3. Wild Flowers

Sara found Sofia waiting in the bar. Until this very moment she hadn't been sure if it was a good idea to see the blonde today. Too many things were going on. The last case brought back some memories and the present was…well she had better days.

"Happy anniversary."

"Thanks." The brunette made a grimace. That was the what bothered her at the moment. Her wedding anniversary and she didn't manage to talk to her own husband. She had no idea if it was him forgetting about their day or the time difference or…anything else. All she knew was, it had been a while since she talked to Grissom and she missed him like crazy.

"Why is Grissom not here? If you don't mind me asking."

"Actually, I'd rather not talk about him. I can't give you any answers anyway because I don't have them. I'm just as clueless as you are."

"Oh." Embarrassed the blonde lowered her eyes. "Sorry."

"Not your fault."

"Anything I can do?"

"How about order another beer? I'm thirsty."

"My treat." Sofia ordered two beers. "You caught a predator today."

"It was mostly Morgan's work. She made the girl trust her, when she was gone, she kept pushing until they found her."

"She's pretty good. Being a CSI must run in the family."

"Like being a cop runs in your family? You outrank your mother."

"We don't talk about that, Captain Curtis is not very good in taking orders from her daughter."

"I can imagine that. Family can be hell."

"Your case proved it today."

"Not only the case." Sara sighed. "Sorry."

"If you want to talk about it, we can talk about it. I can see your long distance relationship is everything but easy. Sara, why don't you take a few days off and go to…wherever Grissom is right now?"

"Because…I don't know where he is. We haven't spoken in a while. Can we change the topic? Please."

"Whatever you want." Sofia was sure, not talking about the problems with Grissom didn't change them, but she could also understand, when she wasn't the right person to talk to. Even when they met here for a little chat, there was a big difference between talking over a case or your marriage problems.

"Do you know what happens to the girl?"

"Child service has taken her to a foster family. She'll be taken care off."

"I hope so." Sara knew the life in a foster family did not always was great. It was not likely it was worse than what happened to her already, but…you never knew what lay ahead you.

"Another topic we should skip?" Sofia asked.

"Yes. Sorry, I'm not a good company today."

"Sara, you're always good company. How about we talk about something completely different?"

"Like what? It's not like we share a lot of things. We were never that close."

"You're right, but we are about to change it. Which is good. It's never too late to change things. Life changes all the time, if you try to stay where you are, you lose life."

"And when you lose life, you lose what's most important to you." Sara took a deep sip of her beer. "Okay, let's talk about sports, how is that?"

"Something I can talk about all night long." Sofia laughed.