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Chapter 11: Love takes it's course
"Jonathan could you please take me to Catherine's" Grissom asked, since he haven't been there.
Jonathan nodded with a grin. "I'm giving everyone a vacation!" Grissom shouted as he hoped in the car.
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"Something is not right" Catherine told herself as she paced back and forth in the living room.
'Oh come on Catherine, you have both decided that you are both better off not together! But hey it wouldn't hurt to at least give him one last hug as a friend right?' she thought
"Mom, why don't we just go after him?" said Lindsey breaking Catherine's reverie.
"Huh? Uh- what..??"
"Come one mom, let's just go after uncle Gil! You love him, I love him, he loves you, he loves me we can be a happy family!"
Catherine sighed, she slumped to the couch and hugged her daughter, "Linds, it's not that easy you know."
"But it isn't that complicated either." Said Lindsey, times like these Catherine asks why her child has to have very good reasoning skills.
DING DONG! The doorbell rang even before Catherine could answer her daughter back.
"I'd get it." Said Lindsey as she jumped out of her sit with a frown.
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Grissom jumped out of the car as soon as it stopped. He rang the bell and was greeted with a little blonde girl.
"Uncle GIL!" Lindsey greeted, she jumped up and down before hoping in Grissom's arms.
Catherine stood up from her sit when she heard Lindsey shrieked.
"Uh. Gil. What are you doing here?"
"I believe the love of my life lives here."
Lindsey giggled. As Grissom placed her down, she ran to the kitchen to give her mother and Grissom some privacy.
Grissom and Catherine's gazes locked, no one dared to start speaking. Both have no idea where to start.
"I, I - I thought we have agreed the last time that we uh spoke." Catherine stammered.
"We did" was all that Grissom said. He walked closer towards Catherine, Catherine took a step back, confused to what's Grissom is trying to say.
"And now?" she looked at him with a puzzled look.
"Now I still believe that fate made us meet again. To have closure. To have closure to the past so we can have a brand new start... TOGETHER." Grissom gave a little smile and took another step forward; again Catherine took a step back.
"I don't understand" said Catherine confused.
"You said fate probably brought us back together to have closure. I say we've been looking at this the wrong way." Again Grissom took one step forward and Catherine made one step back without loosing her eyes on Grissom.
"You're saying this because....??"
"Because I love you." He took one step forward.
"Gil, we are going around and around here!" she took one step back.
"Did you know that fate used serendipity just to make me realize"
"Fate used serendipity? What are you talking about? what did you realize?"
"That we're being stupid." She took another step back.
Catherine gave her a very confused look. Grissom smirked on Catherine's face expression, he's never – ever, seen her this confused before.
He took two steps forward; Catherine is now trapped between Grissom and the wall.
"A year ago I bought you a gift, but then you were absent that night so I decided to wait till the next night and thought that, that would be a better time so I could muster up enough courage. The next night I came looking for you but instead I saw a letter on top of my desk.
After that I seem to have forgotten about the present I bought you. When I was at the airport I changed my coat and when I placed my hand inside the pocket, there it is." Grissom said, he reached for his pocket and took out a small black box. He opened the box to reveal a diamond engagement ring, he bended his one knee and knelt. He looked up at Catherine and said with all his heart, "I love you Catherine Willows. Marry me."
Catherine wasn't sure what to say, she was speechless for a minute before she was able to talk again and reasoned, "But we haven't been together for a whole year"
"But I never stopped loving you. I have loved you for 21 years including that year that we were apart."
"Gil please stand up!" she said as she moved side ways, she slid her way out of where she was cornered by the wall and Grissom, to avoid the very close proximity she had with him.
Grissom stood up, and looked at her. She paced back and forth a little confused.
"Catherine- - "
"A lot of things have changed about me and you, what if it doesn't work out?" she asked
Grissom walked over to her, he knelt again this time he held her hands and looked deep into her blue eyes.
"The only change that happen to me is that I love you more today than yesterday... if that is even possible!"
Catherine stared at him, letting the words sink in as she looked into his eyes and just like a flash all of the doubts in her mind vanished. She smiled with tears in her eyes and stepped nearer to him. She knelt and embraced him. She held his face and brushed her lips to him. "Is that a yes?" Grissom asked between kisses.
Catherine smiled, while her tears kept pouring; she playfully slapped him on the arm and nodded in haste. She wanted to say a lot of things but it's seems like she has lost her voice.
They both stood up with him holding her hands, he placed the ring on her finger. Catherine smiled and looked at him. They both smiled, she wrapped him in a tight embrace.
She looked up and their eyes met again, though both of them have blurry eyes caused by the tears, the love in their eyes are still visible. Grissom's arms around Catherine's waist tightened he pulled her nearer to him, her arms still around his neck she pulled his head towards her and they started to kiss passionately. They both got lost into each other that it took them time to realize that they are being watched; they heard giggles and gasp.
