."

She laughed and looked at him.

Grissom looked at her and he raised an eyebrow.

"Honey why are you laughing?"

"Oh, sorry. I was just remembering the night we began things."

He looked down at Sara, she managed to move to a postion in which her head was in his lap. Becoming comfortable with each other was slow but easy, he'd hold her when she needed him to. They wrote letters and put them in each other's lockers to avoid the rumor mill from spinning more then ususal. Sara found that writing on paper when talking to Grissom was easier then words. He found it easier too, so much that Sara had a ten page letter once and it took her half the day to read it. When finished, she called him and they stayed on the phone till an hour before shift, which was three hours. They were like teenagers in love for the first time.

"That was a special night, sometimes I feel I took advantage of you in a way."

"How? We didn't have sex, actually we haven't yet. That's odd now that I think about it, we've had four dates and in the past, I hit home base date two. Oh God did I admit that?"

She covered her face, she had just admitted something to Grissom that she never discussed with anyone but her diary. Grissom smiled and removed her hands.

"I've heard confessions of detailed murders Honey, that's not something I'll freak over."

"But it's just embarassing to tell you, I only discuss it with my diary."

"Well I just learned something about you."

Sara began laughing and smiled at him, he ran a hand to her's and entwined their fingers.

"Something very embarassing, I can't believe I told you that."

"Look at it this way, you've admitted something less embarassing then me."

"Oh, the sex and your parents is nothing compared to this!"

"Oh really, me walking in on my mother and step-father having sex at the age of thirteen can't compare to that?"

"Yeah!"

"How am I going to tell you it's not embarassing to me?"

"You can't, it's completely embarassing!"

"Now admitting that in the lab would be embarassing."

"Alright, I'll give you that Grissom."

"Gil!"

"What?"

"Gil, call me Gil when we're alone, Grissom at work. We've been together three weeks Honey, it's time to start."

"Alright, I'll give you that...Gil. I may slip though."

"I know Honey, I won't hold it to you."

"Liar!"