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Spoilers: none, it's just pointless fluff and fun!

A/N: Thank you for the reviews! I hope people are enjoying this and you like the last chapter...

New Addition

Chapter Three

Finally Saturday evening arrived and Grissom and Sara were explaining the next phase of their plan to Brass in their living room. He had known about the baby for just over a week and jumped at the chance to have some fun at the expense of their four clueless friends, having heard all about the success of Sara’s previous master plan.

Cath and Warrick were the first to arrived, at eight exactly, with Nick then Greg following just behind. Once everyone was settled and had something to drink, Brass decided it was time to make a toast.

“Can I have everyone’s attention please? Great, now as I was deprived of the pleasure of giving a long speech at the wedding, I wanted to take the opportunity now.” After being met with six weary faces, Brass continued. “Only joking, it won’t be a long speech. I just wanted to say thank you to Gil and Sara for having us all here for what I’m sure will be a delicious dinner and raise a glass to good friends.”

“To good friends.” The other six repeated.

“Oh and I also want to congratulate these two on the latest addition to their little family.”

At this closing statement the four unsuspecting CSI’s were once again stunned into silence. Brass found it all too much and had to try hard to control the laughter that was threatening to escape. Realising he was about to ruin Sara’s plan, Grissom decided it was time the others actually met the latest members of the Grissom family. Whilst Grissom collected the little bundles from the other room, Sara decided to have a little more fun before this part of the plan was over.

“So guys, did Greg ask you about the names? I think I’m pretty set on Sadie and Tyler, but what do you all think?”

The look on Catherine’s face was almost enough to make Sara laugh out loud herself. Luckily Grissom chose that moment to return with the two little bundles of fluff that were their newly adopted kittens, Tyler and Sadie.

A huge smile spread across Grissom’s face as he watched his colleagues realise their mistake. “Guys, we’d like you all to meet Tyler and Sadie. Our neighbour’s cat had a litter of ten and they couldn’t keep them all so we offered to adopt these two.”

Any feelings of annoyance and shock disappeared as soon as the kittens were passed between the group and everyone melted at the sight of the cute little creatures.

After half an hour of light discussion and continual petting of the three feline members of the Grissom household, dinner was served. By now everyone had forgotten all suspicions that Sara might be pregnant, much to the amusement of Brass who was beginning to realise how Sara and Grissom had managed to keep their relationship a secret from their friends for so long. He had expected at least one of the four supposed top investigators in the country to notice the half a shelf full of baby and parenting books in the living room.

Halfway through a dinner of homemade vegetable pie, Grissom decided it was time for the first of his little announcements. He waited for a lull in the conversation and then began.

“While I have the whole team together I wanted to take the opportunity to announce that I’ll soon be taking a step back from my responsibilities at the lab. From October I will no longer be supervisor of the nightshift, and will be working part-time.”

“Are you serious Grissom?” Greg was the first to ask, not wanting to loose his greatly admired boss.

“Yes I am. I’ve spoken to Ecklie and we’ve agreed that Catherine should take over as permanent supervisor, if of course she wants to?”

“Well I’m sure I could never replace you Gil, but thank you, I’d love to accept supervisor position.” Catherine answered, more than a little giddy at her sudden promotion.

The conversation continued with everyone speculating what it would be like at the lab without Grissom as boss. Following Sara’s instructions, Grissom waited until the middle of dessert before making the next announcement. Replacing his spoon in the bowl of ice cream in front of him, he cleared his throat loudly to gain everyone’s attention before he began.

“I have another little announcement to make while everyone’s together,” Grissom paused for effect before continuing, “from July there will be a new CSI joining our team.”

“Swing shift had to manage with just three CSI’s not too long ago and Ecklie’s putting a seventh on nightshift?” Catherine voiced what Warrick and Nick were also wondering.

“Man, this isn’t going to be a repeat of the whole Sophia fiasco is it?” Greg added, much to the amusement of the rest of the group. No one had hated Sophia per say, but the addition of an outsider to the group hadn’t gone as well as was expected.

“No Greg, I’m sure it won’t. Samantha is transferring from the San Francisco Crime Lab, where she used to work with Sara almost seven years ago now.”

“So what’s she like Sara?” Greg asked innocently.

“I think what Greg means is, is she attractive?” Nick added for him, causing another round of small laughs from the others.

“She’s a great criminalist Greg, and yes she is attractive.” She waited until Greg was looking quite pleased before continuing. “She’s also married with two children.”

Warrick’s question caught Sara off guard as she watched Greg’s expression change from hope to disappointment. “So Sara, you looking forward to working with Samantha again?”

Unwilling to lie to Warrick and realising it was probably time for the final phase of her plan anyway, Sara looked around the table at all her friends before answering. “Well actually, I won’t get that chance I’m afraid. As soon as Samantha starts, I shall be leaving the lab.”

Whilst Sara was being bombarding with questions from her four colleagues, Grissom took the opportunity to go to the living room and retrieve a little prop for the final phase of their plan. Passing it to Sara, Grissom took his seat and held Sara’s hand as she took a deep breath and finally answered her friends.

“I’m leaving the lab so that I can take care of this little one.” She said simply, as she laid the scan of her and Grissom’s baby on the table for everyone to see.

Upon seeing the scan Catherine squealed and rushed to Sara to envelop her in a warm hug, before doing the same to a startled Grissom. The other’s, including Brass, followed suit, though neither Brass nor Warrick hugged Grissom, choosing a handshake instead.

Once all the congratulations had been said and everyone was settled on the sofas, Catherine still hadn’t gotten over her excitement at the news and was now grilling Sara for details.

“So you’re three months? I can’t believe I didn’t notice! Do you know if it’s a boy or girl yet? Thought of any baby names?”

“Wow Cath, one question at a time!” Sara joked, thrilled to be able to finally talk to her friends about the baby. “Nope, we don’t know yet and we don’t really have any names in mind.”

“Gregory is a great name for a boy!” Greg offered.

“Nicholas is better!” Nick added from beside Greg.

The seven friends and colleagues remained talking well into the night, enjoying the time they had left before all of their lives changed dramatically. Although they all new the changes were for great reasons, they all couldn’t help feel like it was the end of an era, the end of the greatest investigating team the USA had ever seen.

The End

A/N: Thanks for reading! That's it on the New Home and New Addition stories, hope you enjoyed them! And thank you again for all the lovely reviews:)