Chapter One
August 14 2005 Las Vegas Nevada Grissom Home
Gil Grissom awakes and stares at the attractive woman beside him she looks so peaceful. He wishes he could wake up to her elegant face every morning. Gil always thought he could never be with her. They were gossiping the night before and must've gotten tired and passed out and now he woke up with her by his side. Why can't I tell her how I feel? I love her so much she's attractive, stylish, sophisticated and she's an extraordinary friend, mother, and partner. Gil works with her at the Las Vegas Criminalistics labs they are both level four CSI's.
The woman is Catherine Willows a friend and partner of Gil. She is also in love with Gil but can't tell him either. She is divorced with a daughter Lindsey who Gil adores along with Catherine. Catherine's ex-husband Eddie was murdered the year before. Catherine was in love with Gil since she met him years before.
"Catherine time to get up, its 6:30 we have to be at work in an hour and a half."
15 minutes later Catherine finally gets out of bed and realizes where she is but she couldn't figure out why she was in Grissom's bed. She stumbles downstairs and sees the man she loves and admires sitting at the table reading a national geographic on arachnids.
"Good morning Gil" Catherine says as she serves herself some coffee.
"Good morning Cath. How'd you sleep?"
"Very well thank-you and you?" asks Catherine.
"Excellent Thanks," Gil replies.
Catherine sits down across the table from him and thinks 'this should be the day I tell him how I love and care about him.'
"How did I get in your bed anyways?" Catherine questioned with a mystified look on her face.
"I think we were up talking last night and passed out and the rest is history" Gil replies closing his magazine and putting it down.
"Oh I remember now" Catherine replies chuckling.
Catherine got up and put her coffee down and walked up to Gil who was standing up against the kitchen counter sipping his coffee. She took the coffee from his hands and put it on the counter. Then she wrapped her arms around his neck and tenderly kissed his lips.
"I Love You Gil, I always have and always will no matter how much you hate me for it" she says with her endearing smile across her face.
"I Love You Too Cath" hesitating a little Gil replies surprised at the sudden change in the mood.
"Really I thought you loved Sara but I must've gotten the wrong idea." Catherine replies moving her hands underneath Grissom's navy shirt the same she bought him for Christmas 3 years before to feel his muscular back.
"Yes I love you not Sidle. I've always, always loved you and only you Cath, but you were married to Eddie and you had Lindsey. All I ever wanted was you. You are the one I wanted" Gil said wrapping his arms around Catherine's waist.
"So going on a date with Sara means nothing then because you seemed like you had a tremendous time at the new years party 6 months ago with her?"
"You're right I had an excellent time six months ago with Sara. She's an enjoyable girl to be around when we're not working, but I wish I was there with you, because you were on your own. It was the first year that I saw you without a date the past years you found a date, you were still married to Eddie or Lindsey simply came as your date." Gil said kissing Catherine.
"I was disappointed last year when you were at he party with Sara because I so wanted to be there with you. I've always wanted to be the one to make you laugh, weak in the knees, make your heart flutter since I met you but I couldn't because I was engaged to him and I had to marry him. Then our relationship took a repulsive turn and then I had Lindsey and during that whole marriage I wished the man I came home to every night was you, because I knew Eddie didn't love me the way I knew you would. You have been in Lindsey's life her whole life and she loves you she keeps saying 'Date Grissom he loves you, you love him and I love him it's perfect' but I just kept saying 'I can't sweetie'"
"Why didn't you tell me earlier I wouldn't have minded? I would've loved to have heard those three words from you I've heard those tons of times but not from someone who I truly loved." Gil says as he moved his hands under her indigo form fitting shirt.
"Do you remember when we first met 20 years ago?" Catherine asks.
"Of course it was one of the best days of my life" Gil replies lifting Catherine and sitting her on the counter.
(Flashback) August 18 1985 Las Vegas Nevada Eliza's Diner
"Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear Gil, Happy Birthday to you" sang the familiar faces to the twenty-nine year old man whose sapphire blue eyes were sparkling wildly.
"Thanks Jim, Jacqueline, Al, mom (Roberta) Tina and Bradley for a great birthday," Grissom said smiling outrageously.
"Your welcome honey I don't believe your twenty-nine already and aren't even married yet," Grissom's mom signed.
"Yeah when are you getting married? It was a mere five years ago when Jacqui and I got married and you were dating who said was the girl of your dreams," Jim asked.
"Brie and I weren't meant to be Jim, she fell for someone else, and now there married and are expecting their first child. I keep losing the women I love, first it was Nicole when I was thirteen, then Grace when I was sixteen, then Rene when I was nineteen then Geraldine when I was twenty-one, then I met Brie when I was twenty-three. I lost every single one to another guy, to moving away or didn't want to be together anymore. I don't think I'm going to be a married man," Gil replied secretly falling for the waitress who was serving them. She didn't look more than twenty-four with red hair and ice blue eyes she was gorgeous and Gil wanted to be her friend or even more if possible because she had a sparkling diamond ring on her left ring finger which indicated that she was probably engaged.
(Forty five minutes later) {Still flash back}
"Bye," Gil said to Al, Roberta, Tina, and Bradley.
"Do you want to come hang out for a little while we can play a game or something?" Jim invited getting prepared to leave.
"No we have work tomorrow I think I'm going to have another coffee or two then go home and retire for the night," Grissom answered.
Gil watches his best friend and his wife walk out of the restaurant and calls to the waitress that served him all night.
"What would you like sir?" the red head asks smiling a smile Gil thought was the most beautiful he had ever seen in his entire life time.
"Can I have a cup of Columbian coffee please?"
"Sure," the beautiful waitress says tucking a stray her behind ear "anything else sir?"
"No just the coffee."
"Alright I'll be right back with your coffee."
