Story: The Secret That's Not So Secret

Disclaimer: See chap 1

Author's Note: Thanks to al of those who have posted reviews for this story, they have been really helpful! Here's chapter four!

Chapter 4: Plan into Motion

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It was now two weeks after the 'kids' had begun planning their attack on their supervisors. One night during those two weeks, while Sara and Nick were going home after shift one morning, they caught Catherine and Grissom making out in between his car and hers. Not being the type of people who didn't take all the freebies they were handed neither wasted anytime to take various pictures of the two with their cell phones.

They were truly happy their bosses had found each other, but they were going to torment them for doing so without letting any of them know anything about them.

That day they had almost been found out but Nick was quick enough to pull them down when he noticed the kiss finishing. After that they had a hard time keeping their mouths from the other until they were at his house.

It had been decided that they would wait until a slow night with only one case came around to begin their games. This was not just a small prank they had concocted to mess around, no, this was a full fledged attack and they had all taken care to make sure no one would suspect the four of them. At the last minute it was even decided not to include Jim and Sofia, even though Jim Brass had been the one to leak the information, the two of them were not very good at keeping secrets.

Again, Brass had been the one to let it leak out they were married. Now if they had neglected to mention it, it was for a reason, and the Grissoms probably did not want anyone prying into their personal lives, which would be exactly what this team of CSIs, would be trying to accomplish.

Once the unit of highly trained, highly mischievous, CSIs realized they were not going to have a case come in except for the one already assigned, one that Grissom had specifically told them to decide between themselves which two would go out on, they new it was perfect.

After a small debate and checking to make sure that both Catherine and Grissom were in his office, with the door open, they decided to send Greg and Nick out. They would begin with Warrick's part of the plot and work from there. There was no way Catherine would suspect him of having feelings for her because for one he was married and number two, they had been friends for a long time and he had always shown interest in other women and talked to her about it, or so he said anyways.

Sara had stayed because she or Nick needed to be around during all the parts of the plan to make sure they all went off without a hitch and be able to fix anything that went wrong so that their prey would be oblivious.

Warrick waited for 45 minutes after Greg and Nick had gone out to cal Cath into one of the labs with a phony question about blood splatter on an ongoing case. He had already figured this part of the case himself, it was not that hard, but he needed an excuse and that was all he could come up with.

Catherine followed him from the office and into the lab. Once they were inside Warrick carefully and quietly closed and locked the door behind him, but not so quietly that Catherine did not hear it being locked.

Just as he had planned she raised her eyebrows suspiciously but said nothing, letting him continue his charade, trying to find out what this was all about.

"Warrick pulled her over to the pictures and said, "These are the pictures I wanted you to take a look at. I think I might be missing something that your wonderfully trained eyes wouldn't."

Even as he said the words he could not believe how cheesy they sounded to his own ears.

Catherine eyed the pictures carefully and after five minutes realized why they looked so familiar. Warrick had already done all that he could with these particular pictures and she knew it because she remembered hearing him tell Sara about it exactly one week ago. She herself had taken a look at these pictures without him knowing to make sure he had done a good job, and she knew he had. Now why would he ask hr to look at these so long after he had already decided there was nothing left in them and the case was all but closed?

She turned around to ask him the very same questions that were running through her mind when she noted that he had moved much closer and was in her very personal space. "What's going on here Warrick? Why did you bring me to the only lab with four solid walls, proceed to lock the only door in this place and then ask me about a set of pictures you and I both know have already been figured out and have almost no bearing on the end of the case whatsoever?"

"I thought it would be obvious Cath. You and I both know that we belong together, so why hold it off any longer."

Catherine was in shock. This was Warrick Brown, a married man with a wife, she had just found out, which was pregnant. What in the world was he doing?

"Warrick, what the hell are you doing? You are a married man; do you want to ruin your marriage? All that you have worked at for the past three years, does it stand for nothing?"

The mention of his wife and the thought of his unborn child almost made him stop, almost. Had it not been for the fact he had told his wife about everything they had planned he would have, but his wife had supported him, and just told him that he better not mean anything he said to Catherine or she would kill him. Pretty fair deal he agreed, since it would be death to him if she decided to leave him.

"Oh Catherine, forget about her, we are the ones meant to be together."

He moved closer to her trying to pin her in a kiss. At that exact moment he hoped against hope that Sara and Nick were right about her and Griss, because or else he was going to have to explain a whole lot more than he bargained for. Luckily, for both parties, Catherine had good experience in dodging unwanted attention and managed to get away from him.

