Fantastic story. Angsty and brilliant

GREAT STORY! I loved it.

sequel please a long one with a happy ending when griss gets out of jail,

i cant bear the pain sara is having ive just read your OTHER story oh wow this is unbearable please keep writing ,,,, hurry please

So I just found this gem of story. Excellent job this well written but most of all you nailed each and every character on this show. I could easily see Grissom falling on his "sword" on this subject difficulties in how you played this was just wonderful in each character.

I felt for Brass in how he felt on failing in the women in his life, sad but proud in standing by his friend on this

Thank you for this excellent story you truly have a talent on writing with emotions

I have been avoiding all Post FMN stories as I am so irritated with the plotline.

However, I started getting the feeling that I was missing out and after reading Mens Rea I realised I was.
This is one the best stories I have read in ages.
As usual you capture the characters of Brass, Grissom and Sara well.
The story was original with Grissom torn apart by guilt and punishing himself by pleading guilty and cutting ties with Sara was well inter woven with the case files.
Sara's rapid cycling between anger, pity, frustration and utter misery was palpable.
Your characterisation of an insensitive and clueless Finn (if well meaning) was very accurate. Nick trying to point out the special connection Grissom and Sara almost sounds like the GSR fans trying to get the current writers to wake up and watch the series from the start and see the CSI story arc in its full glory.
Writing the story in a screen play type format worked well and once I started I had to read to the end - around 1:40am!
This is crying out for a sequel without the constraints of the challenge.
And congrats on winning the CSIFO challenge.

I think you really rose to this difficult challenge. I think the lengths you had to go to in order to get around the lack of Grissom probably explains why TPTB decided to end GSR rather than have to go through similar hoops every time an episode with Sara in a situation that you'd expect her husband to get involved in came up. But that's another discussion.
You know that I'd never turn down a sequel from you, and in this case you could forget about the challenge rules and really give us our Grissom back. I hope it happens.

Despite the fact that you put Grissom in jail, it's an episode I'd want to watch again. Great ending. And yes to a sequel.

You pulled it off beautifully. It didn't bother me that gil didn't talk. The courage that it took for sara to go to see griss. She had their love to inspire her. To keep her motivated to get to Texas. For better or worse, sara would stand beside him. She felt that they could weather this storm. Once seeing griss. It wasn't important to sara that she was angry with him. Sara could only think of him and what he had been through. All that mattered was that griss wasn't ready to give up on them. That's all sara needed to know. No words needed to be spoken. Their love for each other did all the talking for them. I really loved this story, hate that its coming to an ending.

Ah, well done (((claps))
Yes please do write a sequel, and you can include Grissom in every scene! I can tell you are straining at the bit to write the bugman. Thanks for your restraint for the challenge. You aced it.
And I have gained a whole new respect for the CSI writers as well. It is not easy.
Congratulations on your wins on the CSIFO Fan Fiction of the Year Awards! Well deserved.

Perfect! You cleary fixed them as much as you could given his situation.
I can see how hard it was to stay within the parameters of the challenge. It's hard to read without having Grissom being able to respond.

I hope you do a new story where this one ends but with Grissom!

Congrats on the Fan Fiction Awards! I was all for you!

K

Great ending, the best under this circumstance. I would like a sequel, with a little happiness for Grissom and Sara. Thank you Sylvie, have a good time.

Well, you already know my answer to that question but I'll repeat it just in case you forgot... SEQUEL NOW! ;)

Okay, so, it might have taken a none too subtle guilt trip to get me to take a ride on this particular little jaunt of yours but I can honestly say I haven't regretted a moment of it. I said before that I can't think of anyone else that could have pulled this off and that still stands especially after that very clever closing chapter. Brilliant work, mon amie!

Excellent work as always. A different approach to a situation we all are hoping to be solved. I really like a sequel. I am your fan.

thanks X1000