Title: Wishing

Fandom: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Characters: Catherine Willows, Greg Sanders
Prompt: #68. Smile
Word Count: 606
Rating: PG-13
Summary: He had changed. That was the first thing she noticed.
Author's Notes: Catherine's Story. More OOC? No idea... Judge for yourself!

She hated him. Not completely because god, if she didn't love that boy as much as she did, she wouldn't hate him as much as she did right now. If she hated him but didn't love him, she'd ignore the poor boy. It'd be like he was some kind of pebble in her shoe and she couldn't wait to get rid of him. However, that wasn't exactly how she felt for him... She wished she could describe it, but Greg Sanders was just so obvious that you couldn't missed him at all!

He had changed. That was the first thing she noticed. He wasn't Greg Sanders the lab tech anymore. He was Greg Sander the CSI. It was like he had a title change and suddenly, he wasn't the same person anymore. Gone was the care-free, kinda wacky Greg. He had turned into such a serious and depressing person ever since he became a CSI and Catherine half hoped that he hadn't taken that step to change jobs. Of course, she helped him right along but that was before she realized the consequences of such an action.

What she hated the most is that he had been the one that had cheered her up during shift in the first place. He cheered everyone up as a matter of fact. They didn't work together that often anymore so maybe he had gone back. But the few rare times that she did? He wasn't the same anymore. He didn't even make his COFFEE anymore which she had to admit, despite apparently being costly, was hellofadamn good.

Most of all, she missed his smile. That darling (a word she didn't often use) smile that made him even more adorable than before, which to be honest was a difficult thing to do. She never did tell him how much she loved to see him smile, and joke around. She wasn't IN love with him to be exact, but she did love him for sure. She had been so grateful for him for certain occasions that it was hard not to love him at all.

And she couldn't tell him. How exactly would that conversation go?

"Hey, Greg. Did you know you don't smile anymore? Just wanted to tell you."

Oh, that would sure go over well. He'd probably bat an eye and tell her that things change. Or something similar to those lines. She didn't think she could take the rejection. Which was weird. Hell, Catherine Willows being "rejected" by Greg Sanders would probably be the biggest news in the lab. But how could she tell him that she missed his smile? That she missed the Greg that she and Grissom had worked hard to get hired despite his age? She supposed she'd have to live with it little by little...

She walked into the lab's break room after moping for awhile in her office, if that's what you could even call it. She found the coffee pot filled to the brim with new coffee, her being the first to get any and happily took it. Taking a sniff at the flowing steam, she recognized the coffee she was holding and looked around the room to find Greg sitting at the table, asleep with a bit of drool hanging from his lip. Catherine laughed slightly to herself. Maybe he'd come back his own way. Who knows? Maybe her Greg would come back, she thought as she took a seat beside him, sipping her coffee happily.