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"Hey Cat," Nick Stokes said as he passed his co-worker. Catherine Willows turned around with a graceful smile.

"Hey Nick," she said falling into step with him. "Have you seen Grissom today?" Nick thought about it.

"Nope," he said after a moment. "Sorry." Catherine shrugged.

"No problem," she said. "He just won't answer his phone and I haven't seen him since last night." Catherine looked worried. It was a well known fact that Grissom didn't take care of himself properly and Catherine often dealt with that problem.

"Have you tried looking in his office?" Nick asked. By the way Catherine bit her lip he could tell that she had.

"I've looked everywhere, and called everyone I could think of," she said. "No-one knows where he is or what he's doing."

"Here I'll try," Nick said. "He might not have heard his phone ringing." Catherine gave him a grateful smile. "Thanks Nick," she said. Nick smiled back at her just before she walked away, then he pulled out his phone and dialed Grissom's number. He stood there waiting for it to ring. When Grissom picked the phone up Nick snapped,

"Where the hell are you?"

"Why do you want to know?" Grissom asked. Nick growled.

"Because Catherine is freaked out because no one knows where you are and you won't pick your damn phone up!" he yelled down the phone.

"Ok, ok tell Catherine that I'll be there as soon as I can," Grissom sighed before hanging up. Nick stared at the phone for a second before shoving it back in his pocket and striding off to find Catherine.

"Did you get through to him?" was the first thing that she asked after he found her in the break room.

"Yeah," Nick said. "He said to tell you that he'd be here as soon as he could." Catherine growled. "I can't believe that man!" she exclaimed. "He scares me half to death and then he tells me that he'll be here as soon as he can?"

"Sorry Cat," Nick said apologetically. "I wish I had better news than that."

"Oh don't worry Nick," Catherine said instantly. "At least you got through to him. That's better than I managed to do." Nick shrugged.

"Anyway," Catherine continued. "I'm going to go and wait in his office. Knowing Grissom he'll probably try to avoid me all night." Nick grinned.

"You're probably right," he admitted. Catherine nodded to him and headed off to Grissom's office.

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