AN: Ok this was a very hard Chapter to write because I know he is a little out of Character here but think of his state of mind, he just got rejected by the only woman he ever loved and he thought he lost her forever so he is hurt, lost, vulnerable and ends up drinking, which is not a good combo, it could make you do things you wouldn't normally do and plus it's important part of the story so go easy on me. Once again thanks for the reviews, I hope you continue till the end. Here is your next chapter.

Chapter 3: Plans Changed

After Sara had walked out of the balcony Grissom just stood there holding onto the railing and looking out in the Vegas sky with a broken heart. He knew there was a chance that she would have not accepted his love but he thought there was a greater chance that she did and now that he was too late he didn't know what to do, he felt lost, numb and alone.

He took a few more calming breaths, released the railing, turned and walked back into the ballroom. He saw the girls over by the bar then he shared a look with Catherine and knew she was thinking how she warned him and he couldn't hear it again so he mentally shook his head and got out of the building and not even realizing it he drove to the nearest hotel/bar and before he knew it he was already on his fourth drink.

Normally he isn't a really heavy drinker, even after some of the hardest cases he had to deal with. Despite what people thought he wasn't a robot, he had emotions too and some of the cases did get to him. He mentally sighed, took another breath and another drink, sets his empty glass on the bar, looked at the bartender, pointed to the glass and said. "Another one." The bartender nodded and poured him another then went to take care of the few other customers that was sitting at the bar.

Grissom lifts his glass up and takes another drink.

When he sat the glass back down this time he bends his head down too, closing his eyes.

A few minutes later he hears a woman's voice. "A bad night?" He opens his eyes, lifts his head up and looks to his left and sees a blond-haired, slim woman with hazel eyes looking at him. She was defiantly younger then him by at least ten years but looked to be a bit older than Sara. He nodded his head then looked down at his drink. He wasn't in the mood to talk but the blond-haired woman didn't seem to care or just wanted company because she sat down next to him and said. "Yeah mine wasn't so great either." She ordered a drink then looked at him and asked. "So what happened?"

Grissom looks over at the woman again and said in a harsh tone. "I really don't want to talk about it."

A flash of hurt could be seen in her eyes and she nodded while looking away, Grissom mentally sighed and thinks. 'Great is that what I do now? Hurt people.' He shook his head and apologized. "I am sorry."

The woman shook her head looked back at Grissom and said. "It's ok, maybe I should've just gotten the hint."

"I just don't really want to talk about tonight."

He goes back to looking down at his drink while she watches him for a minute and feels that this man had lost everything and something clicked inside of her, like she wanted to help anyway that she could. She puts her hand on his shoulder, he snaps his head back to look into her hazel eyes after the contact and she said. "Then lets not talk about tonight, lets talk about other things and see were the night takes us." She noticed he was going to talk again but she spoke again before he could. "I am just talking about one night of conversation and drinks. Is there anything wrong with two strangers talking to each other on one of the worst nights of their lives?"

Grissom had a feeling he knew were this night could lead if he stayed, talked and had drinks with this woman and he was never a man to even think about having one night stands before, he would even cringe at the idea, that didn't mean he has never had offers before he just always felt that he had an excuse to say no but tonight he felt he didn't even have that anymore. He was a broken man and could use the company even if it just ended with conversation.

He shook his head and said. "No there is nothing wrong with that."

She smiled, took her hand off of his shoulder, holds out her hand and said. "Alice Simms."

Grissom sets his glass down on the bar, reaches out for her hand, shake hands then Grissom speaks. "Gilbert Grissom."

They release hands, she smiles and said. "Nice to met you."

He nods, replies likewise then they continued on with their night.

The next morning Grissom opens his eyes with a pounding headache but immediately closes them because the sun was coming through the blinds and it wasn't helping one bit. He rolls over, opens his eyes again and sees the other side of the bed was empty and if he thought he would feel better in the morning he was dead wrong, he felt worse, not only because of all the drinking he did but what he did in general.

He closes his eyes again for a few minutes then as he was sitting up in the hotel bed, he opened them again and looked on the nightstand table next to his side of the bed and saw some aspirin, water and a folded piece of paper. He reached for the aspirin and water, draining the water while taking the aspirin then sets the glass down, grabs the paper, reaches for his glasses and read what it said. 'I wish you good luck in the future.'

He folds the paper back up, sighs and remembers why he did what he did in the first place and knew there was no kind of future he had been envisioning, especially lately and also knew he couldn't stay in Vegas at this time, he had to do something, even it if was temporary. He figured it out what he was going to do a few minutes later after remembering something.

