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Hit and Run
HEY Guys!!!
I started to post this months ago!! But due to college commientments, never got round to fishing the last chapter and uploading it!
So it is now FINALLY finished!!
So here is the WHOLE story!!!
Hope you enjoy!!! Let me know what you think guys!! Cheers!
Chapter One!
Gilbert Grissom is sitting at his desk in the large lounge in his town house. He finally lifts his head up from the entomology book he had been staring at for the last ten minutes.
His eyes fall on a tiny box placed beside his lamp, the box wrapped in gold foil contains his late mother‘s wedding band.
It has been a rough year on Mr Grissom, losing his beloved mother to a long battle to cancer. He had confided in no one of his grief, yet through his mother’s death he also knew that he was losing the true love of his life aswell. Gil knew he had to do something about this and fast.
Yes there had been many women in Gil’s life and he knew all too well the joy’s of the flesh but it was a woman that he never really touched that had won his heart…………..a Miss Sara Sidle.
Sara Sidle had now been working for Gil a total of five years since her arrival from San Francisco and he loved her from day one. He fell in love with her smile and humour but she too was intelligent and dedicated to her work just like Grissom. She was the prefect fit for him and he knew it.
Of course this scared Gil to death, for five years he refused to admit his true feelings for Sara, to anyone even his mother who he told everything. Well this was about to change finally, tonight was the night Grissom was going to at last open his heart without thinking of the consequences. There was no going back now he had waited far too long.
Chapter Two!
Sara Sidle found herself in her kitchen anxiously looking up at the clock every few seconds…….
Why was she so interested in the time, surely she still didn’t believe in Mr. Claus and was waiting for his arrival, no but she was waiting for someone…….
Grissom , her supervisor , had called her cell an hour ago, requesting she out with him for a Christmas Eve meal with him. Of course Sara accepted and over the hour that followed Grissom’s call, Sara began to think over many things. Why had Grissom out of the blue invited her out to dinner , especially since he had been avoiding her in the lab for weeks. Where would they been dining, what should she wear, dress up or play it casual?
But the thing that Sara thought about the most was how much she loved Grissom, despite her beat efforts to put her feelings behind her, she still loved him. She couldn’t stop thinking about him , if she was in the lab or not Grissom was always on her mind. His voice would play over and over in her mind, all she had too do was close her eyes and there he would be smiling at her. She loved those lips but it was his eyes that drew her in , those prefect eyes.
Ding Dong…… All of a sudden the sound of Sara’s doorbell awoke her from yet another day dream she had fallen into…….Getting up off her kitchen stool she took a quick look at her self in the mirror by the door and straightened her clothes before opening her front door to……………………an unfamiliar officer
Chapter Three!
The next few minutes drifted over Sara as her hearty started pounding and tear began to stream down her now pale eyes.
The officer the door opened to had informed Sara that a Mr Gilbert Grissom had been involved in a serious road accident two blocks down from Sara’s house. He also informed Sara that she was requested to attend the hospital that Gil was moved to, so she could she could speak to his doctors.
‘Why do I have to speak to his doctors’ Sara asked the polite officer.
‘Well Miss Sidle, we found Mr Grissom’s personal information in his wallet and you are listed as his next of kin’ replied the officer.
Sara stood there for want seemed like hours to her in shock, then she found her keys and headed for her car.
As she drove to the hospital Sara couldn’t believe what she had just heard….she didn’t want to believe it. Sara dreaded to see Grissom in whatever sate he was in but she had to, she loved this man…..but she wondered why she was Grissom’s next of kin………for the life of her, Sara couldn’t understand why, did Grissom actually love her back,
Was that the real reason behind his dinner invite tonight?
That’s when the stark reality hit her like a train…………if this was true, that Grissom loved her back,
Was it now been cruelly taken away from them both before they even began??
Chapter 4!
At one of Vegas’ many top restaurants, Catherine, Nick, Warrick and Greg sat at a lavishly decorated table set for seven.
They all wondered who the three empty seats were for. They all agreed on Grissom and Sara but the third was a mystery, especially as Jim Brass was out of town. Their discussion soon moved onto Nick’s last case which involved a cat and a chimney. The four CSI’s laughed so hard at Nick’s findings that they didn’t notice Conrad Eckile walk up to their table.
