Warrick listens to be sure the scene sounds safe. "Cath, you okay?" he asks as he feels her shaking underneath him. "Yeah, are you?" she replies. "I'm me…….." he says as he eases up pulling his gun from his side. Catherine aims her gun to cover Warrick. Everyone is trying to clear the building, the smoke is clearing and everyone is screaming and crying and most are running trying to exit the building. Catherine eases behind Warrick watching past him with eagle eyes. Her eyes are burning from the smoke, but she won't take her eyes off of her colleague.
Warrick clears the scene and sees a mangled body and close to it are wires and pieces of metal that look very much like a bomb. It looks like the guy had the bomb in his hand when it went off. Warrick hears sirens as he notices that he only has about 4 people still standing around looking dazed and two people lying close to the vic who needed some quick medical attention. Everyone else has cleared the building.
Jim Brass walks in the door and when Warrick nods that the scene is safe, he calls for the back up to get the medics in there.
Brass: Warrick, you gotta slow down man! How do you manage to beat me 90 of the time? And how did you get so dirty? (looking past Warrick) Catherine? Are you OK? What the heck are you doing here? (looks from Catherine to Warrick) You two have got some explaining to do.
(Grissom walks in with his kit and Sara follows right behind him. Nick and Greg come in almost immediately behind them as Grissom scans the scene looking for Warrick.)
Grissom: Warrick? You OK? I wondered if you were working tonight.
Brass: Working!
Sara: Catherine? What are you doing so dirty? Were you here too?
Nick: You guys both look like you need to see the medics.
Greg: Were you guys here together? On a date?
Warrick(frustrated): If you guys want to stop with all the questions, I can tell you what I know.
Grissom: We're listening.
Warrick: I came by to check out some new equipment tonight and planned to DJ for awhile. Catherine came by….
Greg: (interrupting) Catherine just dropped by?………..
All: Shutup Greg!
Warrick: Cath and I were standing over in the corner talking and heard a loud BOOM and smoke filled the air. Cath covered me, we scanned the scene, found the body right where you see it, everyone else running because they thought there was a fire I assume. We started over to check the injured people and Brass walked in. Everything else is going to be in the evidence. How did YOU GUYS get here so fast?
Brass: We had a bomb threat for this club called in about 15 minutes ago so we had the bomb squad coming out and were already in route. I heard the bomb go off as I was pulling up.
Catherine (her head clearing a little and kicking into work mode): What did they say? What kind of bomb threat?
Brass: I think you and Warrick need to let the medics take a look at you and let us get this party started.
Cath and Warrick: I'm fine!
Warrick (to Cath): I threw you down pretty hard. You sure you're OK?
Cath: I'm fine. I'll be sore tomorrow, but I am fine. Can we just get to work?
Warrick: I need to run outside and check on my friend, Sid. He was in here.
Nick: Rick, we saw him coming in. He recognized me and told me you and Catherine were in here. He's fine.
(Brass yells at a uniformed officer at the door and tells him to tell Sid that Warrick and Catherine are OK.)
Greg: (grins and pipes up) So, about this "date"?
Warrick: Greg, I'm not telling you again. We've got a scene to process and why either of us were here is completely irrelevant.
Everyone stands around looking a little uncomfortable and finally Grissom starts over toward the body with his kit. He tells Warrick to glove up and share his kit and tells Catherine to help Nick check the walls and outlying areas around the body. Brass is still trying to figure out why everyone but him knew that Warrick DJ'ed at this place. He tells Warrick and Catherine that he's going to have to get a statement from both of them. They both nod and say nothing. Catherine leans down beside Nick and he reaches over and touches her arm. "You sure you're OK?" Catherine is feeling a million different emotions and feels like just completely crying. She assures Nick she is fine, but he sees the strain on her face. "Ignore Greg, Cath. It's none of his business." Nick says. Catherine looks around to be sure the others are busy. She catches Warrick looking at her and so does Nick. "It was a date," She whispers quietly. Nick grins, "It's about time." Catherine looks at Nick in shock. "Excuse me?" she sputters. Nick gets even more amused. "Cath, you and Warrick have been running from your feelings for a long time. I wondered when you'd just give in and admit that." Catherine is completely speechless. She thought she'd been hiding her heart so well. She tries to figure out what to say. "Nicky, we work together. We can't have a relationship." Nick thinks for a minute and replies, "Cath, I'll be the first to admit that it will make things a little odd and it will be an adjustment for the entire team. I'm not overwhelmingly crazy about that. However, you can't just ignore it and hope it will go away. That's not fair to you, Warrick, or Lindsey. And in case you've blinded yourself to it…….Lindsey is crazy about Warrick too." Catherine smiles and says, "There's no way to be blind to that. Those two certainly have a connection." Greg starts toward them and Catherine gives Nick a look that says this conversation will have to be finished later.
The team quietly processes the scene with little dialogue. Each of the team members are watching Warrick and Catherine and have questions of their own. Grissom looks concerned. Sara looks mad. Greg is amused and dying to know the "scoop". Nick is already trying to figure out how everyone is going to deal with it because he can tell from watching his best friend and Catherine that they have a lot deeper feelings than even they realized. Warrick and Catherine keep looking at each other to be sure the other is OK. Both are battling a gambit of emotions. What in the world are they going to do now? The whole team knows something is going on. They haven't even figured out what is going on yet themselves and now the whole team has been brought into it. This could get really interesting……..
