Title: Confusion

Author: Laura/Caidreabh

Category: Sara POV, ALM post-ep

Rating: PG

Summary: A drabble. Just read.

Disclaimer: I don't own CSI or any of its characters. I just have some fun with them now and again.

Author's notes: I'm not really a C/W shipper, and honestly, ALM worried me a bit. But I'll have fun with it.



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In the locker room, deathly quiet. Not alone, but not speaking. Us two rarely did. But the silence was deafening, so I:

"How was your case, Catherine?"

Back to back, I didn't see her reaction. Then:

"You didn't hear?" Harshly.

"No."

"I was attacked."

Startled. "I'm sorry."

Then, randomly, "You ever felt like there was someone you wouldn't be alive without?"

Oh, yes. "No, never."

"Didn't think so," she said, and left.

"Have you?" But she was gone.

I sat. Sighed. Was I too late to ever say anything right?

Why was I cursed to understand everything but life itself?