Author's Note: This is the final chapter! I hope you guys enjoyed reading my fic. Thanks to the peeps who have been baring with me and have been giving me feedback all along. Thanks to my twinny for well being my twin :p and thanks to Michelle again for reading and being so enthusiastic. I already have ideas for a part 2 but that's going to have to wait till after my midterms. But the more reviewing, the faster I'm willing to work ;) Enjoy!

Chapter 12: The end of the intern?

Catherine took the night off, she was feeling so miserable. Maybe doing some fun things with Lindsey would help keeping her mind of things. Lindsey wanted to go to the cinema, which they did. Finally, after a long time, they were doing normal mother daughter things. Catherine felt she had been neglecting Lindsey a bit with all the things happening at the lab. She also hoped that Lindsey would open up a little bit to her, and maybe tell what Evelyn had said to her.

Sara was working on a case with Warrick, which seemed to consume all of her. She was unaware of what went on in the other side of the lab.

Grissom had called Evelyn in for an evaluation. He had read Catherine's reports and evaluations and in the past week he had taken Evelyn to crime scenes and read her reports about them. Overall he was very satisfied about the young woman, which he hadn't expected otherwise since she was top of her class and caught his eye right away during a lecture he gave a while ago.

The only problem was going to be Ecklie. He had to decide whether Evelyn was going to get a position here at the crime lab or if she had to start looking for a job elsewhere. Grissom was sure Ecklie would hire Evelyn, she had done a good job and she even did her paperwork well, which was something Ecklie disliked about the night shift.

After a good talk with Grissom, Evelyn felt quite secure. In the morning when she had her talk with Ecklie, things would work out. Evelyn was allowed to go home early since she had an appointment in the morning, not very well planned but Ecklie was known to be evil. Or at least, so she heard from Sara.

Evelyn decided to catch a movie before going home. She hadn't watched a movie in ages. When she arrived at the cinema she bumped into Catherine and Lindsay. Well it was more that Lindsay bumped into Evelyn.

"Evelyn!" Lindsay shouted while she came running to Evelyn.

"Hey kid" Evelyn said, she saw Catherine walking towards her and smiled at her before facing Lindsay "so you are out with your mom!" Evelyn said enthusiastically. It was good to see that Catherine was trying to get closer to her daughter.

"Yeah!" Lindsay replied "Wanna come with us?" she asked.

Evelyn looked at Catherine and mouthed a 'Hi'. Catherine nodded and smiled "It would be cool if you'd watch a movie with us" she said, stressing the cool with a grin.

"Sure" Evelyn said. Lindsay seemed very satisfied with that answer.

Lindsay insisted on sitting in the middle so she sat both next to her mother and Evelyn. When the movie ended she was talking about the movie like Evelyn and Catherine hadn't seen it and she needed to explain what happened. Catherine invited Evelyn over to her house to have a drink, so she could get Lindsay in bed on time.

"What can I get you?" Catherine asked

"Some of you charm, so I can convince Ecklie tomorrow" Evelyn said with a grin.

Catherine smiled "You will do fine" she said "Want a glass of wine?"

Evelyn nodded. Before she could say anything Lindsay stormed into the kitchen "Hey Evelyn, wanna see my room?" she said.

While Lindsay showed Evelyn her room, Catherine took the glasses of wine and Lindsay's coke to the living room. Catherine wondered about what Ecklie was going to say to Evelyn. She called for Lindsay to take Evelyn back downstairs so they could have their drink. Lindsay seemed very enthusiastic about having Evelyn around. She came storming down the stairs and had a lot of energy left.

Just when Catherine finally had the chance to talk to Evelyn her phone rang.

"Hello" Catherine said, after telling Lindsay to be quiet.

"Hey Cath, it's me" Nancy said on the other side of the line "I'm sorry but something came up and I can't watch Lindsay tomorrow"

Catherine sighed "It's ok, I'll arrange something" She didn't want to start interrogating her sister, she never cancelled and Catherine was sure Nancy had a really good reason.

"Thanks sis" Nancy said, appreciating not getting any questions from Catherine.

"That's ok, I'll talk to you later" Catherine said before they said their goodbyes.

"Who was that?" Lindsay asked.

"It was your aunt, she can't baby-sit you tomorrow" Catherine explained to Lindsay.

"Good, because I don't need a babysitter anymore" Lindsay said, arms crossed to show her mother this was final.

"And what if that babysitter was me?" Evelyn asked out of the blue, leaving both herself and Catherine in awe.

Catherine looked at Evelyn with big surprise.

"You'd do that?" Catherine asked, wondering if she had missed something or misunderstood what Evelyn just said.

"Sure, if Lindsay is alright with that, I don't mind" Evelyn replied. "I'm sure I know some cool places Lindsay and me can hang out until you get back from work" she said winking at Lindsay.