Oh God is he the third guest? - taught Catherine with a drop in her stomach. And she was sure from the looks on her three colleagues that they too felt the same possibility!
Was he the one that had sent out the private invites unsigned? Was the team going to be spilt up again?
‘Conrad, how can we help you’ Warrick asked quickly to hid his initially expression.
‘Well I’m here on some unpleasant business regarding your team’ replied Conrad.
‘You will have to work tonight, all hands must be on deck, road accident down the strip’
Why all hands on deck Conrad, is there that many causalities? - inquired Catherine.
‘No just one fatality - but this time its personally………Grissom was involved.’ said Conrad in a matter of fact tone.
Chapter Five!
Still reeling from Conrad’s news, Catherine was first CSI to arrive on the scene, but as she stepped out from her SUV, Nick and Greg pulled in together and Warrick behind them.
They all spotted Grissom’s SUV entangled with a red porche 5 yards away from where they all had parked up.
Just then Catherine turned to see a surprisingly familiar face she didn’t accept to see here tonight.
‘Catherine’ called out Capt. Jim Brass.
‘Jim, weren’t you in Miami looking for Ellie?’ questioned Catherine.
‘Well yes but to no success, and of course once I heard about Grissom
I was straight back here to sort this out,
It just couldn’t be Grissom who caused this accident, I don’t care want Conrad is saying about these two eye witness’s, Gil would never drive carelessly. ’
‘Jim have you heard anything from the hospital on Grissom’s condition?’ asked Nick.
‘No they wont release any information yet’ answered Brass.
‘But the little girl in the passage seat of the porche was just pronounced , there’s no way that two people are dead because of Grissom.
Okay guys, you all know the importance of this case , do what yous have to do and fast, it wont take long till the press gets hold of this and ruin Gil’s career, just what that evil Ekcile wants.’ - Brass
All four CSI’s set out to collect from the scene……..they all knew this was going to be one hell of a night…….and that it didn’t look good for Grissom.
Chapter Six!
Flashback
Two hours pervious , Gilbert finally stopped thinking of Sara Sidle in his mind and got up and put on his jacket.
This was it, he thought, no going back now. He was finally going to acknowledge his love for Sara, and in front of their dearest friends aswell.
Grissom had put a lot of planning into tonight’s dinner. A month’s planning in fact , well if he was true to his heart this moment was five years in the planning really. He had endured hours of pain trying to fit the rosters so everyone could attend at the same time. Gil also paid the restaurant a visit to ensure that the menu would have a vegetarian option on the night he had booked the table. He also paid the nearest jeweller a visit , to have his mother’s ring cleaned and wrapped in a box for Sara.
Despite having everything running smoothly , planning wise , Gil still felt like a box of nerves so to clam them he went to his fridge before he left to get a cool drink,
‘I need some Dutch Courage!!’
joked Grissom to himself.
Present
Sara sat in her car outside the hospital. As she had been for the last ten minutes. She couldn’t bring herself to get out and go in. She was overcome with emotion as she finally walked through the doors of the hospital. Walking over to the front desk she asked what room Gil was in.
‘Miss Sara Sidle?’
‘Yes, I’m Sara’
‘I have been asked to send you up to the third floor, go straight to the waiting room, Mr Grissom’s doctor will be into talk to you in a moment’ said the receptionist.
Sara only had to wait five minutes and sure enough Gil’s doctor came into the waiting room.
‘Miss Sidle, thank you for coming down so soon, my name is Dr. White , I oversaw Mr. Grissom’s surgery……’
Chapter Seven!
‘Surgery?’ gasped Sara.
‘It’s okay Miss Sidle, Mr. Grissom will make a full recovery , and I will shortly allow you to see him, his leg broke and my team and I had to set back his leg bone. However we had to take a blood sample as with all car crash patients. This lead us to finding a high level of ecstasy in Mr. Grissom’s system, Miss Sidle , as you are Mr Grissom next of kin we were hoping that you could shed some light onto this discovery for us. Especially seeing as Mr Grissom is such a respected man in the city of Las Vegas’ said Dr. White.
‘Ecstasy……Grissom….Never’ spat Sara.
‘Miss Sidle, believe me , I know of Gil’s reputation so I naturally had the test rechecked twice, and ecstasy was most clearly in his system.’ refuted Dr. White.
