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I'm just about to set fire to everything I see.

Lou hadn't called her anymore. That was the reason Catherine was extremely pissed when she went to work again that night. She was frustrated with his behavior and, even more, frustrated that he apparently didn't realize how stupid it had been. Catherine wondered why Lou had such jealousy issues; was she honestly giving him reasons to be jealous?

She stormed into the break room, not at all caring about the surprised looks Nick and Greg were giving her. "Sleepless night, boss lady?" Greg's comment made her want to do two things; first instinct was to make a snappy comment, but second was just to smile. She knew Greg was only trying to make the best out of things.

"Yeah, something like that, Greggo. D.B's getting us cases or what?"

"I'm sorry to disappoint you Cath, but I think he had other plans for you and him." The smug smile on Nick's face made her raise an eyebrow. "What other plans?"

"Your favorite!" Greg wiggled his eyebrows and Catherine figured there would be a little something called paperwork waiting for her. She smiled at the two men and said: "Ah, I see. Well I guess I'll go find Russell then, thanks for the information. You guys heading out soon?"

"Just waiting for Sair and Morgan, double homicide."

"Great guys, just great." She left the room with a smile as she heard the two men chuckle behind her. In less than a minute, she found Russell in his office, covered in paperwork. She knocked in his open door before she said: "Hey. Nick and Greg told me to come and see you. Need help with that paperwork?"

Russell looked at her. "Well, yes I wanted you to see me, but no, you don't need to help me with this. I told them to tell you I had another case for you, didn't they?"

Ah. So that was what the wiggling the eyebrows and chuckling about. Those plans were another case. "Ah, well, they told me you had other plans for me. I just figured it was paperwork."

"No, not at all. I asked Nick for this at first since he was the first one in tonight, but he insisted I passed this case on to you, he said you would enjoy it." Russell handed her a dossier with information as he said: "Call Vartann, you guys can go together. Murder at the Bellagio."

Catherine's eyes almost popped out of her head as she heard Russell say Vartann, but he was already indulged in his paperwork again. It was obvious why Nick had wanted to pass that case on to her; he figured he'd do her a favor by letting her work with her boyfriend. Which it usually was. When they wouldn't be fighting.

"Uhm, you really don't want to do this yourself? I mean, I can do the paperwork if you'd like."

Russell took off his glasses and looked at her. "Why wouldn't you want to go solo? You're not feeling well?"

Catherine could tell D.B. wasn't going to let her pass the case off and she sighed. "No, no, I'm doing fine. I'll go, where's Vartann?"

"He went over to Ecklie for some stuff, he said he would be waiting outside for any of you. Good luck."

"Thanks." Yeah, good luck was something she definitely needed. Why was it that when she wanted to work with him, she never got the opportunity, and now that she definitely didn't want to work with him, they would be working together?

She spotted Vartann as soon as she got outside, waiting next to his SUV with his sunglasses on. She took a deep breath and walked over to him, as he was still oblivious to her presence. She was almost next to him as she said: "Hey. Russell sent me to do the case, let's go."

Lou was surprised when he heard Catherine's voice and then heard her words. A case with Catherine. That wasn't exactly what he was prepared for. He hadn't called her back after she'd stormed out on him, knowing he needed to think of something good to make things right with her again. He figured that now however that hadn't been his best move as he could tell Catherine wasn't at all happy to be working with him.

"Oh. Okay. Well, we should get going then. You want to drive?" He offered her his case, trying to think of some silly peace offering but she refused it. "No. It's your car."

Lou turned on the radio as soon as they seated themselves, knowing an awkward silence would be there surrounded with an awful tension. After only a few minutes, he sighed, knowing he wouldn't be able to keep up with it any longer. He turned the volume down and said: "Cath, listen…. I think we should talk…"

Catherine didn't even let him finish. "I don't think we should right now. We can just do our job and not talk, right?"

It wasn't even a question and Lou knew that. "But I think we should. Every single person can tell there's something wrong."

"Well, we'll just have to try our best then to pretend we're being awesome. You should've called me a few hours ago to do that talking."

Lou knew he shouldn't even bother asking her anything else. She wasn't going to give in anyway. He turned up the volume of the radio again and focused on the road, as he saw Catherine staring out of the window from the corner of his eye.

Pretending their best was tougher than Catherine had hoped. She figured the pressing tension would disappear as soon as they'd step out of the car, but unfortunately, it was still present. Catherine walked in front of Vartann, trying her best to pretend he was not there when she flashed her badge at the reception of the Bellagio, so the receptionist was able to send her to the room where the murder took place. Catherine walked up to the elevator, knowing she wished Lou would just take another elevator, but she also knew that would interfere with their job. She waited until Lou was in the elevator with her, and sighed when she realized they would be the only two in it as she pressed the button of the 22nd floor.

They both patiently waited for the elevator to work its way up to the twenty second floor as they tried to avoid each other's eyes. When the elevator started making a squeaking noise though, Catherine's eyes shot up and searched for Lou's; she hated elevators. "What was that?"

Lou couldn't help but chuckle. "Relax, Cath, it's nothing."

When the squeaking became louder however, Catherine started to panic lightly. "Lou… This is not normal. What's happening?"

When Lou was about to answer that it would probably all be fine and that she just needed to relax, the lights turned off and the elevator came to an abrupt stop. A short, high scream came out of Catherine's mouth and, her instincts playing up, she hurried over to Lou. "Shit." Lou's comment made Catherine smile a little but being scared took over most of her emotions as she said: "I told you this wasn't normal."

She started searching for her black light to give them some light as Lou tried to find the emergency button in the elevator. He pushed it but no response came. Catherine shone the light on his hands as she saw what he was doing, realizing there was something wrong with the electricity as the button didn't give any response. She sighed. "Great. Just great. Stuck, in an elevator, with a dead body upstairs…."

"And me." Lou added.