Chapter 4:

Back at Vegas-

After getting off the phone with Grissom, Catherine decided to give Brass heads up about this new situation that the lovebirds got themselves into.

"Brass." Brass is in his office leaning in his chair behind his desk.

"Hey it's Catherine."

"Hey Cath, how is everything going?" Catherine goes into her office and closes the door so that nobody passing by could hear her conversation.

"Not so good, I just got off the phone with Grissom."

"Did he tell you why Sara got a earlier flight?" Catherine sighs and starts to write down everything that Grissom and her talked about on her notebook.

"Well, I did get more information out of him than what Sara gave me, which surprises me a whole hell of a lot, considering that he is just as private, if not more so than her ." Brass sits up in his chair as if he was getting closer to the information that Catherine was giving him. 'Well I did my hoping so now is the moment of truth behind the sudden change.'

"What did he tell you?"

"He told me that they had a fight, and that Sara blames him for the fight, so he thinks that he is the reason behind why she changed her flight, he also said that she left before he woke up and had left a note and her wedding ring by his alarm clock." Brass leans in even closer, he is now leaning on his desk. 'Not good, not good at all, this isn't a small fight either, sounds like a big, no change that, sound like a really, really big fight.'

"Wow, must have been some fight, did he say what the fight was about or what the note said?" Catherine shifts some papers around to make the appearance that she is working.

"No but he did say that Sara asked him not to call her, but that she would call him when she was ready, and asked me if I would talk to her and find out what he could do to get her to talk to him, then he begged me not to tell her that he asked me to talk to her because it would start another fight." Brass took a minute to think about it. 'This is going to be a long and difficult make up, I just hope that we can help get them back onto the right track that they belong on.'

"Would you like me to come along with you when you pick Sara up?"

"Yea that would be great, we can interrogate her together, and probably get more information out of her if there is two of us."

"How do you figure that?"

"Well it's easy to dodge one person's questions, but it's harder when there is two people asking you the same questions in different ways, she's bound to say something to one of us when she gets annoyed of hearing the same thing over and over, right?"

"I think your right, how about I pick you up in about half an hour, her new flight does land in a hour, right?" Catherine looks in her notebook where she has been writing down what little and vague information she has been getting from Sara and Grissom.

"Yes, it lands in about an hour."

"Okay, see you in half an hour then."

"Alright see you soon." They both hang up. Catherine then steps out of her office in search of Greg and Nick. 'We're going to need all the help we can get, so better to include them in now, I can dodge the hurt and anger that they will have if I tell them what's going on later.' She finds them in the break room playing a Football video game. She chuckles as she watches them for a moment. 'Boys will be boys. It's time to cut in to their fun. We have a lot of work ahead of us.'

"Hey guys, I was just wondering if you clocked out already?" Greg pauses their game and Nick stands up to talk to his boss.

"Yea our shift ended 10 minutes ago, why? Did you need us to pull a double?" Catherine looks at Nick then at Greg who was now standing in complete silence.

"No, no double, we have a personal team matter to deal with and I have some information to share with the two of you." Greg then jumps in.

"Information about what or who?"

"About Sara and Grissom." Nick and Greg now have a worried look on their faces, Nick again is the first to speak.

"What information? I thought everything was going great between them, did something happen?"

"Yea, I just spoke to Sara a couple of days ago, she said everything was going fine on her trip. What's going on?" Catherine look at them for a moment and admired her team's curiosity. 'Seems like they always have the right questions to ask.'

"Yea, everything was going fine, but early this morning Sara called to informed me that she had got a earlier flight but didn't give me a reason why, then Grissom called not to long ago and told me that the reason was because of him." Catherine continued to tell them about what Grissom had told her about the fight, the note, and Sara leaving her wedding ring with him. Nick was taking it all in when Greg made a comment about the situation.

"Must have been a bad fight, seems like by leaving the ring, she is telling him that she is done with whatever is going on between them." Nick looks at Greg and backs him up, but had his own two cents to put into the conversation.

"He's right, leaving your wedding ring is like asking for a divorce." Catherine looked down at the floor she had to think. 'Shit I hadn't even thought about it when Grissom had mentioned that Sara had left her ring,double dam, not good.' She then had a worried look on her face.

"Dam, that makes a lot of since, he wants me to talk to her for him, and find out what he can say or do to get her to start talking to him again, but he doesn't want me to tell her that he asked me to, he says that he doesn't want to start another fight with her." Greg was confused. 'Why would he have Catherine talk to her instead of calling her himself, unless she is at the end of the rope and her wish is not to speak to him for awhile.'

"Why doesn't he just call her, himself?"

"Because she asked him to not call her that she would call him when she was ready to talk to him. He sounded really sad on the phone, it's all starting to make a little bit of since now." Nick and Greg gave her a understanding look, Nick then raises an eyebrow. 'I want to help, but maybe I should ask first, I don't want to butt heads with Catherine if it could be avoided.'

"So is there anything you want us to do, do you want one of us to go with you to pick up Sara?"

"No, Brass is going to come with me to pick her up but I would like the two of you to come up with some back up plans, just in case we are unsuccessful with getting her to talk to Grissom." Then Greg gets another confused look. 'I already know the answer but I think I should say something just in case.'

"Are you going to try and find out what their fight was about, what the letter said, and her reason for leaving the ring, that would really help us with coming up with other back up plans." Catherine looks at both of them, Nick is now shaking his head in agreement with Greg.

"I'm going to find out what I can without leading on that Grissom has talked to me and that he asked me to talk to her, but as soon as I find out more, I will be sure relay the information to you guys." Catherine turns and walks out the door to the locker room and grabs her stuff. The guys watch her walk away, Greg then looks at Nick.

"I'm hungry it's kind of hard to think on a empty stomach, want to go and get something to eat at the diner across the street?"

"Yea that is a good idea." They both head to the locker room to grab their stuff and head out of the department door toward the diner.

a/n: read and review please, I would like to know what you all think.