Please Don't Go
Disclaimer: I don't own the show.
A/N: David Rossi and Erin Strauss deserved a chance to grow old together. I am dedicated to telling the stories they never got to live. This story was started when I had an ideal and posted it to the forum on January 3, 2013. The original Ideal along with a lot of other adoptable story prompts can be found at the forum: myforums/cmguysgirl/4300737/
The story is complete. The last two paragraphs came to me today (I had the ideal for the line about being weird a week or so ago but didn't know how it would work in, but Erin insisted it needed to be in the story and today they told me how and allowed me to finally come to a good place to end their story, well this one). I will be posting it in chapters, even though I didn't originally write it to be a chaptered story, to make it easier to read if you don't have time to sit down and read it all at once as it is over 15,000 words. If you want to read it without it being chaptered, I will be posting it at Archive of Our Own as one chapter.
A/N 2: Maybe the writers will realize that the fans want STROSSI and will bring Erin home out of Witness Protection. I know the actress Jayne Atkinson is supposed to guest star on tonight's episode and they keep bringing her back each season, so they must want the character to stay fresh in our mind for some reason…
"Losing someone you love, is one of the greatest tragedies a person can suffer in life. The heart is torn in two, with no hope of ever finding it's other half" (CMGUYSGIRL).
Please Don't Go
Erin was drinking again. As many times as he had talked himself out of facing that fact, he could no longer delude himself about the issue. Oh he had come up with a multitude of excuses for her behavior- but no more. He loved her too much to let her continue down this path of self-destruction. He loved her… The more he thought about it, the more Rossi realized that was a huge part of the problem.
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David had confronted Erin a few weeks ago and asked her if she was drinking again and she had done something that in all the years he had known her, she had never done before. Erin Strauss had looked him dead in the face and bold face lied to him.
Deep down, he had known at that moment it was a lie, but he didn't want to accuse her falsely and possibly ruin her progress in her fight to stay sober if he was wrong, so he let the subject drop; That was the worst mistake David Rossi had ever made in his life and that is saying a lot for a man who had lived as many years as he had. Every day he enabled her to go on as she was, while accepting the falsehoods she had told him, was a day he allowed her to put her life and the lives of others at risk. And that was UNACCEPTABLE.
It would be one of the hardest things he would ever do but David knew he had to confront the love of his life and force her to admit she was hitting the bottle again. She had a problem and ignoring it would not make it go away.
Rossi knew if she was in her right mind and her brain hadn't been polluted by the alcohol, Erin would be horrified that she had sunk so low as to be drinking on a case.