Chapter One

Greg sat in the break room. He loved his job he really did but he hated Ecklie. God how he would love to get one over on that guy. He had started work as normal, gone out into the field collected the evidence, and then came back with Sara to go over it all. At the end of the shift he had been about to leave when Ecklie had told him they needed him in the lab. He was needed to work in the DNA lab. He had told him that he wouldn't have to come in for his ext shift but he had to cover DNA for him. He had agreed and when he had finished in DNA he had been about to leave when Ecklie decided to tell him that he had to do his normal shift as well! God he was ready to drop, he needed sleep and he was about to pull a triple. Sometimes life sucked. He thought to himself. He was way past pissed off by now and he had even considered telling Ecklie where to go but decided that getting fired really wasn't going to help matters. He looked at his watch, five minutes till shift started, everyone would be arriving in a minute to get assignments, he thought about the paperwork he had to do from last shift and found himself hoping that Grissom would order him to finish that before he could go into the field.

He was on his tenth cup of coffee in two hours when Sara walked in. he didn't look up just sat there with his head in his hands. He vaguely wondered if Grissom would notice him if he stayed like this, maybe he could get away with passing off as being deep in thought. Fat chance he thought ruefully. He looked up and found himself looking into deep chocolate brown eyes mirrored with concern and something he couldn't quite place. He took a swig of his coffee and nodded at her. he took a second swig of his coffee and quickly spat it out, erghh motor oil coffee. He got up slowly and went over to the coffee maker to put on a batch of his coffee, when Sara tapped his arm and handed him her cup with a raised eyebrow.

"When did you last get some sleep Greg?" She asked worry evident in her voice.

He sat silent for a moment then said, "erm….. yesterday maybe the day before." He downed half of the cup of coffee and then handed it back to her.

"What, why? We didn't have any cases that demanded we pull a double." She said annoyed, she already knew the answer to that. The only times she wasn't around Greg was when he went to his own place and he hadn't done that in a while so she knew that something was wrong.

"Ecklie" he muttered darkly, he knew that would piss her off, he hadn't wanted to tell her but he knew that by lying to her he could end up ruining the relationship they had going and at the moment it was still only a couple of months old and he wasn't going to take any chances.

Before either of them could say anything the rest of the team walked in. Nick looked at Greg and frowned. He looked at Catherine and Warrick. They looked at Greg and shook their heads.

Catherine raised an eyebrow at him and said, "How much sleep you had in the past 24 hours Greggo?"

Greg sighed and said, "I'm fine".

Grissom walked into the room before Catherine could say anything to him. One look at Greg and he knew that Ecklie had kept him in DNA again. He looked at them all and said, "We have no assignments so far…. Looks like it could be a quiet night, so finish any paperwork you have left…… Greg come with me please." With that said Grissom walked out of the break room followed by Greg.

In the hallway Grissom looked at Greg and sighed, "The conference room will be free for most of the night. There's a blanket in the filing cabinet." Greg nodded and smiled wearily at Grissom before heading into the conference room. He walked over to the filing cabinet and grabbed the blanket. After removing his shoes he lay down on the couch with the blanket wrapped around him. It took him all of a few minutes to fall asleep.

A/N: Okay let me know what you think, if you want me to continue this I will, I will warn you thou I have no idea where this going. Please R and R.