Family

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Nick drove Catherine to her house so that she could pick up some clothes. They didn't talk the whole time; the only noise was Catherine sobbing quietly to herself. They stopped at a red light. Nick looked over, he felt bad because he knew that Greg was like a son to her. But some times he thought they were more then friends. They pulled up to Nick's house and they got out and walked up the path to the front door.

"I'm really sorry, I should stop crying… but it's just that," Cath stopped in mid-sentence and burst into tears again. Nick pulled her into a hug. They pulled away and Cath put her hand on Nick's face.

"Thanks, Nicky," Cath with a smile.

"No problem, that's what family is for," Nick said whipping away her tears, "Now are you hungry because knowing Greg, when he wakes up, if he finds out I didn't feed you he would kill me!"

"I'm starved, don't worry I'll protect you!" Cath said punching Nick in the arm.

They walked over to the little kitchen. Nick opened the fridge door bending over to pull out 2 beers and said, " Dam, sorry Cath we have to have piazza or somein' because I worked 2 shifts in a row when we had to power outage the other day and everything went bad."

"That's ok, how 'bout pizza?" Cath asked looking at Nicky's butt and smiling.

They called and 15 minutes later, they were sitting on the couch watching Jay Leno. They were laughing at drinking beers. Cath fell a sleep on the couch so Nick carried her to his room, tucked her in; he sat on the edge of the bed and looked at her sleep. She looks so peace full when she sleeps, he thought. He got up and grabbed a pillow and blanket, he walked to the couch. Nick sat down and watched more TV. He thought a lot about the team, we are like a family, he thought, Cath and Gill the parents, but they are divorced because he spends way too much time with bugs. Warrick, Sara, Dave and I are like the older brothers and sister, Hodges is the crazy uncle, Wendy is crazy enough to date him, Henry is like the weird little brother, Archie is the teach crazy uncle, Doc, is the grandfather, and then there is Greg, the little brother that is insanely weird but every loves him to death. Nick was deep in his thoughts, and then interrupted by a door opening, he looked over the edge of the couch and saw Cath sleepy walking towards him.

"Nick come in bed with me, I don't want to be alone tonight," She said with a sleepy smile. Nick got up and put his hands on her hips and steered her towards the bedroom. He took he shirt that was slowly drying because of all the crying and hugging Cath was doing. They slipped into bed and Nick wrapped his arm around Catherine, he pulled her in close. And looked at her, she whispered, "Do you ever think we are like a family?"

"Yes every day Cath."

"Ok I'm not the only one."

They talked from hours. Whispering they talked about everything and everybody. "Do you think that maybe, I don't know, in a few years that one day you and I might get married?" Cath asked, looking up at Nick.

"Some times, I do think that, or one day it might be you and Greg," Nick said sheepishly.

"Look at me Nicky," Cath said, Nick looked at her, right into her eyes, "Greg is like a son to me, and you know that, so he is out of the running, maybe one day it will be him and Many. But at the moment, the only 2 men I like are you and Warrick, and you know that. Don't worry Nicky; I won't let anything happen to you. And I will make that a promise."

They just looked at each other; Nick's thoughts were going 2 million miles an hour. KISS HER?! NO WAIT! SHOULD I?! I THINK SHE JUST SAID SHE HAD A CRUSH ON ME! OH GOD! WHAT DO I DO?!!?! WARRICK MIGHT EAT ME ALIVE IF I KISS HER. OH WELL! CATHERINE ISN'T IN BED WITH HIM RIGHT NOW.

"I know what you are thinking, ju-" Nick's lips touching hers cut off Catherine they melted into each other.

THE NEXT MORING IN THE ER:

The whole team sat and waited to find out what Greg's future will be. What did they do last night? Nick has this wild happy look on his face……I haven't seen that in a really long time. Come to think of I haven't seen that look since we bought him to that strip club for his birthday. Warrick thought. Maybe they had sex! Oh god that means Cath likes him more! Well it could just be that he…………… yeah I really don't Know. The door opening to the waiting room interrupted Warrick deep in his thoughts. A doctor walked in.

