Office Hours

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She's fighting her computer.

The computer isn't winning.

Feel free to interrupt her internal gloating.

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Maia came into Sara's office and sat down in a chair. She is quiet and watches Sara battle the computer.

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"Maia, I'm sorry I didn't tell you what I was going to do," Sara says quietly, knowing why she is there and why she is upset.

"I had to speak to the proper authorities, though. It was my responsibility, both as your teacher and as your friend. Otherwise...had another incident occurred, it would have been my fault. And I'll be damned if someone hurts one of my friends. Do you understand?"

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Maia nodded. "I do." She whispered after a few minutes. "I shouldn't have asked you not to tell. Of course you had to." Her voice was tight.

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"Yell at me if it'll make you feel better."

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Maia blinked back some tears and tilted her head. Had she seen Sara last night she would have, she would have screamed at her until she didn't have a voice left. She was silent just staring into Sara's eyes while the tears finally fell from her eyes.

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And Sara's out from behind her desk, holding her.

"Let it out, hon, just let it out." She sighs, rubbing Maia's back. "I heard the radio broadcast--guess the feeds truly are everywhere. Don't feel bad--people pull that kind of stuff all the time."

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Maia shook silently in Sara's arms, for a few minutes she did not make a sound only trembled and then finally she spoke "You- you promised me.." Maia said her voice breaking "You promised to give me t-time. Y-You didn't. H-he hit me...you weren't here..scared...last night...office...needed you..." Maia broke again into sobs the rest of her words were inaudible.

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"The last time I kept a promise like that, a friend wound up in a coma for six years," she says, voice breaking. "I'm sorry I broke my promise to you, Maia, but I'm not sorry I reported the incident. You're safe, dear, you're safe..."

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Maia held onto Sara tightly trying to get as close to her as she could. Her breathes were coming in short rasps as she tried to stop crying as hard. "Safe." She whispered, "I was scared..I-I was so scared." She trembled again. "Kept me safe...you told...you kept me safe..." She managed to say inbetween her cries. She pressed closer to Sara. "I'm safe."

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"You're safe, I promise. Smith will come down on Sawyer like a ton of bricks if he gets so much as a fingernail out of line. You're safe." Not to mention what she and Grissom would do.

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Maia nodded, her cries fading more as she allowed herself to relax a little in Sara's arms. "He apologized to me yesterday." Maia said quietly. "I-I told him that it didn't matter how angry he had gotten he didn't have a right to hit me." Maia frowned "Is it my fault Sara? Somehow? I keep thinking that it was somehow because I didn't push her away and because of what I said."

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"He had no right to hit you, Maia." Sara's voice is firm. "And his girlfriend was the one to kiss you--you did not initiate it. If he had to be angry with anyone, it should have been her."

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Maia nodded slowly taking in everything Sara was saying to her. "I think he hit me so that he wouldn't hit her." She said finally after thinking about it for a few minutes. "But that isn't right either." Maia looked up at Sara for a moment and then laid her head back down "What's going to happen now? To Sawyer?"

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"Nothing overly punitive--they can't punish him officially since it was during the intersession. But he will be closely watched."

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Maia nodded against Sara. Closing her eyes she just breathed for a few minutes. "What will happen if he does do something else to me?" Fear creeped into Maia's voice.

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"He'll undoubtably be expelled and charges would be brought against him."

Not to mention I and your other friends would probably skin him alive.

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Maia nodded again and shivered. It was starting to sink in just how afraid she had actually been since New Years. Her heart was pounding it seemed almost out of her chest.