Title: Mom
Disclaimer: not mine
"Are you kidding me? Gil Grissom is taking four whole leave days in the same year. Wow."
"Funny Catherine."
"Where ya going, whatcha doin' or is it who ya doin'?
" I have personal thing to deal with."
"The master of the ambiguous answer" Catherine laughed bitterly.
"Good evening, before we get to assignments I would like to inform you all that I will be going away for a few days next week and have decided that during the four nights that I am gone that each of you will have an opportunity to run the shift. Here are the rota's."
"Wow man I'm runnin the first one. Sweet." Exclaimed an excited Nick Stokes
"Dang Sara, you runnin a Saturday night in Vegas, think you can handle it?" Waarick added in his usual relaxed tone.
"Watch me!" Sara replied
After shift the following Wednesday Gil Grissom got into his lab issue Denali and headed for McCarron Airport. The flight was uneventful and he found himself rereading his journals throughout the short flight. However, the dull trip became completely worthwhile when upon entering the arrivals lounge he found himself encased in the loving embrace of his mother.
As they parted she quickly signed 'My goodness look at you, I did not think that you would suit a beard so well'
'Do you hate it?'
'Not at all, very becoming actually. Never know, it may help in getting me a daughter-in-law some of these days.'
'Mother, I thought you would have given up on that by now' Grissom laughed as they exited the airport together en-route to his mothers car.
'Well I am pretty sure that you are not a "Confirmed Bachelor" in the widely accepted form, therefore I am entitled to still hold out for a daughter in law.'
Grissom had no answer for her.