Author's note: I don't own CSI but I do love to play with them! It's the sincerest form of flattery!
So I bet you can't guess what happens in the next chapter? LOL Yes it is Smutty smutty smut smut and a Jacuzzi!
This is the second to the last chapter. I hope you will enjoy as I wrap this up and make Conrad look like a fool! Sorry, but I hate him! I gotta do it!
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You are the Woman that I've Always Dreamed Of…
Chapter 20
Grissom and Catherine were back to the hospital before Sara had even been moved to recovery.
Jim tried very hard to pry information of out Catherine, but she simply said "I'm just the taxi service, I have no idea what he wanted to get!"
Jim and Ecklie talked by phone twice during the surgery. They decided to push back the press conference, only two days thought, as Dr Griffin seemed to think Sara would be all right to leave the hospital in a wheelchair after one night of observation.
When Sara was wheeled to her room, Grissom was the only one there waiting for her.
"Hello dear," he said softly to her.
She smiled. That smile was enough to melt his heart.
"I'm glad you are here!" she said quietly, a little hoarse from the medication.
"I'm glad I'm here too!" he responded, laughing slightly at the fact that he was there and he was not afraid to demonstrate how much he loved this woman. So much had changed.
"Sara," he said quietly, "Are you awake?"
"Yes Gil, I'm fine," she replied, "Dr Griffin said the sedative was pretty light and he'll probably be able to let me go tomorrow. Do you think the boys can get my clothes and stuff over to Jacob's house for me? I guess I won' t be able to do that for myself right now…"
Grissom took her hand and gently interrupted her, "You're rambling dear," he said.
"Why do you make me so nervous with that look on your face?" she answered.
"No need to be nervous," he said, "but you are not going back to Jacob's house."
Her heart stopped and the smile left her face. This can't be happening!
He handed her a document and asked her to read it. It was the title to the house on El Camino Real, with her name directly below Gilbert A. Grissom.
"It's our house now," he quietly said to her, "and although Jacob left it to us as a legacy, I am now changing its name to Sara's house."
The tears welled up in her eyes, not from pain, but from the love that kept growing in her heart for this man.
"I love you Gilbert," she said, "but you don't have to do this!"
"I don't have to, dear, I want to," he replied. "But there's something else."
"Anything." She said. She had never meant anything else so sincerely in her entire life.
He reached into his pocket and pulled out a beautiful diamond ring with a single immaculate stone, centered between two emeralds.
"Marry me."
"Gil, I….." she stopped, the tears were now flowing.
"I know you didn't grow up in a family that had a strong marriage at its center. But I want to give you the strength of a family, our family, and ove and support you until you can't take me any more!" he told her.
"I have never known love like this in all my life, and I wish I had the courage to face it sooner, but I didn't, and for that I hope you will forgive me."
He stopped and wiped away the tears.
"Please give me the chance to make it up to you for the rest of your life. I can't even think of loosing you again."
She looked at him and smile. "Now who's rambling?" she asked.
"Is that a yes?" he said.
"Did you even have to ask?' she replied.
They fell into a deep kiss, trying their best not to move the IV from her arm. Grissom wiggled his way into the bed and wrapped himself around her, placing the ring on her left finger.
"I guess I'll have to change the title again then!" he said.
"You will!" she promised.
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Dr Griffin once again released Sara to Grissom's care.
"Let's not see you back again very soon ok?" he said jokingly as he walked them to the front door.
Jim was there in Grissom's old Mercedes and Catherine was just climbing in to the back seat.
They took the borrowed wheelchair and put it in the spacious trunk, and Sara settled in beside Catherine. Her leg had finally stopped hurting as much thanks to some nice painkillers and a firm cast.
"Everyone ready?" Jim asked.
"Yes, I can't wait to get home!" she replied.
They drove for a few moments until Sara realized that they were not headed to the foothills.
"Where are we going?" she asked.
But as soon as the car slowed down in front of the Little White Chapel, she knew what the three of them had planned.
"Sara…" Grissom began.
"Yes, Yes, Yes," was all she had to say.
And that afternoon, with Jim Brass and Catherine Willows as witnesses, Gil Grissom became a husband for the first time in is 50 years and Sara Sidle became the happiest woman on the face of the earth.
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Two days later, the press conference took place.
Much to Sara's chagrin, she was the center of attention.
The mayor of the city presented the Key to the City and pronounced the day as "Sara Sidle Day" in Las Vegas to honor her rescue of the two women inside the convenience store.
As Sara took the podium, being assisted to the microphone by Dr Grissom, she kissed him on the cheek and began her prepared words.
"As a citizen of the state of Nevada and the city of Las Vegas, and as a member of the Las Vegas Police Department, I want to say that I am proud to be here today. But I am not a hero; I am someone who was fortunate enough to be able to help my fellow citizens in a time of crisis. I thank you for all of your kind words and attention, but I'm not special. I'm someone who has been blessed to have the greatest job, working with the best family in the world, these people behind me, who give me the courage to do what I do every day." She looked over her shoulder to see Jim, Catherine, Greg, Warrick, Nick, Mandy, Wendy, David and of course Grissom. "These are my heroes!"
The room broke out in applause as Ecklie took the microphone from her.
"Now, Ms Sidle will answer a few questions…" he began,
"Mrs. Grissom," she prompted him.
He stood there, perplexed as all of the people on the stage behind them laughed at situation Ecklie had now been placed in front of all of these cameras!
"I'm, ah, sorry, Sidle, what did you just say?" he strung his words together carefully. "I could have sworn you just called yourself Mrs. Grissom?"
"I did," she replied, flashing the rings under his nose, "my husband and I are ready to answer any questions you may have!" she said to the members of the press.
Ecklie turned beet red and sipped from a water glass as he took his seat.
"Whats a matter Ecklie?" Jim asked, "Cat got your tongue?"
"You knew about this?" he asked Jim.
"Of course I did, and so did the sheriff!" Jim laughed. It felt good to see Ecklie squirm.
The questions began to come from the press.
Sara and Grissom were patient and answered all of the questions that were asked, and when someone asked when the married, they even answered that question too!
"So what's next?" the reporter from CNN asked.
"Well, I think that after my leg heals, I'll be back to work and back to reality," she replied.
"Actually, my new wife is going to return to school to get her Doctorate in physics next semester. She just didn't know it until just now!" The gathered crowd applauded the news with great appreciation of the gift that she had just received.
Ecklie began turning new shades of red.
"Well, I will stay on part time at CSI as long as our good friend Conrad Ecklie is willing to have me!" she announced.
Ecklie stood up, baffled, but never at a loss for words when the press was nearby.
"Of course Miss Si I mean Mrs Grissom will be welcome at CSI on a part time basis!" he said as he gave her a big hug.
The crowd erupted in applause.
"I hate you," he whispered in her ear. "Him too," he indicated towards Grissom.
"I know," she replied, smiling for the cameras.
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One more chapter – with a happy ending, as all GSR must have a happy, dirty, ending. Ah, did I say Dirty? LOL Final chapter tomorrow!