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Young Grissom.
Young Gilbert Grissom was not like other boys his age, which was seven, when they playing around outside he was rather reading books inside, he found that much more satisfying.
He got interrupted by his mother poking him on the shoulder and looked up at her miming "Yes mum."
His mother was deaf so she signed "You sure you don't wanna read outside instead, the weather is really nice".
"I dunno, I like it much better here where I got my chair" he signed back to her with a smile.
"You can sit in the swing on the porch" she signed with a smile.
"Ok, ok" he said and rolled his eyes which made her do the same to mock him, but not in a bad way as Kate Grissom loved her son more than anything.
Grissom walked outside, but he didn't sit down on the swing, he sat down on the grass instead, looking down on the bugs, they were fascinating him. How the ants worked together and the bees were making sure the flowers came again every year.
"Studying the bugs again are you?" he heard his father say and turned to look up at him.
"Uh-huh, I really like them, always so busy and organized," he said happily smiling.
His father just smiled at him as he went inside to Kate to help her get dinner ready.
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Grissom was looking at his parents, a loving and devoting couple which gave him everything he should ever need and desire, the little boy was their blessing and since they couldn't have any more children, their joy of life.
"You two are like butterflies," the young boy suddenly spoke.
"What are you talking about?" Graham asked confused looking at his son.
"Well they mate for life and you two done so too," he said and smiled at them.
"You are comparing us to bugs?" his mother signed with a laugh.
"Mhm," he said nodding at her.
"You're a weird little guy," she said.
He just simply smiled at her as she said: "I know what you are."
"You do, really what?" he asked and looked at her with curious eyes.
"You are a little bugman," she said looking at her little boy.
"I am, really I am, cool," he said excitedly.
"You are, now help me with the dishes," she said.
He nodded and got up from his seat to help clear the table.
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It was the next day at school and Grissom was sitting in his regular corner drawing bugs, the details were almost scary, he was a quite skilled artist when it came to that, at the moment he was drawing a butterfly with blue and black wings.
The other children didn't seem to mind him at all, he didn't have any friends as they mostly ignored him, they were saying he was a weirdo and that he didn't fit in, he knew they were right.
Young Grissom was a lot smarter than his age thanks to his parents and the fact that he read a lot, the books were his friends, but sometimes he wished he could have a real friend to, someone to talk to as he was kind of lonely at times.
He sighed looking at a group of children planning what to do after school, it sounded like fun and he so desperately wanted to join them, he looked at them with hopeful eyes but they as usual just ignored him.
He sighed as he went back to his drawing and the bell rang, so he packed up his things and walked over to the hall where he had his jacket, as he took it of the peg he heard his mother say "So did you have fun today?"
"It was OK," he said not wanting to tell her it wasn't.
"Anything wrong?" she asked.
"No, I'm good, can we just go," he said with a sigh.
"OK," she agreed, but as they headed for the car she couldn't help worrying just a little about her son.
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At home young Grissom sat down by the window in his room. His tears were flowing as he was wondering if he would ever be more than just a ghost to anyone. He wanted so badly to just fit in, that someone was going to like him.
Just then something weird happened, a spider were crawling down the window to make a nest just as butterfly flew in almost getting caught in it, but Grissom saved it just in time.
He looked at it colorful wings saying "You need to be more careful or you may get hurt, now fly away butterfly."
The butterfly flew of and Grissom looked at the spider saying, "You know you can catch a fly or something instead, guys like us don't deserve beautiful butterflies, yet I wish I one day had one".
Little did Grissom know that at that moment the girl that later would provide such a butterfly would was born.
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It was three years later the young Grissom was looking at a picture of his father crying, he had died one year earlier and he missed him.
His mother that even if deaf sensed her young son cry came in and said: "Bugman what is wrong?"
"Miss daddy," he signed at her.
"I understand, I miss him too," she signed back.
"I know, I was wondering about something," he signed.
"Yes," she replied wondering about what he wanted.
