Chapter 7—What the Hell Happened?
Nick bent to Catherine's level, and handed her a tissue. "What the hell happened in here?" She was still crying, staring at the floor. She shrugged. "Come on Cath, nothing has stopped you from talking to me before."
"You really want to know?" She looked up and met his gaze. Her eyes were puffy, her makeup was all streaked and her hair was messy.
"Yea I do," he put is hand on her back and started to rub it.
"Well I got drunk, told Sara to bring me here, and then I flipped out on Grissom, and then you walked in and then I fell to the floor, and now here we are."
"Oh, why exactly did you beat the shit out of Grissom?"
"I blamed him for you leaving me. I blamed him because I didn't want to blame myself. I'm really sorry Nick. I'm gonna go and take my truck home. Lindsay is coming home from Eddie's today." She wiped her nose with a Kleenex and began to get up from the floor.
"Cath let me take you home, you're still drunk and it's not safe for you to drive. I'll call Grissom from the car."
"Ok" she smiled wearily and leaned into him as he helped her leave the CSI lab.
"Well at least their not fighting anymore" Sara said as she peaked out Grissom's office window and saw Nick and Catherine hugging.
~Nick's Car~
"You gonna be all right over there Cath, you look like your gonna be sick?"
"Yeah umm, I'll be fine…no wait pull over!" Nick quickly swerved to the side of the road. Catherine opened her car down and jumped out of the truck and bent over behind a bush. Nick could hear the sounds of Catherine throwing up. He got out and went to her side.
"You ok?" he pulled a tissue out of his pocket and handed it to her.
"Thanks, I'll be OK. Wait hold that thought." Catherine bent over to throw up again.
"Ok…let's get you home." Nick put his arm around her waist and put her arm around his shoulder. Her knees began to buckle from under her. So he swept her up into his arms.
"Wow you're strong."
"Wow you're still drunk"
"Yea…" she sighed "drunk on you." He smiled and brought her to his truck and put her in the backseat so that she could lie down and drove once again to her house.