Author Note: This is my first attempt at a fem slash and I hope to not disappoint. If there are some people with some ideas or opinions I'm always open to suggestions and constructive criticism.

This is my thoughts on what could've happened in the first season. It is a loose retelling of the events after Holly Gribbs' death and the love that blossomed out of it.

B.

- Updated: 04-May-2017 -

- Updated: 27-Mar-2019 - minor edits


Love at First Sight


-11-

Catherine and Sara turned into the parking lot of the Crime Lab, pulling up beside Sara's Denali that was parked their overnight. The parking lot was bustling with cars, mostly people coming in to pay parking tickets, or bail loved ones out of a night in jail. There was always a constant flow of traffic around this time of day which tapered off about two hours into their shift when only those leaving the Swing Shift or those heading out to a Crime Scene on Grave were pulling in and out.

"You know, I can't shake something." Sara stated, closing her door and sucking in a heavy dose of desert heat.

"The guys in the shower room yesterday?" Catherine replied, locking her truck and slinging her purse over her shoulder.

"Exactly, you don't think they saw anything do you?"

Catherine flashed Sara a smile, the sun glinting off her sunglasses. "I doubt it, even though they are good investigators, they aren't observant at times."

Sara shrugged, 'You know them better than I do, but I guess this means no fooling around on break."

Catherine pushed open the door with a smirk, "Doesn't mean we can't fool around elsewhere." She said and waved at Judy behind the desk.

"I'll catch up with you, I just need to sign in." Sara replied as she approached Judy who looked overworked and exhausted beyond her years.

Catherine nodded and headed towards the locker room, seeing a convergence of male testosterone in the break room. Nick and Warrick had their backs to the door as Greg was explaining something to them, his eyes dancing with excitement. When he caught Catherine's eyes, as if on queue Nick and Warrick turned to look at her in the hall, suddenly getting the sense that she was the topic up for discussion. Catherine just nodded a hello and continued towards the locker rooms feeling their eyes still on her.

It wasn't until she was inside the women's locker room that she let out the breath she was holding. Her stomach was fluttering with butterflies as she approached her locker and tried to push the guys intrigued looks out of her mind.

"Did you see the guys in the break room?" Sara asked, making Catherine jump.

"Jeez, you scared the shit out of me." She breathed, feeling her heart thump against her chest.

"Sorry, they were giving me the heebie-jeebies. You're certain they don't know anything?"

Catherine shoved her purse in her locker, clipping her ID and gun to her hip. "I was, but now I'm not."

"Shit, they could really screw this up for us." Sara replied, tapping her head against the locker.

"Don't you think I know that!" Catherine snapped, seeing Sara wince at her words. "Sorry, I didn't mean to snap like that."

"What are we going to do?"

Catherine slammed her locker door shut, "Telling Grissom is one thing, but having Sanders know about us, it will be a matter of seconds before the whole lab knows."

"Then we need to find out exactly what he knows." Sara replied as Catherine nodded.

"Lets just get this over and done with." Catherine replied as they headed back out into the hallway and back towards the break room.

Sara grabbed her by the shoulder, stopping her as the break room came into view, "Wait you're just going to walk in there?"

"Do you have a better plan?" Catherine asked, seeing Gil stopping at the front desk to greet Judy.

"Well, no not really, but this seems like it might back fire on us." Sara replied.

Gil left Judy, a stack of unread memos in his hands that Catherine knew he was going to throw in the nearest trash can. Gil never read memo's and just because he was now Supervisor of the Graveyard Shift didn't mean he was going to suddenly start taking an interest. Catherine let go of Sara and briskly walked towards the break room, catching Gil's eye and motioning for him to follow. She pushed open the door as Gil followed in behind like a good puppy, while Sara stayed where she was in the hall, deciding to run or to throw up.

"Hey guys, and Greg," Catherine said, standing at the counter, eyeing one man to the next.

"Uh hey Cat, how are you doing?" Nick asked, stirring in his chair as Warrick refused to even look her in the eye.

"I'm just great Nicky, fantastic actually."

"Oh I bet I know why," Greg snickered, basically jumping from one foot to the other from where he was standing.

Gil poured himself a cup of coffee, as the break room door opened and Sara walked in, staying close to the door for a quick escape. He smiled at her as she returned one, eyeing Catherine who was on the hunt for blood. Just like a mother protecting her young, she was not going to let anything, especially an arrogant lab rat, stand her way of having a real chance at a relationship.