When they turned their heads to see where the noise was coming from they saw Lindsey giggling and is carried by Jonathan who looks so proud and is standing right next to Greg whose mouth is wide open and arms are lying in Jim Brass' shoulder who is smiling at them and is standing beside Nick who has a big smile on his face and arms are wrapped around a tearful Sara who is standing right next to a smirking Warrick.
Amused with everyone's expression, Catherine asked, "How long have you guys been standing there?"
"We just arrived, right in time to catch the 'I love you more today than yesterday ' part!" answered Warrick.
"Jeez boss, I didn't know you could be that romantic!" Greg commented.
Jonathan chuckled. Catherine eyed him, she raised eye brow and asked, "And you?"
"Well I came in here with everybody else. But I did heard enough to almost want to kick your ass for a minute there." Jonathan teased.
He entered thru the back door and has been in the kitchen the whole time. He and Lindsey have heard everything and both of them has also been wanting to shout 'Damn it Catherine! Say Yes! Say Yes!' after hearing all the doubts that Catherine have stated.
Grissom laughed with Jonathan's statement. He then glanced at Catherine, his arms are still wrapped around her and her other hand is also wrapped around him; her head is resting in his chest.
"Oh god, I could never appreciate any romantic movie after this!" Sara commented as she wiped a tear from her eye.
Everybody chuckled and giggled.
"Could you guys please untangle yourselves for a minute, I would really want to give a certain lady whom I haven't seen for a year a hug!" said Jim.
Catherine moved away from Grissom to give Jim a hug. "I guess this means I'll have to stay at a hotel huh?"
"No! I invited you here so you're staying at my place." Said Catherine
"As much as I would love too, I don't think it's proper to interrupt you love birds. Besides I don't want to spend a week watching the two of you make out and hear you doing...somethin!" Jim said
Catherine playfully whacked him in the arm. "Tell you what, since it's a Friday, why don't you and Gil just spend the weekend together, I'd be back to visit you on Sunday night."
"I'd just take Lindsey with me, she could stay with me and Charlotte for the week end. Besides Charlotte took the week end on leave." Jonathan offered.
"Are you sure?"
"Oh come on! I'd want to spend some more time with Lindsey I have a feeling I wouldn't be seeing you guys as often after this. Besides Linds is like a daughter to me, and Charlotte loves her more that she loves me!"
Lindsey giggled. "I'd go get my stuff!" said Lindsey as she ran up and was followed by Greg.
Grissom walked towards Catherine and placed his hand around her.
"We still have to talk on the dates of your vacation leave" he stated at the three CSI's
"But we want to spend time with Cath!" the three CSI's whined.
"No need to worry! I'd be back to Vegas anyway!" Catherine replied. Grissom made her face him and asked in a low voice, "Are you sure your ready to let go of your life here?"
"You and Linds are my life Gil. Besides, I thought you said we'd have a brand new start!" Catherine replied with a smile. And again they enveloped in a kiss.
"Couldn't you guys wait till we go?!" said Jonathan
"Hurry up!" Catherine and Grissom replied in unison.
"It's really good thing I ask the cab to wait!" said Nick
"You did?" asked Sara
"I had a feeling something like this would happen!" Nick replied
Jonathan gave Catherine a hug and placed his arm around Grissom to talk to him, "If you ever hurt Cath... I'll haunt you down!"
"That would never happen" Grissom assured him.
Catherine and Gil kissed Lindsey good-bye and watched them leave as they waved them all goodbye.
"Now that we are all alone..." Grissom trailed off as he placed feather kisses on Catherine's face. Catherine giggled.
She threw her arms around him, she looked deep into his eyes, sighed and said, "21 years Gil, we have been waiting for 21 years."
"No use on looking back now when we have our whole life ahead of us." He replied as he carried her and swept her away from the floor.
Catherine giggled, she looked at Gil her hands travelled at his chest then she remembered that he was shot, "Is your wound healing?"
"The moment you said yes it healed"
"No Grissom! Not that wound!"
"Oh! Well, I wouldn't be flying of to Vegas if it hasn't!"
They gazed at each other for a moment, until Grissom started walking up the stairs.
"I love you Mr. Gil Grissom"
"And I love you Mrs. Catherine Grissom"
"Well, someone's excited to marry me!"
"Like I'm the only one!"
Catherine pulled Grissom to her as she closed her bedroom door.
-END-
Oh well, another happy ending. sighs I hope you liked my fic. I just hope my fics aren't too mushy! I just hope you enjoyed reading the whole thing.
Another sigh this is actually the first fic I've written and finished with more that one chapter!!
Spoiler: doubt it!
Feedback: please please please!!!