‘Well, can I see him then?’ asked Sara.
‘Of course , however Gil still hasn’t come round from his surgery’
Dr White then showed Sara to Gil’s private room down the hall.
As Sara walked through the door, she took and deep breath yet she nearly fainted when she seen all the tubes and wires that were now connected to the man she loved. Looking down at a very battered and bruised Grissom , Sara was unsure if he would ever wake up again, she was sure of one thing she knew Grissom better than anyone and thee was no way he would be so stupid to take an E , never, yet it was in his system. But how, and at that very taught Sara run out of the room and away from Grissom……………
Chapter Eight!
Two Months Later.
Grissom sat at his desk at the lab, he couldn’t believe what had happened over the last two months.
His job was nearly lost and his reputation with it. The city of Las Vegas wanted his blood and who could blame them, all the evidence pointed at Grissom. His loyal team never gave up and always believed his innocence and if it wasn’t for them and in particular Sara Sidle who wouldn’t give in, Grissom would indeed have lost everything.
Gil was seated still , he was wearing his usually funeral black suit , he had just attended his one time colleagues funeral service. The media of Las Vegas went into a frenzy when they seen him walk towards the church,
‘Mr Grissom can we have our thoughts on Mr………..’ all the reporters shouted.
They couldn’t believe he was there, mourning the man that had tried so hard to ruin Gil’s life, career and reputation.
Between Catherine, Nick, Warrick, Greg, Sara and some excellent detective work from Jim Brass , they all proved beyond doubt that, Conrad Eckile slipped ecstasy into Gil’s milk bottle ,left outside his townhouse the morning before the now infamous accident , which Gil drank from before setting out to collect Sara.
Sara was the one that had found Eckile’s foot print outside Gil’s front door and his fingerprint on the milk bottle. Catherine discovered the money trail that linked the deceased driver of the porche to Eckile. He had paid her to drive into Grissom’s on the night, her death along with her daughters were just an accident of self stupidity.
Nick and Warrick proved that the treads found on the skid marks on the road where the accident happened were not a match to Grissom’s SUV. Along with this and the mounting evidence against Eckile, Greg was able to make the discovery that showed Eckile had used his sister’s SUV an hour before the accident to mark skid marks to implied that Grissom’s SUV was the one that was driving carelessly.
Brass with his hard as nails interrogation of the two eye witness’ that claimed Grissom ran the porche over, learned that they two had been paided off by Eckile.
Eckile was arrested and imprisoned less than two weeks from when the accident occurred. He had sent out to ruin Grissom and only ruined himself. Grissom learned from Eckile himself, that he did this because he wanted the night shift supervisor job for himself and the only way of getting it was to ruin Gil!
Within a month of his arrest Eckile couldn’t take his faith anymore. He was found in his cell dead after committing suicide.
There was a knock at Gil’s office door, when he glance up he saw Catherine come towards him. Catherine stopped just in front of his desk, as she looked around his office it was completely empty but the desk and chair that Gil was sitting on.
‘Hey how’s the leg holding up?’ asked Catherine.
‘It’s getting there, and it isn’t paining as much now that the weather is warming slightly.’ joked Grissom.
‘I’m going to miss you in this office and that pig in the jar of yours’ said Catherine.
Grissom signed he too was going to miss his team and he tried to explain to Catherine ‘After everything that has happened , nothing could stay the same, it is the only way Cath………’
Chapter Nine!
Sara stood in front of her full length mirror at home. She thought she would never see the day that she would wear a dress. Catherine had helped her pick it out. Tonight she was finally getting to go to that dinner that Grissom had planned, only this time she knew why and where she was going to. Her mind was awash with so many memories over the last two months.
How she helped Grissom keep his job, of Eckile’s plight yet it was the day her life changed for ever that kept replaying in her head.
Flashback - One Month Ago!
Sara drove into the same parking spot, that she parked in the night of Grissom’s accident, at the Las Vegas hospital. She was here to pick up Grissom who was finally being let home.
When Sara walked through the hospital doors, Grissom was already waiting for her.
‘Thank god you’re here, I don’t think I could stand this place any longer’ said Gil.
‘Well, I’m glad you asked me to collect you……especially since I haven’t been to see you that much…………..’ answered Sara.
