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Sitting at his desk, playing with the string on what use to be the family key. Grissom looked pained. He tried calling her cell and home phone but he kept getting the answering tone.
"Sara pick up please and just let me explain myself." Grissom said in a low voice.
Five minutes later, his phone started to vibrate. Grissom looked at the caller id screen. In big, bold letters, it read "Sidle".
"Grissom." he said.
"What do you want to talk about Grissom. And don't waste my time." Sara said very coldly.
"Sara, I'm sorry that..." he tried but she cut him off.
"Thats what you always say. Always. And you know what, I'm sick of hearing it." And with that she hung up.
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Nick's Apartment- 12:30 noon -
The music of the country station he was play was blasted and it filled the apartment. Nick had his morning jog and was now eating lunch.
"We'll do it all, everything on our own." played his cell phone. He got up and jogged to the phone. He picked it up and answered it.
"Stokes." he said.
"Hey Nicky. What are you doing?" said the voice.
"Nuttin, eating lunch. You?" he responded.
"Nuttin. I just called Gris, he sounded pretty upset. Like really upset." the voice said again.
"I don't know Warrick, maybe we should talk to Sar. She really would like to bite his head off." Nick and Warrick talked for a while, then Nick tried Sara's cell phone but got no answer.
When he got out of the shower his cell had two new messages. Both were from Sara. One was saying she needed a ride to work and the other one was that she wanted to talk after shift.
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Warrick and Catherine's Apartment -
After Warrick ended the call with Nick, he decided it was time. After 3 years of dating, 2 years of living together, and having only 2 fights he wanted nothing more but to marry Catherine Willows. The ring he got was a simple white gold band with six diamonds. When he got home Catherine and Lindsey were doing homework. He wanted to ask Catherine when Lindsey wasn't around.
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Airport- 6:00 p.m.
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Six hours later, Grissom sat with his luggage in hand waiting for his plane to land. He wanted to be here with Sara, but he knew that was in-possible
"She hates me, she hates me..." he repeated over and over. His cell rang but he didn't answer it.
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Sara's Apartment- 8:00 p.m.
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Sara put shoes and a jacket on and re-dialed Nicks cell phone. Nick was knocking on her door 5 minutes later. Nick and Sara walked out the door and drove to work.
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Crime Lab- 8:15 ------ Everyone was there so Conrad Ecklie came in to give out the assignments.
"Sara you get to work on your case from last time, Nick you have a 419 out at Lake Mead, might want your wet suit for it. Catherine you have a 445 out in North Las Vegas, and Warrick and Greg you guy get to finish up paper work." Ecklie said then turned and walked away.
"Great my favorite case...Paper Work." Warrick cringed as he turned and walked away just like Ecklie did before.
"Well I best be goin'. I'll catch you guys later." Nick said as he went to get his stuff ready for the case.
"We'll see you later Greg." Catherine and Sara said as they went their different directions.
"Ok." he said leaving the break room as well.
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Nick's Case -
"Wow." was all Nick could say when he came out of Lake Mead. He was dripping wet from head to toe in bloody water. And to top it off the smell of a decomposing body and rotten fish didn't help. His scene was a mess, body parts on every part of Lake Mead, pools of red covered the sand, the smell of blood and human decay filled the air.
"I really need a shower when I get home." Nick said. He put his nose to his shirt, "I might need a shower when I get back to the lab."When he got back to the lab that night he went to his locker and got the bag of lemons from last weeks decamp and hit the showers before he could go around a curtain brunette CSI he knows. After his shower Nick combed his hair and put his clean smelling clothes on. While walking down the hallway of the lab, Nick started to hear singing from on of the layout rooms. He stopped at the door the soft melody was coming from and saw that the soft bird sounding voice belonged to the CSI he was looking for. Sara Sidle sat hunched over the layout table sing some Cascada song. He opened the door slightly and recognized it quickly. It was "Were the Kids of America" by Cascada.
"Were the kids of America, Were the kids of America, everybody wait for the music to go down..." Sara sang. When she heard the door close behind Nick, she turned around and smiled in embarrassment. Nick laughed sheepishly.
"Hey Sar, nice song choice. Im more of a country person my self but that song just suits our job." Nick said as he came up beside her.
"Thanks Nicky, was there something you wanted to ask me or just wanting to check out my ass?" she said as she turned back to her shirts and photos.
"Is it okay if I wanted to do both?" he asked, "And I wanted to know if your birthday was coming up. Is it?"
"Ummm yea, why do you want to know?" she asked as she picked up a photo.
'Well... I was wondering if I could take to dinner before shift. Are you taking the night off?" Nick knew she need a night off but being the Sara Sidle they all knew, he was guessing she would work any way.
'Nick you know I cant do that. I would be board stiff and even if one of you took the night off then I still wouldnt because you guys would be short handed. Gil would be gone, I would be off and thats not enough people." She said turning to face him.
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Crime Lab- Warricks Office -
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Brown was working on his paper work when his blond girlfriend walked in and sat on his lap.
"Hey babe. Whats new?" Catherine asked.
"Hey beautiful. Nothing. Oh, I need to talk to you and everyone else in the break room before shift ends. Ok?" he asked thinking about the look on her face and what she will say.
"What about?" she asked a little puzzled.
"Its about us. I want to tell you something but its really hard and I dont want to do it front of Linds thats all." He didnt want to give it away but didnt want to her to worry ether, "Are you ok Cath? Honey whats wrong? Hon, are you going to be sick?"
Catherine shook her head "no." Then she stood up and walked out of his office.