Nick walked over to the reception desk, he looked at the receptionist and smiled
"You have a message for me?"
"Yes the new recruit is here" the receptionist glanced down at the message "You've been left in charge of introducing her to CSI"
"Is that her?" said Nick turning around. Behind him stood a girl of about twenty-six. He couldn't help thinking of her as a girl, she still had a sort of young look about her. His eyes traveled from her soft, reddish-brown curls, and to her large brown eyes. She was wearing a tight-white blouse, black trousers and heels. Her eyes met his and she smiled shyly before looking away.
"Yes that's her" answered the receptionist.
"Thanks" Nick said. He walked towards the new recruit "Hi" he said holding out his hand "I'm Nick Stokes, and you are?"
"I'm Aliyah Bines" she answered shaking his hand.
"Well" said Nick with a smile "welcome to CSI Las Vegas"
An hour later Nick had finished giving the tour of the building, he lead Aliyah into the lunchroom pausing to get two sodas out of the fridge, he handed one to Aliyah.
"So are you in charge of CSI night-shift?" Aliyah asked. Nick laughed.
"No, Grissom's the leader"
"Why didn't he give me the tour?" Aliyah asked
"Ahh…..Grissom's really busy" Nick answered. 'Well that's sort of true' Nick thought. The truth was Grissom had taken three days sick leave. Nick had the feeling that Grissom wasn't really sick but wasn't here because of a recent argument he and Sara had had.
He had never seen Sara so angry, she had yelled something at Grissom and then stormed out. Grissom left soon after and Nick had not seen him since. Nick returned his eyes to Aliyah and smiled
"Well, you start work tomorrow" he said "I'll see you then"
"Sure" Aliyah answered "Thanks for the tour Nick" and with that she smiled and walked away.