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Harmless Liaisons: Chapter Seven

There was a moments silence while everyone digested the information. Greg kept his eyes on Sara but she didn't say a word. She simply stood there, a distraught expression appearing on her face.

"Is this true?" Catherine asked her eyes boring into Sara's back.

"Go on tell them Sara." Greg said bitterly.

"Yes." Sara muttered just loud enough for them to hear. Greg pushed past their audience, moving out of the break room, finally setting Sara into motion.

"Greg, wait, please." She shouted after him.

Sara caught up with him in the locker room, but he didn't look up at her.

"What do you want from me Sara?" He yelled at her. All of those years of repressed anger seemed to be flooding out of Greg. Here he was taking all of his frustrations out on the woman he loved. All of the anger he'd felt as he stood aside and watched Sara pine for Grissom when he had done everything he could to catch her attention seemed to be finally making its way to Sara's ears.

"I want you to listen-" Sara started but Greg just couldn't help himself, he cut her off again.

"What do you have to say Sara?" he responded bitterly. "Thanks for the memories, but you were just a fuck I needed to get out of my system?"

"No-" A tear rolled down Sara's cheek.

"You're right...no...because it wasn't just once... can you even count how many time we-"

"He came to give me divorce papers." Sara shouted over him. She'd had enough of listening to him accuse her of using him. "I love you. I want to be with you. But you seem too blind to see that." Sara walked out of the locker room as fast as she could tears still rolling down her cheeks.

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Wiping the tears away Sara took a deep breath as she stepped into Hodges lab.

"You have my results for me?" she asked her voice slightly croaky, her eyes red rimmed.

"Er...yeah...here." the man handed her a printed out sheet wary of her current mood. He'd heard everything but he couldn't think of anything to say. Sara avoided making eye contact with him as she read the sheet he had handed her.

"Thanks." she said quietly turning to walk away.

"Sara." Hodges said.

"Yes?" she turned around dreading what words were going to come out of his mouth next.

"I heard what happened..." he paused for a moment clasping his hands together. "...and I understand the pressure a long distance relationship can put you under...Greg's a good man...but..." he trailed off not being able to say what he had been thinking to Sara.

"...but what I did was wrong." she finished the sentence off for him and quickly turned around and disappeared out of his office.

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As Sara walked into the layout room she was faced with Catherine standing arms crossed, lips pursed and a fierce expression. Sara's looked at the floor; she couldn't bare that look of disgust that had played on her co-workers face. Sara placed the notes she had gotten from Hodges down and looked carefully and the file that had been left open on the table.

"How could you do that to him?" the words finally made their way out of Catherine's mouth.

"I...I don't know." Sara simply responded still not looking up.

"You don't know? You're telling me you just fell into bed with Greg and you don't know how it happened? Or why?" she accused.

"Catherine it's complicated-" Sara started but seen was soon cut off. (It appeared as if no one was willing to hear her out today.)

"Complicated? You slept with someone else. After everything Gil has done for you. You betrayed his trust." Catherine accused.

It was true that was exactly what Sara had done. And there was nothing she could say in response to it. There is an increasing pain in the centre of Sara's chest as she attempted to stop herself from crying.

"I love Greg." She muttered, that was the only explanation she had for all the things she had done in the last two months.

"Are you sure? Or is this something that you're going to get bored of too? Are you going to put Greg aside when you find something newer?" Catherine asked walking out of the room before Sara could answer.

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Catherine ran into Greg as she walked towards her office. She felt conflicted as she looked at the younger man in front of her. She wasn't angry with him, not really. She was angry with Sara, she was a married woman she knew her boundaries...or at least she should have known them. It had been clear to her for years that Greg had been in love with Sara. But still there was that anger she felt on behalf of Gil extended partly to him.

"You should have stopped it, Greg. She's a married woman." Catherine said shallowly, but there wasn't anger in her tone, it was simple disillusionment.

"I know." He responded his head bowed.

"What were you thinking?" she asked trying to understand. Catherine thought of Eddie and how she'd felt. How much she had wanted to understand. No matter how much she tried she had never been able to understand cheater. Why ruin a good thing? Why go to all of that trouble to hurt someone?

"I...I wasn't thinking. I love her Catherine."

"I know." was the response he got. Catherine turned around and stalked into her office.

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Sara stood outside waiting for her mind to unravel everything that had happened and give herself a chance to respond. Nick appeared from inside and stood next to her in silence for a few moments.

"Go on say it...you think I'm a slut." Sara said in a dull tone.

"I don't think you're a slut Sara. I just don't understand why you did it." Nick responded his voice softer than anyone who had spoken to her today.

"Gil and I...we'd grown apart...things weren't the same...they didn't feel the same. I felt insecure...Greg was there...and I ended up having feelings for him." It felt the first time that day Sara felt like she had gotten a chance to be honest.

"Feelings?" Nick questioned.

"They were just feelings initially...I fell in love with him after...I knew...All of those years I never felt anything for any man other than Gil...but...Greg was different..." Sara spoke but it seemed more as if she was talking to herself.

"Long distances are difficult..." Nick suggested.

"It's not just that...Gil and I all we ever did was try...try to make things work...here...Paris...Peru...but we never wanted the same thing...Greg...he loves me...he's loved me for years...I don't have to force him to love me...or worry that he doesn't...we don't have to try...we just fit..." Sara explained folding her arms across her chest and staring into the distance.

"You really love him?" Nick asked.

"Yeah...I really do." Sara responded turning to look at him.

Nick rubbed her arm, with a look of acceptance and pulled her into an embrace.

"Well...now...I'm not going to say what you did was right...but...if you love each other...I guess I can take it." Nick said, wrapping his arms tighter around Sara in a bear hug.

And for the first time there was an inkling of a feeling that things might just be okay.