Disclaimers:  Not mine.

Spoilers: Nope

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UNINTENTIONAL

(Chapter 10 – 12:30 AM)

Grissom wandered down the hallway as casually as he possibly could. He was in a rush to find Catherine but he wasn't about to let others know it. He peeked into every room, making sure not to catch anyone's eyes, knowing if that happened, they might question him on who he was looking for. He had made it past 4 different lab areas when finally, he was caught.

"Hey Grissom! You looking for somebody?"

Turning around rather slowly, Grissom shook his head, hoping his simple answer would satisfy Warrick, "No."

"Well I am. Have you seen Nick? He was supposed to meet up with me at the morgue. He never showed up."

Grissom shook his head again, "Try paging him."

"I did. You seen Sara? She seems to have disappeared too."

"No, I haven't."

Noticing Grissom's eyes were busy darting around, Warrick chuckled, "Are you sure you're not looking for somebody?"

Grissom looked at Warrick seriously then lowered his voice as if afraid somebody else might hear him, "Have you seen Catherine?"

"Yeah, actually. I saw her in the locker room earlier but..."

"Thanks." Without allowing Warrick to finish, Grissom walked away, not willing to waste another second he could've been using to talk to Catherine. He reached the locker room and was surprised to find the door was closed. The door was never closed. He looked around him and was glad to find the hallway was empty. He knocked on the door, "Cath?"

Silence.

"Catherine? Are you in there?" He reached for the doorknob and found that the door wasn't only closed, it was locked. "Cath?" He knocked on the door again.

This time, his knock was met with a muffled noise. He couldn't hear what had been said but he was sure it sounded something like 'go away'.

Checking again, he found the space around him and the locked door was still empty. He sighed, "Catherine, I know you're in there." He waited for an answer but got none. "I know you're angry with me and I know I'm the last person you want to see right now but you really need to hear what I have to say. So whether you like it or not, I'm going to talk and I hope you'll listen." He paused but no protests came through so he continued, "Catherine, I didn't..."

"Grissom? What are you doing?"

Grissom's eyes widened at the sound of the voice behind him. He turned around and found Catherine looking at him with a raised eyebrow. "Cath!"

"Who are you talking to?" She looked at him oddly.

"I..." He looked at the locked door then back at her, "I thought..."

"You thought what? Who's in there?" She tried the doorknob, "Why is this locked?"

"I don't know." He shook his head, still a little shocked to find the person he thought was inside, wasn't after all. "I thought *you* were in there."

"No...." She shook her head, still looking at him as if he was crazy. "I was but I bumped into Warrick. He was trying to find Nick and Sara so I thought I'd try to help him out. I didn't end up finding them though. Is anyone even in there?"

Grissom shrugged silently.

"Don't you have a key?"

He shook his head, again in silence.

"But you're the supervisor!"

"Of night-shift, Catherine, not of the entire lab."

She rolled her eyes and headed down the hallway, "Well somebody's gotta have a key around here."

Taking her comment as an open invitation, he followed readily. He didn't care how long it took, he was going to get her alone.

*To be continued*