Sophie watched Greg with her family for five minutes before she stood up and motioned for Greg to follow her, Greg placed Cady on the couch and looked towards Nick and Warrick.

"Watch the kids for me, if they wake up page me" Greg asked smiling down at the kids and then following Sophie out the room.

"Greg over here" Sophie whispered waving her hands in the air smiling as Greg walked over "So are we going to scare Nick and Warrick with that tarantula?"

"Yea sure, but what about the kids won't we scare them too?" Greg asked walking step for step with Sophie "I mean I don't mind scaring Nick and Warrick but not the kids"

"Greg your rambling, besides Kelsi will proberly want it as a pet" Sophie replied giggling as Greg looked at her "Yea Kelsi is a little daredevil, reminds me of myself to be honest"

Greg nodded and looked around the corridor before entering Gil's office and walking over to the cage before gasping; Sophie rushed over to Greg and groaned when she looked at the cage.

"Where is it?" Sophie asked "I saw Gil put it back in its cage I'm sure of it"

"Well it's not there now, Gil's going to go mad" Greg remarked "Maybe we should go find it and put it back"

"Yea good idea" Sophie replied sighing "There goes our practical joke"

Greg nodded and walked out the office followed by Sophie, as soon as Sophie was out the office she got down on her hands and knees and started crawling around the floor; Greg looked at his friend and then joined her on the floor.

"This looks weird" Greg said staring at every inch of the floor.

"Stop moaning we need to find that tarantula" Sophie replies stopping at a pair of feet in front of her.

"Why have you stopped? I almost went into the back of you" Greg enquired staring at Sophie's back.

"Why are you both crawling around the floor? What does it have to do with my tarantula?" Gil asked head cocked to the side "Well?"

"Oh hey Bug man" Sophie says standing up and stretching holding out her hand to help Greg up too "Well the reason we are crawling around the floor, is I wanted to see your tarantula and it's not in its cage, so we are looking for it"

"Fair enough" Gil replied "Are you sure that is the real reason? If there is another reason I possibly can't allow"

Gil was interrupted by a high pitched scream coming from the break room, Greg and Sophie looked at each other and took off running down the corridor and coming to a halt outside the break room to find Nick stood on the table screaming, Kelsi and Dylan holding the tarantula out and up to Nick and Cady jumping up and down on the sofa and lastly Warrick stood in the middle of the room scratching his head.

"What is going on in here?" Sophie asks walking over to Cady who was in mid jump "No you don't missy"

"No fair" Cady moaned turning to Greg "Play"

"Yea in a minute Cady, Kelsi, and Dylan I think the tarantula has had enough" Greg said trying not to laugh at Nick crawled up into a cocoon position "Nick it's only a tarantula get over it"

"No it's a monster with legs" Nick mumbled from within his safety cocoon "Get rid of it"

"No one will be getting rid of my tarantula" Gil said just arriving at the room, which caused everyone to stop "Can I have my tarantula please young lady"

Kelsi walked over to Gil and smiled at him and handed him the tarantula, Gil looked down at Kelsi and smiled back at the young girl.

"Excuse me Mr Spider guy, but does he have a name?" Kelsi asked looking into Gil's blue eyes "Your eyes are nice"

"My name is Mr Grissom and no the tarantula doesn't have a name" Gil replied bending down to Kelsi's level "What's your name?"

"Well my name is Kelsi Ann Kidman I'm seven, over there is my brother Dylan James Kidman he's five and lastly over there is my little sister Cady Louise Kidman and she's three" Kelsi replied looking around the room "See you"

"Bye Kelsi, Sophie a word please?" Gil requested pointing to the corridor waiting for Sophie to join him and walking to his office "Please explain to me why we have three kids under the age of eight in the break room, where did they come from?"

"Well do you remember earlier Al asked to talk to you?" Sophie said watching as Gil nodded "Well me and Greg were hungry so he took me out for food and on the way I got a phone call from my foster sister, Kelsi begging for me to come get them, you see my foster dad how do I put it? Is a drunk and then takes it out on the kids"

"I'm sorry Sophie, how did you get them? Or do I really need to know" Gil asked rubbing his head.

