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(disclaimer.. spoilers - see prev chaps)
Chapter 7 : Another room
It has been days and there is still no lead on the case, the team is becoming more frustrated and tends to forget to rest and eat.
Catherine entered the lay out room she found Sara sitting on the chair reading the case file intently over and over again. Warrick on the opposite chair is reviewing the evidences and photos while Nick is obviously in deep thoughts. All of them were oblivious to her presence but it was not oblivious to Catherine that the three have not eaten and had a proper rest since God knows when.
"Nick, Warrick, Sara" Catherine called in a high tone which startled all three.
"You! You and You! Drop everything you're doing and follow me" Catherine commanded.
Catherine led the three in the break room; she served them with every thing inside the fridge.
"When was the last time you guys had a proper meal?" Catherine asked after serving the food and settling herself on one of the chairs, none of the three younger CSI's dared to answer.
Catherine sighed then asked, "Okay well, when was the last time you guys went home?"
"I was home last night"
"Me too"
"And me."
The three defensively replied, Catherine is skeptical, "And by that I shall hope that that would mean you all got eight hours of sleep."
Sara, Nick and Warrick all glanced at each other.
"Oh Jeez! Guys, please stop torturing yourselves!"
"We are not torturing ourselves" Nick replied
"We can't stop, we need to solve this case" said Sara
"Look, I know that this case is priority, I know we all want to clear Grissom's name but you can't just forget yourselves! How in the world do you think you could solve this case with sleepy eyes and starving stomach?"
Grissom is sitting inside his car parked right outside of the CSI building; he has not been there for a week and a half now. Those days that he didn't have work, he had a lot of time to think, think not about an insect, a case, a victim or what so ever but to think of himself, of his life.
He is holding in his hands a white envelope which inside contains the letter where the biggest decision of his career life in written down. His letter of resignation.
As Grissom entered the building on his way to the director's office he saw the glimpse of that strawberry blonde's hair and he just couldn't help himself from peeking inside the break room. The first week of his absence, Catherine has seen to it to drop by everyday but this past days she has not even gave him a call.
"How do you do it?" Nick asked
"Do what?"
"Be always independent, strong. Don't you ever get tired? Pressured?"
"I always do you just don't see it"
"Really?" Nick asked disbelievingly
"Yea, go ask Warrick" Catherine glanced at the man sitting beside Nick. Catherine has always been very close to him, he has always been there, and he has seen her on the low points of her lives ... ever since that accident with Holy Gibbs' death, Warrick has taken the new leaf of making sure that she is safe.
"You know it's really hard; to always be independent, to always stand still." Sara said based from her own experience
"It's even harder when you're a single mother and has a murdering millionaire as a father." Warrick commented as he glanced back at Catherine.
"That's why I have Gil." Said Catherine with a smile, this statement has left the three in puzzlement.
"Well, when things are too tough, when it's so hard to stand still, I take a break, I lean on something ... I lean on him."
After hearing this statement Grissom turned away and left. He started the ignition of his car and crumpled his letter of resignation, he couldn't do it...
He couldn't leave
He couldn't leave her.
Grissom is now parked a few meters away the house which became part of his unforgettable past.
He has gained a lot of beautiful memories, beautiful and happy memories.
Memories which he tried to forget over the past years ....
Memories that make him smile at first but in the end makes him not only sad....
But pained ....
Empty.
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August 1983
"Gil ... "
"Hmm??"
"This isn't the way neither to your place nor mine"
"I know"
"Where are we going?"
There was no reply. Catherine kept on nudging him to tell her where they are going but he chose to keep his mouth shut which only made Catherine more curious and frustrated. It was only when Grissom pulled the breaks that Catherine closed her mouth.
Grissom led her towards the house, he was about to open the door when Catherine interrupted him and asked, "Are we where I think we are?"
Grissom opened the door and announced, "Welcome to our new home!"
Catherine was over whelmed with happiness. She entered the house and started wondering around, "Can we move in even before the wedding?"
"Well, I'm going be moving in already, it's your choice whether you want to move in with me now or wait till the wedding."
"You know I don't like waiting!"
Grissom chuckled as he grabs his soon-to-be-wife on the waist and gave her a kiss.
"Too bad Mandy won't be here on our wedding." Grissom said.
"Well, who knows, maybe she'll be back by then, she did say she's going to come back"
"Yea but she didn't say when."
Mandy their co-worker and friend needed to go home urgent; all she told the team was that something happened to her mother so she needs to go home and that she'll be back.
"I still can't believe we're getting married"
"I still can't believe you're mine"
"Love you Gil"
"Love you too Cathie."
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Sara, Warrick and Nick went back to the crime scene. The house is a total wreck inside, and that was probably why it's so hard to get any kind of evidence.
As Warrick looked around he noticed that there was a door there, is seemed like a wall, it was only when he saw a crack from the side that he had a thought of the possibility that it really is a door, Warrick knocked on it and on the other side of the wall to test the difference in its sound, after observing that it does differ he kicked it open.
"Hey, uh guys!" Warrick called.
Sara immediately reached him and is as stunned as Warrick.
"What did you see?" Nick asked as he headed his way to Warrick and Sara, Nick gave the two a quizzical look then glanced at the object or rather the room that two are gazing to.
"Is that a, a- - "
"A nursery room"
TBC