AUTHOR: Amanda Hawthorn

TITLE: Mistletoe and Wine

RATING: PG-13

PAIRING: Grissom/Sara

CATEGORY: fluff/ romance

ARCHIVE: my site anyone who wants it just let me know.

FEEDBACK: Love it, but no flames please I'm fragile!!

EMAIL: southerngirl_uk@yahoo.co.uk

SPOILERS: None

SUMMARY: A cabin, fluff, Christmas…oh and G/S

DISCLAIMER: CSI belongs to CBS and Alliance-Atlantis Productions. No infringement intended.

AUTHORS' NOTES: As always a huge thank you to my online family at Grissom and Sara yahoo group. My wonderful friends: Niff, Shroedy, Alice, Rosa, Marlou and Laura Katharine. I'm blaming this fluffy Christmas offering entirely on Laura Katharine, I fell into her fluff pile and can't seem to get out!!

Thanks also to Clara for updating my site and her friendship. Huge thanks also to Marlou as always for her beta services…

'Mistletoe and Wine' was my mum's favourite Christmas song. She's not with us anymore, but I can almost see her smiling down on me.


 

Grissom looked up when a small tap sounded on his office door. "It's open," he called as he sifted through some extra files that he intended to take home.

"Hey," Catherine smiled as she came into the room, her smile lingering as she regarded him carefully. "So, you all set for your 4 day vacation?"

"Pretty much," he nodded. "I promised my mother that I'd be with her this Christmas. She insisted I stay for more than two days."

"Yeah I know, but what I don't get is why Sara has to take time off too. She always works over Christmas." Catherine came further into the room and huffed as she sank down into one of his chairs.

"Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't she work a double shift on Christmas Eve and Christmas day just so you could spend time with Lindsey?" Grissom watched her reaction carefully as he spoke, waiting for another remark.

"Yeah I know she did, and I'm grateful. It's just…I don't know…"

"Out with it Catherine," stuffing the last file into his case, Grissom waited for her to continue.

"I'm worried about her that's all. She been so down lately, I'm just worried that she's gonna spend the week she has off holed up in her apartment alone, when she could be spending time with her family."

"It's not that easy," he sighed, "but I'm sure she'd appreciate your concern."

"You're not concerned too?" Catherine asked surprised.

"No," he told her, avoiding the angry glare in her eyes.

"Seems she was right about you," Catherine muttered as she stood up to walk towards the door. "Have a good time, don't worry about anything, or anyone, while you're away."

Grissom watched as she snapped the door closed behind her and sank down into his chair. Pissing Catherine off wasn't a major highlight of his day, but necessary for the charade he was playing. Picking up his cell phone, he pressed a speed dial number and placed it to his ear.

"Hi it's me," he smiled. "I'm leaving in a few minutes, you ready?" Hearing a chuckle and the words for hours at the other end of the phone he grinned. "I'll see you soon." Closing the phone, he shoved it in his pocket, grabbed his bag and headed out of the door.

Sara looked at the large suitcase, which was still lying open on her bed. Looking over the items, she double-checked everything before going into her bathroom to retrieve both her own and Grissom's toiletries that they had bagged up earlier that morning. Her heart fluttered with excitement at the thought of spending four long days and nights alone with him. No interruptions, no work getting in their way. Just the two of them.

The sharp rap at the door brought a wave of warmth through her body and she moved swiftly towards the door to pull it open. Her eyes drank in the very essence of the man who had shared her life, her home and her bed for the last three months. Stepping inside the threshold Grissom gathered her into his arms and brought his lips down to hers for a deep smoldering kiss that never failed to make her toes curl.

"Mmm," she hummed against his lips as they slowly pulled away. "I've missed you."

"Me too," he sighed, leaning his forehead to touch hers. "I had to bring on my full acting skills again today."

"Catherine?" she smiled, looking up into his eyes adoringly.

"Yeah, she thinks you're going to be alone." Reaching down to her lips, he kissed her again, his lips lingering over hers possessively. Slowly, they parted. Stepping away to take hold of his hands, Sara squeezed his fingers gently.

"So, where are we going?"

"It's a surprise," he grinned, releasing her hands to walk towards their bedroom. "You packed everything?"

"Yep, you said to pack warm, so I did." Sara followed him into the bedroom and stopped behind him to embrace him from behind. Her fingers opened and spread the expanse of his chest as she leaned in to kiss the back of his neck. "Mmm, just the two of us, alone for four whole days."

Grissom leaned his body into hers and captured her hands as they roamed over his chest. Bringing them up to his lips, he kissed her fingers before turning around in her arms. "Just the two of us," he repeated, leaning down to collect a kiss before retreating away from her body once more. "We'd better think about hitting the road, we've got a three hour drive ahead of us."

"We have?" she asked with a beaming smile. "And here I was thinking that we wouldn't get any further than your house!"

Turning to face her, he answered her with a mock glare that only brought another beaming smile to her lips. Patting his arm, she moved beside him and reached down to zip up the case.

"I love you," he whispered suddenly, his gaze drifting over her body in awe as he spoke. When she turned to face him, he could see the intensity in her eyes and he found himself gulping back a breath before she captured his lips once more. Stepping closer to him, Sara wrapped her arms up around his shoulders to encompass his neck in her possessive embrace.

Opening his mouth beneath hers, he granted her the access she had silently begged for. Unwilling to lose her closeness for one second, he plunged his tongue into her depths, causing her to groan into his mouth as she returned his kiss with equal passion.

Sara's hands began to wander down his chest, her fingers fumbling with the buttons on his shirt. She moaned with their separation as he slowly pulled his lips from hers and covered her hands with his own to still her movements. "Honey we have to stop."

"Grissom." She moaned, her lips seeking his neck to kiss the beckoning skin. Against his better judgment, Grissom tilted his head to grant her access, and found himself losing the fight with his logical brain that still insisted they should be on the road by now. Silencing the thoughts, he allowed himself to be overtaken by the feelings he could feel raging throughout his body and meet the woman who had enticed them head on. Finding her lips, he crushed his mouth to hers, causing them to topple over onto the bed where every other thought disintegrated into the swirling passion that surrounded them.

Lying in a tangled heap, Sara leaned up on one elbow to gaze down at the man she loved. "I guess we got a little distracted again." Her eyes roamed over his sweat glistened body and smiled.

"A little?" he grinned, reaching up to trace her lips with his fingers. "You are amazing."

"So are you," she whispered, leaning down to kiss his cheek tenderly. "I love you, you know that, don't you?"

"I know," he nodded, his eyes glazing over with an abundance of liquid emotion that never failed to erupt whenever she spoke those words. Every time she spoke of their love was like hearing it for the first time, and that feeling intensified over and over.

"Come on sweetie," she beamed, kissing his lips before rolling out of the bed. "We'd better start getting ready to leave." 

TBC…