"Cool" Lindsay said, before turning to her mom "Please, mom, can she?" Lindsay pleaded.

"Sure" Catherine said "but only if you go to bed now and be a good girl." Before Catherine could even finish her sentence Lindsay was already on her way upstairs, surprising Catherine for the second time this evening. What was it that Evelyn had said to her that made her like Evelyn so much? And why did her behaviour change?

"Well, now we can finally talk" Evelyn said with a grin. She took a sip of her wine and sat back on the couch, letting her arm rest on top of the couch.

"What is wrong with you?" Evelyn asked after observing Catherine for a while.

Catherine looked up, she stared at Evelyn for a while. It seemed she lived in another world, Lindsay changed and now it was Evelyn who wanted to help her out.

"I'm fine, just a little tired" Catherine lied. She didn't feel like telling Evelyn what was wrong with her, since Evelyn was part of the problem. She was? What did Evelyn do? Catherine thought to herself, she hadn't quite figured out what made her feel miserable but her own mind was betraying itself now. What had Evelyn done?

Evelyn knew Catherine was lying to her, but the sad look on Catherine's face went along with the don't go there look that Evelyn decided to respect for the time being. Evelyn changed the subject into light talk about work, Catherine seemed more comfortable with that.

It was almost 2 A.M. when Evelyn decided to go home. Catherine was half asleep on the couch and she drank a few glasses of wine too many.

Evelyn was looking at Catherine. It was one hell of a sight to see, she always saw Catherine in a perfect state of well perfectness, and now she was half sitting, half hanging on the couch, the top buttons of her shirt were loose and her hair was messy. It looked kind of cute on her though, but that was just wrong to think.

Catherine got up to bring the glasses to the kitchen and to show Evelyn out. But that didn't work out as well she thought. Apparently she had a few too many and standing up straight seemed like a very hard thing to do.

"Whoa" Evelyn said, taking the glasses from Catherine's hand "it takes a lot of concentration to do this standing up straight thing, you sit down I'll put the glasses in the kitchen" she said, pushing Catherine back into the couch. Man, this was going to be something, she couldn't leave the poor woman on her couch all night. Evelyn decided to put Catherine into bed before leaving.

When Evelyn came back from the kitchen, Catherine was still in the same position with her eyes closed. Evelyn hoped she hadn't fallen asleep yet.

"Cath, no sleeping here, I'll take you upstairs." Evelyn said while trying to get Catherine up to her feet.

Catherine smiled at the thought of letting Evelyn take her upstairs. That thought also confused her what was her problem? Then she realised she was too tired to think anyway and gave in to the situation.

Evelyn tried to support Catherine the best way she could. Fortunately Lindsay had also shown her Catherine's bedroom so she knew where to go.

"Are you staying?" Catherine asked Evelyn when they reached her bedroom. Catherine was clinging on to Evelyn and nuzzled her head into Evelyn's neck.

Evelyn tensed, she liked the thing Catherine was doing, but it was wrong. I can't do this she thought to herself. She took a deep breath and pushed Catherine into her bedroom. Now another problem came up, she couldn't put Catherine into bed with her clothes on. For a second Evelyn hesitated, but she told herself it was just a friend thing to do.

"Come on Cath, work with me here please" Evelyn said while trying to unbutton Catherine's blouse.

Catherine was just smiling at her, and she kept her eyes locked at Evelyn. It made Evelyn feel very uncomfortable. It was like those piercing blue eyes looked straight through her. When Evelyn finally managed to remove Catherine's blouse she folded it and put it on a chair in the room. When she turned around she looked at Catherine.

Catherine just stood there, staring at her with this weird grin on her face. It looked like she was up to something. Evelyn couldn't help but let her eyes inspect Catherine, she was still in great shape.

"Like what you see?" Catherine managed to say.

Evelyn blushed when she realised she was checking out Catherine, that was just so wrong. And Catherine seemed to have noticed too, so it must have been obvious.

"Come on, let's get you into bed. You are drunk Cath" Evelyn said while pushing Catherine on the bed.

Before Catherine lost her balance she managed to grab on to Evelyn, making her fall on the bed with her.

Evelyn didn't know what was happening to her. Catherine had pulled her on top of herself and they were just staring at each other. Suddenly Catherine moved closer and kissed Evelyn. Evelyn stiffened and tried to free herself from Catherine's grip.

"Cath this is wrong, you are drunk, I'm with Sara, this is wrong" She said. "Please take off your trousers yourself" Evelyn pleaded, hoping Catherine would listen.

Fortunately Catherine did. She took of her trousers under the blanket and threw them at Evelyn.

"You have nice lips" Catherine said before falling back into her pillow and closing her eyes.

