(disclaimer, spoiler.. see prev chaps)

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Chapter 5: Pretend it never happened

November 1982

"Mandy you're with Gil and Catherine. Oh, no, no, no, Gladys take Mandy and Ecklie with you, I'll take Catherine and Rick with me, and Marc you're with Gil." Jim gave the assignments as they all walk down the corridor.

"And I thought I could work with Gil and Cath!" Mandy said with a frown. Mandy is one of those wacky and hopeless romantic people, she's been watching the development of Catherine and Grissom's relationship, it's not that she's the only one watching it's just that she's the only one who finds it enthralling and just loves it as if she's watching her favorite love team in the most romantic film of the century.

"Speaking of Gil and Cath, where are they?" Rick asked as he looked around and didn't see either of them.

"Probably in the break room" Gladys said.

All of them walked towards the break room, as they were about to enter they all froze to their position with jaws dropping.

Catherine is tightly wrapped within Grissom's arms and is passionately kissing oblivious that the whole night shift is staring at them.

Grissom felt eyes staring at him, he opened his eyes and slightly backed away and saw his co workers watching and smirking at them. Catherine cringed when she realized that people have been staring at them.

"When?" Mandy's curiosity rose.

"Uh. Two nights ago." Catherine muttered.

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Catherine sighed as she kept on reading the new findings on her case; she's on her way to the DNA lab.

As she reached the lab and found it empty she couldn't help but smile when a scene from two decades ago started to play out.

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January 1983

Catherine entered an empty DNA lab, she was about to leave but then Gil entered the room and closed the door.

Catherine's eyebrow quirked as she stared at the mischievous grin her boyfriend is wearing.

"Hello beautiful"

"Hi handsome" Catherine smirked as Grissom walked towards her; his hand snaked around her waist and pulled her to him. Their lips met; her hands slowly went around his neck. They both savored the moment of being alone until ...

"Jesus Christ! I just turn my head and you disappear! Gil, can't you really stand an hour or two without sneaking out to see Catherine?!!" Marc's pissed off tone vibrated through the whole room.

"No. I can't" Grissom jested which caused Marc to roll his eyes and Catherine to chuckle.

Grissom gave Catherine a wink before following Marc out the lab.

"Hey hon!"

Catherine called out so Grissom looked back, Catherine just grinned at him.

Grissom sighed realizing Catherine called for his attention just to smile at him, "See you later Cathie!"

Catherine giggled as she threw him a flying kiss.

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Catherine sighed and muttered, "Those were the days" as she entered the break room.

"Hey Cath!"

Catherine acknowledged the greetings of the three younger CSI's.

"So, have you found anything?" Catherine asked pertaining to the case.

"It was pretty messy there but we found a lot of things." Said Sara

"Like what?"

"Like shells, an old photo album oh and a bunch of cards which is similar to the ones attached to flowers, anyways all of it basically has the same content. To: Cathie, I love you. From: Gil." Nick answered.

Catherine was about to leave the room not wanting where she thinks the conversation is going.

"Umm. Cath." Warrick stopped her before she could get out.

"What happened?" Warrick inquired.

"There are things you'd rather think never happened and never talk about it." Catherine answered without turning to face Warrick.

"So what, you can stand working with him for years but you can't accept what happened or forget about it??" Sara asked incredulously

This time Catherine turned to face the three. "When you intentionally forget about something it means you are aware it happened but you'd rather not think about it, in my case I choose to think that it never did happen, and you know what it did worked for the past twenty years, it worked until ...."

"Why?" Nick inquired.

"Coz sometimes when something is too perfect and it has to end it hurts so much that you can never forget about it. You can't forget about it coz it's hard to accept so all you're left to do is to think and to pretend that it really never did happen, or else you will be left with as much pain and regret as you can ever attain in this lifetime."

TBC

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