"I need to rent a car do you have any Cadillacs"
"Um yes we have one in the lot it's a XLR would you like it"
"Yes please"
"Okay I need you to fill these out," the woman hands her a set of forms and Catherine fills them out in no time," Okay how long will you be taking the car for"
"A week"
"Okay that will be 198.23"
"Here," Catherine hands her two Benjamins," Keep the change"
"Here are the keys and it is in sec. 5 it's black"
"Thank you," Catherine takes the keys and goes out to the car on the airport lot. She puts her bags in the back and gets in front and peels off to the Bellagio.
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She goes into the Bellagio and goes to the front desk," Hi how can I help you"
"Yeah I called earlier and booked the Liberacci Suite"
"Ah yes Ms. Catrini"
"Catherine please"
"Okay Catherine here is your key and your room will be shown to you by Tom your personal buttler"
"Thank you," Catherine looks at the young eager buttler who no doubt would be at her every beck and call. She follows him up to the suite and goes inside not after giving the kid a hundred. She throws her bags on the bed and opens up one. She pulls out a black halter and skin tight black pants. The halter revealed her tattoos. One being across her lower back that read,'Sono venuto io ho visto che lo ho conquistato ancora vivo...' in Italian meaning,' I came I saw I conquered I still live...', she also posessed a scorpion and a grasshopper on her right shoulder, she also had a large celtic cross that was black and had thorns wrapped around it, her body also adorned a devil on her hip, and a bleeding rose around her navel that was also visible with a piercing through it that was a bent barbell that was black and had a yin yang on it. She put her boots back on again and grabs her keys and goes out to her car. She gets in and goes towards the crime lab. She pulls up infront of the building that was the source of her nightmares. She goes inside and to the front desk," Can I ask where the graveshift CSI's are"
"Stokes is in the lab, Stokes in the lab also, Sanders in the lab, and Brown is in the field"
"Thank you can I go and see them"
"Yes just sign in here and put on a visitors badge"
"Okay," Catherine signs Catherine Willows and takes a visitors badge and walks back to the lab. She looks around not much had changed. She spots them all sitting in the break room engrossed in their conversation. Sneaking quietly threw the door she stands there," Ciao voi asini" (Hello you asses) they slowly turn around," Ca....Catherine"
"Hi"
"Wh....."
"I came back for a week I just got in"
"Where did you come back from"
"I'm not going to tell you"
"How have you been"
"Good not sleeping well but good"
"You dream of it all"
"Yeah and then some"
"You haven't been back since..."
"No someone I know convinced me to come back"
"I'm glad he did"
"You know we never cleaned out his office we just clean it from time to time never using it just remembering"
"Why"
"Because it meant finally believing he's gone"
"You have any coffee"
"Special brew"
"Great," she walks over to the coffee pot showing her tattoos," CATHERINE GRISSOM"
"Catherine Grissom what the hell are those"
"Hello," the thing they didn't know is Catherine refused to answer to any of her previous names only to Black Widdow, Catherine Catrini, or Muggs," Catherine Margret"
"Huh what"
"What the hell are those tattoos on your back"
"A celtic cross wrapped in thorns, a scorpion and grasshopper, and the words are italian and they mean 'I came I saw I conquered I still live', I have a devil on my hip and a bleeding rose around my navel"
"Why"
"Because it's who I am the cross reminds me how touchy Gil was about religion, the scorpion and grasshopper is us completely different, the words show our life I came to Vegas I saw him I conquered his heart and I'm still here, the devil actually is in the place of where I used to have an angel, and the bleeding rose is the one I layed on both their graves"
"What's with the scar across your arm"
"Fight"
"When"
"Nonya"
"Okay," the tall african american Warrick Brown walks through the door," Who's the new girl"
"Don't make me fucking hit you Warrick"
"I'm sorry...," he looks up from his case file into the stone cold eyes of Catherine," Cath"
"That's my name don't wear it out"
"Where have you been we've been looking for you forever"
"Stop because you'll never find me I'm back for a week and then I'm leaving and not telling any of you where I am going and where I'll stay"
"Catherine I..."
"I know you guys have been worried stop I'll be fine I have been. I think about it every night why I left and to tell you the truth I'm glad I did"
"Where are you staying"
"I want to tell you but I can't I'm sorry"
"Well off that note you know a lot has changed around here"
"I can tell," she indicates Sara's swolen pregnant stomach," I'm guessing it's Nicks"
"Yeah we got married a few months after we realized you weren't coming back this is actually our second we have a daughter at home who is 3 her name is Catherine Elizabeth Marie"
"You..."
"Yeah we missed you Cath after you left it was like you died too"
"What about you Warrick what's your story"
"Married a little after they did to Mia and we have a son and daughter both 3 twins and their names are Margret Annabella and Christopher Gilbert it tore me appart that you were gone"
"Greg"
"I got married a year ago to a girl I met when I went out to their grave one day her father and sister had died in a car accident. We're expecting a baby in the next month a girl Lindsey Katrina Margret Anabella Catherine"
"Is doc still here"
"No he retired after they died and you left he said if you guys weren't here than he shouldn't be"
"Brass"
"Cath...He...He comitted suicide after they died actually that night we couldn't get a hold of you or find you"
"Oh
"So who is still here"
"Us, most of the old rats, O'Reilly, Ecklie, mostly everyone except a few people"
"Where's O'Reilly"
"Interrogation room 3"
"Thanks," she walks out of the break room as Warricks mouth drops open at the sight of her tattoos. She walks to the interrogation room and looks through the one way window where O'Reilly is just sitting there. She goes in," Look like something's on your mind"
"No....Wait it can't be Catherine"
"Hey"
"How have you been"
"Good"
"We've been looking for you"
"I know I don't plan to tell you where I live though or where I'm staying"
"Catherine I've missed you soo much"
"Don't okay I can never come back I would just end up killing myself over the pain"
"Come here," he pulls her into his arms," I wish you would have written something though I can't sleep at night knowing you could be dead"
"I'm sorry"
"You hear about..."
"Yeah"
"He left something for you"
"Yeah"
"Here I carry it with me everyday," he reaches into his pocket and pulls out a piece of paper and hands it to her. She opens it and begins to read:
Dear Catherine,
Since the many years I have known you I have always seen you as a daughter even if I never showed it. Gil was practically my son, I'm sorry for dragging the three of you out there. It's all my fault and I have lived with guilt to much in my life. I'm sorry they're gone I'm sorry I did that to you. I'll tell him you say hi and that you love him very much. But I just can't do it anymore.
Love you always,
Brass
P.S. Catherine go to the bank and ask for box 326 I left something for you O'Reilly has the key.
"You have the key"
"Yeah here," he takes the key from the chain on his neck. She storms out of there.
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TBC