Without You

Author Lolly4Holly / Beta NickandGregNumberOneSlashFan

Chapter Twenty-Five: Busted

Nick quickly lunged for the door stopping Brass from running out. He pushed the door shut closing all the blinds. "Look Jim..."

"No it's okay Nick, you don't have to explain anything." He said looking at them both worried, after all they were CSI's and they do know how to cover up a murder so no one would ever find out.

"Jim please, please, don't tell anyone." Greg begged. Even though Greg knew out of everyone in the CSI building, Jim was the biggest blabber mouth, after Judy of course.

"Jim please let us explain." Nick begged him.

"You two? Seriously?" He asked looking at them very confused. "Why? You're the straightest guys in the building."

"Thanks . . . but we hide it well. Please Jim, just please don't tell anyone about us." Nick asked him again, hoping to appeal to his good side, if such a being existed.

"But you guys?" He looked at them confused again, feeling as though he was stuck in a bad dream in an alternate universe. "Why Nick? Why Greg?" He asked them both puzzled.

"We love each other, but we don't want anyone to know about us. So please Jim, just don't tell anyone. We want to tell them by ourselves." Greg tried to reason with him.

"Oh." He looked at each of them. "Okay." He mumbled. "But why'd you have to go and do it in here? You must have known us cops use these rooms all the time."

"Sorry Brass." They both apologised like naughty children.

"Seriously you two?" He asked shocked again.

"Yes us two Jim." Nick nodded. "Just please don't tell anyone or report us, you know how some of the guys are around here with homosexuals." Jim nodded feeling sorry for them.

"Okay I won't tell anyone I swear. Just please don't do it in my interrogation rooms anymore . . . or anywhere else in the building." Nick and Greg both nodded to each other. "Okay." Jim leant back against the table trying to understand what was going on. "Hold on." He said looking at Greg. "You said you love each other?" Nick and Greg looked at each other, both nodded again. "How long have you been?"

"Few months." Greg said in a low whisper.

"You do realise you're in a building of CSI's and cops, they can pick up on these sorts of things pretty quickly." Brass informed them, wondering how he didn't catch on as he was the first to know about Sara and Grissom.

"Like Grissom?" Nick asked with a smile on his face.

"You know?" Brass asked jumping off the table.

"You know?" Greg shouted back at him.

"Yeah I know, I saw them together." Brass said looking at them both. "How'd you find out?"

"Nick found out from Sara."

"Oh my God." Brass dropped back onto the table with his head in his hands.

"Are you okay Brass?" Nick asked curiously.

"I'm fine, just when will you CSI's actually start sharing your relationships? You guys spend so much time around dead bodies and people that lie; you forget to experience the good things in life, like PDA's with your loved ones, even the occasional kiss here and there. Why are you hiding it? I suppose you get that from the people that lie to you all the time."

"Isn't it obvious Jim? For one we'd probably be fired or split up onto different shifts. Or even hated by half our team." Nick explained to him. "We just fell in love, it's not our fault . . . but we're crazy about each other. So please, please don't tell anyone . . . we're going to tell them. We just want to make sure it comes from us and not rumours."

"Okay I see your point . . . I see your point." He said twice. "Okay I won't tell anyone I swear."

"Thanks Jim." Greg smiled, slightly relieved.

"Hey what are friends for." He grinned. "Just don't tell me about it." He asked nicely. Nick and Greg both nodded then walked out the interrogation room heading in separate directions. "Grissom owes me 2o bucks." Brass snickered to himself, pulling out his cell phone.

"Hey Nicky." Catherine smiled walking into the AV lab. "What's up?"

"Oh nothin' . . . okay somethin', not sure if I should tell you though." He spun round on his chair to look at her.

"Nick you already told me your gay and in love with Greg . . . I don't think it's even possible for you to have a more embarrassing secret..."

"Hey I'm not embarrassed to be gay or in love with Greg." He corrected her. "I'm nervous how everyone would take it . . . and I'm totally in love with Greg."

She laughed sitting down beside him. "You're mad you know that."

"Takes one to know one." He retorted with a smile. "Besides you don't know how sweet Greg can be."

"Aww . . . I never thought the day would come that you Nick Stokes would ever be all lovey dovey."

"Well it happened." He grinned happily. "And I wouldn't change it for the world."

"Okay." She smiled. "So what's this new secret?"

"Brass kinda walked in on me and Greg . . . kissin' . . . and I'm worried he's gonna tell everyone."

"Let me handle him." She winked.

