Lullaby for an Insomniac by Jeanine (PG)

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Fandom: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Pairing: Sara Sidle/Warrick Brown
Author on LJ: helsinkibaby
Author Website: The Band Gazebo
Why this must be read:

I promised at the beginning of the month that I would rec a Jeanine Sara/Warrick story, so I'm doing it now. Jeanine's the most prolific S/W writer out there, and all of it is fantastic, evident by the fact that she's been recced like five million times already.

This particular story makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside. It's the ultimate comfort fic, and one that I go back to again and again. I love the image of Warrick's long fingers gliding across the piano (canon, by the way, or at least semi), and Sara stubbornly trying to fight off sleep as the music lulls her. It's pretty short, but it's one of those fics that makes you feel happy afterwards. Happy for Warrick for finding Sara, and happy for Sara for finally being...well...happy (because god knows that's not canon).

She never considered it a problem, not until she began to go home with someone on a regular basis, not until she'd be lying in bed, watching him sleep, her mind still whirring. Even then, she would have been used to that. What really started to bother her was that her lack of sleep bothered him, and not just because it freaked him out to wake up and find the other side of the bed cold and empty. He considered it unhealthy to sleep as little as she did, believed that it wasn't good for her, and she tried to tell him that it had never done her any harm, but his concern for her welfare slowly but surely turned what had been an advantage into something else.

Eventually, they realised that they'd have to compromise, and agreed that she'd try to sleep a little more if he tried to stop nagging her about it, and sometimes it worked, and sometimes it didn't, but he had his own ways of lulling her to sleep.

They found out about her favourite one by accident.

Lullaby for an Insomniac