AN: There is actually dialogue in this one!
Sara:
At the start of shift Grissom calls me into his office, hands me the envelope and I sigh. I'm terrified to open it.
'Sara,
Breakfast. Wednesday morning after your shift. The diner where we used to go.
Cath.'
I sigh again, I think Grissom is getting worried. I know he knows it's from you but he doesn't know why I sighed twice in one minute. I am glad that you aren't ignoring this and you asking me out to breakfast has to be a good sign.
"What's wrong Sara?"
"Nothing, seriously I'm fine"
I go through the rest of the shift, surprisingly, without thinking about you or our breakfast date.
Wednesday comes around all to slowly and we're sitting in the diner. I can see that you are having a hard time trying to figure out what to say. "I love you too Sara" you finally just come out with it. I'm stunned for a little while but when I look up I see that you're completely serious.
"Thank you"
"For what?"
"For not ignoring the letter or me"
"Sara I have never ignored you, yes I may have been cold to you but I have certainly never ignored you" I am so relieved to hear you say that. It's what I have wanted to hear for five and a bit years now. I can't keep my emotions in check. Tears of happiness spill over before I can reel them in! "Sara, honey don't cry"
"Happiness"
"Huh?"
"They're tears of happiness"
Catherine:
When you tell me they're tears of happiness I am so relieved, I couldn't bare to think that I'd caused you to cry. I don't ever want you to cry because of me. "Sara come home with me" I am surprised that you actually accept. I am glad the guy's can look after themselves especially for today's shift.
We arrive at my place and I tell you to come in and we'll talk. I'm not one to sleep with someone so quickly and besides we have a lot to talk about. We get comfortable and I don't bother to offer you coffee, you finished two cups at the diner.
We talk for what seems like hours which I guess it is. You finally tell me that you have to go home, that you actually need to sleep and I decide for old times sake to take a jab. "What Sara Sidle actually know's what sleep is?" and there it is. The shocked look that I cherish in my dreams.
You kiss me playfully on the cheek but I have other idea's and hold you in place to plant a kiss right on your lips and the first thought that pop's into my head is screw my stupid little rules. I have wanted this for so long that I have to have it and I have to have it now! You silently agree with my thought process as you deepen the kiss.
"Stay here. We don't have to do anything, just stay here please" I don't know where the pleading came from. I haven't ever been one to beg for anything especially for someone to stay with me.
You agree with me wordlessly as you stand and that is my undoing, Sara Sidle is actually agreeing to stay with me. When we reach the bedroom you kiss me again deeply and I can't hold back. I reach for your shirt and you don't stop me. I think you need this as much as I do right now, just to confirm that this isn't a dream.