A/N this is for everyone who reviewed thank you for encouraging me

Warrick had managed to clam Catherine down slightly also the pain medication she had been given seemed to have mellowed her slightly.

“Brass” shouted Cath proving they hadn’t done that much as the curtain twitched and Brass appeared “they’ve taken her up to surgery” said Brass

“Surgery is that good? Why would she need surgery?” Cath rattled off her brain not functioning at its usual capability

“She’s bleeding internally they need to stop it before they can deal with her other injuries” said Brass having talked to a doctor down stairs while flashing his badge

“Internal bleeding” Cath’s eyes went wide and tears threatened to spill again “it’s my fault I tried to get here but I couldn’t’ lose them”

“No” Brass interrupted sternly “the only people’s fault this is are those following you who we have in lock up and who Sofia is taking great pleasure in interrogating right now” said Brass

“How did she look?” asked Cath wanting some reassurance

“They were working on her Cath, no one can look good with all those tubes, believe me” he said with an attempt at a smile. Brass paused for a minute “am I the only one out the loop on the Grissom Sara thing?” he added

“What thing?” asked Cath looking confused “the her liking him thing, the him been too… I don’t know stupid to do anything about it?”

“He’s done something about it,” said Greg appearing in the now rather crammed cubical “that or he just lied to the doctor about been her boyfriend”

“So I wasn’t the only one out the loop,” said Brass sounding somewhat happy

“Where is he?” asked Catherine after a minute before her question could be answered Lindsey ran into the cubical pulling her mother into a hung.

“Hey” said Cath through gritted teeth as Lindsey bumped against her broken ribs “Linds I’m ok” she said as Lindsey pulled away and Nick packed into the curtained area

“What about Sara is she ok? Nick told me what happened,” explained Lindsey

“She will be” replied Cath not wanting to go into details “have you had anything to eat” she asked Lindsey who shuck her head “there’s a cafeteria down the hall why don’t’ you go get something to eat while we go check on Sara then we can go since I’ve had my discharge papers signed” she said smiling at her daughter “we’ll get some cake on the way home. I’m sorry about your party,” she added as Lindsey smiled

“It’s cool. Did you see what I got form everyone? A dvd payer” she smiled leaving

“So you waited for me before you opened the presents” Cath shouted after her.

“What’s going on?” asked Nick once Lindsey had left

“Sara’ in surgery” Brass answered “Grissom went up with her”

“He shouldn’t be alone,” said Cath getting up and realising how sore her entire body was

“He shouldn’t?” asked Nick as the group followed Brass leading the way

“Grissom, Sara more than just work colleagues. Come on Nick get with the program” said Brass as Nick looked around confused

“It’s the first we’ve heard of it,” said Cath patting Nick on the shoulder

“Well I knew something was up,” said Warrick as they crammed into a lift

“You didn’t know,” said Greg eyeing him up

“Well he brought her a burger”

“That’s you knowing? A burger”

“No and they touched”

“Touched are we talking rated R here” asked Cath

“No, he touched her waist when they were doing this experiment it was more than friendly touch”

“And you didn’t say why?”

“It’s there business,” replied Warrick as they pilled out the lift

“You know maybe it would be better if just one of us went I” said Brass looking at Catherine

“You’re his friend, his oldest friend”

“Less of the old. You’re a women and better at these thing we’ll go check on Lindsey see if we can make her birthday a bit better” said Brass shoving everyone back into the lift.

“We’ll be back soon to see how Sara is” shouted Greg as the lift doors closed.

Slowly Catherine opened the door to the family room. Grissom was sat straight staring at a painting on the opposite wall his gaze quickly fixed to Cath as she entered.

“How are you?” asked Grissom taking in her appearance. A bruise on the bottom of her chin with a couple of stitches her left arm was in a sling and she was moving tentatively.

“I’m ok. How’s Sara doing?” the room went silent for a minute before Grissom spoke

“I don’t know” he sighed. There was another moment of silence before Grissom took a sharp intake of breath and let go of everything. Catherine was quite shocked she had known Grissom a long time but she had never known him to cry. Tears were running down his face and he didn’t care enough to hide them. Cath took the seat next to Grissom and took his hand resting on his knee and simply sat like that until the tears subsided.

It seemed like forever since Sara had been taken to surgery, everyone had come up from downstairs including Lindsey who had fallen asleep laid on the chairs.

“Mr Grissom” the doctor’s voice broke through the room and for some reason everyone stood up.

“How is she?” asked Grissom stepping forwards.

“As you know she lost a lot of blood” Grissom subconsciously clenched his fist, it sounded like a ‘I’m sorry but we were unable to save her’ speech

“We managed to stop the bleeding but do to the amount of trauma to her body we have put her into a coma”

“Put her in a coma?” asked Nick

“Just to give her body chance to heal. She’ll probably only have to b init about a week then we’ll gradually bring her out of it”

“Can we see her?” asked Grissom

“She’s in the ICU so only a quick visit” he said pointing to a nurse he added “Louise will take you”

“Lindsey” Cath shuck Lindsey shoulders so she woke up “I’m going to see Sara I’ll be back in a minute” Lindsey nodded sleepily.

The group were led down the corridor and into a lift then along another corridor leaving Greg to wonder if they could ever find their way back. The ICU wasn’t a welcoming place, they were all made to wash their hands and put on aprons to reduce the chance of infection then led into something assembling a space movie. The walls were white and cold; everything was open plan allowing them to see the five other people lay in there. At the far right corner was Sara. Catherine didn’t realise she was crying until Warrick put an arm around her shoulder. Sara was so small compared to the bed a tube going into her mouth breathing for her with a steady thump of the pump. Her head had a large dressing on it making her face look paler than it was. She looked so fragile and broken laying there, drips and monitors going into her body under the blanket laid across her covering all her other injuries.

