DISCLAIMER: I don't own the characters
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Grissom stood in his office gutted at what Catherine had just said. They, yet again had had an argument about something or other. He chucked the present he had for her for her birthday in his draw and flopped into his chair, sighing. He picked up his coffee and drank some as he clutched his head. Every time they argued his head throbbed like this and he found it more painful each time after the last. He pulled out the pot of migraine pills and placed it on his desk pulling a bottle of spring water from his draw also. He was about to take one when his office phone rang.
"Grissom." He answered.
"Hi Gil, its Jim…we got a db out in the desert and there's a lot of bug...um activity out here. I need you and someone to come out…"
"Ok Jim., I'll be there soon..."
"Ok..." then he put the phone down. Grissom pulled out the shift timetable to see who was on, and who could help him. He ran his finger along Wednesday…Warwick he thought then looked at his assignments for the team…dam! He thought he's on a case with Greg…Sara and Nick…honeymoon…whose left…
"Catherine…" he said getting up putting his tablets in his pocket. He walked down the hallway to her office. Gently he knocked the door. She looked up smiling.
"Oh…what do you want Gil?"
Surprised at her reaction towards him, he simply frowned and said:
"Brass called…said there's a db in the desert wants us to go out there…are we ok?"
"I don't know gil." She said putting her jacket on and grabbing her car keys." I'll meet you out front."
And she walked out. Grissom walked towards the entrance as Catherine pulled up in her car. He got in and. They drove towards the outskirts. The drive was silent except from the mutter of the radio and the playing of songs in honour of Elvis weekend. Once they had arrived they got out pulled out there kits from the trunk and walked towards brass. Grissom looked past him and saw a climbing crew with gear.
"What are they here for Jim?" he asked as he pointed to them.
"The db's down there." He pointed into a cave.
"You've both got to go down there, Ecklie said."
Both Catherine and grissom looked at him in shock.
"Down there?" she asked.
Brass nodded as they began to walk towards the instructors. After being kitted up and the ropes secured they were ready to go down. With kits attached to the bungee them, they abseiled down as dust and rock crumbled below them. All they could see was darkness. Grissom looked up at their ropes. They seemed old when he first saw them. Shoot... he looked at Catherine's rope as they put there oxygen masks on.
"We've got 7 hours of air in theses so use it wisely." She said as if grissom was her child.
"Catherine don't move…please…." His gaze didn't move of the ropes that were fraying and gradually breaking.
Slowly she looked up, and saw what he saw. There ropes were breaking even faster. They began to abseil even faster but it was no use. With a large whoosh their ropes snapped. Grissom reached for Catherine and got her. He pulled her into him so he could brake her fall, but she slipped and fell. She hit the ground with a thud and let out a cry. Soon after grissom hit the ground but fell in a pile of dry soil. Which broke his fall. He felt for his torch. There he picked it up and looked for Catherine. Picking up his kit, that surprisingly hadn't broken into pieces; he crawled to Catherine's side. He checked her oxygen levels and say she was pain.
"Catherine?"
She looked up at him. I'm sorry about what I said to you Gil." She tried to sit up but winced in pain. Grissom looked at her looking for where she was hurt. She was clenching her leg and stomach. Her hands were bloody as were he clothes. He went into his kit and pulled out an overall and ripped it into a long strip. He tied this round her leg after removing a large chunk of wood from it. She told him that her ankle hurt. Gently he took two of the pieces of wood around him and created a spilt securing it with the ripped overall. Then he helped her with her stomach. He undone the orange overall she was wearing up to where her wound was. Gently, again, he cleaned it up using what he could from his kit.
"It's not that big…"
"It feels like someone's cut me from side to side…"
"Even the smallest of things can seem the biggest…"
They smiled at each other and took off their masks.
"GIL!...CATHERINE!...ARE YOU OK DOWN THERE!" Came the echoing voice of brass.
" I think so" Grissom said as blood tricked down his face as Catherine ushered him to her side. She grabbed a couple of swabs from her kit and wiped away blood from his head.
"Yeah, we are ok." They smiled and took each others hand. Feeling a rumble below them the looked down. The floor started to crack and collaps. it was hollow. THAT WAS WHERE THE SOIL WAS FROM! He grabbed catherine and pulled her into him but she slipped as the floor fell though. She was dangling with grissom desperately holding on to her. Her face was clenched with pain and fear and she began to loose her grip and again she fell. Into Darkness.
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Ok, new story...ok...I think that was ok...
