Disclaimer: See first chapter.
A/N: So as some of you know, I was not able to post over the weekend because I lost my flashdrive at school. Luckily I got it back on Monday because I have a blank folder labeled with my name. I worked on this chapter in school today and the new computers there don't work well and when I got home I couldn't open this chapter's file. Then I downloaded a bunch of stuff and managed to sort of fix it. At least I didn't have to try and write from memory, so all is good now :) I'm reluctant to post this because it is the final chapter, sadly enough. But I have really enjoyed writing this, everyone can use a little fluff all of the time. I had these song lyrics picked out even before I had the idea for this story.
Enjoy!
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Ours
Because I love the gap between your teeth
And I love the riddles that you speak
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He rolled over, eyelids fluttering a few times before focusing on her distraught expression and her trembling body which was curled in on itself. He put a hand on her shoulder and she lifted her head from the pillow, chocolate brown eyes meeting ocean blue. She looked tired but in no way were her eyes clouded with sleep. He didn't ask about the nightmare that he knew had woken her, instead he asked, "How long have you been awake?"
"Awhile" was her murmured response.
"You could've woken me," he said, his arm wrapping around her shoulders. She shrugged, choosing to rest her head on his chest instead of the pillow. His fingertips brushed soothingly over her arm as she continued to shake from the nightmare.
"Would you read to me until I fall asleep?" she asked softly.
"So you're saying that my voice bores you to sleep?" he said jokingly, mock glaring at her.
"I prefer the word 'soothes'," she said, turning a little in his arms. "Well either you read to me or I'll put on some of Greg's heavy metal music."
"You can sleep to that?" he asked, noticing that the tremors had left her body once she stopped thinking of her nightmare.
"It's just white noise." He raised a skeptical eyebrow.
"You're kidding…" When she didn't give in, he did. "Okay. What do you want me to read?"
"Doesn't matter."
Grissom reached to the nightstand, pulling his book of Shakespearian sonnets from the drawer. He began to read. His voice flowed easily with the iambic pentameter, creating an almost pseudo lullaby. His eyes jumped from the page, reciting the next line from memory, to see that her eyes had already fallen shut and her legs had uncurled from her chest, no longer finding the need to protect herself from some unseen force. He was not even halfway through the second sonnet though he already believed her to be asleep. He continued, reading through a third, and then at her deep, steady breathing, he was confident that she had fallen asleep. With a feather light kiss to her temple, he returned the book to the nightstand and switched off the reading light. Pulling the blankets tighter around her, he kept Sara encircled in his arms before letting himself also drift off to sleep.
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She was smiling that smile, that geeky gap-toothed smile. The one that he believed was reserved just for him. The one that brightened her brown eyes and showed the space in her front teeth. He reached out, hands cradling her face.
"You have the most beautiful smile," he said. She was not normally self-conscious but under his scrutiny she closed her lips, hiding her imperfect smile.
"I always thought it was one of my faults," she said, shrugging. He was immediately shaking his head in disagreement.
"It's adorable. And unique, like a trademark…Plus a gap between the front teeth is a sign of intelligence, and I would have to agree," he said smiling.
"It always made me stand out," she countered.
"Well, you know what they say, "If you're lucky enough to be different-""
""-don't ever change"," completing his sentence for him. "You really have to stop quoting Taylor Swift. It's getting a little creepy."
"Sorry, Dear," he laughed. And then she smiled that gap-toothed grin again.
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Fin
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A/N: So did you catch the reference to the first chapter? hehe I hope you enjoyed reading this story! Thank you so much to everyone that stuck with it! I really want to know what you guys thought of this last chapter. Please Review! And I can't thank you enough for taking the time to read this =)