Title: CSI Secrets: Warrick Brown's Secret
Author: partlybouncy
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: I do not own CSI. These characters do not belong to me. Woe. :(
Author notes: This was loosely based on fandomsecrets . Idea: Make a secret for a character and then write a short ficlet based on that secret. All errors are my own.
Summary: Warrick Brown has a secret. Tina tried out for Big Brother.
Warrick's Secret
This past year, my life has been really stressing. Nick, Greg, Catherine, Grissom have all had to deal with lots of shit. I view them as my brothers and sisters. I've tried to be there for them. When I couldn't do that, I tried to work harder to make sure their loads were lighter so they could relax. Grissom was counting on me to do that. I couldn't back off from my commitments because these people, they are like my family.
This meant that other things began to slide. The worst one case of slide involved my relationship with my wife. I spent lots of time at work, more time than was fair to her. She was in line for a promotion so she spent lots of time there too; it wasn't just me putting in the extra time. Still, Tina didn't get what the position she wanted, spent less time at work, spent more time at home. She was unhappy, stressed out and edging my own mental state even more in that direction. Our marriage was just going down the toilet.
To try something new, she auditioned for Big Brother. I casually mentioned that I knew something about that show, that if she got on, I wouldn't see her for three months. That would be sad, because how could we patch things up if she wasn't there? She didn't answer my question right then.
Tina eventually made the show. She's hot. She's black. She's got a great personality when she's not depressed. She loves kids and is a nurse. It makes sense that casting for the show picked her. After she entered the Big Brother house, Nick and Greg were all about how it's all that, so cool. I didn't tell them what Tina told me the day that she left, that the time away from me in the Big Brother house wouldn't be much different from living at home because it wasn't like she'd see me any less. That bit of demoralizing insight, it's my little secret.