Title: Blood
Author: sarcasticsra
Rating: PG
Pairing: gen
A/N: Thanks for beta'ing, Kelly.
Summary: The first time Gil remembers seeing blood.

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Grissom still remembered the first time he'd seen blood - of course, it had been when he was small. It was something hard to forget.

His mother's blood had been a shocking red, gushing from her nose, where his father had hit her.

That had been the first and last time his father had gotten violent because his mother hadn't given him a chance to do it again. She wasn't stupid, and she knew she had to leave and to take her child with her. There was no excuse for any child to ever have to witness anything like that.

He wasn't a child anymore, though, and he saw things like that nightly, now. He'd found that none of the victims he'd ever seen had blood quite as red as his mother's.

-End

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