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Chapter 3:
At the airport-
When Gil finally arrived at the airport it was 8 am., he searched everywhere for Sara, but couldn't find her anywhere, he saw the check-in station and decided to ask if she had checked in for her flight. 'I know they won't tell me but I have to try, I can't let her leave without saying goodbye!'
"Excuse me mama, but I was wondering if you would be able to tell me if my wife checked in for her flight?" The woman just stared at him. 'She's a women, maybe if I tell her we had a fight and that I need to apologize, maybe she will be sympathetic, and help me.'
"Listen we got into a big fight last night and I really need to apologize, but she had already left this morning, so I came here to tell her how sorry I am and that I was in the wrong but I've searched everywhere and haven't been able to find her, will you please help me, I'm really worried." The woman looked at him and could hear the worry and remorse in his voice.
"Okay… What's her name?" He smiled. 'Thank you so much for this understanding woman's help.'
"Thank you so much, her name is Sara Grissom and her flight leaves at 9 am.." The woman hit a bunch of keys on her key board, she then looks at the computer screen, then back at him.
"She did check-in but she changed her flight to the 7:30 flight, sorry but she already left." He looks down and says dam under his breath. 'What do I do now?'
"Thank you." She looks at him, and gives him a sympathetic smile.
"Did you try calling her before you got here?" He looks up at her and shakes his head. 'That would have started the whole fight over again and even worse, but I can't tell this woman that.'
"I was going to call her, but she asked me not to call her, that she would call me when she was ready to talk." The lady started to laugh. "May I ask what's so funny?" 'I don't find this situation funny at all! Actually makes me angry that she would change her flight and not bother to tell me.'
"So instead of calling her, you thought you would come and see her, did you not think that, that would not start another fight?" Gil stands there for a minute and thinks about it. 'Shit she is right, she doesn't even know why we're fighting, why didn't I think this wouldn't start yet another fight?'
"Dam, I guess I wasn't thinking." He lowered his shoulders and thanked her once more and started to walk away. The lady looked at the person next to her and makes a comment making sure that he could hear her.
"Love, makes people do the craziest things." She starts to laugh and he walks off laughing, he new she was right. Then he only had one question to ask himself: 'What sane person would think that it was okay to go and see someone right after they were told not to call them?'
*When Sara was waiting to board her new flight she had give Catherine a call to let her know that she got a new flight and that she would arrive 2 hours earlier then expected, she gave Catherine the earlier time she need to be picked up.*
On the plane Sara is writing in her notepad again, she has started to write a lot of things down about how she feels, also making a list on why she should or should not be mad. A flight attendant comes by with a cart.
"Mama is there anything you would like off the cart or from the bar?" Sara looks up from her notepad and asks the lady for a rum and coke. 'Maybe this lady could help me look at this in a different way, I just got to swallow my pride and ask her?' The woman made the drink and gave it to her. Sara takes the drink and puts it on her tray. She looks up at the woman again.
"Do you mind if I ask you a personal question?" The woman gave Sara a wired look but notice that she looked sad and figured that she could use someone to talk to.
"Sure, what is it?"
"Say that you and your husband are living far away from each other, and you finally got a couple of weeks off from work, so that you can spend time with him, but whenever you two were starting to get..Um. Sexual, his phone would go off and he rushes to answer it whenever it is a certain woman from his past. He would stop everything to answer the phone and talk to her, and not let you know what was going on, wouldn't you think that something was going on between them?" The woman stood there thinking about it for a minute.
"Well, yea I would think something wasn't quite right but does this woman live around or near your husband? If she doesn't than how would anything serious be going on? How could he cheat on you over the phone?" The woman didn't wait for her reply she just simply left Sara to sit there and think, while she went to another help another person a few seats down from her. Sara thought that the woman did have a good point so she wrote it down on her list that she was making, under reason she should not be mad at Gil.'This woman did have a point, a good one at that, but we all know about phone sex, so technology he could cheat on me just not physically with them.'
About half an hour later the same woman asks Sara if she would like a refill on her drink.
"Sure, but two drinks would be even better, than one." The woman gave her a smile and chuckled a little.
