AN: Things are about to take another turn, I know there will be mixed emotions on this one but I hope you still stick around. Thanks for the reviews here is your next chapter.

Chapter 5: News that could change everything

Three months later

Before everybody knew it three months have passed and in that time the group was getting more in love with their significant others especially the two couples that got married, Greg and Amanda and Warrick and BreAnna had a double wedding so they have been married a few weeks now.

Catherine and Nick moved up another notch in their relationship, the same day as the double wedding they had agreed to live with each other and Sara and Grissom's relationship was moving in a nice steady pace and they both couldn't be happier right now, no one could see two happier people and no one wanted that to change. Unfortunately, sometimes you don't always get what you want.

Grissom was sitting at his desk in his office, even though he wasn't the supervisor anymore he still got to keep it, he tried giving it to Nick since he deserved his own space rather than share it with Warrick, Sara and Greg but Nick told him he didn't feel right taking it so it was still his.

He had been looking at reports after reports because he was helping Catherine out since today was her birthday and he told her and Nick to leave after shift so they could spend the day together and he would take care some of the reports.
Now it was well into day shift and he was still here but really there was nothing new about that he had always stayed well after his shift was over, although lately since him and Sara got together he had been getting out of the lab on time to have breakfast with her or hang out until one of them got too tired, but today it just didn't work out that way and Sara understood.

He sighed and puts another folder in the out pile, puts down the pen and rubbed his hand down his clean-shaven face then rubbed his eyes and just as he was grabbing the pen again his office phone rings and he was hoping it wasn't a new case. He puts the pen down on the desk and reaches for the phone, brings it up to his ear and answered. "Grissom."

Judy from the receptionist desk speaks. "Dr. Grissom you have a visitor and she said she really needs to talk to you."

"Ok send her in."

They hang up and as he looked down at his report to pass the few minutes along he kept wondering who it could be and what she wanted then he heard a knock on the door so he said come in and looked up when he heard the door open then mentally gasped when he saw her.

The woman smiled and said. "Hi Gilbert."

Grissom stands up and asked. "Alice? Judy said you needed to see me?" She nodded.

He asked her politely if she would shut the door then he pointed to the seat in front of his desk. As she was walking to the seat he couldn't help but feel something was different with her, he didn't know if it was a good or bad thing.

Alice sits down and he sits down after.

They sit in silence for a few seconds then Grissom speaks. "So what do you need?"

Alice swallows hard, looks at him in the eyes and said. "There really is no easy way to say this so I am just going to come out with it." He nodded while having a weird feeling shoot through him and after she took another breath she continued. "I'm Pregnant and you're the father."

In that moment his life had completely changed.

He looks at her wide-eyed, his heart pounding fast in his chest with so many emotions going inside of him and Alice could see them all. She was going to continue but he speaks after he cleared his throat. "Are you sure?"

She raised an eyebrow, leans closer to the desk and asked softly. "About the baby or the father part?"

He looks at her shyly and she shakes her head, stands up from the chair she was sitting in and unbuttoned her long black coat and opens it up. He looks at her shirt covered stomach and although she wasn't quite showing, her stomach did look rounder then the last time he saw her or at least from what he could remember. He looks up into her eyes and she grabs her purse, pulls something out and tosses it on the desk in front of him.

He looks down and his breath hitched in his throat as he was looked at a sonogram picture of the baby.

He picked up the picture as she sits back down and stared to speak again. "As for the father part I am not some kind of woman who sleeps around, it may have seemed liked it that night but I'm not and after all I wasn't the only one there, so I shouldn't be judged."

She looks at him with tears in her eyes, he finally takes his eyes off the picture and nods his head after looking into her eyes and replied. "Sorry this has just taken me by surprise."

Alice nodded and replied. "You and me both." She wiped the tear going down then she watched him look at the picture again as he sets it back down on his desk.

They look at each other for a few seconds then as she wipes a few more tears away she continues. "You can be as involved as you want. I didn't come here to ask for anything, I just thought as the father you should know."

