The Best Man: Part Five
Sara could hear each of her heart beats and wondered if everyone else could hear it too. Slowly she turned to Devin and saw the tears forming in his eye's and she also noticed that his fists were clenched in anger. As she looked at Grissom she knew that he must have really been hurting or else he wouldn't have done anything, like before.
But the question she kept asking herself was what if he decides that he doesn't want me, that he doesn't want this. I wouldn't know what to do, i wouldn't be able to take it.
So instead of doing what her heart said she turned to Grissom and said," I don't know what the hell you are trying to pull with this Grissom, but it's not going to work. I'm marrying Devin, and I want you gone!"
With that being said Grissom was escorted out of the church. As he sat in his car he started to cry and after a few minutes he drove home, opened his front door and found Casey sitting on his couch.
" Hey." He was already having a bad day and he wasn't in the mood for this.
When she stood up and started to walk towards him he lost it. " What the fuck are you doing here?"
Her facial expression changed and she said," Look I like you, I know now that you don't like me the same way. I just came by to make sure you were OK. I should be at the reception right now, but instead I came by to check on you so the least you could do is not yell at me!"
He gritted his teeth, he never liked to yell at a woman. " Look I'm sorry I just don't really know what to do right now." She nodded her head and said," Look I know that this might not be the best thing to do, but seeing as this is the only way I might be able to get this um... maybe some no strings attached sex would help?"
His head popped up and he just looked at her. " Why do you like me so much? I have done nothing but treated you bad since we met." She smiled and said," Look there's just something about you that I like. So how bout it?"
He thought for a moment about how bad of an idea this was. But at that point and time he decided that he didn't care if it was wrong, he just wanted someone to be with.
He looked at her and removed his jacket. " Sure."
The Reception
Sara sat there and looked at her ring and then looked to the man on her right. It should be Grissom sitting there,and she knew. She was too afraid that he would leave her all alone or push her away like before. When it was time for them to start dancing she told him that she had to use the bathroom and decided it was time to make her escape. She was going to go to Grissom, and she was going to try and fix what she knew that she screwed up.
She grabbed a change of clothes and headed to his house. Once she got there she walked up to the door and knocked. After a few minutes she decided to use the spare key he had under his doormat. When she opened the door she saw his jacket on the couch, but didn't see him. When she started to make her way down his hall to see if maybe he was sleeping she heard moaning and wondered if he was ok. She started to walk faster until she heard an unmistakable noise. As she slowed down and walked further down the hall it got louder. " Oh God! " Wondering if she should just leave she stood there frozen.
Finally she came to a conclusion. She left her wedding reception to come and talk to him, even if he was with someone else she was going to at least see him. If he was with another woman she might also kick some ass. Taking a deep breath she tried to prepare herself for what she knew she was about to see. His door was cracked open just a bit, slowly opening it with her right hand she walked in.
He jaw dropped as she saw Casey on top of him. She realized that nothing in the world could have prepared her for seeing him with another woman. Grissom saw her standing there and quickly stopped what he was doing and sat up.
" Sara?" The tears started to run freely down her cheeks as she backed slowly out of the room dropping the spare key in the hallway floor.
He quickly got his boxers and pants on and ran after her. By the time he reached the living room she was already out the door, not caring that he had no shirt on and his pants were falling down he ran after her.
" Sara wait!" She stopped and turned around. " Grissom what was that? You told me no less than an hour ago that you loved me and wanted to be with me and I come over and find you sleeping with a woman you barely know!"
He started to get angry. " Look at yourself you have no right to be mad at me! No less than 8 hours ago you told me you wanted to call of your wedding because you wanted to be with me. Look at your left hand Sara what is that? I'll tell you what it is, it's a ring that says that you belong to another man forever. So don't start yelling at me."
Casey was fully dressed and walked outside to see his neighbors had all come outside on their porches to watch.
She started to cry even more. " Look I made a mistake! I married the wrong man. I should have been marrying you, but it was so terrifying just thinking about it!"
" What do you mean?"
She let out a sigh. " I mean thinking about how for more than six years you have been toying with my heart, and every time that I seemed to get close to you, you would distance yourself and run away. All I could think about was what what would happen if you did that again. What if you ran away from us like you did before!"
He started to walk closer to her. " Sara I would never do that. I did that before when I didn't know what to do. You make me feel things that I have never felt before. You made me realize what love is Sara."
She looked his straight in the eye's and said," Well then tel me Griss what is love?"
His eye's never left hers as he spoke. " Sara love can mean so many things, but I to me it means going home and wondering what that other person in doing. Wondering if they are asleep, and if they are wishing you were there to hold them. I would come home every night and wonder what you were doing. I would pick up the phone to call you and ask you to go out sometime and I couldn't. I go to bed and dream of you and wake up and feel more refreshed than I ever have in my life." Sara watched with her jaw dropped. His tears now started to slowly fall.
" I never thought that we would be together because I didn't know what would happen if one day i screwed up and you left me and never came back. Because I couldn't live with that, if I got you I wouldn't ever be able to let go of you. That night that we made love, it was special. It wasn't just sex, what you just walked in on was just sex. When I looked into your eye's that night and saw the desire and the love I knew that it was too late to ever turn back Sara."
" But when I finally took that chance at your wedding and you shot me down I felt like you had just put my heart in a blender and shred it to pieces."
Sara stood there not knowing what to say, so instead of using words she walked up to him and ran a hand over his shoulder.
" Griss I am so sorry. I do love you, I don't love Devin. I wouldn't have come here if I didn't." He shivered as she ran her hand over his shoulder.
She let her head down and acting on instinct he pulled her close to him in a warm embrace.
They both seemed to forget where they were and to be honest they didn't care.
He placed his hand under her chin and lifted her face up to meet his. He looked into he eye's and then slowly lowered his lips to hers. It started out as slow, but gradually gained speed and intensity.
Neither one of them noticed the car that pulled up in his drive way. No one noticed Devin standing there until it was too late.
Sara screamed as she watched Grissom fall and the blood stain her clothes and the driveway. Falling to her knees in tears she cradled his head as she heard the sirens of the help she prayed that it would be ok, that she wouldn't lose him.
As she looked up she saw the evil in Devin's eye's as he dropped the gun to the ground and smiled." I told you once Sara that on one would take you away from me, and that we belonged together. I don't break my promises."
Grissom started to cough up blood and she felt his body go limp in her arms. The paramedics rushed over to him and quickly started working, she couldn't move she just sat there and saw the blood. His blood on her hands.
Brass pulled up and was worried he had recognized the address as Grissom's when the call came in and he started to get worried. When he saw Sara covered in blood, Grissom on a stretcher, and Devin being handcuffed his heart sank. He hoped Grissom would make it, but by the looks of how he wasn't responding he knew that this day might end worse than anyone imagined. He placed Sara in his car and drove behind the ambulance and silently prayed. Sara had so many things running through her head, but the main question was, " Is Grissom going to make it?"
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Should I continue?
Ash