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Chapter 4

The girls arrive both early. It improves my mood in the instant. "Good morning ladies." I greet them I receive mumbles in return – I guess you can't expect too much at the same time. I get up and go serve myself a mug of milk. "So, how are you doing since last time?" They both shrug. "Any new argument?" They didn't answer. "Catherine?"

"We didn't really see each other during those two days, we talked but no new argument."

I take a sip of my milk and wait silently. Catherine barely makes it through the next minute before breaking the silence again. "That's it?" She asks. "If we don't have arguments you're not going to say anything?"

"Right now I don't have any question for you. I'm here to help but basically you're doing the entire job. If there's something in particular you want to say go ahead. You don't have to wait for me to start speaking. I mean, it's about you and Sara here." I simply answer.

I take a look at Sara and she's just lost in her thoughts, looking at the window obviously not interested in what's going on. It's another two minutes of silence before Catherine patience flies out the window "I hate broccoli." She says out of the blue. Sara frowns and shakes her head jaded, I on the other can't help the ghost of a smile on my lips. "It's true I hate broccoli." Catherine repeats seriously since she's met with nothing but silence.

"Well that's really constructive." Sara replies flatly.

"Just as much as your muteness." Catherine comes back.

Sara doesn't answer, she just returns to her silent contemplation. I decide to make things move a bit "What do you hate about Sara?" I ask Catherine.

"What do I hate about Sara uh?" She repeats. She gives it a thought looking at the ceiling "Easy, the thing I hate about Sara is… well Sara." She says with an acerbic tone.

"Really spiritual." Sara mutters.

"That's being a little extreme, don't you think?" I ask Catherine.

"You asked me to be honest, didn't you?"

"Touché." I reply with a calm nod. "Be more specific, then."

"I hate her…" Catherine trails off.

"Yeah, I think you've always made that clear. Thanks, it was so kind of you." Sara comments.

"See, that's exactly what I hate about you. You're fucking attitude." Catherine answers looking at Sara.

There the tap is open.

"I hate your attitude." Catherine states more firmly "You think everyone owes you something. Except yourself nothing is important. You're selfish and you have a fucking high opinion of yourself!"

Sara snorts "That's rich! I mean, it's the hospital mocking the charity." She smirks bitterly "My attitude? What about yours? You walk around like a queen or some kind of empress, you bat your eyelash and everyone is supposed to crawl at your feet giving you what you want!"

"You're a big capricious baby. If things don't go your way you pout and whine until they give what you want, you're pathetic."

"At least I'm not using my sexuality to make my way around."

"Here we go again." Catherine shakes her head in despise "I was wondering when you would bring this up. I'm a bitch and a whore on top of that right?" She snorts "Well it could have been worse, I could have flirt with my boss and turned into an alcoholic."

"Fuck you Catherine." Sara says with a tensed yet even voice.

"Really mature and elaborate." Catherine mocks her. She's having a mean smile knowing she has the upper hand here.

Sara takes a deep breath and relaxes. She smiles before saying "Well at least I still have enough dignity left not to suck Ecklie's dick."

That whips the smug smile off of Catherine's lips in the instant "Take that comment back bitch." Catherine threats.

Now is the prefect time for me to remind them of my presence. They have reach the breaking point, the situation is about to get out of hand. "Let's calm down now." I say with enough firmness to get through their anger. They don't comply and keep on looking at each other with ferocity. "Ladies get back to your corners, now." I repeat myself. And though the tension is still there they do as they told.

Obviously it's too early to let them on their own device. Well let's try something else. "You don't like each other for different reasons and for the same reasons you're having troubles at communicating with one another…" I start but they don't give me the chance to finish.

"Wow, I think you've just opened my eyes. I mean you've just stated something we didn't know, that's just… wow." Catherine says in mock awe.

"She's right, you've just proved us that your ten years of studying human psychology weren't a waste, that was a freaking brilliant statement." Sara adds.

