Chapter 6

The next morning Gil was fixing breakfast while Sara showered. Gil smiled as he thought about what his mother had said the day before.

They were a modern couple. Gil didn't care, they are in love and happy and if anyone didn't like it …. Well who cares.

Sara came into the kitchen, drying her hair.

"I could have done that," she said, pouring a cup of coffee.

"I know," Gil said, "Sara, don't let what Mom said bother you. Do you know what convinced me that you were the one for me?"

"Do tell," she said, as she finished putting the food on the table.

"Because you are an independent person. You don't take any bull from anyone. You know what you want and you go for it," he said, kissing her before sitting next to her.

Sara just looked at him then smiled, "What if I should decide to be a stay at home wife? Would you stop loving me?"

"Never," Gil said.

Sara smiled at him, something was running around in her mind but she was not ready to talk to him about it yet.

Gil's phone vibrated, a sign that he had a text.

"It's my mother," he said, "She wants to see us before we go to work."

"Make sure she doesn't have a gun," Sara said, giggling.

Sara once more pulled into the parking space in front of Betty's condominium, "Maybe I should stay in the car."

"Mom said she wanted to see both of us," Gil told her.

Sara let out a deep breath, "Let's get this over with."

Gil rang the bell, Betty answered it, nodded at them and moved aside motioning them to follow her to the living room, "Sit please."

Gil and Sara sat.

As Betty signed, Gil interpreted, "I will not pretend to understand the relationship you to have, but if you are happy, I am happy for you. I do not want to lose my son and if there should be a grandchild, I surely want to be a part of his life."

Gil stood and hugged his mother, "I love you Mom."

Betty smiled at Sara, "Do you have time for coffee?"

Sara nodded. Betty led them to the kitchen and poured coffee and offered them cake to go with it. As they ate Gil and his mother talked, Sara was able to pick up most of it, what she didn't get she would ask Gil later.

"We need to go," Sara told Gil after checking the time, "Good bye Betty."

"I wonder what made her change her mind?" Sara asked.

Gil smiled, "I don't know, I'm just glad she did."

Sara pulled into the parking garage at the lab, "Ready?"

Gil smiled, "Telling Mom will be a piece of cake compared to the battery of questions the team will hammer us with."

"It's not the team I'm worried about," Sara said, "it's Ecklie."

Gil put his arm around her waist, "I'll take care of Conrad."

Sara went to the break room while Gil went to the office to collect the assignments for the evening.

"How much longer does Grissom have to stay out of the field," Catherine asked, "We all miss him."

Warrick laughed, "Don't lie, we just don't like the idea of having to collect the bugs."

"Six weeks," Sara said, reaching for a cup.

"Is that what it looks like?" Nick asked, grabbing Sara's left hand.

"It is. We are going to be married after the cast comes off," Sara said.

"When were you going to tell us?" Greg asked.

"After we had all the details worked out," Sara told them, "Gil is going to talk to Ecklie later today."

"He's not going to like it," Catherine said, "How does Betty feel about it?"

Sara just shook her head, "Don't get me started."

Everyone laughed.

"What's so funny?" Gil asked, waking in with assignments in hand.

Sara just looked at him.

"Mother?" Gil said, smiling.

Congratulations were passed around followed by assignments.

"I'm going over to see Conrad," Gil said, handing Sara her assignment for the evening.

"Good luck with that," Sara said, sneaking a quick kiss, "See you later."

Gil smiled, "Thanks."

Gil knocked on Conrad Ecklie's door, "You have a minute?"

"Come in I was just about to go find you," Ecklie said, "How much longer will you be out of the field?"

"6 weeks," Gil told him, "But that's not what I needed to talk to you about."

Ecklie pointed to a chair.

"After the cast comes off Sara and I will be getting married," Gil told him.

"I thought as much," Ecklie said, "I have heard the scuttlebutt from the ladies around the water cooler. I don't have to tell you the Do's and Don'ts for your behavior around the office and in the field."

"No," Gil said.

"Good," Ecklie said, going pack to his paperwork.

As Grissom was leaving his phone rang, he smiled when he seen it was Sara. "Hey."

"Hey yourself," Sara said, "I ran across some of your friends out here and I need your help, and before you say anything you don't need to come out here, just tell me the best way to collect them and I'll bring them back to you."

Gil chuckled, "Describe it to me."

Sara told him and Grissom told her the best way to preserve it until she could get back.

"Great," Sara said, "How did things go with Ecklie?"

"Better then I thought. We'll talk when you get back here," he said.

"On my way," Sara said.

Sara stopped by Gil's office, "I'm here. You coming and joining me with your friends?"

"Right behind you," Gil said.

In the lab Gil told Sara about his conversation with Ecklie, "He's not happy but who cares."

"I'll leave you to your friends," Sara said, smiling at him, "I need to go see doc about COD on my John Doe."

"Bye. I'll call you when I'm done," Gil said.

Halfway through Grissom's six week his doctor sent him to rehab to help strengthen his leg. During that period the heavy walking cast was replaced by a brace.

Sara and Gil spent this time finalizing their plans for the wedding and honeymoon. Betty no longer questioned their relationship but someplace deep inside Sara still had a feeling that Betty just didn't like her.

"Gil, there is something I have been wanting to talk to you about," Sara said, "How about we take our tea out to the patio.

Gil nodded, picked up his tea and followed her, "I've been meaning to talk to you too."

"I want a baby," Sara said.

Gil looked at her, "A baby?"

"Yes," she said, "I have been doing a lot of research and there are a lot of very good daycare facilities here. Of course they will not take an infant, but we could always hire a live in until he is old enough for daycare."

Gil looked at her, "You'll still want to work?"

"I was thinking I would take two or three months off so I could breast feed but after that, yes I would go back to work," Sara said trying to read Gil's face for some sort of reaction.

"I see," Gil said, "You have put a lot of thought into this."

Sara had a feeling she was losing this one, "I want a family, more then anything else, its just that - well I love what I do too. I get such a feeling of satisfaction when I help bring in the bad guys, when I can help give a family closure."

Gil just sat and looked at her, to himself he was chuckling, he knew what Sara was trying to say and it was funny to watch her. Normally she knew just what she wanted to say and just the right way to say it - but right now she was stumbling over her words.

Gil sat there for a while and didn't say anything, finally Sara couldn't stand the silence any longer.

"Say something, please?" Sara begged.

"I like the idea of a family, but I'm not so sure I would like the idea of a stranger raising our child," Gil said.

Sara looked at him, praying he was not going to suggest that his mother take care of the child, "You have an alterative idea?"

"Yes," he said.