Disclaimer: I don't own CSI but I wish I did.

No real place in the series- Warrick is dead and Sara and Grissom are married.

You're Never Safe.

A Long Day.

Catherine walked past the break room where she saw Greg and Riley working on a case she had assigned them.

She smiled to herself and continued to her office. She sat on her chair and looked at the stack of papers on her desk. Since she had become supervisor she had inherited Grissom's overload of paperwork.

She sighed and stood back up. She had had a long day and she would do the paperwork later. Somehow this made her chuckle. She was reminding herself of Grissom.

Catherine walked across the hall to Nick's office where he was staring intently at his computer.

"Hey Nicky." She said, making him jump.

"Geez Cath, could you not scare me half to death all the time?" He said sarcastically. It was true, she had been doing that a lot.

Nick spun around and looked at her. "Okay, what do you need?" He asked, giving her a knowing look.

She had to smile. "Can you take over for me? I know I'm not off for another hour but Linds is home sick and I haven't heard from her." She said. All day the worry had been building up inside her. "I know its probably nothing... I just wanna check."

Nick stood up to put a hand on her shoulder. "I'm sure she's fine, but go check anyway. I'll supervise." He said and smiled.

"Thanks." She said and gave him a quick hug, before walking to the change rooms.

Catherine passed Sara in the hall who gave her a nervous smile. She had surprised even herself when she let Sara work here again. She didn't know why, but she had just said okay. Sara was fine when she was in a good mood.

After putting her stuff away she made her way to her car in the parking garage. She hopped in and started it.

After rolling the windows down, she drove onto the main road towards her neighbourhood.

I know its short, but more is coming. Little does Catherine know that there's a dangerous surprise waiting for her at home. Mwua ha ha :)