Title: Changes
By: reversedsam
Pairing: Cath/Sara
Fandom: CSI: Vegas
Rating: PG
Disclaimers: They're not mine, but I promise I'll have them back by midnight.
A/N: All mistakes and British spellings are mine.
Summary: Sara can be oblivious sometimes.

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It's funny how things change.

How tiny minuscule things happen all the time. Eventually adding up to one giant occurrence, how the small changes are so subtle that when something big finally hits us, we're shocked.

Take my relationship with Catherine, we fight, always have done, and I'm guessing we always will. Less now, but still, we fight.

We weren't friends; we were colleagues, that's all. Then I went and got my self hurt at a scene, much the same as she had years before. Got myself knocked out, ended up with a lovely concussion.

When I woke up in the hospital she was there.

"Don't you dare do that to me again Sidle."

"Sorry, you know I did it just to worry you."

"Yeah, well, I like the team in one piece; I like you in one piece. Next time you want to worry me, think of something involving less bodily harm, deal?"

"Deal."

Right then I knew we'd become friends, the death grip she had on my hand and the concern in her eyes told me our relationship had changed and I hadn't even noticed.

Funny that isn't it? How I'm trained to notice things but failed to see what's happening in my own relationships.

So you'd think I'd have been aware of our relationship changing yet again, but apparently not.

Maybe I'm not as observant as I thought. Maybe I'm totally oblivious.

Seems Catherine was well aware though, thankfully she decided to share that knowledge with me.

"You know Sidle, I was thinking about that show at Mandalay bay."

"What about it?"

"You seen it?"

"No, you?"

"That's what I was thinking, it's been on there a while, I think I'd like to see it. We should go."

"Okay, you wanna take Linds next week?"

"No."

"No?"

"No, we'll be going the late show. I have a new dress I want to wear; you should wear black, I like you in black."

"What are you saying here Catherine?"

"You're not stupid, figure it out."

"A date? You just asked me on a date?"

"Yep."

"...I think I can find something black."

I'm glad she's more observant than me.

I'd always been resistant to change, been a little scared of it if I'm truthful, but she makes it easy, effortless even.

Commitment, I was afraid of that too. Thankfully for me though, she makes a lot of things effortless.

"What are you doing this weekend?"

"I have no idea, as long as it involves you, I'm happy."

"Quite the charmer aren't you Sidle."

"I try."

"Wanna try moving in with me?"

"Jesus, are you serious?"

"Keep still, I'm comfy, act astonished later. Of course I'm serious."

"What does Linds think?"

"She thinks she'll win more arguments. Thinks because she has you wrapped around her little finger I won't stand a chance."

"She's wrong."

"Oh yeah."

"It just means we'll both lose."

"When you move in?"

"This weekend right?"

"Right."

So we went from being colleagues, barely tolerating each other to friends, good friends, to being in a relationship to living together. And it seems I had no idea any of it was happening until it slapped me in the face.

You really would think I'd be a little more observant.

I think I like unpredictable now though, seems to have worked out very well for me lately. Catherine is pretty unpredictable. Yeah, I definitely like unpredictable now.

I know things will change, they always do, so I pay extra attention now, make sure our relationship doesn't start changing without my knowledge, yet again.

This, this is the one I want for keeps.

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