‘Sara, you had your work, and if it wasn’t for you I might not have got to go back to work at all, that reminds me could you drop me off at the lab first, I have a meeting there.’ spoke Grissom.
‘Sure, lets go then, here ill take that bag’ said Sara while gesturing to Gil’s side bag.
Fifteen minutes later, Sara drove into the CSI lab.
They both worked into the lab and Sara started to veer towards the break room as Grissom headed for Brass’ office.
‘Sara, where are you going?’ quizzed Gil.
‘To get some coffee, you can come get me when your ready to go home’ answered Sara.
‘I want you to come to this meeting aswell, I want you to hear want I have to say to Brass and the Head of the Department.’ explained Gil.
‘Well okay then, if you want me too.’ said Sara.
‘Gil, how are you, hows that leg?’ asked Brass.
‘Still a little sore Jim, but I have more on my mind today. I want to hand in my notice to the Lab……………..’
‘What? why Gil, you have been cleared of all charges and suspicions. Your job is very safe here.’ spoke the Head of the Department.
‘I am fully aware of that!’ said Grissom ’but with everything has happened these last few weeks I have had a lot of time to think to myself and now more than ever know that my true life doesn’t reside here at the lab……..on the graveyard shift anymore,
I want to hand in my notice so I can apply for the position that has been left vacant with Eckile’s departure.’
An Hour Later.
Sara parked her car in the driveway of Grissom’s townhouse. Grissom place his hand on Sara’s thigh as she switched off the car. This show of affection made Sara jump slightly.
‘It’s okay Sara, I just want to explain to you first before we go in side.’ said Gil.
‘You don’t have to explain, your giving up your job because you want to get away from me…’ yelled Sara.
‘No Sara, that’s not the reason at all, if you only knew, the night of the accident I was going to collect you yes? said Grissom slightly yelling back.
‘Yes, but you never showed we both know that.’ answered Sara.
‘Well that night I was bringing you to a dinner……’
‘No you weren’t , you were only collecting me to go to a Lab meal with the rest of the guys off the team, they told me they were invited too. So don’t sit their and try make it out that it was something special just for me and you.’ spat Sara as she drew Gil’s hand away from her thigh.
’God damit Sara, would you just listen for a minute, I did ask the guys from the lab as well because I wanted them to be there when I finally…………..’
‘Finally what?’ demanded Sara.
‘Finally admitted to myself …..and you that I…..l…..love you……….with all my heart Sara’ said a nervous Grissom.
Grissom looked up at Sara and he taught she was going to hit him….but she didn’t she threw herself on him and kissed him passionately.
Chapter Ten!
Present
Capt Jim Brass stood outside the front door in one of his many balck suits…only his time he wasn’t dressed for work. He was calling in on a friend, a friend he worked so closely to for so long! For over 10 years in fact.
Grissom and Brass no longer worked side by side anymore, with Grissom now on day shift and Brass on night shifts. However, Grissom and Jim had become like brothers over the last two weeks! He had helped him pick the ring, the suit, and of course the hotel for the wedding reception, the same one that Grissom had chose for his dinner with his beloved Sara all those months ago.
Jim and Brass arrived at the church early this Saturday morning. Jim wanted no hitches, they arrived just as Warrick, Nick and Greg pulled up together. They all walked into the church together, the three CSI’s joked along with the best man to see if the groom to be was nervous!
He wasn’t nervous, well not when he seen his soon to be wife walk up the aisle 10 mintues later. So calm they both were that the service went so prefectally.
Sara and Gill disappeared after the service for a few minutes, Gil commented on how beautiful she looked in her dress and Sara like wise on Gill’s tux. Gill pulled one side of his tux over and pulled out the box he had planned to give to Sara months ago.
‘Sara Sidle, will you do me the honour of becoming my wife’ Gill proposed.
Sara clasped her hand over her now opened mouth for a minute, and then spoke a very definite, ‘YES!!’, while jumping on Grissom as well, knocking his best man’s coronation flower to the floor.
Just then Jim caught up with them, understanding what Gill had just asked straight away…but rather than give anything away to the rest of the guests, just simple called to the happy couple,
‘Will you guys hurry up, my wife is wanting to throw her flowers. Sara you should know better than anyone since these last two weeks how time focused Cath is!’
