The Look Of Love (part 26)
Grissom handed out the assignments for the night.
Nick and Jill were working a drug related shooting, Greg and Warrick had a pool of blood, nothing more than that was known. Andy and Gil had a body, it was mostly decomposed.
"Andy, please wait here, I need to see what Ecklie needs." Gil walked to his office, knocks on the door, "You needed me?" "Yes, come in and sit please," he said.
"I have a favor to ask," Conrad told him. "There is a young boy, 15, he is in foster care right now. He told his foster parents he was gay and they asked to have him removed. Brian and I want to adopt him, I need to have someone fill out a reference form, I was wondering if you would do it?"
"Yes, I would be honored too," Gil told him. Conrad stood and shook his hand, "Thank you. I was a little hesitant about asking you, I mean we do not always see eye to eye." Gil smiled, "On this we do. Every child needs a loving home."
In the Denali on their way to the scene Andy said, "I need to apologize to you." "For what?" Gil asked.
"I heard rumors about you and I ... well I talked to the guys about them."
"I see," Gil said, "Did you spread them any further?" "No sir," he said.
"Then you owe me nothing," Gil told him smiling. Now he knows how come Peterson found his tires all flaten.
Nick and Jill were standing outside the bar where the shooting took place, Sophia was there. "Jill, this is my wife Sophia. Sophia, Jill Mason. She is helping out until Cath gets back."
"Nice to meet you, this is Officer Carl Robbins. He is Doc Robbins' eldest son."
Jill looked at him, "I remember you. You were at the first crime scene I investigated, the drive by on International."
"I did not think you would remember," Carl said.
Nick and Sophia went over to the body.
"I know this is not the place to do this but I was wondering if you wanted breakfast after shift?" Carl asked. "Sure, meet you at THE BOX CAR DINER," Jill said.
Warrick and Greg were standing over the pool of blood, "I really don't know what to do?" Warrick said.
"This is all there is?" Greg took a sample for DNA, they walked around nothing else looked unusual.
Gil and Andy finished processing their body. Andy told him how he hated decomp and bugs, Gil just laughed, "Not many do."
Gil's phone rang, it was Nina. "I hate to bother you," she said, "but I need some help, Sara was coming back from the bathroom and she fell."
Gil said he would be right there. At the house Gil went to the bedroom while Andy and Nina sat in the living room.
Gil walked over to Sara. "Hi! What are you doing down there?" he asked. "Oh, I just wanted to see what the room looked like from down here," she said smiling.
Sara told him that she did not 'fall' she started to sit and misjudged the distance to the bed.
Gil snickered and bent down and lifted her up to the bed. She pulled him in with her, kissing him she said, "I love you." He returned the kiss, "I love you too."
Meanwhile, downstairs, Andy finally got the courage to ask Nina out.
After shift Gil was laying on the bed, Sara was cuddled up in his arms.
"Month 7," she said, "we have never made it this far."
"I was thinking the same thing," Gil said. "Hang in there son," he said putting his hand on her tummy.
Andy and Nina went out to dinner the next day. Andy was surprised how much they had in common.
"Nina, I would like to see you again," he told her as he unlocked her door. "I am not sure, I have Missy to think about."
Andy looked at her with a puzzled look, "Missy is a beautiful little lady."
"It is ... it is just that I like you a lot," she said.
"I do not see why that would be a problem," he says.
"It is, because it would not take much for me to be serious about you," she told him.
"I know just how you feel," he told her, "I feel the same way."
"You see, that is the problem. Most men do not want to get saddled with another man's child," she tells him starting to turn away.
Andy touched her shoulder, "I am not most men." He takes her in his arms and kisses her.
Jill and Carl saw a movie that night and stopped for a burger and fries. They talk until well after midnight. "I did not realize it was this late," he tells her, "I better be getting you home."
At the door they make plans to go out again on her next day off, they share a kiss.
Jill goes inside, "He is kind of cute," her sister says. Jill smiles, "Makes me glad you don't like guys Lisa."
Two weeks after Gil filled out the papers for Conrad he calls Gil on the phone.
"Gil, I would like to thank you. The courts let us adopt Jay." "I am glad I could help," Gil tells him, "and congratulations, as I said, every child deserves a loving home."
Wendy is 2 weeks from her due date, Sara is 6 weeks from hers. Each day that goes by Sara gets more excited.
She talks to Catherine and Nina for hours about babies and what to expect. She shows the other two the latest sonogram of the baby. "I think Ryan is so beautiful," she says with all the pride of a new mom.
"I never could get those pictures," Nina says, "they all look like blobs to me." "Well he is MY blob," Sara says. "Mine too," Gil says as he comes into the room.