"Can I go ride the rollercoaster today, please?" he asked her hopefully. If it was anything Grissom loved it was to ride rollercoaster's, the bigger. The better.
"Have you done your homework?" his mother signed.
"Yes," he replied.
"Your chores?" she asked.
"Yes," he replied.
"Then you can go," she said.
"Thank you, you are the best mother in the whole world," he said and gave her a big hug.
Kate smiled after her young son, if she knew one thing about him it was that he loved those rides, and even though she didn't like it all that much, she let him do it, just because it put a smile on his face.
When Grissom came home he almost went straight to bed, he was exhausted in both a good and a bad way. He smiled to him self as he lay in bed looking up at the roof that was now covered by butterflies.
He was dreaming of one day finding a girl that could see him for the one he was and not laugh about him or ignored him like everyone else did.
He smiled as he closed his eyes saying: "One day I will find you ladybug."
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Three years later Grissom was studying hardly for one of his exams as he knew he needed to pass it, but his mind was elsewhere as he was trying to figure out how to get money for a couple of new bugs, he wanted another roach and a tarantula and that wasn't cheap at all.
He chew on the pencil as he looked over at a girl in his class, her name was Sandy and the young boy was at the moment dating her, he loved her very much and it was mutual.
She smiled back at him and blush a little as she looked into his blue eyes before whispering to not interrupt the piece in the library "What are we doing tonight?"
"I dunno, maybe see a movie at my place?" he whispered back to her.
"Again, can't we go to that party over at Donna's place?" she whispered with a sigh.
"I dunno, I'm not much of a party person, besides people just look at me as I'm some kinda freak," he whispered.
"You are a freak," she whispered.
"That's nice of you to say," he whispered back.
"You know I don't mind, please can't we go to that party," she whispered letting her hand gently stroke his.
"OK," he said and smiled at her, figuring it couldn't hurt all that much.
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That night Grissom and Sandy came to the party a little after it started, they both looked like any of the other kids there, in fact Grissom looked quite handsome as he got a fit body and perfect brown hair, the only reason as to why the other kids their age didn't like him all that much was that he was a geek.
"Grissom would you get us something to drink?" Sandy asked.
He nodded, went into the kitchen and came back with a couple of cans of beer and handed her one, she smiled and gave her a peck on the check to thank him.
"Oh isn't that precious, geek love," said one of the jocks.
"Why are you even dating him, you should be dating someone like me," said another.
"Cause I really like him," said Sandy honest.
"Geek lover," the children started to taunt her.
"Am not" she said, tears were starting to fall from her eyes as they continued until she ran out in tears.
"Now was that really necessary," said Grissom annoyed before running after her.
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He found her a couple of blocks away from the party, sitting on the curve, crying sadly.
He sat down next to her and said: "You OK?"
"Yes," she said rejecting his arm around her.
"I'm sorry, maybe it is better that we…," he said and looked down.
"Yeah," she said sadly.
Grissom took one last look at her before he walked away, as he did so he could her sad sobs. He knew she wanted it as little as he did.
When Grissom came home he slammed the main door before running upstairs and slamming that door too. The young boy threw himself on he bed crying.
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Kate who noticed her boy had come home walked upstairs and knocked on his door before entering, Grissom did a sign that meant go away, but Kate wasn't the one to give up that easily. She sat down by his side and asked: "What happened?"
He turned to look at her and said: "Sandy and I broke up."
"Why?" his mother signed.
"Cause the others were teasing her for dating a geek," he signed with sad, teary eyes.
"Oh Gilbert," she said in a soft tone and gently stroke his tears away.
"They are right, I am and no girl will ever love me," he said sadly.
"Don't talk like that, of course someone will," she said.
"May I please be alone," he said.
She nodded and left him gently closing the door behind her as he walked over to the window.
"Ladybug where are you?" said Grissom as he opened his window, he really though it would be Sandy, but he was wrong.
As he sat there looking out funnily enough a ladybug landed at his hand, he smiled at it and said: "So there you are."
The bug of course didn't replay, just settled there and he said: "Will you fly and find my love for me?"
