Authors Note: CSI DOES NOT BELONG TO ME! All characters belong to CBS.
In this story, the CSI's go on a long vacation to Hawaii where things
change for each character and their true selves come out. Grissom's
character may be out of place in some parts, sorry, I'm trying my best to
capture the greatest of Bug man. Sara and Catherine may be a bit weird too.
I've been told I resemble her a bit and I too am planning on going to
college to study Forensics, so Sara will kind of be adapted to me, but I'll
try to keep the real her in there as much as possible. Catherine on the
other hand may be a pit of a funky person. I am adapting her to one of my
good friends, who is helping me write this story (in some ways), and may
seem a bit over excited at times. But my friend also looks a lot like her
and has the same taste's so she's perfect for my "in person model". Well
that's it, I'll shut up now so you can read, if you've even bothered
reading this at all, which I usually don't, so who gives a hell, just start
reading! ENJOY!
(March 10, 2004) Hey, I had a request to fix the first chapter so here it is.....I read through it and understood what everyone meant....and I apologise for the delay. I hope its readable now and I hope you enjoy it. To tell the truth, after reading through it I have to say that this chapter and the second chapter sound pretty stupid, but I'm very critical of my writing most of the time and if it wasn't for you guys emailing me and telling me good things about the story, I'd have probably quit by now. Anyways, enjoy and to any first time readers, the story gets a lot better once you hit chapter 3! Bye;-)
CSI: Hawaiian Vacation
Chapter 1
SARA POV:
Sara sat in the passenger seat with a scowl on her face as she clicked her "new" nails on the armrest. Ever since the team had decided to go on a vacation to Hawaii, Catherine hadn't given anyone a moment's peace with the planning and preparing for the trip. Most of her wrath though, was saved for Sara.
A week ago, while everyone sat in the break room waiting for Grissom to come in with assignments, Catherine came hopping in with a smile on her face, "Who wants to go to Hawaii?" She asked excitedly.
Of course Nick jumped up at the thought of hot Hawaiian beach babes, "I do, but how do you propose we get there?"
Catherine smiled, "Well how the hell else do you think Nick, by plane."
Nick frowned, "I know that Catherine, but what are we going to do about accommodations and plane tickets and everything else?"
Catherine walked a couple feet to the coffee pot and poured a steaming cup, sat down at the table across from me and looked sweetly up at Nick, "Well sit down and I'll tell you...when Warrick and Griss get here."
Nick sighed, pulled a chair out and sat down, and looked at me and smiled. I looked down into my coffee and then took a sip. A minute later Warrick walked in, smiled at Catherine and smacked fists with Nick. I looked up from my coffee for a moment and smiled lightly when he quickly said my name then sat on the couch across from the table.
Just then Grissom walked in and poured a cup of coffee, seeming to ignore everyone, then started handing out assignments.
When he finished, Warrick was the only one to stand up and Nick and I stayed seated to see if Catherine would say anything. Grissom began to walk out, but when he saw that we were still sitting, he stepped back in and said quietly, "Hello, time for work, get to it."
Catherine smiled, "Well, I told them to wait till you and Warrick get here so we could finish the talk of going on a vacation in Hawaii."
Grissom looked at her for a moment to see if she was joking then when he saw her facial expression wasn't changing said, "Catherine what vacation in Hawaii?"
Catherine smiled brightly, "Sit down and I'll tell you."
Grissom frowned, "I'd prefer standing."
I had to keep from groaning. Yeah the only reason he'd prefer standing was because the only seat left was the one next to me. Things had gotten better between us since the Debbie Marlin case; the last case we'd investigated seemed just like old times. Like when I first came here, but I guess I'd done something wrong again because he'd gotten real quiet toward me in the last few days. I'm guessing the remark I made on Friday last week, about how nice he looked in his new jacket made him freak out or something.
Catherine raised an eyebrow at him and gave him a stern look. Grissom rolled his eyes and walked over to the table and sat down in a huff next to me. I turned the cup of coffee in my hand in a circle and took a sip while Catherine began to explain.
