Updated at last, my last chapter!


"No!" Catherine screamed, moving quickly between Greg and the gun, Grissom also moving with her.

One body hit the floor and the whole room stood still.

"Damn Bitch." Someone muttered from behind the swinging door. Nick had his mouth wide open as he saw the smoking holes in the door.

Brass and several officers stood poised outside the doorway, guns drawn and also smoking.

"Christ!" Greg cried, taking a shuddering breath. Catherine stood in front of him and Grissom in front of her. Catherine sank on to the bed beside Greg, stunned. She glanced carefully at his own shocked face and smiled as they're eyes met.

"Thanks." He whispered.

"Your welcome." She whispered back taking his trembling hands in hers. She remembered after the lab explosion what his hands were like for weeks afterwards. No one (as far as she was aware of) mentioned to Greg about his hands, but a lot of people noticed it.

"Thank you." Greg chocked, glancing up at Grissom who tried to hide his own tremble. He held out a hand for Sara and helped her up.

"You're welcome Greg." He said, thankful that his voice was held strong.

"Everyone okay?" Brass asked as he stepped into the room, glancing at the body on the floor.

"She dead?" Warrick asked stepping beside Brass and holding onto the swaying man.

"Gotta be with that many holes in her." Nick commented, stepping up behind them. "You should get that looked at." Nick said as he helped Warrick guide Brass over to the bed. The both sat him down at the bottom by Greg's feet and stood back as Grissom sat Sara beside him.

"Thanks." Sara muttered as she tried to pull herself back together.

"Seems we all need to say that to each other." Catherine laughed lightly, quickly joined by the others.

"Detective, now will you come with me?" a doctor asked from the doorway, looking quite pale. "We'll move the rest of you out of here." He added looking at the pool of blood.


"What we got?" Nick asked seriously, his face grim as he walked out of the living room and into the back yard

"Chinese, Indian and barbeque." Greg shouted, holding up a two pronged, long handled folk with a spare rib stuck to the end of it. Nick laughed as he took in Greg's appearance. He wore a chief's hat and a kiss the cook apron, but it was when he turned round that you got the message. "Hoping Sara will get the gist of this!" Greg laughed as he showed off the back by turning back to the cooking food.

"I didn't say where." Nick read the back, laughing as the quick grin Greg flashed over his shoulder.

"Another burger anyone?" Greg shouted.

"Here!" Brass said as he stood up.

"Chinese for me." Sara said, joining Greg as he guarded the boxes of ordered Chinese food and Indian.

"No you need something more spicy." Warrick said from where he sat at the park like bench.

"Too hot for me." Catherine said, pushing her plate towards Grissom to try, who was looking at it like he'd study a crime scene, trying to size up the ingredients.

"Nick?" he asked, holding the plate over to Nick.

"Sure!" He said picking the chilli off the top and downing it.

"Everything's back." Grissom smirked, shaking his head as he watch Nick turn red and start panting like a dog as the rest laughed at him.

Greg sat down beside Grissom and took a sip of his beer, his face suddenly serious. "What happened to the other three?" He asked Grissom quietly.

Only Grissom heard. "They got a light sentence for being manipulated and under the influence." He whispered back. "You okay with that?"

"Yeah, its just weird. She went to all that trouble over something that wasn't even Catherine's fault." He whispered back.

"People look for the others to blame. She couldn't look around her at what other factors caused what happened. Too consumed in her pain." Grissom continued. "It was no ones fault, but the man that took her daughter."

"The past can send flashes through to the future." Greg mused. "We'll be fine." He smiled, suddenly laughing as Nick dived for Greg's beer to cool his tongue.

"We'll be fine." Grissom said to himself.

"Of course we will." Catherine said, shifting up beside him. She smiled, "We're a team."


That's it, the end. Kinda sucks don't it. Well I won't be writing for a while, exams are coming up and I have too much going on. Might be back in June, but we'll see.

Bye!