Author: ecrevain anonyme

Disclaimer: CSI doesn't belong to me.

Characters: Catherine/Gil

Spoiler: everybody has their secrets, now its no secret anymore

Summary: Gil has Sara, Catherine has none, but Brass wants her


Chapter 7: Hello my lover, Goodbye my love

"Hi Nick!" Nick heard a familiar voice and turned over his shoulder and saw Sara with a smile on her face.

"Oh hi Sara!" he then put a smile on his face trying to cover the awkwardness he felt. During the collection of evidence, Sara made an effort to talk to Nick because she felt that Nick was uncomfortable when she's around. But Nick made himself look busy and avoided any further contact with her

While taking shots of the victim, Greg noticed Grissom looking at Catherine's direction.

"I saw what happened." He said while clicking his camera for more shots.

"You mean you saw this kid got killed?" The Senior CSI had no idea of what Greg meant.

"You and Catherine in the locker room." Greg gave hints. He was trying to be cautious, he doesn't want anybody hear him say that he saw Grissom and Catherine kissing. Apparently, Greg was about to walk into the room when he saw them. Grissom understood what he meant. But he remained quiet as if he was ignoring Greg.

"Don't worry; your secret is safe with me."

Greg winked at his boss and gave him a smile. Grissom after hearing him say that was quite relieved. He knew he could trust that kid.

Sara didn't give up on her pursuit to have a private talk with Nick, until she finally cornered him. Nick was on his knees while collecting some evidence. Sara knelt beside him.

"Talk to me Nick. I know you're avoiding me."

"Sara, can't you see I'm busy."

"No you're not."

"Yes I am." He knew she was right. But still, he insisted.

"No you're not. You're trying to look like you're busy so that you can avoid me." Nick stood, and gave her a look of denial. Sara remained in her position.



"You're ASSUMING that I'M trying to look like I'm working just to avoid YOU? Yeah right." He said, emphasizing the words 'ASSUMING', 'I'M' and 'YOU' with sarcasm.

"Then why did you collect this unrelated object as evidence?" Sara then grabbed the evidence bag from Nick.

"Hey! That may be very substantial evidence that may help in cracking this case." He said, pointing at the evidence bag. He realized that there was just a crumpled piece of inside the bag. 'I don't remember collecting that' he thought. Of course he wouldn't remember, he was too busy being conscious of Sara's presence, and also too busy trying to look busy.

"Oh really?" Sara said with sarcasm.

"Yeah."

"Did you think this paper was used as a murder weapon? It a possible death due to paper cut?" she was trying to be funny. Nick realizing her efforts let a smile out.

"Well, I guess my plan didn't work." He admitted. For a moment, there was silence; each doesn't know the next thing to say. Nick finally, after collecting all his confidence, broke the silence.

"What I said the other day was true." He said without any eye contact.

"I know." Nick never saw that coming. Sara stood and they both looked at each other. They both had never seen each other that serious.

"I was too blind to see that. Maybe because I was searching for a bigger fish to feed my hunger, not realizing that a smaller fish is already enough."

"Whenever you're alone, when you feel like nobody loves you, I'll be here beside you, hold you in my arms and prove to you in any way that I can how much I love you. I'm always ready to catch you when you feel like falling." He said. The conversation was cut off when Warrick appeared from nowhere and asked for Nick's assistance.

"I'll be with you in a minute." Nick said. Warrick left the warehouse where Nick and Sara having a private time.



Suddenly a shot was fired, and everyone, who were about to leave the scene, immediately docked. A fast running car suddenly stopped in front of the crime scene. The passengers went out of the car and poured several gunshots at them.

At that moment, all Grissom was thinking was Catherine. 'Where are you Catherine' he said to himself while crawling to an uncertain direction. His head turned from one direction to another, hoping to see Catherine safe. A scream was heard, a man's voice saying, "Oh God No!"

Grissom became more and more worried. There was an exchange of gunshots between the cops and the people from the vehicle. From a distance, he saw a blonde hair behind a police vehicle. He ran towards the car to see it was Catherine, though he was 100 sure that it was her. With bent knees, he moved his feet as fast as he could. As he gets closer to the vehicle, a sudden impact was felt on his right shoulder as he tripped and fell into the ground. It was fast. He felt a pain on his shoulder and liquid dripping from it. It was blood. He crawled closer to the vehicle and saw Catherine with Jim at her side protecting her from the bullets using his body.

He saw Brass trying his best to reload his gun while at the same time holding Catherine tight into his body. Grissom was relieved that she's safe with him. He laid flat into the ground, tired of crawling, losing more energy because of his painfully wounded shoulder which he covered with his hand to stop the bleeding.

Then there was silence. Brass made sure that it was safe to let Catherine go and search if there were any casualties. Catherine seeing Grissom unconsciously lying on the ground, screamed for someone to call the medic. She immediately ran towards him. She knelt on the ground and put his head on her lap.

'Gil, don't die on me.' She said to herself as she checked his pulse, which was slowly fading. "Where's the damn paramedic!" she cried out of fear, fear of losing him. Jim ran into her aid and comforted her. "He'll be fine. The medic will be here soon." He said, though he knew, that won't help calm her down.

Another voice was heard, it was Warrick calling for help after seeing Nick on his knees hugging Sara who was unconscious and filled with blood. Warrick went to his friend, whose tears were falling from his eyes.

"She's cold." Warrick said, touching Sara's arm. Nick held her tighter.



He carried Sara's body as the ambulance finally arrived.

Everyone looked at him as he placed her into the ambulance. He didn't let anyone carry or even touch her. Grissom was rushed to the hospital and Catherine was beside him until he was put to the OR.

Back in the lab, everyone was mourning over the death of their friend and colleague--Sara. Though all the people in lab were still working their butts out, they can't get the devastating news out of their heads. Sara's body was in the morgue with Doc Robins who immediately wiped his tears when Nick arrived.

Nick stood beside her. He stared at her and fixed her hair. He didn't hear Doc Robbins talking about the good memories he had with her.

"She looked like she's in peace."Nick said. He bent over and gave Sara a long and passionate kiss.

Doc Robbins left the room wondering if there was something between the two.

Nick felt the guilt in his heart. He thought that he could've protected her.

'Goodbye, my love' those were the last words he spoke before he left the room.


I was already done with this chapter 3 or 2 months ago, and so I posted it or so I thought...When I was about to post my 8th chapter, I was stunned to see that my Chapter 7 is missing...and I had already deleted the soft copy...ARRGHHH!! Good thing I still have my hard copy and so...I retyped it...

Hope you like it...