Benediction

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Pairing: Catherine/Nick

Spoilers: Assume Nothing

Notes: For the LiveJournal CSI100 Angel titles challenge.

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Nick’s mother has always compared him to a puppy dog; friendly, loyal, eager to please. So he’s not happy being relegated to the CSI dog house, ignored at meetings, sidelined at the lab, even when he knows he deserves it.

Especially then.

His bad mood abates a little when Catherine talks to him, more when she works with him, more again on their dash to the morgue. But it vanishes altogether when Catherine gives him their precious evidence, tells him to run with it.

She’s telling him she trusts him, and her benediction is all that matters to him.