A/N: Sorry it's been a few days, but this one should be good, at least I hope it is, please review and let me know what you think. If you have any suggestions, comments, or questions please let me know. I want to thank Little siss for the suggestion and I hope you like it. Thank you for reading.

Disclaimer: I don't own them but I do borrow them, also I don't own the Spice Girls or their song Let Love Lead the Way.

Chapter 9:

Finally Some Truth-

Nick finishes writing down the rest of the information he got from Grissom. 'Wow I never thought that he would ever confide in me about something like this, something so personal, so privet, something so wrong on every level. Maybe he just really needed someone to talk to. I know if I was in his position I would be ready to explode. I kind of feel like I am in his shoes but that's my fault I had to put myself there.' He shook his head to clear his mind of his thoughts, he then picked up his phone and text Catherine and Greg.

'Got a lot-NS'

Catherine was still in her office signing off on paperwork and overtime slips. Meanwhile Greg was on his way to talk to Sara.

'On my way to SS, fill me in when I fill you in-GS'

Catherine was the last to text back.

'N my office-CW'

Nick then got up and put his coffee cup in the sink, then picked up the fake file folder and left for Catherine's office. When he entered her office she was on the phone so he closed the door quietly .

"Well, Conrad I just sent you the email...Yes your welcome..Have a good shift...Yes....hunhun....Yes I did, she said she would be back tonight....Yes....Okay...Bye.....Goodbye Conrad." She then slammed her phone shut and dropped it on her desk. She then remembered that Nick was in her office.

"Have a seat Nick, So are we waiting for Greg or did he already leave?"

"He left he said to fill him in when he gets back to fill us in on Sara." Catherine nodded her head for him to continue.

"Here is the folder, but I think you better read it to yourself." She takes the folder he handed her.

"So are you going to fill me in?" He looked at her eyes trying to plead with her not to have him speak about it.

"Cath I was threaten with bodily harm if I told a soul, so you read it, then I can say I didn't tell anybody." She chuckled out loud. 'He must have got some really good stuff if Gil threaten him.' She then smiled at him and started to read the notes in the folder that now laid on her desk.

*Meanwhile Greg is just pulling up outside of Sara's house, which is Grissom's old townhouse.*

He got out of his car and headed toward Sara's door. Once he reached her door he let out a big sigh. 'Well here goes nothing...Come on what bad could come of this? She could hurt me, Sara is known for her temper, don't want to get on her bad side, that's the Sidle I don't want to talk to.' He laughed at himself. 'I'm just going to talk and hopefully get her to open up about what really "IS" going on between her and Grissom. Now knock, come on don't chicken out....Now Knock!' With that he knocked softly on her door but made sure it was loud enough for her to hear. He listened for a few minutes but didn't hear anything. 'Maybe she didn't hear me knock.' So he knocked again but a little harder this time and then waited a few more minutes while listening for any sounds but he still didn't hear any sounds, no movements, and no answer at the door. So this time he pounded hard on the door he was worried that something had happened to her. This time he heard footsteps and things being thrown away, then she finally answered the door with a look of irritation.

"Goddammit Greg, I was trying to clean up some of this mess, didn't you hear me say I'll be there in a minute?" He then tried to remember if he had heard her say anything behind the door while he was knocking, but he hadn't and he knew she had to be lieing, he wondered why she would lie about it but shrugged it off his mind.

"Sorry Sara, I didn't hear you inside, I didn't hear you move and I didn't hear you say anything, so I got worried when you didn't answer the door." She looked at him and rolled her eyes.

"You didn't give me a chance to answer the door." Greg's posture changed into a defensive mode.

"Yes I did, I've been waiting out here for what seems like forever!" She took a look at her watch she was waring and laughed at him.

"Greg it's only been 14 minutes since you knocked the very first time. Sorry but I was in the bathroom but it seems like someone is a little too impatient." She chuckled at him some more.

"Sara it's not funny, it's been a really long day, I guess I thought I was out here much longer than I actually was....So are you going to invite me in or...."

"Yea come on in." She opened the door wider and stepped out of the way to let him in. Once he was inside, she checked to make sure nobody else was outside before closing the door behind herself with a hint of disappointment which confused Greg even more. 'I don't understand she told me I could come over but not to bring anyone with me, so who is she looking for outside?'

