Greg jumped. Someone had just tapped him on the shoulder. He turned around, expecting to see Grissom there with some more evidence for him to process. It was someone accompanied by evidence. But it was someone a lot more pretty than Grissom.
"Um... hi Sara, that for me to process?" he asked, trying to sound welcoming, and not nervous, as he really was. As he always was when she was around.
"Yep, but this is really more of a social call" Sara told him, handing the bag over. "I need this tested for poison, but I mainly came to ask you about the thing with your parents. You forgot to give me details."
"Oh. Well, it's dinner, then to my place, on Friday evening. Eight o'clock. I'll pick you up if that's okay, so we look more realistic?"
Sara nodded. "Yeah, that's fine. You need my address?"
He nodded. He couldn't believe she was letting him pick her up. It almost was going to be like a real date. Well, with the noted addition of his parents.
She rattled it off for him, and he wrote it down, his hand shaking slightly with nerves. He was really going to do this, his parents were going to actually think he had a girlfriend, and on top of that, he got to spend time with Sara while not working.
"Do you need to ask Grissom for the night off?" Greg asked. He figured she wouldn't have forgotten that coming for dinner with his parents would mean taking at leat a few hours off.
"Covered it already" Sara told him. "I've got so much time off stacked up, it's nothing to take one night. I haven't been on a holiday for ages, because the exciting stuff always happens if I leave."
Greg looked at her in surprise. That was why he never seemed to take time off. He loved processing the evidence in interesting cases, and the moment he took leave, something good always happened and he missed out on him. He hadn't realised that others felt that way too.
Sara couldn't help smiling at how Greg was looking at her. It looked like total adoration to her. The guy sure was easy to please. He was this happy over a favour. What would he be like if someone did something really nice for him?
"Okay, well, I'll see you what, seven thirty at my place?" she asked.
Greg nodded dumbly. Then he remembered her evidence. "Um, won't you want to pick this up?" he asked, waving it in front of her.
She looked at it. "What? Oh, that's Grissom's. I just brought it round since I needed to talk to you anyway."
Greg hid his disappointment. That meant she wouldn't be coming back to get it. So, unless she did process a scene she needed his help on, he wouldn't be seeing her again until Friday night. Which, okay, was only two nights away. But she was so nice to talk to, and she generally wasn't as impatient with him as Grissom was.
"Oh. Okay, well, see you Friday then." He agreed.
Sara waved to him as she left. She didn't know what to think of Greg. He was sweet, but very strange. He confused her at times. One moment he would be cheerful and chatty, the next he would hardly say a word to her.
And that he would ask her to be the one to help him out, that surprised her. They may have worked together for a while, but they had never really talked when not working. She would have expected him to ask one of the other labtechs. Perhaps he had, and they'd turned him down. That would explain his relief and happiness.
But somehow, she knew that wasn't the case. For some reason, Greg had though her the best one to ask for this favour. That meant a lot to Sara, that someone she didn't know that well would trust her enough to ask it of her. Perhaps Friday would be a good chance to get to know him better, and to unwrap some of the mystery that surrounded the guy.
He never really talked about himself, and she suddenly realised that other than the fact that he liked good coffee she really didn't know anything about him that wasn't work related. She resolved to try and remedy that.
Greg stared after Sara and sighed. He should have thought of a reason for her to stay for longer. Her presence made his work seem less tedious. Not that he didn't love the work, it just got annoying being 'Greg the labtech' at times. Nobody ever came to see him just to talk. Okay, truth be told, Sara never had before either, and she had still brought evidence today, but she was easier to talk to than most of the others. The strange look she gave him when he said something she found weird, it was still a strange look, but it didn't seem as incredulous as Grissom's weird looks.
Greg shook his head. He had it bad. And he knew it. He couldn't remember having this bad a crush on someone since 9th grade. But he wasn't entirely sure it was just a crush. His feelings for Sara were more than that. If he hadn't known better he would have said he was in love. But that wasn't possible. As his parents were always saying, the only thing he really loved was his work.
No, Sara was just an interesting woman he would really like to get to know better. A lot better would be nice. She may have never really talked to him, or even seemed to notice him, but he was sure she was someone he'd like if he really got to know her. He didn't know her that well now, and he already really liked her.
Friday sure was going to be an interesting experience.