The bug gently took of again while more tears fell from his eyes knowing the ladybug would probably not fly and find him a girl.
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Grissom thought wrong though as the next day the ladybug landed in front of a six year old strawberry blonde girl in the Nevada dessert.
She lifted it up and expected it to walk around on her hand only it didn't, it was simply too tired so she carried it inside and put it down on her bed saying: "You better get some rest so you can fly back to him after."
"Who are you talking to Catherine?" her mother asked.
"Ladybug, it's really tired after flying," said the young girl.
"Who was the him you were referring to?" asked her mother confused.
"Well it's a ladybug, so somewhere she gotto have a bugman right," said the young girl with a smiled.
Her mother shook her head and said: "You're hopeless you know that right."
"Nah, she has a bugman," Catherine protested as her mother left her.
"You do have a bugman, I just know it and one day you will take me to him, but now you need to rest," said Catherine and stroke the ladybug gently before she watched over it as it rested.
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It was a couple of years later and fifteen year old Gil Grissom were playing poker with some friends, he was at this moment winning, they were at a hotel in Vegas as they weren't allowed entrance at the casino.
"We need more to drink," he said and got up, a clear sign there was time for a break.
The others agreed and followed him downstairs where they managed to sneak into one of the shows, his friends were cheering and having a great time, but Grissom was bored and for some reason looked up towards the roof where he saw a spider climb down and smiled.
"I'm just gonna have a look around," he said and left his friends.
Heading towards the toilets he heard a couple fighting over something, but he didn't care enough to listen as he walked on and sat down in the stairs thinking.
"You lost?" he heard someone say behind him and turned to see a young girl.
"No, just thinking," he said honest.
"Cool, well I need to run backstage so have fun," she said and ran of.
"It couldn't be," he though confused and followed her, but she was gone.
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On the whole way back Grissom couldn't stop thinking about the young girl, there was like there was something there that seemed familiar, but he didn't know what it was.
"Gil, your turn to drive," said his friend Lenny.
"OK," he said and switched seat and started to drive away from Vegas, knowing he one day would come back, if it was for business or pleasure he didn't know yet, but he had a feeling that when he came back, he would stay there for a very long time, which he didn't mind as he had liked being there.
He switched files as he started to sing along to the radio along with the others enjoying the last day of freedom.
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When he came home his mother asked him "So did you have fun?"
"Uh-huh, won some more money for bugs," he said excitedly, he needed some more roaches to race with.
"Good and you behaved," said his mother.
"Yes, didn't do anything wrong," he said with a sly smile.
"Good," she said knowing he was telling half truth, but as long as he didn't get in trouble with the police, she didn't mind all too much.
"So what did you do there, just gamble?" she signed curiously.
"Gamble, looked at thing, have fun, oh and I meet this girl," he signed back smiling.
"Really," she signed at him.
"Yeah, to young though, think she can have been eight or something," he said.
"That is too young, how did you end up talking to her in the first place?" she said a bit shocked.
"Well I walked from the others as I was a tad bored and ended up sitting in a stairway and she came by saying I looked a little lost," he said, but then she ran into the casino.
"Were you lost?" she signed.
"I was," he said.
"Hmmm, so what did she look like?" she asked.
"Dunno like a mix between a ladybug and a butterfly," he said as he lifted his tarantula out of his cage to play with it.
"You're weird bugman," said his mother with a smile as she shook her head before leaving the room.
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In Vegas Lily had just put Catherine to bed, the little girl yawned as her mother was reading her a bedtime story so Lily said: "You want me to finish it tomorrow?"
"Yes please," said Catherine and looked over to the widow\where a spider was making its web. Her mother walked over to remove it, only the young girl said: "No, leave it be."
"You like the spider?" her mother asked surprised.
"Not all too much, but he means luck," she said with a sigh.
"I'll leave him then, good night now," he mother said and kissed her.
"Good night Spiderman and if you could ask your friends to say good night to bugman from me, some of them gotto know him," she said as she closed her eyes and drifted of.
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