Title: Back To You 3/?

Rating: PG-13 to be safe

A/N: Thanks so much to Kelly for beta-ing, and thanks to everybody for their reviews, they're very much appreciated!

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Back To You 3/?

Grissom walked into the brightly lit room, with the sunshine pouring in the window. Catherine was neatly tucked between the sheets of the oversized bed. She looked so helpless lying there, her pale complexion matched with the soft tones on the walls.

'It's now or never' he thought to himself.

"Hi Catherine," he said as he pulled a chair up to her bedside.

He thought about what he was going to say, slouched over in the chair still wearing his wrinkled clothes from the night before.

He didn't know how to say it. All of a sudden his emotions erupted "Damnit Cath, I've never been good with emotions, or telling people how I feel and I don't know if you can hear me but I have to tell you this."

He sighed trying to relax a bit, and then began to let his emotions flow freely.

"When you're around its like nothing else matters, like it's just us." He began. "We've been working together for a long time, and I've tried masking my feelings, I've wanted to tell you how I've felt for so long but I didn't want to ruin our friendship. I don't think I could bear not having you in my life."

"We see each other everyday and I think that's what kept me from seeing what was right in front of me," he paused, taking a breath.

They had worked together for a long time, and as much as he didn't want to ruin what they had, he couldn't ignore the fact that they had something special, something more than just friendship. He had hidden the truth from himself for long enough, and he sure as hell wasn't going to let her get away.

"But, the truth is. I love you"

Grissom felt a huge weight lifted off her shoulders. He had finally gotten it out in the open, even if she couldn't hear him with her ears, maybe her heart could. Saying it the first time had freed him and nothing was going to keep him from saying it over and over again.

With a new sense of confidence at the rightness of his words and feelings he continued, "I love everything about you. The way you laugh, the way you smile, the color you turn when you get embarrassed, and the way you care about everybody around you.

His voice took on a reverence in its tone as his heart begged her to hear him. "You, Catherine Willows are an amazing woman. You're caring and sensitive, and god knows everything anybody would want in a woman. You are the sunshine on my rainy days, and you're the reason I get up in the morning. I love you; I can't imagine my life without you in it. Please come back to me, I need you."

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