I know, I know, another new story... I'm sorry, but I just can't help myself! I will try and finish one eventually! Hope you enjoy this x

"New case, grab you stuff and meet me in the garage in five." Nick told him, leaning into the break room as he past. Greg didn't even have the chance to acknowledge him before he'd gone again.

Smiling slightly, he got up and poured his half drank coffee down the sink. It had been a long shift, and he'd only been at work two hours, so he was grateful to find that he had something to do. Heading to the locker room, Greg saw a glimpse of his reflection in one of the glass walls. Ignoring what he saw, he continued into the break room where he sat down.

His hands were shaking. He balled his hands into fists and took a deep breath. Whether it helped or not, Greg quickly opened his locker and pulled out his kit. He grabbed his jacket and pulled it on before going to meet Nick.

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"Stokes, Sanders." Brass greeted them.

"Hey, Brass. What have we got?" Nick asked him as they ducked under the yellow tape an officer held up for them, to whom Greg thanked.

"John Doe, Caucasian, around late twenties. GSW to the head." Brass explained, and came to a stop in front of the body in the small convenience store.

Greg set his case down on the floor. "Who found the body?" He turned around to ask Brass.

"David Lowe; the guy who owns the store. Came to open up this morning, said he smelt something bad and then found the cause." He explained, nodding slightly down to the body.

Greg nodded slightly and bent next to the body just before David arrived.

"Hey, Super Dave."

"Hey, sorry I'm a bit late, there's something kicking off a few streets back, huge crowds. It was hard to get by." He explained as he looked at the body.

Brass raised his eyebrows and sighed as he turned around and Nick laughed slightly and patted him on his back as he left.

"Cause of death is obvious and I'd say time of death was about two or three hours ago." David told them and looked up when Nick joined them around the body.

"Well the place is open almost twenty-four hours" Nick noted, "leaves the killer a small window of opportunity." He looked up and noticed a camera. "Store has surveillance; maybe we can get a face to whoever did this."

Greg nodded and breathed deeply, with his eyes closed. Luckily, David and Nick were still looking over the body so didn't notice. He slowly stood up from his crouched position on the floor and headed over to the shops wall, where he leant on it and rubbed his forehead with the back of his gloved hand.

Nick looked up and frowned in concern. "You alright, Greg?" He asked when he saw him leaning on the wall with his eyes shut, and his face glistening ever so slightly from a thin sheet of sweat that had developed on his naturally tanned skin, which was considerably pale.

'Mmh hmm.'

Nick shared a look with David and got up to see to Greg. "You wanna' sit down, buddy? You're shaking." Nick said as he saw Greg's arms tremble slightly.

Greg shook his head which the back of his hand was still pressed against and swallowed deeply, his eyes still shut. Nick stood by him and placed a hand under his elbow. "David, can you go and find me a chair from somewhere?" He asked calmly and David nodded without a word and got up.

Nick thanked him and turned back to Greg. His eyes were scrunched up and his breathing was becoming laboured. "Here, sit down." He instructed as David brought them a chair. Greg shakily sat down and lent forward so that his arms were resting on his knees.

"Deep breathes, Greg." David told him quietly and Nick smiled, glad to have him there and knowing what to do.

Greg shifted and lowered his head, eyes closed again. David grabbed his wrist gently and felt for his pulse. Nick looked at him and waited. "His pulse is irregular."

Nick frowned and bent down so that he was level with Greg. "Hey man, you feeling any better?"

Greg shook his head. "I think I'm gonna' be sick." He told them and lifted his head.

"Alright, man. Just hold on, Dave's gone to get you a bucket or something." Nick told him and it wasn't long after he'd left that David was back.

"Here." He said and passed the bucket he'd got from his van to Greg.

Greg scooted the bucket closer to him along the floor and sat for about half a minute with his hand running through his hair. Then, he began retching and vomiting, all the time Nick rubbing him on the back comfortingly.

A minute after Greg had finished, David leant forward and felt Greg's head. "You're burning up. I think you should take your jacket off."

Greg began to shrug first his jacket off, with the help of Nick, and then his work vest.

Much to Nick's surprise, Brass was still at their scene and had just come back in the store. "Hey, I'm gonna' need one of you- You alright, kid?" He asked as soon as he saw the three; Greg on the chair hunched over and Nick and David kneeling next to him.

Greg glanced his eyes up but looked back down again, not even attempting to answer him.