"Okay, this little idea popped up in my head the other day when I got a call from my brother in Pasadena. He told me that he just bought a beautiful vacation house in Maui, right on the beach, and told me if I ever wanted to use it, call him and let him know, so he'd be able to schedule his vacations around it and have enough time to mail me a spare key, so I told him that my team never takes time off or goes on vacations and that I wanted to bring all of you to Hawaii when I planned my vacation in a week. He said if I wanted to bring all of you that it'd be fine and said we could have the beach house for the next two months if we wanted."
Grissom cleared his throat and shook his head, "Catherine, this is a very nice gesture, but maybe not everyone wants to go and besides, how do you know everyone can afford to pay for their expenses?"
Catherine laughed, "Gil you know how much we all make, there's no way none of us could not afford to go on this trip and besides it'd be good for us."
Grissom gave her a sideways glance and Catherine rolled her eyes and set down her cup.
"Grissom don't look at me like I'm crazy, I mean come on, we all only know each other through work and the occasional night out. How about we get to know each other on a deeper level, we'd all have a great time in Hawaii and as I said, we all have enough money and it's not like we have to pay for a place to stay. We'll only have to pay for our roundtrip tickets, food, and whatever souvenirs we want. Oh and a rental car or two."
Grissom leaned back in the chair, "But Catherine..."
Catherine sharply cut him off giving him a look that could kill, "Griss, how about we see what everyone else has to say about it."
She turned to Warrick smiled sweetly at him, "What do you think Warrick?"
Warrick smiled, "I think it sounds like fun."
"How bout you Nick? Wanna go surfing?"
Nick nodded his head, "Sounds great to me!"
Just then Greg walked in heading to the counter to get some coffee, "What sounds great?" He said, bending down and opening a cupboard.
Catherine smiled, "A vacation in Hawaii."
Greg smiled and said, "They sell Blue Hawaiian coffee in the bulk and cheaper there, can I go too?"
Catherine smiled and said, "I guess, if everyone else agrees."
Grissom cleared his throat to get everyone's attention and said, "Catherine, we haven't all agreed to even go on this trip."
Catherine glared at him, "You know Griss, you really need to pull that stick out of your ass and learn to lighten up and go with the flow." Just as she'd said that, Greg took a sip of coffee and nearly spit it out all over Warrick.
I took a moment to swallow my coffee and looked over at Grissom to see his reaction, which nearly made me laugh out loud. He had the most stunned look on his face like he'd seen a pink elephant walk through the door.
Nick burst out laughing and Warrick smiled sweetly at Catherine while she sat there trying to keep a straight face.
Grissom finally snapped out of his dumbass reverie and said, "Did you just tell me to pull a stick out of my ass?"
He didn't seem mad, just stunned and had a bit of humor to his voice. I set my cup on the table and waited to see if a yelling match would ensue in the next five minutes and waited patiently to hear Catherine's answer.
She finally was able to keep from laughing and said, "Well Griss, you just got your ears fixed last summer."
Grissom frowned and said, "Okay, yes, I did, but I really don't want to go on this trip."
Catherine looked at him a moment, "Why?"
Grissom sighed; "I don't know I just don't want to."
Catherine smiled, "Well until you can give me a really good answer, your going."
Grissom looked as if someone had just stepped on one of his prize winning, racing cockroaches and said, "Fine, you want a good reason, we are getting into the summer season and you know how high our crime rate gets in the beginning of summer."
Catherine sighed and rolled her eyes, "That's why we're going on this vacation. Griss we work our asses off, WE NEED A BREAK."
Grissom closed his eyes unable to think of another good reason and sighed, "Fine, Catherine, I know I'll never win against you, but now you have to convince everyone else to go too."
Catherine started to say something, but Grissom broke in and said, "But the rest of this conversation can begin at the end of shift, because we need to get onto our cases. We'll figure out a place to meet for breakfast and talk about it okay?"
Catherine knew she'd pushed enough buttons for the night and smiled, "Fair enough."
She stood, and walked out with Warrick to head onto their case. I stood and followed Nick out, but looked back through the break room and smiled as Grissom dropped his head on the table in a sure sign of defeat.
The team had met as planned at the Denny's nearest the Crime lab at 10:45 the next morning.
I decided I was tired of always sitting at the end of the table by myself and slid into the round booth all the way over to the left side. Just then Nick walked in and said, "Hey Sar let me sit next to you."
