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And then the petals fell	By : Eva Category: CSI > General Views: 2432 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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AND THEN THE
PETALS FELL �

Part 1

Catherine was
sitting at her daughter�s bed with her letter to Santa Claus in her hands and
tears in her eyes while she watched her daughter sleep.

Eddie was
dead. She was a single mother now with almost no family, at least no family she
really felt attached to.
The night Eddie died she cried herself
to sleep with her Lindsey curled tightly against her back, trying to calm her
mum down but it wasn�t possible. Later she fell asleep completely exhausted.

And now it
was the beginning of December and her girl was about to celebrate the first
Christmas as a half orphan. The thought made her cry again. Slowly she stood
up, not wanting to wake her little darling, went to the living room, got herself
a double Vodka on the rocks and sat down in the soft sofa.

�Dear Mister
Santa Claus

I don�t wish
for much this year since there isn't a lot I can wish for. I know that you can't
bring my Daddy back or make things undone, I know that. I don�t want to see mum
cry anymore and you know Santa she cries a lot.

A couple of
years ago I�d wished that they�d get back together and get me a little sister or
brother but I know that it is impossible now.

You know
Santa, I really like Uncle Gil even if he is a little � I don�t know � shy?
Maybe you could bring him over to celebrate Christmas with us and mum won�t have
to cry all the time or pretend to smile.

I don�t wish
for anything else.

Yours,
Lindsey Willows�

Catherine�s
tears kept running down her cheeks, the letter drawn tightly to her chest.

~*~

�So here are
the cases.� Gil was standing in the middle of the room with a couple of files in
his hand. �Here this is yours Nick.�

He shoved a
file toward the young man with the dark hair. �You go with Catherine,� he shot
her a demanding look, �to this � it�s a double homicide in the desert.�

�Any special
reason why I have to get dirty?� Catherine asked him harshly.

�Because it
is your job to collect and analyse evidence,� was the only thing he said before
he gave a suicide/ homicide case to Warwick and Sara. He had assigned himself
some paperwork.

When Gil sat
down in the office, Catherine stormed in, furious, and closed the door with a
loud bang.

�How dare you
send me to a double homicide in the desert?�

�Have you
read the file?�

�I don�t need
to read the file to see that you are ditching me.�

�Hell
Catherine what�s up? I am not ditching you. I just handed the cases out, nothing
more and I thought that you�d be better on it than Sara or Warwick. Okay?� She
didn�t dare to look at Gil, still being furious. �It�s a double homicide of two
twelve year old girls, okay? I thought that being a mother would make it hard on
the one hand but you�d be much more open to every possibility on the way to
solve this case.�

Catherine
left Grissom�s office without saying a word.

~*~

�You okay
Cath?� Nick asked her in the car.

a">�Sorry that
you had to wait, everything is fine, yes �fine.�

She was
silent the whole drive to the desert. It felt strange to Nick because he learned
one thing since he was working with Catherine � D pus push her.

Brass was
already waiting when they arrived and showed them the bodies. Nick felt bile
rise in his throat and Catherine had to hold back her tears.

The two girls
were laying there in their neat Sunday dresses, hints that they�d been sexually
assaulted, blood staining their chests, and a knife lying next to them.

The evidence
was little, just tyre prints in the hard sand, no footprints or other items that
could help them.

Nick was
leaning hard against the car, facing the opposite side of the endless desert and
sipping on a water bottle.

�What�s up
with her?� Brass asked Nick.

�I don�t know
but since Eddie is dead she isn't the same anymore. It got her harder than I�d
imagined.�

�Yes but on
the other hand I thought they ��

�Well they
didn�t get along well but he was Lindsey�s dad and whenever she needed a timeout
he was taking care of Linds.�

�Maybe she
needs a timeout now?�

�I�ve
noticed she�s been drinking, I don�t want her to be alone.�

�Talk to Gil,
they�ve known each other for so long.�

�I thought
the same till this morning. But when he handed out the cases she flipped at him,
why she�d go to the desert with me.�

�Its not
about you Nick, she is hurt, seriously hurt and she wants Gil�s attention.�

�You think?�
Nick asked the older police officer.

Catherine and
Nick finished the collecting the evidence and headed back to the office.
Catherine was unnaturally calm in Nick�s eyes. She was never a really chatty
person but she liked to talk and to him especially.

And Nick
wasn�t blind. He had noticed that she had lost a couple of pounds since Eddie�s
death and he hardly ever saw her eating anything, only drinking one cup of
coffee after the other. He knew, from personal experience, that this wasn�t
healthy and not working if you have a kid to look after.

He never
thought that she, this strawberry blond beauty, would hurt herself in any way
but it was too obvious now.

Should he
talk to Grissom? Talk to the boss and blame him for not watching out for his
best friend, good friend, colleague?

�Do you want
to talk Catherine?�
When they had
finished with the evidence and had a talk with the coroner they went back to
analyse the data and let the coroner autopsy the body. Warwick studied Catherine
or whatever was left of the beautiful CSI he was working under.

�Catherine?�

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