Despicable Past, Commendable Future

Rating: Mature... maybe a very strong teen. Nothing that sexual, really, I mean come on... I'm only four-teen years old, but there's swearing. Lots of it, too.

Summary: Not everyone in this world has cruel intentions. Catherine Flynn learned that the hard way.

Disclaimer: sigh I do not own CSI. Or the characters... or the songs I may use... or the blah blah blah! Ruin my day, why don't you!

A/N: Where's those permission slips, kiddies? LOL. Sorry it took so long for this chapter.

He catches up with me to find me sitting on the damp grass in front of the pond. He takes a seat next to me and pulls me closer to him. His arm wraps around my waist and I lean into him. He falls back on the ground and takes me with him. He bends his knees and smirks.

"I never knew you could run so fast."

"Oh you'd be surprised." He looks down at my arm again and I sigh. I straddle one of his legs and rest my back on his thigh. He puts his hands on my legs and runs them up and down. I moan and lean forward. I put my hands on either side of his face and lower my head to where our lips touched in the most passionate kiss I've ever shared with someone. He pushes me further up with his leg and smirks into the kiss. I break away and smile. "I missed you this week."

"I know. I missed you too."

"Show me how much." He puts his hand on the back of my neck and forces me down for another intense kiss. Ours hands are roaming every where. No one's here to tell us anything, but we don't go any further than that. He grabs my hands and laces our fingers together. I go to look at what he's doing, but his lips found mine before I could see. He lifts our hands and rests them on the ground above his head. I tilt my head to the side when his tongue slips into my mouth. He breaks apart. Ours lips are softly touching. He gives my hands a soft squeeze and smiles.

"Do you trust me?" I nod my head yes and we get up. "You can swim, right?" I throw him a look and we walk over to the edge of the pond.

"Ew. No. We're not going in that water are we?"

"Yes. I used to swim in this pond all the time. It feels great."

"Yeah. When's the last time you came here? When you were Natalie's age?"

"Oh come on! It doesn't look bad at all! It's the cleanest water they've got out here... and besides, we're going swimming in it tomorrow, too."

"Gilllll." He takes his first step in the water and smiles.

"See? I'm fine. Now come on!" I kick off my shoes and roll my eyes. I take my first step in the water and it's not so bad. The mud squishes between my toes and I make a face. I'm up to my knees in water when the mud starts to get slimy. I grab Gil's hand and jump on to him. I lock my legs around his waist and throw my arms around his neck. "Cath... it's just mud."

"It's slimy mud! Gross! I wanna go back to the cabin!"

"Already?"

"Yes. I want to-" He takes another step into the pond and we both go underwater. We both pop up from the water and I smooth back my hair. "GIL!" He swims over to me and grabs my hands. He puts them on his waist and he heads out to the middle of the lake. I can't touch the bottom, but he can. I wrap my legs around his waist and put my arms around his neck again. He smiles and kisses me. The water is almost up to our necks. His hands are making their way up my shirt. I moan into his mouth and shake my head. "You're hands are freezing."

"So are yours... Do you wanna head back?"

"Do you mind? I'm cold."

"Yeah. Let's go." We swam back and ran to the cabins. He went to walk inside, but I stopped him.

"Gil, we can't go in there soaking wet."

"Says who?"

"We'd surely wake everyone up... and besides, I don't want to have to explain why the carpet's soaking wet tomorrow morning."

"Good point." He looked around and let his arms fall to his sides. "So... what do we do?" I smirked and started peeling off my soaking wet shorts and tank top. I put my hair back in a pony tail and shivered. He stared at me and smiled.

"What are you standing there for? Hurry up! I'm freezing!" He laughed and quickly got out of his wet clothes. We tip toed through the cabin and tossed our clothes over the shower curtain to dry. We got into to dry clothes and got in the bed. I was still freezing, though. I let out a shaky breath and he softly wrapped his arms around me.

"What's wrong?"

"I'm still cold." He took off his shirt and handed it to me. I smiled and put it over my tank top that was barely keeping me warm. "Thank you." He turned on his back and brought me with him. We took up the middle of the bed. I yawned into his shoulder. He smiled and softly moved the hair away from my face.

"Go to sleep."

"I'm not tired." He softly laughed and placed a gentle kiss on my lips.

"I'm serious."

"Gil?"

"Hmm. What?" I looked up at him and our lips were softly touching. We stayed like that for a few moments before we heard Natalie groan and get out of the bed. She walked up to ours and softly tugged on my shirt.

"Catherine?" I pulled away from Gil and sat up in the. I smiled down at Natalie and moved her light brown hair away from her eyes. I felt her forehead and I was surprised. She had a fever.

"Natalie. Sweetheart. What's wrong?"

"Where's Gil?" Gil sat up and smiled. He held out his arms and I watched as Natalie climbed into the bed with us.

"What's wrong, Nat?"

"I had a bad dream." She settled herself in-between us and grabbed both of our hands.

"What was it about?"

"I dreamed that some guy took me away from you. From you and Catherine, and Mommy. I was so scared." I looked up at Gil and frowned.

"No one's going to take you away from us. I promise." Gil and I stayed up until she fell asleep. When he was sure she was asleep, he looked up at me and kissed me on the cheek. "I'm sorry. You must be uncomfortable."

"No. It's alright. She's scared. Poor baby." He smiled and we both fell asleep. The next morning, I woke up to the sound of the door opening. Mrs. Grissom walked in and smiled.

"Kay' kids! Time to get up!" Gil and I both sat up and ended up hitting each other in the head. Mrs. Grissom stood in the doorway with a smirk on her face as she watched all three of us try and get out of bed. Natalie was tangled in the covers, Gil had completely fallen out of the bed, and I was trying sneak back under the covers.

"Ugh! What TIME is it?"

"Almost eleven. Get up! Get up!"

"Alright! We're up!" We waited until she left to room to all sneak back under the covers. Natalie yawned and accidentally hit both of us in the face when she stretched. "Nat!"

"What?"

"I say we kick her out of the bed!"

"Aww! No! Come on! I'm warm!"

We walked outside to find John and Tryus setting up their boat for their fishing trip. We looked around but there was nothing to do. The sun was beating down on us.

"Hey Gil?"

"Yeah?"

"What is there to do around here?"

"Oh! Hailey's here! I'll talk to you guys later!" Natalie ran to a cabin that wasn't too far from ours and went inside. I looked over at Gil and he shrugged his shoulders.

"I don't know. We could take the boat out... swim, relax..."

"Let's take the boat out!"

"Are you sure?"

"Positive." We both changed into our swim suits and walked over to the boat landing, where Tyrus and John were climbing out of the boat.

A/N: Yeah. Okay. There's the tenth chapter peeps! Where shall this story end? One does not know. LOL. Hopefully it's one of those stories where people read it and don't want it to end, cause' I have a feeling this one is gonna be around for a long time. O.O