You guys… I… Thank you all so much for your amazing and kind words!
Well, here you are. I hope you're not too disappointed.
"Too Late" will be updated soon too. I'm currently going through a stage of "I-can't-write-itis"
Well Sam, update time;) and to the rest of you: read and enjoy. Feel free to drop a line or two ;)

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Jellicos

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Stage four: Cleaning and Caring

Sara hadn't said a word the entire drive to her apartment. After a few attempts of asking questions, Catherine had given up and they drove the last part in silence.

She tried so hard not to look at her, to avoid the long legs, the soft hands on the steering wheel, the blonde cascade of hair falling over her shoulder like a glittering golden waterfall.

Oh hell! When had she gotten this corny?

Well, as long as she kept her big mouth shut, she'd be fine.

"Mind if I come up and use your bathroom?" Sara turned and noticed that Catherine had stopped the car outside her apartment building.

"Uhm, no, I guess not. Come on up." Sara hurried out of the car and up to the door of her building. "Although with this truth serum thing in my system I was hoping to get away from you as soon as possible." Damn it! Why did she have to keep doing that?

Catherine was just grinning and Sara didn't find this reassuring. Not in the slightest!

She'd kept about two steps in front of Catherine all the way up to her apartment, making sure that she couldn't see her co-worker. If she didn't see her, she couldn't say anything embarrassing about her.

Well, this would be fun tomorrow. She was sure that was the only reason why Catherine was still here; to make fun of her tomorrow when the serum had worn off.

"Bathroom is just there on your left." She said quickly as she unlocked the door and stepped in, at all cost avoiding looking at Catherine.

"Thanks." She said softly as she brushed past Sara who tried fruitlessly to suppress a shiver.

Ok, so, this was bad. Sara was pacing her living room until she thought of the wonderful idea of making coffee. Well, as she saw it, this was the situation: She was in her apartment, full of truth serum thanks to Grissom's evil little bugs. Catherine, the female co-worker she'd had the hots for since the beginning of time was currently in her bathroom, fully aware of Sara's situation and finding it increasingly amusing. Ok, yeah, she was screwed.

"You have a lovely bathroom." And you have a lovely voice.

"And you have a lovely ass." Whoa, this was getting ridiculous!

But to her surprise, Catherine just smiled and took one of the coffee cups from her hand.

"Thank you." She smirked and Sara blushed slightly. "Come sit with me."

"I really shouldn't." Ok Sara, that was good. Keep being vague and you might get away with this.

"Why not?" Oh good, just great. Catherine was looking up at her over her steaming cup of coffee, those baby blues fixed on her. This would really help matters.

"Because you will ask me questions I don't think you want answered." She replied honestly. As if she had a choice.

"Please?" The blonde coaxed her.

"Don't say I didn't warn you." Sara agreed and hesitantly made her way over to the couch to sit next to the object of her most heated fantasies.

Yeah, that kind of thinking was good right now. It certainly wouldn't put her in any kind of awkward situation.

"You like my ass?" Catherine asked as if it was the most casual thing you could ask a co-worker.

"You know I do. In fact, I think you know that about 95 percent of the lab likes your ass." Sara had decided to go with the flow, to surrender. It couldn't get much worse than disaster, right?

"Who are the other five percent?" Cute Catherine, very cute. But it took the focus of Sara for a brief moment, so she was happy to reply.

"Gay males I assume." She shrugged.

"Oh." The blonde took another sip of her coffee. "What about gay females?"

"As far as I know, they like it." Way to avoid the topic. Good job Sidle!

"We have many gay females at the lab?"

"A few." Wow, this was going well.

"Who?" Uh-oh. Spoke too soon.

"Well, Wendy, Sofia and me I guess." Nice, make it casual.

"How do you know?" Ok, no reaction there. Sara wasn't sure whether to be relieved or disappointed.

"Well, Wendy is still swooning over you, Sofia asked me out once and I'm pretty sure I know my own preference. Well, I do now anyways. A bit of confusion before but hey, we all go through that, right?" Wow, babbling works even with truth serum in your system.

"Sofia asked you out?" Wait, was that jealousy? No, that was too much to ask.

