Sweet Salvation

Chapter 38

Away

“Sara, Catherine, sit down both of you.” Grissom waited until we sat down.

“No Grissom, I do not need to hear you fire me. I’d rather leave with some dignity before you shoot me down.”

“Sara, sit down god damnit! Can’t you just for once do what I ask.” Grissom stood up smacking his hand on a pile of files. This time emotions where running so high that even Grissom lost his temper. I didn’t know what to do, part of me was so ashamed that I wanted to leave this room immediately but the other half of me still hoped that things could be like they were before.

Catherine had already sat down on one of the chairs. She saw my internal conflict, and grabbed a hold of my hand. Pulling me closer to her. She placed a kiss on the top of my hand. Looking up she pleaded me to sit down, with the look in her eyes.

I sit down and wait for what happens next. Let them decide what the next step will be.

“Sara, Catherine, both of you are going on a leave of absence for a week. I don’t want to see you around here for at least a week. Take these keys and spend some time together at my cabin down at Lake Mead. Catherine you know where it is right?” Grissom asked Catherine.

“Yes I can remember where it is.” Catherine answered taking the keys from Grissom. I looked at Catherine for an explanation, a look that didn’t go unnoticed by the others in the room. “Jealousy!” I heard Greg mumble behind his hand to Nick and Warrick. I diverted my look to Greg who held his hands up in defense.

“Just kidding Sara no need to harm me.”

“Grissom gave me the keys to his cabin so that I could go there on a vacation with Lindsey.” Catherine explained. “That’s all.”

“I know that, and if there was something else then it was something that happened in the past. And it would have had nothing to do with me.” I bit back at Greg.

“Greg,” Grissom warned before he could even open his mouth to comment. “You’ll be working as a CSI in the following week, you can use it as field hours.”

~*~

We left the building at the break of dawn. Catherine stopped me and looked up into my eyes. She closed the space between us, and her lips collided with mine.

“I love you.” She mumbles, her lips still on mine. “Love you too, babe.” I mumble, before I pull back. “Let’s go home.” Catherine wraps her arm around me and we walk towards our car.

I drive the car to Jenn’s house, to pick up Lindsey and to ask for another favor. We know we’re pushing our luck here. But Lindsey has to go to school during the week and I think that Cath and I really need some time alone. Away from home and the usual things.

Catherine knocks on the door, I am standing behind her. Lindsey opens the door and hugs Catherine, I know that I will get the same treatment within a couple of seconds.

“Hey sweetheart.” I say, stroking her blonde hair.

We sit down in the living room, Jenn had been waiting for us and poured coffee into a couple of mugs and sat them down on the table.

“Jenn can I ask you another favor?”

“Yeah sure you can, Cath what is it?”

“Something happened at work today and Grissom gave us the week off. He also gave us the keys of his cabin, but Lindsey has toto sto school.”

“She can stay here, no problem.” Jenn grinned.

~*~

“Cath, are you ready?” I calle, st, standing at the bottom of the stairs.

“Almost, almost.” I hear her mumble, moments later she appears at the top of the stairs. I take over the bag and stepped outside towards the car and put the bag in the back. Catherine closed the door behind her and locked the door. Then she got into the car.

~*~

Catherine stared at the map, “Somewhere around this point you should find a road on your left. A small unmetalled road, which will lead to the small cabin.” Catherine looked around, “There it is!” she said pointing at the road before us.

I drove the car off the road onto the bumpy terrain. A small road let us through and open place, with a little cabin in the middle. The cabin was surrounded by woods at the back and the lake in front. It was beautiful.

I got out of the car and stretched my legs. Looking aroun jus just had to chuckle this place was 'so' Grissom.

"What?" Catherine asked curious.

"This place it's so Grissom, it's silent, away from the world and peaceful." I walk up behind Catherine and wrap my arms around her waist, kissing the curve of her neck.

"I know, that was what I thought when I came here the first time."

"Let's get settled, before we prepare some dinner." I nod but I'm not just ready to let Catherine go. I love the way that her body feels against mine.

~*~

Catherine was sitting on the front porch in the fading sunlight, I looked at her for a while, staring at the woman in front of me that would soon be mine. I walk up to her with two plates in my hands. I hand one to Catherine and place one next to her.alk alk back to the small kitchen in the cabin and open the doors to the cabinets until I find what I was looking for. Stepping back outside I hand Catherine the glasses and pour some wine into them. I sit down and take the a glass over after I placed the plate on my thighs. In silence we eat our meal. I place the plate next to me before I pick up the glass of wine and take a sip.

