Title: Watching 'My Angel' Sleep
Author: cjacsifan
Pairing: Catherine/Sara
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: CSI is owned by Jerry Bruckheimer and CBS
Spoilers: Few throughout the run of the show
A/N: Story is from Sara's P.O.V.

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I blink my eyes open as I see the first rays of the sun come through the window of the bedroom I share with the woman I call 'My Angel'; Catherine Willows.  I am always the first one up because of the way I used to live my life.  I was a workaholic, I was self-destructive, I was angry,  I was an alcoholic, but worst thing of all I was in love with Catherine Willows from the first time I set eyes on her when I was brought to Vegas from San Francisco by our boss and good friend of mine, Gil Grissom.  The reason I say that was the worst thing is because from the moment I stepped into the lab she disliked me because she felt I was an outsider and came to first of all take her job, and secondly because I was there to investigate Warrick, she thought I was there to get him fired.

As I sit up and contemplate getting out of bed, I look over at my love and remember some of the times she and I have had together; both the good and the bad.

Catherine and I had our fights, to say they were legendary would be an understatement, especially the one case where a woman's remains were encased in tar, just by the wounds I could tell the woman was a victim of abuse because I also was, I could even tell the new wife the perp had was being abused but she did nothing about it and I went off and said she used her sexuality to get what she wanted from suspects...right in front of the head of the lad Ecklie and I was suspended for 2 weeks.

Sadly at that point we were getting along better because she took me out after I found out I was my so-called boyfriend's 'thing on the side'...that was even after I failed to  find the killer of her ex-husband Eddie, I still can't believe that schmuck left his own daugter in his car and she nearly drown.

It was after Nick's kidnapping that I finally decided to tell Catherine how I felt about her and to my surprise she told me she felt the same way but was afraid to say anything because of my closeness to Grissom, then I tell her I was too afraid to that point because of the way our relatioship had been going since I arrived in Vegas.

As I continue to look at Catherine, the sun frames her face as if she were wearing a halo...she also has this sweet smile on her face.

You may ask why I call her 'My Angel', that is because she saved me from myself and all the bad habits I had, I even told her about the abuse I endured from my mother and father, we cried in each other's arms for a long time; her tears were because of as she put it 'her rotten treatment of me in the past', my tears were the happiest tears I ever cried because I was scared that after telling my whole story she would dump me right then and there, but to my surprise she called me 'the bravest, strongest and lovliest person' she knew

Catherine begins to stretch and I know she is about to wake up so I surprise her by leaning over and giving her a good morning kiss, "Mmmmm Sara, now that's the way I like to be awakend every morning...Good morning My Love."

"Good Morning My Angel."