Six Feet Under The Stars

Chapter 1

Today was no ordinary day in the office for Crime Scene Investigator Greg Sanders. He sat in the break room, fingers drumming nervously on the table, working on his cup of Blue Hawaiian. Eyes locked on Grissom's closed office door.

"...have you had?" Greg came back into reality and glanced over the seats at the table...was Warrick talking to him?

"What?" Greg said only half way out of his daze, a look of confusion smacked on his face.

"I said how many cups of coffee have you had. Your hands moving faster than the human eye can comprehend." Warrick repeated his question looking slightly amused.

"Oh...um 2nd I think." Greg's eyes moved back to Grissom's door. Warrick followed Greg's eyes.

"If you stare at Grissom's door any harder you're going to get a brain aneurysm."

"I can't help it. I had 4 cups of coffee, I'm nervous, I'm excited..."

"I thought you said you had 2 cups of coffee."

"6 cups!" Greg corrected with a huge grin on his face. "That's my new record!"

"Okay..."Warrick grabbed Greg's 6th cup of coffee and threw it in the trash can behind him, "If you have any more coffee you're going to get a brain aneurysm." emphasis on the word coffee.

"Ain't no thang...it's like water to me!" And he sure showed it. Greg is not your average caffeine junkie. The only shakes he had were out of anticipation for what was going on in Grissom's office.

"Why you all pumped up anyway?"

"Megan's in there interviewing with Grissom!"

"That's right she's been interning on dayshift right, looking for a permanent spot now?" Greg dazed out again and only picked up the last part of the sentence.

"Yeah."

Meanwhile in the office of Gil Grissom

"So Megan, Ecklie tells me you've been doing well on the day shift. In fact, he told me I'd be a fool not to hire you. What made you decide to choose this career path?"

"Well, Dr. Grissom I've wanted to be a scientist since I was 5 years old, before that I wanted to be peter pan, but scientist was the logical choice. I remember being so intrigued by the fact that if you took yellow and blue and mixed them together you would get something different...green. I started thinking if something like that can happen with something as simple as colors the possibilities are endless. In middle school I discovered the periodic table and I was sold."

"It says here," Grissom said examining the contents of a folder labeled, Megan Sanders. "You got an offer from Miami as well. Why Las Vegas?"

"The obvious reasons. With what happened to Greg last year...well let's just say my mom took it really hard. She doesn't exactly approve of my career choice. She told me the only way she would, give me her blessing, for lack of a better phrase, was if I came to Vegas so Greg can keep an eye on me. Not to mention it's the number 1 lab in the country and the crime rates rising faster than gas prices."

"Well Megan, that should about do it, thank you your time." Grissom closed the folder on his desk.

"Thank you sir." Megan stood up and made way for the door.

"Oh and Megan," Grissom took his glasses off and sat them on top the now closed folder "...can you start tomorrow?"

"Absolutely!" Megan's heart dropped.

"It's a pleasure to have to as part of my team." Grissom stood up and held his hand out for his newest employee to shake.

"Believe me, the pleasure's all mine."

"I'll meet you in the break room. I'll have Greg give you the tour."

In the break room

Catherine had joined Warrick and Greg at the table. Catherine and Greg were currently working a case together, so they were talking about possible motive when Nick came in to sit to the right of Greg.

"Hey Greg, where's this baby sanders I keep hearing about?"

"Megan's in there with Grissom now!"

"Do you think she..." Nick was cut off by Greg's head whipping toward Grissom's Door. Nicks eyes got big.

"Back off Nick." Greg shot a look at Nick.

"I didn't say anything." Eyes never leaving Megan

"You don't have to." Megan closed the door and immediately saw Greg from inside the break room. Walking to stand in the doorway Megan pulled a faint smile toward Greg.

"Well did you get the graveyard lab tech position?"

Before Megan had a chance to answer Grissom popped in the doorway. "Oh good you're all here. Megan this is Catherine Willows, Warrick Brown and Nick Stokes." Catherine gave her a smile and a wave, Warrick nodded his head, and Nick shook her hand since he was standing. "Everyone this is Megan Sanders, Greg's little sister and our newest lab tech."

"Yeah." She sat in the chair directly in front of Greg. "But it's only temporary."

"Temporary? Grissom do you think the work load is just going to dissolve?" Catherine looked annoyed.

"With Sara gone we could use another strong willed CSI in the field. So, Megan will take the lab tech position until we can find a permanent replacement."

"Wait you're going to be in the field...mom's going to flip."

"Mom's not going to find out!"

"Mom is going to find out because either you are going to tell her, or I will."

"Greg why don't you two talk it over while you are giving her the tour."

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I think this chapter is a bit slow but i have some good ideas I hope you will like! Let me know what you think!