Chapter 12

That shift before he handed out the assignments Gil said, "Sara and I were wondering if you all would like to come over to the house next weekend and help us with the nursery? The stuff we ordered will be in by then."

Sara added, "We could have lunch too." They all said they would be happy to come. "Great," Gil said," Nick, you can bring Sophia if you want. Jim is bringing Annie."

"What did the doc say you were having?" Nick asked. Sara looked at Gil and smiled, at the same time they said "twins."

"TWINS! Man when you do something Grissom you do it right," Warrick said.

"A boy and a girl," Sara said.

"I strongly suggest you people stop talking about babies and get yourselves to work. You are not paid to hang around here, you are paid to solve crimes." The very angry voice came from Ecklie who had been standing in the doorway.

"Let's get things going," Gil said quite upset, "I don't want to get anyone in trouble." "But me," Gil said to himself suddenly feeling the urge to punch Ecklie square in the face.

"I have a half a mind to tell him just what I think of him," Sara said, "Man I wish I still had my morning sickness."

Everyone laughed.

Gil handed Warrick and Nick a possible suicide. A young man was found hanging in his cell. "There is NO way I would send the ladies into that place," Gil told the fellas. They agreed with him. Catherine and Sara had a dumpster call. A bartender had found a body in his dumpster when he took out the trash. Gil was going to give Greg his final proficiency.

Catherine handed Gil a large brown envelope, "If I keep doing your work maybe I should get your pay." Catherine told him jokingly.

"What is this?" Gil asked.

"My paperwork," Catherine said. "Remember, you had forms you had to fill out after Warrick and I got married."

"Darn," Gil said, "I knew I forgot something."

"That is why I did them," Catherine said. Looking over at Sara Catherine said, "It is a good thing there are no more ladies on our team."

"Why is that?" Sara asked laughing already knowing the answer.

"I am getting tired of filling out the forms," Catherine said laughing as they walked out the door.

Grissom looked at them both and just shook his head. He sat at his desk, signed the papers and put then in his 'out' basket so the interoffice delivery person could pick them up. Greg walked in, "Ready boss" he said.

They were going to a double homicide in the REGENCY hotel. At the scene Gil looked at Greg. "Ok, this is your scene. I will be watching you."

Greg pulled in a deep breath, let it out then got started. He questioned the officer in charge, the maid who found the bodies and Dave. He collected evidence, took pictures. Greg then went to the morgue and did the fallow-up there. After everything was finished, Greg wrote up the paper and handed it to Grissom

"You think it was a murder/suicide? Why?" Gil asked.

Greg nervously explained how he came to his conclusion. Grissom questioned him some more. Gil could see the little light come on it Greg's head as he realized something.

Greg yelled "DAMN" then took off. Gil sat back in his chair and smiled. "I think the boy got it," Gil said to Jim. "I think you might be right, "Jim replied.

Greg came back in, handed Gil a revised paper. Gil sat and read it, "Good job."

"You knew," Greg said.

"Yes," Gil told him. "I told them to tell you it was a double homicide. I wanted to see if you could figure it out. You did. It was a double suicide."

"It just took me forever to figure it out, "Greg said certain he had failed.

"But you did figure it out," Gil said. "No one expects perfection, you stuck with it and followed it to the end. That is what you are supposed to do. Congratulations. You passed."

The rest of the team came into Gil's office and offered their congratulations too.

"Grissom, my office NOW." Ecklie yelled.

"What one?" Sara asked giggling to herself.

"Don't be a smart ass," Ecklie said walking away.

"It's for me," Gil said walking away. "I told you so," Jim said.

"What is that all about?" Sara asked. "Gil will tell you if he wants to," was all Jim would say.

Sara was not satisfied with Jim's answer, she followed Gil to Ecklie's office, she hoping to be able to ease drop.

Before she could get there Ecklie had shut and locked the door. He was standing behind his desk, banging his fist on the desk and yelling. Gil was calmly standing there not saying anything. After some more yelling Gil picked up the phone and handed it to Ecklie. Ecklie slammed it down and pointed to the door. Gil walked out, looked at Sara and said "It was nothing."

Gil walked away. "Nothing my tush," Millie, Ecklie's secretary said. "Conrad forgot to turn his intercom off."

Sara asked her what it was all about.

"Well, Ecklie was chewing Gil out because he did not fallow a direct order. Gil was to give you and Catherine the jail thing. Then, very calmly Gil said he was not going to let any lady, let along his wife, go to a place like that. Then Ecklie said he wanted to see if you could handle yourself in that kind of environment and Gil told him that you are a better CSI then he ever could be. Then Ecklie threatened to have him suspended. And Gil said he couldn't so Ecklie said he should call the sheriff and Gil handed him the phone. Gil said that he would like to have Ecklie explain why he would intentionally send women into a place full of violent men, with so little supervision then Ecklie told him to get the hell out of his office." Millie pulled in a deep breath, she had relayed the conversation so quickly she hardly had time to breath.

"Thanks Millie," Sara said.

After a little while Sara walked into Gil's office. He had been talking to the rest of the crew about their cases. Gil and Sara had stayed very professional as far as physical contact went, Gil had insisted on it.

Sara walked over to Gil, putting her arms around his waist, Sara pulled him to her and kissed him. "I love you," Sara said.

Gil was shocked by what she had done. "Sara .... " he just did not know what to say.

"Millie told me," Sara said. "I'll see you at the house."

Sara walked away. "I don't know what to say," Gil said to the others. "I guess I should apologize, that was not at all professional."

They all looked at each other, Jim had told them everything while Grissom was with Ecklie. "We did not see a thing