A/N: The update as promised. And a note to say that over the next two weeks I will have more free time to write but less internet availability, but I'll try and posted ASAP.

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Today was the best day of the trip so far, at least, in Greg's opinion it was. He had woke up at around 11 and stretched contentedly in his bed. The yellow morning sun poured through a crack in the curtains and making his room a bright and cheerful place. This was great; it was the first morning he had woke up and not been tired because he barely slept with excitement, or jet lagged, or hungover and there was absolutely no need for him to rush to get ready. Best of all he got to decide what the group would do today. Anything he wanted. Linking his hands behind his head he smiled to himself. Yeah, today was going to be the best day yet.

-

Catherine woke up gently that morning, a familiar thudding sounded in her right ear. Bringing her hand up she traced random patterns on a sleeping Warrick's chest. The clock on her bedside table read 11.15; she had had a wonderful sleep. Maybe it was because she was exhausted after their shopping marathon and late dinner or maybe it was because she had spent the night curled up in Warrick's strong arms. For the first time since they arrived they had enjoyed a long lie in, without one of them having to get up and sneak back into their own room.

She lay for a while thinking about the previous day, about Grissom and Sara secretly living together and Grissom's plan to propose. The more she thought about it the more she thought that she and Warrick should come clean about their relationship. Why were they keeping it a secret anyway? And why should they spend the rest of their well deserved vacation sneaking around like teenagers? She had decided they would tell the group. She would inform Warrick as soon as he woke up, but for now she would let him sleep because he just looked so unbelievably adorable when he was asleep. The only concern she had was when would be the best time to tell the group, she didn't want to steal Grissom's thunder after all. The only option she could think of was to talk to Grissom at the first chance she got. After all he had come clean to her before anyone else; perhaps she owed him the same courtesy.

That being decided she closed her eyes again and enjoyed this peacefully time lying beside her boyfriend.

-

Next door to Catherine and Warrick a clueless Texan snored contentedly. He never usually slept this late but he was on vacation, who was to know.

-

Grissom was lying awake in bed, propped up on his side watching the rise and fall of Sara's ribs as she slept. Her hair was spread all over the pillow in which her face was buried, as unconventional as it may seem, to Grissom this was a most beautiful sight. He had hardly slept all night and when he did it was restless, like a child on Christmas Eve waiting for Santa Claus he was just too excited to sleep.

As he watched her he went over the plan again and again in his head. It had been a risk including Catherine, even though she was one of his best friends there was no denying her insatiable appetite for gossip. But he trusted her and he would need help with his delicate plan. More than once he had questioned his sanity over this, but every time he did thoughts of Sara would creep in and re-convince him. The thought of slipping that ring, which was currently hidden very deep inside the pocket of his empty suitcase, onto Sara's finger and seeing the look in her eyes when he asked her was all the motivation one man could ever need.

She stirred slightly in her sleep flinging one of her arms up over her head, narrowly missing his face as she did so. He chuckled quietly to himself and rolled back to the safety of his side of the bed.

-

"Ok so I'm confused." Sofia was sitting up in bed beside Jim both of them in their underwear, both of them reading a book.

"Why? The guy use a big word or something?" Brass chuckled, earning himself a sharp slap on the arm.

"Asshole!" She muttered, though she couldn't help but laugh. "No I'm confused about the situation we're in. I mean, we haven't officially told anyone we're a couple, but everyone sort of unofficially kind of knows. So how do we act?"

Brass stared at her blankly. He sensed this was one of those types of things that women got all flustered over that men just didn't understand at all. He blinked.

"Do we act like a couple and just expect everyone to figure it out and not mention it? Or do we come out and tell them? But if they already know, that would be redundant. I don't want them to think that we don't think they know when they know."

He blinked again. Not one word of that had made any sense to him.

"Not one word of that made any sense to me." Sofia let out a frustrated sigh and rolled her eyes. 'Men!'

"I guess we could just act naturally around them, like a couple, and not mention anything about it unless someone confronts us. That way we are not denying that fact that we are in a relationship or telling our friends something they clearly already know." She nodded happily.

Still unsure as to what the hell she was talking about Jim smiled and nodded then returned to his reading.

-

It was still some time before the occupants of the penthouse left their rooms. Slowly but surely however they did make their way to the communal area. Brass and Sofia were the first ones out as they had been up the longest and could no longer deny their desire for coffee and breakfast foods. They used the phone in the kitchen to call down and order a massive room service breakfast for everyone. Strictly speaking it was more like brunch time but they do say breakfast is the most important meal of the day, not to mention it was Jim's favourite. They figured the guys would thank them and that the smell of bacon would probably lure them from their rooms.

