The tenderness of Grissom still continued to shock Sara over the following months. He still made sure she ate right, made sure she got enough rest, made sure that she walked short distances but refused to let her walk further than she should. The restrictions he placed on her at work though both annoyed and touched her. She was annoyed that she was no longer allowed to work out in the field unless it was nearby and there was at least one other person working on the case (usually Grissom as the rest barely dared to take her out of the building without his approval after what he had done to Greg when he had persuaded her to take him out on a case in the desert so that he could practice.) She was touched though by both how much he cared for her and their baby.
Also at how she would enter a room in the lab and only a few minutes later he would appear there with a stool and some juice for her. She was surprised at how quickly her pregnancy passed. She had only seemed to have blinked before she realised that her due date was only a few weeks away and she was only reminded by Grissom telling her that she needed to go to one of her last checkups that she would have until the baby was been born.
Everyone had accepted both her and Grissoms relationship and Warrick and Catherines. Sara smiled at the time they had all gone to breakfast for the first time when all 4 of them were open at their relationships. She had been sat leaning on Grissom and head just kissed him and Catherine was holding Warricks hand when Nick suddenly looked at Greg. "Hey man, I think we need to get some girlfriends, and real soon." He turned to look back at the rest of the team "Everyone else seems to be hooking up with one of the team. And I don't particularly like the partner I've been left with" He said pointing his head in Greg's direction, soliciting a punch from Greg and laughter from everyone else.
The smile was still on her face at the memory when Grissom came into the bedroom smiling at her. He kissed her on the forehead before greeting her.
"Morning my love. Glad to see you're awake now." She smiled gently but didn't say anything. Seeing in his face that he wanted to tell or ask her something.
"Darling do you know what I've just realised. You're already months past the stage where you should have had morning sickness. But I never saw you having any. Did you just not get any 'cos that's rare and not a good sign."
Sara smiled again at his concern. "No, I just got it really early in the morning while you were still asleep. It stopped after about 4 months in though. I never wanted to wake you was all. You couldn't have done anything anyway and it wasn't that bad."
"Sweetie, you could've woken me up. I wouldn't have minded." She shrugged.
"You needed the sleep." Grissom sighed knowing that he wouldn't win this one.
"Fine. I think you win this one. But next time wake me up, ok?"
"Next time?"
Grissom's eyes widened when he realised what it must have sounded like he had implied. "Sara. I didn't mean next time you have morning sickness if you have another baby. I meant next time something is happening with you or whenever you wake up for whatever reason or -"
He was silenced as she lay a finger on his lips, "I know what you meant." she whispered. She smiled gently at him. "You should have seen your face though while you were ranting" she muttered after a moment straining to stifle the giggles threatening to come out. He mock glared at her and then laughed as her giggles broke through.
Instead of saying anything he climbed onto the bed, placed a pillow against the headboard and sat back against it. He reached out and pulled Sara into his arms and they simply lay there one of his hands stoking her hair, while his other lay entwined with hers above her, now rather large, stomach.
They lay there until the alarm went off. They were usually up before hand but still left it set in case they slept in. He reached over and hit snooze, the silence now broken.
"Sara, your due date is a week and a day away now isn't it?"
"Yeah, as of tomorrow."
"Well then you do realise you can't technically come into work anymore."
She sat up and turned around to face him.
"Gil, we've been through this. I am not going to stop work just because I'm pregnant, I'm already confined to the lab virtually, you're not keeping me cooped up at home."
"Sweetie, legally, you have to stop work when your due date is 2 weeks away. all I've done is limit you to the lab. But the baby could arrive anytime now, you can't keep coming into work. You're already a week over when you should come."
"Gil!" She sighed exasperatedly, "You can't expect me to stay at home all day by myself until the baby comes. I'll go mad. Your the supervisor, can't you pull some strings or something."
"Darling, I've already pulled all the strings I can pull. You can come into the lab but you can't work. That's the best I can do. With you gone and Nick off at that conference for two days we're short-handed. I can't get the time off, not until Nick comes back. And then I promise I won't leave you home alone."
Sara pouted and Grissom laid his thumb on her stuck out bottom lip, smiling at how absolutely adorable she looked. "Promise?" she asked
"Nothing could keep me away." He promised, Sara smiled at him softly. "Come on then, let's go get some breakfast." She allowed him to drag her up off the bed with her hand and lead her into the kitchen.
He sat Sara down a stool before he started making the breakfast chatting idly to her as he did. When he stopped she asked him a question which had being confusing her.
