Title: Letting the phone ring
By: lewis771750
Pairing: Cath/Sara
Rating: PG-13
Challenge: Ani DiFranco song titles
Spoilers: Crash And Burn
Disclaimer: They are not mine. I know it, you know it, and they know I know it. I took them out to play and put a smile on their faces.
Words: 294

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For months I lay there, hoping against hope that the phone would ring. It wasn’t always you I wanted to ring me, and sometimes anyone would have done if I’m being honest. Usually it was Grissom, asking me to work more, and that was cool, but not quite enough.

Then the phone used to ring for me, and I knew I was special for someone. Why should it matter to me? I have a job I love, I job I have to be forced to leave, why do I need those human interactions as well? But it made me warm inside, to know someone cared. The scientist is still a human being, prone to the same pressures of evolution as one of the social primates as the rest of the species.

Then I found out about Elaine. That hurt me, I was special in all the wrong ways. That hurt. I’d missed the little signs that I am trained to see, that should have prepared me. That hurt too.

Who could have guessed that the drink you offered after work would lead to this? Months later and not only are we still drinking together, still working together, but every night I wake up next to you in bed, and the sex is still really amazing. We’re learning as we go. We both knew we were bi, but we’d never explored carefully with another woman before. Somehow that helps us both, gives us confidence. Lets us grow together just like they say in the marriage counselling books.

Now I don’t rush to answer the phone. Grissom still rings, and I still do the extra hours, but only when I want. I’ve got you, here and now, why shouldn’t I lie here letting the phone ring?

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