"Greg Sanders? Is anyone here for Greg Sanders?" He asked looking around. The team stood up. "Right the way please. He is a wake and asking for you guys. HE has had pain medicine so just be were, he might be a little weird." The doctor lead them down the hall, he opened the door and said "Wait here, I am going to tell Mr. Sanders you ar-" He was interrupted by a beeping noise, "CODE BLUE! CODE BLUE!" the doctor screamed running into the room. Greg had stopped breathing. The team watched as nurses came running from everywhere, one with a crash-cart. They watched the chaos unfold as they tried to revive Greg. They shocked him. Nothing, Then again and again. The 3rd time was when Wendy and Catherine started to cry. Nick hugged Catherine trying to calm her down. Warrick rubbed her back while watching the nurses and doctors try to get Greg to come back.

"Come on Greggo, for me come back," Catherine mumbled into Nick's chest. Still nothing she started to hit her fist to Nick's chest. He didn't even flinch when she hit him harder. "Greggo," Cath whispered again looking into the room. And just like that he came back, he was gasping for air. The team breathed a sigh of relief.

"Tell you the truth I can't really figure out why he crashed like that. All his vitals were stable," The doctor said whipping away some sweat that formed on his forehead.

"Can we go in?" Catherine asked, holding Nick's hand.

"Yes you can, just don't go all in at once," The doctor asked walking away.

"How bout half of us head back to the lab and find the rest of the wack-o family and the other half stays here, we can work in shifts," Warrick suggested, hoping to get some time alone with Catherine.

"Greg is asking for a Catherine Willows," a nurse said walking out of his room and looking at the team.

"You all go back, I'll stay with Greg," Catherine said looking at everyone.

"Okay, we can't say no to the boss," Hodges said.

"Tell Greggo we might have to celebrate with his Blue Hawaiian coffee," Sara said with a smile. Cath nodded and she walked into Greg's room shutting the door very quietly.

"Hey Greggo," she said in a whisper.

"Hey Cath," Greg said looking at her with a weak Greggo smile, "How is the team?"

"Freaking out. You had Nick and Warrick freaking out, when they first took you. Nick and Warrick agreed I was hot and said it a loud!"

"Well, I'm going to have to fix that. And Cath you are very beautiful," Greg said with a smile.

"You are like a son to me Greggo."

"I know that."

BACK AT THE LAB:

"Okay so we have to find the family, mainly the mom because she might be the leader of everything. And if she is gone then everyone else breaks down. Find the adults," Grissom said looking at the team, "Archie look at all the credit cards, plates, anything that will find them. Nick and Warrick dig through whatever we got from the house. Sara. Go see if doc found anything. I'll call Cath and see what's up with Greg."

As the team was busy running around the lab Grissom called Catherine:

"Hey Gill," Cath said happily.

"You sound happy what's up with Greg?"

"He is much better, his old Greggo smile is back, He is gre-" Cath was cut off by some gone shots. The line went dead. Gill jumped up out of his seat and grabbed the team.

"Ecklie! We need SWAT at the Desert Palm hospital now!" Grissom practically barked.

"What happened now?" Ecklie asked calmly.

"I was talking to Cath about Greg and then there were 5 gone shots, some screaming then the line went dead," Grissom said. The team rushed in, Hodges was the last to arrive, he ran into Nick, mean while Nick didn't even turn around.

"What's going on?" Warrick asked.

"It's the hospital, there has been a shooting," Grissom said as Ecklie barked some orders into his office phone.

"You guys go to the hostile, lab rats stay here and figure more out, Warrick will call when they find something out," Gill said.

"Is Catherine and Greggo ok?" Nick asked with a panicked tone.

"The truth? I really don't know," Gill said and with that walked out the door rubbing his forehead.