Still Life

[kalimyre]

So, new CSI tonight, and an object lesson on the difference between someone who enjoys the show casually (my husband) and someone who is a squeeing obsessive fangirl (three guesses, and the first two don't count).

Comments

[laurelgardner]

I didn't read it as Nick being really afraid to see her...just uncomfortable. He doesn't want to hold anything against her, but at the same time, how do you just deal with someone in a situation like that? When all is over and done with, I think he'll be glad she showed up and said what she did, but at the moment, he was like, "oh, holy HELL, it's YOU!"

I'm convinced Kelly's not the bad guy in this...it would be just too easy.

[kalimyre]

Huh, I think we replied to each other's posts at like, the exact same moment.

It is easy to think Kelly is the bad guy, and for that reason you're probably right, because the CSI writers love to throw that softball, the obvious answer that turns out to be wrong so the surprising, unlikely answer can pop up and surprise everyone.

Nick was uncomfortable, yes. To me, he looked both uncertain and a bit upset, shaky, but that could just be his expressive face and my tendency to read into it.

[iamtheenemy]

TOTALLY with you on everything you just said (except "perfect?" I don't get it). And if it matters to you, I'm planning on working on a missing scene this weekend (because I don't need to pass my finals or anything). It's going to be Nick/Greg though. Sorry, but the idea of Nick/Grissom always strikes me as vaguely incestuous and wrong. To each his own, of course, but I feel like if I tried to write it, it would be filled with an uncomfortable repetition of the word "daddy."

[kalimyre]

Heh, your take on Nick/Grissom fic makes me giggle, actually. I like Nick/Greg, too, and I even have an occasional fondness for Nick/Gil in which the word "daddy" does have a prominent role. If it's done well. *g*

I'm quite happy to hear you're taking a swing at this scene, and I'm even glad you're doing Nick/Greg because if we all did the same pairing, that'd be boring, wouldn't it? And the "perfect" thing was the second voice on Nick's tape, with Walter asking quietly if what he'd said was alright, and that single, whispered "perfect" from some unknown accomplice. That Kelly would say it to Nick, in that way that suggested double meanings to me, well it's just designed to keep people guessing.

[gjaneo]

To begin with, there wasn't near enough Nick in this ep, but when he was on screen, boy howdy! That man has such an expressive face. And we could see just how uncomfortable he was with Kelly Gordon's visit. And you know he has to be freaking out. I mean, come on, here she is, an ex-con, the daughter of the man who buried Nick alive, standing a few feet away from him in his place of work, a place with security who didn't even know who she was and question why she was there? Grissom will so be kicking someone's ass for dropping the ball and letting her in to see his Nicky.

[kalimyre]

Oh yes, Nick was very much of the pretty; I love the clean shaven face and while the hair is still a bit odd, it's better than it was. And hell yes, someone should have raised a red flag about Kelly just showing up at the lab. Seriously, who doesn't know who she is and her involvement, however peripheral, in Nick's case?

I'm actually torn here, because if it was Catherine who came upon Nick and Kelly, I could totally believe her getting all mother bear pissed off and protective and wanting to give Nick more comfort than he probably wants in the middle of the lab--but if it was Gil, well, my slashy side would be happy. *g*

[gjaneo]

Yeah, Catherine would try to mother him, and it would make him uncomfortable. But I'm afraid when it comes to Nick I'm too much of a slasher to ever think of anyone other than Gil being the one to be there for him after the fact.

[kalimyre]

Well, that's good to know, since I couldn't resist and just finished a bitty little missing scene. In which Gil is the one there, although it's more gen than slash. It wanted to be all uncertain and angsty at the end, so that's what happened. *sigh* These stories are so willful sometimes.

[syrenslure]

Yes, I too had to do the explanation thing in my house... Nick definately looked freaked. Especially when he realized that she had also shown up at his crime scene for no reason.

(((But he shaved and got a haircut so that is of the good)))

I also wondered what had ever come from Grissom's investigation, because I don't hink it has ben brought up at all since the first epiosde, and this brought it back. They sue have just left this hanging.

[kalimyre]

Oh, I think they're going to leave us hanging on that one for quite a while. Wondering, forming theories, and then it'll be the last one anyone suspected, because the writers are sneaky that way. Watch Nigel Crane come into somehow, just to throw everyone for a loop. *g*

Actually, I'd kind of like it if that happened, but I doubt it will.

[jessica_whoser]

I didn't get to watch the ep until this morning, but

YAY FOR NO MORE STACHE!

I totally had no clue who that woman was...I was very confused. Thanks for reminding me. Now, I'm thinking, "Duh, Jessica. DUH."

[kalimyre]

Yes! Woohoo for the death of the pornstache! Now Nicky just needs a haircut and more scenes in which he removes his shirt. *g*

[jessica_whoser]

Oh my gosh, I totally agree with the shirt thing...I saw the one eppy where he has to go in the pool and he finds the dead husband again the other day and squealed out loud. "Nicky! Keep it off!" hehe. Any time you see bare Nick, life is good.

[kalimyre]

That man clearly takes his fitness seriously. I read a fic once by janissa11 in which Nick actually became anorexic and I could believe it, because it was written so well and because Nick is a tad underweight as it is. (Looks good on him, though.)