Chapter 5:

Picking Sara Up-

On the plane, Sara had a little too much to drink, she was tipsy and couldn't remember the number of drinks she had. 'I lost count around 5 or 6 but if I know Catherine she is going to ask so I think that 6 is a safe number to tell her if and when she asks. She stumbled her way to baggage claim to pick up her bags, that's where Brass noticed her, he tapped Catherine on the shoulder and points Sara out to her. Catherine turned and looked into the direction in which Brass was pointing, she then noticed Sara. 'This is not good, she is drunk, doesn't look like we're going to get much from her, today.'

"Um mm…Brass I think you better go and grab her bags and help her to the car, looks like she had too much to drink on the flight." Brass observes her closer. 'Great no information today, but maybe she is more open and truthful when she is drunk, there is still hope.'

"I think you maybe right." As Brass was walking up to help Sara with her bags, she trips over her own feet while she was trying to wave at Catherine and Brass and ends up falls flat on her face. He help her up and grabs her bags from her, when she finally gets to her feet she is laughing hysterically, Brass grabs her hand and helps her walk to the car, both him and Catherine were trying hard to keep their laughter inside, but they couldn't help it, Sara's smile and laugh had always contagious. He gave Catherine his car keys so that she could drive and so that he could help Sara get into the passenger seat. Catherine turned on the car, while Brass got himself into the back seat of the car. He put his seat belt on and looked at Sara and Catherine, then Sara looked at Catherine.

"Hey aren't you going to move the car or are you waiting on somebody else?" Catherine gave her a annoyed look. 'Why is she drunk, oh no maybe our fears are true maybe the fight was really bad.'

"Not waiting on anybody else, just waiting on you to put on your dam seat belt." Sara sighed.

"You could have just asked." The seat belt was becoming a challenge after a couple of tries but she finally got it on after a couple of minutes, Brass was starting to turn red from holding in his laughter, Catherine gave him a evil look through the rear view mirror, then put the car in drive and head to Sara's home. She thought it would be pointless to talk to Sara when she was drunk but decided to give it a try anyways.

"So, Sara, why the sudden change in your plane flight?" Sara looked at Catherine and growled. Brass couldn't hold it in any longer he started to laugh hysterically but quickly calmed down when Catherine gave him another evil look.

"Sara did you just growl at me?"

"No, I growled at the question, and because of the reason behind the last minute change in my flight." Brass joins in on the conversation noticing that Catherine isn't getting anywhere with Sara.

"Don't you mean the person behind the change, not the reason?" Sara leans back and turns her head to talk to Brass.

"You know what? Your absolutely, positively right. I growled at the asshole that was the reason behind me changing my flight."

Catherine and Brass both look confused they had never seen Sara act or talk this way when it came to Grissom or anyone for that matter, she was acting wired but they decide it was because she was drunk. Catherine looks at Sara again and tries to get more information. 'I'll try again, but I hope she doesn't bit me, I mean she already growled, usually for animals that is a warning to back off, right?'

"I take it that you two had a fight."

"That's right, a really big fight, all his fault, and he doesn't understand why I'm so upset about it, then he had the nerve to try and turn the tables on me, but didn't happen in his favor, just help me prove my point." Brass wasn't laughing anymore, he got very serious. 'I really want to know what the fight was about and what could be so bad to get her this upset and to make her act this way.'

"So, Sara what was the fight about?" Again she leaned back and turned her head to him.

"Shh…You hear that?" She starts laughing. 'This is going to be funny, they think I don't know that he put them up to this. Ha I'm way smarter than the average bear.'

"Hear what Sara?"

"Well the reason why I can't tell you of course." She then looks at Catherine and gives her a mean look.

"He asked you to talk to me, didn't he, but let me guess he didn't tell you what the fight was about, he is smart, got to give him that, I don't think I'm going to call him for a while now." Catherine is now frustrated, but promised Grissom and she was going to keep her promise. 'You can't be serious, how could she be this smart and observant while she is drunk? Why are these two grown adults acting so juvenile, it's really starting to piss me off!'

"No we haven't heard from Grissom, but if we call him do think he will tell us what happened, So when were you going to call him?" Brass winks at Catherine to tell her that, that was a nice save, and he gave her a half smile. Sara gave her a confused look. 'Wow thought I was being smart, oh well guess I will stick to my original plan.'

"I could have sworn that he would have called you by now and ask you to get information from me, he can be a little predictable sometimes but I guess I was wrong, I'm sorry Catherine, but I was going to call him when I got home, not thinking that's such a good idea anymore considering that I may possibly be drunk…" She pauses then continues. "if either one of you call him tell him I'm still not talking to him yet, that I'm still angry and if you want to know about the fight your going to have to ask him!" She then crossed her arms but ended up hitting herself in the face. Catherine looked at Brass, and he just rolled his eyes, then looks at Sara.'He must be pretty predictable if she new he was going to call Catherine and enlist her to help him. Hum.. No wounder she isn't cooperating with us.'

"You want us to take you home or take you somewhere for coffee and something to eat?"

"Think it best if I go home, I'm getting really tired. Sorry I'm not much fun right now, had a rough couple of days."

"Well, fights are always rough and I think it is best that you go home and get some sleep, hopefully tomorrow you will feel better enough to talk with either one of us or both of us or possibly even Grissom." Sara sighs. 'Like that's ever going to happen!'

"Don't think I will change my mind, but it is a nice thought." Catherine just pulled up at Sara's home and Brass grabs her bags and helps her get inside her door.

*Catherine calls Nick and lets them know they are on there way back to the lab and Nick informs her that him and Greg are at the diner.*

"Get some rest and please think about talking to us or Gil, don't let this one big fight ruin what the two of you have." She looks at him and gives him a fake smile but it quickly disappeared after a minute. 'I'm not the one ruining it, he is the one who is cheating!'

"Tell Gil that, he needs to clean up his act before I even think about speaking to him." With that she shut her door and Brass went back to the car, and got into the passenger seat. Catherine started to drive off toward the diner that Nick and Greg were at, down at his feet he notices a notepad, it had Sara Grissom written on the front cover. He thought that she must have dropped it when she was getting out of the car. Brass hesitated to open it and read it, but went against his fatherly warnings and started looking through the notepad and he was being very quite. 'Dam if any of this is true, he is going to be a dead man.'

"So, I talked with Nick, they are at the diner waiting for us, did she happen to tell you anything that might be useful?" He looks at Catherine and gives her a smile. 'A little but this notebook has a lot.' he chuckled at his inside joke before including her in.

"Not really, the only thing she said was that Gil needed to clean up her act before she would consider even speaking to him. But I can tell that this notepad will be more of a help then she will be."

"Why, what does it say?"

a/n: r&r please :)