I scooted over and watched as everyone else came in, in a group behind Grissom and come over to the table. Catherine stood behind Grissom and when he stopped and looked at the table she quickly pushed him forward and said, "Hey Griss, walk."
He stepped over to the table and said, "Lady's first."
She pushed him forward, "No, I want to sit between you and Warrick."
He looked at her like she was crazy, sighed and sat down and scooted down all the way down next to me and smiled then looked up as the waitress came over and started handing out menu's.
Catherine scooted down next to Grissom, then Warrick and Greg followed.
Everyone sat quietly looking through the menu's until the waitress came back and started taking drink orders. Nick smiled and said, "I'll have an iced tea."
She wrote it down then looked at me. "I'll have a French vanilla cappuccino."
Grissom ordered a plain coffee, as did Catherine and Warrick, but Greg too ordered a Cappuccino.
The waitress smiled and said, "Okay, be back with your drinks in a few and then I'll take your orders."
As soon as she left Catherine started in on the Hawaii plans.
"Okay, now, I know I'm going, I know Greg's going, and I'm making Grissom go, now the rest of you better say your gonna go or I'll make your lives living hell." She said giggeling.
I smirked. Oh how well we all new Catherine could make our lives hell. Nick quickly spoke up and said, "I'm going."
Catherine then looked at Warrick. He smiled and said, "I'm up for some surfin."
Then of course I was the last one left and everyone except Grissom who clearly pretended to be checking out his menu again, turned and looked at me, waiting for my response.
I sighed and looked at Catherine, "Do I really have to go?"
Catherine smiled and said, "How did I know you and Griss would be the fighters? Yes, you HAVE to go."
I rubbed my hands together and said, "Well then I guess I have no choice then huh?"
Catherine smiled, "Great! I'll call Darrin up tomorrow, have him mail me the key and Grissom can work it out tonight so we can all go on vacation in a week."
I sighed and looked down at my hands.
Catherine smiled, "Oh guys this is gonna be great, we're gonna have so much fun."
She then looked at me, "Sara, we're gonna go out shopping for bathing suits."
Suddenly Grissom looked up from his menu then quickly looked back down again. I rolled my eyes and looked pleadingly at Catherine, "No that's okay, I can go by myself."
She smirked and rolled her eyes, "Uh uh, nope, I'm taking you shopping, among other things we're going to do with you."
I looked down at the table and closed my eyes trying to keep from screaming. I agreed to go on the trip, but my life is still going to be living hell.
(March 10, 2004) Hey, I had a request to fix the first chapter so here it is.....I read through it and understood what everyone meant....and I apologise for the delay. I hope its readable now and I hope you enjoy it. To tell the truth, after reading through it I have to say that this chapter and the second chapter sound pretty stupid, but I'm very critical of my writing most of the time and if it wasn't for you guys emailing me and telling me good things about the story, I'd have probably quit by now. Anyways, enjoy and to any first time readers, the story gets a lot better once you hit chapter 3! Bye;-)
CSI: Hawaiian Vacation
Chapter 1
SARA POV:
Sara sat in the passenger seat with a scowl on her face as she clicked her "new" nails on the armrest. Ever since the team had decided to go on a vacation to Hawaii, Catherine hadn't given anyone a moment's peace with the planning and preparing for the trip. Most of her wrath though, was saved for Sara.
A week ago, while everyone sat in the break room waiting for Grissom to come in with assignments, Catherine came hopping in with a smile on her face, "Who wants to go to Hawaii?" She asked excitedly.
Of course Nick jumped up at the thought of hot Hawaiian beach babes, "I do, but how do you propose we get there?"
Catherine smiled, "Well how the hell else do you think Nick, by plane."
Nick frowned, "I know that Catherine, but what are we going to do about accommodations and plane tickets and everything else?"
Catherine walked a couple feet to the coffee pot and poured a steaming cup, sat down at the table across from me and looked sweetly up at Nick, "Well sit down and I'll tell you...when Warrick and Griss get here."
