Chapter 6



I woke up and felt the sunlight splash across my face. Gil was watching me with an amused grin on his face. 'What are you looking at?'


'You.'


'Do I really look that bad?'


'Your beautiful.'


'We better get up before Lindsey does. Come on I'll make coffee.' We lazily made our way into the kitchen and I started the coffee pot. I sat down at eh table and Gil sat next to me.


'Do you think that Lindsey wouldn't like me being with you all the time?'


'No Gil. Lindsey loves you, you're a father to her.'


'You have no idea what that means to me.' He softly kissed my lips. Then I heard giggling. There stood Lindsey with her jammies still on. 'Think it's funny?'


'Yeah grose!' She laughed some more and put some bread in the toaster.


'Linds I'll be here when you come from school. If I'm not going to be here I'll either call the school to tell you to go to your Aunt's house, or I'll have Uncle Warrick be here.' I told her.


'Ok. So did you see Tom last night?'


'Ummmmm.'


'How could you miss him! Come on! Pea green is Tom when he was younger.' Gil still looked confused. 'Pea Green the little boy who was screaming "I'm going to be milked! I'm going to be milked!"' She ran around in a circle while waving her arms around. 'How could you miss that? It was the best part!'


'Oh yes, umm Pea Green. The curly red headed boy.'


'Exactly!' She said as she spread some butter on her toast, then folded it in half. 'I knew that you would understand.' She walked out of the room.


'I'm surprised that you remember.' I tapped him on the head the poured us each a cup of coffee.



'Yeah so am I. So what do you want to do today?'


'I don't know.'


'How about I help you clean the house?'


'I still can't believe that you want to clean my house.' I shook my head.


'It'll be fun.'


'Cleaning is never fun.'


'I'll make it fun.'


'You make cleaning fun and I'll make you dinner.' He kissed me then smiled.


'It's a bet then.' I got up and stood behind Gil and started kissing the back of his neck. He turned and pulled me down on top of him. I laughed. 'When do you want to start this project?'


'Never.' He looked seriously at me. 'How about after Lindsey leaves for school?' I ran my hand threw his salt and pepper curls.


'When's that?' He ran his hand over my stomach.


'Whenever the bus gets here.' I laid my head on him.


'Lets go into the living room, and see her off.' I stood up and he followed me into the living room. He ran his hand down my back. I sat on the couch and laid my head on his lap. He ran his hand threw my hair and put a arm around me middle. 'So what are you going to make me for dinner tonight?'


'What makes you think your going to win?'


'Well lets see I am going to win, just because I'm saying so.'


'Well if you win I'll make you some spaghetti.'


'Sounds good to me.' He bent down and kissed me softly on the lips.


'Mom, uncle Grissom I'm leaving.' Lindsey shouted as she walked into the living room. I sat up on the couch. Lindsey came over to me and hugged me.


'Have fun at school sweetie.' I told her.


'I'll try.' She smiled then hugged Gill. She then walked out the door with a slight bounce in her step.




'She hugged me good bye.' Gil said sort of surprised.


'Well yeah, Your hugs are great.'


'Yes and now we get to clean.' Gil stood up and I wrapped my legs around him.


'Gill.' I pleaded with him.


'Yes.' He kissed me, then stood me up.


We started in the living room. Vacuuming the rugs, dusting, washing the mirror, putting clothes into the washing machine, and just cleaned it really well. There was a surpriseing three bags of garbage from just that room.


The kitchen and dining room wasn't that hard. But when we waxed the kitchen floor I fell flat on my ass. I just burst out into a fit of laughter. Gil came over to me and knelt besides me.


'Cat, are you ok?' He looked so concerned.


'I'm fine. I'm just being the klutz that I am.'


'Come on lets go to the bedroom.' He helped me off the floor and I rubbed my hand over my backside.


'Gil I just fell, I don't want to have sex with you right now.'


'It's time to clean your room now.'


We walked to my room, I sat on my bed and was going to fold the clothes. But instead we deiced on making the bed first. I then sat back down and the bed and started to fold the clothes around me. Gil was throwing me clothes that I had in my dresser that needed folding. Then he stopped for a second and walked over to me.


'Didn't know that you still kept all of these.' Gil dangled a black thong with a matching string top.


'Yeah, I just haven't thrown them away yet. Don't know why I've kept them. I mean even when I stopped stripping ans became a CSI I was still with Eddie. So I would wear them for him sometimes. But after we spilt, I stopped I guess I figured that if Eddie ever came back - We'll he didn't, instead he got himself killed.' Gil kissed me then held me close.


'I love you. So stop worrying about Eddie and all the pain. Just concentrate on what you have now.'


'Did you just say that you love me?'


'Yes Cat, I love you.' I hugged him even tighter and he looked at me. Then ran his thumb over my eyes. I was crying and I didn't even know it. 'What's wrong?'


'I love you too.' I kissed him and fell back onto the bed. He started sucking on my bottom lip, then his phone rang.


'Dammit.' He took his phone and stood up. 'Grissom.' He started pacing back and forth. 'OK, OK, give me twenty minutes.' He hung up his phone then looked really sad and let out a long sigh.


'You got to go in.'


'I'm sorry hun.'


'It's ok. You're the job.'


'I'll call you sometime before next shift starts.' He kissed me one last time before leaving. I traced my hands over my swollen lips.