Ok the usual…I do not and never will own CSI or the characters

Thank you for the many great reviews. I'm paying everyone back for all the cliff hangers that I have read. As you have asked here is Chapter 3

Chapter 3

Sara and Greg both turned quickly at hearing Catherine's voice, unfortunately they were sitting so close together and they crashed into each other causing both of them to fall off their stools. Sara fell with an unladylike thump and quickly stood up rubbing her butt. She swatted at Greg and yelled at him. "Ouch that hurt, watch what you're doing."

"Me? You turned into me. I'm hurt here too ya know."

"Children play nice." They both turned to see Catherine smiling at them. "Don't make me have to separate you, better yet Greg don't you have some DNA to test or something?"

Sara turned her back to Catherine and with her eyes she was imploring Greg to not leave her alone with Catherine. He looked over her shoulder to make eye contact with Catherine and he turned back to Sara. "I'm not strong enough to take on both of you. I can survive you but there is no way I could survive that." He pointed over Sara's shoulder to Catherine. "And she knows far too many ways to dispose of a body and leave no trace. See ya." He smiled at Sara and started towards the only way out of the room and that was through the door where Catherine now stood. He could tell from her stance that she was not going to make it easy on him.

She left barely enough room for him to squeeze past her. She whispered as he squeezed by. "Good choice Greggo. You'd never survive me." Her voice was low and sexy and Greg swallowed hard as he headed to the lab.

"Oh man Sara is so not going to like me after Catherine gets done with her." Then he thought back to their earlier conversation. "But then again she may thank me." He smiled and started whistling as he sauntered down the hallway back to his lab.

Sara still hadn't turned around to face Catherine so Catherine slowly walked around her so that she was face to face with Sara. Well not exactly face to face, it's hard to do that when someone is paying more attention to their shoes than they are to you as Sara was at the moment. "Do you see something interesting down there or are you trying to avoid looking at me?"

Sara spoke without looking up her hair covering most of her face. "I'd rather not look up if it's ok with you."

"What if it's not ok with me?"

'Well I'm not sure I can face you right now?"

Catherine gently reached out and with just one finger under Sara's chin she slowly lifted her head until she could look into Sara's eyes. With a frustrated sigh Catherine spoke. "Sara open your eyes and look at me."

Sara slowly opened her eyes and looked into Catherine's eyes. 'Oh shit I'm lost' the thoughts came unbidden to her mind. 'I have to get out of here before I push her up against the wall and take her right here.' "So Catherine how long were you standing there?" She was proud of the fact that her voice sounded almost natural.

"Long enough for Greg to say you had an adorable smile and to hear you put yourself down like you always do when someone compliments you. Why do you do that? I really do agree with Greg, you have an adorable smile. So what else were you two talking about so close together on your stools?"

Sara was quick to respond, maybe too quick. "Nothing, why do you ask?"

"Just curious. When I saw the two of you through the window you looked like Lindsey and her friends when they get together for a sleep over and are talking about something they don't want me to hear." She watched Sara's face closely and was surprised when she blushed and even deeper shade of red. "So were you two gossiping on work time?" She tried to keep her tone light but apparently not light enough for Sara,

Sara switched from shy and blushing to angry in a split second. "You know what Catherine, not everything in this office revolves around you. Greg and I were just having a light hearted talk and he was trying to cheer me up after hearing about the stalker. Unlike you he doesn't run when things get personal." With that she turned around and walked out of the room leaving a very confused Catherine to wonder where she went wrong.

Meanwhile Sara couldn't get to the locker room fast enough. "Greg Sanders you are toast. I am going to kill you when I get my hands on you." She landed a punch on the nearest locker.

"Whoa sunshine what did that locker ever do to you?" She turned to see Warrick coming around the end of the lockers. "What did Greg do now?"

"He left me alone with Catherine after she saw us talking in the lab. She accused us of gossiping on work time."

"So who do you want me to take out first Catherine or Greg?" This brought a smile to her face. "So are you sure that's what happened or is that what you thought you heard?"

"Maybe she didn't say that exactly but it was close."

"What did she say exactly?

"Well that was exactly what she said but she may not have meant it."

"What makes you think she didn't mean it?"

"She was smiling when she said it but like I usually do I jumped on her a yelled and then left the room. Then I came in here to figure out what I was going to do about it."

"Well girl, the way I see it, the only thing you can do is go back and make it right."

"Yeah I guess you're right. Might as well go face the music." She left to see if she could find Catherine. She first went to her office and when she found it empty she started looking in all of the labs. When she still couldn't find her she went to see if Greg might know where she was. She enter Greg's lab and removed his headphones. "Greg have you seen Catherine?"

"Oh man, what did you do wrong? She came in here and said she was heading out to a crime scene and said she would leave any evidence in lockup for me to start first thing tomorrow. She looked like someone had just kicked both her and her puppy. What did you do?"

"I think I may have screwed things up royally. I didn't think we had any cases tonight, Grissom said for me to work on the flowers and everyone except Nick was on paperwork. I wonder if something came up and Grissom sent her out. I think I'll go talk to Grissom." At the door she turned back around to face Greg. "Don't think I have forgotten what you did, I will get you when you least expect it. Be prepared my friend, be very prepared." Greg didn't see the sly grin on Sara's face as she headed down the hallway.

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