too late ch 3
That afternoon Sara was woken by a knock on her door, she dragged herself out of bed and silently cursed whoever was at her door. Sara opened the door and came face to face with Catherine and a bouncing Lindsey. Catherine, noticing the fact that Sara was only half awake, began apologizing.
"Sara I'm so sorry, I told her you where probably sleeping and..."
Noticing the smile on Lindsey's face Sara cut Catherine off.
"It's ok Catherine, what can I do for you?"
Lindsey held up her pink cast.
"You forgot to sign my cast Sara!"
Sara was a little surprised that Lindsey wanted her to sign her cast but invited both Willows girls into her apartment so she could sign it. Lindsey showed Sara what everyone else had written and told her about how cool her friends thought it was that she had a pink cast. It wasn't hard to get sucked into Lindsey's stories, the girl had alot of energy and put all of it into her stories. Before Sara realised what had happened she had agreed to meet Catherine and Lindsey and the park the next day for icecream. She had to hand it to Lindsey, she was sneaky slipping her questions in with the story she was telling.
Both Catherine and Sara where nervous about the next day, sure they worked great together apart from the odd fight here and there but they wheren't exactly friends. The only reason Sara ended up going was because she didn't want to disappoint Lindsey, if it meant being social to Catherine for an hour or two then she could deal with that.
The park was full of kids and their mothers and Sara worried for a while how she was going to find Catherine and Lindsey. She didn't have to look long though for when she turned around a blond girl with a pink cast came running at her in full speed.
"Sara!!!"
"Hi Lindsey! Where's your mom?"
Lindsey pointed to the otherside of the playground.
"She's over there, come on!"
She grabbed Sara's hand and lead her over to the bench her mother was sitting on.
"Hello Catherine."
"Hi Sara."
Neither said anything more and the silence that followed would have become awkward if Lindsey hadn't decided that she wanted icecream right away and began running off towards the icecream stand. The two adults smiled at the impatient girl and joined her to get their icecreams.
Much to the surprise of both Sara and Catherine they found themselves getting along and having interesting discussions. They even ended up going out for dinner all three of them together. Lindsey was thrilled that Sara had dinner with them and even more so when they included her in their conversations. From that point on Sara spent either Saturdays or Sundays in the park with Lindsey and Catherine. The rest of the team also noticed that the two ladies got along better, granted they still had heated discussion but nothing like before and everyone wondered how long it would last.
Sara had grown to like and look forward to the days spent with the Willows, they had only missed one weekend when Sara got called in to work. It was the first time in Sara's life that she didn't look forward to going into work.
It was Friday and Sara had been on a scene for most of the shift and had therefor missed seeing Catherine. She wanted to ask her if they could go to the zoo tomorrow instead of the park, but once she was back in the lab she couldn't find Catherine anywhere.
"Hey Nick, do you know where Catherine is?"
"She's at home."
"Why? Did she go home early?"
"No, she called in sick. She's got a cold and Lindsey has a fever. Why?"
"Oh, nothing. Thanks."
"No problem."
Sara's excitement about going to the zoo would have to wait, she walked into the lockerroom trying to figure out what to do tomorrow since there would be no zoo or park. When she got home her answering machine blinked and she pressed the button to listen to the message.
"Hi Sara, it's Catherine. Both Lindsey and I are sick, she must have gotten some bug going around at school and kindly passed it on to me sigh anyway I just called to tell you we won't make it to the park tomorrow. I'll see you at work on Monday, hopefully, oh and Lindsey says hi."
There was no denying Catherine had one heck of a cold. Sara could tell just from the short message she had left how awful Catherine felt. She hoped both Catherine and Lindsey felt better soon.
When Sara woke up after managing to sleep for a few hours she suddenly knew what she could do to hopefully make Catherine and Lindsey feel a bit better. She got ready and ate a quick breakfast before getting into her car and driving to the store. Some cold medicin, fruits, ice cream and then some juice was bought before she headed over to rent some videos. Sara was staring at all the different videos wondering to her self what kind Lindsey would like, after 5 minutes she decided to ask for help. It was another 10 minutes before she was on her way to Catherine's house.
When she arrived she got the bag and the videos she had rented and walked up and knocked on the door. It took a little while before Catherine opened the door, wearing an old t-shirt and some sweatpants. Catherine always wore nice clothes but for some reason this outfit made her look very cute, a thought that slightly shocked Sara.
"Hi."
"Sara, what are you doing here?"
"I brought some ice cream and movies."
"Lindsey will love you, come on in."
Sara walked inside and Catherine closed the door.
"You'll have to apologize the clothes and general mess, neither me nor Lindsey feel up to doing much."
Sara smiled.
"That's ok, just let me know if there's anything I can do."
Lindsey came walking down the stairs and she looked even worse the Catherine.
"Mommy, you where supposed to finish reading the chapter."
"Hey Lindsey."
"Hi Sara, sorry we couldn't meet you at the park today."
"Don't worry about that kiddo, I brought some movies and ice cream for you."
"You did? Thanks Sara, you're the best!"
Lindsey gave Sara a hug, which Sara happily returned.
"Linds, why don't you pick a movie while I make us some ice cream and then we call all watch the movie together. Unless you have something to do Sara?"
"No, movies and ice cream sounds great."
By the end of the movie both Lindsey and Catherine had fallen asleep. Sara draped a blanket over them before sitting down and looking at the two. They had somehow come to be a big part of her life, maybe a bigger part then she cared to admit. Sara knew she was bi sexual, she'd had realtionships with women before, but her feelings for Catherine had taken her by surprise. Suddenly Sara wasn't looking at a sleeping Catherine anymore, but into a pair of blue eyes.
"Hey..."
"Hey, you ok? You looked miles away."
"Yeah, just thinking."
"Oh."
Catherine looked at Lindsey.
"Did she make it to the end of the movie?"
Sara smiled.
"No, she fell asleep shortly after you did."
"You should have woken me up."
"Nah, you looked too cute."
Catherine looked at Sara, not sure she had heard her correctly. Sara on the other hand wished a hole would just swallow her up. Why on earth did she say that out loud?