When Two Worlds Collide Chapter 2
Title: When Two Worlds Collide, part 2
Pairing: Greg/OC
Rating: K+
Disclaimer: None of this is true. And I own none of the characters. Not one of them.
The Exchange
The graveyard shift were milling around the break room in eager anticipation of the arrival of their supervisor and the latest, albeit temporary, addition to their team.
Greg stood pouring coffee for his colleagues, rippling with excitement. "I wonder who's gonna replace Warrick? Do you guys reckon it'll be a chick? Do you think she'll be hot? I hope she's hot." Greg's colleagues simultaneously rolled their eyes. They all knew Greg too well, especially his love of the fairer sex. They had all been on the receiving end of Greg's ponderings about the anticipated attractive nature of Warrick's swap partner ever since they were informed of the exchange. They all secretly hoped it would be a guy replacing him, just so that it meant they would no longer have to listen to Greg! "What's keeping Grissom? Why's it taking so long? I wanna meet her." Greg whined.
"Wow G," exclaimed Nick. "We don't even know if it is a woman yet. For all we know it could be a dude. Y'know, we send a guy so they send a guy."
Sara soon interrupted the conversation. "Guys, we can stop speculating about their gender, they're here."
Greg and Nick simultaneously turned round at the sound of the break room door opening. Gil Grissom entered the room, closely followed by a nervous looking blonde woman, with a faint smile on her face. "Everyone, this is Connie Baker from New York's CSI team. She's Warrick's swap partner." Grissom announced to his team.
Connie nervously scanned the room, observing the faces of her new colleagues, trying to judge their reactions to her. Two guys, two girls. She could read little in the face of the brunette, but the blonde had a warm, welcoming smile on her face. As for the guys, the elder guy looked friendly enough, with dimples either side of his friendly smile. But why was the younger guy gawping at her like she was some circus freak? "Oh god, I must have lipstick on my teeth or something. I knew I shouldn't have bothered with the lipstick this morning." She thought to herself as she ran her tongue over her teeth, trying to remove invisible traces of lipstick.
Her mild panic was broken by the voice of her new supervisor. Gil Grissom was nothing like any supervisor she had ever met before. For a start his office was like a bug house at the zoo! She could not imagine her supervisor back in New York, Mac Taylor, filling his office with a weird and wonderful collection of bugs! A smile flickered across her face as she remembered Mac and the test of her friends back in New York, but soon shook her head as if to banish her thoughts. She was in Vegas now, she had to think about integrating herself with her new colleagues, not stop and wonder what her old colleagues were doing. She scanned the room again and re-examined her new colleagues. At least the gawper had closed his mouth now!
Grissom took Connie around the room and introduced her to her new colleagues: Sara, Catherine, Nick and Greg. There would be no turning back for Connie now; she was part of the team. And she liked it.