Hey guys! Did you miss me? As promised, I have here another story for you; it's a sequel to "Are you scared yet", so you better read this story as well... but it's also okay if you don't want to ;) Anyway, I hope you'll like it, and continue to give me such nice reviews as for my last story :)

Disclaimer: I still don't own anything :(( (oh, except Jack Canham... this evil is all mine ;D)

Summary: An old enemy of Nick returns and threatens Greg without Nick's knowledge. However, after the incidents in the house, he's still concerned with his own problems and seemed not to realise the danger surrounding his little brother.

Further Information: My mother tongue is still not English ;) So please just over read the spelling or grammar mistakes I might make... Please forgive me :)

And now, have fun with reading

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Greg was exhausted. He had worked in the DNA lab for the past month, since it didn't felt right to him being back at the field. He knew that his colleagues wanted him back and that they needed him, since it seemed like the crimes didn't come to an end in this city. The truth was, he was still scared. He still blamed himself for leading Nick into danger and being to weak to get him out of the damn cellar. However, he had nothing said to Nick or anybody else. They wouldn't understand. They'd just look at him with their faces filled with pity and guilt, although it was him who should feel like that. It just wasn't fair. Why can't he just pull himself together and go back?

He knew the answer. Greg thought that his friends will never treat him normal again. They'd act overprotective, they'd always be worried. And the worst thing was, that they were right.

This was the main reason why he head asked Grissom to work at the Lab again. The other one was that he didn't sleep properly since he woke up in the hospital. Every time he closed his eyes, he had his face... his damn mask in front of his eyes and was unable to move. He started trembling and sweating and the nausea from the blood loss caused by his cuts seemed to have returned. To sum up, he wasn't sure if he could act normal if he was at a crime scene seeing the poor people being murdered. And he couldn't take a risk and make his friends seeing him like that. Especially not Nick. He already blame himself enough and has his own problems.

Greg sighed, for what seemed like the 15th time this hour. He was already in his third shift and really didn't want to go home. Being alone was even worse than being with his team and their worried looks on him. Luckily, he had enough work to do; Hodges and two others of the LAB were either on vacation or called in sick, so there were plenty of cases waiting for him to be looked over.

Greg took another sip of his Blue Hawaiian as he heard the door open.

"Hey G..." He heard the voice of Nick. Greg looked up and smiled.

"Wow, are you okay? I don't hear any music in here... for the first time since you work at the lab..."

That was right. Greg had continued to work like when he had begun at the lab, but he soon was annoyed by the loud music. It distracted him and made him feel unprofessional. And he had to prove again that he can be accepted as a CSI... or at least at a CO- worker.

"No... Everything's fine... I just needed to concentrate on those DNA samples..." Greg said and pointed at the microscope. He felt his hands shaking again and immediately put them in his pocket. Nick didn't have to see this...

"Okay..." Nick said and looked at his colleagues worriedly. Greg avoided his eyes and prevented as he wanted to make some new coffee. There it was again. This look...

"What do you want here anyway? I'm not done with your samples, if this is why you dropped by." Greg said. He didn't want it, but his voice suddenly sounded a bit too cold. Hopefully Nick hadn't remarked it.

"Well, I just wanted to know if you want to go with Warrick and myself down the corner to grab some food... Maybe pizza or something..."

Greg looked up and forced himself to smile.

"Yeah, I'd really like to..."he begun, but then saw the mountain of papers and samples on his desk.

"...but I really got plenty of things to do... Maybe tomorrow?"

Nick looked a bit disappointed but smiled back. "Yeah, no problem buddy... But tomorrow they'll be no excuses, okay?"

Greg nodded and saw Nick stepping out of Lab. He closed his eyes for a moment, but opened them in shock as he saw the knife in front of them. He sighed and took another sip of his hot coffee. This is going to be a long night he thought and continued to work.

Aaaaaand cut :) So, how did you like the first chapter? Are you already excited for the next? Pleeeease don't forget to give me a review, as always, I really appreciate your opinions, advice and comments :)

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