"Thanks . . . but that's not all. We're gonna tell everyone about us . . . so we don't have to hide or worry about bein' seen anymore."

"Really?" She smiled happily. "That's great Nicky, but how are you gonna tell them? Especially Warrick?"

"I haven't thought of that yet." He confessed. "But I'd rather they heard it from either me or Greg . . . rather than through rumours."

"Of course Nicky." She agreed. "I'll talk to Brass, don't worry about it. I'm sure Warrick will be okay with it. He is your best friend after all." She winked walking off.

Nick walked into the locker room after he finally finished his tough case; he just had to tell the victim's husband that his wife killed herself. Nick's heart broke for the man as he broke down into tears again. It's hard enough to lose someone, but to find out they killed them self is even worse.

Nick looked at Greg's locker seeing it was open and a shirt was hanging off the handle. He looked round hearing water running from the showers. He stepped round the corner walking through the shower stalls until he saw the one with the curtain pulled across and his lover's legs just visible underneath. Nick slightly pulled the curtain open seeing Greg with his back to him facing the shower knobs. He hadn't seen Greg for a few hours now, so he risked it.

Nick slowly stepped up behind Greg, still fully clothed; delicately running his fingertips down Greg's scars on his back. Greg gave out a soft moan under the touch then turned to face Nick, giving him a cheeky smile. Nick smiled back pulling his boyfriend into his arms, soaking his clothes even more as they joined their lips for a lusty kiss under the warm spray of the shower.

"What if someone catches us Nicky?" Greg whispered.

"I don't care . . . I missed you baby." Nick gently pushed Greg up against the wall, devouring his neck with his mouth while he ran his palms slowly down Greg's naked back.

"Aren't you a little over dressed Nicky?" Greg laughed, sliding his hands under Nick's soaked shirt that clung to his skin.

"Greg . . . you in here?" Warrick's voice echoed through the locker room. Greg bit his lip trying to stifle a laugh, while looking at Nick.

"Yeah, what's up man?" He said trying not to moan as Nick continued to suck his neck, gripping Greg's hips as he ground against him.

"I think I got a lead in your case, I'll meet yah in the lab when you're done."

"Okay." Greg bit his lip again trying not to laugh as Nick's untamed tongue glided down his abs.

"See yah man." Warrick said walking off. Greg finally gave out the laugh he was holding in looking down at Nick.

"We just completed one of my locker room fantasies." He grinned.

"Mine too G, I love you Greg." Nick smiled back, joining their lips for a hungry kiss. Greg ran his hands through Nick's wet hair enjoying the excitement rushing through his body. "This has been one of my fantasies for years Greg." He admitted, grinding his hips against Greg's.

"Doing me in the showers or just a geek?" Greg's goofy laughter, echoed through the room.

"Doin' you G." He licked Greg's lips, looking deep into his eyes.

"Now this geek is all yours to do with as you please Nicky Stokes." He grinned. Nick sucked Greg's tongue into his mouth, continuing to grind against him.

"You're all mine." Nick rasped possessively, unknown to them that Warrick was still in the locker room, listening to the whole thing. When Warrick heard Nick's voice and the moans coming from the shower he had frozen on the spot, listening to the two of them sweet talking each other through their moans. "I love you baby." Nick rasped, making Greg moan louder. Warrick quickly ran from the room covering his ears from the shock.

"Warrick, you okay?" Catherine asked. He looked so pale as if he had seen a ghost. Warrick could only nod as he was in so much shock. Catherine watched him inch out the locker room then rolled her eyes going through her locker. She closed her locker door hearing a soft moan coming from the showers, smiling to herself as she walked out the locker room getting back to work. She knew someone was getting it on the showers, just like she had done with so many of the deputies.

"Nicky we could get in trouble for this." Greg giggled.

"Doesn't that make it more exciting?" Nick rasped, holding the body he adored in his arms while he hungrily kissed him again. "I love you baby." Nick moaned into another kiss, groping Greg in all the right places to make him squirm.

"God I love you too Nicky." Greg gasped as Nick got him really worked up. He thought he was going to lose it within a matter of seconds from the intensity of Nick's warm kisses all over his chest and neck. "Nicky don't leave a mark." He laughed. "I still have to face Grissom."

"Yeah we might get fired for that." Nick laughed, joining his lips with Greg's once again.

"Do you have spare clothes?" Greg asked trying to fight for control over his body.

