Title: Leaving
Author: scfan
Rating: PG
Pairing: Catherine/Sara
Spoilers: None
Disclaimer: If I owned them CSI would be much different, trust me
Challenge: None
Word Count: 240
Summary: Leaving is always hard.
Author's Note: Sara POV

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I know that it's not exactly fair, leaving you here, all alone, but I don't know what else to do. I'm used to running away from the things that I don't understand. I want to say I'm sorry, but I don't want to make you sad. From where I'm putting on my shirt I can see you smiling in your sleep. You were always beautiful like that. I won't cry, even if I want to. I've felt pain before, and I know how to keep it all in. After a while it's just routine. I need to leave before you wake up, but a part of me wants to stay. I know that I can't. I can't just leave you, I have to leave everything. I don't think that I will be able to look at you again, knowing that I've hurt you. I don't think that I can handle passing you in the halls at work, let alone processing a scene with you. It's all too much for me to handle, so I'm doing what I always do, when things like this happen. Maybe in a couple of years I'll come back just to see you again, but I won't talk to you, because I know when thinks are better left alone, and by then you'll be better. But I can't just leave without saying anything.

"Goodbye Catherine. I love you."

And before you open your eyes I'm gone.

The end (or is it?)

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