Sara : *Sara jumps out from behind the couch and lands between Grissom and Heather* STOP!
Sara : Hey. I'm Sara.
Grissom : Sara. Sara, what are you doing?
Sara : I don't know. I don't know what I'm doing. I'm just gonna go. I'm so sorry. Enjoy the rest of your night.
Heather : ... She seems nice.
Heather is the aftercare queen. She does get Domme drop every now and again though, but she’s taught you how to help her through it.
B = Body part (favorite body part of their partner’s)
Honestly, she loves all of you, but she loves paying special attention to the parts of you that are the most sensitive, and trust me when I say she’s found them all.
C = Collar (do they mark you as theirs in some way?)
If you’d like her to, then yes. She’d get a collar for you. Several actually. One to wear out in public and a few different ones to wear only with her.
D = Dominant (who is in control? are they a top or bottom?)
She’s definitely the one in control like 95% of the time. But she can top or bottom, while still maintaining that control.
E = Experience (how experienced are they? do they know what they’re doing?)
She’s an expert, for sure. She knows what she’s doing and she does it damn well.
F = Fuck (do they prefer to fuck or make love?)
She can do both. She doesn’t particularly have a preference. Whatever the mood is between you, she just goes with the flow of it.
G = Goofy (are they more serious in the moment? are they humorous? etc.)
She’s generally more serious. It’s easy for her to fall into the serious persona. Though with your less kinky encounters, she can let the mask drop a little and be sillier and have fun with it.
H = Hot (what turns them on, gets them going)
Hearing about the scene you want to try often gets her gears turning. She loves it when you’re direct in your wants and needs.
I = Insatiable (how do they act when they’re desperate to have you?)
She can control herself well, so it’s not like she’ll be all over you, but she’ll give you signs that she wants you. Usually subtle hints and behaviors that she doesn’t often do, like twirling her hair.
J = Jack off (masturbation headcanon)
Heather is all about a healthy dose of self love, and engages in it often, when the urge so takes her. Some of your sessions have even been mutual masturbation.
K = Kink (one or more of their kinks)
You name it, she’s tried it. She does have her preferences though. She loves a bit of bondage, and discipline.
L = Location (favorite places to have sex)
For softer times, she likes to stick to the bedroom, but of course she also has a designated sex room for more serious play.
M = Mood (what’s the foreplay like? how do you get them in the mood?)
Heather occasionally likes to use aphrodisiacs to ignite the mood. She likes to experiment with them to see which work with you. It can be very exciting.
N = Naked (how do they undress? do they like to watch you undress?)
She loves to put on a show for you when she undresses. She doesn’t mind taking in the sight of you undressing either.
O = Oral (preference in giving or receiving, skill, etc.)
She has equal preference for giving and receiving, and she’s an excellent giver, there’s no denying that.
P = Pace (are they fast and rough? slow and sensual? etc.)
It really depends on the scene. She is what she needs to be and she can do either exceptionally well.
Q = Quickie (their opinions on quickies, how often, etc.)
Quickies can definitely scratch an itch for her, but she doesn’t love them as a rule. She prefers to plan ahead and be able to take her time.
R = Risk (are they game to experiment? do they take risks? etc.)
She’s always game to experiment and take risks. It can be thrilling for her, especially if you’ve fallen into a routine.
S = Stamina (how many rounds can they go for? how long do they last?)
She has the stamina of a god. She can easily go many rounds. Overstimulation isn’t something she’s afraid of and she can keep you both on the edge all night.
T = Tryst (are they into casual sex or one night stands?)
She’s had both, of course, but she doesn’t really prefer them. She much prefers having an established dynamic that she can feel comfortable within.
U = Unfair (how much they like to tease)
Heather LOVES to tease. There’s nothing she enjoys more than seeing you flustered and having you beg her to end it and give you your release.
V = Volume (how loud they are, what sounds they make, etc.)
She isn’t afraid to get loud, and boy oh boy does she love it when you get loud. Don’t hold back your moans with her, she wants you to experience all of your pleasure in whatever way comes naturally to you.
W = Wait (how long do they wait before having sex with their partner for the first time?)
As long as she feels she needs to. She’s pretty good at reading people and she’ll basically know when you’re ready to take that step.
X = X-ray (let’s see what’s going on under those clothes)
Heather is gorgeous. Light muscle tone and an overall incredible figure. And her lingerie collection is both extensive and impressive.
Y = Yearning (how high is their sex drive?)