Grissom nodded and just as he was about to open his mouth the office door opens and when he saw it was Sara he puts a few folders on top of the picture before she saw what was going on.

Sara stands in the doorway and seeing a woman sitting in the chair she apologized. "Sorry Griss I didn't mean to interrupt."

All three of them felt the tension right away and Alice decides to break it, she shook her head while standing up and buttoning up her coat, while her back was toward Sara and Grissom stands up too.

Alice turns to Sara and said. "It's ok we are done now."

Alice looks back at Grissom and he holds out his hand said. "Ms. Simms." She nods, shakes his hand, gives him a polite smile then turns and walks out the office.

Sara, who had moved from the doorway to inside the office, looked at her boyfriend and noticed something was off with him so she crosses her arms over her chest and asked. "What's wrong Grissom?"

Grissom tries to swallow the lump in his throat and tried calming his heartbeat down but it wasn't working very well, he finally clears his throat, looks at his girlfriend and replied. "Nothing, just the paperwork getting to me I guess."

He gives her a convincing smile, Sara shakes off this uneasy feeling for now and walks up to the desk with a smile on her face and said. "Well I must have sensed that because I came here to see if you are hungry."

After the news he just got he really wasn't but since he hadn't eaten anything since before shift he thought Sara might get suspicious and then start asking questions and he wasn't ready to answer them right now so he shook his head and said. "Sure, what do you have in mind?"

"How about the Chinese place that's a few blocks from here?"

He nodded at the suggestion and said. "Ok just give me a few minutes and I'll met you at your vehicle."

She nods back and leans to him, he seemed to get the idea so he leans toward her and she kisses him on the cheek since they were at work, then pulls back and says with her eyes bright and shinning. "I love you."

He smiles that little adorable smile and said. "I love you too Sara." She smiles bigger then turns and walked out of the office.

When the door shuts, Grissom lets out the breath he felt like he had been holding for the last five minutes then he sits back down in his chair, moved the files that he had put on top of the sonogram picture, picked it up and looked at the little boy or girl that was his with so many things still going inside of him at once.

As he got older he stopped thinking about being a father and just chalked it down to not being in the cards for him, and when the thought had come to his mind he would have never thought it would happen like this in a million years, he thought he would be in love with the mother of his child and not as a result from a drunken one night stand.

He sighs, runs his hand down his face, looks at the photo a few more seconds then puts it in the inside of his jacket pocket, stands up and grabs his briefcase since there was no way he was going to be concentrating on work for a while so he knew he wouldn't be coming back until the start of next shift. After he walked out of his office he locked the door and headed to Sara's vehicle.

He still had no idea what he was going to do but one thing was for sure he knew he had to talk to Sara later and was dreading every minute of it.

The couple had a very quiet and somewhat uncomfortable lunch, which Sara noticed that he hardly ate, then he asked if they could go to her apartment so for the last two hours they were on the couch watching something from the discovery channel and usually when they watched that channel or any channel that was informative he always has something more to say about the subject but he had been dead quiet and it had worried her so after the third time saying his name and he wasn't responding she lifts her head up from his shoulder, looks at him and noticed he wasn't even looking at the TV, his eyes were looking to the left were the window was a few feet away from them.

She tilts her head and said. "Grissom?"

When he still didn't answer she puts her hand on his shoulder and he jumped a little at the contact. He turns his head to look at her and could see the concern look on her face so he asked. "What's wrong?"

She shakes her head and responded. "You tell me, you hardly ate and you rarely talked since leaving the lab, what is it?" He knew he had to tell her so he reached for the remote on the coffee table and turned off the TV then he leaned his back to the cushions again, after setting the remote back down. He turned to look at her and when their eyes were on one another again Sara said. "It must be important." He hardly ever turned the TV off when they were doing a special about butterflies.

Grissom nods his head and when he took her hand in his, she started to tense up, not liking this feeling that washed over her. He rubbed his thumb over the hand that he held and looked down for a few seconds, praying everything will be ok then he looked up and hated seeing how scared she looked, he took a breath and said. "I found something out today and I don't know what to do."

