Author: Michelcz

Disclaimer: CSI doesn´t belong to me but to Anthony Zuicker. Everything else is mine.

Characters: Grissom/Sara, Grissom/Cathrine, Horatio Caine

Spoiler: CSI after Way to go, CSI:Miami after Rampage and One of ours

Summary: Sequel to Why. How will Cathrine react to news about Gil? Will be there any chance for them? Will everything between them end or it will be start? Why is Horatio Caine in Las Vegas?


A/N: So guys, there is new chapter of the story. I hope you are going to like it. I know that it was longer than one week as I promised. I had to work so I could find time for it. Please send me feedback what you think about it.


Chapter seven

It was only forty-eight hours since Horatio' s arrival to Las Vegas and several hours after their talk about her biggest problem, Gil Grissom and Sara Sidle. She has her strength back and she had been feeling so light. She has been without worries about her work. She had someone who were caring for her and would be here for her when it will be necessary. She thought that she´s prepare for everything but evidently not for the morning after shift.

She was in the locker room when Warrick came in and asked her if she would like to drop home. She agreed eagerly cause Horatio was the one who drove her here. They were on their way to Warrick's car when she suddenly saw him how he was leaned against the side of her car. He was smiling at her widely. He had his sunglasses in one hand and in other hand he had a cup of big coffee. She could smell it though the parking lot by the headquarters. It was her favorite coffee from Coffee heaven. She didn't need to think how he could find it which coffee she loves in that place. It was simple. Only two person knew it. One couldn't tell him it cause it was Grissom and dislike him though he didn't know him. He had showed her it during this night so much as was possible. But the another person found him cool and was started call him Uncle H. It could be only Linds. She was suddenly so weak in her knees. It was the feeling which you can't put together with the similar feeling when you love somebody. It was feeling of care which she missed so much. It felt nice.

She turned to the man who walked beside her and said him.

"Rick, I think that I don't need to drive home anymore. I have my transport here. Thank you for your offer. I appreciate it truly. You're great friend."

"Hey girl, it was my pleasure that I could offer you my help. Take care about yourself. See you tonight," he said her and he winked at her.

"Warrick," she said him as if she was mad on him and playfully slapped him pn his arm. "Thank you for everything, she whispered in his ear when she gave him quick hug. After that she went to her car and Horatio.

She was near her new friend when they both could hear words which Warrick yelled at Horatio.

"Mr. Caine, please take care of her. She need it although she is thinking otherwise."

"I am going to take care of her. It´s my plan for the nearest future, he answered him when he was giving Catherine her coffee.

They all were watched by Grissom who was standing in the break room and looking out of the windows. He felt a stab of jealousy in his heart. It was getting worse and worse from the moment when he heard how Catherine take out him the words. The words which was so long in his dreams and suddenly was fatal for him. How she said him that she always loved and still love him. He tried to forget it. It was only one solution in that so touch-and-go moments. He knew very well that he couldn't do it cause he was in relationship with someone else now. He couldn´t help himself. He was trying to tell himself that it was only care for Catherine as a friend of twenty years but he knew he was lying to himself and everyone around him. He was unfaithful to his girlfriend in his mind.(mind) So often he caught himself how he wanted to call her Cath.

When he saw them in a parking lot how they talked animatedly to each other. He was felling to be out of his own team once again. He tried to not overheard them but he did it. The sentence which Horatio Caine said to Warrick that he is planning to take care of Catherine in near future. How could somebody else this said about 'the love of his life'. Where did he took the right for doing it?

What did he bloody hell think with these words? How could somebody else be better for her than him?

He had watched the parking lot for long time even when they all were on their way to home. Home, one place he hadn´t for almost all life. He couldn´t go to home where was somebody who was waiting for him. Oh, he was lying again now. He had someone now. He had Sara. Someone who was living for good word from him. Someone who need to breathe same air as he was breathing. He made a fatal mistake when he had trapped himself in her life and so someday he became to be a lover of her. Although he was looking out he heard how somebody has been coming into room. He could hear someone´s tiptoe here. Only one person was here with him and it was 'his girlfriend'. It was one of the day when he regretted his hearing surgery. He knew what will come next so he was trying to ignore it. He was trying to get sometime for him now. He

decided he would play that he´s lost in his thoughts.