"Gil? What are we going to do about my apartment? What I mean is we've been spending more and more time here, I don't think I've slept in my apartment in about 4 months, and you've already set up the nursery here I just don't see the need for my apartment anymore."
When he didn't reply Sara bit her lip anxiously, scared that she had pushed too much.
"I obviously mean if that's alright with you, I'm not meaning to push you or anything, I don't want to make it seem like I'm forcing you to live with me, it's just that we haven't spent a night apart since I got back, and I think we've spent very little time in different places, your house definitely has the most space, and you've already set the nursery up here, which is beautiful still by the way, I don't want to make you feel pressured -"
He kissed her forehead and pulled her into a hug to cut her off. He stroked her hair as he held her to calm her down. "You're adorable when you whitter and rant like that." And yes Sara, I would love to officially live with you. I was just thinking about different options. We could either keep it if you want, because of memories there, or we can let it go. Seen as you were renting it in the first place we can't rent it out to anyone else and keep it and we can't sell it."
"Well, I do like it but I think most of my best memories are here. I mean our first time was here, the first time you told me that you loved me and that you needed me to be with you was here, also that night. But most of my happy memories are here since I came to Vegas, and either way virtually all of them have been with you, so as long as I'm with you I don't really need the other apartment. I can't thing of any good especially good memories from there, I mean we were there when I told you the baby was yours and when we had any arguments about the clinic it was over there." Grissom nodded.
"Our first kiss was there though, the first time I realised how deeply I loved you was there, the first time I held you close in Vegas was there. So there are quite a few good moments there."
"But the only one of those which I can share in was the kiss, and although that was pretty good I don't think we need the apartment."
Grissom nodded and still kept hold of her. "We can talk to your landlord in a few days then."
Grissom kissed the top of her head and let go of her as he continued breakfast. When he had finished he turned around and saw that she was no longer sat on the stool. Curious he laid down the food and went in search of her. He eventually found her sat in the nursery.
"I still can't believe you got all this ready for me. I was only gone for the afternoon." She said to him, still staring out of the window without turning around. He came across to the chair, pulled her up out of it, sat down and then pulled her back down so that she was sat on his lap.
"I wanted it to be perfect for you."
"It's beautiful." She said smiling as she remembered what he had done. She had been gone for an afternoon for one of her checks, the doctor had been scared that she had been gaining too much weight, Grissom for once had decided not to go with her, saying that he had to stay at home and get some paperwork done. She had headed off for the appointment and when she had got back found him standing nervously checking around the spare room, which while she had been gone had been turned into the ideal nursery. Complete with a neutral cot, mobiles above the cot, blankets placed on top of the box, the perfect chair for sitting in to send the baby to sleep, even down to changing the light fittings to ones which a child was more likely to like.
He shifted slightly, bringing her back to the present, realising that she had been lost in her thoughts for a while. "I think the breakfast will be getting cold" he murmured into her ear. She nodded slightly and stood up, Grissom followed her up and then followed her into the kitchen. They sat eating breakfast idly discussing various topics, none of which were of great importance. After a while Grissom though knew that he would soon have to go to work.
"Right, I'm off to go shower and get dressed." Sara nodded sadly, understanding that he would have to leave soon.
Grissom came out of the shower, and was surprised by Sara immediately getting in after him, they normally only did that when they both had to get to work. He shrugged and soon began to dress, again shocked to see Sara doing the same as him. Placing on the maternitysuit skirton (she had been unable to find any pants she could actually work in for months)which she normally only wore at work, and placing on a reasonably smart maternity shirt, one she had occasionally gone to work in. Grissom said nothing and continued to get ready, only saying something when she stood waiting by the door for him.
"Sara, you know you can't work."
"And Gil I'm not going to actually work, you said I could come to the lab as long as I didn't work. So that's what I'm going to do. I've got a baby book with me to read, and their are always forensic magazines there if I get bored."
Grissom knew that he also wouldn't win this one, instead he simply held his hand out to her and took her with him to work.
The team had known that she would be leaving soon and all had assumed that she would go when she reached two weeks before and greeted her with varying degrees of surprise when they saw her, but with the same understanding dawning on their faces when she explained that she was only staying in the lab and not actually working.
None of them were surprised when shift started to see that Grissom had decided that as his case was finished he would catch up on paperwork in the break room, even though there was another case which needed attention he simply split up Warrick and Catherine instead, so that he could 'do paperwork.' His excuse fooled no-one. But none of them said anything, understanding that there were virtually no circumstances which could keep him away from Sara this close to her due date and for such a long time.