Surprise : THE END!!!
I started to post this months ago!! But due to college commientments, never got round to fishing the last chapter and uploading it!
So it is now FINALLY finished!!
So here is the WHOLE story!!!
Hope you enjoy!!! Let me know what you think guys!! Cheers!
Chapter One!
Gilbert Grissom is sitting at his desk in the large lounge in his town house. He finally lifts his head up from the entomology book he had been staring at for the last ten minutes.
His eyes fall on a tiny box placed beside his lamp, the box wrapped in gold foil contains his late mother‘s wedding band.
It has been a rough year on Mr Grissom, losing his beloved mother to a long battle to cancer. He had confided in no one of his grief, yet through his mother’s death he also knew that he was losing the true love of his life aswell. Gil knew he had to do something about this and fast.
Yes there had been many women in Gil’s life and he knew all too well the joy’s of the flesh but it was a woman that he never really touched that had won his heart…………..a Miss Sara Sidle.
Sara Sidle had now been working for Gil a total of five years since her arrival from San Francisco and he loved her from day one. He fell in love with her smile and humour but she too was intelligent and dedicated to her work just like Grissom. She was the prefect fit for him and he knew it.
Of course this scared Gil to death, for five years he refused to admit his true feelings for Sara, to anyone even his mother who he told everything. Well this was about to change finally, tonight was the night Grissom was going to at last open his heart without thinking of the consequences. There was no going back now he had waited far too long.
Chapter Two!
Sara Sidle found herself in her kitchen anxiously looking up at the clock every few seconds…….
Why was she so interested in the time, surely she still didn’t believe in Mr. Claus and was waiting for his arrival, no but she was waiting for someone…….
Grissom , her supervisor , had called her cell an hour ago, requesting she out with him for a Christmas Eve meal with him. Of course Sara accepted and over the hour that followed Grissom’s call, Sara began to think over many things. Why had Grissom out of the blue invited her out to dinner , especially since he had been avoiding her in the lab for weeks. Where would they been dining, what should she wear, dress up or play it casual?
But the thing that Sara thought about the most was how much she loved Grissom, despite her beat efforts to put her feelings behind her, she still loved him. She couldn’t stop thinking about him , if she was in the lab or not Grissom was always on her mind. His voice would play over and over in her mind, all she had too do was close her eyes and there he would be smiling at her. She loved those lips but it was his eyes that drew her in , those prefect eyes.
Ding Dong…… All of a sudden the sound of Sara’s doorbell awoke her from yet another day dream she had fallen into…….Getting up off her kitchen stool she took a quick look at her self in the mirror by the door and straightened her clothes before opening her front door to……………………an unfamiliar officer
Chapter Three!
The next few minutes drifted over Sara as her hearty started pounding and tear began to stream down her now pale eyes.
The officer the door opened to had informed Sara that a Mr Gilbert Grissom had been involved in a serious road accident two blocks down from Sara’s house. He also informed Sara that she was requested to attend the hospital that Gil was moved to, so she could she could speak to his doctors.
‘Why do I have to speak to his doctors’ Sara asked the polite officer.
‘Well Miss Sidle, we found Mr Grissom’s personal information in his wallet and you are listed as his next of kin’ replied the officer.
Sara stood there for want seemed like hours to her in shock, then she found her keys and headed for her car.
As she drove to the hospital Sara couldn’t believe what she had just heard….she didn’t want to believe it. Sara dreaded to see Grissom in whatever sate he was in but she had to, she loved this man…..but she wondered why she was Grissom’s next of kin………for the life of her, Sara couldn’t understand why, did Grissom actually love her back,
Was that the real reason behind his dinner invite tonight?
That’s when the stark reality hit her like a train…………if this was true, that Grissom loved her back,
Was it now been cruelly taken away from them both before they even began??
Chapter 4!
At one of Vegas’ many top restaurants, Catherine, Nick, Warrick and Greg sat at a lavishly decorated table set for seven.
They all wondered who the three empty seats were for. They all agreed on Grissom and Sara but the third was a mystery, especially as Jim Brass was out of town. Their discussion soon moved onto Nick’s last case which involved a cat and a chimney. The four CSI’s laughed so hard at Nick’s findings that they didn’t notice Conrad Eckile walk up to their table.
