Disclaimer: I don't own any of CSI but I do own the names that are not familiar and the poem(s) later in the story.
Spoilers: Some for Season 6 in future or present chapters.
Summary: It's Valentines Day and Catherine gets a poem from an anonymous person.
Hodges, Greg, Nick, Ecklie, Warrick. Archie, Bobby, Doc, David…. Jim, cutie on days, Vega, Vartann, Ortega, Grissom.
She decided to check off her list.
"Warrick, married." She scratched off his name
"Greg has a girlfriend." She scratched off his name.
"Vega, Vartann, Ortega, Bobby, and Archie; either don't see then everyday, married or taken." She scratched off their names.
"Doc and David married." She scratched off their names.
There were four names left, Hodges, Nick, Ecklie and Grissom.
"Eliminate to two Catherine, two," she told herself, "Hodges? He would have already asked." She scratched off Hodges name, "Ecklie? Well he has flirted a little but I think he knows that I hate him. He probably wouldn't want to have co-worker relationships at work." She scratched off Ecklies name.
Two names were left on her list, Nick and Grissoms. All she had to do was find out what they were doing that night.
She tried to picture herself with Nick. He was hot. Muscular. Young. Then she pictured herself with Grissom. He was hot in a Grssom. He could deliver in many ways with his stare. He was in her age group. She wasn't sure if he was muscular.
But could either if them be this romantic? Especially Grissom. He certainly had the time to.
"Men." She thought.
Catherine felt a little thirsty and remembered her Coke. She noticed that she had left in the Break Room. As she was about to get up and get Grissom came to her door.
"You forgot this," he had an open can of Coke in his hand, "Just bringing it by."
He sat it on her desk. He was about to leave.
"Grissom sit," Catherine said, "We haven't talked in while."
Grissom sat in the chair across from Catherine.
"So," Catherine said, "Meet a new girl? Gotta date? Found a new bug?"
"No. No and no. Nothing new. Shouldn't you be telling me about your date by now?"
"I don't have one Grissom."
"Really?"
"Really. Lindsey has a date, my mother, well I don't really know. But me, I am not going out this year."
"Lindsey has a date?" Grissom asked.
"Yea at some hotel with her boyfriend Scott. Oh yea it Hugo's Cellar that their going to. She should be home around 1:00 to tell me all about it."
"One? One in the morning?" Grissom asked.
"Yea its Valentines Day. Just because I cant have a good one doesn't me she shouldn't."
"Cath your going to let your 13 year old daughter stay out until 1:00 in the morning with a guy? Are you crazy?
"Fourteen year old daughter who happens to be mature and smart. Like me."
"She maybe mature and smart but what about this Scott kid? Will he pressure her to do stuff or go some place? Do you even know the kid?"
"So are you her mother or am I," Catherine asked getting angry. She saw that Grissom had already became angered, "Scott is trying to make an impression on her."
"Mrs. Willows, you have an message up at the front." A voice said from her door.
"Thank you Judy," Catherine said. Catherine got up and left without saying anything to Grissom.
Sorry again for the delay. I hate school. It always takes me away from writing stories. But I will try harder to satisfy me viewers.