Alora a calim: hey sorry if you thought the last chapter was a bit rushed but I wanted to finish it in time for Christmas oh well enjoy the next chapter it's still around Christmas I had a case of writers block so it's a bit late.

Ashley pulled up in front of the address Catherine had given her she walked up the drive way and knocked on the door a middle aged woman answered the door.

"Hello what do you want?"

"I'm here to pick up Lindsey."

"Can you verify that her mother was supposed to pick her up."

"Ya she's at the hospital so she sent me, you can call her on her cell to make sure if you want."

"Yes I will hold on a moment."

After a few moments the woman came back with a young girl.

'That must be Lindsey' Ashley thought smiling.

"All right lets go." Ashley said gesturing towards the car.

"Ok" Lindsey replied shyly.

After a few moments in the car Lindsey spoke.

"Why is my mom at the hospital? What happened to her?" Lindsey asked her eyes filled with concern.

"No your mom's ok it's Gil he was Ummm he had an accident and your mom went to the hospital with him."

"Ok is uncle Gil going to be ok?"

"Yes" Ashley replied smiling at the fact she called him uncle Gil.

"You talk a bit different, your not from around here are you."

"Nope, I'm from up north in Newfoundland, Canada."

"Do you get a lot of snow up there?"

"Oh ya! I remember one year we had around five feet!" Ashley said laughing at the look of shock on Lindsey's face.

"Wow!"

"Ya we'd have loads of fun!"

"Then why did you move?"

"Well because I had a problem and to fix it I had to move away."

"Oh"

"So do you know Gil really well?"

"Oh I love seeing him he's really nice and my mom likes him a lot!"

"I see" Ashley said her smile growing broader.

"Here we are!"

Ashley stopped the car and opened the door for Lindsey.

"Come on lets go find your mom"

Lindsey grabbed Ashley's hand when they entered the busy building. Ashley looked at the small child holding her hand and smiled. When they finally got to Gils room Lindsey ran into the room and threw herself into her mothers arms.

"Mom!"

"Hey Linds how was your day?"

"Great! We had a little Christmas party in school!"

"Wow that sounds like fun"

"It was!" Lindsey turned around and gave Gil a small hug.

"Hi butterfly!"

"Hi uncle Gil how do you feel?"

"A lot better thanks to your mom." Gil said winking slyly and then looking at Ashley whose eyes widened and smiled when she realized what had taken place while she was gone and she winked back.

At that moment the doctor walked in to check up on Gil.

"You had a close call there for a minute Mr.Grissom, but you should recover nicely I don't want you to do anything strenuous for the next while and I want someone to stay with you for the next few days.

"He'll stay with me" Catherine said immediately. Gil looked at Catherine with a please-you-don't-need-to look in his eyes and she looked back with an oh-yes-I-need-to look in her eyes.

"All right then it's settled you can leave tomorrow morning if everything looks good." The doctor said as he left the room.

"Cath you didn't-"

"Oh yes I did Mr.Grissom!" Catherine said with a mischievous look in her eyes as she leaned over and kissed him. Lindsey stared at her mother kissing Gil and then broke out into a huge grin, obviously she had been hoping this would happen for a long time.

"It's about time you two got together!" she giggled as they finally broke apart. Everyone in the room burst out laughing.

Alora a calim: I know it wasn't the action packed but I wanted to take a break and write something sweeter and have a bit more of Gil and Catherine, but there will be lots of action in later chapters! REVIEW PLEASE! HAPPY NEW YEARS EVERYONE!