AN: Thank you for the reviews. Here is your second to last chapter.

Chapter 9: Spending the day inside

The next morning Sara woke up feeling very rested, even more than she felt yesterday. She hadn't felt this rested in a very long time, she might even go as far as saying in her whole life, and when she looked down at his arms around her she knew why. It was because she was safely in his arms the whole night.

She smiled as she felt Grissom shift behind her, and saw in the corner of her eye that he was leaning to see if she was awake.

When he saw that her eyes were open he leaned down, kissed her cheek and said. "Good morning dear."

She smiled bigger at the endearment and whispered. "Good Morning." She started to turn around to face him so he releases her enough for her to move.

Once they were laying face to face she puts her hand on his cheek and he asked. "Did you sleep well?"

She smiles while tracing her finger on his lips and replied. "The best sleep I probably had in my life. I don't think I could sleep without you next to me anymore."

He kisses her finger then slips his fingers through hers and responded. "It's the same with me. I think we're stuck together."

She moves his hand to her lips and kisses it then asked with as smirk. "Is that a promise?" He smiles, remembering she used that line yesterday.

He leans toward her and right before their lips touched for their morning kiss they heard a scream.

They wasted no time, they jumped out of bed and practically jogged to the door and opened it.

When they stepped out so did Greg and Amanda from their room, which was across from his.

They stop in the doorway and Greg has his eyebrow raised and a look that said 'Why was she in there?'

Grissom and Sara just shook their heads, they didn't have time to talk about it, they ran to the living room with Greg, Amanda, BreAnna and Warrick following.

When they got in the living room they see Nick and Catherine kissing.

Grissom asked. "What was that scream?"

Catherine and Nick pulls apart and she said with the biggest smile. "We just got engaged." She holds out her left hand, showing off her nice engagement ring.

After sighing in relief and their heartbeat slowed down they walk up to her, looked at the ring, then looked at the couple.

Warrick was the first to say. "Congratulations."

Catherine looks at Nick and they smile at each other, than looked at their friends and both said thanks. Warrick smiles and nods and after everybody else said congratulations Greg speaks. "Glad that was solved." Then he looks at Grissom and asked. "Now would you mind telling us why Sara was in your bedroom?" Greg raised an eyebrow again while everybody else gasped as they looked at Sara and Grissom.

Grissom cleared his throat and said. "Would anybody like breakfast?"

He walks to the kitchen and Sara spoke. "Well Greggo it's really none of your business why I was in there." She smirks and follows Grissom in the kitchen.

Catherine and Nick get out of the bed and all of them stood in the dinning room staring at the back of Sara and Grissom wanting answers, they were CSI's after all.

Finally the two of them turned to the gang, Sara sighed and said. "Fine. Even though it's none of your guy's business I'll tell you. I couldn't sleep so I went in there to get a good night's sleep, ok?"

Before she turned back to the refrigerator to get some orange juice Catherine asks. "And did you?" She said that in a way that asked them if that's all they did.

Grissom speaks this time. "Yes Catherine she did and so did I. Can we drop this now?" They could tell that Grissom was getting embarrassed.

Even though nothing happened, he was uncomfortable when it involved his personal life and nothing was more personal than who was in his bed.

They finally nodded and Catherine speaks again. "Sorry. This is just new to all of us. From now on your personal business is yours, right guys?" She looked at the guys and they nodded.

She looked back at Grissom and he said. "Thanks. Now do any of you guys want breakfast?" Everybody nodded and Grissom told them that he will make pancakes and they were satisfied with that.

They went back in the living room to watch a little TV.

When they were out of earshot, Grissom turns to Sara and she leans to him and pecks him quickly on the lips then speaks. "I didn't get my morning kiss."

He smiles then said. "You can join the gang if you want."

She shook her head and walked to the last bar stool by the counter and said. "If you don't mind I would like to watch you."

He nods then responded. "That's fine." They smile at each other one more time before he starts on breakfast.

Throughout the cooking they would sometimes look at each other and smile again, they just couldn't help it. This wasn't only new for the team, it was also new to them but they could tell they will enjoy it every step of the way.

As breakfast was being made the gang noticed the clouds were getting darker outside and by the time they finished eating a big rain/lightning storm hit and it knocked the electricity out, so they pulled out the candles and lamps for light, then brought out the board games again.

At one point Sara and Grissom ended up playing scrabble against each other while the rest of the gang watched with amusement. They were all smart but they felt they were no match to them so they choose to sit back and watch.

Sara ended up winning and of course she was a little smug that she got to beat the famous Gil Grissom, which he was a very good sport about losing to her but told the team if he heard one laugh or joke he would give them decomps for the next two months. They weren't sure if he was joking or not so they kept their mouths shut just in case.

When scrabble was put up Greg asked if he could have that rematch chess game against Grissom and he said ok.

When the game was coming to a close and there was only a few remaining turns left Grissom had to make a choice. He shots Sara a look and she gives him a small smile. He looks back at the game, moved his chess piece and waited.

He looks at Greg's face as he was looking at the board thinking of his next move then saw him get a very big smile on his face. He moved his chess piece, looks at Grissom and said. "Checkmate."

"Congratulations Greg, you played well." Greg nods and hand shakes Grissom's hand, stands up from the chair he was in, then turns to everybody else and they were congratulating him.

