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When they pulled up to the scene Buffy sighed and said "Here we go again"
When they got up to the door they noticed that it was open and the seal was broken on it. The girls looked at other and drew their weapons. Catherine carefully pushed the door open and walked in as quietly as possible.
"You look at that spot again and look for anything that could have caught the flash. I'm going to make sure there is no one in the house." wispered Catherine as she nodded to where the body had been.
"Are you sure. You don't want me to help check before I check that spot again?" asked Buffy in a wisper.
"Yeah it's OK, you go and check out that spot." responded Catherine as she started checking the house.
Buffy went to the spot where the body had been and examined it inch by inch with her magnifying glass. She used her flashlight to eluminate the area she was examining. Then she saw something shine and reflect the light of her light. She grabbed her tweezers and small evidence envelope and picked up the object being carefull not to drop it or hold it so hard it flew across the room.
Then Buffy's phone started to vibrate. Carefully Buffy pulled her phone off the clip, never taking her eyes off the object. She looked and saw it was Grissom's Cell then flipped it open.
"Undomniel." Buffy answered.
"Get out of the house!" said Grissom eagerly.
"Well hello to you too boss." said Buffy with a slight chuckle.
"No, I'm serious, get out of the house. Catherine called me and told me that the seal was broken on the door. I grabbed the team and came right over. We've got a infrared camera focused on the house and you and Catherine aren't alone. So bag whatever your holding and get out now!" said Grissom as his voice became wraught with nervousness.
"Alright, we'll be right out Grissom." said Buffy and she closed her phone.
Then Buffy opened it and sent a text message to Catherine. After she put her phone back on it clip she bagged the object and waited for Catherine.
Catherines phone vibrated and she saw it was a text message from Buffy. It read: Griss called. Says weve got company. wants us out now. Im at the door. Catherine shut her phone and put it away but she kept her gun out and raised. Buffy had her gun out as well, she kept her eyes on the move as she waited for Catherine. She got nurvouse after a minute when she didn't see Catherine. Then just as she was about to call Catherine's cell phone she came around the corner.
"Thank god! I was getting worried. Let's get out of here." wispered Buffy as Catherine came towards her.
"Agreed." responded Catherine nevousely.
Buffy motioned for Catherine to go first and took one last look around.
The second Catherine was out of the house she ran for the rest of the team. She stopped next to Grissom and turned to look for Buffy. They all saw Buffy come out of the house, then stop suddenly and her eyes went wide.
"Whats wrong? Why isn't she moving?" Nick asked Grissom.
Grissom's eyes went wide as he realized what was happening. He looked at the camera screen and the others followed his lead.
"Shit!" said Nick as he saw that the other person who had been in the house was right behind Buffy.
Every one turned back to the front door, to Buffy. Grissom started to walk toward her. He felt Catherine's hand on his arm and saw Buffy shake her head. There were tears streaming down her face and Grissom stopped in his tracks.
"Where's her gun? She had it when we went in." asked Catherine.
Then a man appeared behind her and her back arched.
"That's where." said Grissom, "He must have taken it from her when she was coming out."
Then the man wispered something in Buffy's ear. Almost immediately Buffy's expression hardened and her eyes burned with anger. Then the man started to drag her into the house by the back of her vest.
"No!" the whole team said in unison.
Grissom's whole body told him to run to Buffy and grab her, but his mind told him that it would get them both killed so all he could do was watch in horror. Grissom felt Catherine's hand tighten on his arm and he could tell that she was thinking the same thing. He wanted to look back at Catherine but he didn't want to break his eye contact with Buffy.
Then suddenly Buffy grabbed the doorjam just as she past it and pulled herself forward. This caught the man off gaurd and he fell forward right into her. Grissom's heart raced and he heard Nick wispering, cheering Buffy on. when the man had regained his balance and he tried to put his arm around Buffy's neck but she used this to her advantage. Buffy bent her knees a little and kicked the man in the head. She used the doorjam to keep her balance so she wouldn't fall into the house. As she stood up the man got to his feet as well, but buffy had anticipated this. She whipped around and punched in the face, nocking him over. Grissom breathed a sigh of relief and felt Catherine's grip losen and leave his arm. The others had also released the breath they had been holding in and Nick called out for a few cops to go cuff the guy.
While the cops came up to the door Buffy had recovered her gun, which had fallen at her feet, and pointed it at the man who was looking up at her from his back and said with defiance, "No one threatens me and gets away with it."
Buffy left when the cops got to the door. When she got to the team the girls were the first to get to her. They both hugged her at the same time. Catherine's hug was tighter than Sara's and Buffy could barely breathe. When she started gasping for air they let her go and laughed.
Then Grissom gave her a huge hug and said, "All that for one piece of evidence... Yeah, you're definately one of us."
Every one laughed at the comment, but were a little dumb founded that Grissom had given Buffy such a big hug, or a hug at all. They had always known Grissom to be more closed off. Every one knew how he was afraid of human intimacy. He had never had to admit it, it was so apparent. In the previous years every one saw that he wanted to reach out to Sara and make her his, but he was always thought it would ruin the relationship. Not just with her, but with the others as well. When Sara had given the news that her and her boyfriend were going to get married every one could tell that Grissom was totaly crushed. So this display had them all befuddled.
"Buffy What about the evidence you had as you were walking out?" asked Catherine.
