Hey everyone, I'm sorry this took so long to finish. I have been trying to write this chapter for about 2 weeks now, and am still not completely satisfied with it. But I finally something out that is acceptable and I hope you guys enjoy it! I want to thank everyone for their reviews and kind words and for sticking this one out with me! :)

ps. Any mistakes are mine, it's late and I'm tired but I didn't want to keep you guys waiting any longer! lol


"Ok, yup, after shift. Yes dear. Ok, I love you too."

Catherine listened around the corner as Grissom hung up the phone. Who in the world was he talking to? "Dear?" "Love you?" She had some dirt to dig and Catherine was making it her personal goal to find out who Grissom was dating.

"Hey Gil," she said flowing into the room, "You busy?"

"Hello Catherine," Grissom responded hoping Catherine hadn't just heard him on the phone. "No, I'm just finishing up some paperwork."

"Oh, good. Well I had something I wanted to talk to you about."

"And what might that be Catherine? Something bothering you about the job? Is it Greg again? I told him to stop waiting for you and Sara to get out of the showers…"

"What? He does that?" Catherine laughed, "No, it's not about Greg, although I am going to start paying more attention to him when I shower around here. Actually I was going to ask you about something."

"What is it Catherine?"

"Ok, well I've got this friend….

"Catherine if you are trying to set me up, I'm not interested."

"Gil, why do you always assume I'm trying to divulge into your personal life?"

"Because Catherine, most of the time you are."

"Hmph," Catherine leaned back in her chair and sighed. This was going to be harder than she thought.

"So there is no way your interested then?"

"No. Sorry."

"Is it because you're dating someone else? You've been leaving work on time lately. I mean Gil, if you've got yourself a lady then I'm happy for ya, I swear. I just want to be in the loop is all."

"Catherine, there is no 'loop' to be in…I just," Grissom was cut off with the ringing of his cell phone.

"Excuse me Cath…Grissom."

"Oh really? Yes that's fine." Grissom continued to answer Sara's questions in a very short manner letting her know that he was not alone.

Catherine took the hint, got up and left Grissom's office whispering that she would be back to finish this conversation.

"Gosh honey, Catherine is trying to set me up with one of her friends again."

"No, Dear, stop laughing. It's really not that funny at all."

"No, it isn't. I'm hanging up now. Exactly, that's what I thought. Ok, I will see you soon then. I love you too. Bye"

Grissom hung up the phone for the second time. He got up from his desk and collected his things to return home. When leaving his office he just missed Catherine slipping around the corner and down the hallway with information overload running through her head.

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"Mom, mom…where are you?"

"I'm in the kitchen sweetheart."

Lindsey ran down the hallway and into the kitchen where Catherine was making breakfast.

"What is it honey?"

"Ok, so there is this class at school, and we are learning all sorts of cool stuff about eating healthy, and cooking for ourselves."

"Ok…" Catherine said wondering what he daughter was about to ask.

"Well our teacher told us about this really cool store. Can we go mom, please? Can we?"

"Sure Linds, where is it?"

"That's the thing, see it's a little further away than the normal grocery store, but it's supposed to be so good for you, and my teacher said…"

"Linds, settle down, it's okay. If you are going to eat this healthy food and are interested in trying it then I'm definitely willing to drive you there."

Lindsey hugged her mom and ran back to her bedroom.

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"Hey Babe, you ready to go shopping?"

"Not until I've punished you for laughing at me early about Catherine."

"Punish me huh?"

"Yep" Grissom said while pinning Sara against the island of their kitchen and attacking her mouth. He slowly assaulted her neck before moving back up to her mouth for one final kiss.

"That was a punishment?" Sara said breathlessly.

"The best kind I think." Grissom smirked.

"Agreed" Smiled Sara before grabbing her purse and heading out the door.


"Ok, so it's called 'Apples for you'"

"Hmm…clever" Said Catherine pulling off the highway. "Should be easy enough to find with the GPS."

"Sweet, thanks again for driving me mom."

"No problem sweetheart."

Ten minutes later they pulled into the parking lot of 'Apples for you' and walked inside. It was a cute store, at one time was probably an old house and each of the rooms was dedicated to something different. The front room was filled with organic pastas and sauces with different kinds of vegetables.

The next room was filled with anything from cereal to chips to fruit snacks, everything organic of course. And the back room had juices, fruit, a cooler of different cuts of meat, and a collection of small random items people may throw in the basket before checking out.

'This is a nice little store' Catherine thought to herself, 'although it is a little pricey.'

Lindsey took off as soon as they were in the store so Catherine hung back browsing the different kinds of meat they offered.

"Schools going good, that is actually how I found out about this place," said Lindsey.

'Well that's odd, I wonder who she could be talking to here.' Catherine thought overhearing Lindsey's voice.

"Wow Linds, that's great." Replied Sara, "I'm really glad that you are enjoying school."

"Yea, my mom is glad too I think. She should be around here someone actually."

"Oh, she is? I thought you'd be here with friends."

"No, not this time. I thought it would be fun if me and mom did this together. I'll go and try to find her."

"Sure, yea that's great." Sara said unsure of herself.

Lindsey spotted her mom around the corner and pulled her by the arm into the room Sara was in. "Mom, look who I found."

"Well hey there Sara." Catherine said, noticing Sara looked a little nervous.

"Hey Cath. What brings you to this side of town?" Sara asked looking around.

"Oh, just shopping with Linds. She heard about this place at school so we thought we'd check it out. Do you come here often?"

"Uh, yea actually a few times month. It's just easiest to find organic and vegetarian stuff here."

"Yea I bet. I was just looking through all the stuff they have, a pretty big variety for such a small store."

At that moment Grissom was about to walk in and meet Sara. He noticed who she was talking to however and tried to sneak away without being seen.

"Hey, Uncle Gil! Over here Uncle Gil"

"Oh, hey Lindsey, Catherine, Sara. What brings you guys here?"

"I heard about this place from school, and Sara said she comes here all the time. Don't ya Sara?"

"Yup, yea it's uh, you know easier to find stuff here."

"Right, ok well I was just leaving actually so I guess I will see you guys all later then."

"Yea ok, bye Griss."

"Bye Gil." "Bye Uncle Gil!"

Grissom left the store empty handed but waited in the car until Sara was done shopping. She said he goodbyes to Catherine and Lindsey and hurried through the store. She was just getting into the passenger seat of the car when Catherine and Lindsey exited the store.

"Thanks again for bringing me here mom. I hope we like this food."

"Me too Linds. I still can't believe Gil and Sara were both here though."

"Why is that so weird mom? Look, they even drove together," Lindsey said pointing across the parking lot.

'Well I'll be damned,' Catherine thought to herself. 'No wonder he never wanted to accept my blind dates.'