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Pt. 4

Sara called Catherine at the lab who relayed the good news
to everyone else. They all sent messages to Grissom that they would be by to
see him soon. Then Sara made her way back to Grissom�s bedside. The
neurologist was still with him when she arrived. �Well Dr. Grissom your pupils
look good. You don�t seem to have any memory problems. Reflexes are good. The
headache is pretty common and with your history of migraines it was almost a
given. I see you�ve had some sort of ear trauma. Tell me about that.�

�Not a trauma. I had stapedectomies for otosclorosis. Dr.
Roth did them.�

�Ah well then I�ll put a call into her and let her follow
up on that. I don�t think the gunshot did any damage, but we�ll check it out.
After going through that surgery I�m sure you wouldn�t want to overlook anything
that might jeopardize your hearing again.�

Sara was stunned. She knew something was up when Grissom
took a month long vacation, but she never suspected he had surgery. When the
neurologist left Grissom could see the shock on her face. �You had surgery and
didn�t bother to tell any of us? We could have been there for you and helped
you. You didn�t have to shut us out. Grissom we�re your friends.�

�But you don�t want to be. My friend that is.�

Sara stopped. �How can you say that? We�ve known each
other for 10 years. Why would you think now that I don�t want to be your
friend? I mean come on, I know we�ve had our problems but..�

�I heard you Sara.�

Those four words made her blood run colder than any crime
scene ever had. �You heard me. How much did you hear exactly?� Grissom just
smiled. �I heard it all. You were telling me about the seminar and how it
changed your life. I heard everything Sara. Like I said. We need to talk.�

The nurse came back to give Grissom his painkillers which
gave Sara a short distraction from the rather uncomfortable conversation.
�We�ll talk Grissom. But right now you need to rest.� �I�m fine Sara. I�m
just tired and have a headache is all.� Neither one saw Brass come in behind
them. �How can you be tired? You just slept for four days?� The nurse looked
at the detective and set him straight. �Actually a lot of coma patients have
normal sleep and wake cycles in their brain patterns. They look like they�re
sleeping, but they don�t get any rest. So your friend here is probably
exhausted. Remember that and let him rest.�

Sara squeezed Grissom�s hand. �Well since Brass is here
I�m going to head out and get some rest. The guys at the lab said they�d stop
in later to see you. Now get better.� Grissom held her hand like a lifeline.
�Sara don�t go. We need to talk.� �And we will. But you need to rest.� Then
she walked away. Grissom watched her go and reached for her calling �Sara,
don�t go�, but she didn�t appear to hear him. His hand fell back to the bed as
he fought the tears that threatened to fall. Brass pulled the chair over to the
bed to sit by his friend. �So Gil. What was that all about? Did it take a
bullet to your head for you to come to your senses about that girl?�

Grissom looked at his friend with what he thought was a
blank expression, but his blue eyes gave everything away. The man who could
hide what he felt behind so many walls was, for the first time, unable to hide
his true feelings in his eyes. �Damn Gil I knew she had feeling for you, but I
had no idea you felt something for her too. What are you going to do?� �I
don�t know Jim. It�s complicated.� �What�s so complicated? You love her, and,
based on her almost collapse at the scene when Vartan told her what happened,
she loves you. That shouldn�t be so hard for a genius like you to figure out.
I know you�re used to keeping things to yourself, but you obviously can�t keep
what you feel for her bottled up anymore. I can�t help you if you don�t talk to
me.�

Grissom sighed and closed his eyes. �Later. Right now I
just want to sleep.� The painkillers had kicked in and Grissom drifted off to
his dreamland; the only place he could tell Sara everything.

Outside Sara�s heart was pounding in her ears as Grissom�s
voice played in her head. �I heard everything.� How? How could she
have told him? She knew there was a chance he could hear her, and she still
told him. Logically she knew it was the overwhelming emotions of the past four
days and lack of sleep that caught up with her. That and Nick�s CD didn�t help
matters. She sat down on a bench outside the hospital with her head in her
hands. �How am I going to fix this? He keeps saying we need to talk. Yeah I
know what he�ll say too. Something along the lines of I�m flattered but�. I
can�t take that. It was so much easier to keep my feelings to myself. Who am I
kidding? The whole freaking lab KNOWS and I didn�t have to say anything. I can
do this. I can still work with him. I�ve done it before. I can�t talk to him.
If I actually hear him say the words, actually hear him shoot me down yet again;
I don�t think I could stay."

