Stand by me
Author: Michelcz
Disclaimer: CSI doesn´t belong to me but to Anthony E. Zuicker. Everything else is mine.
Rating: CSI-2
Characters: Gil Grissom, Catherine Willows, Horatio Caine
Spoiler: Weeping Willows
A/N: This story is based on the episode Weeping Willows. I watched it again and I have had idea for new story. This time it will be crossover between CSI and CSI:Miami. The idea came also from the talk with my friend Jen who told me that she´s got a feeling how good could be relationship between Catherine and Horatio Caine. So there is a story. I hope that you would like it and send me feedback what do you think about it.
I'm reposting this chapter cause it's after beta reading. Thank you Jen.
Catherine was shocked. She was standing in the middle of the hall in the lab. She has been looking how her 'best friend' was going away from her. She was feeling like she was suddenly frozen. She should know that Grissom will so mad with her but she´d hoped that it will not be so much bad.
She could hear his comment "I guess that's why I don't go out" in her mind again and again. After all it was his fault what had happened between them. He was the one who called her cause he was without his team. He need her help. It wasn´t her. He tried to be her judge once more time. He was trying to show her she shouldn't have any personal life but she ought to be with Lindsey and her mom home. The man who hadn't have his own life and who had been living all time in the lab. The man who didn't do anything about his co-worker silly crush. No, he was one who was supporting it and he was trying to use for himself. He was suddenly so selfish.
She has been thinking she knows him more than anyone else but she found that it isn´t true anymore. They' d so much distance between them in that moment. They could talk with each other but it was only about their work now when they sometime met each other. Their strong friendship was beyond retrieve after last two years. He was also reason why the former team was split up. She had tried to be fair to him although he was so cold to her and he loved to make sick comments about her father whom she didn´t want. All the same, she tried to be happy but it wasn´t allowed. She was feeling that she' s starting to lost in their common past. That all must end. It was time to cut it off and try to start again.
She came back from her frozen form. She decided that the time of her vacation was here. She' s got a lot of time which she could use to have it. She turned back to the corridor which she came with Grissom only a few minutes ago. She needed to go to find Ecklie and handled him her request for immediate leave.
When the night has come
And the land is dark
And the moon is the only light we'll see
She found him in his office after a moment of her looking up for him. She knocked on the doorframe of the office and waited for his reaction on her presence here. She didn´t have to wait for long time. After several second she could see how he raised his head from the paperwork which he was doing.
"Catherine, can I do something for you?" he asked her with raised eyebrow. "I though that everything around the case was clear up."
"Yes, it was Conrad. I'm here because I need to ask you for permission about my immediate vacation," she told him firmly.
"Catherine, is it really necessary? You know that you´re one of ours supervisors and your team will be short handed. I though that everything was all right after our talk."
"Conrad, I was thinking it too but I found that I need to have some time from the lab and some distance from everything what had happened last night," she explained him patiently.
"Ok, Catherine, you´ve got all time you need. But can I ask you where I can find you if it will be necessary?" he told her after few moments of thinking.
"Of course, I will not turn my cellular phone off and if you need to know where I will be you need to remember Miami," she answered him and turned away how she was heading out of his office. He stopped her with his last question.
"By the way, Catherine, who want you have as your substitute?"
"Warrick Brown." And with this answer she went away.
When she was heading out of the building she must meet Grissom once more time. She ran in to him literally.
"Catherine, why are you still here? I though that you were somewhere on your way to visit some club. Or can I think that it´s one of the evening when you will be home with your daughter?" he asked her sarcastically.
"Grissom, you will have one answer after another. First, I'm still here cause I needed to have solved something with Ecklie. Second, no, I'm not going to some club so I can have a fun. Third, yes, I'm going to home so I can be with my daughter, Lindsey. We have a lot before us this evening. I need book plane tickets for us and go to pack my luggage. Yeah, I am taking some time away from the lab. So, please, you must excuse me because I have a lot of things which I need to have settled before me," she said sharply him and went quickly out of his presence.
Grissom was suddenly in same situation as was Catherine before. He was only able to said.
"Catherine…."
No, I won't be afraid
No, I won't be afraid
Just as long as you stand
Stand by me