A/N: This chapter takes place a few years later (:
Hidden Emotions
Chapter three
Sara Sidle was now a Level 3 CSI in San Francisco, she and Grissom had phoned each other every now and then, it was mostly him phoning her to see how she was doing at work, there were a few times when she phoned him to ask him for help on something. Sara was sure she could call them friends. There was something about him that made her want more, and more, every time they spoke, but she made sure she kept their conversations professional, she knew he was at least 10 years older than her.
Gil Grissom was also a Level 3 CSI, but he worked in Las Vegas, he had recently trained the newest CSI, Catherine Willows, he knew about her previous line of work, as an exotic dancer, but he also knew that she only did that for the money, she needed it to pay for her rent and her lessons on crime scene investigating, Grissom knew she would make a good CSI, and the team needed her to take Daniel's place.
Daniel King was a CSI level 1, he had decided he couldn't take all of the death and quit the job, he was only 21 when he started. Nick stokes had trained him, Nick was a CSI level 2, he had been at CSI for just over a year now and was trying his best to move up to CSI level 3. Their supervisor, Jim Brass, didn't think much of Nick, he thought he was just another 'kid' that needed money, but then again, Jim Brass didn't think much of anyone, to the graveyard shift he was just a grumpy old man who liked bossing people around.
Three years later the Graveyard shift had formed into a very close group of friends, there was Gil Grissom, a Level 3 CSI, who was also now the supervisor of Graveyard, Jim Brass had been moved back up to Homicide, Catherine Willows, she was aslo a CSI Level 3 now, Grissom knew she would make a great Criminalist, Nick Stokes, still a Level 2 CSI, and Warrick Brown, also a Level 2 CSI, he had joined Graveyard about a year and a half before, a new trainee had just been turned down a place, she couldn't handle the shift, so was suggested for Swing shift, so Grissom was expecting Holly Gribbs, who would be getting trained, to take the place. When Holly arrived Grissom had a feeling that she wouldn't make a good CSI, he took her blood and shortly after she felt lightheaded, she was short on blood sugar, he hoped she didn't have anything else that would effect her work, she also didn't look like the type of woman to be around dead people and blood, but then again, he had thought that about Catherine, until he saw her working.
Holly hadn't even been at CSI for a day, and she got shot. She had been threatened at the first scene, which was a shop, and then shot in the victims house, the suspect had returned, and Warrick had left her alone at the scene taking prints. The whole team was under pressure to finish a case about one of their own, so Grissom knew he had only one choice, she remembered Sara's words.
"Here's my number, if you need an extra pair of hands down at the lab, please, call me, I'd be willing to help out."
So he did just that. His hands shook as he dialled her number.
"Hello?" Even though he had heard her voice across the phone so many times before, his heart still thumped in his chest when she spoke.
"Sara, its Grissom, I need you to do a favour for me"
"Okay, Grissom, are you okay? You don't sound too good."
"No, I'm not ok, one of my CSI's has just been shot, I need you to come down here for a while and help out, would you be able to?"
"I, um" The line went silent for a while, it was obvious that Sara was thinking about it, he heard her mumbling something on the other end, "Okay, I'll be there as soon as I can"
Grissom let out a relieved sigh, "Sara, I owe you, thank you, so, so, much for this"
"Its okay, I'll probably be there tomorrow, I'll phone you when I get to the airport"
"Okay, thanks"
"Bye, see you soon, Grissom"
"Bye" He waited for the beep before he hung up, and then went to bed. Tomorrow he would have to tell the team about Sara's arrival, he couldn't wait to see her again. He fell asleep thinking about her, what would she look like now? Did she have family? He hoped she didn't, but he also knew he wouldn't be able to start a relationship with her while she was here. It was going to be hard having her around him again.
A/N: I know this chapter is a little rusty, I'm tired and it was a tough chapter to write with all of the time changes, hopefully the next chapter will be better, sorry for it being a little short too.