He put on his clothes, checked out of the hotel room, winced when he got outside because of the brightness, carefully made it to his vehicle and before he started it he pulled his phone out of his pocket, dialed a number and a few seconds later the person answers then Grissom speaks. "Director, I need to talk to you."

A few hours later

At the Church in the bride's room

Sara was in her long, white, wedding dress, wearing make-up, her hair was curled and pretty. She was in the room with Catherine, BreAnna and Amanda, while looking in the mirror wondering if this was the right thing to do. She could also hear the three girls telling her it was going to be ok, knowing she was nervous and thinking it was just pre-wedding jitters but Sara knew it was something else, a lot bigger and she opens her mouth to voice that opinion as she was turning around but shuts her mouth moment the door opened and she saw Taylor's older sister, Kelly come in the room. She had blond hair, blue eyes, slim and Sara's height.

Kelly looked at Sara's bridesmaids, smiles at them and asked. "Can I have a minute alone with the bride?"

Catherine looked at Sara, which she nodded and said. "It's ok."

Catherine nodded and the three girls left the room, which Catherine shuts the door behind her.

When the door closed, Kelly turns her eyes back at Sara and asked. "You don't want to do this do you?"

Sara turns back to the mirror and said. "I don't know what you're talking about."

Kelly walks up to her and replied. "I think you do. Now I want you to be honest to me and to yourself. It had something to do with that man I saw you talking to last night, doesn't it?"

It was a few minutes of silence then Sara looks over at the woman who was almost her sister-in law, nods her head slowly and said. "Yes. He finally told me that he loved me, something I…"

She trials off remembering this woman was her fiancé's sister but Kelly finishes her sentence. "Something you have wanted for a long time?"

"You're not going to hit me are you?"

Kelly chuckled a little and replied. "No and not because I know you can take me."

Kelly and Sara may have been the same height but Sara looked a bit stronger than Kelly and plus she knew what Sara does for a living and knew what training Sara had been through

Sara smiled then said. "Why? This could hurt your younger brother."

Kelly sighed, goes and sits down in the chair, looks at Sara and said. "I know and as much as I wanted to see him get married and be happy, this marriage wouldn't last with you loving someone else greater than the love you have for Taylor."

Sara looks at Kelly then looks back in the mirror, sighs and says. "Now what?"

"You know what's next, it's time for the future that you want with the man that you love."

"How can you be all understanding?"

Kelly gets up from the chair, walks over to Sara, turns her around so they were face to face again and she said. "Because I want both of you happy.
You both are important to me and I don't want either one of you to go through with this lie that will affect your whole life and I know what you are about to tell him won't be easy but he is young and he will find a new love." Sara nodded then a tear came down her cheek and instead of her wiping it away Kelly did it for her and said. "But before I go get him can I say something?" Sara nodded, Kelly took a breath and spoke. "I know what your about to do is the right decision for you, I just want you to know that not only was I looking forward to having a younger sister but I would have really liked it if you would have become that sister."

Sara couldn't stop more tears from coming down, she never felt this wanted when she was a child and she had always secretly wanted a sister, and seeing Sara crying made Kelly mist up a little. Sara smiled and asked. "Really?" Kelly nodded with a smile of her own and brings her in a hug.

They hug for a few minutes then get out of it and Kelly said. "Let me get my brother."

Sara nodded and wiped the tears away, Kelly patted her shoulder and started walking to the door but before she opened it Sara speaks again. "If you ever need to talk, you know how to reach me."

Kelly turns to her, smiles and replied. "And the same goes for you."

Sara smiles back and with one more look, Kelly opens the door and walks out of the room, closing it behind her.

Sara turns back to the mirror, knowing she is doing the right thing but a part of her wasn't feeling that good about it.

A few minutes later the door opens and Sara turns her back to the mirror and sees Taylor walking in after shutting the door. He looks at her as he was walking up to her and said. "Wow you look amazing."

Sara gives him a little smile and said. "Thank you." Then she looks down as more tears came down because she knew what came next.

He lifts her head up so she was looking back at him then he pus his hand on her cheek, wipes her tears away and said. "Us getting married isn't happening is it?" He didn't sound angry but a little sad. Sara opens her mouth to speak but he puts a finger to her lips to stop her and he talked again. "I knew in the back of my mind and the bottom of my heart that your heart was already taken but I didn't want to listen to either one of them because I fell in love with you."
He sighed. "And the selfish thing that I could do now is try to convince you that you could learn to love me more than him but I am not going to do that because it will be a lie that you can't live for the rest of your life and you won't be fully happy and neither will I, because if you're not then I'm not."
He wipes more tears away not happy that she is hurting but happy that this does have some kind of an affect on her, least he knew that she had felt something for him.

