Rope the Moon

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Rating: PG

Pairing: Catherine/Nick

Author’s Note: For the LiveJournal CSI100 John Michael Montgomery challenge

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Nick’s used to being the lab whipping boy, the one that people laugh at, the one who doesn’t get to work solo, the screw-up.

He’s not used to people looking up to him, and when he and Catherine began dating, he was worried about how Lindsey would react.

He thought she’d hate him.

She doesn’t.

Instead, she grins at him over the breakfast table, insists on sitting beside him at the movies, goes to him before Catherine for help with her homework.

Lindsey looks at him like he could rope the moon.

And when she does, he knows he’d try.