“Get some rest girl” Warrick was the first to speak he gently touched the blanket going over her feet then turned out an arm round Catherine who was almost sobbing and led her away.

“You don’t need this much beauty sleep, we’ll come back soon” said Greg following Warrick and Catherine out.

“Gil” it wasn’t often Nick Stokes used his first name but this was one of those times

“I’ll be down soon” replied Grissom not taking his eyes off Sara, Nick nodded and left Grissom alone.

Twelve days later

Two days ago they had weaned Sara of the drugs keeping her asleep now they were just waiting. She had been taken off the ventilator two days when the paralytics wore off and she began breathing again, the nurse had found it funny that the entire team held their breath while they waited for Sara to start breathing. It was five in the afternoon and the group were gathered around Sara’s bed as they always were before shift. Catherine had almost claimed the chair next to the window where she sat her good arm resting on Sara’s bed. Grissom sat in the chair on the other side holding Sara’s hand gently in his own. Greg and Warrick usually milled around the end of the bed while Nick had taken to pacing the ward madly after they were told she could wake up at any time, almost is if he was trying not to wait going with the saying a watched pot never boils. Whatever it was it worked because her hand twitched in Grissom’s and he nearly shot through the roof shouting for a nurse as Sara eyes slowly prised themselves apart.

“Sara your ok honey” Grissom reassured as she cam round, disorientated uncomfortable and fairly certain someone was holding her hand.

After the initial chaos everything had calmed down now everyone was sat again including Sara who as propped up on a pile of pillows.

Sara was having trouble using her body at the moment not which it was surprising. Her right arm was in an almost full cast sat at ninety degrees and hung in a sling. Breathing was laboured because of her broken ribs and the hole in her abdomen that she felt with very small movement. Her face wasn’t as swollen as it was when she first came in but the bruises now shone out under her stitches in her forehead and her lip was still slightly swollen. Both her legs were in casts up to her knee’s weighing her down to the bed. She had been told by the doctor what exactly her injuries were but she was still fairly out of it and was still taking in the fact it was almost a week after the last event she remembered, screaming at Catherine to stop.

“Everyone’s here” said Sara speaking coherently for he first time

“Your lucky you didn’t’ wakeup five minutes earlier we only just got here, wouldn’t’ have been nearly as impressive” smiled Catherine squeezing Sara’s shoulder

“Impressing cast,” said Sara nodding at Catherine’s plaster cast that had been scrawled on by everyone after she fell asleep in the lab. “Thanks”

“I should be saying that to you, it could have been me lying there if you didn’t stop him” there was a moment of silence as Cath and Sara just looked at each other

“We would have been here all the time but he nurses made us leave” smiled Greg “they aid Grissom was starting to smell” Sara smiled looking over at Grissom who still held her hand “you’ve been here a lot?”

Grissom didn’t answer but simply smiled

“So I guess everyone knows”

“You Miss Sidle are the only thing that can break my calm resolve,” said Grissom leaning down and kissing her to a background of sound effects from the team

“Thank you” said Grissom sitting back up.

“You probably want some rest” said Cath giving Greg such a glare he shot up from his seat “we’ll come back after shift and we’ll tell Ecklie you wont be in” she added nodding at Grissom who gave a slight nod as a thank you. The team filtered out leaving Sara and Grissom alone.

“You scared me,” said Grissom looking upset

“I scared myself” smiled Sara “but I’m not ready to say goodbye” she added holding her arm up weakly indicating she wanted a hug

“I’m not either” said Grissom hugging her gently.

The next morning Grissom was woken from his slumber in the chair next to Sara’s bed by a commotion outside. Sara was already awake now changed into a pair of shorts and white tank top rather than the gown. She was smiling as Warrick came into the room holding a cake followed by Greg with balloons. Then came Lindsey holding a bunch of flowers and an arm linked with Cath’s. Nick was last to enter with a wheelchair

“You know I don’t think you’re supposed to take them,” said Sara smiling

“I talked to the nurse you can go out for a ride and as we didn’t have Lindsey’s party we thought we’d have one here” explained Nick

“It was Lindsey’s idea,” said Cath proudly showing off her daughter

“It’s brilliant idea” smiled Sara “happy birthday for last week”

“Come on I’ll push you really fast” said Greg pulling the chair onto two wheels

“No” said Grissom sternly as the others laughed

“Protective isn’t he” smiled Cath as Lindsey wondered what she was missing.

“Come on” with that Grissom wrapped his arms under Sara and lifter her from the bed into the wheelchair taking the blanket with him. Grissom the took her drips and hung them on the back while Sara sorted then out so they weren’t tangled in her arms.

“Oh man your making us look bad” smiled Warrick as Sara positioned her blanket over her legs.

“Can I push?” asked Lindsey already grabbing the chair and wheeling Sara away

“Hey a little help she might drive like her mother,” shouted Sara as she was wheeled away by Lindsey who had broken out at a run down the corridor

“Hey” shouted Cath jogging after then

“Be careful” called Grissom breaking into a fast walk

“I’ll beat you all there” cried Greg running down the corridor faster than everyone

“When did everyone become weird?” Warrick asked Nick

“It’s Vegas but they left us with the cake” he smiled

“Oh their not weird their stupid” smiled Warrick sticking his finger in it and licking of the icing

THE END

Ok that was long and I have a problem with endings so let me know what you think. Thanks for reading