Soft rock music played in the background of Grissom's townhouse as the two sat on the couch watching each other unscramble anagram tiles. Conversation flowed between them, Hank at their feet and since Catherine had called to tell them that Nick and Greg had the case for the night, they both had wine. Both knew that their timesheets looked like they'd just pulled triples. Sara laid out tiles and smirked at Grissom as he judged the letters.

"Honey, you have to make these harder." He started moving the titles but paused and looked back at them.

"Oh I made it plenty hard." She put her wine glass on the coffee table watched as he tried to move letters around a second time. "You do know some of the letters may not be useful, right?"

Grissom pushed and pulled letters till he nodded. "Ah, I see what you did." He pushed away three and left a five letter word: VIXEN. "Fun memories."

"Hmm, took you long enough." She motioned and he grabbed the bag that sat on the coffee table, pulling some to put on the cushion between them and putting others she had used up.

"Your turn."

Sara looked at the letters and reached out to push two away and reorganized the others. "Easy, your favorite fish."

Grissom shook his head, "how do you do that?"

"I've always been good at puzzles." She smirked at him, "why do you think I'm so good at crosswords? I just look at the letters and rearrange till something fits." She touched her pointer finger to his nose and his eyes caught hers. "You seem, maybe, a bit perplexed."

Picking up the tiles, he put them aside and motioned for her to come to him. "Come here."

"What?" She climbed onto his lap and looked down at him, her fingers combing through the fine hairs at the nape of his neck. "What is going through that mind of yours?"

He reached up a hand and combed back the hairs that had escaped her ponytail. "I still find myself amazed that you're mine. Every time I think I've figured you out, you just turn around and leave me dazed again."

"Well, I hear that is good for a healthy relationship." She kissed him before pulling her head back a fraction. "Keeping each other on our toes. I mean, we've put each other through a dozen ringers that we need healthy now."

He laid a kiss against her shoulder before pulling back to meet her eyes again. "I still remember myself standing before Daisy Wilcox in the cafeteria asking her to prom. I was this awkward science kid obsessed with bugs and mysteries like the Hardy Boys. She was the nerdiest science girl but she was still leagues ahead of me. Both in looks and popularity and she turned me down. I wasn't good enough for even the nerdiest girl in school."

Sara grinned, "her loss and my gain. You may have your quirks Gil Grissom and have a very good chance of annoying me on a good day, but I'm glad she turned you down. It made you retreat into your bugs and mysteries till I came along."

"Oh Honey, you would put all those girls at my school to shame."

"Did she break your heart?" Sara asked him honestly, "because if so, I can find her and make her life hell."

Thinking, his hand rubbing up and down her back, he shook his head. "No, I think it was more the idea then any actual love. The last time I fell in love with someone was with a girl in the front seat of my class who wore a ponytail and asked me so many unnecessary anthropology questions."

"Well, I was trying to get up the courage to ask you to dinner that evening." She leaned over and kissed his cheek before pulling away, her hand coming around to cup his face. "I failed but I obviously made an impression."

"So much so, my mom noticed when I visited her. She asked who you were but I never told her. I still haven't actually."

"You probably should do that before she shows up unannounced and asks who I am. She might assume I'm your kid." She watched his face go from thoughtful to grimacing. It only caused laughter to bubble up. "That would be very awkward."

"If anything, she'd get mad at me not you." He smiled at her, "my father and mother had about the same age difference. She told me she'd disown me if I ever robbed the cradle, those words exactly."

Sara leaned in and kissed him once, twice, three times. "Well, I'll tell her that I pursued you not the other way around." She grinned and kissed him again, "that I made you fall hopelessly in love with me, and you decided to chance her wrath then let me go."

"Which is all true."

Thinking for a moment, she told him something that she'd thought about several times in the past few months. "Maybe if she hadn't, we'd have a year or two behind us now."

"There was a lot more than age."

"I know but that was the biggest factor you said. You were scared I'd pull a Debbie Marlin."

Grissom looked down in thought, "I still wish you'd never heard me."

"I know but I'm still glad I did. Knowing the reason for rejection is easier than just plain rejection." As she moved to stand, he let her go and Sara took his hands in her own. "Come on, let me get you out of this wallow fest I put you in."

"It's more of thought fest." He stated as he stood and she smirked, "I see what you just did."

"Uh huh, well there's more of that in the bedroom."

The next morning Sara walked into the breakroom to see Sofia and Catherine talking while the boys tossing a soft rubber ball back and forth between each other. Nick turned to Sara and spoke as he did. "Think fast."

Sara caught the ball and threw it back. "Catherine, thank you for the night off."

"You'd have just come in last night instead of now. I thought you had a life now."

"I do and it was a nice night." Sara told her as she poured herself coffee. "Dinner, anagram games, wine, meaningful talk, other stuff." She smiled as she leaned against the counter. "It was nice."

"Don't need to hear more." Nick stated and plugged his ears. "No more thank you."

Warrick slapped Nick's hands down from his ears, "she's not saying anything. Honestly, you hear more from me."

"Yeah, but you aren't dating, you know." Nick widened his eyes, "family is different."

Sofia pointed to Nick, "Sara's dating your brother?"

"Oh God no." Sara stated as she leaned against the counter, "you couldn't pay me to do that."

"Her tastes go a little older." Greg provided, "definitely not his brother."

Sofia looked over at Sara, "his father?"

Nick pointed to Greg, "oh I see what you're doing." He pointed to Greg, "throwing her the curveball."

"Don't you know it. Everyone has to endure the curveball."

Sofia turned to Catherine. "What the hell are they talking about?"

"Oh you've missed so much." Catherine stated with a smile. "So, so much."

"Sara said very little had changed."

Catherine shook her head slightly. "She would."

Grissom walked into the breakroom and noticed the team and Sofia. "Sofia, I thought you'd be over at PD."

"I thought I'd float by time to time, see old friends." She smiled at him and he nodded before turning to Sara.

"Have you finished your reconstruction in the A/V yet?"

Sara nodded a fraction, "it's in progress. Archie said he'd let me know if it finished before I went back."

"Greg and I have some things to run." Nick told them and Greg followed.

Greg nodded, "yeah, we got the debris to look over and finish cataloging."

"I have some leads to run down with Vartann." Warrick told them before touching Catherine's arm as he departed the breakroom.

Catherine turned to Sara, "I have a few minutes, wanna tell me about your night?"

"Not now but maybe over a drink sometime soon. I need to go run that model since it's probably finished." Sara left and Catherine followed her a few moments later, intending to check on her own case. With everyone gone, it left Sofia and Grissom in the breakroom alone.

Grissom nodded to her. "We'll see you around."

"Yes, you will." The blonde smiled and left him standing in the breakroom, seemingly confused.

Onto the last part of 6x01 Bodies in Motion. Let me know what you think of this modified/alternate storyline.