“This is beautiful.” I admire the sunset as the sun sparkles on the lake.

“I know, I love it.”

“You know what I love?” Catherine diverts her look from the lake to me. “You.” I add, before I lean over to Catherine and kiss her lips tenderly.

“Me, you do?” Catherine teased.

“Do I need to prove it to you?” I ask Catherine with a chuckle.

“Oh, please do!” Catherine asks still kissing me in between her talking.

“Ï will babe, I will.” I get up still not loosing the contact with Catherine. I pull her up hol her her hands when I finally break apart.

I lead Catherine inside the cabin and start to undress her, while Catherine fumbled with my belt. Catherine’s voice is husky when she asks me if I am sure. “Sure, I am sure.” I answer her question looking at her in a weird way. “Why?”

“Grissom’s cabin.” Catherine asks, while she pulls up my shirt and breaks our kiss.

“I am going to act like I didn’t hear that okay?” I tell Catherine while I loose my shirt it drops to the floor seconds later Catherine’s top follows. Her hands roam over my body and I shiver.

“Are you cold?”

“No Catherine, I am hot! What’s the matter are you scared?”

“Well it’s the first time…”

“First time since what, Catherine?” I asked bitterly. “The attack, since you where injured or the first time since I almost killed Hodges? Are you scared of me, you know I would never do anything to hurt you or Lindsey.”

“Sara, I am not afraid especially not when I’m around you. I love you.” Catherine says looking into my eyes, stroking away a strand of hair that falls in front of my face. Catherine leaned in and kissed me again. “I want you and I promise that I will stop asking stupid questions.” Catherine chuckles, and I can’t help but chuckle too. This is such a weird situation.

Catherine’s POV

Sara opens her eyes, a smile on her face, I can see the gap between her teeth, she looks so beautiful when she smiles like that. I can’t help myself but kiss her, stroking my tongue over the gap.

I look into her eyes, they light up before they darken from the arousal. I concentrate on Sara and push her down to the bed. She leans back while I straddle her thighs. Leaning forward I passionately capture her lips. I remove the clothes that she was wearing, throwing them aside the moment they come off. Leaning down she traced a path down to the ear lobe and from the ear lobe to the collar-bone. Her hands massaging the tense breasts, and erect nipples. I look up one more time her eyes are now dark and I know that she’s getting closer with every kiss, every gesture and every movement.

Her skin is covered with a thin layer of sweat, her breathing is ragged as I enter her core, penetrating with two fingers. Moving them in and out with a slow pace, I tease Sara by holding out on her. When she begs me to n. In. I am not ready to let her go. I kiss her belly, and with one last thrust her hips bucked as the orgasm washed over her. My body went into pure bliss as I felt Sara come.

I crawled into Sara’s embrace and rested my head on her chest. With the rising and falling of her chest I could feel her breathing become less ragged. Until at some point it returned to normal breathing.

“Thank you, babe.” She whispered her voice still husky.

I smiled, how could something that felt this good be wrong. I turned around and looked up at Sara, she fluttered her eyes open and smiled.

“What are you thinking about?” Sara asks, tracing my jaw line with her finger.

“You, me, us, Lindsey, the wedding. All the preparations that we need to make. It’s a lot you know especially when you want to have a party and all.”

“I know, we need a date, rings and something to wear. And I have to call Nick’s mother to make arrangements with her. And we have to ask for vacation time and everyone on our shift needs to have time off. Grissom will love that!”

“I know!” I laughed just thinking about the look on Grissom’s face when he realized that the whole graveyard shift needed time off.

Sara’s POV

I wrapped my arms around Catherine, I could have never imagined that I would be able to love someone the way I love her. I kissed Catherine and gave her the same treatment as she had given to me just half an hour before.

Later that night I watched Catherine as she slept. She looks so beautiful and innocent, lying there with a smile on her face. I, on the other hand, couldn’t sleep, my usual dose of insomnia was keeping me awake. Thinking about the things that were about to happen, I sat down on the porch, and watched the sky night above the water.

The week passed in no time, and we headed back to Las Vegas and our normal life with all kinds of plans for wedding all talked through. Now all we had to do was make the arrangements and then one day our big day would arrive.

AN: I need some help, I need to find a song or a poem that would be perfect to go with a wedding ceremony. Tell me which song you like or send it to me in an email at nepeace@hetnt.nl and maybe you’ll see it in the wedding chapter.