"Sara?" She turned toward Greg and tried to give him a fake smile to let him know that she was okay but he knew that something was wrong.

"Yes Greg?"

"What's wrong?" She quickly tried to hide her disappointment, her anger, her pain, her heartache, and most of all her guilt.

"What do you mean, 'What's wrong' why would you think something is wrong?" He moved a little closer to her and rub her arm but she step back away from him. He noticed so he stayed where he was at, he didn't want her to get upset or shut down on him before she ever opened up.

"Well for starters, judging by your eyes it looks like you've been crying of hours maybe for days, then there's your hair which doesn't look like you've washed or brushed it in day, then there is the black rings under your eyes, it's the tell-tale sign saying you haven't slept in days or at the very least you haven't had a good night sleep in quite awhile. Should I go on?" She shifted around trying to fix her hair, she rubbed her red eyes, and tried to wipe the sleeplessness out from under her eyes. When she didn't answer his question but had a reaction to what he had said he decided that he might be on to something so he continued to see if he could push her into talking.

"Seeing all those beer bottles out, speaks to me, it tells me your trying to drown out and/or forget a memory, a sorrow, or perhaps a person." She looked at all the bottles and seemed to get a little embarrassed by the excessive amount that she had taken out and planed on drinking. Greg studied her reactions. 'Good I'm getting through to her, I'm making her think, it shouldn't be long now, right?'

"Also, it looks like you haven't eaten anything or at least anything healthy in a good long while, please don't think I'm gay or anything but on my way over here I heard a Spice Girl song on the radio called Let Love Lead The Way and the whole song is good but there is these parts that goes.." He starts to sing to her.......

"Sitting there all alone,
In the window of her room,
Watching the world go by,
Brings tears to her eyes,

All she sees is hurt and pain,
She wants to break the chain,
She'll keep pressing every day,
And she'll find her own sweet way,

What makes this world go round
Will the answer let her down,
She is so sweet and young,
And her life has just begun,

What does her future hold,
That's the story left unknown,
Will she make it through her days,
Let our love lead the way

You may feel weak but you are strong,
Don't you give up, girl

If you keep holding on,
You'll never be wrong,
Just close your eyes,
Cause it lies deep in your heart, yeah

Part of me laughs,
Part of me cries,
Part of me wants to question why,
Why is there joy,
Why is there pain,
Why is there sunshine and the rain,
One day you're here,
Next you are gone,
No matter what we must go on,
Just keep the faith and,
Let love lead the way, "

Greg stops singing and looks at her eyes trying so hard to read her expression but can't figure her out. She looks down at her feet. 'He is right, about everything, there is no way I can hide it, I can't deny it, definitely not to a CSI, especially since all of us including Gil, trained him."

"Okay....Greg you can stop processing, this is not a crime scene." He rose both of his eyebrow just like Grissom would do. She shook her head and chuckled a little. 'He had to have gotten that from Gil, he would be so proud of Greg."

"It isn't? Sara it looks like 'Somebody' tore you up, looks to me like 'Someone' crushed you, burned you, broke you..." She had to cut him off, if she didn't she felt like she was going to break down, her eyes were threatening to release all of her tears, that she had been holding back since Greg got there.

"Greg STOP! Please just stop...I...I..I can't do this, not right now, I'm....I'm not ready!" He moved closer to her and put one of his arms around her shoulder and gave her a friendly, supporting, comforting hug.

"Sorry Sara, I hated to have to state the obvious, but if I asked you how you were holding up you would have said 'I'm Fine' and left it at that, but Sara you need to talk about this or it's just going to build up and eat away at you until it feels like the whole world is crashing down on you all at once." He pulled away from the hug and looked into her eyes, searching for the answers he so desperately wanted and needed to know. She looked back at him and a single tear fell down her right eye. 'Sara don't you do this, your not going to cry in front of Greg, your not going to cry in front of any man, ever again! STOP your tears NOW!' She willed for her tears to not start the flood that threaten to fall from her eyes, she quickly wiped the only tear away and looked at him.

"I'm sorry Greg, but I can't talk about this with you, I...I think it would be best if you leave now. I know that your just trying to help, but I can't accept your help, not right now anyways." She then walked back toward the door and opened it. He took the hint but before he walked out he gave her one last hug and a kiss on the cheek.