Oh God is he the third guest? - taught Catherine with a drop in her stomach. And she was sure from the looks on her three colleagues that they too felt the same possibility!
Was he the one that had sent out the private invites unsigned? Was the team going to be spilt up again?
‘Conrad, how can we help you’ Warrick asked quickly to hid his initially expression.
‘Well I’m here on some unpleasant business regarding your team’ replied Conrad.
‘You will have to work tonight, all hands must be on deck, road accident down the strip’
Why all hands on deck Conrad, is there that many causalities? - inquired Catherine.
‘No just one fatality - but this time its personally………Grissom was involved.’ said Conrad in a matter of fact tone.
Chapter Five!
Still reeling from Conrad’s news, Catherine was first CSI to arrive on the scene, but as she stepped out from her SUV, Nick and Greg pulled in together and Warrick behind them.
They all spotted Grissom’s SUV entangled with a red porche 5 yards away from where they all had parked up.
Just then Catherine turned to see a surprisingly familiar face she didn’t accept to see here tonight.
‘Catherine’ called out Capt. Jim Brass.
‘Jim, weren’t you in Miami looking for Ellie?’ questioned Catherine.
‘Well yes but to no success, and of course once I heard about Grissom
I was straight back here to sort this out,
It just couldn’t be Grissom who caused this accident, I don’t care want Conrad is saying about these two eye witness’s, Gil would never drive carelessly. ’
‘Jim have you heard anything from the hospital on Grissom’s condition?’ asked Nick.
‘No they wont release any information yet’ answered Brass.
‘But the little girl in the passage seat of the porche was just pronounced , there’s no way that two people are dead because of Grissom.
Okay guys, you all know the importance of this case , do what yous have to do and fast, it wont take long till the press gets hold of this and ruin Gil’s career, just what that evil Ekcile wants.’ - Brass
All four CSI’s set out to collect from the scene……..they all knew this was going to be one hell of a night…….and that it didn’t look good for Grissom.
Chapter Six!
Flashback
Two hours pervious , Gilbert finally stopped thinking of Sara Sidle in his mind and got up and put on his jacket.
This was it, he thought, no going back now. He was finally going to acknowledge his love for Sara, and in front of their dearest friends aswell.
Grissom had put a lot of planning into tonight’s dinner. A month’s planning in fact , well if he was true to his heart this moment was five years in the planning really. He had endured hours of pain trying to fit the rosters so everyone could attend at the same time. Gil also paid the restaurant a visit to ensure that the menu would have a vegetarian option on the night he had booked the table. He also paid the nearest jeweller a visit , to have his mother’s ring cleaned and wrapped in a box for Sara.
Despite having everything running smoothly , planning wise , Gil still felt like a box of nerves so to clam them he went to his fridge before he left to get a cool drink,
‘I need some Dutch Courage!!’
joked Grissom to himself.
Present
Sara sat in her car outside the hospital. As she had been for the last ten minutes. She couldn’t bring herself to get out and go in. She was overcome with emotion as she finally walked through the doors of the hospital. Walking over to the front desk she asked what room Gil was in.
‘Miss Sara Sidle?’
‘Yes, I’m Sara’
‘I have been asked to send you up to the third floor, go straight to the waiting room, Mr Grissom’s doctor will be into talk to you in a moment’ said the receptionist.
Sara only had to wait five minutes and sure enough Gil’s doctor came into the waiting room.
‘Miss Sidle, thank you for coming down so soon, my name is Dr. White , I oversaw Mr. Grissom’s surgery……’
Chapter Seven!
‘Surgery?’ gasped Sara.
‘It’s okay Miss Sidle, Mr. Grissom will make a full recovery , and I will shortly allow you to see him, his leg broke and my team and I had to set back his leg bone. However we had to take a blood sample as with all car crash patients. This lead us to finding a high level of ecstasy in Mr. Grissom’s system, Miss Sidle , as you are Mr Grissom next of kin we were hoping that you could shed some light onto this discovery for us. Especially seeing as Mr Grissom is such a respected man in the city of Las Vegas’ said Dr. White.
‘Ecstasy……Grissom….Never’ spat Sara.
‘Miss Sidle, believe me , I know of Gil’s reputation so I naturally had the test rechecked twice, and ecstasy was most clearly in his system.’ refuted Dr. White.