Before leaving the lab she said, "Look Warrick, it would have ever worked out between us. My heart already belongs to someone else and you have a wife with a child on the way. I won't tell Gil if nothing like this ever happens again, I don't want to see your career ruined because of some silly crush."

After she was gone Warrick finally relaxed into a chair and laughed softly. Sara came out of the closet she was hiding in and broke into a small laugh as well. She and Nick were the only ones who had ever seen their supervisors in any position as lovers or husband and wife. She knew Catherine would never have done anything with Warrick, but, for anyone who knew where to look, he had a very scared look in his eyes when he reached for Catherine. It was absolutely priceless.

On Sara's person was also a very small, very nicely concealed digital camera. She had managed to capture it all on tape, which was the best part. Not only were they doing some tormenting, but they would be able to go back and relive all the wonderfully planned moments they had created.

There was no way Catherine and Grissom were going to include them on the Christmas list this year, no way!

"So, Sara, was it worth the embarrassment I just went through? Did you get the pictures or do I have to do something even worse?"

Sara grinned evilly and said, "The fact that you already know you are going to have to do something of the sort again, and that you're bothered by it just makes this even more fun. And don't pout; I'm going to have to do something similar with Grissom later today. I think he's even more in love with her than she is with him. He is totally intense with her. Every time Nick and I have caught them, secretly you know, he has had his whole attention on her and his gaze was like dead on her eyes like he was trying to read her mind and was succeeding. It was intense."

"You said intense twice. You are aware of it right?" Warrick was highly amused. It was not that he did not believe her, but when she did not know was that he had caught them as well and he knew exactly what she was talking about. It was just fun to watch her get all worked up and mad at everyone.

After working together for so long they knew how to read each other pretty well. It was one of the hazards and necessities of the job. Therefore it came as no surprise to Warrick when Sara narrowed her eyes at him and began pointing her left index finger in the general direction of his face. That was also when he knew he was n trouble for not telling her that he had witnessed something no child should see their parents doing, and that was exactly how he felt about his supervisors.

"What do you know Warrick? You have that look, the one that says you are superior to everyone around you and you only get that look when you're hiding something; usually it's something important. Give, now!"

She was demanding now and this meant to Warrick that he had two choices; run like hell and try and hide from her for the rest of the week, and possibly month; or he could just tell her the truth and be done with it. Even though he did not want what he knew was going to be a painful pay-pack from Sara, letting her plan the revenge would be even worse because by that point she would not care that it was something small, she would just get him for messing with her, and that was worse.

"Alright, I'll tell that I know. You just have to promise that you won't make a scene."

Giving a frustrated sigh she answered, "Fine, fine, just tell me already! And you better make it good."

She pulled up a stool and sat down facing him. She waited for him to close the door, turn back to her and begin bearing all.

"Well, I guess I should start by telling you that…"

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Out at the scene of the robbery with Greg and Nick:

The Two youngest male members of the team moved around the small convenience store easily and took in the whole area. After they had finger printed the entire place, even though they knew the majority would be of paying customers who had nothing to do with the robbery. They managed to get the surveillance tapes and head back to the lab.

As they were climbing into the Tahoe Nick remembered he had promised Sara some Starbuck's when he left, turning to Greg he said, "You mind if we make a quick stop on the way. Sara asked me to bring her some coffee before we went back. Seems she can't stand the taste of the regular coffee ever since Catherine showed her the wonders of Starbuck's, go figure."

Shrugging Greg said, "Sure let's go. I could do with some coffee. Have you ever tried their Vanilla Frappuccino? It is seriously some of the best coffee I have ever had. You should try it some time."

Nick looked incredulously at him. It was just coffee, how could anyone be so passionate about coffee(!). "Yeah, sure, I'll just take your word for it."

"Ok, you do that, then you'll see me and Sara drinking it, because I know that's what she asked for since she has been raving about it all week, and THEN you're going to want some and I don't share my Frappuccinos, and, I am sure, neither does Sara."

Nick just wanted to know the smugness off this kids face. Did he have to be so cheeky all the time? It got really annoying.

Deciding that it was time to bring the subject away from coffee Nick asked Greg what he thought about the case. They may not have had any more cases, but Nick could already tell this was going to be a really long night.

Back at the lab Warrick had just sat down in front of Sara and was about to bear his soul to her. Well, maybe not his soul, but enough juicy gossip that was going to drive her crazy until she told someone. A thought along t same line as Nick's crossed her mind. They were going to be begging to go home by the time shift was over.

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Author's Note:

So how do you like it so far? More review mean more chapters, maybe even longer ones if I am feeling particularly giving.