Hidden Emotions
Chapter four
The next shift, Grissom gave Nick the Holly case and Catherine was to work with him on a case about a jackpot winner who was found lying in a pool of blood, it was obvious that he came from the hotel roof, they just needed to find out how, and if necessary, who did it, Warrick was on paid leave, although Grissom had yet to tell him.
"Wait a minute, you can't give him the Holly case." Grissom and Nick looked at her, "I mean, all due respect Nick, I want this one"
"Nicky is the only one who didn't have any personal contact with Holly. I don't want you on this, Catherine" Grissom told her sternly.
Catherine grabbed the assignment sheet from a very worried looking Nick. "Fire me" She spat.
"I'm not firing anybody, look, I know we're pulling a double, and we're on edge 'cause of Holly, I just want everyone to stay calm and do their jobs for the next ten hours." Grissom knew this would be the right time to tell them about Sara coming in, he knew that they probably wouldn't be very happy, but he had to tell them instead of Sara just showing up without anybody expecting her, "And as of now, we're short of help, so I'm bringing in Sara Sidle to give us a hand"
Catherine, Warrick, and Nick gave Grissom confused looks.
"Sara Sidle?" Catherine said, with obvious disgust in her voice.
Warrick spoke for the first time since Grissom arrived, "Who's that?" He asked.
"She's a CSI out of San Francisco, a friend of mine. Someone I trust" He looked at the trio, "She's going to handle our internal investigation and I want you to keep this in-hand. I don't want I.A. involved"
Nick nodded his head, while Catherine shook hers.
"Great, that's all we need. Somebody sniffing around" She said, obviously not impressed by him bringing someone in. Catherine stormed out of the room.
"Nicky, you can back me up on the D.B at the Monico"
"You got it" Nick said, while taking the assignment slip from Grissom.
"That's it" Grissom said, looking at Warrick. Nick gave Warrick a sympathetic look before leaving the room.
Grissom told a persistent Warrick about his paid leave, then left to find Nick and go to their crime scene.
A few hours later Grissom was taking pictures of the simulation dummies Nick had thrown off the roof, he had photographed the third and final one when he heard a voice behind him.
"Wouldn't you if you were married to Mrs. Roper?"
Grissom grinned. She was here.
"I don't even have to turn around. Sara Sidle"
"That's me!" She said, a huge grin on her face. When Grissom turned around she was more than he expected, she was even more beautiful than he remembered, and she no longer had long hair. It was shoulder length, and curly. She was wearing a pink tank top and black trousers, she also had sunglasses in her hand. "Still tossing simulation dummies? There are other ways to tell, you know"
Grissom smiled, "How? Computer simulation? No thanks, I'm a scientist, I like to see things. Newton dropped the apple, I drop dummies"
He still had that humor that not many people understood, he looked a lot different from what she could remember, his hair had greyed much more, he had a bigger build and a slightly larger belly, but to her, he was still perfect. In his own way.
"You're old school" She stated.
"Exactly. And this guy was pushed"
Sara suddenly remembered the nature of her visit. "How's the girl?" She asked sympathetically.
Grissom's grin slowly faded. "She's still in surgery, she's not doing well"
Sara nodded sadly. "That's too bad"
"God, Sara, I have so many unanswered 'why's'" Grissom had meant two different type's of 'why's' when he said that, he wondered if she knew.
"There's only one 'why' that matters now" But to both of them there were so many more, "Why did Warrick Brown leave that scene"
A/N: Again, sorry if it is a little rusty, I should really not write the chapters as quick as I do...