Chapter Fifty-Eight

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Eighteen Months later…….

Sara and Grissom went off to Chicago and enjoyed their sabbatical but as Grissom promised Sara, they returned to Las Vegas. Sara had their child, this one a boy whom they named Daniel Gilbert Sidle-Grissom. Anne-Marie, age four was a very happy big sister to her little brother. Samantha, who stayed in Las Vegas did very well at keeping the house tidy and had very few parties over the eighteen months her father and step mother were away. She knew what her dad would do to her if she had extreme parties.

Sara and Gil walked into CSI pushing their baby stroller. Thirteen-month old Daniel sat in his stroller cooing at everything in sight.

"So this is Daniel! Sara, Grissom, he is gorgeous!" Judy said.

"Thanks Judy."

Anne-Marie followed her parents to her father's office and sat down on the couch.

"Are you certain you want to do this Sara?" Gil said to his wife.

"Gil, I love you and I want to see you happy. You loved teaching in Chicago and if you want to take on that job permanently, who am I to prevent you from doing what you love? Sara told him.

"I'm going to miss it here though." He said and looked around his office and though of his co workers.

"I'm sure the team is going to miss you, but it is your life and you need to do what is right for you and our family."

"You are right. Truth be told, I don't want to raise the kids in Vegas." He said.

Sara looked at him. "So this is it. We're moving to Chicago permanently."

"Well we will have to come back for your mom's trial but yes we will move to Chicago permanently."

"When is my mom supposed to go to trial?" She asked him. "I hate her so much that I am not even following her case."

"I don't know I think it's a few months. It's been put off so many times since the incident."

"Has Mandy recovered enough to testify?"

"Well that's why it got put off so much, she kept having relapses!" Grissom said.

They were quiet.

"Has Mandy resumed her job yet?"

"Yes she has, she is working part time. Doctor says she can't work full time for a while."

"The shooting happened eighteen months ago!" Sara said.

"She injured worse than we all thought. The bullet punctured a lung" he reminded her.

They were quiet. "Let's go tell them. It's now or never"

When Sara and Gil went into the break room everyone was there they all exchanged hellos and hugs and whatnot.

"What is your big announcement?"

Gil and Sara exchanged looks. "Sara and I are moving to Chicago permanently. I've obtained a full time job teaching at a university there. Sara is going to be my assistant, while taking courses on the side. "

"You're leaving the lab for good?" Catherine asked.

Grissom nodded. "It is in the best interest of the children"

"Oh. Who's going to take your place?" Warrick asked.

"Didn't Ecklie hire someone to take over as supervisor?"

"Catherine has been doing that duty" said Greg.

"Well I guess he needs to hire more CSIs then." Sara said.

They chatted a bit more and shared stories about their children and their relationships and how thing were progressing. Warrick and Catherine had finally made up. It took them long enough but Catherine finally forgave Warrick for cheating on her with Judy. No more children were conceived between Warrick and Catherine though. Catherine had enough with children. David Hodges and Wendy conceived another child and she was about ready to deliver any time, which was why they were not present at the lab. They didn't want to find out the sex of the baby until it was born.

They were chit chatting when Nick received a phone call from Hodges.

"Stokes"

"Nick Hi it's David, Wendy had her baby. This one is a girl and we named her Sara Maria."

"Congrats David and congratulate Wendy for us too"

"Will do" he said and they hung up.

Nick went back to the others and reported the news.

"Wendy had the baby, a girl, they named her Sara Maria." He said.

Sara smiled. Wendy had emailed her and asked her if they could name their daughter (if it was a girl) after her. Sara had of course told Wendy it would be fine.

"You knew all along that they were going to name her Sara if it was a girl"
Sara nodded.

They were quiet.

"We have a long drive a head of us back to Chicago. We have to stop by the house and pick up our remaining stuff, talk to Sam about getting our furniture shipped and head home."

The graveyard team gave Sara and Grissom one big monster hug and all went to the front of CSI and watched as they loaded the children into the SUV. They watched as The Grissoms drove away tears forming in their eyes.

The end of an era…..

THE END thank you for reading.