Nick sighed, pulled a chair out and sat down, and looked at me and smiled. I looked down into my coffee and then took a sip. A minute later Warrick walked in, smiled at Catherine and smacked fists with Nick. I looked up from my coffee for a moment and smiled lightly when he quickly said my name then sat on the couch across from the table.
Just then Grissom walked in and poured a cup of coffee, seeming to ignore everyone, then started handing out assignments.
When he finished, Warrick was the only one to stand up and Nick and I stayed seated to see if Catherine would say anything. Grissom began to walk out, but when he saw that we were still sitting, he stepped back in and said quietly, "Hello, time for work, get to it."
Catherine smiled, "Well, I told them to wait till you and Warrick get here so we could finish the talk of going on a vacation in Hawaii."
Grissom looked at her for a moment to see if she was joking then when he saw her facial expression wasn't changing said, "Catherine what vacation in Hawaii?"
Catherine smiled brightly, "Sit down and I'll tell you."
Grissom frowned, "I'd prefer standing."
I had to keep from groaning. Yeah the only reason he'd prefer standing was because the only seat left was the one next to me. Things had gotten better between us since the Debbie Marlin case; the last case we'd investigated seemed just like old times. Like when I first came here, but I guess I'd done something wrong again because he'd gotten real quiet toward me in the last few days. I'm guessing the remark I made on Friday last week, about how nice he looked in his new jacket made him freak out or something.
Catherine raised an eyebrow at him and gave him a stern look. Grissom rolled his eyes and walked over to the table and sat down in a huff next to me. I turned the cup of coffee in my hand in a circle and took a sip while Catherine began to explain.
"Okay, this little idea popped up in my head the other day when I got a call from my brother in Pasadena. He told me that he just bought a beautiful vacation house in Maui, right on the beach, and told me if I ever wanted to use it, call him and let him know, so he'd be able to schedule his vacations around it and have enough time to mail me a spare key, so I told him that my team never takes time off or goes on vacations and that I wanted to bring all of you to Hawaii when I planned my vacation in a week. He said if I wanted to bring all of you that it'd be fine and said we could have the beach house for the next two months if we wanted."
Grissom cleared his throat and shook his head, "Catherine, this is a very nice gesture, but maybe not everyone wants to go and besides, how do you know everyone can afford to pay for their expenses?"
Catherine laughed, "Gil you know how much we all make, there's no way none of us could not afford to go on this trip and besides it'd be good for us."
Grissom gave her a sideways glance and Catherine rolled her eyes and set down her cup.
"Grissom don't look at me like I'm crazy, I mean come on, we all only know each other through work and the occasional night out. How about we get to know each other on a deeper level, we'd all have a great time in Hawaii and as I said, we all have enough money and it's not like we have to pay for a place to stay. We'll only have to pay for our roundtrip tickets, food, and whatever souvenirs we want. Oh and a rental car or two."
Grissom leaned back in the chair, "But Catherine..."
Catherine sharply cut him off giving him a look that could kill, "Griss, how about we see what everyone else has to say about it."
She turned to Warrick smiled sweetly at him, "What do you think Warrick?"
Warrick smiled, "I think it sounds like fun."
"How bout you Nick? Wanna go surfing?"
Nick nodded his head, "Sounds great to me!"
Just then Greg walked in heading to the counter to get some coffee, "What sounds great?" He said, bending down and opening a cupboard.
Catherine smiled, "A vacation in Hawaii."
Greg smiled and said, "They sell Blue Hawaiian coffee in the bulk and cheaper there, can I go too?"
Catherine smiled and said, "I guess, if everyone else agrees."
Grissom cleared his throat to get everyone's attention and said, "Catherine, we haven't all agreed to even go on this trip."
Catherine glared at him, "You know Griss, you really need to pull that stick out of your ass and learn to lighten up and go with the flow." Just as she'd said that, Greg took a sip of coffee and nearly spit it out all over Warrick.
I took a moment to swallow my coffee and looked over at Grissom to see his reaction, which nearly made me laugh out loud. He had the most stunned look on his face like he'd seen a pink elephant walk through the door.
Nick burst out laughing and Warrick smiled sweetly at Catherine while she sat there trying to keep a straight face.
Grissom finally snapped out of his dumbass reverie and said, "Did you just tell me to pull a stick out of my ass?"
