Title: I'm There Too Spoilers: If you haven't seen 8.07 and 8.08... A/N: It's been a long time since I actually posted one of my stories, so I figured it was about time again. This piece is just a prologue and unbeta-ed. I'm not completely sure where it's gonna go from here, but I'll figure it out. Hope you enjoy!
It had been about six months since she had left Las Vegas, six months since she had left him. He thought it would get easier every day, as long as he kept focusing on why he was here, why he was doing this job. But now he knew he had lost his touch ever since he met her. She'd put him under a spell, she had made him fall in love with her, more and harder every day he was around her. His love used to be his work, but she was his love now. He could not go on without her anymore. He needed to find her, as soon as he could.
"Gil you have a minute?" Catherine's voice sounded from the doorway, before she slowly walked in. She noticed his pre-occupied expression and smiled slightly. "She'll be back," she whispered, in an attempt to soothe him. Everyone acted as if he was about to break, they were all so careful with their words around him. Sometimes it was easy, that everyone looked out for him. But most of the time he got annoyed and told them to get away from him and leave him alone.
Gil ignored her last comment and nodded, waving her in a bit more. "Sure, what do you have for me?" He asked, lowering his glasses and looking at her over the rim of them.
Catherine smiled. "Well, nothing much really, just need your signature," she said, holding up the file before placing it on his desk in front of him. She sat down in one of the chairs on the other side of it and watched him as he grabbed a pen and signed the papers, without even reading them. He really had changed through Sara, she noticed. "What are you going to do about this?" She decided to confront him with his behavior of the past months. "You've been moping for six months now, have you talked to her at all? Has she called you?"
Gil shook his head. "No she hasn't. But she needs time away, then she gets time away, I'm not going to drive her into a corner. She needs her space and I need to accept that," he said slowly, thoughtfully. He looked up at her and saw her slight headshake, at which he raised his eyebrow.
"Gil, she loves you, you love her more than your job. Why don't you…" She stopped for a moment, wondering how she could best phrase this. She knew 'retire' wasn't the right word, but maybe he could start over, together with Sara. "You should go after her," she said and smiled a bit. 'There, I finally told him,' she thought to herself.
With a frown Gil looked at her. "Cath I just told you… she needs her time away, I'm not going to corner her," he explained and put on his glasses again, reading the case file that was resting on his desk.
But Catherine didn't let go of the subject that easily. "You should start over, together. You've done this job for years, now it's time to begin something new, together with Sara," she whispered, but knew in the back of her mind how difficult it would be for him to let this all go.
Grissom looked up at her again with a frown. "Excuse me?"
To Be Continued
