Author's note: sorry that it took so long before I updated, but I'm literally swamped in papers that I need to finish.
/ Indicates thought process
11.31
Crisis centre.
A still dazed Grissom sat in the middle of the room that now formed the crisis centre. A couple of hours ago he had thought that he had lost everyone he held dear, and know standing in front of him was a battered, covered in blood and grime, but very much alive Catherine. Who over the last hour had told Grissom the details surrounding the explosions. And know Grissom was processing all the information she had given him.
/ At 6.45 Catherine had entered the lab, seeing that almost everyone of the team had already been there for the meeting. The only two missing had been Warrick and Grissom. She had talked to the others and had just gotten some coffee, when the lab was paged by the reception with the request that they all should come upstairs for a few minutes. Not seeing any harm in it (after all there were still two missing members), the crew decided to follow up on the request and had gone to the reception. There they were greeted by a beaming Warrick and a women. He had introduced the women as his wife Tina and had told them that they were going to become parents in a couple of months. Of course (and Grissom thought he heard a bitterness in that sentence) they all had been ecstatic about the news, and were all congratulating the two when Nick was paged.
Excusing himself, he and Sara (who wanted to finish some last minute evidence before the meeting) had went back while the others had talked to the 'just married-soon to be parents' couple. After that part she didn't remember much, just that shortly after Nick and Sara had went to the lab there had been a massive explosion from that direction followed by multiple smaller ones that were all coming closer towards were she and the others had stood. In a reflex she had grabbed Greg and had started dragging him towards the exit, seeing from the corner of her eyes that Warrick had done the same with Tina. They had almost reached the exit when the ceiling above the door had come down. Doing the only thing Catherine could do, she had thrown herself and Greg towards the exit, managing just barely to come out of the building. She admitted that after that things went black for her, but that she had regained consciousness when the paramedics had showed up who had explained to her, after she had refused any treatment until they told her about the situation, that Greg was on his way to the hospital with a broken leg, as were Warrick and Tina (both had been rescued from out of the pile of ceiling plates that had come down), who were both critical. So far there had been no news about the rest of the team, but that was understandable since the entire building was on the verge of collapsing. /
For some strange reason that Grissom couldn't quite understand he didn't feel any relief; here he was just receiving word that most of the team (who he just thought had all died) were alive and the only thing he could think about was 'what about the rest?'
On that exact moment a rescue worker stormed into the room and came to rest in front of him and Catherine.
"Are you two Gil and Catherine?"
"Yes, we are." Gil replied looking at the men who was clearly excited about something.
"Then please come with me, We've got some news about the people who were at the lab during the explosion," and with those words the man turned towards the door and walked away.
Catherine and Grissom looked at each other for a second before they ran after him.
TBC…..sorry it's going to take some time for me to update again, I'm really, really swamped at the moment