They look into each other's eyes and he continues. "So the only thing that I can do is tell you that I love you, wish you good luck with him and…" he didn't speak for the last thing, instead he bent down and kissed her, he pulled back and said. "And kiss you goodbye." She opens her eyes, looks into his sad eyes and when she was about to open her mouth he shakes his head and said. "Sara don't say anything ok? It will only make it worse."

Sara nodded then leaned toward to his cheek and kissed him there then she stepped back, looked down at her ring finger, pulled the ring off, grabbed his hand, puts it in the middle of his palm, closed his hand over it, looks up at him and after they looked at each other one more time she walked to the door, puts her hand on the doorknob, looked over her shoulder, seeing his back facing her and finally spoke. "I did love you Taylor don't doubt that." She sees him nod then opens the door, steps out in the hall and shutting the door behind her.

She puts the back of her head on the door and closed her eyes, shedding a few tears for hurting one of the greatest men she knew.

A few seconds later she felt a presence and a few hands on her shoulder, she opens her eyes and even though all she could see was blurry people she knew that it was her friends/colleagues. She wiped her tears away, looked at them more clearly and said. "Thanks for being here guys."

They all nodded then Nick wraps his arms around Sara and replied. "Where else would we be?" Sara hugs him back.

While they were in a hug Catherine's phone goes off, she smiles at them and said. "After this call lunch is on me."

They all smiled as Catherine opens her phone and answered. "Willows."

The person on the other line talked. "Catherine, I need you and the team at the lab ASAP." Catherine opened her mouth to speak but the person on the other line hung up before she could.

She looks at her phone and shakes her head then she looks at the gang and said. "Guys it looks like breakfast is going to have to wait, Ecklie just called and said he wants us at the lab."

They all sighed and nodded then Sara got out of Nick's arms and they all started walking toward the front door.

When they got to the vehicles, Greg gave his vehicle keys to Amanda so she had something to drive during the day and Warrick did the same thing with BreAnna then they all got in Nick's vehicle and he drove them to the lab, wondering what was so important, it was a long time before shift even started.

When they got in the lab, Sara was lucky she had some clothes in a bag in her locker so she wouldn't get stared at all day or at least more than she already suspected she would.

After she changed she walked in the break room were everybody else was still waiting on Ecklie but when she looked around she noticed somebody was missing but really she didn't have to look around to know that, she knew when he was around or not.

She looks at Catherine and asked. "Where is Grissom?" Her heart fluttered at the mention of his name, knowing they could finally be together soon.

Catherine shrugged her shoulders and said. "I don't know. The temporary night shift team that worked last night said he wasn't here for shift."

Since most of the nightshift team was at the party last night they had temporary people working their shift, luckily they weren't very busy.

Sara looks at the rest of her team and they all looked worried, they knew that it would take a miracle for Grissom to miss a day of work, but before anybody talked out loud Ecklie walked in the room then he looks at Sara and almost did a double take. He knew she was getting married at this moment but figuring she was here it didn't happen so he took a minute to actually be nice. "Sara my condolences about the wedding."

They all looked at him shocked and Sara nodded her head and replied. "Thank you."

Ecklie nodded then cleared his throat and started addressing to everyone. "Sadly it is my job to inform you guys that Dr. Gilbert Grissom has resigned."

He stopped for a second and they were all staring at him even more shocked than a few seconds ago and before any questions were asked Ecklie continued. "Ms. Willows you will be acting supervisor and Mr. Stokes your Assistant Supervisor, keep it professional." He looked at all of them again and that's when all the questions started to come, he holds up his hands to stop them and spoke again. "I can't answer any of your questions I don't know were he is, so don't ask." He looked at their sad faces and he did something else that wasn't in his character, he sighed and said. "I am sorry." He looked at them again then tuned and left the break room.

When he was gone the team looked at each other seeing if they had any idea where he went or might have gone to but they all shrugged their shoulders and shook their heads then they all looked at Sara and she still had a shocked look on her face but before tears came out of her eyes she walked out of the break room. When she heard that Grissom was gone her heart felt like it had stopped, she thought she was about to have a new beginning with him but now she didn't know what to do but leave the break room and not let anybody see how weak she is right now, even though she knew that they knew how she felt.

The moment Sara left the room Nick looks over at Catherine and she nods her head telling him to go after her, Nick does a short nod and walks out of the break room.

When he was out of the room the rest of them looked at each other again and Greg asked. "Now what?"

And with Catherine being the brains on missions that were sneaky and nosy and plus being a part of her job she said. "We are going to find him and if I have to bring him back by the ear I will." Warrick and Greg smiled and nodded.

AN: Will he be found? What happens next? Please review