Catherine was just pulling into her driveway when her cell phone rang.
"Willows" she barked into the phone she was not impressed she wanted to spend sometime with her daughter, sometimes she wondered if Lindsey even remembered what she looked like.
"Catherine its Brass, don't hang up I'm not about to give you a case" Brass got out quickly before she could reach the disconnect button.
"What then, if you just called for a friendly chat then I'm sorry but you'll have to wait" She retorted as she went to hang up
"Grissom's been stabbed" Brass blurted out "Are you still there?" he asked down the phone to deafening silence.
"Yeah, um let me get a baby sitter for Lindsey, which hospital is he at? Is there anybody with him, who found him? Is he going to be alright?" Catherine asked in a series of questions.
"To answer your questions, desert palms, Sara, Sara and I don't know it's pretty bad" Brass replied down the phone "Look I have to go, get here when you can" and with that Brass hung up.
Catherine arrived at the hospital 20 minutes later still in shock. She been going over the last thing she'd said to Grissom it had been hurtful and she hated herself for it. They'd been on a case together she'd accused him of being unemotional in fact her exact words were "You don't have a heart Grissom, stop being the tinman and show some god damn compassion".
If he died she would never be able to apologize, she had been out of line but as usual he just took it and let her get her frustration out of the way, he must know that she wasn't mad at him but at the unjustness of the case. She lost her train of thought as she saw the sight before her.
Sara, Warrick and Nick were in the waiting area. Warrick was leaning against the wall with his head down deep in thought, Sara was leaning on Nick as if her world depended on it her arms were covered in blood, Grissom's blood. Nick just sat there stunned staring into space with an arm around Sara.
"He's still in surgery" Brass commented as he came up from behind drawing level with her.
"Who's working the case?" Catherine surprised herself at asking this question
"Ecklie, and apparently he wants to talk to you all, but he said he'll give you till at least he's out of surgery" Brass said in disgust
"I'll go first" with that Catherine started to walk towards the group and to the heartache that was sure to come.