Warrick chuckled and shook his head as they emerged from New York New York, his stomach finally calming its cartwheels after their rollercoaster ride. "Man, Gris, I gotta admit -- I never had you pegged for a rollercoaster enthusiast."
"I don't know that I'd call myself an 'enthusiast,' Warrick, but I enjoy them. Some people go out for drinks, some go home to take bubble baths..." He threw the tall CSI a rather boyish grin. "I ride rollercoasters to relax myself."
His chuckle sounded once more, his head shake making another appearance. "If you wanna call that relaxing..."
They walked down the Strip in silence for a moment, passing closed strip-malls and some rather annoying solicitors passing out cards advertising prostitutes. As they reached the Bellagio, Warrick lifted his head. "Hey, Gris..."
"Hmm?" Grissom's hands were shoved into his suit pants, eyes focused on some nearby trash, seemingly swirling in a vortex from the warm night breeze. He then lifted his eyes to meet Warrick's.
"You said that every nine years and thirty-four days, you like to share your little rollercoaster fetish."
"Not a fetish, Warrick," he was immediately reprimanded.
Warrick rolled his eyes. "Okay, okay, whatever. Your 'relaxation technique.'"
"Right." After another moment of silence, Grissom raised his eyebrows. "Did you have an actual question?"
"Yeah. If you like to share this rollercoaster thing every nine years and thirty-four days, who'd you take with you the last time?"
The wide grin Grissom sported didn't escape him, as the senior CSI seemingly relived it....
*****
"Gil, I could've sworn I told you I didn't want to do this," the strawberry-blonde complained as Grissom assisted her in pulling the shoulder harness over her head.
"And Catherine, I could've sworn *I* told *you* that since you made me sit through yet another viewing of 'Pretty Woman,' that you owed me. Big time."
She rolled her eyes. "I know, but I just figured that by 'owing you,' that meant you'd be dragging me to one of your bug races. Not onto a rollercoaster."
He smiled. "Oh, there's still time for bug races, my dear. Don't worry."
"Right."
Silence reigned between the pair momentarily, Grissom focusing on the crowd waiting for their departure while Catherine listened to the sounds of the technicians making sure every harness was securely fastened. "So, Gil..."
"Hmm?"
"What is it about rollercoasters that gets you so hot?"
At this, his eyes widened. "Excuse me? It's a form of relaxation."
Her plump lips spread into a grin. "Oh yeah, real relaxing being hurled down a one-hundred-plus foot drop at sixty miles an hour. Admit it, Gil... it arouses you." She leaned close to him... as close as she could, rather, with the harness... and her breath tickled his ear. "Have you ever done it on a rollercoaster?"
"Catherine!"
She blinked innocently. "It's a legitimate question."
"Don't you have a date to be getting to?"
"Maybe. If I'm up to going after all this 'relaxation.'" She stared him down. "And quit trying to change the subject. Answer the question."
"No."
"Don't be such a baby, Gil."
"I'm not. That was my answer: no. No, I have not had intercourse on a rollercoaster."
She gave a brief roll of the eyes at his rather clinical terminology, then pressed on. "Well why not? Supposedly, it's pretty thrilling. A G-force and orgasm combined? Come on, you can't tell me you haven't at least *thought* about it."
Her eyes watched his sweep briefly over her body, and she hid her smile as he replied, "Maybe I have, but that doesn't mean I'd act on it."
"Chicken?"
"Knock it off, Cath."
She raised her hands in resignation, eyebrows climbing toward her scalp. "Okay, okay... fine." She then smirked to herself, a bit smugly. "I kinda figured you wouldn't be daring enough for that, anyway."
"You don't think I can be daring?"
She bestowed a wan smile upon him, blinking slowly. "Gil, darling... have you glanced in the mirror lately?"
He absently fingered the buttons of his plaid, short-sleeved button-down shirt through the harness. "Why?"
"You're a bit too straight-laced for that kind of risk-taking."
"So you don't believe I would ever do something like that? I'd never take that kind of a chance?"
She gave a facial shrug, the upper half of her body too restricted to make the accompanying shoulder motions. "Maybe... I suppose if somebody got you really drunk, but other than that... no."
She watched him frown and turn away, and she couldn't help the chuckle that escaped her lips. Before another word could be uttered by either of them, the rollercoaster jerked to life and began its slow climb up the first hill. As it made its crawling ascent, Catherine glanced at the sights below her, growing smaller and smaller by the moment. So absorbed was she in enjoying the sights, she nearly startled out of her skin when his hand found
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