Behind The Scenes Chapter 37: Leapin' Lizards, a csi fanfic

Behind The Scenes

By: supercsi4

Chapter 37 – Leapin' Lizards

SARA:

Well this week was our two year anniversary of our first date, first kiss, first time we had sex, ok, it's not like I'm a whore or anything, I mean we had know each other for seven years before our first night together. Anyways, as suggested, Grissom took me out in a limo, out to dinner and then to the zoo, yes, the zoo. A midnight stroll thru the zoo and then more sex in the limo, though it was parked in our driveway, so we had a little more privacy then in our lab's garage.

We finally had to get inside to walk Bruno and then I was relaxing in bed while Grissom and Bruno watched Godzilla next to me. Why Godzilla? Because we had yet another weird case at work. We were investigating a missing woman named Chyna, when we stumbled across a group of "Alien Survivors" who believed that we humans had been invaded by extraterrestrial reptilian creatures. Yeah. These people really were crazy, and to add to their insanity, they were also very violent. I'm talking chopping people heads off violent.

At our crime scene I walked in the house to find Grissom flipping thru books and magazines in a room covered with photos and drawing of aliens and UFOs.

"Want me to take the living room? Looks like Armageddon came on a Thursday." I asked him.

"Do you believe that intelligent life exists on other planets?" He knows I don't, and I know he doesn't, so where is going with this?

"I'm not sure there's intelligent life on this planet…I was just I the barn." Where Grissom had found Chyna's taxidermy head on a plaque on the wall.

I finished processing the living room, as Grissom began watching a film in our UFO/alien obsessed house. I walked in to see what Grissom was up to because I was ready call it a day and go celebrate our anniversary. A Sidney Buckman, king of an UFO club, was on the screen running his mouth.

"History is replete with stories of the heroic destruction of serpents: Perseus and Medusa, St. George and the Dragon, St. Patrick and the Snakes of Ireland. But these are not merely legends…"

"What is this?" I asked him.

"I think their UFO club is based on the teachings of this guy."

"…and the natural form of these invaders is not human. They are described in ancient accounts as serpents and dragons. And man's weapon against them is the sword. Cut off the tail, the serpent lives. Cut off its head, and it dies."

"So Connors cut off her head because he thought she was a serpent from outer space?" I couldn't even believe it as the words came out of my mouth.

Finally after the short film was over and we had interviewed a few of the alien weirdoes, Grissom was tired of this absurd case and came to the conclusion nothing worthwhile was going to come of this case, so we didn't need to stay. We left work early and let the rest of the team wrap up the case, it was our anniversary after all.

So like I said before, our anniversary was wonderful and it all just reminded me of why I still love Grissom so very much.

So we were in bed with Bruno, watching Godzilla. Godzilla was stomping thru the city, people were running around screaming as the monster was smashing into more buildings.

"I always feel sorry for the monster." I said.

"Then you better turn it off before they use the Oxygen Destroyer on him." He was really enjoying this movie. A few minutes later he got up and walked into his study, he had only really wanted to watch his favorite part. Bruno followed him and I grabbed for the remote to find something else to watch. I reached over to put my yogurt down on the bedside table and noticed an envelope sticking out between the pages of a book.

Now, I'll be the first to admit that I am a nosey person, I mean I am a CSI, so I pulled the envelope out and my name was written on it, so naturally it's ok for me to open it up and read it.

It was a letter from Grissom to me, I assume when he left to teach that seminar for a few weeks. It read…

I don't know why I find it so difficult to express my feelings to you. Even though we're far apart, I can see you as vividly as if you were here with me. I said I'll miss you, and I do.

As Shakespeare more ably wrote my sentiment in Sonnet 47,

"Thyself away art present still with me;

For thou not farther than my thoughts canst move,

and I am still with them…

Or, if they sleep, thy picture in my sight,

Awakes my heart to heart's and eye's delight."

Reading that letter was all I needed, not a fancy dinner or limo ride, but reading those words on that paper, which I knew was incredibly hard for Grissom to express, meant more to me then anything he could have given me.

I got out of bed and walked into his study where he was working on that damn miniature again. I walked up to him, pushed his arms away from the desk and sat down onto his lap. I placed my hands on both sides of his face, told him how much I loved him and kissed him long and hard.

"Well, I guess this can wait," he whispered, as he picked me up and carried me back to bed.

GRISSOM:

So this week was Sara and my two year anniversary. I really can't believe it has already been two years and since we've been keeping all this a big secret I can't even tell anyone else how excited I am to still be with Sara after two whole years. So just as I had planned, I took Sara out for a limo ride thru the city and out to dinner and then for a late night stroll thru the zoo. Then we took the limo home and had some more fun in the limo, but this time it was parked in our driveway rather then our lab's garage.

We finally had to get inside to take Bruno out for his walk and then we settled down on our bed and flipping thru channels, I found Godzilla, how ironic after our last case. We were investigating a missing woman named Chyna, but instead we found a group of people claiming to be "Alien Survivors," and they believed that humans were being invaded by extraterrestrial reptilian creatures.

We did find Chyna's taxidermy head on a plaque at the Connors residence, so that's where I was, looking farther into all this alien conspiracy stuff.

I was flipping thru a book titled, "To Walk Among Us," which included drawings of aliens, UFOs and other unidentified creatures. The next book I picked up was called, "Serpents of the Universe: A Comprehensive Account of the Reptilian Conspiracy." I wasn't sure how much of this case I was going to be able to handle. The deeper and deeper into this investigation I got, the more and more I just wanted to hand off the case, take Sara home and get to celebrating our anniversary.

Looking around the room, there were various items on the table, including UFO magazines, a photo, tin foil, and tape. I picked up a photo of two men and a woman and then a flyer which read, "April 15, 2006 Friendship Auditorium McCade, Nevada, Special Presentation based on the work of Dr. Sidney Buckman, We are not alone. Come hear the truth."

That's when Sara walked in and that was just what I needed to cheer me up a little.

"Want me to take the living room?" No, I want you to take me home.

"Do you believe that intelligent life exists on other planets?"

"I'm not sure there's intelligent life on this planet." Ah, she had just come from the barn where I had found the taxidermy head.

She left to examine the living room and I flipped on a film presented by Dr. Sidney Buckman, who turned out to be some sort of chairman of an UFO club.

"History is replete with stories of the heroic destruction of serpents: Perseus and Medusa, St. George and the Dragon, St. Patrick and the Snakes of Ireland. But these are not merely legends…"

Sara finished processing the living room and came back in to join me. "What is this?" She asked me after hearing what Dr. Buckman was saying on the screen.

"I think their UFO club is based on the teachings of this guy." I said.

"So Connors cut off her head because he thought she was a serpent from outer space?" It sounded strange, but not for Las Vegas.

Finally, after the third crazy alien enthusiast we interviewed, I decided I was finished. So I handed off the rest of the case to Catherine to wrap up and took Sara home. We had a fantastic night and ended up back at home laying in bed with Bruno, my favorite thing to do these days. So I decided on watching Godzilla just for a little while because I wanted to see my favorite part and describe it all in detail to Sara as we watched it. Then I knew she was getting bored and I wanted to go work on my miniature, so I got up and Bruno followed me to my study.

About five minutes later, I don't know what became of Sara, but she came strolling into my study, planted herself onto my lap and started kissing me, starting off so tenderly, her desire began to grow and I knew where she was going. So I carried her back to bed to give her one last anniversary present.