Note: It's been a while since I've posted something for CSI... Anyway, this is the prologue of a new story. Let me know what you think of it, I'll update soon. x.
Oh, What a Tangled Spell He Weaves.
Grissom sighed and clicked on the 'delete' button. It was the seventh e-mail he had written in the last couple of hours. Every e-mail he had written so far wasn't good enough. Neither was this one. He sighed again. What on earth was he going to tell her?
Catherine felt like a plane had just landed on her house. The e-mail she'd just received hit her like bomb. It had been more than a year since he'd left Las Vegas. It had also been more than a year since she'd spoken to him. She hadn't even opened the e-mail yet. The address already made her feel nauseous. It was from Grissom. She didn't want to see it. She wished she was able to just delete the e-mail without even reading it. She was too curious though. She opened the e-mail, and started reading immediately.
Hi Catherine,
How are you? I'm in Vegas next week. Can we meet, please? I miss you.
Gil.
It were three sentences. Three freakin' sentences. They were able to cause tears in her eyes immediately. Catherine wanted to hit something. Or someone. Grissom, preferably. She couldn't believe him. It had been over a year. It had been over a year since Grissom had left, since she talked to him. She hadn't even been e-mailing to him since he'd left Vegas to be with Sara. Catherine hated him for leaving. She hated him even more for never, ever letting her know how he was doing. She felt a salty tear on her cheek when she put her laptop away without answering Grissom's e-mail. He'd hurt her so bad.
Catherine sat down on the couch with a mug of hot coffee. This last year had seemed to pass so slow. Without Grissom, nothing had been the same. She knew he would be leaving the crime lab one day. She knew. But she never imagined that he'd actually leave her the way he did. When Catherine had found out he was dating Sara, it had felt like a rock had hit her head. Somehow, she hadn't really expected it. Unfortunately, Grissom dating Sara caused the relationship between her and Grissom to cool down. The weren't the way they used to be. It was at that point where Catherine started to realise Grissom meant more to her than she thought he did. When she was honest, she was able to admit they had always been more than just good friends. At that point, it had been too late. Grissom had told her he was leaving. That he went to be with Sara. It had hit her in the face. It had hurt her more than anything that had ever happened to her. But she wanted Grissom to be happy. So she'd let him leave. Letting Grissom leave had been the biggest regret of her life. The first couple of weeks without Grissom had been unbearable. She'd checked her e-mail every hour to see if he'd sent her an e-mail. After two months though, she hadn't received anything. Catherine had tried to live her life the best she could without Grissom there. She tried to avoid conversations about Grissom as much as possible. Living her life without him became the way her life was. She'd tried to live that life the best she could. Catherine tried to accept not seeing or hearing anything from Grissom. It took her over a year to not think about Grissom every hour of the day. To not think of how Grissom was supposed to be a part of her life. And now, now that she was doing the best she could to live her life the way she wanted to, he suddenly came back into her life. That e-mail had the same effect the Grissom used to have on her. It was like a spell. But this one, this particular e-mail, had been the most complicated spell he'd ever put on her. It was tangled all over.