Grissom and Sara surfaced while they were on the phone; they looked positively thrilled with the idea of breakfast coming as they sat down on one of the couches together. Next Greg popped his head out the door and quickly popped it back inside once he realised that everyone in the living room was dressed and he wasn't. Five minutes later he had pulled on some clothes and rejoined them.

"Morning everybody!" He sang in his usual cheerful voice.

"Good morning." Sara sang back, only half mocking him. There was a knock at the door signalling the arrival of breakfast. Brass was up and to the door in a flash. He thanked and tipped the waiter who had pushed in a trolley filled with various items of breakfast food.

"Breakfast is served. It's a buffet by the way." He grinned cheekily as he filled two plates, one for him and one for Sofia and carried them to the living area. The rest of the group jumped up to help themselves.

Just as Brass and Sofia had predicted the smell of bacon wafting into Nick's room brought him out into the open. Pulling on his jeans from the night before and a t-shirt he walked out towards the smell.

"Good morning!" Greg called excitedly from behind a heaped plate of food.

"You're right it's a good morning I smell bacon!" Nick smiled and helped himself to a plate. "Whose idea was this?" He asked fully prepared to bear hug that person.

"Sofia and Brass ordered it in when they got up." Sara informed him from the couch before devouring a forkful of vegetarian omelette.

"Good call!" Nick smiled.

"It really was." Agreed Catherine who had just came out of her room and been greeted by the delicious aroma of the food.

"Yeah, you should probably tell Warrick to come on here before he misses it all." Nick said, piling more bacon onto his plate and making his way to the couch.

"What?" Catherine's eyes widened to the size of saucers. "Warrick is in his room, he's probably still asleep...I don't know." She babbled.

"Oh right, ok." Nick grinned. "Must have been another Warrick Brown you were talking to this morning."

"Oh yeah...that...Warrick woke up early and there was no one out here so he came into see if I was awake." She nodded satisfied that her answer sounded plausible.

"And you were telling him how cute he looked when he was asleep." Nick chuckled, as did everyone else.

"I...well...I don't know what you're talking about. There's nothing going on between me and Warrick."

"Yeah right!" Greg scoffed into his orange juice. "And Brass and Sofia aren't hooking up." The group erupted into laughter. Well all except a red faced Catherine and a blushing Brass. Sofia was just relieved that she had an answer to the question how she should act around Brass on this vacation.

"What's going on out here? Is anyone up?" Warrick walked out of Catherine's room in nothing but his boxer shorts and a t-shirt. "Oh hey everyone's up!" He smiled nervously then looked at Catherine.

"I was up earlier and I...went into Cath's room to...see if she had..." He stuttered.

"Give it up Rick, it seems they already know." Catherine sighed as she helped herself to some breakfast. At least now she knew that her friends knew and didn't have to worry about stealing Grissom's thunder by announcing it.

"You guys knew huh?" Warrick smiled.

"Of course we did." Sofia rolled her eyes.

"Yeah Warrick I mean, we're trained investigators. You'd have to get up pretty early in the morning to pull one over on us." Greg scoffed. Grissom and Sara shared a sly grin.

"Yeah well at least now it's out in the open I won't have to get up early in the morning to sneak around anymore." Warrick retorted sitting down beside Catherine with a heaped plate. She smiled and squeezed his knee.

"Great. Well unless anyone else has any secrets they want to confess right now then I suggest we talk about something else." Brass suggested. "Like...what we're going to do today?"

"Oh I believe that's my decision." Greg grinned.

"Oh God!" Catherine moaned as she wondered what kind of torture Greg was going to put them through as revenge for yesterday. Greg quickly shot her a dirty look then continued talking.

"Well at first I was going to do nothing. Just sit around the suite; maybe go to the beach or the pool or something. You know, just have a lazy, relaxing day. But then on the way back from dinner last night I saw this." He pulled out a flyer from his pocket and held it up before them. A picture of a lone elephant appeared on the cover along with the writing 'Andulela Safari Park'

They all knew this was coming. From the day they decided to come to Cape Town they knew that it would mean bring the boy Tarzan to see the elephants. After the previous day's events it would be a refreshing change.

"That's not a bad idea Greg." Catherine sounded surprised.

"It sounds like real fun." Nick was starting to agree with Greg's thinking that this would be the best day yet.

"Awesome!" Greg cheered, bouncing with joy that everyone liked his idea. "So when do you want to leave?"

"Well I think we're all pretty full after breakfast so why don't we take an hour or so to digest and get ready?" Grissom reasoned. An hour seemed far too long to wait for Greg, but it was only fair so he agreed.

-

As everyone headed off to get ready Catherine managed to corner Grissom in the kitchen while he was tidying up.

"Hello Catherine." Grissom smiled, though he was slightly unnerved by the determined look in her eyes.

