His cell phone signaled an incoming call. He looked at the display and saw it was Catherine. He smiled as he answered.

“Hello, dear.”

“Hello to you to. Listen, we’ve got bugs here that we are bringing back to the lab. Found some blood also. This may be more than a B&E. Can you hang around?”

“Sure.” His voice was betraying his headache.

“You OK?”

“Migraine,” he mumbled sheepishly.

“Again? I thought you were fine earlier.” Catherine was concerned. Normally Gil’s migraines didn’t recur this quickly.

“I was. It’s back. And I can’t find my pills.” He sounded like a sick baby who just wanted his mother.

“What? I know I put them back in the bottom drawer of your desk yesterday.” She wondered how he ever found anything in that office.

“Well I can’t find them now.” Gil just wanted her to come back to the office and find them for him, but he wasn’t about to admit it.

“Open the drawer,” she said in the same voice she used when Lindsey was sick and called her.

“Catherine,” he whined.

“Just open the drawer, Gil.” The man could be so damned frustrating at times.

“It’s open.”

“What do you see?”

Gil rummaged thru the drawer again. “Papers, files, photos.”

“You know, for a CSI you’re kind of dense at times.” She couldn’t help smiling as she said it.

“Catherine…” His voice had that warning tone to it.

“OK, OK. The bottle should be in the front of the drawer. Lift up the papers on that end.”

“Well I’ll be damned.” Catherine laughed softly at his surprise.

“Take two and put them back where you found them.” With that she hung up her phone.


About a half hour later Gil heard a knock at his door. Thinking Catherine was back he opened it only to see Sara staring back at him with a huge grin on her face.

“Can I come in?”

“Sara, I’m kind of busy at the moment.” The medication hadn’t kicked in yet. His head was pounding and all he could see were the white spots caused by the pain.

“I thought we could work on finding Catherine’s date. Unless, of course, you’d rather do that over breakfast at my place.”

“Sara.”

“Hey, have you thought about asking Warrick. I’ve seen they way they look at each other.” She marched herself into his office and took a seat in front of his desk.

“What are you talking about?”

“You’ve got to be kidding me. Those two can’t keep their eyes off each other. Frankly, I’m surprised they haven’t done anything about it yet.”

Gil looked at her in disbelief.

“Seriously. Remember that case about a year ago she and Warrick worked in the sewer. I’ve heard they were this closing to kissing when they were interrupted by some guy from the city.”

“And who exactly told you this?”

“Oh, um, just one of the officers working with them. Said it happened almost at the spot where Eddie was killed.”

Gil stood up a the mention of Eddie and walked towards Sara.

“Yeah, said they were in each…”

“Sara, not that, what did you say about Eddie?”

“Oh, that. They were close to where Catherine found Lindsey the night Eddie died.”

“Oh my God. I didn’t even think about that when I sent her down there.”

“What? She’s a professional, she can handle it. Not like she hasn’t spent plenty of time in the gutter as it is.”

“Sara, she almost lost her daughter that night. She did loose Eddie.” Gil’s voice was growing louder and louder.

“Yeah, and he was her ex-husband, so what’s the big deal.” Sara couldn’t understand why he was getting upset. She was just trying to tell him why Warrick was a great choice.

“Get out Sara.”

“But we were supposed to work on finding her a date.” This was not going the way she planned it at all.

“Sara, get out now.”

“Fine. Wait till she hears what you’ve done.” Sara slammed Grissom’s door on her way out. Grissom ran to the door and called her back to his office. No matter how much of a heal he felt like right now he wasn’t going to make it worse by letting Sara tell Catherine what he had done.

“Sara, stop!”

She stopped, a huge smile playing across her face. She had him where she wanted him. He was terrified of Catherine finding out about E-Harmony. She could play him any way she wanted. She wiped the grin from her face before turning to face him.

“I’m sorry. Please, come back and help me.”

They walked back into his office and Gil turned his monitor to where Sara could see it and they started going through the matches he had received. After about a half hour he couldn’t take anymore. She was driving him insane. All the men she was choosing were disasters. He had to find a way to get rid of her.

“You know, Sara, you’ve been putting in a lot of overtime lately. Why don’t you go home and get some sleep?”

“No, I’m good.” They looked through a few more profiles.

“You hungry?”

“Starving. Let’s go get a bite to eat.” Sara was smiling; this was what she hoped for all along.

“Actually, I’m not that hungry but you can go get something,” Gil said.

“No, I don’t really like eating by myself so I’ll just stay,” she said as she clicked on another useless profile.

“Sara, why don’t you take off early and go to one of the casinos and see who you can find for Catherine.” He knew how much Sara hated dealing with people and this would serve her right for being so nosy and trying to control him.

“A casino? I don’t think I…”

“No, Sara, it’s perfect. I mean, like you said, Catherine has spent so much time in the gutter in the past that any man you find there would be the right one and we wouldn’t have to waste our time with this website.” He felt horrible for saying this but if it got rid of Sara it would be worth it and he’d find a way to make up for it later. “Why don’t you start at the Tangiers?”

“You know, that’s not a bad idea. It is one of Sam Braun’s casinos so I know she’d love the men that hang out there.”

“Get on it then!” Sara got up to leave.

“Before I go though, why not Warrick?” Curiosity was getting the better of her.

“Because I already asked him and he has plans.” Gil breathed a sign of relief as Sara left his office.