"So did you have a good time tonight?"

"Yeah, I had fun. I'll say one thing for you, you sure can show a girl a good time. Why are you calling, I thought we established this when you dropped me off like 30 minutes ago?"

"I just wanted to make sure you got home okay, I shouldn't have dropped you at the door like that."

"I'm a big girl Grissom. And I don't think you 'dropped' me at the door. If memory serves there was a certain amount of touching, kissing and the sort of behaviour which would have sent my father after you with a shotgun back in the day..."

"Okay. Well I need to talk to you about the shift rotas, if you would take care of next weeks."

"Gil, don't I always. I'm so tired, can we talk about this tomorrow baby?"

"Okay. Night."

"Night"

"Night"

"Night."

"Night."

"Gil, one of us is going to have to hang up, and since you were the one who called..."

"I would but then you had to go and say 'baby', I want to hear you say it again. Please say it again Catherine."

"If I say it, I'll never get you off this phone tonight, will I baby?"

"No. I just miss you."

"Well come over, I always have a better sleep lying beside you."

"I want to, but we agreed. We don't want Lindsey getting confused, we need to be sure where this is going before she thinks I'm in her life forever."

"Then we need to be sure. You have to tell me what you feel, I'm sure of what I feel but you have to say the words too baby."

"Cath, I just looked around my apartment and it seems so empty. I just want to be with you, go to sleep beside you, and just wake up with you still there."

"You 'just' want to do that, you disappoint me Gil. I was hoping there would be more happening than going to sleep."

"I'm trying to be romantic and thoughtful. Cosmo magazine says that is what 78% of women want in a man."

"You read Cosmo?"

"Sometimes, it's interesting from a research point of view. Okay, what do you want in man Catherine?"

"You."

"That was a good answer. Are we wandering off the point here?"

"Maybe, you are supposed to be telling me what want from our relationship. What the next step is."

"Right. Well, I want to help Lindsey with her homework, I want to go grocery shopping with you guys. I want to be the one that cleans the gutters in the summer and stores useless junk in your garage. Is that what you need to hear?"

"My sweet romantic baby, sweeps me off my feet with his stirring words of love."

"Are you making fun of me, or are you flirting with me?"

"I think we both know it's always gonna be a little bit of both baby. Woo me..."

"Okay. I don't see the point in us being apart, when all I can think of is being with you. I love you, I love Lindsey and I want us to be a family. Not when an appropriate time has passed, not someday in the future when people won't be surprised. I want all of it now. I want you now, we've wasted too many years for us to dally here. I call you thirty minutes after seeing you, just to hear your voice. I can't go to sleep anymore without you, and you've only spent a few night over here. I want to be able to cook for you, to take care of you, to help with the laundry, to watch you put on that crazy face cream, and to draw you a bubble bath at the end of a hard shift. I want to be able embarrass you daughter by kissing you all the time and holding your hand when we go pick her up from school. Most of all, I just want you..."

"..."

"Cath, are you still there baby."

"Mmm..."

"Did I go too far? I'm sorry was that too much?"

"Baby, just get in your car and come over here. I just want you too..."

THE END