Fragments of Sappho Challenge Part 2
Title: Purple Rose part 2
Author: Maaike aka little_tarzan
Requestor: mrswoman
Prompts: Sofia’s ex, Catherine’s jealousy
Pairing: Catherine/Sofia
Fragment: mingled with all kinds of colors
Wordcount: 3.632
Spoilers: Season 5 and 6. Especially Bodies in Motion.
Disclaimers: CSI is not mine and unfortunately nor are Catherine and Sofia. Dammit.
A/N: Sorry for the story being so late.
A/N 2: Thanks to my beta Emma, you rock! I promise that one day you won’t have to correct so much ;)
It had been so much easier than she thought. Sofia’s return felt so far away, it was as if she had never left. Catherine was content to have the younger blonde by her side. The more time they spent together, the more she found out about the Detective. And the more she found out, the more she liked Sofia.
They had decided to keep their contact at work to a minimum, since they both had problems with keeping their hands off each other. Catherine knew that once shift ended, Sofia would make it up to her.
As she drove to the crime scene with Nick, she was thinking about the previous night. Sofia had ordered a Jacuzzi and it had been installed during the afternoon. The blonde Detective had promised that Catherine would be the first one to experience the extreme pleasure of a Jacuzzi. She smirked at the thought; it had indeed been an extreme pleasure.
When they arrived at the scene they were greeted by Sofia Curtis. Catherine was pleasantly surprised and raised her eyebrow at her lover. Sofia just winked at her and managed to ‘accidentally’ touch Catherine’s ass as she guided her and Nick to the crime scene.
Catherine told Nick to check the inside while she worked the perimeter. The Texan was quite surprised, since Catherine normally did the inside, but happily complied with her request. Sofia knew exactly why the primary chose the perimeter and she had to admit, she liked the idea.
“Any chance you will be helping a woman in distress?” Catherine asked in a sultry voice.
“Of course I will, but I don’t see a woman in distress,” Sofia replied mockingly.
“Oh, you don’t know half how much distress your presence is causing Detective,” Catherine smiled before turning around and starting her investigation.
She loved the flirtatious undertone of their conversations. It was something Sofia had mastered very quickly. There weren’t many people who could make Catherine Willows blush, but the Detective was one of the very select group who could.
While she was working the scene, she noticed Sofia was checking her out while interviewing witnesses. She smiled at the thought. It was a good reassurance to know that she still could keep younger women satisfied. She noticed how her lover suddenly walked away from the group to a more secluded area to pick up her phone.
The look on her face made Catherine worry. Who was it on the phone? What did they want? Why did Sofia look so distressed? She decided to move a little closer to find out what’s going on.
“Look Andy, I don’t care that you are in Vegas,” Sofia hissed into the phone.
It was obvious she wanted to keep her conversation private, but Catherine didn’t care. Who the hell was Andy?
“I’ve moved on, we had a good time but it’s over. It’s been over for a long time,” Sofia said calmly.
Catherine felt stinging near her heart. Sofia was talking to an ex.
Sofia got so sick and tired of Andy calling her almost every day, and now was an especially bad moment- Catherine was around and she didn’t want her lover to know about Andy. She sighed and turned to see where the blonde CSI was. She was staring at her with her mouth agape. She had found out.
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It had been 4 hours and 23 minutes since she had last seen Catherine. Shift was about to end and it didn’t look good for Sofia. The blonde CSI had almost stormed towards the Denali to get her evidence back to the lab. She hadn’t even acknowledged Sofia’s presence. The blonde detective sighed. She had to do something.
Sofia decided on buying flowers. She went to the nearest flower shop and asked the attendant for advice.
“I would go for the purple rose. They are quite rare. I mingled all kinds of colors to see what I would end up with and I only got a purple rose twice,” the attendant told her.
Sofia decided to follow the advice and bought one purple rose and a bouquet of jasmine, the flower of sensuality. Catherine stood for sensuality, in Sofia’s opinion. She carefully put the bouquet of jasmine in a vase on Catherine’s desk, hoping her lover would find it. She wrote a little note, telling Catherine to meet her at the car.
Now all she could do was wait.
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Catherine was incredibly pissed off. She had finished her work on the perimeter quickly and waited for Nick in the car. While she had been in Boulder City, Sofia had slept with another woman. That wasn’t the worst thing, since Catherine had no claim over the blonde Detective at that time. Worst of all was that Sofia hadn’t told her about it.
Poor Nick had been the one to suffer the wrath of Catherine. She had made him process the evidence while she went to talk to Doc Robbins. When the Texan had asked her something, she snapped and told him to do his work for once. She had turned around and stormed away, leaving a confused Nick behind. He wondered what he had done wrong.
As Doc was finishing up his exam, Catherine decided to go to her office to get some Tylenol. It had been a long time since she had a headache and she was sure it had to do with Sofia. Catherine didn’t like to share, especially not when it came to lovers. Even though she trusted Sofia and knew she was not sleeping with that Andy now, she was jealous as hell. Sofia was hers, and hers only.
By the time she entered her office she was fuming again. Why the hell didn’t Sofia tell her? As she looked up she saw the bouquet of jasmine on her desk. She smiled. As a flower lover she knew what they meant. It was either sensuality or a cry from Sofia asking if she felt the same. Knowing Sofia wasn’t as into flowers as she was, it was probably sensuality. To her, Sofia was pure sensuality, in her own way she was one of the most sensual women she had ever met.
The note on her desk told her to meet Sofia at the car. She just assumed it was Sofia, no one else would send her flowers, right? She quickly checked her make-up in the small mirror she had in her office and rushed outside.
She stood still momentarily as she saw Sofia leaning on the hood of her car, holding a single purple rose. You give a purple rose to someone you have fallen in love with on first sight. That’s as much as Catherine knew, plus that purple roses were quite rare.
“I know you overheard me talking on the phone to Andy. I should have told you about her, but…,” Sofia didn’t get to finish her sentence.
“But you didn’t,” Catherine said, while putting her finger on Sofia’s lips. She knew Sofia was smooth, except when it came to her. Call it a quirk, but it was a damn cute one.
She placed a sweet kiss on Sofia’s lips. It was incredibly sweet of the blonde Detective to apologize with flowers. She knew how much flowers meant to Catherine.
“I’m sorry,” Sofia said, offering the rose to Catherine.
“You can show me sorry when we get to your place,” Catherine said with a smirk before getting into Sofia’s car.