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Sharp and Sweet by Wintertime (PG)
Fandom: CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION
Pairing: Nick Stokes/Catherine Willows
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
always_winter
Author Website: Follow The Shoe
Why this must be read:
Another fic by Wintertime, and the angst this time is a little lighter. A little. This is a Catherine centric fic, but Nick, as always, is there, smart and sweet. It's a Halloween story, and one that manages to incorporate Catherine's role as mother without resorting to the type of bludgeoning that the writers on the show sometimes indulge in. I think they could learn a thing or two. But most of all this is about Catherine's cynicism and her need to believe and trust in something in spite of that.
"Remember trick-or-treating?" Nick asked.
She nodded. "I used to take garbage bags so I wouldn’t run out of room."
"Pillowcases for me," Nick said. He lifted the apple into his vision again and frowned at it. "Got my share of apples, too. Always ate them - - there was never anything wrong. We knew all of our neighbors."
Sometimes, Catherine thought that Nick grew up in some fairy tale. He always sounded so confident when he talked about his childhood, as if there were nothing that they could possible be ashamed of, nothing that needed to be kept secret. But then she’d remember Nick’s babysitter, and feel ashamed of herself for thinking like that - - Nick hadn’t had a perfect childhood. Nick was just an optimist.
Sharp and Sweet
Pairing: Nick Stokes/Catherine Willows
Author on LJ:
always_winterAuthor Website: Follow The Shoe
Why this must be read:
Another fic by Wintertime, and the angst this time is a little lighter. A little. This is a Catherine centric fic, but Nick, as always, is there, smart and sweet. It's a Halloween story, and one that manages to incorporate Catherine's role as mother without resorting to the type of bludgeoning that the writers on the show sometimes indulge in. I think they could learn a thing or two. But most of all this is about Catherine's cynicism and her need to believe and trust in something in spite of that.
"Remember trick-or-treating?" Nick asked.
She nodded. "I used to take garbage bags so I wouldn’t run out of room."
"Pillowcases for me," Nick said. He lifted the apple into his vision again and frowned at it. "Got my share of apples, too. Always ate them - - there was never anything wrong. We knew all of our neighbors."
Sometimes, Catherine thought that Nick grew up in some fairy tale. He always sounded so confident when he talked about his childhood, as if there were nothing that they could possible be ashamed of, nothing that needed to be kept secret. But then she’d remember Nick’s babysitter, and feel ashamed of herself for thinking like that - - Nick hadn’t had a perfect childhood. Nick was just an optimist.
Sharp and Sweet