"I started to think and I understand that it would be impossible for him to cheat on me physically or have anything serious go on over the phone, but I can't help but think that something just isn't right between them and if nothing was going on why won't he talk to me about the reason why she is calling, all he says is that he is being a good friend by listening to her." The woman gives Sara a sympathetic smile and notices that Sara doesn't have a wedding ring on and is very curious about it.
"I guess I would feel the same way, but I can tell you that love makes us do and feel crazy. Now do you mind if I ask you a personal question?"
"Sure, what is it?"
"Well, I noticed that you didn't have a wedding ring on and was wondering if you lost it or if something else happened between you two?" Sara looked down at her hand and had almost forgot that she left it with Gil for safe keeping.
"I left my ring with a note on my husband nightstand by his alarm clock, I almost forgot that I left it with him, thank you for reminding me." Both women chuckled quietly about it for a minute.
"So, I understand that you were really angry at him, but do you regret it now?" Sara looks down at her finger and starts playing with it. 'It didn't feel right not having my ring on, now that I think about it I feel kind of stupid for leaving it with him, he must be going crazy, it probably hurt him a lot to leave the ring there, dam what was I thinking.'
"Yea, now that I think about it, I do regret it a little." A tear started to roll down her face, the woman gave her a tissue and 2 drinks, she gave she a quick smile and moved on to help another person.
Catherine was walking the hallways with nowhere in particular to go, at the moment she had bigger fish to fry, like trying to figure out why Sara would change her flight, Sara didn't give her an answer over the phone when she asked, now she was worried and curious. 'Maybe the weather got bad, or maybe Gil had to teach a early class at the last minute, or maybe..." Her phone ringing interrupted her train of thought.
"Willow"
"Hey Catherine, it's Grissom."
"Hey Gil, Sara already called quite awhile ago to inform me that she got an earlier flight, she didn't answer me when I asked her why, do you know why she changed her flight?" She asked him the question because she had a deep feeling that he knew the reason but wasn't sure if he would tell her what happened to make Sara change her flight.
"Good, I had just woke up from a nap and thought I might give you a call to make sure you knew the new time to pick her up was. As to your question I'm pretty positive that I am the reason why she changed her flight." Catherine had a even more curious and worried look on her face now. 'Not good, not good at all, they probably had a fight. Hopefully not at big one, I hope it was a small fight, please, please let it be a small one.'
"Why would you be the reason?"
"We got into a fight last night, and she wasn't here when I woke up, she left me a note with her wedding ring. So I think the fight was the reason for her leaving early, which of course she blames me for the fight, which would be the reason why I believe that I'm the reason why she changed her flight." Catherine can hear him sniffling on the phone, she guess that he was trying not to cry or trying not to let her hear him crying.
"That must have been some fight, what was it about?" Gil sighed on the other end of the phone.
"I really don't want to talk about it right now, I need you to do me a favor?" She could her a little bit of worry and a lot of sadness, anger, guilt, and remorse in his voice. 'He sounds terrible, I hope that he going to be okay, I pray that our two lovable geeks get over this fight, it would be better for everyone around Sara and Gil, if they would get over it quickly. So I will help out with anything I can do.'
"Sure Gil, what is it?"
"Will you please talk to her and find out what I can do or say to get her to talk to me again? But please don't let her know that I asked you to, she was very clear that she would talk to me when she was ready, so if you tell her that I asked you to it would start another fight and I don't want that, I tired of fighting with her, she never listens to what I say, I just want her to speak to me again, I miss her so much already, Catherine." She felt really bad for him. 'I really did want to know what the fight was about and what Gil did this time to piss her off, and I am being asked to get information from her, so I am was all for talking to Sara, at anytime especially to help out one of my closest friends.'
"Sure, its no problem Gil, are you going to be okay?" Gil looks around his room and sees his broken alarm clock and looks at the pillows.
"Um….I'm going to be okay, but the alarm clock is down for the count and I think that there maybe a pillow or two, they aren't safe here, but I will try my best to spare their fluffy lives, that is if I can." They both got a good laugh from his semi-joke and they said good bye and hung up.