JUST FOR STARTERS
Author: Aiden Burn and not CSI Eva Jordan (I just use her email address)
Plot: Yeah...right...
Pairings: Nick/Eva/Warrick and of course some GSR and a little GCR.
WARNING: Eva is a character CSI Eva and I thought of...she's imaginary basically and if you want details on her check my page thingy. So...if you don't like made up CSI characters then...
Disclaimers: I think you can safely assume I don't work with CBS so I obviously don't get paid for this. Basically if you saw it on your TV/video/vcr/DVD/computer...magazine then it's not mine and I don't own a damn thing. Except Eva.
Nick knew something had changed. He wasn't quite sure what but something had. When he'd returned from the Little People convention he expected things with Eva to pick up where they'd left off. They'd had a date and everything had gone well. Despite the fact that he had a serious headache. He thought...no he had known that she'd liked him and despite them not kissing at the end of the date (which Nick strongly felt should have been made obligatory at the end of all dates) he'd thought that they'd shared a connection and that there might be a future for them as a couple. Yet when Nick had returned from the convention he'd found Eva and Warrick talking together in the break room. That wasn't the problem; it was how intimate they had seemed. Seated close together her and his heads dipped low as they talked quietly. When he came in they didn't exactly jump apart but just become less...intimate and their body language seemed to morph into one where they acted is if they were casual friends and nothing else despite what their earlier body idioms showed. Nick refused to believe though that Warrick and Eva were and item because Warrick knew how much Eva meant to Nick, especially after that Nigel Crane case, when everyone had uttered their condolences and left the interrogation room Eva had stayed and latched onto his hand supportively. Then he began to see her in a new light. Not just as his co-worker but someone who truly cared for him and could be more than a friend. He'd told Warrick this in not so many words and Warrick had been cool about it and had claimed to have not even have had feelings for Eva. So there would be no reason for him to go for Eva right?
Eva found herself smiling again for that day unnecessarily. She couldn't help it. Even though her jaw ached now she was so happy and she couldn't even understand why. Of course it couldn't just be because she'd spent the night in Warrick's arms. She'd slept with men before and she'd enjoyed it of course...most of the time but Warrick was defiantly different. She'd sensed he liked her before but she was too wrapped up in Nick. So when Nick finally asked her out to dinner she'd been thrilled and yet she felt there was no chemistry between them. So Eva had decided to let that go. Inter-work relationships never worked anyway. So why did she found herself in Warrick's bed?
Eva had ventured out on a case and found her life in danger. She fought off an attacker and was left traumatised she'd been so scared of what could have happened. Then Warrick had found her crying in the parking lot after an insensitive comment from David Phillips and he'd hugged her. It was purely empathetic and yet Eva found herself wishing that he would kiss her passionately, but when he didn't she took matters into her own hands. After the case had been solved and she'd come face to face with her attacker Eva had found Warrick seated in the break room finishing off the paper work she was meant to have been doing. "Shouldn't I be doing that?" she had mused sitting beside him, Warrick shrugged and looked up at her. "Don't worry about it. Get some rest", Eva had been so struck by the kindness he'd shown her as they worked the case together that at that moment she'd kissed him surprising both Warick and herself. "What was that for" he'd asked after reciprocating her kiss. Eva had smiled shyly and grinned "Everything" so that was that. As soon as the shift had ended Eva had found herself on Warrick's doorstep nervous as hell but as soon as he let her in and kissed her every little bit of anxiety she'd had melted away and well...an hour and a pile of strewn clothes later she was lying in his bare arms more content than she'd been all day. Then she'd come back to work and found Nick. Then things grew awkward.
Catherine rested her palms on Grissom's desk. He peered up at her from behind his newspaper. "Can I help you with anything..." he asked quietly. Cath's blue eyes bore into his furiously." Okay spill. What's going on? I want answers now" Grissom shrugged innocently "I have no clue what you're talking about Catherine?" Catherine could hardly keep the jealousy form ringing in her voice "Oh you mean you haven't started acting like a possessive whack job since Sara started dating Hank Peddigrew? "Grissom raised an eyebrow and dropped the newspaper down. "You mean the EMT?" he asked redundantly, Cath snorted incredulously "yes the 'EMT' why are you acting like the jealous ex-boyfriend. Do you have feelings for Sara Gil?" questioned Cath her voice level dropping noticeably at this last comment. She sighed and dropped into a conveniently placed chair in front of Grissom's desk. "Catherine...you know I don't have feelings for Sara. I don't believe in inter-work relationships...they can cause...arguments" he said pointedly. Catherine's eyebrows arched angrily she hated Grissom for brushing her away like this when he no doubtedly knew how she felt about him. Still neither of them spoke about the obvious sexual tension between them. Maybe he really did have feelings for that Sara Sidle. At that moment Catherine hated Sara. Grissom smiled unable to help himself. This stare out between him and Cath only intensified his feelings for her. The way her lips were drawn in an unintentionally seductive pout her creamy skin flushed with colour and her blue eyes startling bright with emotion. "Catherine..." he whispered breaking the silence "there's nothing between me and Sara. Now do you mind telling me why you got so bothered at the assumption that there was?" Catherine was caught out. She stood up indignantly "I'm just looking out for Sara she deserves to be happy after what you put her through. Who are you kidding Gil." She spat miserably. "You love her your just too chicken shit too admit it." Then she stormed out of his office leaving Grissom with the shocking realisation that he in fact did love Sara but he loved Catherine just as well. He also realised that he was hurting both Cath and Sara by being indecisive and brusque. There was only one way out of this. He had to make a choice.