Title: holding on to it all...
Summary: A continuation to my fic " Secrets from their past."...
Disclaimer: I don't own anything
Chapter 4
Rating: CSI 2..i guess
"Mr. Grissom" Eddie scoffed " To what do I owe this great surprise?"
Gil didn't waste anytime and got right to the point. " I want you to stop calling her. Stop calling our home, her office, our daughter. Just stop."
Eddie sneered " You mean my daughter" he paused " Or have you forgotten that at one time I was the one Catherine loved. I was the one who made her happy. And that Lindsey is something Catherine and I share and as long as we have Linds..I'll always be in Catherine's life."
Gil sighed " You can be in Lindsey's life..but Catherine wants nothing to do with you. She's only hanging around because she feels bad for you, you're nothing more to her than a charity case."
Eddie nodded " Maybe so, but you can't get her to stop , otherwise you wouldn't be on my front step trying to intimidate me."
Gil glared at him
"Well Mr.Grissom, Do you have anything else to say" he paused " Because I'm not afraid of you or you're science and you should know by now that if Catherine wants to do something you can't stop her...unless of course you use excessive force."
"I'd never hurt her." Gil snarled " especially not the ways you did."
"Yeah.. well sometimes..dealing with someone like her...sometimes it was necessary that she knew who was in charge " Eddie smiled " So you can come here and try to scare me but you can't, it won't work and I am going to be in your life forever...I might even get invited to the wedding" he went to close the door " If there is still going to be a wedding."
"You haven't changed at all and I'm warning you Willows" Gil stopped the door from closing " You don't want to mess with me. You stop this now and you leave us alone"
Eddie nodded " I'll see you later Gris.. thanks for the visit though, I'll be sure to let Catherine know you were here."
Eddie then slammed the door in Gil's face and headed back to the couch.
Gil stood on the step his nose inches from the door, his heart racing. He knew Eddie hadn't changed but how was he going to convince Catherine otherwise, when it came to Eddie all she could see was the distraught man who lost his family, she couldn't see him for what he really was..which was the exact same monster he had been when they were married.
next night
Catherine was putting her hair back when she looked at the time. Realizing she had only twenty minutes to finish getting ready and get to the reception hall she finished brushing out her loose strands and heading downstairs. Grabbing her cell phone as she searched for her keys she called Gil.
"Hey sweetie" she spoke hearing him pick up " I can't find my keys do you have them."
"No Cath, I don't did you check your purse?" Gil replied
Catherine sighed " Yes..I don't know where they went. I just get the spare set from the safe and I'll be there soon. Okay.."
"Mhhm." Gil replied
"Gil" she stopped and sat down on the couch " Are we going to be okay?"
"Yeah" he sighed " I'm sorry I just...I'm sorry, I think I am a little nervous, just hurry okay."
Catherine smiled to herself " Okay..I'm leaving now" she paused " I love you."
"I love you too" he replied " I'll see you soon."
Catherine hung up from Gil and dropped the phone in her pocket, she then headed back upstairs to get her second set of keys. After retrieving them she headed back down stairs, with her hand on the door knob she paused at the sound of her phone. She quickly whipped the phone from her pocket. " Gil" she didn't bother to check " I'm leaving now I.."
"Mrs Willows?" a women's voice responded
"Miss...Willows" she corrected " What can I do for you?"
"My name is Catrina Farrington, I'm here with you're husband. Edward"
"My husband.." she paused " Oh Ed..he's not my husband ...wait where are you calling from?" she asked looking at the screen on her phone to find it said unknown name.
"I'm calling from Desert Palms there was an incident and you're husband was brought in, he's been looked after and know he had given us you're name..he can't drive home and he shouldn't be left to just anyone right now he said you'd be willing to come get him."
Catherine sighed, you can't get anyone else? Can't he take a cab, I mean what's wrong with him?"
"Alcohol poisoning, he's been here for about twelve hours, plus he was injured in a fight, I'm not sure what exactly happened, he keeps asking for you."
"Ahh,.." she groaned looking at her watch, she still had time left but it would be a close call. " Okay..have the release forms ready I'll be there as soon as I can."
Catherine sighed hanging up from the hospital and dialing Gil. "Gil" she quickly spoke for the voice mail as she climbed into her vehicle " Don't be mad, I have one quick stop and then I'll be there, give me ten minutes..sweetie okay, I love you, see you soon."
Catherine finished filling out the release forms and waited for Eddie to be brought out to the waiting room.
"Catherine?" he smiled slightly as he was wheeled out " Thank you so much for coming."
" Yeah" she nodded " Let's get you home."
"What's wrong?" he whispered as she took the envelope of his belongings.
"Ed, you...I have some places that I should be right now, so let's just hurry this up." she waited for him to stand " I'm not pushing you in that chair get up and walk..help me help you."
Eddie sighed " You know if you didn't want to come ..."
Catherine cut him off " Oh right! Eddie..You knew I would come...that's why you had the nurse call me." she helped him from his chair " This is it you know , I'm not doing this anymore. I'm getting married in a few days and that's it."
"I know " he replied as he allowed her to prop him on her shoulder " I heard this speech from your boyfriend, and If he hadn't come and stuck his nose where it didn't belong then I wouldn't be here."