He didn't seem mad, just stunned and had a bit of humor to his voice. I set my cup on the table and waited to see if a yelling match would ensue in the next five minutes and waited patiently to hear Catherine's answer.
She finally was able to keep from laughing and said, "Well Griss, you just got your ears fixed last summer."
Grissom frowned and said, "Okay, yes, I did, but I really don't want to go on this trip."
Catherine looked at him a moment, "Why?"
Grissom sighed; "I don't know I just don't want to."
Catherine smiled, "Well until you can give me a really good answer, your going."
Grissom looked as if someone had just stepped on one of his prize winning, racing cockroaches and said, "Fine, you want a good reason, we are getting into the summer season and you know how high our crime rate gets in the beginning of summer."
Catherine sighed and rolled her eyes, "That's why we're going on this vacation. Griss we work our asses off, WE NEED A BREAK."
Grissom closed his eyes unable to think of another good reason and sighed, "Fine, Catherine, I know I'll never win against you, but now you have to convince everyone else to go too."
Catherine started to say something, but Grissom broke in and said, "But the rest of this conversation can begin at the end of shift, because we need to get onto our cases. We'll figure out a place to meet for breakfast and talk about it okay?"
Catherine knew she'd pushed enough buttons for the night and smiled, "Fair enough."
She stood, and walked out with Warrick to head onto their case. I stood and followed Nick out, but looked back through the break room and smiled as Grissom dropped his head on the table in a sure sign of defeat.
The team had met as planned at the Denny's nearest the Crime lab at 10:45 the next morning.
I decided I was tired of always sitting at the end of the table by myself and slid into the round booth all the way over to the left side. Just then Nick walked in and said, "Hey Sar let me sit next to you."
I scooted over and watched as everyone else came in, in a group behind Grissom and come over to the table. Catherine stood behind Grissom and when he stopped and looked at the table she quickly pushed him forward and said, "Hey Griss, walk."
He stepped over to the table and said, "Lady's first."
She pushed him forward, "No, I want to sit between you and Warrick."
He looked at her like she was crazy, sighed and sat down and scooted down all the way down next to me and smiled then looked up as the waitress came over and started handing out menu's.
Catherine scooted down next to Grissom, then Warrick and Greg followed.
Everyone sat quietly looking through the menu's until the waitress came back and started taking drink orders. Nick smiled and said, "I'll have an iced tea."
She wrote it down then looked at me. "I'll have a French vanilla cappuccino."
Grissom ordered a plain coffee, as did Catherine and Warrick, but Greg too ordered a Cappuccino.
The waitress smiled and said, "Okay, be back with your drinks in a few and then I'll take your orders."
As soon as she left Catherine started in on the Hawaii plans.
"Okay, now, I know I'm going, I know Greg's going, and I'm making Grissom go, now the rest of you better say your gonna go or I'll make your lives living hell." She said giggeling.
I smirked. Oh how well we all new Catherine could make our lives hell. Nick quickly spoke up and said, "I'm going."
Catherine then looked at Warrick. He smiled and said, "I'm up for some surfin."
Then of course I was the last one left and everyone except Grissom who clearly pretended to be checking out his menu again, turned and looked at me, waiting for my response.
I sighed and looked at Catherine, "Do I really have to go?"
Catherine smiled and said, "How did I know you and Griss would be the fighters? Yes, you HAVE to go."
I rubbed my hands together and said, "Well then I guess I have no choice then huh?"
Catherine smiled, "Great! I'll call Darrin up tomorrow, have him mail me the key and Grissom can work it out tonight so we can all go on vacation in a week."
I sighed and looked down at my hands.
Catherine smiled, "Oh guys this is gonna be great, we're gonna have so much fun."
She then looked at me, "Sara, we're gonna go out shopping for bathing suits."
Suddenly Grissom looked up from his menu then quickly looked back down again. I rolled my eyes and looked pleadingly at Catherine, "No that's okay, I can go by myself."
She smirked and rolled her eyes, "Uh uh, nope, I'm taking you shopping, among other things we're going to do with you."
I looked down at the table and closed my eyes trying to keep from screaming. I agreed to go on the trip, but my life is still going to be living hell.