There it is again, their weird connection. They can't stand each other, most of the time they're fighting with passion. Yet they can go from ready to strangle one another to joking and working together the next second. Like I said two sharp minds working as one.

They are involved in a really complicated and contradictory relationship. I've underestimated the complexity of it all. And that was a big mistake coming from me. So I think another approach of it all is in order.

"Have you ever apologise to one another?" I ask them, they don't answer but I know the meaning of their silence, it means no. "When you fight with someone whether the fight is right or not at some point or another you apologise or at least try to make things right with the other person. In your case you never made the effort to change this relationship or sorting the issues out. You fight then you move on, you fight again and move on again. The problem is that since you never make things right you don't really move on, you're making circles."

I pause and watch them taking my words in. "Your relationship is based on bitterness and every new fight is a new excuse to let this resent pour. We have to get rid of all this resent and for that we're going to fix and sort every issue you've ever had with each other."

I get up and get a new glass of milk. I sit down again, they don't seem to be up for initiating the conversation so I decide to take the lead. "I want you to think and tell me when, according to you, everything went wrong."

"On the first minute we met." Sara says after a moment. Against all odds she's the first to speak. "The first thing she said to me was a lie."

"Tell me about it." I ask Sara.

"I asked her if she knew where I could find Catherine Willows and she went like 'Uh… she's out on the field'. Had I been more gullible I would have gone and she would have laughed at me."

"Catherine why did you lie?"

"I had reasons not to welcome her. She was here to investigate Warrick who happens to be one of my closest friends, she was an intruder in my team and I thought she was here to take my case. And if nothing her presence meant the possible end of my team."

"Your team?" I enquire.

"Yes, my team, the guys I'd been working with for at least four years, who were like my family." Catherine says firmly.

"What event brought Sara to Vegas?"

"Grissom called her to investigate on Warrick because he had disobeyed an order." She repeats, avoiding my question in the process.

"What happened?" I ask "If she was investigating him it means that whatever mistake he has made was rather heavy in consequence."

"He went to put a bet while he was on call." She finally says evasively. I'm not satisfy at all with her answer and for the first time she's reluctant to give me what I'm asking.

"That's his mistake. What I want to know is the consequence of the said mistake." I elaborate. I'm met with silence as Catherine looks away.

"Holly Gribbs was killed" Sara states harshly. "Warrick was supposed to shadow her, he didn't and unfortunately the perp was on the scene so he shot her." There's evident despise and anger in her voice.

Heavy consequences indeed. I turn to Catherine who's still looking away "Catherine, I'd like you to talk to me about Holly Gribbs." She doesn't look at me "Catherine?"

She looks at me again defiantly. "Joker."

Finally, we've reach a knot. I'm smiling inwardly because that's our first step in the right direction. I turn my attention to Sara, letting Catherine off the hook. "Why did you stay in Vegas once your investigation was over?"

"Grissom offered me a post." Sara shrugs.

"So you dropped everything just like that? I mean you had a life in California, you could have declined the offer." I continue.

"I was in need for change and I was eager to work with Grissom, because I knew it would be a great experience."

Catherine chuckles "Why don't you come out with it and say that you were in love with him and you took that as an opportunity to get closer to him."

Sara looks at Catherine coldly "You don't know anything about me so why don't you just keep it shut?" She keeps on glaring at Catherine "There was and will never be anything between me and Grissom. I admit though that on my third year here I wish there was more so I asked him out he rejected me end of the story." She sighs "Must be a relief for you to know that I never was between him and you."

"Me and Grissom?" Catherine laughs "I hate to break it to you but we're just friends, I'd say he's more like a brother to me than anything. I can't believe all those years you thought I was after him."

"Well I had to find reasons as to why you hate me." Sara comes back.

"I don't hate you. Sure I'm not a big fan of you, but I don't hate you." Catherine states calmly.

"Well, you've been fooling me for the last six years." Sara says flatly.

There's a certain frustration oozing from the both of them as if they were regretting the actual state of there relationship. I think that it's the first time they're talking about those things. Well at least they've listened each other.

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