A/N: Oh well... this is the end... hope you would all like and enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it!
Chapter 11: Love takes it's course
"Jonathan could you please take me to Catherine's" Grissom asked, since he haven't been there.
Jonathan nodded with a grin. "I'm giving everyone a vacation!" Grissom shouted as he hoped in the car.
-----
"Something is not right" Catherine told herself as she paced back and forth in the living room.
'Oh come on Catherine, you have both decided that you are both better off not together! But hey it wouldn't hurt to at least give him one last hug as a friend right?' she thought
"Mom, why don't we just go after him?" said Lindsey breaking Catherine's reverie.
"Huh? Uh- what..??"
"Come one mom, let's just go after uncle Gil! You love him, I love him, he loves you, he loves me we can be a happy family!"
Catherine sighed, she slumped to the couch and hugged her daughter, "Linds, it's not that easy you know."
"But it isn't that complicated either." Said Lindsey, times like these Catherine asks why her child has to have very good reasoning skills.
DING DONG! The doorbell rang even before Catherine could answer her daughter back.
"I'd get it." Said Lindsey as she jumped out of her sit with a frown.
-----
Grissom jumped out of the car as soon as it stopped. He rang the bell and was greeted with a little blonde girl.
"Uncle GIL!" Lindsey greeted, she jumped up and down before hoping in Grissom's arms.
Catherine stood up from her sit when she heard Lindsey shrieked.
"Uh. Gil. What are you doing here?"
"I believe the love of my life lives here."
Lindsey giggled. As Grissom placed her down, she ran to the kitchen to give her mother and Grissom some privacy.
Grissom and Catherine's gazes locked, no one dared to start speaking. Both have no idea where to start.
"I, I - I thought we have agreed the last time that we uh spoke." Catherine stammered.
"We did" was all that Grissom said. He walked closer towards Catherine, Catherine took a step back, confused to what's Grissom is trying to say.
"And now?" she looked at him with a puzzled look.
"Now I still believe that fate made us meet again. To have closure. To have closure to the past so we can have a brand new start... TOGETHER." Grissom gave a little smile and took another step forward; again Catherine took a step back.
"I don't understand" said Catherine confused.
"You said fate probably brought us back together to have closure. I say we've been looking at this the wrong way." Again Grissom took one step forward and Catherine made one step back without loosing her eyes on Grissom.
"You're saying this because....??"
"Because I love you." He took one step forward.
"Gil, we are going around and around here!" she took one step back.
"Did you know that fate used serendipity just to make me realize"
"Fate used serendipity? What are you talking about? what did you realize?"
"That we're being stupid." She took another step back.
Catherine gave her a very confused look. Grissom smirked on Catherine's face expression, he's never – ever, seen her this confused before.
He took two steps forward; Catherine is now trapped between Grissom and the wall.
"A year ago I bought you a gift, but then you were absent that night so I decided to wait till the next night and thought that, that would be a better time so I could muster up enough courage. The next night I came looking for you but instead I saw a letter on top of my desk.
After that I seem to have forgotten about the present I bought you. When I was at the airport I changed my coat and when I placed my hand inside the pocket, there it is." Grissom said, he reached for his pocket and took out a small black box. He opened the box to reveal a diamond engagement ring, he bended his one knee and knelt. He looked up at Catherine and said with all his heart, "I love you Catherine Willows. Marry me."
Catherine wasn't sure what to say, she was speechless for a minute before she was able to talk again and reasoned, "But we haven't been together for a whole year"
"But I never stopped loving you. I have loved you for 21 years including that year that we were apart."
"Gil please stand up!" she said as she moved side ways, she slid her way out of where she was cornered by the wall and Grissom, to avoid the very close proximity she had with him.
Grissom stood up, and looked at her. She paced back and forth a little confused.
"Catherine- - "
"A lot of things have changed about me and you, what if it doesn't work out?" she asked
Grissom walked over to her, he knelt again this time he held her hands and looked deep into her blue eyes.
"The only change that happen to me is that I love you more today than yesterday... if that is even possible!"
Catherine stared at him, letting the words sink in as she looked into his eyes and just like a flash all of the doubts in her mind vanished. She smiled with tears in her eyes and stepped nearer to him. She knelt and embraced him. She held his face and brushed her lips to him. "Is that a yes?" Grissom asked between kisses.
Catherine smiled, while her tears kept pouring; she playfully slapped him on the arm and nodded in haste. She wanted to say a lot of things but it's seems like she has lost her voice.
They both stood up with him holding her hands, he placed the ring on her finger. Catherine smiled and looked at him. They both smiled, she wrapped him in a tight embrace.
