Chapter 4

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Without either of the women noticing they'd been talking for hours. It was like they'd been old friends that hadn't seen each other for a very long time. Neither noticed that they'd been speaking do long until Cath heard her alarm clock going off in her bedroom. "Oh! I'm so sorry." Mona exclaimed, "I didn't realize you had to work tonight."

Cath smiled, "It's okay. I've gone to work on less sleep than this before."

Mona let a small smile creep onto her face. "I know the feeling. Kitty always got me up at noon, usually with lunch ready. Then ever since she was little she would make me go to bed at seven. I think she must've started that when she was seven or eight, but as she got older she got more forceful about it. She always wanted to take care of me."

"She sounds like a great kid." Cath smiled standing up to go get dressed for work, "Would you like go come with me tonight? You could sleep in the extra bedroom if you'd like after shift." She offered.

"Sure. That would be great."

By the time Mona and Cath made their way into the break room Mona could already tell that this place was completely different than anything she'd ever seen before. Sure she'd been to New York a few times when she was younger, but this was something entirely new. If New York thought that is was the city that never slept, it had another think coming; Vegas beat that by a long shot. Sure New York had the glitz and glamour of Broadway, but everywhere you looked in Vegas there were theatres and casinos and twenty-four hour wedding chapels. Both places were definitely different than where she came from, the tiny Minnesota town of Truman, where she'd lived all of her life.

Mona followed as Cath walked through the halls and down to the elevator. She wasn't exactly sure where they were going, but she had a feeling that she shouldn't ask. When the elevator stopped she had a sudden sinking feeling, especially when she stepped off and saw the she was in the basement, directly across from the morgue.

She followed Cath into the cold, dark room where she saw what looked like the form of a girl's body under the white sheet laying on one of the lab tables. Now that she was there she actually started to relax. She couldn't exactly say why, but this place had some sort of soothing power over her.

Without Mona noticing a man walked into the room. She was casually looking around the room, not really studying it, just kind of seeing what's there. As her eyes moved to the door she saw a man. He was a little taller than she was. He had salt and pepper gray hair closer to the salt side. He was dressed in his normal grayish-green smock and leaning on his cane. From the sad look on his face it looked like he'd been having a hard time. No one could tell if it was because of something at work or not, but he didn't look like a happy person.

Cath smiled when she saw him, "Hey Doc. How's it been so far tonight?"

"Slow so far. No new ones."

Cath slowly moved towards the door, "Doc, this is Mona Hoscheid; her daughter is the one who came in last night. Mona, this is Doc Robbins, he's the head of our department down here. Doc, do you think you could keep Mona company for a little while, I have to talk to Grissom."

"No problem, as long as she doesn't mind sitting up with the dead."

"My family used to dig graves, the dead don't bother me."

Cath smiled, "On that note, I'll leave you two to do… whatever it is you do."

A while later Grissom heard a knock on his door. He glanced up just as Cath slipped through the door.

"What's up Cath?" Grissom asked looking back to the stack of papers sitting on his desk.

"Do you remember the girl we found last night? The seventeen-year-old from Minnesota?"

"Of course, why?" he asked, looking at her over his glasses.

Cath told him everything that had happened of the course of the day. He listened carefully while she told the story, nodding at the right times. Finally stopping, she leaned back in the chair.

"Sounds like you've had along day." He said after a long pause. They sat in silence for a little while longer, neither knowing what to say. Finally looking up Cath asked, "Do you remember what that fortune cookie slip we found on the girl said?"

"Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort." He said casually, not even picking his head back up.

"Yeah, well don't you feel that we've sort of gone into our own comfort zone." She asked trying to see what his reaction to this would be.

"What do you mean?" He asked, now looking up and leaning back in his chair.

"I mean, being comfortable with each other is one thing; but that doesn't work when we're so comfortable with the way that things are going now, that one or both of scared to do something different. Do you know what I mean?"

Taking off his glasses and setting them down on the top of the stack, "So what is it that you want to do differently?"

Looking him square in the eyes and taking a deep breath she pursued, "Would it be alright to give you an example rather than tell you?"

"Okay," he replied wearily.

Slowly getting up from her chair, and sauntering around the desk she stopped directly in front of him. Sensing that something was coming he stood up. She easily wrapped her arms around his neck. She brought his head down and put her lips to his in one easy motion. For a moment he stood there stunned. It took him a second to figure out what was happening, but once he did he went with it.

Throwing his arms around her small waist, he leaned her up against the desk further deepening the kiss. Passion, deep and true ran through both of them until neither knew where one stopped and the other began, nor cared for that matter.

They kept kissing until Cath finally ran out of breath. Breaking apart they both hat to gasp for air. They both stood there staring at each other for a long moment, until Gil sat back down in his chair. Cath took a deep breath asking, "Is that a good enough example for you?"

He smirked, "It's not exactly a discomfort, but then again it's not something we do on a normal basis."

She smiled back at him and leaned in, stealing a small kiss, "I better go check on Mona. I'll be back later."

Getting up quickly he said, "Not so fast."

She turned to look at him, confused. He went up to her and kissed her again, with even more passion than the first. He broke the kiss quickly, but still left her head fuzzy, "Okay, now I'll let you go."

Leaving the room quickly, still in a daze she made her way to the elevator. On the ride down she thought about the events of the day. She still couldn't wrap her mind around it. First Mona shows up on her doorstep, then practically making out with Grissom in his office, not that she was going to complain.

The doors of the elevator opened suddenly, giving her a perfect view of the morgue. She could see Doc leaning against one of the tables with Mona in his arms. You could tell from the way her body convulsed that she was sobbing uncontrollably.

Cath suddenly felt two strong arms wrap around her waist from behind. From the scent of his cologne she could immediately tell that it was Grissom. Instantly bursting into tears she turned in his arms and hugged him like she was holding on for dear life. After a few moments of sobbing she raised her head, "I'm sorry. I just can't stop thinking about being in her place. I mean, I couldn't imagine what I would do if something like this would happen to Lindsey."

"We've had this discussion before Cath. Nothing is going to happen to you or to Lindsey." He said lightly stoking her hair.

She looked up suddenly, "How can you say that Gil! How do you know that it won't happen?"

"I know, because I'm here for both of you. I won't let anything happen to either of you."

She smiled and hugged him again. "Don't leave me Gil. I love you."

"I love you too." Gil said kissing her again.

A/N: So this is the end. I hope you all liked it. I know it was kind of short and I also know that it took forever. I do have an explanation for that. I actually lost my notebook for over three months so I apologize. Please review. P.S. if you do flames. Please write them well.