Title: 'Me and My Seven Dwarfs'

By: Irom Eagle

Disclaimer: CSI is owned by CBS and Jerry Bruckheimer

Fandom: CSI: Vegas

Pairing: Catherine/Sara

Rating: PG

Summary: Being in love with Sara is like being in love with the Seven Dwarfs.

Spoilers: None 

A/N: Thanks to all those who have read my other stories…thanks also to those who helped me become a better writer by being my beta…This story is from Catherine's P.O.V. 

I just finished putting Lindsey to bed after watching her 'favorite movie of all time' at least for this month, Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and as I come down the stairs I see Sara all curled up on the couch sweetly sleeping and I can't help myself but think how loving her is like loving the afore mentioned seven dwarfs. 

The first dwarf Sara reminds me of is Grumpy; especially when she first wakes up and hasn't had her first cup of coffee of the day, both Lindsey and I know to stay out of her way until she has had that first cup. She is also very grumpy when we are at work and the evidence we collected on a case isn't coming up with the answer or answers we need, but once we do get the answers and get the perpetrator her grumpy side goes away. 

It's at work or should I say when Sara is late coming home from work that I am reminded of another one of the dwarfs, Sleepy, if she isn't right behind me by at least 30 minutes I know she is working overtime and after about an hour and a half I know she probably fell asleep, so I go back to the lab and of course I am right because I see her in her favorite lab with her head cradled in her arms on a layout table and I have to smile at how sweet she looks, but what is really cute is the smile she gives me when she wakes up and I tell her it's time to go home and she follows me and I can tell she's still groggy from sleep, which means I won't get any argument from her about leaving her truck at the lab and I drive home as she falls back to sleep as soon as she gets into my Denali. 

There was one time when she reminded me of the dwarf Sneezy, that was when during a trip to Lake Mead on a day off for the both of us, we were just sitting on the banks of the Lake and Sara tried to get up to go to the truck she slipped and fell in the water and my poor baby got a bad cold, and she couldn't stop sneezing; it wasn't that that made me think of the dwarf it was that she was so cute doing it I couldn't help but giggle when she sneezed which didn't make her too happy, but she got over her cold quickly and all was well in the house. 

The next dwarf she reminded me of was when both Lindsey and I got the flu at the same time; Sara turned from a CSI investigator to the dwarf Doc, she called the lab and told Grissom that neither of us would be coming in for at least a week; me because of having the flu, her because she would be taking care of me and Lindsey.  I don't think I could have loved her more but that week showed me I could love her more because during that week she showed me how much she loved the two of us; she called our doctor, went to the drugstore to pick up the medicines we needed, cooked our meals, cleaned the house, she even went to Lindsey's school and talked to her teachers and got all of her homework, she even helped Lindsey finish it, God I love this woman. 

Sara was so surprised the following week when Lindsey and I decided to take care of her, waiting on her hand and foot which was our way of saying thank you, she looked so cute blushing and stumbling over her words trying to tell us she was just doing what one family member would do for any other family member, her acting that way reminded me so much of the dwarf Bashful. 

As I sit here and watch Sara sleeping I can't help but chuckle to myself because I remember all the times that Lindsey has told her something about a new boy band or a new young television actor and my Sara has this look on her face as if she is being spoken to in Martian or something it reminds so much of that sweet dwarf Dopey. 

I see a small smile on her face as she sleeps which in complete contrast to the times early on in our relationship where she would wake up either screaming or in a cold sweat, she did finally tell me the nightmares were because her mother killed her father right in front of her after the two of them had endured years of abuse at his hand; God if I had only known about that when she first came to Vegas maybe I wouldn't have been so mean to her, but that's all over now and every time I see her smile at me or at Lindsey it warms my heart that it was the two of us that turned her from the closed in, shy, angry person she had been to the person she is today which reminds me of my favorite of the seven dwarfs, Happy. 

I am brought out my thoughts by a stretching and groaning Sara who is beginning to wake up from her little nap, "Hey angel, what are you thinking about?" 

"Just about how much I love you, come on baby let's go to bed."