There's No Place Like Home

When Greg is working on a case in Las Vegas it ends up bringing him home to San Gabriel. But as the case unravels new mysteries with it, it gets harder to solve. Now that he's back home his mother wants him there more than ever. He's torn between Las Vegas with his friends and co-workers, the place he loves or his family and a mysterious stranger with secrets that he's slowly falling for.

Chapter 1 Wrong Place, Wrong Time

Greg entered a new crime scene as he got it earlier from the assistant supervisor Catherine Willows who gave it to him. He was holding his kit in one hand and wearing his CSI Crime Scene Investigation vest. He walked past a small group of people looking at them then entered and went under yellow crime scene tape.

He walked over and saw the nightshift supervisor Gil Grissom there by the body looking at it. Observing it. Like it was trying to speak to him somehow and figuring it out. Greg never understood the tactics but has been getting used to it by now. He uses the Socratic Method and you know when it's going to happen.

Greg kneeled down at the body looking at it himself by Grissom who was still looking and doing nothing. He squinted his eyes for a moment then brought them back to normal. He moved the position he was in himself as he felt uncomfortable.

Detective Jim Brass came over to them as he was ready to tell them what he found out of the victim. Brass is the homicide detective of the team. They were affiliated with each other.

"Okay the victims name is-" started Jim Brass

"Shane Bishop." said Greg interrupting Brass

"He works for SID in Los Angeles and is living in-" said Jim Brass

"San Gabriel." finished Greg

"Okay sorry but how do you know this?" asked Brass to Greg right there and looking at him

"We went to the same school. He was on the chess team with me." said Greg getting up "But that was fifteen years ago in 92."

Just then Brass got a call on his phone and Greg just looked at him right there. He knows that knowing the victim a long time ago could mean he could b put off the case. But it's his work now. He can't jeopardize anything not even knowing someone.

"What was he like Greg?" asked Grissom to him

"Smart, enthusiastic about his work, loved science and had a thing for bugs for some odd reason." said Greg to his supervisor

"I would have liked him then." said Grissom looking at the body

"You guys would have partied, get drunk and talk about Periplaneta Americana." muttered Greg under his breath

"What?" said Grissom looking up at him

"Nothing." said Greg looking at the body

"I will take the body you handle everything around here see what you can find and don't get judgmental." said Grissom to his lower level comrade

Greg looked at Shane not believing how an old school mate and fellow chess club member is dead and murdered. He also couldn't believe that Shane work for SID the Scientific Investigation Division which was the Los Angeles ally and the equivalent of CSI around in other places.

He then got up getting all the evidence he could find within an eight foot radius of the body. That's where most evidence is from where a body is even found. But there are times when evidence gets away from the eight-ten feet radius and you have to go searching for it. Greg knows he may be a bit newer out on the field but he's not that much newer. He's only been a CSI for two years now as he graduated on out from Lab Rat. He's, liking the work as a CSI a lot better though.

Greg looked at the body knowing there was something wrong with it with the position it's in. Then there was the placement of certain things around it like it was placed.

"Grissom is it me or does this seem staged?" said Greg going over to his supervisor

"Doesn't seem like it to me Greg." responded Grissom getting up and looking around

"Okay . . ." said Brass coming over to them "I talked to SID and they said that he came here for a small vacation type getaway. But was working on a high profile secret case they think could have caused his death like its some big conspiracy. They said that they wish they could get the information but they can't he brought everything with him and need someone to take his place for this case he was working on."

"I would like to do it." said Greg getting up he needs justice for his old chess team mate, school mate and friend "Only if it's okay with Grissom. I think that case might have caused his untimely death."

"So what wrong place, wrong time?" asked Grissom looking up at the two by the body as the coroner hasn't come over yet

"Probably. Please let me do this I can stay in contact with you guys with this case here in Vegas and maybe you could help me out when I would be out there." said Greg

"I don't know Greg. You're still pretty new as a CSI." said Grissom

"Then I will get SID to help me and I will be one of them when I'm out there back home. I can go live with my parents during this." said Greg

"Pretty persistent I see." muttered Grissom to himself

Greg stood there with his camera in hand right there to the side. He knows he has to do this and nobody else. He needs the answers, the closure. This is an old classmate and friend of his. He looked at Grissom and at Brass as they were looking at him. Brass looked at Grissom for a moment.

"Alright you can go but stay in contact with us. We will tell you how the murder investigation is going out here. We will not tell everyone about it right away. We will in a few days so you can get settled. We will also have to tell McKean about it." said Grissom

"Yeah he's not going to like it." said Brass

"Well then, bye." replied Greg leaving them

He started leaving the scene right there as Sara Sidle, Catherine Willows, Warrick Brown and Nick Stokes came over to the scene. Nick looked at Greg right there leaving the scene of the crime as he was there before all four of them. Now he was leaving.

"Where's Greg going?" asked Nick to Grissom right there

"You will find out in a few days." said Grissom looking up at them as he pinched a bug with tweezers and looked at it

The four of them looked at Grissom confused. It's just like he's attached to this crime like the Miniature Killer case. The latest one is Barbara Tallman but Officer Kamen took the death. But Ms. Tallman still died. Their still figuring out who the Miniature Killer is.

"Well aren't you going to your jobs?" said Grissom right there

"Yeah."

"Yeah."

"Yeah."
"Yeah."

The four of them muttered their answers and went off to different locations with Nick by Grissom at the body, Catherine went over to the buildings the body was between, Warrick went over inside the buildings to talk to people who worked there about camera's and Sara went over Greg's findings. They were getting focused on their work that they forgot about Greg and where he was going.