Title: Unwanted
Author: Stripped
Disclaimer: Ooh! I own them! Really, I do! Yeah! Uh-huh! Me! It's all me! Oh...wait...I'm not dreaming? Oh, *sigh* no, I don't own them. Wishes come true, though...
Author's Note: This takes place during and after Stalker. I'm making the team extremely large, blah on realism, LOL. Original Characters = Sapphire McKinnen, Hayley O'Connor, Jenna Grissom, Anna DeRoss.
Summary: Romances bloom, romances break, hearts get broken, and hearts get mended...what happens when geeks fall in love?
Pairings: Grissom/Sara, Catherine/Brass, Archie/?, Warrick/?, Nick/?, Greg/? *shock, shock...Archie and Brass were mentioned as main characters! Woohoo!*

~~ Introduction ~~

Jenna Grissom rushed to her car in running pants, a tank top, a bandana around her head, and a pair of flip-flops (attire which she called pajamas), in a blind rage. She had just received a call from her boss, Gil Grissom...a call that terrified her beyond belief. Nick Stokes (the man she liked to call her boyfriend, even though they weren't officially an item yet) had just been pushed out a second-story window. Thinking less like a crime scene investigator, and more like a father, Gil called Jenna before he called 911. His words were still fresh in her ears, whirring around like an angry bee.

"Jenn, sweetie, are you sitting down?" he asked, in his normal Grissom manner, dancing around the topic.

"Uh...yeah, dad...why?" she asked, pulling a pink and blue bandana around the phone, and onto her head.

"Something's happened to Nick..." he explained shakily, knowing that Jenna would fear the worst.

Her heart sank to her feet. "What...w-what happened?" she stuttered, trying to get past the initial shock, and holding back tears.

"He was...pushed out of a second story window at the Jane Galloway scene..." he hated hearing this tone in Jenna's voice.

"W-what? Oh...oh my God...is...is he okay?" she choked out, feeling a tear fall from her cheek, and quickly wiping it away. "How bad is it?"

"He's still unconscious...meet us at the hospital, ok?" he asked, knowing her answer already.

"Yeah, definitely, I'm already almost out the door, see you dad..." she hung up the phone, not waiting for another word.

Nick was pushed out a window...that last sentence was all she could think about as she turned the key to her Jeep Grand Cherokee, and hurried out of the parking lot to her apartment complex. Nick...please be ok...she prayed, turning from her road, onto a road she usually took to get to Nick's house. The girlfriend impulse overtook her, and turned toward Nick's apartment, to pick up a couple things Nick may want if he had to stay overnight. Even if he didn't have to stay overnight, she figured he wouldn't want to be alone, so she could bring them to her house when they went. Tears filled her eyes, and worry filled her heart, as the pulled into Nick's driveway, and headed to his door.

She glanced down at the lock, and looked nervous, seeing that it was opened. "Maybe he just forgot to lock his door today..." she told herself as she opened the door.

Nick's house looked dark and dreary, as though no one had been in it for days. His answering machine was blinking, and being the caring individual that she was, she decided to take his messages to him in the hospital. She touched the button, and gasped in horror when the massage came through.

"Nick...you have to watch it...you're in serious danger..." a voice Jenna didn't recognize came through the answering machine. "You can't go to that Jane Galloway crime scene...something really bad is going to happen there...you have to keep everyone away from that scene."

Jenna looked confused at the answering machine, then took the message down, and grabbed a couple of Nick's CDs. I'll bring him Pekinpah, Pearl Jam, Nirvana...and an outfit or two...she told herself, heading into his bedroom to get him some clothes. She opened the door to the all too familiar bedroom. How many times had she been in there before? And yet, it still felt strange, as though something was missing. Nick maybe? That was most likely it. She looked around the room and grabbed a change of clothes for him, then left the room, and the house, locking the door behind her.

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~~ The Song ~~

'Unwanted' – Avril Lavigne

All you did was walk over, start off by shaking their hands
That's how it went, had a smile on my face, and I sat up straight
Oh, I wanted to know you, I wanted to see you

You don't know me, don't ignore me
You don't want me there, you just shut me out
You don't know me, don't ignore me
If you had your way, you'd just shut me up
Make me go away

Oh, I just don't understand why you won't talk to me
It hurts, I'm so unwanted for nothing, don't talk words against me
I wanted to know you, I wanted to see you

You don't know me, don't ignore me
You don't want me there, you just shut me out
You don't know me, don't ignore me
If you had your way, you'd just shut me up
Make me go away

I tried to belong, it didn't seem wrong, my head aches
It's been so long, I'll write this song, that's what it takes