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Oh and many thanks to krytelmary for the title love you sis.

Occupational paradise.

It was the end of shift and Catherine was already in an awful mood, she had had a crappy night (one word paperwork) and now she had just discovered her car wouldn't start.

She was getting thoroughly pissed off now and to make things worse when the mechanic had looked it over he explained that it would take at least 2 days until she could have it back.

"Great!" She huffed.

"What's wrong?"

Catherine spun around to find Lou Vartann stood staring at her.

"Oh nothing just the stupid car not work and now the mechanics saying I can't have it back till Monday."

"Oh right...well do you want a lift home?"

"Erm sure." She replied "Thanks."

With that said she picked up her things and headed towards Lou's car. As they got in Lou realised he didn't actually know where she lived but as he turned to ask her she had an amused look on her face.

"Would you like to know where I live Lou?" She said with a chuckle.

"It might help." He replied with his charming smile firmly in place.

As he waited for an answer she got lost in her mind, admiring how handsome and sexy he looked when he smiled like that.

' Oh I just love it when he does that it makes me wanna jump him here and now, wait what am I thinking, don't go there Catherine , but he's so yummy'

She was brought out of her thoughts by Lou practically shouting.

"Earth to Catherine, hellooooooooo."

"What...oh right ...my address yeah its erm 1298 Newark street." She stammered, a little flustered from her earlier thoughts.

The drive to her house was relatively quiet except for the odd 'how's work' chit chat.

Catherine couldn't stop thinking about how hot Lou looked in his suit, but she had always thought that he wasn't interested in her. He always seemed distant, yeah he would talk to her but he seemed awkward so she never made a huge effort to get to know him.

Little did she know that at the same time he was thinking about when he had caught her after she had just left the showers at CSI headquarters, her skin all flushed and wet with just a little towel covering her most intimate areas, while rooting through her locker for some more clothes. She hadn't known anyone was there, after all it was way after the end of shift and everyone should have been at home by now, so he stood watching her for a while admiring her perfect body before he left (he didn't want her catching him ogling her, how awkward would that be, "Erm sorry I was just checking you out, imagining what it would be like to make love to you and her you moan.")

That night had had a staring role in many of his fantasies, not to mention his dreams when he was alone in bed. But it was more than just sex to Lou he wanted more, he wanted all of Catherine. He wanted to comfort her when she was sad, to laugh when she was happy, basically to spend the rest of his life with her but he didn't know what her feelings towards him were. She had always been pleasant to him but never overly friendly like she was with Nick and Warrick, so he assumed she wasn't that keen on him.

They arrived at Catherine's house about fifteen minutes after leaving the lab but it seemed like hours to both of them, the proximity of their bodies was driving them both crazy.

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