Sweet Salvation
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Category:
CSI › General
Rating:
Adult ++
Chapters:
41
Views:
4,372
Reviews:
7
Recommended:
0
Currently Reading:
0
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I do not own CSI, nor any of the characters from it. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.
Weekend
Chapter 30
Weekend
It was a Saturday morning and the mall was crowded with families on a mission. Mothers dragging children along the hallways, passing the stores that the children wanted to see, and pingping into the ones that the children didn’t want to see. Lindsey held onto my hand while we walked through the crowd. We where on a mission too, but at least we knew what we were looking for. Lindsey and I had agreed that we would check out the jeweler stores first before going into the other stores.
The first store didn’t have what we were lng fng for, so our search continued. The next jeweler had an employee who had barely hit his twenties. A young boy nervous as hell trying to help customers, he walked towards us and asked whether he could help us.
“Yes you can, I’m searching for an engagement ring for my girlfriend.” I said to him. He watched me intensely, probably because he thought that I fooling around with him.
“Engagement ring for your girl … girlfriend.” He stumbled over the words and his cheeks colored dark red.
“Yes, my mother is her girlfriend. And the ring is for my mother.” Lindsey explained in her childlike manner. The employees cheeks turned even redder, something I didn’t think was poss.
.
“Okay, one moment please.” He excused himself before he stepped back to back of the store and appeared minutes later with a black box in his hands. He fumbled with his keys for a couple of seconds before he opened the box. It revealed a collection of golden rings.
I was studying the rings intently trying to imagine them on Catherine’s finger, when my eyes fell onto one particular ring.
“Sara, what about that ring, the one in the middle?” Lindsey asked while she pointed at the ring that I had been looking at.
“I think that ring is the perfect one. It’ll be so beautiful on her finger, I’m sure she’ll love it.” I answered her question.
“I think so too.” Lindsey confirmed.
“I would like to buy that ring for my girlfriend.” I just had to tease the employee a little more, the instance I said it his face turned red again. He put the ring in a velvet-covered box and after I paid we were ready to go.
“Are you hungry?” I asked Lindsey, when I saw a little dinner in the centre of the mall. I knew that she was, that girl was always hungry. Catherine and I always wondered where the hell she put the food that she ate.
“Yes I am, are we going to McDonalds or KFC?” She asked in excitement.
“Actually I was thinking more in the line of that little dinner over there, the Mexican place.” I said while I pointed in the right direction.
“Okay, fine with me, can I have a taco then?”
“Choose whatever you want.” I said while we walked down to one of the unoccupied tables.
~*~
After the dinner we decided that we would go to the supermarket and buy food for the rest of the week. We came home with a couple of paper bags filled with all kinds of food. Lindsey opened the door and let me pass her with the bags. I entered the kitchen and was greeted by Catherine, who was drinking a coffee at the bar, while reading the paper.
I planted the bags on the counter and kissed Catherine.
“Hey babe, have you been gone long?” She asked while she watched the bags that I put onto the counter. Nah,Nah,t ant an hour or so didn’t you hear me get up?” Catherine shook her head while she took a sip of her coffee.
“I think that I was unconscious, I was so tired. I could have slept all day.” Catherine said while Lindsey burst into the kitchen.
“Hey sweetie.” Catherine said while she hugged Lindsey.
Lindsey wrapped her arms around her mother’s neck and sat down on her lap. She caught my attention by the weird movements that she was making. Then she poi at at a ring that she was wearing on her finger and gestured me to get away, all behind Catherine’s back.
I walked out of the kitchen and up the stairs towards the bedroom hiding the ring in the back of my drawer, a place that I knew Catherine would never go. She respects my privacy like I respect hers. I closed the drawer all I had to do was find the perfect moment to ask Catherine.
When I returned to the kitchen I saw that Lindsey was still talking to Catherine about her friends and about school and the movie that she watched with Jenn.
~*~
Monday morning came faster then I liked. We were getting ready to take Lindsey to school, when the phone rang. I picked it up and sighed when I heard the voice on the other side of the line. “Hi, it’s Griss, Sara, is Catherine there too?” he asked. I knew what was next, he wanted us to get into work.
“Yeah, she’s here. What’s the matter?”
“I just sent Nick and Warrick home, they have been working all weekend on the case. I called them in on Saturday night. And I just sent them home a couple of hours ago. I can’t call them again. But I just received a phone call fthe the hospital. There was a man brought in with a wound that could be a gunshot wound. But they are not sure if it is. It’s infected and the man is unconscious, someone found him in a motel. Doctors are working on him, he’s lost a lot of blood.”
“We’ll be there, we just have to drop of Lindsey before we come to CSI.”
“Cath, we have to go in, there might be a new lead to our case.” I said to her as I entered the kitchen.
“Let’s hope that this will end it, I’m so sick and tired of this case.”
~*~
Half an hour later we walked through the entrance of the CSI building. We entered Grissom office where he was waiting for us.
“We got a call from the Desert Palm Springs hospital, there has been a man brought in with a wound that could be a gunshot. Apparently he got the bullet out somehow but he has a pretty bad infection and he’s unconscious. Brass is waiting at the Desert Palms until he regains consciousness. Meanwhile I would like the two of you to go to the motel. The motel owner found the man when he was going through the rooms on his round.”
