Do not own CSI or any of the characters

Do not own CSI or any of the characters.

This is my new story about how a fire starts at a crime scene and Sara gets caught in the middle of it. Who will save her? How will she get out? Set after Grave Danger.

Hope you enjoy!


Burnt to the Bone

Grissom was lost in thought, so he did not hear the soft tap on his office door and see the young brunette enter.

"Hi."

Grissom's eyes snapped open at the sound of this one symbol word and drifted back to reality. There standing in front of his desk was Sara Sidle; a tall, slim, level three CSI, brunette and his girlfriend of four months now holding two steamy mugs of coffee in her hands.

"Hi," replied back Grissom, his throat suddenly going dry. Grissom had never been shy or nervous around Sara but ever since they had started dating he as found him self to be more jumpy in her presence.

They both grinned goofily at each other. A moment passed before Sara cleared her throat, "Oh…I brought you coffee." Sara placed one of the mugs in her hands on Grissom desk and took a sip nervously out of the other one.

"Thank you," replied back Grissom staring down into the hot black liquid. He then raised the mug to his lips and took a sip.

"Your welcome," spoke Sara as she perched her self on the edge of the chair, which sat opposite of Grissom's desk. "I thought you could use some, since you be working day and night over the Donnelly case."

Grissom's blue eyes appeared over the rim of the mug on to Sara, studying her as she drank her coffee. On their last date, Grissom had told Sara how this case about two sisters, Marie and Sharon Donnelly were shot to death in their apartment that they shared together. Both were in their fifties and never married or had kids. They had no leads or suspects to follow and it was driving Grissom up the wall.

Sara noticed Grissom staring and pouted at this, "What?" she asked.

"Nothing," responded Grissom shaking his head and smiling. "Can't I admire you?" he asked eyes locking with Sara's.

Sara's cheeks flushed a bright red at this and dropped in glance onto her mug. She wasn't used to Grissom commenting like this to her. Sara slowly raised her head and started to lean into Grissom. Knowing where she was going, Grissom started to lean in to but then they both stopped realizing where they were.

Disappointed look came cross Grissom's face as Sara got to her feet. She gave him a shy smile and blew him a kiss before leaving the room.


Sara walked into the break room to pour her self another cup of coffee. Once her cup was full again, she turned and leaned her back against the counter and looked around the room. It was filled mostly with the nightshift CSI's waiting for their assignments for the night. Nick and Warrick were sitting at the table making fun of Greg, who was seated near them, frowning. Catherine was sitting at the table with her back to the door eating an apple and flipping through a magazine. This made Sara smile to see the gang back together again, after being apart for so long. It was also nice to see Nick back to his old, joking self after what had happened to him out in the desert just five months ago.

What had happened to Nick had opened up everyone's eyes and made them realize that life is short. That was the main reason why now Warrick had a gold wedding band on his left ring finger now and also why Grissom and Sara had started dating. Watching Nick in that grave made them realize their true feelings for each other and they didn't want to waste anymore time trying not to see them. As Sara thought about all this Grissom appeared in the room with folders under his arm and a mug in his hand. Sara studied him from the counter. Grissom noticed her staring and winked. This made Sara blush and turn away from him. She then counted to ten before turning back and taking a seat with the rest of the team.

Grissom handed out assignments to the nightshift. Warrick, Greg, Nick and Sara were all paired together on a case out in the suburbs; while Grissom and Catherine were together on a b & e off the strip. As everyone got up and left to get their kits and such, Sara and Grissom stayed behind. "Did I ever tell you how much I enjoyed last night?" whispered Sara slyly moving over to the seat next to Grissom. Grissom raised his eyebrows at this and smiled, "No I don't think you did!"

"Well I did, every much!" replied back Sara, stroking Grissom's hand lightly.

Grissom let out soft moan and leaned into towards Sara. Grissom's eyes did not leave Sara's face as he came closer and closer to her. Just as they were about 2 centimeters away from each other, there was a crash in the hallway.

This made them both jump. They turned their heads towards the hallway to see that Hodges had crashed the trolley he was pushing in to wall. As he picked up the trolley he caught Grissom's eye, and gave him an apologetic smile before walking off. Sara and Grissom then turned back to one another and broke out laughing.


Sara was up on the second floor in one of the bedrooms when Warrick called up from the bottom of the stairs. "SARA!"

"YAH?" called back Sara, looking over her shoulders towards the door.

"WE'RE HEADING BACK TO THE LAB TO DROP OFF THE EVIDENCE, WE'LL COME BACK LATER TO PICK YOU UP!" yelled Warrick.

"KAY!" replied back Sara.

They has spent the last 10 hours or so processing the whole house and collecting evidence. Sara just wanted to make sure she didn't miss anything before clearing the scene. The case was about a family of five had found their nanny murdered in the parent's master bathroom. Everyone in the house had access to the bathroom so everyone was a suspect including the three kids.

Sara listened as the guys left the house and pulled out of the drive way. They honked the horn, telling her they were leaving. At this Sara returned back to examining the room.

About an hour or two into her work, the smell of smoke drifted into the room. Sara sniffed the air twice, find this strange. So she stopped what she was doing and stood up from her kneeling position on the floor. Sara walked over to where the door stood close and placed a hand on the knob when a burning sensation came over her palm. Sara winced in pain. The door knob was burning hot. Sara tore off her latex glove and shook out her hand. Sara found this weird that the door knob was hot. After blowing on her hand a few times, Sara tried again to open the door this time with her other hand. The action was done in one quick motion. Then there stood Sara frozen to death at what she saw, the whole hallway was up in flames. There was no where for her to go, she was trapped.


Oooooo, how is Sara going to get out of this?

Got wait and found out.

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Thanks for reading.