Grissom, Catherine, Sara, Nick, Warrick and Greg were all fast asleep in dreamland while a fierce storm was a brewing outside of the mansion. It was raining cats and dogs out side while flashes of sheet lighting lit up the sky and the wind was howling making the branches on a tree outside of Grissom's bedroom tap on the glass of his window making Grissom jump awake while a crash of thunder raddled the house in the starless night.
Catherine was usually a restless sleeper and when she was having a nightmare it's even worse. She kept tossing and turning in her sleep while she was mumbling words.
Another crash of thunder boomed outside the mansion and Grissom turned on the little bedside lamp beside him and put on his glasses and looked around. He let his eyes adjust to the light and he rubbed the sleep out of his eyes. He thought he heard something coming from the room beside him to so he went to go investigate. When he reached the bathroom he could hear moaning and mumbling in the room beside him and that could only mean Catherine. He slowly opened the door careful not to scare her in anyway and tip toed over to her bedside. He noticed that she was tossing and turning a lot and very fast. She then screamed and Grissom's instincts came into play and he shook her awake.
Catherine slowly opened her eyes and a flash of lighting lit up her room making a silhouette of someone standing over her, she screamed again and Grissom turned on the lamp.
"It's okay Cath, it's just me, I heard you scream and I came to see what was the matter, did you have a nightmare or something?" Grissom asked in a soothing voice to help her calm down.
"Gil...Grissom I was so scared I thought there was a rapist or a murderer in my room you scared the flippin daylights out of me!" Catherine she was wiping the sleep and tears out of her eyes. Then the lights flickered and then they went out. Catherine freaked out again.
Greg heard Catherine scream and he sat up in bed. He then jumped out of bed and ran through the door and the bathroom flinging open Catherine's door. He forgot that the floors were stone and he slip across them on his stocking feet and rammed into the dresser making a huge bang. Catherine's eyes flew open and looked over in the direction of the noise by the dresser.
"What was that?" Catherine whispered she was super frightened now.
"I don't know" Grissom whispered back.
Greg slowly rose from the floor and another sheet of lighting lit up the room again and Catherine and Grissom saw something or someone slowly getting up. Catherine screamed once again but this time right in Grissom's ear almost blowing out his eardrums. For sure by this time the whole gang was awake.
Sara woke up to the scream in the room from across from her and she tired to turn on her light but it wouldn't work. Sara huffed and slowly made her way to the door she felt around for the handle and then she walked across the hallway towards Catherine's room and she smacked right into someone else.
"Hey watch were your going!" Sara replied in a grumpy voice.
"Well if we had some light that wouldn't happen now would it!" Nick screamed back.
They both reached for the door handle and swung the door open. They walked inside and saw noting at all. Then Warrick came up behind them and of course he couldn't see anything either.
"Hey what's all this screaming about?" Warrick asked and then tripped and fell on top of Sara and Nick which made all three of them scream and fall face first on the floor. Then Greg lost his footing again and hit his head on the dresser leaving him sitting beside the dresser.
The storm started to settle down and then the lights flickered back on and Catherine and Grissom couldn't help but burst out laughing. They saw Sara, Nick and Warrick all on top of each other and Greg half conscious slouched beside the dresser. Sara looked up and saw Catherine and Grissom laughing away.
"What's so damn funny?" Sara asked in an angry tone. If she weren't underneath Warrick's body she would so kick there assess.
"Nothing, are you guys okay?" Grissom mustered between fits of giggles. Catherine had a pillow in front of her face so calm her down from laughing.
"Well I'm fine but I don't know about half conscious Greg over there" Warrick admitted while he pointed his finger towards the dresser.
"Your fine! Warrick you're the only one that didn't hit anything hard!" Sara screamed at the man on top of her.
"Yes I did, I hit you!"
"Warrick when I get up off this cold floor you are such a dead man."
"Now behave children, you don't want a time out now do you?" Nick replied
"SHUT UP!" both of them yelled at him and Warrick got up off Sara and Nick slowly.
"Well good night everyone I'm going to go before Ms. Anger Rampage here kills me see ya tomorrow" Warrick said and ran out of the room. Sara was right on his heels.
"WARRICK YOUR SUCH A DEAD MAN!" Sara screamed and ran out of the room slamming the door behind her.
Nick got up and went over towards Greg. "Hey man are you okay, you looked to have hit that dresser super hard"
"Yeah I'll be fine" Greg whispered
"Alright then I'm off to bed again see you tomorrow bye"
Nick left and almost got trampled over by Warrick and Sara chasing each other down the hallway. Nick looked back into the room and said, " When Sara's mad she's really mad" he laughed and shut the door.
Catherine had moved the pillow away from her face now and looked over at Grissom and they both shrugged their shoulders. They got up and walked over towards Greg's limp body by the dresser.
"So you were the mystery thing that freaked us out in the beginning?" Grissom said and knelt down beside Greg.
"Yeah, sorry for scaring you guys, it's just that I heard Catherine scream the first time and I ran into the room and then I forgot that I was in socks and the floors are stone so I slid and hit the dresser. Sorry about that" Greg replied.
"It's okay Greggo, to tell you the truth I saw a shadow of someone over my bed and I screamed but then it only turned out to be Grissom, Sorry about startling you" Catherine confessed she seemed embarrassed now.
"It's okay Cath, I think I'm going to go back to bed and get some sleep, night Griss, night Cath"
"Night Night Greg" Grissom and Catherine said.
Greg slowly got up but used Grissom's shoulder as a support and slowly walked over towards his bedroom.
"Well, I came in here because I heard you scream, now why did you scream before I came in here?" Grissom asked.
"I was having a nightmare that's all sorry about that, anyways it's like 2 in the morning and we should get some sleep, night Grissom" Catherine said as she walked back to her bed.
"Night Cath, and when ever you need to talk about anything I'm always here to listen"
"Thanks, Griss I'll remember that for the next time"
Grissom left to his bedroom and Catherine shut off her light happy that she didn't really tell him about why she really screamed the first time.
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