"Well, since the whole team is here, I might as well make an announcement." Gil said clearing his throat, "With the unfortunate death of Holly, we still need to fill the position on our team. I'm happy to announce that effective immediately, Sara Sidle will be joining the Graveyard Shift." He looked at Catherine and smiled kindly, "After you left the diner I made a call the Under Sheriff to expedite the process."

Catherine smiled back, "Thank-you Grissom,"

"Hey you guys went for grub and didn't invite us along!" Warrick pouted.

"I invited Catherine for dinner to talk, as friends, about the past few days. It didn't warrant comments from the peanut gallery."

Greg was shaking his head, smiling like an idiot, "This just keeps getting better and better." He said pulling out his phone. "I told you guys!"

"Told them what exactly?" Catherine asked as Sara tensed against the door frame, ready to bolt.

"I caught them smooching out in the parking lot last night and now Sara has a job, smells a bit fishy don't you think."

Gil looked at Catherine, anger flaring in his eyes. At the diner she said no one knew, that she was 100% certain of that fact. No more than an hour after that Greg is announcing it like its the talk of the town. He could see Catherine doing her best not to either cry or strangle the life out of the Greg who was now jumping around like an idiot. He then looked to Sara who's cheeks were beat red and eyes cast down to the floor in shame.

"Can I see that picture?" Gil asked, holding out his hand as Greg stopped jumping.

"Why?" He asked, suddenly a bit afraid.

"Well, if what you are saying is true, then I need to make sure you have the proof so I can go back to the Under Sheriff and discuss what we can do about Sara."

"Uh, okay," Greg said handing over the phone, "I uh, I didn't get anyone in trouble did I?"

Grissom ignored the bleached blonde lab rat and looked at the picture of Sara and Catherine in a lip lock out by her Tahoe in the parking lot. The picture was date stamped yesterday afternoon when they left the lab together after shift. He was hoping their faces would be blurry, or that Greg didn't really catch the two of them like he thought, but it was a crystal clear picture, from a distance, from inside the front foyer of the building actually. There was no way Catherine or Sara would have known they were being watched.

"Has anyone seen this?" Grissom asked, looking over the phone and back at Greg.

Greg shook his head, "No sir,"

"Perfect," Gil then pressed the trashcan on the screen and watched as the picture disappeared. "Because I don't see a picture on your phone," He stated tossing the phone back at Greg.

"What! No Griss, it's there!" Greg said sifting through his photos seeing it was no longer in his phone.

"You had us going there for a minute Greggo, but no proof no money." Nick said, patting the man on the back, looking at Catherine "True or not, we love you the way you are Cat." He said with a smile heading for the door.

"Welcome to the team Sara." Warrick said as he followed Nick out the door as Sara stepped aside to let them pass.

Greg then quickly ran after them, "Guys I swear it was there! Why would I lie to you?" He called after them in the hall leaving Sara, Catherine and Grissom alone in the break room.

"Did you really delete the picture?" Catherine asked as Sara sat down at the table, trying to make sense of everything.

"You told me no one knew about the two of you." Gil replied, sipping his coffee.

"What you think we lied to you at the diner? We had no clue Greg had a picture, if he really did have one." Sara replied becoming defensive.

"He did, and yes, I deleted it. He was in the front foyer, clear image of you two kissing, but no way either of you would have known he was there."

"Thank-you Grissom," Catherine replied, amazed at how rebellious her friend and colleague was being.

"I didn't picture you as the destroy the evidence type." Sara replied with a smirk as Grissom gave one in return.

"Just do me a favour, moving forward, don't get caught." Gil replied and left the break room.

Catherine joined Sara at the table, letting out a large sigh, "Well, that was close." She remarked, seeing the colour slowly return to Sara's face.

Sara reached across the table and patted Catherine on the arm, "I feel like their will never be a dull moment with you." She said with a smile.

"Entertainment is my specialty, both in and outside the bedroom."

With that Catherine got up and left, leaving Sara alone with a blush set deep into her cheeks.


- Fin


Well fellow readers is this the end of another tale of our favourite characters finding love in a world full of sorrow.

I hope you enjoyed and please leave a review if you so chose. I hope to be writing some new smaller ff on her in the next while to get my creative juices flowing, so if you liked this, check out some of my other work on here and stay tuned for some new stuff!

Thx!

B.