CHAPTER THREE
Gil paced the living room, with a beer bottle in hand. He had been home for three hours. He tried reaching Sara ever since he arrived home, but she didn't return any of his calls, which made him furious at her. He had been meaning to teach her a lesson as soon as she came home. And just as he finished that thought, the front door opened and Sara appeared. She looked like she was drained out of her energy, but at that moment, he did not care. He was too furious to look through her.
He waited for her to close the door behind her before starting his interrogation. "Where have you been all this time? The nightshift ended five hours ago. Did you even think that you have you have a husband to get home to, or you just don't want to live with me anymore?" he snapped at her as he walked towards her.
Sara started to walk to the guest room to get some rest, but he stopped her, grabbing her arm roughly before turning her quickly toward him so he could face her.
"Don't you dare walk away when I'm talking to you." he snarled, gritting his teeth.
Now, Sara could barely open her eyes from exhaustion. "Grissom, please not now. I really can't fight right now." she whispered tiredly.
Taking a better look at her, now, Gil realized that he had never saw her that frail before. And when he saw the bandages on her arm and on the back of her hand, where they took the blood test and placed the IV, he got confused and looked at her. "What happened?" he asked her in a more gentle tone this time.
"Don't worry about me, Grissom. I'll be fine. Your precious lab won't lose me, just yet." she responded angrily.
And without another word, Sara went to the guest room, leaving a confused Gil unmoving.
She did not tell Gil that she was pregnant and asked the team, who were the only ones that knew about the pregnancy, not to tell him either. She wouldn't tell Gil unless he left Charlotte because he might take the baby away from her, and she didn't want to risk it. She knew Gil would take anything she liked and wanted as long as he had Charlotte convincing him to do it. And that baby was Sara's life. She wouldn't be able to live if that baby had been taken away from her, which was the reason why she didn't want Gil to know about the baby unless he broke up with Charlotte.
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The next night, Sara arrived at the lab early. She planned to check her mail before shift started. When she reached her office mail box, Sara found just one single letter in the box, waiting for her. She picked it up and noticed that the letter was from UNLV (University of Nevada, Las Vegas).
A couple of weeks ago, Sara searched for a job outside of the lab. She was tired of how badly Gil treated her. She couldn't take it anymore, so she applied for a teaching position at UNLV. She applied for a temporary Professor Assistant position until she had her PhD degree, and after that, she could be professor at the university itself.
So Sara went to the break room, knowing that she would have it all to her self since the team hadn't arrived yet. She would know whether she was accepted or not, there, with a hot cup of coffee.
Once Sara was settled in the break room, she opened the letter. It took her a minute to scan the letter before she beamed brightly. UNLV accepted Sara's application to teach there. Her new job would be available in two weeks. That would provide her just enough time to give her two weeks notice if she resigned tonight.
A moment later, Sara saw the team arriving, heading straight to the break room from the hallway, so she quickly tucked the letter in her jeans pocket, hiding it. She didn't want the team to know until she resign because she knew that they would talk her out of it, so she wouldn't tell them until it was too late.
"Hey, you're early." stated Greg, who was the first to enter, followed by the rest of the team.
"Yeah. I came early to Check on my mail." Sara explained.
Just after the hellos were said, Grissom entered the room with the assignments in hand.
"Alright everybody, we have a pretty tight schedule tonight, so let's not waste anymore time." he announced, looking through his slips. "Catherine, Warrick and Greg, you have a DB at the Tangiers. Nick, you're with me, we have another DB at the dessert. And Sara, you're solo tonight." he placed her slip on the table again, not bothering to hand it to her. Right after that, he just turned and left the break room.
Sara picked up the slip and saw the case assigned to her. Again it was a decomp. She wasn't surprised, and she was way passed disappointed in him, but it saddened her to realize how much Gil loathed her to treat her that bad.
"What you got there, cookie?" Warrick asked.
"Decomp." Sara responded with a sigh.
"Again?" Nick asked, shocked.
Sara just nodded.
Now Catherine intervened. "Alright, that's just mean. I'll go and tell him what an ass he became." she stood up, ready to go, but stopped when Sara protested.
"It doesn't matter anymore, Catherine, because I'm going to end this, myself, once and for all." she stated.
The whole team nodded before each headed to their destination.
CSI GSR CSI GSR CSI
At the end of the shift, Sara told the team that she had something to tell them, so they all, except Grissom of course, met at Frank's. The diner across the lab that the team always gathered in. Once everyone was settled and ordered their food, Sara began the dreadful conversation about leaving the lab. She told them that she already resigned, so there was no turning back now, no matter how much they tried to convince her to change her mind.
They were all sad that she was leaving, but at the same time, they were happy for her. If that what she wanted, they would all be more than happy to support and respect her decision. After all, they were her family.
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