"Sara, it's going to get better." She looked at his eyes and gave him a genuine smile. Her eyes sparkled from the sunrise. 'How could Grissom hurt this amazing, beautiful, wonderful, intelligent woman?'

"Thanks Greg, have a good time at work tonight, sorry for keeping you up."

"No, you needed company and I was glad to be here for you, even if I did all the talking, and even if I did make you cry, I'm still glad that I was here."

"Me to thank you...for everything."

He then made his way to his car and left to go to work. He went straight to the lab, but stayed in his parked car in the lab parking lot for about half an hour writing down everything that happened at Sara's house. After he completed writing everything he took out his cell phone and text Catherine.

Catherine was pacing back and forth in her office in front of her desk while Nick was sitting calmly on the sofa watching her. She was yelling but not at anyone in particular.

"That! Oh that! Oh that Asshole! Wait until I get my hands on him! I'm going to kill that Son-Of-A-BITCH!!! I mean how could he?! Why would he?! What if it was the other way around?! And YOU...YOU!!!!" She pointed her finger at Nick, her face was red which made her hair look really blond, he wanted to laugh at the way she looked, hell he wanted to take a picture and send it to everyone at the lab, but he knew that if he did that she was libel to kill him as well as Grissom out of pure rage, that was running through her veins.

"What did I do?"

"You! How...How could you just sit there so calm like this doesn't effect you at all?! Why?! Why are you so calm like he hasn't done anything horrible to hurt your friend?! No wait you said she is your little kid sister, so again I ask WHY?!" He shifts up on the sofa.

"Well..." He knew he was going to regret telling her why.

"Well What?!" She demanded to know his reasoning. 'Has he gone completely mad? Is he insane, wasn't he the one that wanted to kill Grissom for calling Sofia, and I had to calm him down? And now after knowing the God awful truth he just sits there, like this isn't bad at all?'

"Um..I can kind of understand why he...." Just then Catherine's cell phone went off and he was so thankful for his luck. 'Someone or something is definitely looking out for me!' Catherine opened her phone.

"Hello...Hello..Who is this....Listen to me you little punk, I don't want to play your stupid games Asshole, who the hell is this?" Nick looked up at her phone.

"Um..Cath?"

"What? Some asshole is on the phone but won't talk, and won't give me a name!" He starts laughing and she shoots him a look with her evil eyes that seem to turn him ice cold. He swallowed his laughter.

"Catherine nobody is on the phone, it's a text message not a phone call." She looks at her cell phone screen. 'Why didn't I notice that when I picked it up?'

"Oh..I knew that, I just wanted to see if you would let me go around looking like an idiot or not." They both laugh, she then reads the text message from Greg.

'Just got back to lab, done with notes, is NS with you-GS'

'We in my office, come with update-CW'

"Greg is coming with his update on Sara's status." Nick got a little jealous. 'Sara's closer to me then she would ever be to Greg!'

"This should be good, I'll bet you $20 he didn't get any information out of her."

"Your on!" They shook on the bet, then Greg walks in and closes the door behind himself.

"So Nick, what did you get from Grissom?" Nick glanced at Catherine who was turning red all over again, then back at Greg.

"He sorta cheated." Catherine jumped up from her desk and started to pace again. Greg watch Catherine pace and decided not to say a word. 'Looks like a fight is going to happen I will just stand back and listen, maybe I will get their information that way.'

"Sort of? NO Nick he cheated, no ands, ifs, buts, or sort ofs to it!" Nick moved further down the sofa so he could maintain distance between himself and Catherine.

"Well Cath he didn't cheat physically, everything that happen, happened over the phone, now if Sara never had this gut feeling and never called him out on the whole situation, then yes, Sofia is going to see him next month and more than likely he would have cheated." Catherine moved closer to Nick pushing Greg out of her way, but he didn't notice he was too busy digesting the little information they were giving him. Catherine seemed to calm down, she was only about a foot away from Nick and Nick couldn't move any further down the sofa.

