Title: Our past, Our present, Our future.

Disclaimer: I don't own, you don't own em yada yada yada yada ya.

(No seriously I don't anything..)

Summary: A flashback in time.. to when Gil and Catherine first met,

and the events that led them to where they are today.

It's be done before..but I'm doing it again! (heheh)

Chapter 6


"That night was incredible, I never felt so.."she paused placing a gentle kiss on his lips " I love you, ya know."

Gil smiled and softly caressed her cheek" Love you too." he kissed her back " And it was an amazing night, It was all amazing, just being with you gave me this great and exciting feeling."

Before Gil could even take another breath he noticed the smile on Catherine's face turn to a frown. He knew what was coming. every time they talked about the past he would try and avoid this discussion. He never did give her the reason as to why he broke it off but today she was determined to finally get an answer.

Catherine nodded " If it was that great why did you throw it all away? I mean you keep telling me you had your reasons but you never did give me a straight answer. I f we want this to work we need to be honest with each other. I know were together now but..I need to know what I did. So I won't do it ever again"

Gil sighed "Oh Cath, sweetie, It wasn't you. It was never you're fault. I had my reasons. I just didn't .." He trailed off, it was time to come to terms with what had really happened. "Okay." he began " This is what happened."


FLASHBACK

It was somewhere around the third week of March and Gil was researching in the library during his spare period. Catherine was away from school that day on account of the flu and he wanted to get most of his work done so he could visit her after school.

Reaching for his backpack he noticed that the text book he need was nowhere in sight. Making a face to himself he let out a large sigh and headed to his car to find it.

As Gil rounded through the hallway he was abruptly stopped by the man who despised him most. Eddie Willows.

"Hey loser!" Eddie bellowed " Who let you out of the box?"

Gil didn't think twice about responding and tried to ignore and walk past.

"I'm talking to you freak!" Eddie taunted as he stepped directly in Gil's path.

Gil didn't move, instead he looked Eddie dead in the eye " That's very clever " he replied " Can I help you with something?"

Eddie scoffed " Yeah, you can stay the hell away from my girl!"

"You're girl?" Gil responded " I didn't know you had one?"

Eddie pushed him backward and into the lockers behind him "

"Catherine, you smart ass, you leave her alone, do you hear me, she's mine, you stay away from her."

Gil shook his head " What reason do I have?" he looked around him " Why? because you said so?"

"That's right, do you know who I am?"

Gil nodded " I know you had the chance of a lifetime with her and you blew, kind of like the championship football game you lost for the whole team!"

Eddie glared at him " You think you're tough?"

Gil shrugged " I know you think you are, but I don't have time for this. I have work to finish and then I have to see my girlfriend."

With that Gil brushed passed Eddie.

"You know she's just using you to get her grade. You wait, after grade she'll dump your ass, it was a part of the deal."

Gil didn't bother to turn back to him instead he continued on his way to the parking lot.


END OF FLASHBACK

"You know her was lying right, I mean that's not why your broke up with me ..is it?"

Gil shook his head " NO, gosh no! Cath, I knew Eddie was full of it, and I knew he wanted you back and would have done anything to get you. I just hate that I drove you back to him."

Catherine sighed " You didn't drive me back to him, I did it on my own, I guess you could say I was on the rebound."

Gil nodded " I still feel guilty.Both of our lives could have been different if I had stood up to him."


FLASHBACK

Later that day Gil was on his way out of the now abandon school. He had opened up the backseat to throw his bag in when they grabbed him from behind.

"Hey, freak!" Eddie sauntered toward him as two of his friends held Gil's arms behind his back. " Not so tough now are we?"

Gil struggled against their grip " Get off me!" he tried to break free

Eddie laughed "Get off me!" he mocked " What's the matter bookworm? Scared?"

Before Gil could even consider answering him, Eddie's fist came crashing against his stomach

Instantly the two men holding him let go and Gil keeled over and landing on the ground.

Eddie didn't give him a chance to catch his breath after winding him when he brought his knee into Gil's face.

"I gave you you're warning and you brushed me off. I told you Catherine was mine, and I'm telling you this one last time to break it off with her."

Gil could feel the blood from his nose running down his face as he spit it out of his mouth. "Go to hell!" he spat back at Eddie

"What was that?" Eddie grabbed his face " I didn't hear you?"

Gil glared at him " Go to hell!" he yelled again this time spitting in Eddie's face.

