A/N - this chapter was done, but not typed up, my little sister had surgery, so I haven't had a chance to get this up! But on a good note, I am Vegas bound this winter!! What are the odds they will be filming in Vegas when I'm there? Lol.

Grissom stared at his long time colleague across the diner table. Sara was trying to avoid eye contact at all costs; she silently stared into her cup of green tea.

"Well I didn't expect to see that." Jim laughed, finally breaking the ice.

"Well, we didn't expect to see anyone we knew here." Grissom said.

"I gathered." Jim smiled as he took a sip of his coffee.

Grissom reached over, under the table, and gave Sara's knee a soft squeeze. She bit her lip and looked up at Brass.

"Two years." She said, barely audible.

"What was that?" Brass leaned in.

"She said 'two years'; we've been seeing each other for a little over two years." Grissom stated matter of factly.

"Seriously?" Brass sat up straight. "So this is... serious?"

"Yeah, it's serious." Grissom told him.

"Wow... I mean, WOW. I didn't expect... WOW!" He stammered.

"Look, Jim, you understand why we haven't..." Grissom started.

"Told anyone? Yeah I understand. I won't tell a soul, you're secret is safe with me." He smiled. "As long as I get some info here, if I'm keeping a secret this monumental, I want to know some details."

Grissom laughed quietly, Sara looked as though she might lose her breakfast before she even had a chance to eat it.

"Are you ok Sara?" Grissom asked.

"Yeah, it's just; I mean we tried to be careful. We were just getting too confident" She whispered.

"If you two are serious and love each other, you shouldn't have any shame Sara." Brass told her in a serious tone.

Sara sat up straight and adjusted herself in her seat.

"I know, I am not ashamed... we just needed to be more careful. If this were to get back to Ecklie... I just,I just, I like my job here, and I don't want to lose it." Sara sighed.

"I understand." Brass smiled as the waitress set their food down. "Just be thankful I saw you, and it wasn't Catherine."

"Oh God." Sara grunted.

Grissom laughed. "She would have lost it"

Sara finally allowed herself to smile. "That would have been BAD"

"So how serious is serious?" Brass questioned as he started munching on toast.

"We live together." Sara said flatly, stirring her tea.

"We have a dog." Grissom smiled as he scooped up his eggs.

"Ok, so very serious." Brass laughed.

"I guess it is" Grissom smiled as he reached over and squeezed Sara's hand. She flashed a sly smile back at him.

"Oh God, you guys aren't... married are you??" Brass asked, a little alarmed.

"NO!" Sara and Grissom nearly yelled in unison.

"Oh thank God! I thought maybe you pulled a Warrick on me!" Brass laughed.

"Oh no, that would be too risky." Sara said.

"We're happy as is." Grissom smiled.

"So, how the hell have you kept this a secret so long?" Brass questioned.

"We are just very careful. We take our own cars to work, we take different routes. We don't arrive or leave together at the lab unless it is case related." Sara told him.

"We shop in Henderson; we pull into the garage and shut the door before we get out. We walk the dog in the morning, before the sun comes out..." Grissom added.

"Wow, if you were my neighbors I'd think you were in witness protection!" Jim laughed. "You run a tight ship there... do you really go all the way into Henderson to shop?"

"Sometimes we go as far as Boulder City or we'll go to Pahrump. We go on our day off; we make an entire day of it." Grissom smiled as he waived the waitress over for more coffee.

"You'd have to! I cannot believe you go to Boulder City to shop!" Brass was clearly surprised by the lengths the pair had gone to, to hide their relationship.

"We have our routine now, it works." Sara said. "Well, it worked..."

"You know I rarely come here, this was just coincidence." Jim smiled.

"I know. I just wished you hadn't seen me making out with Grissom." Sara shook her head.

Brass let out a belly laugh. "You could have knocked me over with a feather at that moment... when I realized who you were, I nearly fainted!"

Sara laughed. "I was just as shocked to see you!"

"She was! She could barely speak!" Grissom laughed, choking on his coffee a bit.

Brass smiled as he looked at the pair exchanges glances across the table." You know, you guys are fun outside of work." He laughed.

Sara shook her head as they pulled into the garage. It had been a silent ride home.

"It's ok Sara. Jim is a man of his word. If he said he'd keep our secret, he will keep it." Grissom reached over and stroked her hair.

"I know... "She let out a heavy sigh."But what if it had been Catherine? I don't think that would be a secret she could keep."

"Well then we will just have to be thankful it was Jim, not Catherine" Grissom smiled as they came into the house."

"We have to be more careful." Sara decided out loud.

"Sara, we are careful. But we do live together; we do go out and do things together. What are you proposing? We act like a couple inside the confines of these four walls, but once we leave the house we act as though the other doesn't exist?"

Sara sighed softly; she knew Grissom was right, though she wasn't going to admit it.

"We just can't have Catherine, or Nick, or Greg, or anyone else finding out. I am being cautious because we could both lose our jobs Gil. This is serious."

Grissom reached down and planted a soft kiss on her forehead.

"Coming to bed?" He asked, holding out his hand.

"Yeah" She sighed as she took his hand and headed up the stairs.