A Trip To New York

Mar 07, 2007 20:43

Who: Catherine & anyone else who wants to join.
What: Packing up her office, flight from Las Vegas to NYC.
When: About 4 AM.
Where: Catherine's office, La Guardia Airport.

Catherine Willows drove up to the Las Vegas crime lab, her daughter Lindsay in the car with her. She was here to pick up a few things from her office that she hadn't gotten yet. After parking the car she told Lindsay to wait in the car and she got out of the car. The air was cool on her neck, blowing her redish-blonde shoulder length hair in her face a bit. Catherine swept her hair out of her face and stepped into the door of the crime lab and headed straight to her office. Her office wasn't very big, and wasn't as "interesting" as her colleague Gil Grissom's office, what with his insect and animal parts assorted on many shelves throughout his office.

After Catherine had scrambled through her purse looking for the key to her office she opened the door, her office was extremely cold as it was every afternoon when she arrived to work on the swing-shift. She headed to her desk and grabbed the last box off her desk. Then she looked out her office window for the last time, she was going to miss it there. She used to love the bright lights and glow of Sin City but after her biological father Sam Braun was shot and killed in front of her, everything reminded her of him, especially the casinos.

She hurried out to the car she put the box in the trunk part of her lab issued vehicle and got back in the car. Ecklie had agreed that Catherine could take the car with her to New York. Catherine and Lindsay had always wanted to go to New York, that's why when a job opening came available in New York City she didn't even think twice and she accepted it.

It seemed they had been on the plane for three hours already, but they had only been on for about a half an hour. Lindsay had fallen asleep shortly after they boarded listening to her iPod. Catherine was to nervous to fall asleep or do anything really, she wasn't a good flyer. She had flown numerous times before but something about being thousands of feet in the air just wrecked her nerves. The turbulance was what really got to her, she always felt like the plane was going to go down. She also thought of the case she had worked about seven years ago where a group of first class passenger attacked another passenger.

Halfway through the flight they put a movie on but Catherine didn't feel like spending six dollars to rent headphones just to watch a little kids movie. Catherine had woken Lindsay up for the dinner/snacks/drinks they served on long flights like the current one. They had their oriental chicken salad and Lindsay fell back asleep. Catherine's nerves seemed to have eased a bit so she read a few forensics books.

At some point in the flight Catherine had fallen asleep because she awoke to the flight attendent welcoming them to La Guardia airport. After filing off the plane, they headed to baggage claim and collected their suitcases with some of their clothing and the bare essentials they'd need until the moving truck arrived with Catherine's car and the rest of their furniture and personal items. They went outside in the freezing cold weather and put their hats, gloves, scarfs, and winter jackets on and awaited for someone from the New York crime lab to come and give them a ride to their new apartment.
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