It was Catherine's day off and she was sleeping soundly in her nice warm bed. The Vegas lights were shinning though the curtains then the phone rang. Catherine slowly opened her eyes and glanced at her bedside clock that was blinking 2:00am. She flipped on her light and squinted at the brightness. Catherine then half walked half stumbled down the hallway to the ringing phone.

"Hello" Catherine said in a groggy voice. She wasn't too happy that someone called her in the middle of the night.

"Catherine? It's me Gil, I need to talk with you"

Catherine pressed the speakerphone button the phone and walked into eh kitchen to get a glass of milk.

"What's up Gil? Is it that important that it can't wait until tomorrow? Catherine replied, she was a little more awake now.

"I guess so, I'll be at your house around noon okay, and sorry about waking you" Grissom said apologetically.

"It's alright, I'll see you tomorrow" Catherine replied and hung up. She stumbled back to her room and flopped onto her bed and fell fast asleep. She didn't even bother to get under the covers.

The next day Grissom did his daily routine, wake up at 10 eat his breakfast which was bacon and eggs, take a shower, get dressed and do a crossword or two. Around 11:30 he got into his Tahoe and started the 20- minute drive to Catherine's house. He kept thinking about what he should say to her. He didn't want to scare her or have her get mad at him he needed to tell her nicely and calmly and everything would be okay.

He pulled up into her driveway and sat there for a few minutes. He kept going over in his mind what he was going to say. He finally thought he was ready and got out of the truck. Grissom walked the short distance to the front door and rang the door bell. A little blonde and blue-eyed girl answered the door.

"Mr. Grissom! I've missed you so much, come in I'll tell mommy that you're here" she said in an excited and cheerful voice.

"Hey Lindsay, I've missed you too, thank you for letting me come in. I hope I didn't wake your mom?" Grissom answered with a smile.

"No she's awake, she's eating breakfast that I made for her"

"Why you're quite the little helper aren't you?"

"I try to be, I'll be right back with mommy"

Lindsay disappeared down the hallway to the kitchen. She came back two minutes later with Catherine she was in her pajamas and her cherry blonde hair was back in a small ponytail, she wasn't wearing makeup but she still looked beautiful in Grissom's eyes.

"I'll leave you two alone," Lindsay said with a smile and she scampered down another hallway to her room.

Catherine smiled and sat down beside Grissom on the couch. She gave him a kiss and asked:

"Hey Griss, sorry about not being dressed, I just woke up a half an hour ago I guess Lindsay's my new alarm clock. Anyways what did you want to talk about?" she moved closer to him and rested her head on his shoulder.

Lindsay was pretending to play with her dolls but she was listening to her mom's and Grissom's conversation. She tip toed to the end of the hallway and sat in the shadows. She could hear the perfectly and she was hidden.

"Catherine, I don't want to frighten you or anything but you have a right to know since you are my girlfriend and please don't tell the rest of the gang I don't want them to know yet" Grissom whispered while he held Catherine's hand.

"Gil what is it? Your scaring me, please tell me what it is?" Catherine replied and kissed him on the cheek.

"I'm loosing my hearing, I'm going deaf. It's genetic my mother had it and now I do and there is no cure."

Lindsay heard him say "deaf" and she wasn't sure what that meant she knew what hearing loss was and then her smile turned into a frown. She sat there on the floor looking at the white wall across from her.

Catherine was blown away from Grissom's news, she wasn't sure if she was hearing him correctly, how could he be loosing his hearing? He is a very healthy man.

"How could this happen? You, you're so healthy and did it just happen like out of the blue?" Catherine asked.

"I went and saw the doctor a week ago and she told me in about 6 months my hearing will be per mentally gone. I know this Is a huge shock to you but believe me it was even bigger for me" Grissom replied, he looked as if he was about to cry.

"When will the rest of the team find out? They do have a right to know, you will loose your job, since hearing is a key thing in your line of work, What about Lindsay she adores you so much and she'll be heartbroken when she finds out, how will we be able to communicate with each other, I don't know how to sign or anything." Catherine rambled on and Grissom smiled and put a finger to her lips and she stopped.

"The rest of the team will find out when I want to tell them, if I loose my job then I will have to take up a hobby or something. I know that Lindsay adores me and I'm flattered to hear that but we will have to explain to her and hopefully she will understand, I will teach both of you how to sign and I can also read lips. This will be difficult but if we work together then we can do it" Grissom replied and removed his finger from her lips and kissed her.

"Let's get married" Catherine blurted out.

Lindsay heard what her mother had said and she was attentive again, she always wanted this to happen for along time, she even has Barbie and ken dressed up in wedding clothes and pretended them to be her mom and Grissom. Although she had just lost her biological father she would love to have Grissom as a daddy. Her mother would be happier as well, she would stop crying every night and she would have a husband again.

"What? Catherine am I hearing you correctly did you just say for us to get married?" Grissom asked in shock.

"Yes, I mean you would make a wonderful father and an even better husband, I always wanted to marry you since I love you so much, please say yes."

"Catherine are you sure your feeling alright?"

"Yeah of course I am, I just know that we have been wanting to get married anytime soon, so now is our chance, what do you say?" Catherine said with a smile that he couldn't resist.

"Alright lets get married!" Grissom exclaimed and passionately kissed Catherine.

Lindsay was jumping up and down in the hallway and started to giggle, she quickly covered her mouth so they would hear her.

"Yes! I love you so much Gil! Let me go and tell Lindsay the wonderful news and then we'll head over to the chapel and get married tonight and tell the gang tomorrow they will be so surprised!" Catherine screamed while jumping up and down on the couch.

She then ran down the hallway and Lindsay saw her mom approaching her so she ran to her room as fast as she could and picked up a doll making it look like she was playing with her the whole time. Catherine ran into her daughter's room with a big smile on her face. Lindsay looked up from the doll in her hands and smiled back at her mommy.

"Baby I have some great news to tell you" Catherine said as she sat down beside her daughter on her Hello Kitty bedspread that was covered with bears and dolls. Lindsay looked into her mother's eyes and saw a twinkle of happiness in them.

"What is it mommy?" Lindsay asked eagerly trying to act surprised.

"Well honey, me and Mr. Grissom are going to get married!" Catherine screamed she was all cheerful and happy.

Lindsay looked wide-eyed at her mother and then she dropped her doll on the floor and started jumping on the bed.

"Mommy! I knew this was going to happen someday! When are you getting married?" Lindsay asked while she jumped up and down.

"Tonight! Which will mean that your going to be having a babysitter, do you mind honey?" Catherine asked and Lindsay stopped jumping.

"A babysitter! But mom why can't I go to the wedding, I can be a flower girl! Please mom please" Lindsay begged and used her puppy dog face something Catherine can't resist to say no to.

"Alright you can come but remember you must be on your best behavior. You can be the flower girl if you like, you can wear your white dress nana bought for you for your birthday last year. I'll do your hair all pretty before we leave alright?" Her daughter's puppy dog face always suckered Catherine in.

Lindsay began jumping up and down on her bed again Catherine left her in peace. She slowly closed the door behind her and stood there thinking about how there lives was going to change for the good this time.