Title: Realisations Of A Hangover 6?

Author: neo-chef

Pairing: Catherine/Sara

Rating: PG for now later on who knows…

Spoilers: anything is fair game

Archive: let me know and it can go anywhere

Disclaimer: If they were mine, I wouldn't have the time or the energy to write about them…

A.N. My sincerest apologies to all my readers. I have found writing really hard of late, so I have been trying to get a decent chapter together rather than rushing out something bad.

Chapter 6

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'Have I gone blind?'

Sara couldn't see anything but inky blackness. The last think she remembered was trying to swallow scaldingly hot coffee. Her tongue was sore but not the way it usually was when you burn it. She could also taste something else through the bitter taste of coffee, strawberry lip gloss.

'Strawberries? When was I tasting strawberries?'

'Ah now I remember. Cath's favourite is strawberry lip gloss.'

'Why do I know that?'

Her mind tried vainly to work its way through the last 2 minutes leading up to her now apparent blindness.

'Burning coffee, choking, Cath stepping up to me, soft lips in contact with mine'

'Cath kissed me? … Cool…'

'Why am I blind?'

A little voice in the back of her mind decided to chip in some vital information.

'Because your eyes are still closed, stupid.'

'Oh…'

Opening her eyes, Sara came face to face with a smirking Catherine.

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Sara had never moved so quickly to get into the driver's seat. Buckling up, she pealed out of the parking lot into the early morning Las Vegas traffic. Looking down she realised she was going 20 miles an hour over the speed limit. Slowing down to a more sedate pace, a good idea considering the couple of beers under her belt, she looked over at her passenger.

Catherine was staring dreamily out the window, watching the passing scenery. Turing back to the driver, she caught Sara's eyes before she quickly diverted them back to the road. A smile crossed Catherine's face as she recounted the evening so far. The two female CSI's were finally developing a friendship beyond the work environment. Sara's bold move of kissing Catherine in the middle of the nightclub, had shocked initially, but it wasn't unwelcome. Catherine had to admit, the younger woman was looking beautiful tonight in her leather pants, they seemed to hug all the right places. Now she couldn't wait to hug all the right places.

Catherine turned in her seat to observe the younger woman. Sara usually seemed so focused when she drove to and from crime scenes. Now she was jittery, squirming around in her seat. Her fingers tapped restlessly to an unheard beat.

"You ok there Sar?" Asked Catherine as they turned towards Catherine's house.

A brief glance over at the older woman displayed the raw emotion visible in Sara's eyes. Sara was usually so in check of her emotions physically but her eyes always gave her away. Catherine was used to judging Sara's mood this way but nothing prepared her for the unrestrained viewing that she got now. Sara's eyes were almost all black and white, only a thin band of iris was still visible in those beautiful chocolate eyes. Sara turned her eyes back to the road as they turned into Catherine's street.

"Yeah I'm ok, why do you have to live so far away?" A smirk played at the edges of the brunette's lips. "This drive is taking entirely too much time."

Cath smiled at the young woman's impatience. "Well then, why don't you drive faster," said Cath as she reached across and run her fingers across the top of Sara's right thigh. Sara could barely suppress a moan as Catherine's finger floated across the leather, moving slowly up and in. The car sped up the last few hundred yards to Catherine's driveway, almost leaving tyre marks as she flew up towards the garage. As Sara stopped the car, Catherine pulled her hand back earning herself a frustrated look from the driver.

"What? Well it's no where near as much fun to tease you if you don't have to focus on something else," said Catherine as she exited the car and walked towards her front door, laughing all the way.

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"You ok baby?" asked Cath with a note of concern in her voice.

Sara could only look back with a stupid grin on her face. Waving her hands in front of Sara's face, Cath tried to bring Sara back from where ever she drifted off too.

"You kissed me?"

"Yes Sara, I thought that was fairly obvious."

"Why did you kiss me?"

"Because I like doing it sweety."

"Will you kiss me again?"

"Are we playing twenty questions now?"

Sara's brow creased like she was in deep thought.

"Can I kiss you?"

Catherine was smirking again. "You don't have to ask. After what happened last night, you never have to ask to kiss me."

"Why, what happened last night?"

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TBC...