They'd only been home 30 minutes and were already sitting on the couch
They'd only been home 30 minutes and were already sitting on the couch. Sara was lying with her head on his lap as he played with her hair. This was something they did every night. Sara knew it helped Grissom unwind from the frustrating cases he worked, and it made her feel happy being so close to him.
They'd been together for five months. She'd been pregnant for four and a half. Everything had happened so fast she kept thinking it would all turn out to be in her head.
"You want some dinner?" He asked breaking the silence. This was something else he'd began doing. Every night, he insisted that Sara do absolutely nothing. He cooked, cleaned and took care of anything Sara would normally do. If she didn't find it so sweet, she would have felt suffocated.
"Sure…what's on the menu tonight?" She asked sitting up so he could get up.
"I was thinking vegetarian lasagne." He said waiting for her to speak.
"You sure you can last much longer without meat?" She asked smiling at him. As far as she knew, the last time Grissom had had some meat had been three weeks ago since he'd been looking out for her vegetarian needs.
"…I'll grab a burger for lunch tomorrow" he said grinning as he began to get the ingredients.
Several minutes into cooking, the phone rang and Sara answered it.
"Yea?" She asked listening "Oh, hey Cath. Yea…he's here." She said holding the phone out so Grissom could take it.
Catherine was the only CSI to know about them and only because she'd been Sara's room mate during the quarantine. Though she knew they were together, she didn't know they lived together, and she most certainly didn't know that Sara was pregnant. That was something they wanted to keep to themselves. Though, Sara had to admit their friends had to be blind. Even with the baggy clothes she'd taken to wearing, she was pretty sure it was starting to show. But, then again, it was what Grissom had said, why would they even think of it? At work, they treated each other like they always had and only when Catherine was around did they feel like their secret wasn't completely hidden.
Sara looked at Grissom as he put down the phone.
"What was that about?" She asked as he smiled walking back to the kitchen.
"She was asking how we're getting to the wedding tomorrow." He said opening the oven.
Sara smiled at him as he walked back towards the couch.
"We've got 30 minutes until it's ready, scoot over." He said approaching the couch.
She smiled and obliged. Once he'd sat down on one end, she curled up against him, her head on his shoulder, and arm around his waist.
"So…" He said looking down at her as he played with her hair again "Names…"
They smiled at each other and then they both looked at Sara's belly
"I dunno…" She said smiling.
"Okay, let's start." He said taking a notepad and pen from the table on his right "Girls names then…"
She sat up a little straighter and looked at the blank page. "Well… Catherine, Karen, Summer, Megan…"
He cut her off "Whoa, Whoa… hold on…slow…" He said trying to right all the names down "Alright, my picks…Catherine, Megan, Summer are all good, I also like: Laura and Elizabeth." He said adding them to the list.
"Okay, so put a star next to the three we both like and next to Elizabeth, I like that one too."
He did as she said and then began a new column for boy's names "Go…" He said getting ready to right.
"Alright…Aaron, Greg, Derek, Scott and Eric" He wrote each down as she said it. "You? She asked when he was done."
"I like Aaron and Derek, I also like William and Jayden." He wrote them down "Which do we star?" He asked getting ready to do it.
"Aaron, Jayden and Derek." She said.
Once he'd written all the stared names down on a separate sheet, she read it out loud "Catherine, Megan, Summer, Aaron, Jayden and Derek." She said then added "We have to narrow it down some more.
He nodded and began "I'd exclude Summer and Derek. That leaves four." He said crossing out the two he'd said.
"I think if we called our daughter Catherine Cath would get way too full of herself." Sara said smiling "That leaves one girl's name." she added as Grissom underlined 'Megan'.
"Now…Aaron or Jayden?" He asked
They stared at the sheet for a few seconds trying to decide.
"I like them both…" She said looking at the paper.
He nodded and then looked at her "You know…we still have four months to decide…" She agreed and soon the notepad was back on the coffee table and they were kissing passionately. She was leaning on the side rest of the couch as he kissed her neck and lips, one hand behind her head, the other around her waist.
There were less than eight hours to go until the Wedding. In his apartment, Nick was sitting up in bed as Lauren slept peacefully beside him. He'd tried to sleep, but twisting and turning in the sheets he couldn't help the unsettling feeling that had lodged in his gut refusing to budge.
Deciding it was nothing but nerves, he lay back down, closed his eyes and waited for sleep to come. Two hours later, it did.
She stood in front of her mirror in the dress she'd picked out two months earlier. Examining her figure, she noticed, slightly to her horror that she was no longer thin. Sara Sidle was obviously pregnant. He entered the room tying his tie. Sara smiled at Grissom as his mouth hung open at the sight of her. The navy blue strapless dress she was wearing was stunning. Looking at her long, lean legs, he couldn't help but wish that she'd use skirts more often.
"Can you tell?" She asked obviously concerned as she examined her profile.
With a grin on his face, Grissom approached and kissed her before replying "Honestly, Sara. I don't care if they can."
She smiled and let him kiss her again before the two walked out hand in hand.
The room was beautifully decorated. Since neither Nick nor Lauren were religious, they'd gotten married at the town hall early that morning with only his best man and her maid of honour as witnesses. However, Lauren, like all women, had always dreamed of her wedding day and of the large party she'd have. So, like a good husband, Nick had rented a room at the Monte Carlo and was now waiting for his wife to join them.
Because of her ever-growing figure, Lauren had wanted to change out of her wedding dress which she'd stated made her look like a whale.
"Well, how does it feel?" Asked Warrick patting his friend on the back.
Nick just smiled as he greeted four people who'd just arrived.
"Congratulations…" Said the eldest man shaking Nick's hand, "I'm Samuel Weston, Lauren's father. This is my ex-wife Sharon, Our son Kyle and daughter Allyson."
Nick greeted each in turn, "so glad you could come…"
"So are we…" Answered a distracted Allyson as she looked around the room "Where's my sister?"
Nick smiled and pointed towards the door on his right "She's changing but I'm sure she'd be glad to see you. Right through there."
At the other end of the room, Warrick had just re-joined Catherine, Grissom, Sara, Greg and Dr. Samantha (Sammy) Walker; Greg's date.
"Our Nicky is a married man!" He said putting an arm around Catherine's waist and smiling at her.
All the CSI's smiled as they looked across the room at Nick who was walking towards them. As he approached, Catherine called a waiter to them and started distributing Champaign glasses. Everyone took one and when Nick stopped next to them, held their glasses up and drank to the groom.
Minutes later, everyone but Sara had finished their glass and was deep in conversation. Catherine seemed to be the only one to notice Sara's untouched glass and the looks she exchanged with Grissom. If she was right, she'd just figured out why the recent murder cases were affecting Grissom more than any case ever had.
A while went by before Nick started looking towards the door to the room where Lauren was.
"Think she's having second thoughts?" Joked Warrick as Nick glanced over again.
"She's been in there so long…will one of you go check on her?" He asked looking at Catherine and Sara.
As she saw Catherine look at her drink and then at her stomach again for the thousandth time in the past five minutes, Sara took this chance to escape and went to check on the bride as Nick looked on anxiously.