I know this is completely different to what I normally write but it's for LilyStarbuck, my amazing friend and self appointed Auntie to my son lol
Landing in Paris Catherine departed the plane and walked into the arrivals area, she scanned the crowd looking for his familiar face. She hoped that he would be there, he had said he would in his emails and she knew he was a man of his words, yet in the back of her mind was the little annoying voice telling her he was married and that she shouldn't be here. Not that he knew her reasons for being there; all she had told him was that she needed some time away, needed to clear her head before she moved onto her new job. He had been kind enough to offer his spare room in his temporary house; he didn't see the point in buying because he was moving around a lot due to his teaching. When his email had arrived with the proposition she had jumped at the chance, partly for the reasons she had told him and partly because she needed to see him, the reason her mind had been all over the place.
He was the cause of her breakup with Lou Vartann, she knew she had been using Lou to get her mind off the man she had loved for years and that wasn't fair, he was a good man and he did indeed deserve more, he deserved someone who loved him and not just as a distraction from the person she truly loved. So she had broken it off with him, only offering the brief 'you deserve more' and nothing else as an explanation, she didn't want to have the talk about how she loved another man. Sure she had liked Lou, had enjoyed their time together but he was a passing fling, a distraction, she had still been thinking about the one she let get away. And now here she was, in Paris and searching the thick crowd for the man in question, so she could finally get over him, or so she told herself.
Her eyes scanned past the guy in the light blue shirt and slacks and wandered onto the next person, it took her a couple of seconds and a double take before she realised the guy in the shirt and slacks was the person she had been searching for. Smiling she approached him and noted that time away had done him good; he had the little mischievous twinkle back in his eyes and the half smirk she had loved, the one that said he was a man of mystery. She knew as soon as he eyes landed on him and she felt that familiar surge of butterflies in her stomach that things weren't going to be as easy as she had initially hoped.
Walking up to him she put her arm around his neck and pulled him into a half hug, he in turn chuckled lightly and puts his arms around her waist and chin on her shoulder. "Hi Cath, good to see you."
She smiled and pulled back slightly and ran over the soft beard on his chin. "Hi Grissom."
And that's all for now folks, review and I'll update sooner.