Gil stood for another few minutes before shaking his head and walking over to Sophie, who looked up and smiled.

"Hey Mr Grissom, can I help you?" Sophie enquired placing her Nintendo DS Lite to one side "Well Mr Grissom?"

"Sophie could you please come with me?" Gil replied smiling as Sophie looked worried "Please Sophie"

"Uhh ok I guess" Sophie replied walking with Gil before turning to Lindsay and whispering "Help!"

Gil looked back and saw that Sophie was walking slowly behind him, hands in pockets and looking at the floor, Gil stopped and waited for Sophie, just a few steps away from Gil Sophie walked straight into Conrad Ecklie carrying a tray of hot coffee.

"Oh my god Sophie are you ok?" Gil asked walking quickly towards Sophie "Ecklie watch where you're going"

"What do you mean watch where I'm going? It was the brat that walked into me" Ecklie spat back "Why is she in the lab anyway?"

"Don't call Sophie a brat Conrad, she is the sweetest girl ever and she's here to visit her sister" Grissom replied getting right into Ecklie's face "Now do we have a problem?"

"Yes we do! Get her out of the lab right now" Conrad replied "You need to buy me, the sheriff and under sheriff some new fresh coffee"

"I don't think so" Grissom replied turning away from Ecklie and looking at Sophie who had tears in her eyes "Sophie are you sure you're ok? Come on come to my office"

Gil helped Sophie from the floor and walked with her arm in arm to his office, once inside Gil sat Sophie down on his sofa and closed the door; Gil then noticed that Sophie was holding her arm.

"Sophie is your arm ok?" Gil enquired watching Sophie shake her head "You want medical attention?"

"No...I'm...ok" Sophie replied trying not to cry in front of Gil "I want Sara!"

Once the last word left Sophie's mouth she broke down in tears and ran over to Gil who stood beside his desk, when Sophie started to cry into his chest, Gil rubbed her back to try to soothe the teenager. Once Sophie felt better she stayed embraced in Gil's arms.

"I'm sorry about your shirt" Sophie said rubbing her hand over her face "What you said about me being a sweet girl was nice, thanks"

"Your welcome besides you deserve it" Gil replied guiding Sophie to the sofa once again "You have made my team happy once again and especially Sara"

"If you had been with Sara sixteen years ago, would you have helped her adopt me?" Sophie asked gratefully taking the tissue from Gil's hand.

"Sophie I'm an old man now and I was then" Gil replied sighing.

"Mr Grissom you don't look that old, maybe late forties" Sophie remarked looking at Gil's blue eyes "You're not angry at me for reading your mail and stalking you are you?"

"No I'm not angry at you, Sophie I'm fifty-one years old" Gil replied chuckling as Sophie's mouth dropped open "I'll take that blank expression as a compliment shall I?"

"You fifty-one? Wow I hope I look that great at uhh your age" Sophie replied shrugging her shoulders smiling when she saw Gil's tarantula "You have a pet tarantula in your office? That's really cool"

"Want to see him up close?" Gil enquired jumping in his seat as Sophie squealed in delight.

Gil walked over to the cage and picked up the tarantula and then turned back towards Sophie who sat crossed legged, shoes off on Gil's sofa.

"Get comfy why don't you" Gil said laughing out loud to assure Sophie he was joking "You ready?"

"Yes Mr Grissom" Sophie replied holding out her hands giggling as the tarantula tickled her skin "Feels weird but I like it"

"Sophie which arm hurts you?" Gil enquired sitting next to Sophie holding his first aid kit "Can I take a look?"

"Yea sure it's my left arm and Mr Grissom" Sophie replied smiling "Thanks"

"You know Sophie you can call me Gil, Grissom or even Bug man" Gil said chuckling to himself "So you choose"

"I think I'll call you Bug man, sounds cool" Sophie replied before wincing at the pain in her arm "Is it bad?"

"No honey, you're very lucky it's just superficial" Gil replied closing the first aid kit and taking the tarantula from Sophie "Want a tour of the lab?"

"Really? You won't get in trouble from the man with the ugliest wig ever?" Sophie asked laughing as Gil's mouth dropped "Now who's catching flies?"

"Your so much like your sister" Gil remarked while placing his tarantula back in his cage "Best make sure he's in, last time I got him out to hold he escaped and caused Catherine to have a heart attack"

"Really? That sounds funny" Sophie replied smiling "You know Bug man this has been nice, can we do this more often?"

"Sure thing honey, I've actually enjoyed it" Gil replied before helping Sophie off the sofa "What show you going to see with Lindsay?"

"Promise not to laugh" Sophie said before looking at Gil who nodded his head "Ok we are going to see High School Musical on ice, although I've never seen the actually films"

"Well we can change that, Sara has both movies and we can all go to see it at the cinema if you want that is?" Gil said smiling as Sophie hugged him and kissed his hand "I'll take that as a yes, you ready?"

Sophie nodded and put her right arm through Gil's and they walked out the office together smiling at each other, meanwhile in the break room Catherine was talking to Sara who kept looking out of the room and down the corridor.

"Sara are you with us?" Catherine enquired squeezing Sara's shoulder "Don't worry about Sophie and Gil they will be friends soon enough, trust me"

"I know it's just hard seeing her face to face, I've missed out of sixteen years of her life" Sara replied sniffing controlling her tears "Today's her birthday and she's stuck here"

"Have we any assignments?" Catherine enquired to the team, who then received shakes of their heads "Ok Sara we are going shopping, we are going to have a welcome to the family party and birthday party, what do you guys think?"

"Can I come?" Lindsay asks standing up stretching "Please?"

Catherine nodded and Lindsay stood up and towards Sara and Catherine, before walking pout the room waving to the guys as she went.

"I do wonder where Sophie and Grissom are" Greg remarked rubbing his chin "You guys want to go look for them? Maybe we can have a laugh?"

Both Nick and Warrick nodded and followed Greg out the break room and down the corridor and around the lab looking for Gil and Sophie, in just a few short hours Sophie had changed the team and even more surprisingly Gil Grissom.

TBC

Aww wasn't Gil really sweet with Sophie, more to come of that. Anyone got any funny suggestions that what Nick, Warrick, Greg, Sophie and Gil can get up to before Sara, Catherine and Lindsay return? Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks.