She was very nervous as she stepped in the front doors of the Las Vegas Crime Lab. She approached the reception desk where a woman stood on the phone, the woman motioned for her to wait a second, so she sat down and waited. She was there to see her only living family member, one of her parents. She hadn't seen that person since she was ten, so it had been six years. She was very glad that she looked older than sixteen, it helped her to get places that a sixteen-year-old wouldn't be allowed to go.
The woman behind the desk, Judy, got off the phone and asked her, "How may I help you?"
She stood, pushed her long chestnut brown hair back, and said, "I'm looking for someone."
"Is it someone who works here?"
"Yeah, I'm looking for Sara Sidle."
"I'm sorry, she's out in the field, do you want to leave a message? Oh, wait, here she comes now." Sara was walking around the corner talking to Grissom and Greg about a case when Judy said, "Sara, someone is here to see you."
Sara excused herself from the group and they stopped to wait for her. As she approached the desk the girl turned to face Sara. Sara's eyes widened and her mouth opened soundlessly. "Jennie," she whispered.
"Yes mom, I came to find you," Jennie answered.
At the words of the girl Greg, Grissom, and everyone else within hearing range turned to look at her and Sara, stunned and speechless. Sara hugged the girl and said, "I'm so sorry baby, I shouldn't have left you."
"It's ok mom, we're together again, that's what's important," Jennie replied, and both women were crying.
After a minute or so Sara turned back to her two friends, and with her arm still around her daughter she said, "Grissom, Greg, I would like to introduce you to my daughter Jennie."
Grissom swallowed hard and he said, "When did this happen?"
"Come on, we should all talk somewhere more private."
So Sara led them all into the break room, and after they were seated she continued, "I had Jennie when I was eighteen, six years ago I decided to make my career out here. I left her in the care of my aunt, I just don't know why she's here now."
"Aunt Carol is sick, so she paid for me to fly out here to see you, it was easier this way."
"Why didn't see call?"
"To surprise you, and apparently to surprise your friends too, are you mad mom?"
"No, of course not, I've missed you, I'm glad that you came out."
"Why didn't you tell any of us about her," Greg interrupted.
"It's not like she was a secret, I just didn't think it was necessary to tell everyone about her, everyone would wonder why she wasn't here too."
"Well, why wasn't she here too," Grissom questioned.
"I wanted to stay with my friends, and I was close to Aunt Carol. Plus I was in a good school that mom didn't want me to leave."
"And I wasn't settled out here. Then I became absorbed in my work. But I've called Jennie every day and I write to her every week. I've visited her when I've had the time. Which reminds me, Grissom would you mind if I took off of work for awhile, and if I went home early today?"
"Um, sure go ahead, you can leave now."
Sara smiled, and then she and Jennie left the building and headed to Sara's home.
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