“No way, no way Grissom, I’m there when he regains consciousness. I want to look that bastard in the eyes. I want to know why he did it.” Catherine spat out. The anger, frustration and fear of this case had built up past these last weeks.
Weekend
It was a Saturday morning and the mall was crowded with families on a mission. Mothers dragging children along the hallways, passing the stores that the children wanted to see, and pingping into the ones that the children didn’t want to see. Lindsey held onto my hand while we walked through the crowd. We where on a mission too, but at least we knew what we were looking for. Lindsey and I had agreed that we would check out the jeweler stores first before going into the other stores.
The first store didn’t have what we were lng fng for, so our search continued. The next jeweler had an employee who had barely hit his twenties. A young boy nervous as hell trying to help customers, he walked towards us and asked whether he could help us.
“Yes you can, I’m searching for an engagement ring for my girlfriend.” I said to him. He watched me intensely, probably because he thought that I fooling around with him.
“Engagement ring for your girl … girlfriend.” He stumbled over the words and his cheeks colored dark red.
“Yes, my mother is her girlfriend. And the ring is for my mother.” Lindsey explained in her childlike manner. The employees cheeks turned even redder, something I didn’t think was poss.
.
“Okay, one moment please.” He excused himself before he stepped back to back of the store and appeared minutes later with a black box in his hands. He fumbled with his keys for a couple of seconds before he opened the box. It revealed a collection of golden rings.
I was studying the rings intently trying to imagine them on Catherine’s finger, when my eyes fell onto one particular ring.
“Sara, what about that ring, the one in the middle?” Lindsey asked while she pointed at the ring that I had been looking at.
“I think that ring is the perfect one. It’ll be so beautiful on her finger, I’m sure she’ll love it.” I answered her question.
“I think so too.” Lindsey confirmed.
“I would like to buy that ring for my girlfriend.” I just had to tease the employee a little more, the instance I said it his face turned red again. He put the ring in a velvet-covered box and after I paid we were ready to go.
“Are you hungry?” I asked Lindsey, when I saw a little dinner in the centre of the mall. I knew that she was, that girl was always hungry. Catherine and I always wondered where the hell she put the food that she ate.
“Yes I am, are we going to McDonalds or KFC?” She asked in excitement.
“Actually I was thinking more in the line of that little dinner over there, the Mexican place.” I said while I pointed in the right direction.
“Okay, fine with me, can I have a taco then?”
“Choose whatever you want.” I said while we walked down to one of the unoccupied tables.
~*~
After the dinner we decided that we would go to the supermarket and buy food for the rest of the week. We came home with a couple of paper bags filled with all kinds of food. Lindsey opened the door and let me pass her with the bags. I entered the kitchen and was greeted by Catherine, who was drinking a coffee at the bar, while reading the paper.
I planted the bags on the counter and kissed Catherine.
“Hey babe, have you been gone long?” She asked while she watched the bags that I put onto the counter. Nah,Nah,t ant an hour or so didn’t you hear me get up?” Catherine shook her head while she took a sip of her coffee.
“I think that I was unconscious, I was so tired. I could have slept all day.” Catherine said while Lindsey burst into the kitchen.
“Hey sweetie.” Catherine said while she hugged Lindsey.
Lindsey wrapped her arms around her mother’s neck and sat down on her lap. She caught my attention by the weird movements that she was making. Then she poi at at a ring that she was wearing on her finger and gestured me to get away, all behind Catherine’s back.
I walked out of the kitchen and up the stairs towards the bedroom hiding the ring in the back of my drawer, a place that I knew Catherine would never go. She respects my privacy like I respect hers. I closed the drawer all I had to do was find the perfect moment to ask Catherine.
When I returned to the kitchen I saw that Lindsey was still talking to Catherine about her friends and about school and the movie that she watched with Jenn.
~*~
Monday morning came faster then I liked. We were getting ready to take Lindsey to school, when the phone rang. I picked it up and sighed when I heard the voice on the other side of the line. “Hi, it’s Griss, Sara, is Catherine there too?” he asked. I knew what was next, he wanted us to get into work.
“Yeah, she’s here. What’s the matter?”
“I just sent Nick and Warrick home, they have been working all weekend on the case. I called them in on Saturday night. And I just sent them home a couple of hours ago. I can’t call them again. But I just received a phone call fthe the hospital. There was a man brought in with a wound that could be a gunshot wound. But they are not sure if it is. It’s infected and the man is unconscious, someone found him in a motel. Doctors are working on him, he’s lost a lot of blood.”
“We’ll be there, we just have to drop of Lindsey before we come to CSI.”
“Cath, we have to go in, there might be a new lead to our case.” I said to her as I entered the kitchen.
“Let’s hope that this will end it, I’m so sick and tired of this case.”
~*~
Half an hour later we walked through the entrance of the CSI building. We entered Grissom office where he was waiting for us.
“We got a call from the Desert Palm Springs hospital, there has been a man brought in with a wound that could be a gunshot. Apparently he got the bullet out somehow but he has a pretty bad infection and he’s unconscious. Brass is waiting at the Desert Palms until he regains consciousness. Meanwhile I would like the two of you to go to the motel. The motel owner found the man when he was going through the rooms on his round.”
“No way, no way Grissom, I’m there when he regains consciousness. I want to look that bastard in the eyes. I want to know why he did it.” Catherine spat out. The anger, frustration and fear of this case had built up past these last weeks.