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So darling, darling, stand by me,
oh, stand by me oh, stand,
stand by me stand by me
Her time in Miami had been count downed now. She has only last three days before her departure from Miami back to Las Vegas. It was the evening when everything had changed.
Catherine was sitting on the back porch of Horatio's house. This evening was only one when he wasn't home before Lindsey went sleep. It became their habit. Their all had felt like some normal family where you could find mother, father and a child. He called them and said he'd got a tough case but he will manage to come home in the night. He had been feeling sorry for the time which he' s going to lose with them. She could said it due to his sad line in his voice. She have been trying to be happy about her way back in Las Vegas. She should be happy but she wasn't. She became comfortable here. Miami was suddenly her city not Las Vegas. And what more she could count on Horatio. He knew everything about her former life before she became a CSI and especially about her difficult relationship with Gil Grissom. She had found herself more and more thinking about the chances of her relationship with this man. She had stopped see him as if he was only her friend and there had been friendship between them. She knew very well that she left Miami with a slight crush for certain red head lieutenant. However, it was in the time when she had been thinking about Gil Grissom and their common chance for moving on another step in their relationship. That they will be able to build a family up. The family which was their dream but instead they had started to drift apart. The reasons and situations came and left theirs lives but they weren't able to sit down together and talk about it. They screwed up everything what had ever been between them. They lost each other.
And now, she was here. She was in the most beautiful spot of Miami. She had been sitting on the back porch of Horatio Caine's house. Her feet were in the cooling sand and she was waiting for him. She knew that she had been falling in love with this amazing man. She was looking at the night's ocean. She loved how the waves were lazy coming to the shore. It reminded her a life which is lived with its upside down situations. She was so much lost in track of her thoughts that she didn't hear Horatio's arrive. She didn't even hear his steps until someone cleared throat behind her. She was surprised when she turned her head and saw him how he had been looking piercingly at her. She felt the heat of his gaze.
"Hey, beautiful," he said lazily.
"Hey, handsome," answered Catherine same way.
"What are you doing here so alone? I thought I will find you again asleep before a television," he was teasing her.
"Hey, it happened only one time. By the way, did you forget that I wasn't only one who had slept before television?" she told him and tried to remind him the first time when he had held her in his arms. She had felt so safe and content here.
"Ok, ok, peace, my dear Catherine," he said playfully during his way to the place where she was sitting. He slowly sat down next her. The silence spread around them.
"Penny for your thoughts," Horatio asked softly.
"Not worth that much." Her voice was barely audible.
"To me their priceless. But let me guess! You're thinking about a return to Las Vegas." He noted.
"Yeah," was heard in the moonshine night.
"More precisely, you have been thinking about him, Gil Grissom."
"Yeah," was heard once more time from Catherine.
After several minutes of silence which had been hanging in the air, Horatio asked crucial question.
"Do you still love him?"
"Yeah, I love still him." Answered Catherine.
" I can see it. He is one lucky man."
"Horatio, please, let me tell you something," she was telling him and turned to him. She leaned slightly into his arms. It was so simple when he was next to her.
"I can still love him but it's all I can feel for him. I loved him like a possible lover and husband for long time. I think that it was same with our friendship. I love him but now it's only a good friend who will have a important place in my heart."
Catherine silenced for few moments.
"But I am in love with someone else," she whispered in the night.
"What did you just say?"
"I said I fell in love with someone else. I am in love with one amazing man who loves my daughter and he was able to get to know me in two weeks. I am in love with you, Horatio Caine. I can love Gil Grissom but I'm not in love with him. I love only and only you."
"That's good to know because I am in love with you, too," he told her with love in his eyes.
He stood up and extended his hand to Catherine who grabbed his hand and squeezed it firmly. He pulled her out from the steps of the back porch and caught her into his embrace. He had watched her long time and searched for her permission in her eyes. She had started to be impatient with his actions. He wanted to kiss her senseless but he was enjoying to torture her. He slowly leaned in the long waited kiss when she grabbed him by the collar and pulled his lips to hers. Pushing with a great force until their lips became mingled together. After a couple of minutes they both pulled away breathless. They were staring at each other for a few moments. After the while Horatio turned Catherine in his arms. She had been leaning with her back against his chest. Two strong arms were wrapped around her waist, surrounding her with feeling of warmth and security. They both were looking out at the vast ocean.
So darling, darling, stand by me,
oh, stand by me oh, stand,
stand by me stand by me
