Dedicated to my little friend Dylan, who asked me to put him in a CSI Greg & Morgan story!
1. Trouble
She looked up from her desk, caught his eye and quickly looked away again with a smile on her face.
He looked up from his desk and after quickly catching her eye, he turned his head with his cheeks slightly red.
"You know that's going to give us away," she commented.
"I know."
With a smile she walked over to his desk. She covered his hand with hers, gently forcing him to look at her. After he had scanned the hallway with his eyes he looked back at her. Smiling as well, he pulled her close and kissed her. She warmly responded to his kiss.
"Someday someone is going to find out about us," she murmured before kissing him again.
"Right now I don't care," he whispered in her ear, but when they heard footsteps in the hallway, they still broke apart. By the time Nick walked into their office, Morgan was already safely back behind her own desk.
"Hey, guys," he said. "What's going on in here?"
"Oh, not much," Greg said, shrugging his shoulders. On the other side of the room Morgan hid a smile.
"Really? Finn, Sara and I just returned from a triple," Nick told them. "And even though the crime scene had been sealed off, people kept showing up near the dead bodies… armed with knives! We ended up processing the scene with two people, while the third stood guard with their gun!"
"Glad it wasn't my scene!" Greg sighed. On the other side of the room, Morgan gave him a sympathetic smile. She knew he didn't like carrying a gun and that he even hated using it.
"Yeah, I think you should be," Nick agreed with him. "I didn't really like it either, to be honest… But anyway, that's not why I'm here. Morgan, there's someone here to see you."
"Really? Who?" she asked him, already getting up from behind her desk.
"Well, that's the weird part, she wouldn't say," Nick told her. "She said I just had to tell you her son's name and then you'd know who she was."
"And what's her son's name?"
Greg saw Morgan's eyes were suddenly filled with fear.
"Dylan."
As soon as Nick had said the name, Morgan rushed out of the office, leaving a very surprised Nick and Greg behind. She ran through the hallways to the reception desk, feeling more scared with every step.
"Melody!" She ran up to a woman with brown hair, who let out a sigh of relief when she saw Morgan. The two women hugged each other, while a boy anxiously looked at Morgan.
"Melody, are you okay?" Morgan asked the woman.
"No," she admitted. "I'm in trouble…"
Suddenly she froze, looking at something behind Morgan. When Morgan turned around, she saw Greg had followed her.
"Oh, it's okay," she quickly told Melody. "Greg, this is Melody. Melody, this is Greg."
The two of them politely shook hands. Morgan could see Greg was curious to find out who Melody was, but she didn't give herself the time to explain it now. She turned back to Melody. "What do you need?"
"Can we talk somewhere… else?" Melody hesitantly asked.
"Sure, come on," Morgan nodded. She waved to Dylan. "Come on, it's okay, Greg won't hurt you."
The boy stood still where he was, not even blinking his eyes.
"It's okay," Morgan told him again. "If I was Sally, he'd be Lightning McQueen."
She referred to Dylan's favorite movie Cars, in which the car Lightning McQueen fell in love with car Sally.
"Oh!" The boy giggled for a moment before finally stepping forward. "Okay then!"
"Greg, I'll be right back," Morgan told her colleague and boyfriend. He smiled at her. "Okay, I'll just get back to my fingerprints then, I guess…"
"I won't be long," Morgan promised him. She gestured Melody and Dylan to follow her and took them to the locker room.
"I'm sorry I got you involved in this, but I didn't know where else to go anymore!" Melody said to her, close to tears. Morgan reassuringly looked at her. "You don't need to apologize, of course I'll help you! What do you need? A place to stay? A car?"
"I rented a car," Melody confessed. "Don't worry, I used a fake ID. But Dylan and I could use a place to stay tonight…"
Morgan handed Melody her house keys with hesitation. "Here, make yourself at home. I should be off in about four hours, then I'll get home as soon as I can and we'll talk, okay?"
"Thanks, Morgan," Melody softly said. Morgan gave her a quick hug. "It's okay, don't worry about it. Now go before they start asking questions!"
"Come on, Dylan!" Melody said. The boy walked over to her, but not before he had given Morgan a big hug. She smiled at him and hugged him back. "I love you too, sweetie, and I won't let anything happen to you, I promise!"
When she let go of him, he held up his hand and showed her a toy car. "I bought it at the airport. Mummy told me I could since I had to leave the others behind. I had six… Now I've already got one!"
Melody pulled Dylan along before Morgan could say anything. With a sad look on her face, she leaned against one of the lockers. This had to stop… But how? After a deep sigh she returned to her office. Greg looked at her, his eyebrows raised up high. "Who are they?"
"Melody has been my best friend since, well, kindergarten," Morgan told him. "Dylan's her son, he's twelve now, even though he looks like a much younger kid sometimes. He's really clever, though, in spite of him missing so much school."
"Why is he missing so much school?" Greg immediately asked her. "And why did Melody say she was in trouble? And why wouldn't she tell Nick her name? Is she some kind of criminal who's on the run? You're not going to get in trouble yourself for helping her, right?"
Morgan didn't answer straight away. Finally she said: "You're going to have to trust me on this one for a while. I'll talk to Melody after shift and ask her if it's okay to tell you everything. I'm afraid she'll say 'No', though…"
Greg nodded shortly, unable to hide his disapproval.
"Greg, I'm sorry, it's not my decision!" she told him, a begging undertone in her voice.
"Whatever. I'm going to take these to Mandy." Without even looking at her, he left their office.
"Greg!" she called after him, but he didn't come back. She groaned in annoyance. Great, Melody was only in Vegas for a few moments and she was already causing trouble. Morgan just didn't know yet how much trouble she would end up causing…