He stopped to take another breath and to tried to calm his heart rate down, she squeezed his hand telling him she is there for him and waited patiently for him to continue but very scared on what his next words were.

He cleared his throat, looked back at her and continued. "But Before I tell what I found out, I have to tell you something else, something I should've told you before I just didn't think..."

She puts a finger to his lips to stop his rambling and said. "Come on Honey quit stalling, what is it?"

He nodded again, took her hand again and looked back into her eyes and told her everything. "The night before your wedding to Taylor when I told you how I felt and you told me it was too late was one of the worst nights of my life." She looked down and he lifted her chin up to look back into her eyes so he could continue. "I am not telling you this to make you feel bad I'm just telling you how I felt." She nodded and he continued after another breath. "Which was numbness and lost and I wanted to just forget everything so I went to a bar, had a few drinks then this woman comes over and sits down next to me and after a rocky introduction we started to drink together and one thing led to another and before we knew it..."

Sara cuts him off with tears in her eyes. "You slept with her?" He nodded and looked down. She takes her hand out of his, gets up, walks to the window and looked outside with her back towards him.

He gets off the couch and walks up behind her but doesn't touch her and said. "Sara you have to understand I was so lost that I don't know, I just wanted to forget everything even if it was for one night and she was lost to we were each other's comfort, that's it."

Still looking outside the window she responded. "You're not the kind of man to have one night stands."

Grissom very slowly puts his hands on Sara's shoulders and turns her around so she was face to face with him but she wasn't looking at him so he lifts her chin up and sees the pain in her eyes but she saw the same reflecting in his, he wipes the tears off her cheek and said. "You're right I am not and that should tell you how much pain I was in and my state of mind."

She saw the begging in his eyes for her to understand where he was coming from and she must have because she nodded. It wasn't like he cheated on her, they weren't even a couple and yeah he had one drunken night but she could have done the same thing if the roles would have been reversed so she did understand and wasn't going to hold this against him.

He did a sigh of relief, feeling like he passed one test then he took her hand and walked her back to the couch, they sat down then he took her other hand, looked back into her eyes and got to the part he really needed to say. "This is going to be tough but I have to be honest with you." He cleared his throat and finished. "Alice, the woman who was at the bar came to the lab today and told me that she was pregnant and I'm the father."

Sara gasped and her eyes were wide and after a few seconds Grissom told Sara that Alice told him that he could be as involved as he wanted but Sara's mind was still reeling about the baby part and him being the father, she knew this relationship wasn't going to be easy but she never figured this ever happening.

Grissom squeezes her hand to get her back to here and now and asked. "Sara what are you thinking?"

She shakes her head and said. "Honestly I don't know, I guess I'm still in shock that you're having a baby with another woman." She stops for a second then looks him in the eyes and said. "It was the woman I saw in your office today wasn't it?" She didn't need confirmation but he nods anyways.

She takes her hands out of his again and walks back to the window, this time he stays on the couch, looks over at her and said. "Sara I don't know what I am going to do."

She shook her head, wiped a tear away, turned to him so her back was to the window and replied. "Griss you know exactly what you're going to do and you knew it the moment she told you." He raises an eyebrow and just when he was about to counter that statement she continued. "There is no way you can turn your back on a baby, especially something that's half yours, you know it and I know it, you just wouldn't do it."

Sara wiped more tears away and he gets up from the couch, walks up to her and puts his hands on her cheek to wipe the tears away again and said. "I don't know if I can be a father...…"

She puts a finger to his lips to cut him off and said. "You'll figure it out."

She gives him a little smile, he nods and puts his other hand on her cheek then asked. "What about us?"

She said the only thing she could think of at the moment with her mind still muddled about this whole thing. "We'll work it out."

He nodded and replied. "Sara I just want you to know nothing and no one is going to change how I feel about you."

Sara nods and he brings her closer, kisses her on the temple then wraps her in his arms and as they were holding on to each other she closed her eyes and hoped with all her might that she could learn to deal with this unexpected turn of events.

AN: Next Chapter: Another turn will be made. This wasn't called the winding road for nothing. Please review.