After a while of driving I finally arrive home. I pull into the driveway, then as I walk up to the door and start to unlock it, I find it's already unlocked. I walk in and sitting on the counter I notice a bunch of roses. I go and read the card sitting next to it.
"Lauren, Thank you so much for being here for me. You don't know how much it means to me. I love you so much.
Love, Greg
P.S. I gave Warrick a key.
I stare at the card for a few seconds.
"Wow Jasp." I say to Jasper as she rubs against my leg.
I go into the bathroom and take a nice hot shower, trying to calm myself from what happened today. Then I put on one of Greg's t-shirts so it doesn't seem that he's so far away from me. I lay down and fall asleep almost instantly.
"GREG! DON'T LEAVE ME!" I scream as I see them push his lifeless body into the morgue.
I wake up with sweat dripping down my face. I go to the bathroom and splash some water on my face. I look at the clock and it's already 10:20 AM.
"Oh sh!t!"
I grab my phone and call Grissom.
"Hello?"
"Grissom, I'm so sorry. I just woke up!"
"Lauren? Is that you?"
"Yea. I'm really sorry!"
"It's alright . I understand. You had a long day yesterday. Why don't you just take a sick day today and go see Greg. Things are going pretty slow today surprisingly."
"Thank you so much Griss! I owe you big time!"
"No problem. Bye."
"Bye."
I hang up.
I get dressed, grab some breakfast, and head back to my car for another trip to the hospital.
When I walk into Greg's room he's asleep like he usually is when I walk in. As soon as I sit down, he wakes up.
"Lauren?" he says half asleep and half confused.
"Yea. It's me Greg."
"I'm really glad you're here. What's going on? Why am I in a different room?"
"Well, some stuff went on, so they had to move you to the ICU."
"Stuff like…"
"Well you were going in and out of consciousness and were having convulsions and all this other stuff so they moved you here, then the doctor said something about complications so they took you into surgery and that's really all I know about it."
"Oh…that's a lot to miss."
"Really."
"Aren't you supposed to be at work?"
"Well I slept in late, and I called Grissom and he let me take a sick day."
"He never did that with me."
"Haha, well maybe someday he will."
"Well let's hope so."
There's a short pause.
"I wanted to thank you for the beautiful flowers."
"Well just something beautiful for my something beautiful." (Yes I know it's from the cingular commercial)
"Greg…"
I kiss him and he rubs his hand against my cheek.
"Lauren…"
We both laugh.