Evelyn had to laugh at that comment. No one ever said that to her before. She also felt very bad, even though she didn't kiss Catherine back, it still felt like cheating in a way.

Quietly Evelyn left Catherine's house and went home. Once she got there she went straight to bed, she had to be fresh in the morning. Fortunately Sara wasn't home yet so Evelyn didn't have to face her. Maybe tomorrow things would be better.

When Evelyn woke up, she found the bed empty. She wondered where Sara was, she probably worked another double shift. When she looked at the alarm clock she jumped up, she had less than an hour to get ready for her talk with Ecklie.

When Evelyn arrived at the crime lab, it seemed to be deserted. When Evelyn opened her locker a note from Sara fell out:

Hey Bubs (thought I'd call you that as a reply on that teddy bear of yours)

I'm sorry I wasn't there with you this morning, had to pull a double. Good luck with Ecklie, I will see you at home later.

x

Sara

p.s. I picked Bubs because of your bubbly character. Hope you like it!

Evelyn smiled, Bubs sounded good. Evelyn collected herself and went to Ecklie's office. On her way there she ran into Grissom, who wished her good luck with a pat on her shoulder.

When Evelyn sat down, Ecklie smiled at her. She didn't know if it was good or bad, but it looked scary either way.

The talk didn't work out how Evelyn wanted at all. Even though she had a great evaluation, and got a recommendation from both Grissom and Catherine, Ecklie was not going to hire her. He gave the lame excuse of budgetary reasons and Evelyn making the night shift 'too much of a family'. It felt like the air got knocked out of her, Evelyn couldn't believe she was not going to stay here. She finally felt at home somewhere and she got kicked out. Defeated she got up and gave Ecklie a hand. She went to her locker and left the lab.

In the car Evelyn started crying out loud. Why? Why when she finally took her chance, it got stolen from her the second she started feeling at home. Evelyn decided to go to Catherine's house to check on her and make sure she was ok.

Catherine opened the door, wondering who would be there. Her heart sank when she saw Evelyn standing in front of her. In spite of the amount of alcohol she had last night, she could very well remember everything she did, and if she remembered well, she had kissed the woman who was now standing in front of her with tears in her eyes.

Evelyn didn't say anything, she just walked into Catherine's hug. As soon as Catherine wrapped her arms around Evelyn she started sobbing uncontrollably.

Catherine had feared this would happen. When she got to work, she was going to have a word with Ecklie, how could he turn down a brilliant scientist like Evelyn?

"Evelyn, calm down sweetie. It's ok" Catherine tried to calm Evelyn down. She still hadn't closed the door and she felt a bit embarrassed. Catherine managed to turn around and close the door.

"Come sit down" Catherine continued while she tried to get Evelyn to the living room.

"It was all for nothing" Evelyn said between sobs.

Catherine sat down next to Evelyn, who immediately moved closer to Catherine for a hug. Catherine smiled to herself, if only Lindsay was like this to her she'd be one happy woman. She wrapped her arms around Evelyn and just let the young woman cry. She still didn't know what Evelyn's problem was, but apparently Ecklie had just ruined her world.

They both didn't know how long they sat there. But a glance at the watch informed Catherine that she would have to get ready for work soon. She had to go in early today because of a case she was working on. As much as she wanted to stay and talk to Evelyn, she had to go.

"Evelyn, can you look at me please" she asked. Catherine really wanted to apologize for the night before, before going to work.

Evelyn looked at Catherine. Her eyes were red and her whole face was flushed. Catherine cupped Evelyn's face with one hand, even though at first she didn't want to do that, it sort of happened. Catherine cursed herself for doing that, but now her hand was there anyway, she just enjoyed the feeling. Evelyn's face was wet from tears, but her skin was still soft and warm.

"I'm sorry about last night. I remember very well what I did and I'm sorry for it." Now it was Catherine's turn to blush "I don't know what got into me."

Evelyn smiled at Catherine, which made Catherine melt, the face she was looking at with that cute smile looked just like the face of an angel.

"It's ok" Evelyn said "you were drunk."

I think I would've also done that if I wasn't Catherine told herself, kicking herself for what her mind just told her. Now she knew what made her feel so miserable, she was jealous. Jealous of Sara, who got to be with Evelyn, with this wonderful woman who needed to be very well taken care of.

Evelyn looked into Catherine's piercing blue eyes and wondered what was going on in her mind. Catherine had been quiet for a while now and she was just starting at Evelyn.

When Catherine realised she was staring, she looked down at her watch.

"I have to go to work, if you want you can stay here, Nancy will drop Lindsay off in an hour" Catherine said while getting up and handing Evelyn a spare key.

"Thank you, for babysitting Lindsay" she said with a smile.

"Anytime" was al Evelyn could say before Catherine left the house.

