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The Things You Do For Family.
"I can't wait to get home and relax after today" Catherine said whilst finishing up logging the evidence from the gruesome case her and Sara had been working on.
An unidentified body found at the bottom of Lake Mead, was in a hideous state, with him only being dead for less than 24 hours his body had absorbed a hell of a lot of water. Theyeven had to get a special crane to get the John Doe out.
"Your mom's away isn't she?" Sara asked, walking beside the red head towards the locker room. "You'll have just Lindsey to keep you company"
"Yeah, she has gone to Turkey, something about needing a stress free solo holiday…" Catherine shrugged, and then jumped when hearing her cell phone ring.
"Talk about the devil" Catherine mumbled showing Sara the name on the caller ID. Sara grinned and leant against the wall waiting for Catherine to finish on the phone.
"Mom is that you?"
"You What!"
Sara looked at Catherine's shocked face, and felt a pang of worry inside.
"How…when. Okay I can't understand you properly. I'll be there by tomorrow afternoon!"
Putting the phone down, Catherine turned to the brunette, standing rigid against the wall. Tears welled up in her eyes when she started to talk.
"My mom has had a huge car accident. She's in hospital now. That was some foreign guy called Jared" Catherine took a deep breath before realising something.
"Oh no, Sara I need a huge favour please!"
Sara looked at Catherine sceptically. Knowing favours from Catherine was always a huge problem. But seeing her friend distressed she sighed. "How can I help?"
"I need you too look after Lindsey till I get back"
"No, no, no, Catherine I am useless with kids, I don't know anything about them, and can't Warrick do it?"
"Warrick is a man Sara, he has no idea how to even talk to a teenager, I promise you she will be on her best behaviour. She's 12 she can practically look after herself, please Sara I'm begging you"
The look on Catherine's face made Sara mentally hit herself. "Fine"
"Thank you, thank you, thank you" Catherine ran and hugged Sara as hard as she possibly could before sighing satisfied.
"I better go and see if there's any flights, Sara you'll have to pick Lindsey up from her school and here" Giving her, her house key she continued. "You'll have to take her back home for clothes and her stuff, Believe me she can be a sulky little madam if she hasn't got clean clothes to wear or her ipod in her hand."
"But Catherine! " Sara shouted after her who was now running down the halls of the crime lab.
"You'll be fine Sara, Tell Grissom I had to leave! I'll phone you soon!"
"This is going to be good" Sara sighed.
Sara made a detour from the evidence room to Grissom's office and left him a note detailing Catherine's departure and that she was now looking after Lindsey. She ran to her locker, realising she was going to have to rush if she wanted to beat tea time traffic.
She managed to find a parking space in the school and looked around wondering what to do, she didn't know whether to wait outside the school or stay still outside the car so Lindsey could spot her when she came out. She chose the latter and stood against the boot of her car with her sun glasses on watching as the children fought to get out of school as soon as the bell went.
She spotted Lindsey walking with a huge group of children all chatting loudly and listening to loud music, Sara shifted uncomfortably not knowing how to separate Lindsey then only to feel relieved when she shouted she had to go and find her mom.
Lindsey spotted Sara straight away; she looked worried and a bit suspicious but headed over anyway. "Hey Sara, Where's mom?" she asked
"Your Gram's has been in a car accident in Turkey and your mom's gone out there to see how she's doing, which means I'm looking after you until she get's back" Sara said smiling uncomfortably.
"Oh, was it a bad accident?"
"I'm not sure but Catherine said she'd ring as soon as she had any news"
"I'm gonna need some clothes, and my IPod and I need to feed my rabbit too"
"That's fine, I have the house key, and I didn't know you had a rabbit, Cath never mentioned it"
"That's cos she doesn't like them and Gram's bought me it for my birthday last week" She smiled as she climbed into the passenger seat of Sara's car.
"Well let's go and get your stuff" Sara said as the car radio was turned up and Lindsey turned away from her to look out of the window.
An hour later they arrived at Sara's apartment and they grabbed the bags before heading upstairs.
"It's the fourth floor and there's no lift" She said but Lindsey just shrugged and put her earphones in, heading to the stairway.
A little breathless from climbing the four flights of stairs, Sara unlocked her apartment door waiting for Lindsey to enter before following her in. The smell of roses hit her fast and hard. She knew he was there before Lindsey turned to lights on. That's when she saw him, Stood at the small table lighter in one hand, candle in the other. And if it was any other situation Sara would have found the shocked look on his face highly amusing.
"Erm" Sara stuttered, shooting an apologetic look to Grissom. "I'm looking after Lindsey for a couple of days, Catherine's mom has had a car accident." seeing the shocked look still written over his face Sara sighed. "I did leave you a detailed note on your desk."
"I guess he never got it!" Lindsey said, whilst dumping her bags near the door and flopping down onto the rose petal covered couch.
Grissom still stood beside the table, looking as confused as a cow on artificial turf. Sara was stood behind the door, keys still in hand. Lindsey looked back and forth from each CSI and sighed.
"Well, first things first, how long has this been going on?" She asked with a tone exactly like Catherine's and indicated between Grissom and Sara.
Sara and Grissom exchanged worried smiles, and remained silent.
"How about we watch a DVD?" Sara suggested.
"Arcades?" Grissom pressed on.
"Borrrring!" Lindsey moaned, rolling her eyes. "I want to do something exciting"
Grissom glanced at Sara with a giddy smile. "What about the body farm?"
"Eww no!" Lindsey cringed. "Who would actually want to see creepy dead bodies?"
Grissom lowered his eyes feeling downhearted. Sara so badly wanted to give him a hug, but instead settled with giving him an apologetic smile.
"Anyways, I guess I have my proof about you two" Lindsey, Grinned loving the sheepish looks across both their faces.
Grissom's head shot up. "What proof?"
"Well seriously, the rose petals, candles etc. etc, and now" Lindsey paused and smirked. "You and Sara are both looking after me when mom only asked Sara to."
Grissom and Sara both knew they had been caught out, but not wanting to show Lindsey they are bothered by it. Grissom headed over to Sara and whispered in her ear. "I'll go grab a pizza and a DVD."
Sara smiled appreciatively, and noticing Lindsey was fiddling about with her Ipod she quickly gave Grissom a kiss.
"I saw that!" Lindsey laughed.
TBC
