Fic: Starting From a Dirty Secret, Chapter 3/3 (CSI, Nick Stokes/ Greg Sanders)
Title: Starting From a Dirty Secret 3/3
Author: FinnishSphinx
Fandom: CSI
Pairings: Nick Stokes/ Greg Sanders
Spoilers: None
Disclaimer: They are not mine, just using them for amusement...
"Hey....." Greg panted, but was too out of breath to continue.
"Hello yourself." Catherine greeted from the couch of the break room. "Not that
I wouldn`t love to hear what got you so winded, but I gotta go." She left the
room, and Nick gave Greg a sympathetic smile.
"I really need to talk to you. Have you seen an unlabeled DVD-case?"
"No, have you lost one?" Nick looked at him with slight amusement. Greg`s bouncy
energy was one of his best features, but it could also make Greg all worked up over
nothing.
"I had it when I was getting my stuff out of the locker when I first got here. I think I
dropped it somewhere, and I can`t find it."
"Calm down. Was it something work related?"
"Not really..." Greg was breathing easier now, and sat down on the couch next
to Nick.
"Well, than you shouldn`t get so upset about it. It will turn up somewhere."
"I think your the one who will be more upset about this..."
Nick was now totally lost. "I have no idea what your talking about. What`s on
that disc?"
Greg had buried his head in his hands, and was now mumbling through his fingers.
"You wouldn`t happen to remember a certain home video, that I said I would put on
a DVD so that we could watch it together sometimes...?"
Now it was Nick`s turn to gasp for air. He remembered exactly what was on that
home movie, and it was definitely a children`s flick. "You mean you lost it and you
have no idea where it is now?"His panicked voice match the look on his face.
"Yeah, but I know it has to be somewhere here in the lab."
"What is in the lab? Sarah had heard the last sentence, and was now pouring
herself some coffee.
Greg looked up and tried to look calmer than he was. "A DVD, I dropped somewhere
and I can`t find it."
"Unlabeled black case, blue cover leaflet?"
"Yeah, that`s it!"
"Warrick and Archie found it, it was on the locker room floor under a bench. They
were wondering about it when I got in."
"What did they do with it? Leave it to lost & found?" Greg was now bouncing on
his seat.
Sara leaned on the counter and stirred her coffee. "No, they didn`t know if it was
something important, so they were going to check it."
The look`s on Nick`s and Greg`s face was something she had never seen before.
Both were frozen on the spot and stared Sara like she had just dropped an
atomic bomb in the middle of the break room.
"Where are they now?" Nick managed to rasp out.
"I think they were going to the AV lab."
Both men leaped up from the couch and practically run to the hallway.
Their race to the AV lab came to an abrupt end just before the lab. Warrick was
standing in the middle of the doorway, and it looked like Archie was trying to
hold him up. The first glance to Warrick`s face made it clear he had seen the film.
Or in a good case, he hadn`t had time to watch it and he just happened to have
a random heart attack. His eyes were wide open, but didn`t seem to see or hear
anything. His mouth was hanging open, but he didn`t get a single word out.
Archie waved his hand in front of Warrick`s face, then tapped Warrick`s head
with his fingers. "Hey guys, it think he`s broken. He`s been like that for the last
five minutes, and he only watched the first three minutes."
"You watched it?" Nick groaned. If it was possible to die of embarrassment, he
would be gone soon. Greg on the other hand seemed to forget he had ever been
worried and was now giggling.
"Yeah." Archie leaned back into the lab and grabbed a disc from the table.
"Greg, I must admit, I was impressed."
Greg took the disc and gave Archie a wide grin. "Well, I was especially inspired.
You think he`s ever going to recover from that?"
"I think so, I`ll walk him to the break room, better let him rest till he gets his
head together."
"Okay, thanks." Greg grabbed Nick from the shoulder.
"Let`s go." Nick was too stunned to resist.
Greg walked Nick to the locker room, and sat down on the bench. "That was
a close call. But it`s nice to know even a random viewer thought my perfor-
mance was impressive."
Nick was still trying to make his breath go evenly and sat down next to Greg.
"It was unfair really. You`ve had a lot more experience on that, I`m still a novice
in -" Nick stopped to consider a suitable term for workplace.
"In man on man action?" Greg offered. "And you know I`m a very willing teacher."
"Yeah, you are." Nick admitted and now he managed to give Greg a little smile.
"And it`s very difficult to be impressive, when you are laying on the bed cuffed
with your legs spread."
"You impressed the hell out of me. You were an essential part of my critically
acclaimed performance."
Nick grinned. "You don`t take much to get excited. When you get started you
are like a battery bunny on speed."
Greg got up and sat down on Nick`s lap, straddling his thighs. "You better make
the most of it. In forty years I will be more like a battery bunny on viagra."
Nick grabbed a hold of Greg`s lab coat and pulled him closer for a kiss. "I`m pretty
sure you`ll be going just like now, except slower, with your hip prosthetics and
rheumatism -"
"Just shut up." Greg leaned in for a thorough kiss.
After some time both men were gasping for air, and Greg placed his head on
Nick`s shoulder next to his ear.
"And think about the movie thing this way: You now have a better Coming Out
story than anyone else I know."
Deleted scene: Mirror Image (NC-17)