‘Well, can I see him then?’ asked Sara.
‘Of course , however Gil still hasn’t come round from his surgery’
Dr White then showed Sara to Gil’s private room down the hall.
As Sara walked through the door, she took and deep breath yet she nearly fainted when she seen all the tubes and wires that were now connected to the man she loved. Looking down at a very battered and bruised Grissom , Sara was unsure if he would ever wake up again, she was sure of one thing she knew Grissom better than anyone and thee was no way he would be so stupid to take an E , never, yet it was in his system. But how, and at that very taught Sara run out of the room and away from Grissom……………
Chapter Eight!
Two Months Later.
Grissom sat at his desk at the lab, he couldn’t believe what had happened over the last two months.
His job was nearly lost and his reputation with it. The city of Las Vegas wanted his blood and who could blame them, all the evidence pointed at Grissom. His loyal team never gave up and always believed his innocence and if it wasn’t for them and in particular Sara Sidle who wouldn’t give in, Grissom would indeed have lost everything.
Gil was seated still , he was wearing his usually funeral black suit , he had just attended his one time colleagues funeral service. The media of Las Vegas went into a frenzy when they seen him walk towards the church,
‘Mr Grissom can we have our thoughts on Mr………..’ all the reporters shouted.
They couldn’t believe he was there, mourning the man that had tried so hard to ruin Gil’s life, career and reputation.
Between Catherine, Nick, Warrick, Greg, Sara and some excellent detective work from Jim Brass , they all proved beyond doubt that, Conrad Eckile slipped ecstasy into Gil’s milk bottle ,left outside his townhouse the morning before the now infamous accident , which Gil drank from before setting out to collect Sara.
Sara was the one that had found Eckile’s foot print outside Gil’s front door and his fingerprint on the milk bottle. Catherine discovered the money trail that linked the deceased driver of the porche to Eckile. He had paid her to drive into Grissom’s on the night, her death along with her daughters were just an accident of self stupidity.
Nick and Warrick proved that the treads found on the skid marks on the road where the accident happened were not a match to Grissom’s SUV. Along with this and the mounting evidence against Eckile, Greg was able to make the discovery that showed Eckile had used his sister’s SUV an hour before the accident to mark skid marks to implied that Grissom’s SUV was the one that was driving carelessly.
Brass with his hard as nails interrogation of the two eye witness’ that claimed Grissom ran the porche over, learned that they two had been paided off by Eckile.
Eckile was arrested and imprisoned less than two weeks from when the accident occurred. He had sent out to ruin Grissom and only ruined himself. Grissom learned from Eckile himself, that he did this because he wanted the night shift supervisor job for himself and the only way of getting it was to ruin Gil!
Within a month of his arrest Eckile couldn’t take his faith anymore. He was found in his cell dead after committing suicide.
There was a knock at Gil’s office door, when he glance up he saw Catherine come towards him. Catherine stopped just in front of his desk, as she looked around his office it was completely empty but the desk and chair that Gil was sitting on.
‘Hey how’s the leg holding up?’ asked Catherine.
‘It’s getting there, and it isn’t paining as much now that the weather is warming slightly.’ joked Grissom.
‘I’m going to miss you in this office and that pig in the jar of yours’ said Catherine.
Grissom signed he too was going to miss his team and he tried to explain to Catherine ‘After everything that has happened , nothing could stay the same, it is the only way Cath………’
Chapter Nine!
Sara stood in front of her full length mirror at home. She thought she would never see the day that she would wear a dress. Catherine had helped her pick it out. Tonight she was finally getting to go to that dinner that Grissom had planned, only this time she knew why and where she was going to. Her mind was awash with so many memories over the last two months.
How she helped Grissom keep his job, of Eckile’s plight yet it was the day her life changed for ever that kept replaying in her head.
Flashback - One Month Ago!
Sara drove into the same parking spot, that she parked in the night of Grissom’s accident, at the Las Vegas hospital. She was here to pick up Grissom who was finally being let home.
When Sara walked through the hospital doors, Grissom was already waiting for her.
‘Thank god you’re here, I don’t think I could stand this place any longer’ said Gil.
‘Well, I’m glad you asked me to collect you……especially since I haven’t been to see you that much…………..’ answered Sara.
