AN: Yea it's a long chappie, well not that long but about 14 years of time. I thought that would be the best way to make the story work with all the facts we know from CSI. O and I don't really hate Sara but I guess that part at least explains a bit why Cath didn't like her right from the beginning, you'll see what I'm talking about…
Disclaimer: Not my characters.
Summary: See previous chappies.
Feedback: Would be nice to let me know if I shell continues this…
Chapter 6: Together Forever?
2 years after she left San Francisco
Her phone rings, "Hey, morning honey, how are ya?"
"Great, just wanted to ask if you could set up a cup of coffee for me"
"Sure Bugman, so when shell the coffee be ready in six months when you're coming back, eventually?"
"No, it should be ready in five minutes Butterfly", with that he hangs up.
"What the…Gil?", how dare could he?
She doesn't think further about it maybe his money was empty. Yea that would be the cause.
She makes herself a cup of coffee and thinks about what he had said, he can be so funny sometimes.
She's eating breakfast as five minutes after his call the door bell rings.
O probably the Fed Ex-guy, finally, she was waiting for him a certain time now to bring her the toaster her sister wanted to give her.
So she stands up walks to the door and opens it.
After several seconds her shock is gone and she runs in his arms embracing him.
"Gil, I didn't expect you to be here in the next six months, what are you doing here?"
"Surprise, my boss let me go a few months earlier", he says kissing her softly.
"I think I'm going to fall in love with your boss," she says joking before seriously adding, "so you're staying now?"
"Yea, and I won't leave you ever, promise", he says kissing her again.
Suddenly he asks, "is the coffee ready, I'm starving honey"
"Well just give me a minute"
"So you didn't make me some?"
"Actually I thought you were joking"
"I'm never joking about food, Cathy"
"kay, I'm gonna keep that in mind", she says pulling him into the house.
"You better should"
"Or what, Mister Grissom?"
"I guess I would have to remind you Mrs. Grissom", he says gently setting butterfly-kisses down her jaw line.
Their relationship was quite perfect in the last 11 years since he came to her to Vegas to stay forever. After she left university she began working in his team at the crime lab in Vegas. They worked quite good together and their personal relationship couldn't have been any better.
Until one day Jim Brass, their boss, told him he needs to go back to San Francisco for a year cause they need an entomologist there until they get a new one in a year.
He said he didn't want to go. But he had to and they both new it.
"I don't want you to go honey," she said.
"I don't want to leave either but if I don't, you know,… I'll be back in a year," he says tears streaming down his cheeks.
That had been a week ago now.
She sits at the table in her kitchen just as she used to 11 years ago. She dials his cell phone number and tries to reach him.
A laughing girl picks up the phone, "Sara Sidle, can I do something for you?"
"O I think I got the wrong number, sorry Miss," Cath is just about to hang up as the girl says,
"I don't know Miss, this is not my phone, so who do you wanted to talk to?"
"Gil Grissom, can you put him on the phone please," she asks the girl.
"Sorry but he's just taking a shower", the girl says as Cath hears in the background a voice asking, "you ready honey?", "Yea just a sec" Laughing the girl says to Cath, "sorry Miss, can I leave him a message?"
"No, thanks," tears slowly forming in Cath's eyes as she hangs up the phone. Damn, she should have known it. It was just to perfect to be true. How long has he been fooling her around now? He maybe was the one asking if he could go to San Francisco, she is now sure about that.
Meanwhile in San Francisco
"How the hell did you and Grissom fall in that bullshit, Rick?", Sara Sidle asks her boyfriend after hanging up Grissom's phone.
"I already told you that sweety," he says to her.
"But it's so unbelievable"
"So was it someone important on Gil's phone?"
"No, I guess not"
"So then let's go eat something", with that they leave the San Francisco crime lab.
Vegas again, a week after that call
She is sitting in a restaurant having a date with a guy she met at the strip club she's now working for since a week, after she didn't believe that the love of her life will ever be coming back and she needs to pay for that house all alone and the money from being a CSI level one just isn't enough.
A few hours later she wakes up in her bed with this guy beside her.
"Morning Cat," o how much she hates that nick name, but she isn't about to tell him.
"Morning Eddie, I actually didn't think you'd be still here", she says.
"I'll never leave you," he says as she starts laughing inside herself, wasn't it that sentence making her more sad than anything?
Then he kisses her, "never Cat"
5 days after that she tells him lying in bed next to him, "I'm late Ed"
"What? What do you mean Cat?"
"You know what I mean"
"Really so that means I'm going to be a dad?"
"Seems to be so," she says after seeing his expression of happiness.
Happily kissing her he couldn't believe his luck. He being a dad.
She on the opposite being happy but knowing exactly that he isn't and couldn't be the father of that child.
That is all she ever wanted having a child from the love of her life. But now as he is gone leaving her alone in Sin City she isn't sure anymore if that's what she wants.
Meanwhile in San Francisco
He asked himself why she hadn't called him.
She promised to do so. But she hadn't.
But he never called her cause he thought she didn't want him anymore.
Two weeks later there was an invitation in his mailbox.
Dear Gil,
I'm going to get married in a week on Saturday, if you want you can come with someone your choice,
Cathy'
He couldn't believe what he read, now he's sure she doesn't want him anymore and he knows why she didn't call him all the time, she had been busy with her soon-to-be husband. How much he wished it would be him instead.
Vegas, a week later, Saturday
He couldn't believe his eyes, a few minutes ago he watched the love of his life giving her forever to another man.
What would've happened if he wouldn't have gone to San Francisco.
Would she be still with him?
Would she be happy?
Had she ever been happy with him?
Slowly doubts are forming in his mind. But all he wants now is make her happy so he lets her walk out of his life.
San Francisco 8 months after her wedding.
His phone rings, "Sir, are you Gil Grissom?"
"Yes that's me why?"
"I'm Laura a nurse from the desert palm hospital in Las Vegas, a Catherine Willows is here, just having her first child a few minutes ago, her husband isn't here but she asked me to call you and ask you if you want to come down here and visit her"
"Sure I'll take the next flight down to Vegas"
"So see you then Sir, bye"
After all he didn't even know that she had been pregnant, but he is on his way to the airport as he calls his boss.
"Jeff? I'm flying back to Vegas and I won't be ever coming back", he says and hangs up.
Several hours later in the hospital in Vegas.
"Cathy? You alright," he greets her.
"Yea, I'm fine the baby's fine too"
"Where the hell is he? Where is Ed?"
"I don't know probably promoting one of his bands"
"What?"
"We aren't that good at the moment and I thought about getting divorced but I'm scared of him and I'm staying for the baby's sake", she says nearly crying how much she just wished to tell him that it isn't Eddie's child.
"So how are you going to call her?"
"I don't know haven't thought about it, do you have any ideas?"
"Well I like Lindsey", he says, how much he wishes she would be his child. But obviously isn't.
"It just sounds great, I love it", he couldn't believe how hard it is to hear it' instead of you'. A year ago she always told him she loves him. Could all of this have been a lie? There's one thing he knows for sure, he'll always love her and nothing would ever change anything in it.
"Then she'll be called Lindsey Willows?", she asks him pulling him out of his thoughts.
"Yea that it will be", how much she just wishes he hadn't said yes, how much she wishes he said she'll be called Lindsey Grissom. But for her Lindsey will always be a Grissom, just like herself.
Lindsey and Edward Willows never knew about the fact that she's a Grissom.
Actually no one ever knew. The only one knowing it all the time is Catherine. Mrs. Catherine Grissom. Now officially called Mrs. Grissom.
TBC? (Really don't know, shell I?) If not would be great to end here!