Chapter 6—The Lab

Sara pulled into the parking lot, and Catherine practically jumped out of the car. She walked through the doors Tequila in hand. She walked into one of the elevators, and closed the doors before Sara could catch up to her. "Shit!" Sara yelled, she could here Catherine's faint voice singing "I'm a little tea pot" from the elevator, only it sounded like "I'm a lithle tea pop".

Catherine waltzed through the doors and headed for the breakroom, where she saw Warick getting some coffee. "Hey Warthick! Houth it goin'?" Catherine took a gulp of tequila and plopped herself on the couch.

"Hey Cath, what are you doing here? I thought you were sick? And you realize your wearing Nick's shirt, and you have no shoes?" He was thoroughly confused.

"Yea I put Nick's shirt on after we had sex. But he left without it."

"Oh…umm are you drunk or somethin'?"

"What would make you say that?"

"Well you words are slurring and you have less than half a bottle of tequila in your hand." He took a sip of his coffee.

"Oh, well anyways…do you know where Nick is? Oh my god where did Nick go? Oh my god where the hell is he?

"OK calm down I'll call him" Catherine began to scream.

"WHERE THE HELL IS NICK? I NEED NICK HERE LIKE NOW! OH MY GOD WHERE IS HE?"

Grissom heard Catherine screaming once again and ran towards the breakroom. "What the hell is going on in here?" Catherine turned around and saw Grissom standing there. She ran and tackled him, "YOU SELFISH BASTARD! THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT! HE LEFT ME BECAUSE OF YOU!" Catherine was screaming and punching Grissom when Sara finally ran into the room.

"What the hell?! Someone get her off me!" Sara ran and pulled Catherine off of Grissom. Catherine tried to straighten her hair.

"It's your fault! It's your fault I'm alone!" Catherine fell to the floor and began to cry.

"Hey what's going on in here?" Nick walked into the breakroom and saw Catherine on the floor still in the same clothes when he left her, but now with a Tequila bottle at her side. "What the hell happened in here?" Nick was furious. He glanced at Grissom who was now tending to his black and blue eye. Nick walked over to Catherine's side. "Well? What happened?"

"Well Cath got drunk, and practically forced me to drive her here, and then she ran in the elevator before I could catch up, and when I did get here she was on top of Grissom, beating the shit out of him, she was looking for you Nick." Sara said all of this in one breath.

"Allright shows over. Don't any of you have some evidence to process?"

"Nick's right, let's get to work." Grissom walked out of the breakroom and to his office. Sara and Warrick followed. Nick and Catherine were left alone.