AN: It's been a long time since I posted, don't recall this happening before, but can anyone tell me why a sentence repeats itself at the top of a page?" Pardon any jumpy starts in that respect, not sure why sometimes they choose to repeat, I'm not using special formatting or anything.
"What are you doing here?" Sara shrieked angrily, causing them both to jump. "Come to finish him off?"
"Sara, calm down." Catherine tried to reason with the irate CSI while also trying to clear the fog of sleep from her head. She could seeing by the clock on the wall that she had been there a good hour. She couldn't believe how well she had slept. But realizing that Sara was still ranting she turned her attention back to her.
"….you have some nerve." Sara was saying as she stood possessively over the hospital bed facing Catherine. Catherine looked down at Gil who was looking distinctly uncomfortable at having the two women almost face to face over his bed.
"Ever had two women literally fighting over you before?" Catherine asked and quickly squeezed his arm trying to lighten his mood before turning back to Sara.
"Sara, this is a hospital, we're probably about to be covered up with nurses and security guards, can you at least lower your voice?"
Sara arched an eyebrow, not looking the least inclined to be cooperative, but she did lower her voice. "You think this is all over, IA was very interested in all that I had to tell them about you." She smiled sweetly as she delivered that news.
"I feel like I'm in high school again." Catherine shook her head incredulously.
Looking up when a man in a rumpled suit rushed into the room, pulling out a tape recorder. "Ms. Willows, Las Vegas Sun here, is it true that you were the one to shoot Dr. Grissom?"
Catherine gave Gil an apologetic look as she squeezed his hand before making a quick exit, ignoring the reporter as she tried to get out of the hospital before they descended like locusts. When Sara looked at Grissom, she was surprised he didn't look happier to see her. "I'm sorry you had to witness that scene," she said, apparently clueless that they had been perfectly alright before his arrival. Reaching over for his water, he took a sip before clearing his throat as if to speak. He rasped something but Sara couldn't quite make it out. Thrilled that he was trying to speak to her she leaned down closer to hear his first words to her since the accident.
"Get out." His voice was not harsh but the meaning was clear. Dumbfounded Sara gaped at him for a moment before spinning on her heel and stalking from the room, silently cursing Catherine for apparently working her spell on him again.
Catherine felt worlds better when she re-entered her house, after having finally gotten rid of the reporters. But she couldn't stop smiling to herself at the knowledge that her friendship with Gil was still intact.
Her smile faded however as she listened to her answering machine and the message that she was expected to report to the department for an interview with internal affairs at one o'clock that afternoon.