"Hey honey, here are you. I am looking for you around all lab," Sara said him. "Why are you here so lonely?"

'Cause I lost all my friends, cow,' Grissom had been thinking for himself and he was continued to play his role.

"Hey Gil, what happened?" she told him when she came to him and she laid her hand oh his shoulder.

"What? Oh Sara, it´s you. You scared me. I was lost in my minds," he apologized her.

"What about were you thinking, honey?" she asked sweetly. "It´s about our last case, isn´t it? Of course, it must be that. I know you well and I also know how you hate when the case hasn´t a result and you must set it aside."

"Yeah, Sara, you know me so well. You´ve got true always when it came to me."

"So, are you ready to go home? I am waiting here only for you," he said her and passed her on his way from the room.

Everything had changed from the day when Warrick and Horatio met in the parking lot when he had arrived for Catherine in front of lab. It became a habit. Every morning and evening he was there. He had been waiting patiently for her and he was her support during the time when she was trying to found all strength which she needed in her fight for her love.

He has been always coming there with coffee and smile. He knew how it is important for Cath and how it would be take effect at Mr. Grissom. He noticed that almost every day he was starting to watch them in the moment when Catherine´s car had been near the parking lot. He didn´t know how he was doing it but he was always in the windows of the break room. He could be here sometimes later or earlier it depends if he has been hold up in the traffic or he had been going to drive earlier from the house. He supposed that he was waiting for him and for his actions whose he will make toward Cath.

Grissom was sitting in the diner where the team had their breakfast together if there was time for it. In spite of all problems which were between them, they managed to find time for it. It was their ritual how to end the shift and start the beginning of the night. He was glad he could be here today even if it was an appointment with his colleague detective Jim Brass. He knew that Jim needed to figure out something related to theirs former case which is going to be in the court today. Jim was one of the people who was going to testified.

He was a bit earlier than Jim so he was looking around the place which held so many happy memories for him. He could saw the booth where he was so often sitting with Cath and talking for hours. It was free but he couldn't go and sit there with Jim. It was something saint for him. Even through he was here with 'his current girlfriend' he never led her in that booth. She wasn't allowed to know it. He was so lost in the thoughts that he didn't hear how the door of the diner had been opening and his friend Jim Brass had been coming to him. He was startled when suddenly someone patted him on the back. He turned around quickly with frown in his face.

"God Gil, I didn't want you startled. You looked to be pretty distant from this place. Where were you?" asked Jim.

"Nowhere. Where would you like to sit down?" he tried to change the way of a conversation.

"I don't know my old friend. Would you rather to sit down in one of free booths or bar?"

Gil hesitated for few moments but he was obvious clueless of the Jim and how he watched him.

"Bar," was all he said.

They were talking for several minutes when suddenly the door was opened and very unexpected visitors came into the diner, Catherine and Horatio Caine. Grissom' s eyes caught the glimpse of strawberry blond hair. He frozen and was speechless. Jim saw his reaction and decided to find reason for Grissom's unaccustomed behavior. He has turned slightly by his head and found the reason. Reason who had name Catherine Willows. He could feel how Grissom has been going to be more and more uncomfortable. He saw the daggers in his eyes. He tried to follow his gaze and he suddenly saw why he was throwing so death glares around him. Catherine had been leading the boy from Miami to the booth when he often could watch him and Catherine together how they were laughing and talking. He turned his attention back to his friend and glance at him before he said the words whose tore his friend apart.

"What do you expect from her? You're with Sara. Did you expect her to just wait around for you in case it didn't work? It's not like you ever told her how you feel," Brass said.

"And she deserves happiness in her life, bro. You know it so don't try to judge her. You lost it in the moment when you became an item with Sara." He added.