Thank you everyone for reading and reviewing!! This story will have a case file eventually, I just have to figure out a way to get it in there. I'm sorry for not updating sooner, but RL got in the way. I hope you'll enjoy this next chapter.

And now for what I forgot to do in the first post (bad me!!): Thank you Jess for betaing, you're the best! And I'm so sorry for forgetting you in the first post, because you're wicked good at it and totally make this and all my other stories so much better! Thank you.

Chapter Two

Grocery Shopping

Driving towards the crime scene, Sara was relaxing in the passenger seat. They had silently opted for Nick's car because Sara knew that the Texan preferred it. She got lost in thoughts about the case – several break-ins in hotel rooms at the Sphere. It would be a lot of work with lots of prints and trace evidence they couldn't use for anything, but at least there would be top of the line surveillance, so that ought to help them a long way.

"So, you and Catherine?" Nick interrupted her thoughts.

"Yep, me and Catherine." Sara smiled.

"Told you so." Nick laughed.

"Yeah." Sara laughed with him.

"So, it's good?" Nick asked, getting serious.

"It is." Sara nodded. "It's still new, but it feels good."

"That's good." Nick smiled. "Did you…" He wiggled his eyebrows. "Yet?"

"Nick!" Sara slapped him lightly. "That is none of your business."

"What? After Catherine's comment I was just wondering if today will be the first time."

"I am not having this conversation." Sara looked out of the window demonstratively.

"Ok, ok." Nick smiled to himself. "How are you doing after the kidnap case?"

"I'm…" She looked back over at him, "I'm happy that Dunne is dead, but…" She stopped.

"You feel guilty being happy that another human being is dead." Nick finished for her.

"Yes." Sara nodded. "Maybe 'living' being describes him better, I'm not too sure about the human part."

"You're right. Is Veronica ready for the trial against Burns?"

"I don't know."

"You don't know?"

"No, we don't talk much about it all."

"Why not? Wouldn't that help you – both of you?"

"I don't know. It just hasn't come up I guess." Sara smiled. "Don't try to understand it, because I'm not even sure I do. With Veronica you just go with the flow, when she's ready to talk, she'll talk."

"That's just weird." Nick pulled up to the hotel.

"When we first met she told me about her parents wanting nothing to do with her, but it took her months to actually talk about how she felt about it – it's just her way of dealing."

"And what's your way?" Nick asked as they got out of the car.

"I repress." Sara answered, getting the kits out of the car. "But I'm starting to get better, opening up to my friends and girlfriend more." She smiled at him.

"She's your girlfriend?" Nick smiled back.

"Uhm..." Sara quickly masked the confusion shown on her face. "She's the closest I get to having one." She said lightly.

"Right," Nick nodded, "I won't tell her you slipped on that one."

Sara stopped and looked at him with an unreadable expression on her face. "Thanks." She said softly. "It's just… we're…" She stopped, not knowing how to explain.

"It's ok." Nick put a hand on her shoulder. "Let's get to work."

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"What happened in the break room?" Greg looked over at Catherine who was driving the car.

"Warrick hasn't learned how to drink coffee properly yet." Catherine kept her eyes on the road.

"Oh." He fell into silence and Catherine only hoped that it would last the rest of the trip.

She turned on the radio and the music started flowing softly in the car. She couldn't wait for shift to be over. She had already decided that their breakfast date would be her cooking something for Sara and then sleep. Or maybe they'd just sleep later. She smiled softly, humming along with the music.

"So, you and Sara, huh?" Greg interrupted the silence.

"Yes." She nodded. She liked Greg, but sometimes she just needed silence and he wasn't so good at that. She hoped that short answers would help bring back the quiet.

"That's…"

She was expecting 'hot' from him, and was surprised by his choice of words.

"…good."

She looked over at him shortly before looking back at the road. "Yeah?" She asked.

"Yeah, she deserves someone good in her life. Besides, if I had to lose, at least it was to someone hotter than me." He said with a goofy grin at the end.

"You know it." Catherine couldn't help but laugh at his antics. "And I thought I had the reputation of being the bitch and not the good person at the lab."

"Well…" Greg glanced over at her. "Uhm…"

"Don't worry about it, Greg." Catherine smiled over at him.

"No, it's just…" He took a deep breath, why did he get himself into things like this? "Most of the time you're a good person." He sighed. "And I think that most of the time you're going to be good to and for Sara as well."

"Most of the time?" Catherine looked over at him. She wasn't mad at him for saying these things to her, more curious by what he meant by it.

"Yes, because there's no way the two of you can stop fighting over cases." Greg stated.

Catherine laughed. "Yeah, maybe you're right about that." She nodded. "I am going to be good to her." Catherine wanted him to know that.

"I know." He nodded and fell into silence again.