"Yeah, a while ago." Why was she caring about who asked Sara out and not why Wendy had a crush on her, or why Sara knew that?

"So… you're dating Sofia then?" Did it suddenly get cold in here?

"No, I said she asked me out. I didn't say yes, she's not my type. She's very sweet and she's blonde which is a plus, but she's not the one I wanted to ask me out." Ok, where the hell did the vague thing go!

"So you like blondes then?" Oh, there was that amused tone again. Shit, Sara was in trouble now.

"I like a blonde." Good girl, the vague answers where back. Well, kind of.

"A blonde female I suppose?" Oh, now she was just fishing.

"No, a blonde poodle. You know what you want to ask, we both do! So why not just cut to the chase? Ask me!" Sara had enough. Placing her cup firmly on the coffee table, she turned to face Catherine who looked slightly shocked.

"I…" She cleared her throat. "Ask you what?"

"God!" Throwing her hands up in the air, Sara rose from her seat. "Do you have any idea how you infuriate me! You just piss me off to no end, but I never tell you anymore because I want you to like me, for us to be able to work together. Still, I miss the times we'd fight like mad only because you are so fucking hot when you're angry. And even now when you're looking at me like I'm completely insane I just want to grab you and kiss you." Well Sara. That should get her to clear out of here pretty damn quick.

"You want to kiss me?" Putting her cup down next to Sara's, Catherine stood up and walked the few steps that had put some air between them.

Sara nodded. She didn't know how to speak; it seemed to be a skill requiring mental capacities she currently did not possess.

"Then what are you waiting for?" The husky whisper sent shivers down Sara's spine, and she started wondering if the bug venom had included hallucinogenic substances as well.

"You… you're mocking me." Was all Sara could think.

"Do you want me?" Catherine's words rand through her body like tidal waves.

"Yes." She managed to utter, stuttering and shaking, one hand reaching up to cup the soft features of the face in front of her. Maybe if she touched her it would seem less dreamlike, more real. But the sight of Catherine Willows leaning into her touch made it all seem more like a dream than ever.

"Kiss me." The words where barely spoken, they where breathed, mouthed. But they where obeyed.

Sara was surprised to find that those lips where even softer than she'd dreamed them to be and as Catherine responded to the kiss, there seemed to be some sort of balloon effect in her chest.

The hand that had cupped Catherine's cheek was now making its way to bury itself in her soft blonde hair. A moan of pure contentment rose from her throat.

The kiss that had started off soft and innocent, quickly took a different turn as Catherine's tongue flickered over Sara's bottom lip, flesh nipping at flesh, begging for entrance.

Entrance Sara was all too willing to give and as velvety tongues started a heated battle for dominance, the brunette felt her back meeting something hard. Thank god for walls.

Catherine's hands had moved from around her neck to Sara's sides, the intensity in which she led the dance made Sara groan as she fought to keep standing upright.

All too soon the need for air became an issue but still, Sara found herself leaning in for more as Catherine pulled away.

"Mmmm…" Was all she could utter, her eyes still closed as she listened to Catherine trying to get her ragged breath under some control.

"Wow…" Catherine breathed as their foreheads met.

Sara couldn't hold back the giggle.

"What?" The confused look that met her under the blonde bangs made Sara smile.

"I kissed you." She mused.

"Trust me, I was there." Catherine replied, still looking a bit confused, but smiling none the less.

"No, you don't understand." Sara shook her head. "I kissed Catherine Willows." She had to make this clear. Especially since Catherine was looking at her like she just lost her mind for good. "You know how long I've been dreaming of this?" She confessed in a low breathed voice.

"Tell me…" Catherine whispered back.

"No." Sara shook her head again but didn't pull back.

"No?" There was a hint of uncertainty in her voice.

"No, not yet. I'm not telling you any more until you take me out to dinner." Sara grinned smugly as she saw the look on the blonde's face change from worry to relief.

"Be ready in two hours." Catherine whispered in her ear, nibbling at her earlobe and earning herself a gasp.

Sara just nodded her head and with the sexiest smirk she'd ever seen in her life, Catherine was out the door.

As soon as the front door clicked shut, Sara's legs gave in and she slid down the wall sitting with her arms on her knees.

"I love bugs."

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