Title: Seven Deadly Sins

Author: Lexi Lou Who

Summary: People commit at least one of the seven deadly sins every day. Some commit them more than others…. Post 'Grave Danger'

Warnings: Angst, Possible Romances, Drabbles, Post 'Grave Danger'

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters you see here. I'll bring them back in one piece.

A/N: Lexi here! Here's chapter 2, as I promised. Hope you enjoy it!

Thanks to Shaqhian for Beta- Reading. Kudos to you!


Chapter 2: Catherine is Lust

Catherine never looks back on the past.

But sometimes she can't help it. Sometimes a certain case, a certain victim or suspect or memories would bring her back to the memories of her days as a stripper, dancing around the pole for cash to feed and support her daughter, to support her now dead ex husband, Eddie. She couldn't help it. It used to be her life.

It still is sometimes..

People, mostly men, will look at her body even now, past her stripper days, as she walks by or interviews them for a case. Some daring people will even catcall at her or make lewd comments. But lewd comments and catcalls were very rare. She also sometimes revisits the strip club she used to work at with her best friend, Stephanie; who was killed in years ago. They would never find her killer because Jimmy, the cop who got her into this profession, tainted evidence because he believed that an innocent man did it.

Catherine felt wetness in her eyes and a tear slip down her cheek and it brought her back to where she was; in the Tahoe, back at the crime lab parking lot, alone. She gripped the steering wheel and continued to think.

It must've been when Stephanie died that she woke up and realized how stupid this was. Sure, it brought in money she needed and she was grateful. But stripping wasn't the only way to get money. So she went to night school and soon left the pole alone, leaving it for some other, pretty young woman to take it and move on with her life.

Her mind then wandered to Eddie, her ex-husband. That was another part of her life that had left her when he had died that night. She didn't even want to spend time dawdling on his death and how close Lindsey had been to joining him. She had moved on from Eddie by dating other men, but it proved that she had bad taste sometimes. One of the men she had dated was a murder suspect and it questioned her working the case. She told herself that she didn't want that.

But all the other men had one thing in common; they didn't satisfy her. Sure, they did for a date or two, but she was really hung up on one certain man. She had always wanted him, but when she heard that he was married, her heart had sunk and her hopes had vanished.

"Cath?" A voice interrupted her thoughts. Catherine turned to find Warrick looking at here. "You alright?" He asked. Catherine let go of the steering wheel and nodded with a sigh.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Just thinking," she said moving so that she was facing Warrick, who had a hand on the door. He nodded and stepped back, allowing Catherine to get out of the car.

"Alright. I'll go inside and get this evidence to Trace," he said and left her with a wave; leaving Catherine to watch the man that she knew she'd never have because she was slow in saying hello.

Catherine is Lust.


A/N: There's Chapter 2! Chapter 3's coming up soon! Please R&R!