"Gil I just want to talk to you about the whole me and Warrick situation. I was going to tell you about it sooner but I didn't want to jinx it, you know?" She knew very well that he did.

"We're not in violation of any rules in the lab are we?" She asked.

"No." Grissom shook his head. "As long as I'm submitting Warrick's evaluations and he answers to me as his supervisor then you're nothing more than his colleague." Catherine breathed a sigh of relief.

"Which reminds me..." He continued. "When we go back to work my relationship with Sara will be out in the open so I wanted to ask if you would act as her supervisor? It wouldn't really be anything more tan filling out the occasional evaluation form and dealing with any disciplinary matters that probably won't even happen."

"Of course!" She replied. "No problem."

"While we're on the subject...are you going to fill me in on this plan of yours?"

"I told you Catherine. I will give you details as and when you need them." He answered frankly. She glared at him. That simply was not good enough.

"Come on Gil. Give me something!" She pressed him for information.

"No!"

"Please?"

"No!" He said firmly.

"How do you expect me to help if I don't know what I'm helping with?" She huffed.

"Alright." He sighed. "I need some time to myself to organise some things, maybe tomorrow you could arrange it that we weren't doing anything taxing. And maybe do something with Sara so she would notice if I disappeared for an hour or two?"

"That's more like it." She gave him a satisfied smile. "That I can do." She already had the perfect idea in her head.

"Great. Can I go now please?" He asked hoping there was nothing else she was going to torture him over.

"Yes, you may go." She said sarcastic notes decorated her voice.

"Thank you." He smiled as he walked passed her towards his room and the sanctuary of Sara.

She was busy applying sunscreen when he returned to the room. He walked up beside her and gave her a soft kiss on the lips.

"What was that for?" She smiled.

"No reason." He smiled back. "Do you need some help with that?" He asked taking the bottle from her.

"Thank you." She raised an eyebrow at him. "What's with you? You're looking at me with a big goofy smile on your face and sappy eyes." She chuckled as he massaged the lotion onto her shoulders and down her back.

"Nothing." He shrugged. "I'm just having a great time here. And a great time with you. I really love you Sara." He gushed.

"I love you too." She smiled and planted a cheeky kiss on his lips. "Are you ready?"

"Yeah." He nodded, putting the lid back on her bottle of factor 30. She always hated having to wear the stuff and resented the fact that she didn't tan very well but he loved her porcelain skin. Plus this gave him the chance to touch her flesh a good few times a day when they were out in the sun.

"Alright then, let's go see some elephants...don't forget your hat!" She called back over her shoulder as she walked out the door.

-

Greg was sitting alone in the living room impatiently waiting for everyone else. His head snapped round and his eyes widened with glee when Sara and Grissom's door opened.

"Hey Greggo. Are you ready?" Sara asked sarcastically, laughing at her young friend.

"Where did you get the binoculars Greg?" Grissom asked curiously.

"I packed them." He smiled proudly. "When I found out there were a lot of safari parks I thought I should bring them just in case."

"Alright." Grissom's brow furrowed. "You do know elephants are really big Greg...giraffes too. I doubt you'll need binoculars to see them." He scoffed.

"Well what if they're really far away?" Was Greg sharp comeback. "Besides I'm sure there are lots of little animals at the safari park too and I'm going to see them all." He said smugly, patting his binoculars.

"Aw man I wish I'd brought my binoculars too." Nick moaned when he saw Greg's. Greg threw another smug look at Grissom who sighed and shook his head.

"What's going on?" Catherine asked.

"Don't ask." Grissom and Sara said in unison.

Catherine was mildly taken aback by their answer but decided it was probably for the best as she saw Greg demonstrating the power and features of his binoculars for Nick. She rolled her eyes those two could be so childish sometimes.

To the left of the room a door click and Brass and Sofia exited their bedroom.

"Whoa Grissom...where'd you get that hat?" Brass sniggered when he saw him. "Did you find it or does someone really hate you enough to buy it for you?" Giggles passed through the group like a classroom.

"Well I like it." Sara said defiantly, sticking up for her man. "It's...quirky." Even she couldn't bring herself to say nice.

"You would." Warrick muttered to Catherine who slapped him in the arm, though she couldn't help but grin at his comment. If only he knew.

"Laugh all you want Jim, but it is practical. You think you would invest in one yourself, what with all that exposed skin on top of your head." He smirked. Everyone looked at each other. Had Grissom just made a joke at someone's expense? Their boss Grissom? And successfully? Jim's face went red and he glared at his friend, unable to think of a witty retort.

"If everyone is done being childish here..." Sofia stepped in. "Are we ready to go?"

"Yes!" Shouted Greg, jumping out of his seat at lightning speed.