Office Hours

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

During the lunch hour a delivery man in a white suit brings in a thickly padded envelope.

"Sign for this, Miss Cregg."

"What is it?" she asks nervously.

"It's time, ma'am." he says.

She signs and as he leaves, she tears it open. With a gasp followed by a slow smile, she slides it into her desk drawer.

Comments

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

"Well, it's not like I don't know how to find you. I'll start with Vegas and try my luck, ok?" she smiled softly.

[drgrissom.livejournal.com]

"I'm not very difficult to track down. My paper trail alone..." he says with a sad smile.

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

"You're the reason the rainforests are disappearing, Gil." she said dryly. She leaned back in her chair and gave him a long look of appraisal, then got up and walked around to hug him. "Sara's a really lucky girl."

[drgrissom.livejournal.com]

The past eight months have accomplished a good amount of erosion of his past five years worth of withdrawal from intimacy - he returns her embrace warmly, and it's only a touch awkward.

"I'd propose that I am the lucky one, to have such wonderful women in my life. I really will miss you terribly, CJ."

[I just laughed at my own emo, oh dear.]

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

"Well, you're not gone yet." she said shakily. "I'll miss you too, Gil. You're perhaps the one bit of sanity in this town that I've clung to. I'm not exactly sure what I'll do without you."

[drgrissom.livejournal.com]

"You're crafty. I think you'll manage beautifully," he replies a little sadly.

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

"Oh, yes. Flatter me and give me jewelry." she said in a lame attempt to lighten the mood. "You'll never be rid of me if you keep this up, Gil."

[drgrissom.livejournal.com]

"if you would fit into my suitcases with those legs of yours, I'd take you with me."

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

She arched her eyebrow and smirked at him. "You're really very sweet, Gil. If I could bend like that? I'd come with you."

[drgrissom.livejournal.com]

"You can't bend like that? That's not what I heard. Might be a little stuffy in there anyway."

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

"Who's been telling on me? Is it that Blair kid? It'd be just like flying coach."