Evelyn decided to go home before Lindsay came home. She took a shower and wrote a note for Sara. She put the note on Sara's side of the bed, with the teddy bear Sara gave her in the hospital next to it. It was the perfect thing to go with the note.

Evelyn arrived at Catherine's house just in time. When she got out of her car, Nancy pulled over to drop Lindsay off. Lindsay ran to Evelyn right away and was overexcited about the afternoon they were going to spend together.

"Hi, I'm Nancy Willows, Catherine's sister" Nancy said while stretching out her hand.

"Hi, Evelyn Daniels, erm Catherine is my mentor at work" Evelyn said while shaking Nancy's hand.

"Evelyn is the coolest colleague my mom has" Lindsay said to Nancy to elaborate the story.

"Well I better be off, be good Linds" Nancy said while she got in her car.

"Let's have some fun!" Lindsay said to Evelyn.

"Yeah! I have some cool things planned for us" Evelyn said.

Even though she and Lindsay had great fun that afternoon, Evelyn felt deeply unhappy. Sara and her work were her life, and now one part got taken away from her.

"That was great Evelyn" Lindsay told Evelyn when they drove home "How did you know I liked Pizza Hut?"

Evelyn laughed "Everyone likes Pizza Hut, duh" she said, making Lindsay laugh.

When Catherine came home, she found Evelyn and Lindsay on the couch watching a movie. Lindsay was cuddled up to Evelyn, who had an arm around Lindsay. It was such a cute sight, it made Catherine smile.

"Hey movie freaks" she said with a smile.

Lindsay turned around. When she saw her mom she jumped of the couch to hug her mother "Hey mom" she said while holding on tight to her mother.

"Hey baby" Catherine said while playing with Lindsay's hair "did you have a nice day?"

"Oh yeah, it was great! Evelyn and I went to the park and to Pizza Hut and…" Lindsay turned around to Evelyn and nodded "and I'm going upstairs now to clean my room" she finished her sentence and ran upstairs.

"What did you do to my daughter?" Catherine said with a grin.

"Nothing really, she is a great kid" Evelyn said.

Catherine walked up to Evelyn and stood in front of her. She looked at the younger woman in front of her and didn't quite know what to say.

"I er I better go" Evelyn said while looking at the floor.

Catherine didn't say anything but stepped forward and hugged Evelyn.

"Thank you" Catherine whispered.

Evelyn patted Catherine's back acknowledging the thank you Catherine just whispered to her. Evelyn didn't want to let go, she knew this was the last time she would hug Catherine. And the idea hurt her so much, it made her cry again.

"Thank you for everything Catherine, you are an amazing person, thank you so much" Evelyn muttered between sobs.

Catherine didn't really understand what was going on, she just smiled and kissed Evelyn's forehead.

"You are amazing yourself" Catherine said "No go home to that woman of yours" she added, wiping a tear from her own face.

When Catherine stood in her doorway, waving at Evelyn who left in her car, little did she know that this was the last time she would see Evelyn Daniels.

When Catherine tucked Lindsay in Lindsay had a single tear falling from her cheek.

"Evelyn is gone mom" she said

Catherine looked at Lindsay, not knowing what to say or do. She knew Lindsay was right, she felt it. She just knew it from the way Evelyn had said goodbye.

"Mom, Evelyn is a cool woman, but they hurt her too much when she was little" Lindsay told her mom before she burst into tears.

"What did she tell you baby?" Catherine asked when she held Lindsay.

Lindsay told Catherine everything Evelyn had told her, leaving Catherine in awe.

"And do you know where Evelyn is now?" Catherine asked

"No" Lindsay lied. She had promised not to tell anyone until Evelyn gave her the sign.

When Sara arrived home, she saw Evelyn wasn't there yet. She took a shower and dressed into her favourite clothes, she was going to surprise Evelyn. She smiled to herself when she looked in the mirror, ever since she and Evelyn got together, she was so much happier and she had to say, it looked good on her. Catherine had gone home over an hour ago and Evelyn still wasn't at home, Sara started to worry now. She walked into the bedroom to get her phone, and then she saw it. There was a note on her side of the bed, it was resting on the teddy bear she gave Evelyn in the hospital. The teddy bear with the sad look and the heart which said I'm sorry.

Sara picked up the note and read it, then she read it again and she fell down on her knees this was not happening, not to her, not now, not Evelyn! Sara screamed for a long time, letting the tears run freely over her cheeks. She threw away the note, but the words on that note still haunted her:

Dearest teddy bear,

I'm sorry I have to do this.

I never meant to hurt you. Even though it might be too early to say this to you, but I love you Sara Sidle, you are the most amazing woman I ever met. You will always be in my heart and I will always keep loving you.

Even so I have to go now, I'm sorry

Evelyn