You’d think it’d be astronomically high, but it’s just a little higher than average really. She’s not all sex all the time, but when she’s in the mood, she puts her whole heart and soul into it.
Z = Zzz (how quickly they fall asleep afterwards)
Depends on what’s needed for aftercare for the two of you, but once you’re both taken care of, it’s not usually long before she’s asleep. After sex sleep is the best, so she tells you.
Quick Takes on CSI: Leave Out All the Rest and Say Uncle
More early morning CSI watching.
I know there remains the big mystery around whether or not Grissom was asking Heather to stay for sex at the end of LOATR. I remain convinced that sex was not at all in the equation, at least from his point of view.
It is one of the most tried and tired tropes in fiction: the heartbroken man seeking solace in the arms of another woman. (And, generally, that momentary weakness comes back to cause problems later, but that's soap opera.)
From the time Sara leaves at the end of The Happy Place, we see Grissom struggling to stay focused. He admits as much to Patricia Alwick in Art Imitates Life; she advised him to talk to someone soon. Grissom's problem is that the only person he can talk to about the loss of Warrick is Sara, and he has lost her too. We learn in Let it Bleed that not only is Sara gone but that he has no idea where she is. Still, he remains closed-mouthed about his feelings. Catherine voices her frustrations to Doc Robbins in LOATR that she knows Grissom is deeply troubled but he won't talk to her. (I think we can assume she has tried, and he has shut her down.)
The case gives him the excuse, and he ends up on Heather's doorstep. The conversational exposition tells us that Heather is completely aware that Sara and Grissom are a couple. How and when she became aware of this relationship remains shrouded in mystery, whether as early as The Pirates of the Third Reich or off camera in The Good, The Bad and the Dominatrix, or if she gleaned it from the papers at the time of Sara's kidnapping. It's also clear he is unaware of her life choices after he brought her granddaughter to her, so we can probably assume any contact between them has been minimal or non existent.
Now I may be jumping off the ledge here, but I've always read Heather as being sexually curious about Grissom, and I think a large part of that is because he is one of the few men who did not seen her in purely sexual terms. As a result, their scenes contain a degree of sexual tension.
I think it's entirely possible that when Grissom asked her to stay that for one brief moment she may have thought he wanted to have sex with her, but I also strongly believe she quickly realized that he simply didn't want to be alone. Even in Heather's guest room he undoubtedly still had Sara's video replaying in his head. And that is the thing: up until he received that, he had never allowed the possibility that he might never see Sara again. He always clung to the hope she would come back to him.
Heather the master reader undoubtedly would have realized that no matter where he was that Grissom's emotional essence was still haunted by Sara. That he never said the relationship was over because he was still in love with her and wanted to be with her. And that is why I have always believed that, finally, Grissom talked to someone about his inner turmoil, and that person was Heather.
What the upshot might have been is purely speculative, but I believe his night at Heather's gave him a modicum of clarity. In the following episode, we see a Grissom who is beginning to view his job as a job and not the all-consuming vocation it has always been.
(As an aside, I think the show was intentionally trading on ambiguity at the end of LOATR. While everyone knew that Billy was leaving, the show took great pains to keep his endgame under wraps. By keeping their options open by neither confirming nor denying that Grissom may have turned to Heather now that it was over with Sara, they left open the possibility that it might be Heather's doorstep he turned up on at the end of One to Go. From purely a plot perspective, I view Heather as the perennial Red Herring vis-a-vis GSR, whether an intentional Holmesian nod or not I cannot say.)
I need to watch Say Uncle a little more closely, but my overwhelming sense watching it was how Sara-like Grissom was in the episode. He became emotionally involved with the young boy in this episode in ways we often saw him caution Sara against.
In no other episode that I can think of do we see him placing the welfare of a principal in an investigation above everything else. He chews out Riley for interviewing him without an advocate, and he nearly comes to blows with the doctor using him as a guinea pig.
There is a scene in the hospital where Grissom is in the doorway looking in on the boy; whether an intentional analogy or not, my immediate thought was of him watching Sara with Pam Adler in Too Tough to Die.
For the first time in his life, following the evidence takes him to a place he doesn't want to go, and he voices his regret to Brass.
Grissom has spent the majority of his life believing that the largest part of who he is is inexorably connected to his ability to maintain his emotional distance from the evidence. It is empirical truth, the only truth he can believe in.
It's another example of analogous storytelling. While there is not one mention of Sara in the episode, Grissom's eternal conflict between his head and his heart is. Herein is the first indication that his heart just might win out...