Grissom watches them for a minute with a smile then he gets up and sneaks outside for some air.

After Sara hugs Greg she looks around and didn't see Grissom inside so she took a chance on finding him outside.

She steps out on the deck and sees Grissom sitting down in a wicker chair to her left and under the cover, while the rain kept coming down. She walks over to him and he watches her until she is beside him. He opens his arms and she gets in his lap.

When she was comfortable and his arms wrapped around her to keep her warm, she spoke. "Are you ever going to tell him that you let him win?"

"Nah let him have his moment, He deserves it."

She smiles then couldn't help but pick on him. "It seems you were a little unlucky with the board games this week. You didn't win much."

He puts his chin on her shoulder and whispered in her ear. "That maybe true but I believe I am the biggest winner than anybody else on this earth because I get to be with you." He kissed her cheek and just held her.

Sara's heart was melting at those words, if this was just a preview of Grissom's romantic side then she knew she was going to enjoy being with him more than she thought. She stopped her tears before they came out and snuggled closer, if that was even possible. He kissed her cheek again and they just sat there comfortably as the sound of the rain hitting the roof.

The rest of the day was pretty uneventful and when Sara and Grissom came back in the house they made sandwiches since there wasn't much they could make at the moment.

Eventually the electricity came back on but it was still raining so they all got comfortable on the couch, love seat and Greg and Amanda snuggled on the recliner and put on a few movies.

When it got late they decided to call it a night.

This time Grissom told Nick and Catherine that they could have his room since he was going to sleep in Sara's and when they all got on their sleeping clothes they all went to sleep.

The next morning Grissom wakes up first this time, he looks down on his chest and she was still asleep. He smiles and kisses her head, this is how he wants to wake up every morning. He lays his head back down and closes his eyes.

After a few minutes he hears. "What's going to happen when we leave here?"

He opens his eyes back up then replied a little frightened. "I want to be with you, isn't that what you want?"

She moves her arm up to his chest and lays her chin on the back of her hand, looks at him and replied. "Of course that's what I want. What I mean is what's going to happen with work?"

He tucks a piece of her hair behind her ear and said. "Well like I told the gang yesterday I don't want to keep us a secret like we are doing something wrong, I want everybody to know. Catherine will have to do your evaluations or we end up on different shifts."

Sara doesn't even think about that answer. "Then I would want Catherine to do my evaluations. I still want to work with you."

He puts his hand on her cheek, rubs his thumb up and down then said. "Ok, we'll talk to Catherine again and I'll let the lab director and Ecklie know what's going on when we get home. Is that all right?" Sara nods, scoots up to his face, they lean toward each other and kiss.

When they pulled back she said. "I love you."

He pecks her on the lips this time, pulls back and said. "And I love you. It's still early Lets stay in bed for a little bit longer." She smiles and scoots back down and lays on his chest again.

She puts her arm around his waist and he puts his arm over her shoulders and they lay in bed for a little bit longer, both hoping every morning was like this.

When they finally got out of bed and out in the main area everybody was already up and fed, waiting for them to get breakfast so they could take the boat out on their last day with the whole team.

After Sara and Grissom had their breakfast and changed, they were ready to go boating.

They spent two hours out in the water and since it was a nice day some of them went skiing and tubing.

When their time was up Nick dropped everybody off on the dock, then drove the boat to the load/drop off place for the boats since his stuff was already packed.

Once the gang walked up to the deck they saw Tony just stepping on the deck from the side entrance, he smiled and said. "Hey we are getting ready to play a game of volleyball you want to join?"

Before Greg can speak, Grissom spoke. "Sorry Tony but we are leaving today."

"Ok. It was nice meeting you all." They all shook their heads and Amanda and Tony shared a friendly smile before he turned and left.

Grissom looks at the group and said. "Nice Man." Greg shook his head and walked ahead of them while the rest of them chuckled and followed him inside.

They packed their stuff, put/cleaned the house the same way they found it, locked the back and side doors, windows, turned off appliances then walked outside.

Sara set the security system and stepped outside, pulled out her keys and locked the door, then she turned around to walk to the vehicle and saw that Grissom was standing there smiling at her.

She raised an eyebrow and asked. "What?"

He holds out his hand and as she took he replied. "Be sure to tell your friend thank you."

"For what?"

They started walking to Nick and Catherine's vehicle and he responded. "For changing my life by letting me be here."

She smiles back then said. "I will but shouldn't you thank me too for even inviting you along and allowing this life changing event?" She smirks.

They stop at the back door on the driver's side, he smiles that smile she loves, brings her closer and said. "In that case. Thank you Sara for inviting me along and already showing me how wonderful it could be with you. I am looking forward to being an us outside of this world we created."

She puts her free hand on his cheek and replied. "Me too." She brings him closer and they peck each other on the lips.

They pull back, he sighed and said. "Well let's head back, we have things to do and rest before the start of shift." She nodded, then he lifts her hand that was still in his and kisses it, opens the back door for her and after she squeezed his hand she gets inside the vehicle, he shuts the door and walks over to the other side.

Once he was in and buckled, Sara looked over at him and he was looking back at her.

They smile at each other, then she reaches for his hand and slips her fingers through his, both thankful they took this trip that changed everything and looking forward to what comes next.

AN: Hope you enjoyed this chapter. Next Chapter: Will be the last chapter but a sequel is planned. Please Review.