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Harmless Liaisons: Chapter Six

Grissom let Sara out of the embrace and stepped back maintain a grip on her arm to steady her, he waited for her to say something, but Sara just stared at him, her eyes still wide with shock.

"Sara can we talk?" he said, or rather pleaded with her.

"Grissom I'm working...we have a hot case...I can't leave." She pulled herself together, her body language telling him that she didn't want to be there.

"Then can we meet, afterwards? I'll wait for you after shift." His question turned into a statement.

She reluctantly nodded and Grissom climbed into this car disappearing out of the car park leaving her reeling from their encounter.

xxx

There was nothing Greg could do apart from stand and watch.

He could feel the anger boil up inside him, he wanted to go over there and tell Grissom to stop standing so close to Sara, to tell him to stop looking at her that way and to definitely not touch her the way he was doing.

It had taken him eleven years to win Sara over. It had taken him over a decade to make her see that he loved her and that they could be happy together. And he was most certainly not ready to let that go.

He was not going to let Grissom mess with her head as he had done for so long.

xxx

"Hey Nick!" Langston called. "I think I got something."

He handed Nick a crumpled bit of paper.

"Bastards been lying to us the whole time." he responded once he'd read it. He pulled his phone out and pressed his second speed dial.

"Hey Cath. There's something you might want to do."

xxx

"What did your results reveal?" Sara asked, hoping that her voice sounded normal.

"The hair was a match to Andrea Martin." Greg responded going along with Sara's act that everything was fine. When was she planning on telling him that she'd seen Grissom? Over dinner? While they were in bed together?

"We have a new suspect." Catherine said as she walked into the layout room where they were stood. "Zack Berry, the best friend, or ex husband should I say. That man has been lying to us all the way. Greg I want you to dig up whatever you can about this guy there is a lot that he'd hiding from us. Sara, go through the evidence again, see if you can even find a trace of him being there." Catherine instructed them.

They both disappeared to do their respective tasks.

xxx

Sara could feel her heart beat thumping in her head as she finally got to processing the clothes that Catherine and Ray had recovered from the car trunk. She'd had no luck in finding evidence of Zack Berry's presence at their crime scene.

She collected a small amount of trace from the woman's shirt and held it in her hand as if it were the key to all knowledge that they had sought.

Sara walked to Hodges office to find him flicking through a golfing magazine.

"Hodges, I got trace from missing person's shirt." Sara said not commenting on his reading material. He looked up at her from the top of the magazine and gave her his teasing smile.

"Thank you Sara." he said a slightly psychotic grin playing on his lips.

"Whatever." She responded, not in the mood to deal with him.

"Sara." he said stopping her in her tracks. She arched an eyebrow and folded her arms across her chest.

"Yes?"

"Are you okay?" he asked, the concern clear in his voice.

"I'm fine."

What a lie. Sara thought to herself as she stepped out of Hodges office and almost into Catherine.

"I got some trace of our missing person's shirt, given it to Hodges to process. But there was nothing on anything else suggesting there was another person there." She explained.

"That's great." Catherine responded clearly in a rush.

"Cath...Can I ask a favour?" Sara said quietly so that no one would over hear.

"Sure."

"Can I have half an hour? There is something I need to sort out. It's urgent." She asked, hopefully.

"Half an hour...no more." Catherine warned. Whatever Sara has asked the time for must have been important and it was clear from her voice she was desperate, Catherine thought to herself as she watched the brunette walk away from her.

xxx

Sara sat across from Grissom surrounded by busy people rushing around in one of the most crowded coffee stores in Vegas. She assumed if she met him somewhere as public as this, there wouldn't be too much drama. She wouldn't break down. She wouldn't give in.

"They're divorce papers...I think it's time we moved on." Grissom handed her an A4 sized brown envelope and bit his lip, cautiously picking his words. Sara simply nodded, taking the envelope from him.

"How are you and Greg?" Grissom asked a slight sense of sadness in his voice. He couldn't bring himself to stop loving Sara.

"Good, we're fine. How have you been?" Sara asked awkwardly.

"Good..Good...I've...I've er met someone..." he said not knowing how Sara was going to react. He smiled inwardly at the thought of Carrie. She had taken him out to lunch after he flight back to Peru; her wit and argument dulled the pain for those few hours. It had taken Grissom over three weeks to pluck up the courage and call her again.

"That's great." she replied giving him a slightly forced smile. "I'm sorry Grissom I'm going to have to go, Catherine only gave me half an hour-"

"It's fine, it's fine. I'm not going to be around for long, so if I don't see you again take care of yourself." Grissom stood up along with Sara and placed a gentle kiss on her cheek.

xxx

"Bingo!" Nick shouted from one of the bedrooms in the house, causing Langston to rush in.

"What you found?" He asked curious to see what it was amongst all of the junk that had been worth anything. Nick showed him a small clear plastic bag full of pills.

"Bingo indeed." Langston agreed.

Calling it quits, Nick and Langston headed back to the lab with their truck filled with evidence.

xxx

Greg had made himself his sixth cup of coffee of the day when Sara appeared in the break room. She had a sombre expression as she approached him.

"Where were you?" he asked causally.

"I...I...went to see Grissom." she responded not meeting his eye. The grip on Greg's coffee cup tightened as he tried to keep calm. "He was here-" Sara started but Greg cut her off.

"I know his was here...I saw you outside...you looked very friendly." Greg placed his mug down and turned to face her.

"It wasn't like that." she said quietly.

"No, but I'm sure you're going to tell me what it was like then aren't you? Just like you're telling everyone here what we're like." Greg said bitterly through gritted teeth.

"He-"

"He what Sara? Are you done? Have you had your fun now you want to run back to him?" Greg raised his voice.

"Please Greg, calm down. Can we talk about this at home?" she pleaded but Greg's anger was already too far gone.

"At home? So that no one finds out?" Greg shouted this time. Nick and Langston appeared at the door, their pleased expressions soon changed when they saw Greg.

"Greg. please don't do this." Sara begged for him to stop again.

"Do what?" he shouted back. Catherine had appeared at the door in order to see what the fuss was all about.

"Tell them? Do you not want them to know?" Greg pointed at the team. Sara closed her eyes and took a deep breath. Her secrets were about to be shared with most of the lab and it was time to prepare herself for those looks.

"Know what?" Nick asked looking at the two of them trying to make sense of the situation.

"That we've been sleeping together." Greg informed them not taking his gaze of Sara.

She shut her eyes like a child would do when hoping a situation was just a dream. But that didn't happen because this wasn't a dream it was real life.