‘Sara, you had your work, and if it wasn’t for you I might not have got to go back to work at all, that reminds me could you drop me off at the lab first, I have a meeting there.’ spoke Grissom.
‘Sure, lets go then, here ill take that bag’ said Sara while gesturing to Gil’s side bag.
Fifteen minutes later, Sara drove into the CSI lab.
They both worked into the lab and Sara started to veer towards the break room as Grissom headed for Brass’ office.
‘Sara, where are you going?’ quizzed Gil.
‘To get some coffee, you can come get me when your ready to go home’ answered Sara.
‘I want you to come to this meeting aswell, I want you to hear want I have to say to Brass and the Head of the Department.’ explained Gil.
‘Well okay then, if you want me too.’ said Sara.
‘Gil, how are you, hows that leg?’ asked Brass.
‘Still a little sore Jim, but I have more on my mind today. I want to hand in my notice to the Lab……………..’
‘What? why Gil, you have been cleared of all charges and suspicions. Your job is very safe here.’ spoke the Head of the Department.
‘I am fully aware of that!’ said Grissom ’but with everything has happened these last few weeks I have had a lot of time to think to myself and now more than ever know that my true life doesn’t reside here at the lab……..on the graveyard shift anymore,
I want to hand in my notice so I can apply for the position that has been left vacant with Eckile’s departure.’
An Hour Later.
Sara parked her car in the driveway of Grissom’s townhouse. Grissom place his hand on Sara’s thigh as she switched off the car. This show of affection made Sara jump slightly.
‘It’s okay Sara, I just want to explain to you first before we go in side.’ said Gil.
‘You don’t have to explain, your giving up your job because you want to get away from me…’ yelled Sara.
‘No Sara, that’s not the reason at all, if you only knew, the night of the accident I was going to collect you yes? said Grissom slightly yelling back.
‘Yes, but you never showed we both know that.’ answered Sara.
‘Well that night I was bringing you to a dinner……’
‘No you weren’t , you were only collecting me to go to a Lab meal with the rest of the guys off the team, they told me they were invited too. So don’t sit their and try make it out that it was something special just for me and you.’ spat Sara as she drew Gil’s hand away from her thigh.
’God damit Sara, would you just listen for a minute, I did ask the guys from the lab as well because I wanted them to be there when I finally…………..’
‘Finally what?’ demanded Sara.
‘Finally admitted to myself …..and you that I…..l…..love you……….with all my heart Sara’ said a nervous Grissom.
Grissom looked up at Sara and he taught she was going to hit him….but she didn’t she threw herself on him and kissed him passionately.
Chapter Ten!
Present
Capt Jim Brass stood outside the front door in one of his many balck suits…only his time he wasn’t dressed for work. He was calling in on a friend, a friend he worked so closely to for so long! For over 10 years in fact.
Grissom and Brass no longer worked side by side anymore, with Grissom now on day shift and Brass on night shifts. However, Grissom and Jim had become like brothers over the last two weeks! He had helped him pick the ring, the suit, and of course the hotel for the wedding reception, the same one that Grissom had chose for his dinner with his beloved Sara all those months ago.
Jim and Brass arrived at the church early this Saturday morning. Jim wanted no hitches, they arrived just as Warrick, Nick and Greg pulled up together. They all walked into the church together, the three CSI’s joked along with the best man to see if the groom to be was nervous!
He wasn’t nervous, well not when he seen his soon to be wife walk up the aisle 10 mintues later. So calm they both were that the service went so prefectally.
Sara and Gill disappeared after the service for a few minutes, Gil commented on how beautiful she looked in her dress and Sara like wise on Gill’s tux. Gill pulled one side of his tux over and pulled out the box he had planned to give to Sara months ago.
‘Sara Sidle, will you do me the honour of becoming my wife’ Gill proposed.
Sara clasped her hand over her now opened mouth for a minute, and then spoke a very definite, ‘YES!!’, while jumping on Grissom as well, knocking his best man’s coronation flower to the floor.
Just then Jim caught up with them, understanding what Gill had just asked straight away…but rather than give anything away to the rest of the guests, just simple called to the happy couple,
‘Will you guys hurry up, my wife is wanting to throw her flowers. Sara you should know better than anyone since these last two weeks how time focused Cath is!’
Surprise : THE END!!!
