“Sara, here take Ryan and Lindsey with you, it’s your night off. Catherine will be home right after shift.” Grissom smirked, and turned around to leave the break room after he handed Ryan to me.

Catherine walked us back to our car and said goodbye. “See you in the morning, babe.”

“You can count on that.” I kissed her goodbye and got into the car. Catherine was watching us when we drove around the corner.

~*~

I woke up when I felt Catherine snuggle up against me in the morning. “Hi sweetie.”

“Hi what time is it?” I asked with a sleepy voice. Since Cath and I had been together I was able to sleep, even at night, it was as if my mind finally settled down to the idea that humans needed to sleep every once in a while. “Somewhere around seven thirty.” She answered while she kissed me in my neck.

“I have to be at the airport at ten to pick up Janice and Marc.” I turned around on my other side and faced Catherine. “I have to get into the shower and then wake up Ryan and Lindsey. I’ll drop Lindsey off at Rachel’s on my way back.”

“Hmm, I know you told me. Can’t you just stay a little longer?”

“Better not, ‘cos that would mean that you won’t get as much sleep as you need and Janice and Marc will have to get a cab to come here, only to end up in front of a locked door when they try to pick up Ryan. But I’ll be home when you wake up, I promise.”

“See you later, sugar?” I smirked while I kissed Catherine’s soft lips and got out of the bed as soon as I could. I knew that I would never make it in time if I let her kiss me back. I got into the shower and let the cold water cool my body down, while my mind drifted back to the start of this all. If anyone had told me that this would happen last year I would have laughed as hard as I could. I had a crush on Catherine from the first time I saw her and even the way that she threatened me didn’t stop me from loving her. She bitched at me to keep a distance between us, because she thought that I had a crush on Grissom. When she made her first moves on me I was sure that I was hallucinating from the painkillers that they gave me in the hospital after the attack. But it wasn’t the painkillers, nor was it a dream, it was love.