�Hey Sar. I heard the news from Cath. How is he?� �He�s
ok. The doc checked him out and he seems fine. Just in pain and tired right
now. He got some painkillers before I left and he was talking to Brass.� Nick
sat beside her and could see something was wrong. �And how are you? You look
like something�s wrong.� Sara sighed. �Can�t hide anything from you can I
Stokes? I talked to Grissom while he was unconscious. Something just seemed to
snap and I started talking, telling him everything. At one point I started
crying and just held onto him. That�s when he woke up. He heard everything. I
guess he was waking up before I started talking and he heard it all. Now he
wants to talk.�

�So what�s the problem? How you feel about him is finally
out in the open.What�s so wrong about that?� �Nicky I can�t do it. I know
what he�ll say and I can�t take actually hearing him shoot me down again.� �So
what are you going to do?�   Sara looked at him and shrugged. �Work, catch bad
guys, maybe find someone to go home to. I hear cats are the animal of choice
for unmarried workaholic women.�

�Sara you can�t just forget what happened.� �Yes I can
Nick. I have to. I�m his friend. That�s all I am to him, and that�s all I�ll
ever be. I can live with that. But I can�t live with him rejecting me again
and seeing him pity me. Poor desperate Sara, who falls in love with her boss.�
Before Nick could say anything, Sara got up and quickly headed for her car.

Two weeks passed and Grissom was released from the
hospital. Everyone on the team stopped by his townhouse and called to check on
him at least twice a day. Everyone except Sara. After a week of the team�s
babysitting efforts, Grissom returned to the lab. It would be another month
before Grissom was officially cleared to return to work, but Ecklie conceded
that if he just came in for a few hours to clear up paperwork it would be all
right. He stuck to his office with paperwork most of the time. Other times he
went and helped out in the labs when they were backed up. It wasn�t anything
strenuous so no one questioned it. Sara had gotten good at avoiding being alone
with him wherever he was in the lab. He had tried to get her to come to his
office so they could talk and he had tried catching her when she was alone.
They really needed to talk, but she always had something pressing she needed to
take care of with a case. She was friendly enough to him, but she made sure she
was never alone with him either.

Finally he cornered her one day in the layout room. �Hey
Griss, you need something?� �Yeah as a matter of fact I do. How about meeting
me for coffee after shift?� �I can�t Griss. Plans.� She started to brush by
him to leave the room when he grabbed her arm. �Sara we need to talk about
this.� Her eyes were cold when she looked at him. �No we don�t. There isn�t
anything to talk about.� �I think there is. I heard you.� Sara�s head slumped
forward as she sighed. �If you heard everything you say you did, then you know
there is nothing to talk about. It�s handled. It isn�t a problem and it won�t
become one. Now if you�ll excuse me, I need to see a man about a bullet.�

Grissom slumped in defeat as Brass approached. �Did you
talk to her yet?� �How Jim? She won�t talk to me. Hell she won�t be in the
same room alone with me for more than a few seconds.� �Ah she�s pulling a
Grissom on you. Quit being such a science geek for once and be a man. You love
the girl, now fight for her.� Grissom took his glasses off and rubbed his
eyes. �I wish it were that simple. If it was just me dealing with her and all
the feelings, that would be great. But instead I have Ecklie, Atwater, and a
whole section of departmental regulations dealing with interoffice relationships
to handle. It�s just too much.�

�Do you love her?�

�What difference does it make? Nothing can happen.�

�Do. You. Love. Her?�

Grissom paused. That was the real question wasn�t it. It
wasn�t whether a relationship with her was allowed or not. It had nothing to do
with his inability to express his feelings. That one question held the key to
everything.

�Yes. God help me, yes. Everything I�ve worked for up
until now has been a distant second to what I really want, and what I want just
went down to ballistics.�

Brass smiled. �Then do something. You�re the genius.
Find the solution.�

Grissom looked at the floor, and then a smile broke across
his face; a real one that lit up his eyes. �Thanks Jim. I think you�re onto
something. I�ll see you later.�

Grissom retreated to his office and logged onto his
laptop. He knew what he had to do. For the first time in his life everything
made sense. He loved Sara and for the first time he wasn�t afraid of it. He
knew he had hurt her in the past. Now it was time to make amends for all the
pain and tears he caused her. He just hoped he wasn�t too late.



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