Chapter 3:

A/N: So what has it been? Oh about a million years! Thank you to my wonderful reviewers!

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She had waited a year for him. Way more than a year if you thought about it. She'd lusted after him long before Sara joined their team, whether if it was anything more than lust all those years ago or not, nevertheless, she had waited for him. She wasn't going to go anywhere and he knew he could trust her. Tina was already married again for gods sake, and he couldn't even ask Catherine out? Damn morals.


Love of mine some day you will die
But I'll be close behind
I'll follow you into the dark

Catherine couldn't remember ever being in love so deeply. Never had she felt this way about any man before, especially Eddie. Eddie, whether that was love, or a need for stability and acceptance, Catherine wasn't sure she'd ever know. She'd been too mixed up back then to think straight little lone judge love. But if that was love, she had no idea what this was or what it could turn into. Amazing was the only word to describe it. She hated Tina more than ever. Tina had broken Warrick's heart. Tina had left Warrick legally available to her, but too emotionally broken to be with anyone. She had been his friend and listened to problems no one else knew he had. Insecurities and longings. She knew everything about him, even, no especially, the unspoken love he held for her.

No blinding light or tunnels to gates of white
Just our hands clasped so tight
Waiting for the hint of a spark
If Heaven and Hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the No's on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark

He knew he would die for her. Any time, any place. He would sacrifice himself for her with no questions asked. Any man would be crazy not too. She was perfect, and although she'd made it quite clear to him over the years, over the last year especially, how much she cared for him, how much she loved him, he still couldn't believe that she could be all his. All his and no one else's. He couldn't believe she was going to let him love her.

In Catholic school as vicious as Roman rule
I got my knuckles bruised by a lady in black
And I held my tongue as she told me
"Son fear is the heart of love"
So I never went back

She knew they both had rocky pasts. Her, a dancer. Him, a gambler. She was an addiction and he was an addict. Yet it brought her more satisfaction knowing that Warrick appreciated her for who she was, not only how she looked, but who she was inside than dancing ever had. She wasn't sure that she'd ever be able to find a match or a victor to the feeling of being in complete control of a room, to having complete control over every mind in a room… yet he was enough. He was always enough and she didn't know how anyone with him could ever need more.

If Heaven and Hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the No's on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark

He saw the way she was hurt. He saw the way she looked when Eddie and her got divorced, not that Eddie ever did anything in his pathetic life to deserve Catherine. He wasn't even a quarter of what it took to be worthy of Catherine Willows in Warrick's eyes. The other guys came and went, and he could always tell each time she had her heart broken, little did he know he was slowly breaking it all along.

If Heaven and Hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the No's on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark

It was after they got Nick back that she told him how she felt. She told him that if it was him, and if he hadn't have made it, the world would have not only lost him, but it would have lost her too. That's when he decided he had to tell her he felt the same way. Not only for his sake, but he couldn't take the chance that if he died, she'd die too for he didn't think the would go on without Catherine Willows, and he wouldn't want to be responsible for ending the world, would he?

You and me have seen everything to see
From Bangkok to Calgary
And the soles of your shoes are all worn down
The time for sleep is now
It's nothing to cry about
Cause we'll hold each other soon
The blackest of rooms

It was later that night when it happened. He got the phone call and it was all too late. Nothing mattered and the tears ran down his face as he made it to the hospital. There had to have been a mistake. His Catherine wasn't like that, it couldn't have happened to her. But as he approached the hospital room where his fate lay. The hospital room where her fate lay as well.

If Heaven and Hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the No's on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark
Then I'll follow you into the dark

And on the road to recovery, he would be there with her every step of the way. It took the accident for him to tell her. Nick's near death experience and her's as well. It took tragedy but he did it, and he found true love. She found true love too, for they found it together, and together they would stay.

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A/N: Okay, so that could be the ending I guess but I think I'll write one more chapter if I get reviews that is. Thank you muchly for reading !