Stealing Cinderella
Pairing: Catherine/Nick
Song: Stealing Cinderella by Chuck Wicks
Disclaimer: Don't own Stealing Cinderella or CSI. If I did I would be writing this to mess with your head instead of because we have a snow day and I'm bored
Summery: Nick talks to Sam before he asks Catherine to marry him. Songfic
A/N: First CSI fic. It probably sucks, but feedback is welcome anyway. I apologize for any inaccuracies, I haven't watched the show in a while.
I came to see her daddy
for a sit down man to man
it wasn't any secret I'd
be asking for her hand
Nick hesitated before knocking on the door. Sam Braun had insisted on him picking Catherine up from his house. He knew exactly what I planed to do, even though he'd only told Warrick. But then Warrick told Sara and Sara told Greg, and eventually Catherine had found out. And then Sam showed up at a crime scene in one of his casinos to threaten him. Something that Greg had found way too amusing.
He knocked on the door. It opened almost immediately. Sam left her in the living room while he went to go get Catherine.
I guess that's why he left me
waiting in the living room
by myself
with at least a dozen pictures of her
sitting on the shelf
There were pictures of Catherine on the shelf above the fireplace. Nick wandered over to look at him. The first was of Catherine at the policemen's ball. She was wearing a light blue dress. She looked like Cinderella. She was beautiful. There was on of a five year old Catherine trying to ride a bike and failing miserably. Next to it was Catherine trying to teach Lynsey to ride a bike. The next was Lynsey and her friend having a pillow fight and Catherine trying to look mad. Nick knew Sara had taken that picture. She told them about it the next day. How she and Catherine had joined in right after that picture was taken. The last one was Catherine and Lynsey playing with a sprinkler in the back yard. Lynsey looked about 2. Eddie must have taken that picture.
She was playing Cinderella
she was riding her first bike
bouncing on the bed
and looking for a pillow fight
running through the sprinkler
with a big Popsicle grin
dancing with her dad
and looking up at him
Nick saw there was another one, hanging on the wall next to the fireplace. Catherine and Grissom at crime scene. Nick wondered where he had gotten that one. And next to that Catherine dancing with Sam.
"Ain't she something, son?" asks Sam and Nick jumps.
"Yes she's quite a women" he answers. Sam just stares at those pictures behind Nick.
In her eyes I'm Prince Charming
But to him I'm just some fella
riding in and stealing Cinderella
I leaned in towards those pictures
to get a better look at one
when I heard a voice behind me say
"Now ain't she something son"
I said "Yes she's quite a woman"
and he just stared at me
Nick could tell that Sam would always think of her as the little girl, as the mother of Lynsey. He would always think of her as the way she was in those pictures. Nick kind of felt bad for him.
Then I realized that in his eyes
she will always be
playing Cinderella
riding her first bike
bouncing on the bed
and looking for a pillow fight
running through the sprinkler
with a big Popsicle grin
dancing with her dad
and looking up at him
Nick nodded in answer to his unasked question. He would never hurt her, like Eddie did. And not just because Nick knew he could hurt me. I loved her and Lynsey. He would never do anything to hurt them.
I her eyes I'm prince charming
but to him I'm just some fella
riding in and stealing Cinderella
"Good luck tonight. If you hurt her I'll kill you" He says before calling her into the room. She gave him a hug before coming over to Nick He could see it too.
He slapped me on the shoulder
then he called her in the room
when she threw her arms around him
That's when I could see it too\
she was playing Cinderella
riding her first bike
bouncing on the bed
and looking for a pillow fight
running through the sprinkler
with a big Popsicle grin
dancing with her dad
and looking up at him
He smiled at him as they walked out the door. His arm around her as he opened the car door for her.
If he gives me a hard time
I can't blame the fella
I'm the one that's stealing Cinderella