"Think Nick....Just think about this question I'm going to ask you....Do 'You' think 'Sara' is going to see it the way 'You' do or do you think 'She' will see it the way everybody else is seeing it?" Nick sat there thinking about her question, then his eyes got real big. 'Dammit why didn't I think about that...Shit it's because I put myself in his shoes but never considered how Sara might react to the news.' He put his head down.

"Sorry you guys, I thought my information was good news, but I never took myself out of his shoes long enough to consider how Sara would feel, once again I lost my prospective." Catherine now moved and sat down on the sofa with Nick and rub his back in a comforting way.

"It's okay Nicky, I'm a little bi-est myself, I relate to Sara because I too was cheated on during my marriage to Eddie, more than once and with more than one woman." Nick nodded that he understood where she was coming from. They both got startled when Greg all of a sudden started to yell.

"That!..That no good piece of....Well you know what I mean!" Greg stopped yelling and put his right hand on top of the right side of his head. "Oh SHIT!" Both Nick and Catherine look at Greg confused.

"What Greg?" They both said together, Greg looks at them and realized what he said out loud.

"Sorry, I didn't realize I was talking out loud. I didn't write it in my report but Sara had this...this look of extreme guilt, the...the kind of look you get when you've done something wrong for all of the wrong reasons." Nick nods his head.

"Yea..um...what is it called, what is that word, it goes right along with guilt most of the time? It's like on the tip of my tongue I just can't think of the word." Catherine looks down and lets out a sigh, she knows it all too well. She looks back up at the two young men and wipes the tear that escaped down her face.

"Revenge Guilt, you feel guilty for having the thought or if you actually went through with your thoughts of revenge, either way your going to have the guilt, because you know that two wrongs don't make a right, and you know that as much as the person you love hurt you, you can't stand the thought of you hurting them. It's a double edge sward." They all sigh and the only word all three could say was "Dam!" Then Nick looks up from staring at the floor and his eyes then stare at the wall behind Catherine's desk, he has a look of defeat on his face.

"Cath I think it's time to....." Catherine cut's him off she couldn't let him finish the rest of his sentence. 'We can't quite not until we are defeated and it's not at that point yet.'

"No Nick, I'm not giving up, they deserve to be happy and they need each other. Plus we still have our secret weapon!" Both Nick and Greg look at each other then back at Catherine. All three smile and say.

"Brass!" Just then Brass walks in.

"Yes?"

*Meanwhile at Sara's townhouse

Sara has now moved to her couch and is looking around her living room. 'I can't do this, time to throw away all these beers and clean up this place.' She then gets up and goes to the kitchen she starts the coffee pot and grabs a trash bag, she goes back to the living room and throws away all of her beers and cleans up. She then goes into her bedroom and pulls out her pajamas and heads toward the bathroom. She takes a quick shower and puts on her clean pajamas, she then goes to her office and picks up a notebook and a pen, and heads back to the living room, she puts the items down on the coffee table and goes back to the kitchen, and pours herself a cup of coffee. She goes back to the living room and sits back on the couch. She takes a sip of coffee and puts the cup down on the table. She looks around her living room for something to do.

"Well I was once told that writing can help you focus and help you with you emotional pain, so I guess it won't hurt to try." She picks up the notebook and pen and leans back on the couch and starts writing.

*Meanwhile back at the lab.

Greg is walking down the hallway when he sees Sofia and another woman talking in the layout room, he remembered the woman from day shift, she was new, and he already had a bad feeling about her. So he stopped and listened to their conversation.

"So are you ever going to tell me who this mystery man of yours is?"

"Not yet, we've got a couple of personal issues to deal with before I can make it official." The other woman was very curious about the secret Sofia was keeping.

"Do I know him, and what kind of personal things?" Sofia starts laughing a little bit.

"Yea you know him, hell everybody knows him, well you know next month I'm going to go and see him, I'm going to convince him to move back here and we have to get his wife out of the picture also, she is such a drag!" The woman's eyes got really big.

"You mean, your the other woman?"

"Not really, I mean she kind of left him, so all I'm waiting for is for one of them to do the divorce paperwork, then I'll make him all mine." Sofia starts laughing and the other woman just shakes her head in disbelief.

"Your terrible!" The other woman storms out of the room. Sofia watches her leave then notices Greg coming inside the room. Sofia stopped laughing and just looked at Greg giving him a bragging smile, she new that Greg and Sara were close friends.