She looked up and their eyes met again, though both of them have blurry eyes caused by the tears, the love in their eyes are still visible. Grissom's arms around Catherine's waist tightened he pulled her nearer to him, her arms still around his neck she pulled his head towards her and they started to kiss passionately. They both got lost into each other that it took them time to realize that they are being watched; they heard giggles and gasp.
When they turned their heads to see where the noise was coming from they saw Lindsey giggling and is carried by Jonathan who looks so proud and is standing right next to Greg whose mouth is wide open and arms are lying in Jim Brass' shoulder who is smiling at them and is standing beside Nick who has a big smile on his face and arms are wrapped around a tearful Sara who is standing right next to a smirking Warrick.
Amused with everyone's expression, Catherine asked, "How long have you guys been standing there?"
"We just arrived, right in time to catch the 'I love you more today than yesterday ' part!" answered Warrick.
"Jeez boss, I didn't know you could be that romantic!" Greg commented.
Jonathan chuckled. Catherine eyed him, she raised eye brow and asked, "And you?"
"Well I came in here with everybody else. But I did heard enough to almost want to kick your ass for a minute there." Jonathan teased.
He entered thru the back door and has been in the kitchen the whole time. He and Lindsey have heard everything and both of them has also been wanting to shout 'Damn it Catherine! Say Yes! Say Yes!' after hearing all the doubts that Catherine have stated.
Grissom laughed with Jonathan's statement. He then glanced at Catherine, his arms are still wrapped around her and her other hand is also wrapped around him; her head is resting in his chest.
"Oh god, I could never appreciate any romantic movie after this!" Sara commented as she wiped a tear from her eye.
Everybody chuckled and giggled.
"Could you guys please untangle yourselves for a minute, I would really want to give a certain lady whom I haven't seen for a year a hug!" said Jim.
Catherine moved away from Grissom to give Jim a hug. "I guess this means I'll have to stay at a hotel huh?"
"No! I invited you here so you're staying at my place." Said Catherine
"As much as I would love too, I don't think it's proper to interrupt you love birds. Besides I don't want to spend a week watching the two of you make out and hear you doing...somethin!" Jim said
Catherine playfully whacked him in the arm. "Tell you what, since it's a Friday, why don't you and Gil just spend the weekend together, I'd be back to visit you on Sunday night."
"I'd just take Lindsey with me, she could stay with me and Charlotte for the week end. Besides Charlotte took the week end on leave." Jonathan offered.
"Are you sure?"
"Oh come on! I'd want to spend some more time with Lindsey I have a feeling I wouldn't be seeing you guys as often after this. Besides Linds is like a daughter to me, and Charlotte loves her more that she loves me!"
Lindsey giggled. "I'd go get my stuff!" said Lindsey as she ran up and was followed by Greg.
Grissom walked towards Catherine and placed his hand around her.
"We still have to talk on the dates of your vacation leave" he stated at the three CSI's
"But we want to spend time with Cath!" the three CSI's whined.
"No need to worry! I'd be back to Vegas anyway!" Catherine replied. Grissom made her face him and asked in a low voice, "Are you sure your ready to let go of your life here?"
"You and Linds are my life Gil. Besides, I thought you said we'd have a brand new start!" Catherine replied with a smile. And again they enveloped in a kiss.
"Couldn't you guys wait till we go?!" said Jonathan
"Hurry up!" Catherine and Grissom replied in unison.
"It's really good thing I ask the cab to wait!" said Nick
"You did?" asked Sara
"I had a feeling something like this would happen!" Nick replied
Jonathan gave Catherine a hug and placed his arm around Grissom to talk to him, "If you ever hurt Cath... I'll haunt you down!"
"That would never happen" Grissom assured him.
Catherine and Gil kissed Lindsey good-bye and watched them leave as they waved them all goodbye.
"Now that we are all alone..." Grissom trailed off as he placed feather kisses on Catherine's face. Catherine giggled.
She threw her arms around him, she looked deep into his eyes, sighed and said, "21 years Gil, we have been waiting for 21 years."
"No use on looking back now when we have our whole life ahead of us." He replied as he carried her and swept her away from the floor.
Catherine giggled, she looked at Gil her hands travelled at his chest then she remembered that he was shot, "Is your wound healing?"
"The moment you said yes it healed"
"No Grissom! Not that wound!"
"Oh! Well, I wouldn't be flying of to Vegas if it hasn't!"
They gazed at each other for a moment, until Grissom started walking up the stairs.
"I love you Mr. Gil Grissom"
"And I love you Mrs. Catherine Grissom"
"Well, someone's excited to marry me!"
"Like I'm the only one!"
Catherine pulled Grissom to her as she closed her bedroom door.
-END-
Oh well, another happy ending. sighs I hope you liked my fic. I just hope my fics aren't too mushy! I just hope you enjoyed reading the whole thing.
Another sigh this is actually the first fic I've written and finished with more that one chapter!!