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"Well Miss Sidle, I'd suggest under the circumstances that you stay on the iron tablets a while longer, but all in all everything looks good." The doctor said, dropping the folder of notes onto the desk. Sara gripped Catherine's hand tightly. After a lot of talking, and a few imaginative persuasion techniques on Catherine's part, the blonde had eventually convinced Sara to see her doctor. And now Sara was making sure that Cath was not going anywhere.

"So I can go?" She asked eagerly. Catherine tried to hide her smile at Sara's forthrightness; her young girlfriend obviously did not like doctors.

"Almost." The dark-haired man smiled. "I'll just refill that prescription for you." He disappeared through a door to the side of the room, leaving the ladies alone.

"See, not that bad huh?" Cath nudged Sara playfully.

"If I recall correctly you weren't the one with the needle in her arm." Sara mumbled, rubbing the tiny mark from the blood test absently. Cath smiled and brought Sara's hand to her lips, peppering a soft kiss onto their conjoined fingers.

"I'm proud of you." She whispered. "My brave girl."

X x x

Catherine drifted into the break room, tired and stressed, and a huge smile graced her face when she saw the only other occupant in the room. Said person was leaning casually against the counter reading a magazine as the coffee pot heated up. Smirking, the blonde crept up behind her and in one quick but soft movement she grabbed the brunette's slender waist; "Hey gorgeous."

Sara jumped out of her skin and turned her body around as much as Cath's current position would allow. "Jesus Cath!" she gasped. Catherine couldn't help laughing.

"Sorry I couldn't resist." She released Sara and turned around, only to feel something hit her ass sharply. She spun around with a stunned expression. And Sara Sidle – towel in hand – looked back at her, a picture of innocence, except for the small smile twitching at her lips.

"Alright Miss Sidle, you asked for it," reaching beside her Cath picked up another towel and swatted at Sara's midriff. They swung at each other a couple of times before Catherine threw the towel around Sara's middle, catching it again so it formed a belt around Sara's back. She pulled it towards her, dragging the brunette with it. She draped her arms around Sara's neck, letting the towel slide fall to the floor, silent and forgotten. Lost in the moment, Catherine pressed a kiss to Sara's lips. They're eyes drifted closed and their embrace deepened slowly. Their surroundings became hazy and sounds faded to nothing as they stood, wrapped in each other, alone.

Surely alone...

X x x

"What the Hell!" The girls leapt apart like they'd been electrocuted.

Sara grabbed the counter behind her for support while Catherine stumbled over her feet and fell onto a stool. Both sets of eyes locked onto their interrupter.

Conrad Ecklie.

"Well?" He asked slowly, "What the hell are you doing?" The balding man demanded. Catherine stood back up and reached out a hand to Sara. Their fingers interlocked as they inched away from their ever reddening boss. For the first time they noticed the boys stood behind him, staring at them in utter shock. Grissom stepped forward from the group, a confusing mix of hurt and bewilderment in his eyes.

"Catherine?" He asked hopefully, avoiding all eye contact with Sara. The blonde looked down, biting the inside of her cheek nervously. Her eyes shifted up, latching onto Grissom's. She didn't say anything, but the look behind her blue orbs spoke volumes. He swung his gaze to Sara who met it with a steely stare.

A wholly inappropriate laugh broke the tension suffocating the team. Greg bit his tongue when he realised that everyone was staring at him, but he couldn't keep the smile off his face.

"Whoa!" Was all he could muster. Nick and Warrick, finally shaken out of their shock, exchanged looks and grinned at the girls.

"So, you girls are ...? No way!" Nick exclaimed, shaking his head in bemusement.

"Yeah, how'd we miss that?" Warrick chuckled. Sara and Catherine exchanged understanding smiles.

"Excuse me!" Ecklie announced. "I'm still waiting for an answer."

"Isn't it obvious?" Sara answered uneasily. Cath suppressed a smirk at her partner's dig, but Ecklie clearly didn't see the funny side, in fact he looked like he was about to blow a fuse.

"My office now!" He smirked, clearly enjoying making an example of them. Sara started to take a step forward but Catherine tugged her hand back.

"No." she said simply. When Ecklie spun around to glare at them questioningly she elaborated. "We have nothing to discuss with you."

"Excuse me?" He repeated. "You two have been engaging in an illicit, inter-office, homosexual affair." Cath scoffed at that.

"Sara and I are in a relationship. We have been for several weeks now and it has not affected our work or the team. I have not been acting as her supervisor since we started this, and I won't from now on. We are not changing shifts, if you want to fire us go for it, but I'd like to see you explain that to the sheriff." The blonde laid out calmly. On the surface she looked cool as a cucumber, but only Sara could tell that she was shaking inside. Ecklie blinked at her, stunned into silence. Eventually, without another word to the girls, he turned to Grissom and sighed.

"They're you're problem. If they screw up, it's on your hands." He barked, waving his hands to the boys, who formed a passage for him to storm through. He was nearly out of sight when Catherine hollered to him.

"Oh Conrad? As much as I loved the classy spin you put on it, I can think of much better ways of describing what Sara and I have been 'engaging' in." She added with a mischievous smile. As Ecklie disappeared down the hall, he could be heard laying into a defenceless lab rat who'd dare cross his path.

Nick, Warrick and Greg made appreciative noises towards one another, while Grissom didn't move. Didn't even blink.

"Gil?" Catherine called softly, suddenly very much aware that her hand was still firmly clutched in Sara's.

"Don't Catherine." He sighed. "Congratulations." He murmured eventually, slipping away to the dark refuge of his office.

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At the end of the shift Catherine and the guys were gathered in the locker room, and Cath was batting off questions from the boys left right and centre.

"What about Grissom?" Warrick dared to ask eventually. Cath sighed.

"Oh, he'll get over it. It's gonna take some time, but he will." She assured them. At that moment Sara walked in, brushing a hand across Cath's back to alert her to her presence.

"Hey gorgeous." Catherine said huskily as she rose from the bench to encircle her arms around Sara's waist from behind. At that moment, Ecklie walked past, stopped in the doorway and glared at them, before skulking off. The room erupted in laughter.

"Well, as fun as today has been, I'd say it's time for breakfast." Cath said.

"Benny's?" Greg asked hopefully, ogling the women un-subtly. Cath sighed wistfully.

"Hmm, I was thinking more along the lines of whipped cream actually." She grinned. Three jaws hit the floor and Sara's cheeks tinted pink. Catherine chuckled softly and grabbed Sara's wrist lightly, tugging her towards the door. "C'mon lover girl."

Warrick recovered the use of his voice just in time to shoot a departing comment. "Behave yourselves love birds!"