Chapter two is finally up! This one is on the short side but i'm using it to get back into the story. The next chapter should be up later today. Thankyou to all those who have taken the time to read this and especially those who have reviewed! Constructive critism is welcomed, likewise any ideas on where you would like to see the story go. I'm open to suggestions! Here it is...

Walking towards her apartment complex's office she continued to chant her silent mantra in her head, trying to stop her resolve from crumbling around her.

Once again Sara Sidle found herself torn. While her head was telling her that she needed this, needed to get away from Vegas and from Grissom, her heart was breaking and she found herself trying to make excuses for Grissoms behavior.

The past few months had honestly been some of the most gruelling ones she had ever had to live through. At first it was just a beer with breakfast to relax her after a long night, but slowly but surely that one beer became two, then three, then four...

Every case she had worked seemed to becomming harder and harder, each one more taxing on her emotions. Each one hitting far to close to home.

Watching as Grissom became more and more closed off to her, dealing with the embarrasment of the drunk driving offences, realising she would never be worth the risk. Old memories from San Francisco being crushed and replaced with ones she would rather forget. No, Gil Grissom was no longer the man that he had once been. The man that had loved her, that had created so many happy memories alongside her. To him she was nothing but a toy that he could play with and manipulate. She had lost to much of her true identity here. She was only a shell of her former self.

Sara sighed as she reached the door to the office. When she had first started looking for job offers she had looked in the San Francisco area but then realised that if she wanted to make a clean break from both Grissom and her childhood horrors she would have to go somewhere that had no past. That had no dark memories that could threaten to drag her under.

Walking into the reception she dropped her keys off as instructed by her landlord and headed back, past her empty apartment and to her fully loaded car. Starting her engine Sara pulled out of the parking lot and onto the highway.

She had a six month position at the Crime Lab in Texas and that would do nicely to get her started on her new life.

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