Gil was silent, thinking, trying to understand this whirlwind of confusion and lost love and disappointment as Sara grabbed his hand. Nick kept flashing that awkward smile he always uses when he's nervous or upset, or both. Olivia was being walked down that long hall stretching out before the three of them, flanked by two guards. "Don't freeze me out now, Gil, please. I know you're mad at me. I'd be surprised if you weren't, but don't get quiet on me. That's never a good sign." Blinking his eyes hard together, he sighed and gazed up at the slightly flickering lights overhead. "I was thinking, about the future and what it held, for all four of us equally." At this he put his hands in his pockets, glanced quickly at Sara, straight into Nick's eyes, and intently down the hall at his daughter.
"Nicky, I'm sorry, truly sorry this is the way it's going for you. I want you to be happy too. Just because of this...I want us to still be friends, all three of us. And Sara," At this he turned to her, eyes so soft as if they were felt, grabbing her hands gently inbetween his own. "Sara, I'm not mad, not at all. If we had her, lost her, and found her again, I think it's just meant to be. And you can tell me, and Nick the truth." At this he slowly removed his hands to his sides. "Neither of us, I'm sure, want you to be pressured or feel pressured into something you don't want or don't feel right with. We'll deal with what you want first and foremost, because it's what matters."
By this time, one of the guards reached their small circle and coughed, interrupting. "Mr. Grissom, Miss Parkersons was needed to be escorted from the patient she was visiting and she gave us your name." At this, the guard looked questioningly at Sara and Nick, when Grissom just nodded his head to okay them and looked strangely at the guard.
"Why was she needed to be removed?"
"The patient reacted negatively to a drug that was given to her, apparently causing a serious allergic reaction of sorts and her throat swelled, causing her to die of asphyxiation. Miss Parkersons was removed as the pulse rose, we were informed of the situation a few moments ago."
Grissom was frozen. Now, the three CSI's there were the last things that were as close to family as that poor girl smiling absently a few hundred feet away had.