"Hi Greg, how are you?"

"Your a bitch, if you were a man I would kick your ass all the way down the strip, then have Sara finish you off!"

"Ah...Greg I thought you would be happy about their split up, now you can make your move on the woman you have a crush on, and not have Grissom kill you." Greg moves closer to her and gets into her face and starts yelling.

"You don't know a God dam thing! I suggest you shut the hell up!"

"Why, what are you going to do if I don't?" Sofia still had that smile and all Greg wanted to do was slap it off her face.

"You need to get over yourself, he loves her not you, Your Just Jealous! You can never have what they have!" Just then Nick walks in, he had overheard their whole conversation.

"Greg everything okay here?" Greg didn't look away from Sofia.

"Hey Nick, did you need something?" Nick figured that had to defuse the situation and quick before something bad happened.

"Greg go get some coffee and I think Catherine was looking for you." Greg turns around and looks at Nick.

"Fine..." He turns back to Sofia. "And we're not done, I will be back." Sofia laughed at him.

"Famous last words, Greg, it doesn't mean a thing." He then turns around and walks out the door to the break room. Sofia turns to Nick knowing that Nick and Sara are like Brother and Sister, so she gave that same bragging look to Nick that she gave to Greg.

"Thanks Nick he was getting kind of close to my face." Nick rolled his eyes. 'Everything is always about her, she is a stupid bitch!'

"I didn't do it for you, I did it for Greg."

"Nick there isn't any reason to lie, you can admit that you care about me but just remember that I am already taken." Nick crosses his arms.

"Please, for one your hideous why would I ever want someone who is so self-absorbed..." Sofia cuts him off.

"Well Grissom doesn't have a problem with it!" Nick gets into her face without even realizing it, and starts yelling.

"Yea right! If Grissom wants you so bad then why the hell is he trying so hard to get Sara back?!" Sofia steps back and crosses her arms and still has that stupid smile on her face.

"He wasn't thinking about her when we talked this morning!" As Nick was getting closer to Sofia, Catherine walked in after hearing the verbal sparing going on. Nick started to raise his hand to Sofia. Catherine saw this and quickly got his attention before he could do anything stupid.

"Nick get your ass out of here!" Nick dropped his had and swung around to see Catherine.

"Cath I just..." Catherine cuts him off.

"I said get you ass out of here NOW!" He put both of his arms in the air to signal his defeat to Catherine.

"Alright, Fine, I'm leaving..." He turns back around to Sofia and points at her. "This isn't over, I just hope there is a piece left of you for Sara when she gets back." He then turns and walks out to the break room. Sofia looks at Catherine with the smile she had given to both Nick and Greg and uncrosses her arms. Sofia knew that Catherine was like the mom to everybody but she wasn't sure if it was safe to piss her off. Before Sofia could say anything Catherine jumped right into the conversation.

"You need to wipe that smile off your face before Sara or myself do it for you, and another thing Grissom doesn't want you, he never has, if he did then why did he marry Sara and why is he trying so God Dam Hard to get her back?" Sofia's mouth was wide open in shock. "Now if you continue to go around 'OUR' lab boasting and bragging about this whole situation I can promise you two things, one that your going to have your ass kicked more than once by myself and Sara, and two you will be looking for a new job!"

"And why would I be looking for a new job?"

"You won't want and you won't have this one, need I say anything else?" Sofia scuffed at her.

"No, I'm going back to work!" Sofia left and Catherine went into the break room to find her two CSIs. Greg was siting on the couch staring at the floor and Nick was getting a cup of coffee. Nick turns around and sees Catherine.

"So what happened with Sofia, did you give her a black eye, or a fat lip, can I see?" Catherine laughs.

"No Nicky I didn't touch her but if I hear anything else like that come out of her mouth, she will be hurting for awhile and then I will sick Sara on her and enjoy the show." They all start laughing. "So are you two still helping Brass with finalizing his plan?" Greg gets up from the couch.

"Yea, Nick and I got one more thing to do but we're waiting on the call from Brass."

"Alright, you two go home and get some rest, see you later at shift." They start walking out but then Nick turns around.

"Hey Cath are you going to go home? You look really tired." She then starts walking toward them.

"Yea I better get home, I could use some sleep."