Summary: The virus breaks out in Las Vegas and the team are forced to believe in what is being said in the news. It's not long before Grissom starts his own experiment to see if he can cure the virus once and for all but not before all hell breaks loose.

Disclaimer: I don't own CSI or the 28 days later series, I never will and it makes me sad to keep saying it D: I do not have a Beta all mistakes are mine unfortunately!

Thanks: I have to give a big thanks Jenstog for the lemon idea, if you didn't give me it the chapter would have come up slower than this! Everyone else that has reviewed and alerted the story, Thank you also.

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"What the hell are you on? You'll get yourself killed!" Sara began to shout, no doubt for the lack of sleep she's now suffering from and maybe because he had finally admitted to his feelings and is now deciding to go face his mortality.

"Just let me go, for now I'll be just fine." He replied, walking over to her.

"If you go then I want to come too."

The whole room stayed silent listening to the couple arguing in the corner. Catherine read between the lines and noticed there was something a little different in the pair's demeanour. Not wanting to disturb them she stood calmly hoping that one of them will come to their senses.

"Listen honey, I can't have anything happen to you. Just let me go. I promise I'll be back." He smiled trying to comfort her.

Sara lent in to whisper in his ear, she didn't want their impending relationship to be broadcasted straight away. "If you go, I'm coming. If something was to happen, we'd go down together. Please. I couldn't face a life without you, not now." More tears stained her cheeks and he wiped them away.

"Okay, an extra pair of eyes and hands might help." He rose from his crouching position and held out a hand to pull her up. Grissom turned to rest of the team to fill them in.

"Me and Sara are going. The rest of you stay here, no objections." They headed for the office door and donned the help of he others to move the objects blocking their path. "We'll be back as quick as we can." With that the couple had left.

The hallway was strewn with dead bodies as the lights were flickering on and off. The amount of horror movies they had seen didn't compare to the picture in front of them.

"You got your keys?" Grissom whispered.

"No you?"

"I left them in the DNA lab, give me a second." He reached out for her hand and guided her around the corpses on the floor into the destroyed lab. Glass lay dormant on the ground as well as broken microscopes and unprocessed DNA samples. His keys still occupied the space where he left them previously, grabbing them, they quickly made their way to the parking lot.

"Get in and lock the doors." He told her while pacing to the driver's side.

"What is your plan then?" She asked with curiosity.

"Lemons." He couldn't have said it more bluntly.

"Excuse me?"

"I remember a few years back, some students I worked with back at Harvard had created an active substance that seemed to have a mind of its own. I figured that if it was present in the right conditions, in something with a mind of itself, it could be lethal."

"And?"

"Well moments ago I realised that this 'virus' was more or less acting in the same way. Back then I added lemon juice to it so it was effectively killed off and it was practically incapacitated seconds later. I didn't really think much of it until now."

"I see where this is going. If it is similar, what makes you think this is going to work in the same way? I mean that's the type of solution you get in a horror comedy! We still don't know the properties of the virus yet."

"I know and this seems to have more truth to it for once. Some of the simplest ideas become the most complexed solution."

"Who said that?" One eyebrow arose at her confusion that she actually didn't know who said it.

"I did." A laugh escaped his lips. The amount of times he's quoted to her and she'd always known the source made him smile but the one time where he actually made something up himself came as humorous.

"Oh you are very funny!"

"I thought so." She joined in with his laugh this time.

After driving around trashed streets, they finally came to a deserted grocery store. Carefully getting out of the Denali they took small steps to the store, there was no indication that anyone was present. Sara withdrew her gun as Grissom walked in first, covering his back. Luckily there was a fresh batch of lemons in a crate beside the counter and he picked it up and they headed back for the car.

"Is that enough?" Sara pondered.

"Should be, do you want to find another shop just to be sure?"

"Would that be a good idea?"

"Maybe. Alright there must be another one nearby, we'll go and get back to the others." Locking the car doors behind them once again they drove off in search of another shop that catered plenty of lemons.

This time they weren't so lucky, the place they was occupied by a couple of the infected. With no hesitation Grissom pushed Sara behind him and shot them both in the head. She didn't bother to protest when he had defended her instead she was a little touched by his protective streak. They picked up a couple more cases of the lemons and headed back to the lab.

The sun was just about to set and Grissom thought that if none of this had happened, he and his team would be on their way to work.

"In some sort of sick and twisted way, I'm glad this happened." His low voice broke the comfortable silence between the two.

"Why?"

"Because now I feel like I can tell you anything, if I hadn't built up the courage to tell you how I much I care about you then we might have been stuck in between being complicated friends or just being colleagues."

"We have each other now, that's the main thing. Don't dawn on it anymore."

"I love you, Sara." The words came easier than expected, probably because they were the most truthful words to ever come out of his mouth. Relief flushed over him at the thought of being able to finally say that to her.

"I love you too."

She reached for his hand, fingers entwined and they didn't let go until they needed to exit the vehicle.

TBC

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A/n: Hmmm this is starting to get unusual but it's kind of funny. This is the shortest chapter but i thought it was good to leave it there. I'm still puzzled on where to make this story go. As I said GSR has happened XD Like before any ideas come to your minds…share and I'll give you credit don't worry about that!