Catherine's Nightmare

By Pandy Roxy Chick

Disclaimer: I don't own anybody from CSI I really wish I did especially finding out about episode 5-22 called Weeping Willows.

A/N: I can't forgive myself for what I did to Catherine in chapter one.

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Chapter Two-Letting Someone Know What Happened

Las Vegas Crime Lab. 9:28 p.m. 26th of March 2005. Catherine is sitting in her office crying. Five minutes went by before Greg went past, glanced in then doubled back.

"Hey, Cat. What ya crying about?" Greg asked lightly, trying to keep the worry out of his voice.

Catherine didn't answer, but she did look up. Greg could see in Catherine's eyes that he wasn't wanted so he left, closing the door behind him. Catherine's cell phone rang and she answered it. It was Grissom.

"H-H-Hello," Catherine said between sobs.

"Catherine, where are you? Lindsey rang me and asked if I had seen you. I told her that I hadn't seen you since this morning," Grissom said worriedly, the shaky quality of her voice not lost on him.

"I-I-I'm in my office," Catherine said after a few seconds. She hung up before Grissom could say anything else, knowing that he would be there momentarily.

Less than a minute later, Grissom came in.

"What's wrong Cath?" Grissom asked worriedly.

"I--" Catherine broke off with a sob. "I was raped," she whispered.

"Who raped you?" Grissom asked immediately.

"Do I have to tell you?" Catherine said sarcastically, not being able to help the self-loathing that was building up within her. She should've stopped the son of a bitch!

"Yes, so we can find him." Grissom ignored the sarcasm and just concentrated on who would do such a thing to his colleague.

"D-D-Danny P-P-Pino," Catherine gasped, trying to get her control back.

"I'm gonna take you to the hospital," Grissom said, coming around to Catherine's side of the desk and helping her up.

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Desert Palm hospital. 10:03 p.m. 26th of March 2005.

"Grissom, I'm scared. I don't want him to come and get me again," Catherine admitted, though her mind screamed for him not to show any weakness.

"Just take it easy," Grissom replied gently.

"He knows what I look like; he knows so much about me. What if he comes after me again? Oh my--Lindsey! He could find out about me and my daughter and--" Catherine started to ramble as more hysterical thoughts raced through her head.

"Hey, it is going to be alright. He won't find you. We will catch him," Grissom said fiercely.

"I know we'll catch him. I do have some faith," Catherine joked weakly.

"I'm taking you home," Grissom said.

"No, no, no," Catherine said, shaking her head with each no and backing away from Grissom.

Grissom reached out to her, but pulled his hand quickly away when she flinched. "I'm taking you home," Grissom said again.

"Th-Th-That's where he attacked me," Catherine said, shaking.

"Hey. I didn't know," Grissom said apologetically, sitting down next to her and pulling her into a hug.

"W-When you take me home, will you stay with me?" Catherine asked in a small voice.

"I will," Grissom said, smiling warmly.

"Thanks," Catherine replied, relieved.

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Catherine's house. 10:43 p.m. 26th of March 2005.

Catherine flinched when they got to her house.

"Hey, it's gonna be alright," said Grissom reassuringly.

"There, there is where he raped me," Catherine said, pointing.

"Come on. Let's go inside." Grissom steered her away from the awful place where her worst nightmare occurred.

"Okay," Catherine replied quietly.

They walked to the door, but, before Catherine could put her key in the door, Lindsey opened it.

"Mom! I got so worried when you didn't come home. What happened?" Lindsey asked, stepping aside and letting her mom and Grissom in.

"Lindsey," Catherine said, surprise showing, "What are you doing home?" Her own sorrow and pain was momentarily forgotten when her daughter was home alone.

"I left a note and came home on a bus," Lindsey said, ignoring the chastising glare Catherine sent her.

Catherine sighed. "I'm going to lay down."

Lindsey watched worriedly as her mom made her way upstairs. Then she turned to Grissom. "What's going on with my mom," she interrogated.

"Do you remember Danny Pino?" Grissom asked.

"Yeah I remember that bastard. Why do you ask?" Lindsey secretly relished saying the bad word that described that scumbag to the T.

"Earlier today he--" Grissom hesitated, "he attacked your mom."

"What do you mean attacked my mom?" Lindsey demanded, her blood running cold.

"He raped her," Grissom said reluctantly. Somehow, sharing this information with Lindsey seemed as if he were contaminating her mind. She'd already been through so much and this was needed information.

"Oh my god. Where?" Lindsey asked, sitting down heavily on the couch.

The fact that Lindsey wasn't more disturbed bothered him a little. "He followed Catherine home and raped her in the garage," replied Grissom.

Lindsey sat there staring at the floor. "I think I'll go check on her." She left Grissom in the living room and went up to her mom's room.

Catherine was lying on her bed crying.

"Mom are you alright?" Lindsey asked, walking into her mom's bedroom and sitting on the bed next to Catherine.

"Apart from wanting to kill Danny, I feel terrible. I did get a chance to shoot him in the leg though so that makes me feel a little better," Catherine said, choking out a laugh and breaking down and crying in her daughter's arms.

"Hey, it's gonna be ok," Lindsey encouraged, hugging her mom close as a single tear slid down her own face.

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Catherine's house. 10:53 p.m. 26th of March 2005.

Grissom's phone rang. He picked it up and answered it. It was, of course, Sara who he was meant to be out at a scene with.

"Grissom," he said into the phone with a sigh.

"Hi it's me...Sara. Where are you?" asked Sara in reply.

"It doesn't matter. Have you finished processing the scene yet?" Grissom countered evasively.

"Yeah. I'm back at the lab analyzing the evidence that I collected from the scene," Sara hinted.

"I'll be back soon. I have to do something else first," Grissom said before hanging up.

"Lindsey, I'm going out to the garage to collect some evidence," Grissom said to Lindsey who was just coming down the stairs.

"Okay," Lindsey replied, knowing how important the evidence was.

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A/N: I really want to hear what you think about this chapter and which characters you think are gonna be together. One thing, it is not Grissom and Catherine.