Buffy flashed a huge smile and held up the little envelope she had been clinging to for dear life through the whole ordeal.
"Grissom is right you are definately one of us." said Sara as every one laughed.
After every one settled down Grissom said, "Alright, lets get back to the lab and close our cases."
Buffy ran back up to the front step of the house to grab her kit then Grissom, Sara, Greg, Nick, and Warrick got into Grissom's Tahoe and Catherine and Buffy got into Catherine's and they went back to the lab.
"I don't know what you did Buffy, but you did something right." Catherine said with a smile on her face as they left.
"What do you mean Catherine? Did what right?" asked Buffy very confused.
"Grissom. He has never shone any intimate affection towards any one, but he was seriously worried about you. If I hadn't kept my hand on his arm, he would have run for you when you were being pulled into the house." Catherine said with a small chuckle.
"Really? That's interesting. I mean, I saw him start to walk towards me when I first stopped in the door, but I thought... well I don't know what I thought, I was just trying to keep the man behind me to stay behind me. He started talking about how he would kill me if I moved. I was so frightened, I started to cry. Then the bastard said something about knowing my father and that pissed me off so, as you saw, I decided to beat the crap out of him. I don't think he actualy knows my father, but if hes from Massachusetts then he would know about my father." said Buffy as she looked out of the window.
Catherine didn't ask Buffy about her father. She knew that there were still personal secrets that she herself hadn't told the team and she has been there for more than ten years. Catherine knew that in her own time Buffy would tell her coworkers her secret, but it had to be on her time. If any one tried to pressure her into telling, Buffy would close herself off to them and Catherine knew from experience how volital that could be. So she tried to find something different to talk about.
"Were you serious Catherine? About Grissom that is. Is he really that closed off?" asked Buffy as she looked back at her partner.
"Yeah, unfortunately. If he's not out in the field he's in his office burried in his paperwork and he never goes out on the weekends unless he gets dragged by the others, as you've witnessed before. Buffy chuckled, remembering the night she met Grissom. Sara asked him out to dinner once a few years back and he made up some excuse. Not because he didn't want to be with Sara, but because he was afraid to talk about anything but work and he knew that Sara didn't want to talk about work. Buffy gives Catherine a 'Do Tell' kind of look ...Sara and Grissom had been good friends before she had joined the team. Every one knew they liked each other. Sara wanted the relationship to go to the next level, but Grissom was afraid. He didn't want his friendship with the rest of the team or his work to suffer. No matter how much Sara tried to assure him that nothing would suffer he refused and burried himself deeper into his work. Every one saw how much he wanted to make her his. And then when she got married every one knew and could see that he was crushed and that he knew he had screwed up." said Catherine as she paused to turn up the radio, Glamerouse by Fergie was on.
"Here's our song Buffy. Buffy nods with a smile Anyway tonight was the first time in about three years that Grissom has shown any concern so openly. He's been so distant to us we were begining to think he was going into a depression problem. I was going to confront him about it Buffy gives Catherine an 'about time' kind of look ... Well he had seemed fine up untill about three months ago when Sara anounced she was pregnant. That was the lock and key for Grissom. When ever he went to process a scene he never partnered himself with her. Sara thought it was something she had done but we made a point to assure her that it wasn't. That he was pissed at himself for loosing her and he didn't want her to see his shame. She was amazed that he hadn't moved on but at the same time she understood cause she still has some feelings for him as well. She decided to give him his space. She would only talk to him if it was absolutely necisary and never talked about anything outside of work. It was like she had just joined the team all over again. Then at the begining of last week he became a little more social. Which now I know is when he met you. So what I guess I'm trying to say is thank you. If you hadn't talk to him that night he could have gotten worse by now." said Catherine with a smile.
Buffy smiled back at Catherine and looked out the window.
Then her head snapped back to Catherine and she asked, "You don't think he looks at me as Sara's 'replacement' relationship wise do you?"
"No. I can honestly say I don't think he looks at you as a replacement. His expression is totaly different when he looks at you than when he has ever looked at Sara. He's always looked at Sara with a hunger almost lustfull kind of look. When he looks at you he's got this look of total understanding, almost like he's known you for years." said Catherine reassuringly.
"You mean like he looks at you?" asked Buffy with a huge, almost childish smile.
Catherine laughed, "Yes like that, only with a little more curiosity."
They both laughed as Catherine pulled into the lab parking lot. When Catherine parked next to Grissom's Tahoe they started laughing again as the remembered Warricks little "blonde" moment earlier that night.
When they got out and Warrick started to say something about the fact that Catherine had parked right next to Grissom again Buffy and Catherine couldn't help but start laughing yet again. When the rest of the team looked at them questioningly, Grissom and Warrick explained what happened and everyone started to laugh.
When they got up to the lab they all made plans to have breakfast together. When Buffy asked Grissom if he would join them he accepted with a small smile on his face and went back to the evidence in his office. The others were shocked, but Catherine smiled at Buffy knowing that Buffy was trying to help the team to get Grissom to break down the walls he had put up between himself and them.
They all went back to their evidence rooms to finish their work. When Warrick got back to Grissom's office, he noticed Grissom had his classical music on. Warrick smiled also understanding why Buffy had taken the opertunity to ask Grissom. Warrick went back to work with the feeling that everything was going to get way better in the weeks to come.
Well thats the end of my first CSI fanfic...I hope you liked it!!! Please Review!!!