Catherine smiled to herself as she drove along the deserted highway. Sara's head was lent against he window rocking with the movement of the car; she looked peaceful lent against the glass her pale skin glowing slightly in the moonlight. Catherine took in the younger woman's appearance and found herself turning into her mother wondering if she was eating properly and sleeping. Well she wasn't sleeping properly but that was a hazard of the job. Sometimes Cath wondered if Sara slept at all lately especially she always seemed to be at work. It suddenly occurred to Catherine that Lindsey's party would be the first time she had seen Sara out of work for a long time, Short of when she took Sara for a beer after the Hank incident. The two women got on reasonably well but weren't best friends Catherine wasn't sure why they had the same sort of personalities but they always seemed to clash.
"Stop staring" muttered Sara making Cath physically jump.
"I thought you were asleep"
"And that made it ok to stare?" asked Sara sitting up properly and yawning
"I was just thinking," replied Cath
"About how you could get me out the car with out waking me and drive off?"
"Well it won't work now your awake" smiled Cath she then gestured towards the glove compartment "there's a coffee in there, well there was it might have spilt by now and some chocolate" she added holding her hand out
"I take it the chocolate's for you" remarked Sara taking out the coffee cup and sipping at the bit that had come up onto the lip.
"If you don't want to listen to me moan about how damn remote this scene is the chocolates for me"
"Take it, take it" shouted Sara thrusting the chocolate into Cath's hand as she laughed at her.
"Are we nearly there yet?" asked Sara
"You sound like a small child, according to the map were nearly there"
"But with your map reading skills we could be miles away" said Sara with a half smirk
"I think I preferred it when you were asleep. How many times have I got lost"?
"Plenty" replied Sara as Cath mouthed 'ha ha' at her
"We could play a game to pass the time"
"Oh god it's like going on a trip with Greg"
"I was been facetious," replied Cath "will you stop fidgeting we're nearly there" she said frustrated
"We better be" snapped Sara "sorry but I'm tried and hungry" Cath smiled at her
"See we're here state trouper" she smiled pulling up beside the trouper's car.
"Ladies" smiled the trouper as they got out the car
"What we got?" asked Cath walking over
"One body female. The place's been done up saw the light on and went to check it out" he said pointing inside "didn't touch anything, got to get going" he added leaving
"Well that was informative," said Sara opening the door "this is been done up?" asked Sara looking at the scene of devastation in front of her
"You've never had decorators obviously" smiled Cath. Floor boards were up, walls were half built and wire and plastic were hanging down from beams in the ceiling
"Is any of this live?" asked Sara ducking a dangling wire
"Hope not" said Cath shining her flashlight up "should all be off with the building work" she said now turning her attention to the body. A tall blonde was laid in a pool of blood on the floor. "Looks like a single shot wound," said Cath crouching down and looking at the small hole going into the woman's temple.
"ARGH" Sara's voice came out slightly chocked startling Cath as she turned in time to see Sara drop her kit and frantically pull at the red wire wrapped around her neck.
"A little help" asked Sara getting more tangled in with the wire and plastic hanging from the ceiling
"Here" Cath took a knife from her kit and cut the wire.
"Are you finished with the amateur dramatics?" asked Cath with a grin as Sara rubbed at her neck "because Lindsey would never forgive me if you didn't come to her party, for some strange reason she likes you" said Cath turning away
"Why's that strange?" asked Sara smirking
"Apparently Lindsey thinks I'm like you, Stubborn, clever. Personally I don't' see the rebalance" said Cath turning round with a smile. As she did she put her foot straight down a hole in the floorboards.
"Would Lindsey mind if you didn't come to her party?" asked Sara taking Cath's arm and helping her back out
"She probably wouldn't notice she's so exited everyone from the lab is coming she didn't' care about her friends" said Cath looking frustrated at the floor
"I think its because no one coddles her like me, you all tell her horror stories"
"I never took her to the morgue." Replied Sara as Cath raised a eyebrow at her "Grissom offered to go to a meeting with Ecklie to miss it." Said Sara changing the subject
Cath smiled at her "I can't wait to see him stood in the middle of a group of hyped up eleven and twelve year olds" smiled Cath "and the morgue was educational"
"Biology was it?" smiled Sara
"Just process" said Cath smiling "and try not to hang yourself I'd hate for you to have a accident" she said both eyebrows half way up her forehead,
"You just process over there" said Sara waving her kit at her
TBC ……………..
