He was coming to her house now in exactly five minutes and sixteen seconds. Lindsey had been counting down the minutes and seconds to when Warrick should be arriving at her house.

Lindsey was pacing back and forth by the front door of her home. She had a tendency to do this when she was excited. But who could blame her. The one guy who she had always been fond of and had always secretly hoped might get together with her mom was finally doing just that. Warrick was always nice to her and more important. He was nice to her mom.

"Lindsey, I've never seen a girl pace so much in all my life."

"I know Mom but I'm excited. Warrick is coming here and you know what that means. Let me tell you about the stages. First we have the dating stage, then the marriage stage and I'm not sure about it, but does the sex stage come in with the dating or marriage stage?"

"Lindsey!"

"What?" Lindsey replied while giving her mother puppy eyes and trying to look innocent.

"You can figure out about the sex stage when you get older. Actually change that, for you it comes in marriage."

By this time Lindsey had stopped pacing and was now sitting down on the couch beside her mother.

The two girls started laughing because they were thinking of how religious they must sound.

"Oh yeah, mom since its Friday and I don't have school tomorrow, I was wondering if I could go to the movies later on tonight after you go to work."

"With who?"

"Oh just Cassandra and I."

"What time is the movie?"

"Well, we were thinking about catching the eight twenty-five show. Cassandra's mom would pick me up at half past seven or around then cause Cassandra needs to run by Old Navy to exchange a shirt. Then we would go to the movie, Cassandra's mom would pick us up when it's done, drop me off and then that would be it. That all right with you?"

"Yeah I'm good with that."

"Great, I'm gonna go call Cassandra to tell her that you said yes."

Just as Lindsey ran out of the room, her mother called out to her, "You might want to hold that thought."

She ran back into the room and said "Why?"

"Because someone just pulled into the driveway."

Lindsey smiled because she knew her mother was referring to Warrick.

Catherine had supper cooking and it should be done by five. They would all eat together and just basically socialize for the evening until Cath and Warrick would leave for work.

The doorbell rang and Lindsey jumped to her feet and ran to greet Warrick at the door.

Catherine stood up too and walked over behind Lindsey.

Lindsey pulled open the door and to see Warrick standing there looking at here and her mother with loving eyes.

"Hey Linds." Warrick said to greet her.

"Hi Warrick."

"And hi to you to Cath."

"Hi Rick. Come on in."

Warrick stepped inside the house and took off his coat. Catherine took it from him and hung it up in the side closet. She then went over to Warrick where he gave her a kiss on the cheek.

The three went in and sat down in the living room. Catherine and Lindsey on the couch and Warrick on one of the chairs.

The three talked about everything. How Lindsey made out on her tests at school, what she had for homework and she even told them about a big feud going on in her class against two groups.

Warrick was really enjoying hearing about Lindsey's day. Catherine could see it on his eyes.

The three talked about their most embarrassing moments. Catherine found out some thing about Warrick that she had never known.

Warrick started off with his, "When I was young I was obsessed with superman and

insisted that everyone called me Superman. But thats not the worst part. When I was seven, I had gotten a superman costume for Halloween which I had been very proud of. The week after Halloween, I had put on the superman costume and refused to take it off. I wore it to school, to bed, everywhere I went for one whole week. No matter what my grandma would say or do she couldn't get it off of me. That week I wouldn't even take it off to get a bath because I knew that my grandma would take it and hide it, so I just didn't get in the tub at all. Finally at the end of the week my grandma had decided that she was going to get it off me no matter what and thats what she did. My grandma got a few of her friends together and they held me down while she finally got it off of me. But I might add that it took her 20 minutes to. People still call me Superman too, just to get on my nerves."

"I didn't know that." Catherine said while laughing.

Lindsey was rolling around on the floor laughing. Literally rolling around on the floor. She was trying to picture him running around in a little superman costume. She was laughing so hard that tears started rolling down her face. It was kind of hard not to. Warrick was actually laughing at himself. For the rest of the entire night about every twenty minutes Lindsey would just burst out laughing and say something along the lines of, "You actually didn't take a bath for week.". Of course she had to say it in between giggles.

At the dinner table, they kept talking about many more things. Lindsey wanted to know about their scariest moments on the job.

When they were done eating their meal, all three helped clean up. Lindsey did the dishes which was her ususal chore. Catherine dried and put the dishes away and Warrick cleaned up all the left overs.

They then went back to the living room but this time the seating was different. Catherine and Warrick were on the couch and Lindsey was in the chair.

Lindsey said to Warrick, "So tell me Warrick, when do you plan on moving in with us?"

This got a gasp out of Catherine. "Lindsey!"

"What mom. Somebody needs to ask."

"Cath its fine. Can't blame her for wondering." Warrick then gave Lindsey a little wink which Catherine saw out of the corner of her eye. Lindsey just smiled.

Catherine thought to herself, Is my daughter and my boyfriend gaining up on me?

This night was going perfectly. Lindsey seemed to be loving Warrick and Warrick seemed to be loving her. Catherine couldn't have been happier. Then it came time for Warrick to go back home to get ready for his shift.

Warrick said goodbye to Lindsey and she said goodbye to him. Then she went off to call Cassandra, leaving Catherine and Warrick alone.

Catherine got up to get Warrick's coat for him and then she stood beside him at the door.

"Rick, did you see this. She really likes you."

"You should be glad that we both feel the same way about each other. Thats one amazing girl you've got there Cath."

"I couldn't be more proud of her."

Warrick put his arms on Catherine's hips and pulled her body up against his. She draped her arms around his neck and moved her face up to his. Their lips touched. At first it was just a romantic kiss. Then it turned into passion and then they were frenching the hell out of each other.

Lindsey saw this from her hiding place and all of a sudden jumped out at them and said to her mom, "I think the sex stage is gonna come for you while you're dating."

Catherine's mouth dropped open but before she had time to say anything, Lindsey had quickly sprinted up the stairs to her room.

"What was . . ."

"Oh nothing." Catherine replied to Warrick with a smile on her face. "Kiss me."

"You twisted my arm."

Catherine let out a low moan as Warrick began to kiss her again. Lindsey wasn't watching this time. She was now calling Cassandra for real, to tell her about the movie.

Warrick gently broke the kiss, murmured "See you later hun." in Catherine's ear and then left the house. He wished that the kiss had never ended but knowing that Catherine felt the same way made up for it. But duty calls and in his case that means looking at dead bodies.

He knew that this night had gone well, Catherine loved him and Lindsey was treating him almost like a father.

Now he had to worry about Ecklie and how the shift changes went.

TBC