Catherine just stared at Grissom, as he continued to smile softly in the direction of Sara. She again felt the pang of wanting a man like that.

She had a tear standing in the corner of one eye when Grissom turned back to face her. The tender expression still on his face.

"Cath, I was a fool before. I love her. Have since I met her. I don't think anything could make me stop loving her now. I never want to do anything to jeopardize this. I love her."

He smiled weakly at her before turning and heading towards Sara. "I just hope Sara realises how lucky she is." Catherine muttered under her breath as she watched the two of them.

Sara was still being slightly ratty, no-one could blame her under the circumstances, Catherine was surprised at how calm she still seemed. She just watched as Grissom walked towards her. Watched as he cupped her cheek and told her he loved her, as he kissed her gently, how he just watched her, how the pain flashed across his face as clearly as Sara's when she received another contraction.

She breathed out a sigh. She then smiled lightly and went to go talk to the rest of the team. Sara and Grissom didn't want to be interrupted right now.

Sara raised her head up and looked down, "Doc, please tell me its good news." She almost begged. Doc. Robbins smiled a sympathetic smile at her.

"7cm. Almost there, will probably be a few more hours."

Sara just flopped, her head fell back against the pillow. "I've been at this for 6 hours. We still don't even have any power." She growled at the ceiling, aiming at no-one in particular.

Grissom came closer to her side and took one of her hands in both her hands.

"Sweetie, Judi's keeping an eye out of the window for any lights, as soon as any hospitals can take people in again then we'll go to one. I promise. I'm really proud of you honey. You're doing brilliantly."

Sara suddenly reached across with her spare hand and grabbed Grissom by the collar, pulling him closer to her, her hand closing about his shirt.

"Don't you dare patronise me Gil Grissom. You're the reason I'm like this." She glared at him.

Grissom gently unwound her hand from his shirt. Kissed her palm and held onto her hand. Sara's glare soon melted under his gaze and his gentle encouraging smile. She didn't smile back though. Instead she just groaned and threw her head back against the pillow in frustration.

Catherine resisted the urge to smile. She had been right, Sara was snapping at Gil. She was also glad she had warned Grissom about it, and thanked him silently for his support of Sara, she needed it.

Nick and Warrick shuffled closer to her along with Greg. They had all stepped back as one man when Doc. Robbins had said he needed to check her again to see how far along she was. Catherine had tried not to laugh out loud at their joint expression and reaction. Typical guys.

Catherine also stepped closer to Sara and took hold of her hand.

"You're doing really great Sara." She told her, her comment was mixed with a glare and a grateful smile. Catherine squeezed her hand and headed towards Doc. Robbins.

"Al, you sure there's nothing you can give her for the pain." She asked him quietly.

He shook his head sadly. "I would have already given it to her if there was anything Catherine. She's doing great so far though. If it gets too much for her about the only thing I can do is put her out, I really don't want to do that though. She's hanging on well so far. She's almost at the end of the first phase. You might want to talk to the guys though. I'm not sure if Sara will want them here during the actual thing."

"I would do, but there's nowhere else they can go, the techs have only got one lamp left still working, I told them they should only run one at once. And the rest of the ones here we need for you during the actual thing."

Al nodded. "At least see if you can find some fabric or something to make a partition, at the least to cover Sara a bit more, I can't use her skirt to cover her up during the actual thing."

Catherine nodded and went off in search of fabric.

Al's head suddenly flipped to Sara as did the rest of the guys as Sara let out a sudden yelp of pain. 'On second thoughts I might go double-check the morgue to see if there is anything I can give her.'

On the way down he stopped to grab one lantern and to tell Catherine not to bother about the fabric as he could bring the right kind of material up from the morgue and told her what he was looking for.

A short while later he appeared back, his search having turned up nothing in the way of painkillers. Sara glanced hopefully at him when he entered, but felt ready to cry when he shook his head slightly.

Another few hours had passed. Nothing had altered, the guys had all come over to Sara and spoken to her for a short while in turn. Grissom had refused to leave her side and Catherine was offering all the support she could, mainly just by being only other person in the room to have given birth. Sara's pain was obviously getting worse, and also closer together.

She was almost screaming each time a contraction hit her and every time one did tears began rolling down her face. Grissom was only just holding the tears back, and not just because she had almost broken his hand from squeezing it so much.

Sara desperately looked towards Al, a plea in her eyes for it to be over. "Al, please tell me I'm nearly there."

"I can check for you if you want Sara."

She nodded her head fervently, biting her lip to keep herself from crying. Al moved to where the pile of gloves from everyoneskits were and grabbed a clean one, after putting it on he moved towards Sara and examined her.

"Good news Sara. I'd guess about 9 and a half cm. Give it about 5 minutes and you can probably start to push. Just time for me to get prepared."

Sara slumped her head back onto the pillow, and now the tears did fall. Grissom breathed out a sigh of relief. It was almost over for her. He just watched her and was vaguely aware of Al gathering things together like the fabric and draping over Sara's legs, and he didn't even notice Greg, Warrick and Nick all hurry over to the opposite end of the room, the furthest away they could get. He slightly noticed Catherine shuffling even closer to Sara and holding her hand tighter as she knew that the next stage was about to hurt more. All he saw was Sara, smiling with relief, beautiful even now.

Al settled himself back down and leant towards Sara, after checking for a moment he spoke to her.

"Sara you ready? I want you to breathe, and push whenever I say you need to. Ok? You ready?"

She nodded her head, fear flashing briefly in her eyes, tears still rolling slowly down her cheeks, the pain becoming too much even for tears.

Grissom gripped her hand tighter and looked to Al, waiting for the indication to push.