"Oh!" Eddie smiled as if this were a game to him " I thought that's what you said." he then turned to his friends " Pick him up!"

The two quickly obliged and Gil was now being held up once more. Edie didn't waste any time as he continued to pummel a defense Gil.

After five or six more blows to the stomach Eddie ordered them to drop him " Let him go."

They dropped Gil to the ground. Eddie got down on his knees beside Gil " You see what I can do? Now you better break it off with her, or maybe next time you won't make it, or maybe next time, it won't be you that gets hurt."

Gil looked up at him with what little strength the had " You hurt her and I'll kill you!" he muttered

Eddie nodded " Like you did here today? Look around you Gil, you're the one who's on the ground."

With that Eddie stood up, kicked Gil one last time and climbed into his car and drove off.

Catherine was sitting on her front porch wrapped up in her blanket staring blankly at the empty road in front of her house. It was almost half past seven and Gil should have arrived by then. He had told her they would spend the night together and he would catch her up on the work he had missed that day. She had tried his home number and he hadn't answered.

Catherine waited for another hour before deciding to call it a night. She walked into her home feeling even more nausea then when she had first sat out there. The whole night she tried to sleep she wondered what had happened to Gil.


END OF FLASHBACK

"Eddie attacked you?" She stared at him feeling a little hurt that he had kept this from her all this time. " Why didn't 't you just tell me that? I asked you a few days after I got back what had happened. You told me nothing. I asked you if it was Eddie and you lied to me."

Gil sighed " I didn't want him hurt you, and I knew he would have, because he did, he did it the whole time you were with him.Just like he said he would if I didn't back off. Now I realize it wasn't worth it. He hurt you anyway."

"So that was it you just gave in to him?"

"I was never a fighter Cath , you know that. I was faced with losing you or letting him hurt you and I decided that if it was me that hurt you instead of him then it would be better for the both of us"


FLASHBACK

"Hey!" Catherine called to Gil as she entered biology " I thought you were picking me up this morning?"

Gil briefly looked up from his textbook to see her sit down and then continued reading.

"Hey? Earth to Gil what's up with you, I thought you were coming over the other night . I waited for you and you never showed, and I called you too."

Gil looked up once more

"Whoa" she paused " What happened to you?"

Gil dropped his book to the desk " Nothing, I was helping my mom pack some things and the box and the stairs got the best of me."

Catherine frowned "You fell down the stairs?"

Gil nodded " Thats what I said."

"Okay, What's with the attitude?" Catherine replied

"Gil shrugged " No attitude, I just don't want to talk right now. Gil grabbed his book bag and slowly stood up not wanting to cause anymore physical pain. " I got to get out of here. My head is spinning"

Catherine sat there stunned as to why Gil Grissom was leaving class early. " Wait up!" she called after him.

Gil didn't stop s he headed out side " Catherine go back to class you need to catch up."

Catherine stopped " Okay Gil what the hell is wrong with you? Is it Eddie?"

Gil kept walking " Is what Eddie?"

"Is Eddie the reason you're being such and asshole to me?"

"NO!" Gil replied throwing his bag in the back seat.

Catherine raced to catch up and took it upon her self to climb in the passenger side. " Then why won't you talk to me? Why are you mad at me?"

Gil slammed the steering wheel " Damn it Catherine, not every waking minute has to be spent with you, or thinking about you. I have a life too."

Catherine started at him , her heart slowly shattering. " Sorry" she whispered " I just missed you, that's all. I thought maybe we could talk"

Gil shrugged " You want to talk? Fine, I think we should break up!"

Catherine eyes went wide and she didn't know what to say " What?" was all that came out

"We ..I need a break from it, I have to take my mom, to California tomorrow, she's getting worse and there is a clinic out there that said they can take her. I am going to help her get settled, make sure everything is in order so we can sell the house."

"You're moving back to California?"

"For now. I 'll be back in a few weeks to graduate and then I don't know what I'm going to do."

"I don't understand" Catherine stammered " When did this happen, why are we breaking up? Are you not happy with me?"

Gil didn't reply and with out looking up at her her whispered to her " Cath I have to go."

Catherine nodded, her head was spinning and her heart was pounding, everything had happened so fast. Where had she gone wrong? Before she could even stop herself she had climbed out of his car and he was pulling away.

Catherine stood in the parking lot and watched him drive off.

TBC