"Well me and Greg did an impression of Spiderman and climbed up the side of the house" Sophie replied looking at Gil and then Greg playing with Cady "I couldn't leave them to his whims, you do anything for family"

"I know but that was a very risky thing to do, I will have to speak to Greg" Gil replied walking into the room and was bombarded by Kelsi and Dylan.

"Mr Grissom can we name your tarantula? Dylan asked stepping to the side as Gil walked a few more steps into the room "Please?"

"If you like" Gil replied sitting beside Greg and bending his head over the back of the chair.

"Hi" Cady whispered into his ear "You nice?"

"Hi Cady, yea I'm nice" Gil replied smiling at Cady.

"Ok, down Greg" Cady asked stumbling on the floor slightly before running towards Dylan and Kelsi and started a game of tag.

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Sara, Catherine and Lindsay returned to lab to find one word, chaos. Lindsay looked around the lab and saw the lab techs shaking their heads or giggling, Sara and Catherine made their way to the break room to find even more chaos.

"What is going on?" Sara enquired looking at Gil who was rubbing his head "Gil you ok?"

"Looks like a jungle in here" Catherine remarked jumping as Kelsi and Dylan jumped out and scared her "Whoa more kids, where did they come from?"

"We are Sophie's family, hi" Dylan replied before running off and under the table "Come on Kelsi, come to our hideout"

"Well that is the strangest thing I've seen in ages...whoa what happened here?" Lindsay enquired looking around the room to find Sophie standing in one space looking up in the air.

Lindsay walked over to also find Greg taking the same stance; standing beside her best friend Lindsay looked up to find Cady on top of the cupboard.

"Whoa what is a kid doing up there?" Lindsay asked looking at both Greg and Sophie who looked at each other and smiled "Hey you two, explanation now!"

"Ready catch" Cady squealed in delight as she fell into Greg's arms "Again?"

"No!" Sophie replied sternly "You shouldn't have done it the first time missy"

"Sorry" Cady responded looking at Lindsay "Hi"

"Hi cutie" Lindsay replied looking at Sophie "She's so cute looks like you and Sara a lot"

"Sophie there you are" Sara said smiling at her sister "Who's this?"

"Hi Sara, this is Cady" Sophie replied "Say hi Cady"

"Hi" Cady replied hugging into Sophie's neck "Down?"

Sophie placed Cady to the floor, who hugged Sara's legs and ran towards the break room door just as Ecklie walked in.

"What is going on in here?" Ecklie bellowed causing three kids to start crying "Get them out of here now!"

"Get lost they are doing nothing wrong" Sophie snarled standing right in front of Ecklie "Just get lost and stop interfering"

"I can interfere if I like, what gives you the right to speak to me like this?" Ecklie shouts back.

"I can do this because you have scared my brother and sister and my daughter" Sophie replied back before turning to the gang "Cady baby girl come to mommy"

Cady ran over from Greg and hugged Sophie tightly; Sophie turned back to Ecklie and spat out.

"You are a jerk, back off" Sophie snarled "If you never scare my daughter or my family so help me you will regret it, now sod off!"

Ecklie stormed out of the room and Sophie took a deep breath and turned to the gang and came face to face with Greg.

"I knew it, I'm sorry Soph" Greg said pulling Sophie into a hug and rubbed Cady's back "I'm going to help you and Cady anyway I can, we all will"

"Yea sure that's what families are for" Nick replied "Come her you too"

Kelsi and Dylan ran over to Nick and hugged his legs; Sophie smiled a watery smile before turning to Sara.

"Sara? Say something" Sophie begged walking over to Sara with a sleeping Cady in her arms "Sara?"

"I failed you!" Sara said before standing up and turning to the rest of the room "Excuse me"

Sara walked out the room and ran down the corridor to the stairs and to the roof, Sophie sat down on the sofa and started to cry, Greg walked over and sat down next to Sophie and hugged her, Sophie lent into Greg and cried her heart out.

TBC