Catherine stepped just short of the Tahoe " What are you talking about?"
"Oh..he didn't tell you? Gil came to my place late last night..told me that you belonged to him and to keep away from you and my daughter, that he would do whatever it took to keep you from me, me from you.. then" Eddie paused " He hit me"
"Gil came to see you?" Catherine raised her eyebrow as she helped him in " Gil hit you?"
"Yeah I was surprised to" Eddie lied " I know you say he would never hurt you or that he's not violent but my black eye and fractured rib proves otherwise."
Catherine nodded but didn't reply She didn't remember the nurse mentioning anything broken and she was confused..why wouldn't Gil tell her if he was going over there. Now she knew how he felt...But could Gil really hit him? She didn't know, she had never seen any other side of Gil Grissom, especially not a violent one, but then again she had never seen Eddie's violent side until after the wedding,. If Gil had a violent dark side she wasn't going to go down that road again. Not this time.
Catherine put the Tahoe in park and watched as Eddie struggled toward the front door. " I'll wait until you get inside "she called to him "just don't over do it."
She then waited until he was out of ear shot and called Gil as she waited for Eddie to get inside.
"Cath where are you?" Gil answered
"Gil..Did you go to Ed's?"
"What?" Gil responded
"Ed, said that you were over here..."
"Over where ..Damn it Catherine are you with him now?"
"Yes, he was hospitaltized..you beat him up?"
"I didn't touch that jerk Catherine ..I can't believe your over there with him while everyone is here, at your wedding rehersal..waiting for you to..."
Catherine tried to cut him off but he was far to upset.
"You lied to me, ..Catherine what are we doing? Am I losing you to him? Because last night you told me I wasn't and I'm standing here at the rehearsal dinner waiting for my fiancee to show up and she's out with her ex's what's going on?" Gil demanded to know, the whole time his heart breaking "We just worked on this case where this women cheated on her fiancee with her ex... I feel like I'm losing you too him, and I can't seem to get through to you...are we doing this or not?"
"I would never..cheat on you" she whispered, a little hurt that he would compare the two situations. " If that's how you feel then maybe you are losing me..."
"What?" Gil replied shocked at what he had just heard.
Catherine wiped her tears and tried to control her emotions, from the seat she was sitting in she could see Eddie struggling with his keys and suddenly he was on the ground. She knew she should forget about him, and head to her wedding rehearsal and fix everything with Gil but she was confused and everything was a mess.
"I don't want to be afraid" she whispered to Gil before her cell cut out.
"Cath?" Gil called into the dead air " Catherine?"
Catherine went to Eddie's side and helped him to his feet. " I meant what I said Ed" she whispered through the tears " I'm not doing this anymore, I'm hurting everything and everyone that matters to me.I'm in love and I'm happy..and I haven't been in a really long time. I can't help you anymore"
Eddie sighed " I saw this coming." he whispered pretending to lose his balance and pulled her forward to the floor " I saw this coming."
Eddie struggled against her as she tried to get the both of them back up on their feet " Eddie, stop resisting, and pull you're self up."
Eddie smirked " You don't get it do you?" he pinned her down " I want you back..I never loved Cathy..not like I loved you and her brat of a daughter..she couldn't hold a candle to Lindsey. It's sad what happened to them but I didn't want to be with her anyway. I want you Catherine, I want to be with you."
Catherine tried sitting up " Eddie get off me, your heavy and your hurting me."
Eddie scoffed " You can be happy with me again, just give it a chance.." he smiled " Give me a chance, I don't have to be that way..you don't have to make me want to hurt you." he bent down and kissed her.
"What?" she replied turning her head at the same time realizing that Gil was right that Eddie hadn't changed at all."you lied to me" she pushed against him this time he fell to the side. " Gil didn't hit you did he? You lied to me, you got me to think you were upset, and depressed and you were just playing me.I can't believe I thought you had changed. What's wrong with me? I thought maybe you had chance..that I would give a second of chance to fix what you destroyed with Lindsey." she backed away " I'm leaving Ed..just let me go."
"Lindsey's my daughter and starting now..daddy's going to be there for her..you wait..I'll take her from you if you marry him, I'll take her from you if you don't come back."
Catherine shook her head as the tears came " You can't ..I'm marrying him and once were are they won't take her from a stable home, you tried that Ed, you tried it and and it backfired."
Eddie nodded shrugged and the next thing she knew she charged at her and she was pinned against the wall. " You're not listening to me, you have a problem, you never used to listen to me that's why I had to do the things I did. You don't get it." he repeated, slapping her across the face " I need you and I swear to you Catherine" he whispered into her ear ."I'll do what I have to do to make you understand."
Catherine pulled away " I won't be afraid" she sighed raising her hands to defend herself " I'm not afraid of you anymore."
"What?" Eddie smiled " You know you want it as much as I do..otherwise you wouldn't have come..I know you Cath..I know you." he charged at her once more but she expected it. It didn't take her long to dodge him, she grabbed her keys that had fallen during the struggle and raced toward the door.
Catherine swung the door open at the same time Gil approached the front porch.
tbc