Disclaimer: I don't own csi
a/n: I know that it is way too early for Thanksgiving, but the first couple of lines popped into my head and I just had to write it down.
A simple question
It was such a deceptively simple question requiring a deceptively simple yes or no answer.
"Would it be okay if I invited Warrick to Thanks giving dinner?"
Such a simple question, yet the repercussions would be ground-shaking, life altering. Lindsey was not sure if she was ready mentally or emotionally for them.
She was not sure she was ready to allow another man to take over as head of the household; see another man's personal effects in her home; see another man kiss her mother on the lips.
Lindsey knows that Warrick is a good man. She knows that he would never hurt either of them. Yet it is one thing to call someone uncle it is another thing entirely to call him dad.
The pain of losing her father even after two years is still present in her heart and she is not sure if she ever will heal. She is not sure if she wants it to heal because then that would mean she was betraying her father. If she calls him dad she will be betraying her father. And that scares her.
But he is a good man. He genuinely cares about both of them and is not trying to use her to get into her mother's pants as past boy friends had. He does not see her as means to an end but as a person in her own right. He listens to her and never judges her no matter how silly or immature her choice was. He is patient and caring and she has never seen him drunk or high.
And when he looks at her mom there is a strange light that glows in his eyes. Try as she might to comb through her memories she can not ever remember seeing that look in her father's eyes- not one time. And then quite suddenly like an epiphany from heaven, it dawns on her. That look in his eyes---- it's love.
Warrick loves her mom. And whatever she answers she knows deep down to her very marrow, he always will.
She sees the hope and fear in her mother's eyes.
"Yes" is all she says, all she needs to say.
Lindsey still worries about what the future holds for the three of them. But like her mother she'll be damned if she allows fear to hold her back from having what she wants, what every child wants– a real family.
The end