Catherine looked over at him shortly before returning her eyes to the road. Greg had grown up a lot over the past few years. He had been one of their best lab techs and now he was on the way to becoming a very good CSI. One who was lucky enough to have Sara as his mentor, she smiled proudly. He was still the goofy kid, who played around, but he was also more mature now, as at times like this, and it always mildly surprised her. She suddenly realized that the bet she had made with Greg had led to the bet made with Warrick and that had led to Sara.

"Thanks, Greg." This time she was the one to interrupt the silence.

"For what?" Greg looked over at her.

"For looking out for her." She smiled. "Nick already gave me the 'don't hurt her' speech. It's nice to know she has people who care about her."

"Nick did that…" He paused briefly. "With you?" He knew that Nick was a little bit scared of Catherine.

"Well, he did it in a backwards kinda way, but the meaning was clear." Catherine laughed as she pulled up to the crime scene.

They got out of the car and got the kits out of the back. Walking up to the house, Greg looked over at the blonde. "You know, if you have a date and need someone to hang out with Lindsey for a while, just let me know."

"Thanks." She stopped shortly and looked at him walking up towards the house before following him. "That's very… Thank you."

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Sara walked into the locker room when shift was over, they were waiting for reports from the different techs on their case, so there was nothing more she could do with it for now. She smiled when she realized that it was the second time in a week that she was leaving when shift was over instead of maxing out on overtime.

"Hey."

She looked up at saw Catherine standing in front of an open locker.

"Hey." She smiled at the blonde.

"Ready to leave?" Catherine asked.

"Just need to grab my jacket and keys." She said walking towards her own locker. "Where do you want to go?"

"I was thinking I would cook for you at my place, but we need to go to the grocery store first."

"Oh." Sara looked over at her. "Ok."

"We can go out instead if you…"

"No." Sara stopped her. "No, your place is fine." She closed her locker and walked over to the blonde and together they walked out to Sara's car.

"I'll get Nance to drop me off tonight when she picks up Linds." Catherine answered Sara's questioning glance.

"Ok." Sara started the car and backed out. "Or I could drop by and pick you up."

"Or you could stay and drive me tonight." Catherine smiled at her.

"I don't want to get in the way of your Lindsey time." Sara looked around. "Where are we going?"

"Take a left here and then a right." Catherine directed. "And maybe it's time for you to meet Lindsey as my…" She paused. "Maybe it would be good for the three of us to spend time together."

"Right." Sara nodded and parked the car in front of a grocery store. Getting out of the car she followed Catherine into the store.

"What's wrong here, Sara?" Catherine asked, pushing a shopping cart around the store.

"What do you mean?" Sara tried to avoid the question.

"This is awkward and we haven't been like that in a while." She stopped and looked at the brunette.

"It's nothing." Sara started walking again.

"No, it's something." Catherine reached out and stopped her. "Just tell me."

"It's just…" Sara turned and looked at her. "We're shopping…"

"Yes." Catherine nodded.

"Together."

"Yes."

"For groceries."

"I know all this, Sara."

"Grocery shopping is like doing laundry together."

"What?" Catherine looked as confused as she was. "Laundry? You lost me."

"Yes, laundry." Sara nodded. "It's something couples do together, grocery shopping, laundry, spending time with someone's kid, they're all couple things."

"Ok." Catherine nodded. "And you don't want to do couple things with me." She started to walk towards the cash register. "I understand. We'll just go out for breakfast instead."

"No." Sara stopped her. "But we haven't really defined what we are, I mean we haven't really talked about anything other than us dating."

"Right." Catherine turned and looked at her leaning back against the cart. "Do you want us to continue dating…"

"Yes." Sara interrupted her.

"Ok." Catherine turned back around but stopped halfway. Looking at jars of pickles she started talking again. "I'm not sure I do."

"What?" Sara looked heartbroken. "Why?"

"I want to do the couple things." Catherine reached out and took down a jar. "Maybe not the laundry part just yet, but the you spending time with me and Lindsey and the grocery shopping would be great." She placed the pickles in the shopping cart and then turned back to Sara looking her in the eyes.

"Oh." Sara's face lit up in a big smile. "I can do without the laundry. Do you have a list?"

"Yes." Catherine got her grocery list out of her purse.

"Good." Sara went to stand behind her to read the list over her shoulder. "I'll go get the milk." She said kissing her on the cheek.

"Ok." Catherine smiled. "I'll get the cereal then." She looked back at the retreating form of the brunette who suddenly turned around.

"Hey, does this mean that I can call you my girlfriend?"

"One condition – I get to call you mine."

"Deal." Sara smiled.

"You're crazy." Catherine said lovingly. "Go get the milk." She turned back to the cart ready to go find the cereal. She smiled as she heard the brunette mumbling something sounding a lot like "bossy."