He was in only his shirt now and it clung to his body with sweat. He reached his right hand up shakily and tried to undo his top button. "It's too hot." He said in a whisper and Nick gently shoved him back in his chair so that he was sat up right and undid his button for him.

Brass had moved closer to the group and spoke up. "Do I need to call for a medic?"

"No." Greg told him and shook his head tiredly. "I don't need a medic."

"Greg look at you, man. I think you should be checked out." Nick told him, but still he shook his head.

"Greg, I think you should go to the hospital. Just so that they can check you over and make sure nothing's wrong." David told him with a small smile.

"No."

Greg lurched forward again and threw up some more into the bucket. The others shared a look of disapproval but none of them argued to ring for an ambulance. Once Greg had finished being sick, Brass reached into his pocket and pulled out a pack of mints and passed them to Greg.

"Thanks." Greg said but didn't take one. "Has anyone got any water?" He asked and looked around with slightly red eyes.

Nick opened his kit and threw Brass the bottle he had kept in there.

Greg took the bottle with shaking hands and took a few sips. "Sorry." He eventually said with a small smile and looked down.

Nick chuckled. "No need to apologise, you can't help being sick."

Greg raised his eyebrows and rubbed his head. "Can you take me back to the lab?" He asked looking at Nick.

"Of course, man. I'll take you straight home." Nick told him and Greg nodded, still feeling a little nauseous.

"Do you want to keep this bucket?" David asked him.

"No, thanks though."

David whisked the bucket away and Greg stood up and swayed on his feet.

"You alright there?" Brass asked, as both he and Nick stepped forward. Greg held onto the back of the chair and nodded, and then slowly began making his way back to Nick's truck.

Nick opened the passenger side door for him and watched as he sluggishly climbed in the car.

"You alright calling the others to come down here?" Nick asked Brass after he'd shut the door.

"Yeah, don't worry about that. Is he alright?"

Nick shrugged and looked back to the car where he saw Greg's head resting on the window. "I don't know, he seemed fine one minute then the next he's almost blacking out on me. Guess he just had a funny ten minutes." Nick said, pursing his lips together.

Brass nodded. "Well make sure he's alright." He said with a final nod.

Nick nodded back and went to get in his truck.

He looked over and found Greg with his eyes closed again. He started his truck and headed back to Greg's.

X

Nick had glanced at Greg on the journey back to his house and watched as Greg's breathing hitched in his sleep. Not long after they'd left their scene Nick noticed that Greg had drifted off. Although it troubled him to see Greg so restless, and wondered if this was a regular occurrence.

"Hey, sleeping beauty, we're here." Nick said with a smile.

Greg's eyes snapped open and he rubbed his face tiredly with one hand. "Err, thanks, for the ride and you know, back at the scene."

"No problem. You ring me if you need anything alright?"

Greg nodded and smiled to him before getting out the car and slowly walking up his driveway, fishing in his pocket for his keys. Once he was through the door he turned and waved slightly to Nick as he went.

Climbing up his stairs, Greg couldn't believe how tired he was. All he needed was a good night's sleep he thought. But climbing into bed, he found that he couldn't sleep at all. And it seemed that Greg was going to have another restless night.

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"Hey, I didn't expect to see you here today." Nick greeted him.

Greg smiled. "Eh, you know, I'm feeling fine so I thought there was no point in staying at home."

Nick nodded. "Don't you think you should have gone to see a doctor, or at least had a bit of a rest from work though? I mean, yesterday was... scary man. I didn't know what was going on." He admitted.

"What's the point in wasting their time?" Greg said. "I think it was just stress you know? Nothing to worry about."

Nick shook his head. "What are you stressed about?"

Greg looked at him and shrugged. "I don't know, I've been doing a lot of work lately, it's probably just because of that."

"Well then you need to have a break Greg. You can't keep piling stuff onto yourself." Nick scolded him.

"I know, but at home I'd only find more work to do. Might as well do it here, where I'm getting paid." He joked, but Nick didn't laugh.

"Look, I had a few weeks off last month after what happened..." Greg began and Nick looked down sadly.

"I just, I wanna' just get back into things. I wanna' stay at the lab where there are lots of people and I can just do other stuff. I don't want to be sat on my ass at home, alone." Greg told him and sighed quietly.

Nick nodded and saw how Greg's mood had changed. "Well, if you're here you might as well get to work." He said and slid a case file across the table to Greg, who picked it up with a smile.

Nick smiled back but then looked back down solemnly. He decided that after shift one day next week, he was going to take Greg out for a boy's night out, which he thought was just what Greg needed.

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