The Fifteen Years Later Affair
Pairing: Grissom/Catherine
Spoilers: Play With Fire
Notes: Response to the LiveJournal CSI100 "The Man from Uncle" title challenge.
She once asked him how long they'd known one another, and he hadn't answered. He'd only realised later that he couldn't remember a life without her.
He remembers her first day at the crime lab, all eager enthusiasm.
The smile on her face when Lindsey was born.
The anguish, the tears that came during her break-up with Eddie.
The feel of her in his arms when she hugged him before his surgery.
He has a thousand memories of her, but none like this, asleep in his arms.
He's waited fifteen years to be here, and it was worth every minute.