THE VISIT

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GRISSOM: "Mom, you know I'll be there... I always come"

GRISSOM'S MOTHER: "bla...bla...bla..."

GRISSOM: "but I.."

GRISSOM'S MOTHER: "bla...bla...bla..."

GRISSOM: "OK, OK! see you later!" ~click~

Grissom put the phone back, he shook his head as he did. He hasn't seen his mother for about a year and now the trouble's coming again.

He loves his mother. No doubt about that. It just... there's always one thing that bother him every time he has to come visit her (at least for the past 10 years).

He sat on the couch for about five minutes, thinking who... who will... ~beep..beep..~ all the sudden he came back to the real world, checked his beeper... It was Nick, he wondered where Grissom is, since it's already 8.10, and the CSI should have a meeting run 10 minutes ago. "Damn!" he thought. Grissom quickly got out of his house and drove to CSI.

Everything after the meeting went well until about almost lunch time when Grissom remember that he should visit his mother next Tuesday. "Aahhh..." he thought.

"Gris, how about lunch at Denny's?" Catherine showed up in his office entrance.

"Uh..um.. OK" he said

~at Denny's~

CATHERINE: "Gris, what's wrong?...came to the office late, so much unfocus on the meeting, you know, it's so not you.."

"I... I have to see my mother next week" Grissom spoke hopelessly...

"Yea, so.. what's the.."

"Cath, come with me to Sacramento, please"

"..hah?!"

"My mother lives in Sacramento"

"I know about that.. I mean, why should I come with you?"

"that..uh..um.. she wants me to come with.. um.. a friend, a girlfriend. Cath, do you have time, really.. I need you, my mother.. she... it's her birthday, she has this "little party" every year...last year, I came alone and she gave me this speech all evening that made me headache for a week!"

Catherine couldn't help but laugh..

"Oh Cath, please... it's really torturing me, I don't know what else to do... you.. we can pretend that you're the love of my life... help your poor friend??"

"I... hey! how about that Terry girl? You can call her.."

"Cath, I can't call her, you know that."

"Well.. OK, I will help you, you owe me one Gil Grissom!"

"Oh, thank you Cath! You're the best!"

~~~to be continued~~~