"If you want grab yourself one too my treat." Gil hollers at the waitress who was about fifteen feet away now.
"Thanks I'll do that."
"Cath?" a brown haired waitress calls.
"Yes Beth?"
"Do you mind closing up tonight? I have to leave my daughter needs my help."
"Go right ahead the place closes in a half hour and there are only 2 costumers left anyway." Catherine says smiling at her best friend, Elizabeth who had a twelve year old daughter, Dannica, at home babysitting her seven year old son, Joshua.
"Thanks Cath I appreciate it."
"No problem I'm glad to help you out Beth you know how much Danni, Josh and you mean to me now go on and take care of your family. Here you go sir. Catherine says placing the coffee on the teal table.
"Thanks. Would you like to give me some company? As you can see my friends abandoned me." Gil says chuckling a little.
"Sure, I haven't had a break all night." She replies sitting in the teal booth across from him.
"I'm Gil Grissom."
"I'm Catherine Donnelly, nice to meet you Mr. Grissom."
"Call me Gil, so how long have you worked here? I haven't seen you before and I come here every morning after work."
"Three years."
"Don't you want a career in another force?" Gil asked a little curious.
"Well after we close up here at ten o'clock I go down the street to the French Palace, where I work as an Exotic Dancer, and work there for four hours then I go home to my fiancé, go to sleep for 6 hours, then wake up go to Western Las Vegas University. I recently got my Bachelor of Science in Medical Technology. I want to do something with Forensic Science it's always fascinated me." Catherine explains.
"I work at the Las Vegas Crime lab. The supervisor there happens to be my best friend, maybe I can get you a job so you don't have to work two jobs you really don't like. How 'bout it?"
"I'll have to think about it."
Writing something on a napkin Gil says "here is my phone number, call me when you decide and I can talk to my boss about getting you a job. I should get going. It was great meeting you Catherine I hope you decide to come work at the lab." After kissing her hand he leaves, leaving a smile on Catherine's face for the rest of the night.
(Flashback finished)
Catherine looks at the clock "shit look at the time we should get to work we're going to be late" she says hesitantly breaking away from her loving embrace with Gil. Catherine collects her coat and purse and waits for Gil to get ready to leave. After he collects his paper work and puts it in his briefcase and puts on his coat they leave the house and drive to work in Gils Denali.
Sara Sidle, Nick Stokes, Greg Sanders, Jim Brass and the new lab tech, Ava Gregory, were all sitting in the Las Vegas Crime lab break room waiting for Catherine and Gil.
"Where in the hell are they? Gil is never late and Catherine is only late if something is wrong with Lindsey." Sara asks growing more impatient with every passing moment.
Just a couple minutes later Catherine and Gil walk in. Catherine with her 100 watt smile on her face and Gil with his arm around Cath's slender waist.
"Good morning all," Catherine says in a jovial voice.
Sara gets a little curious at the close proximity between her boss and her colleague.
"Hi you must be the new lab technician." Gil says holding out his hand "I'm Gil Grissom."
"I'm Ava Gregory, its nice to finally meet you Grissom you're team have been filling me in on what you're like, and you must be Catherine Willows." Ava says taking Catherine's outstretched hand.
"That's me," Catherine says grabbing a coffee.
"Okay, cases. Sara and Nick 2 DB's. Greg you stay here and help out Ava. Cath you're with me a DB." Gil says.
Nick and Sara walk into the house where the murder had taken place. Peter and Elizabeth Josephson, a married couple for 20 years were stabbed and shot to death. Elizabeth was the first to be seen in the living room where she was shot 4 times in the chest and stabbed multiple times in the arms and legs. Peter was in the kitchen with one shot in the head and multiple stab wounds in the chest. Peter also had a knife in his hand with blood on it.
"It looks like a war zone. What in hell happened here?" Sara says.
"No idea, but isn't the Criminalists job figure that out?" The new detective, forty-seven year old Warren Paulovich, says with a mischievous grin on his face.
"Yes it is. Can you tell us who they are?" Nick asks gesturing from Elizabeth to Peter.
"They're Elizabeth and Peter Josephson, married 20 years. She's 57 and he's 55. She has a thirty-two year old daughter and a 27 year old son from her first marriage. They have a 23 year old daughter together. Neighbors say no enemies very well loved people." Warren reads form a notebook in his left hand.
"Well obviously someone wasn't very fond of them or they wouldn't be dead," Sara points out.
Catherine and Gil pull up in Gil's Denali. Gil looks over at Catherine who is looking out the window.
"Cath? Are you ok?" He asks pushing a strand of strawberry blond hair behind her ear.
"I'm fine thanks. It's just that I don't believe someone as wonderful as you can have feelings for someone like me. I haven't been the best person. I married a bastard; I haven't really been there for Lindsey or any of the other close people in my life, including you. But you're an amazing man. You were and always will be there for Lindsey and me. You work damn hard at being the Crime Lab supervisor, which means having to deal with Sheriff Mobley and Director Cavallo you're wonderful Gil I've always had feelings for you. I love you Gilbert Grissom!" Catherine says smiling.
"Cath, you're an incredible woman, I love you so much you're gorgeous, stylish, sophisticated and an astonishing friend, mother, and partner. I know you work extremely hard to make ends meet or you and Lindsey. Eddie was horrible to you and you certainly never deserved it! Listen we have work to do. Let's put this whole thing behind us for now and go kick some ass." Gil says laughing hysterically but stops when he feels Catherine's lips against his.
"You always know how to make a girl feel better Gil. Now let's go...what did you call it? Oh yeah kick some ass" Catherine says winking at Gil and getting out of the car before Gil had a chance to reply.
Gil walks around to the back of the Denali and collects his kit and hurries to catch up to Catherine.
AN: should i continue review and let me Know ok?