"Yeah, just let go baby." Nick whispered into Greg's ear. Greg held onto Nick's broad shoulders to keep himself from falling over as he became weak in the knees. Watching Greg cum for him made Nick feel weak in the knees too. He joined their lips for a deep kiss as he came in his own pants, clutching Greg's body closer.

They both panted heavily, slowly coming down from their high. Greg pulled Nick closer to him as he started to shiver. The hot water had run out, now spraying freezing water down over their heated flesh. Nick reached for the knobs to turn the water off then wrapped a towel around Greg holding his body close to warm him up.

"You better get dressed; Warrick and Griss will be lookin' for yah." Nick smiled.

"Right." Greg grinned looking into Nick's eyes. "We better leave separately though." He winked giving his boyfriend one last kiss before he padded off back to the locker room for his clothes.

Nick removed his wet clothes grabbing for a towel so he could go back to his locker and change into his spare set.

"Hey Warrick." Warrick looked up at Greg wide eyed. "You okay man?"

"Oh I'm good." He smiled awkwardly.

"Wendy told me to say the father did it."

"Huh?"

"I don't know something to do with your results. She told me to say exactly that. The father did it." Greg repeated then saw the glum look on his friends face. "So what did the father do exactly?"

"Ate a burrito then hacked his daughter to bits."

"Don't sugar coat it then." Greg half smiled, leaning on the table to look at the crime scene pictures. "You okay Warrick?"

"No man . . . you think he had a good reason?"

"To eat the burrito I can think of one, but the other part . . . no one has a good enough reason to do that." Greg said making Warrick smile. "What?" Greg asked curiously.

"Nothing Greg." He still felt weird, overhearing Nick and Greg in the shower together, but just because they were gay it really didn't change who they were.

"I thought you were working with Nick on that wife that committed suicide." Greg asked, looking around the table.

"I was Grissom split us up . . . we've got tons of cases tonight, they're calling in day shift early to help out." Warrick looked at Greg watching his eyes scan over the photos. "Hey man, I'm sorry about teasing yah earlier."

"Forget about it." Greg smiled. "So you said you had a break through on my case?"

"Right." He laughed reaching for the file. "The blood on the radiator was a mixture of your vic's and animal blood, specifically a deer. The blood you found on the steering wheel wasn't your killers." He flipped through the pages showing Greg the hospital report. "Paula was driving the car the night she hit the deer, she got a concussion from it . . . the blood must have been left over, because she was in Miami last night."

"Meaning the husband did it." Greg smiled, taking the file in his hands. "Thanks Warrick."

"Welcome." He smiled. "You off home now?"

"Yeah, just got done. That's why I stink of lemons . . . just had to help Sara with bucket man."

"Rough gig." Warrick laughed. "Why is it we always get the decomp cases while day shift get the easy ones?"

"Coz the bad guys only come out at night." Greg smirked. "See yah tomorrow Warrick."

"Bye Greggo." Warrick smiled watching him walk off down the hall. So what if he's gay, he's still Greg and Nick's still the same. He's just doing Greg instead of all those hotties he used to brag about. It all makes sense now . . . why Nick would never tell me the girls name and he always used 'them' or 'they' to talk about his date.

Warrick smiled thinking how stupid he had been for not seeing it earlier. Now I just have to make him trust me . . . I can't believe he doesn't. He suddenly fumed.

Catherine walked through the hall waving to Greg as he went towards the elevator then walked off to find Nick. She stopped outside the layout room seeing he was hard at work. "Hey Nick . . . sorry." She apologised as she made him jump.

"No its okay." He smiled. "What's up?"

"I talked to Brass, he won't tell anyone . . . and I think you should tell Warrick privately."

"Why's that?"

"Well Nicky, you've been lying to him about this girl you've been in love with . . . he's going to be feeling pretty pissed if you tell everyone together." She explained. Nick nodded then looked round hearing a knock on the window. "Now might be good." She winked, seeing Warrick outside.

"Hey Cath." Warrick smiled as she stepped past.

"Hi." She grinned giving Nick another sly wink. Warrick closed the door once Catherine was gone walking over to Nick.

"Hey man." Nick smiled awkwardly.

"Hi." Warrick smiled, even more awkwardly. Hearing his supposedly straight best friend talking to Greg like that in the shower really did creep him out. Now he was face to face with him, he felt even more awkward.

After a few minutes of awkward silence, Nick finally spoke up. "Listen Warrick . . . I gotta talk to you."

Warrick gulped hard, giving Nick a slight nod. "Yeah . . . I gotta talk to you too man."

"Okay . . . you go first." Nick stopped what he was doing looking over at Warrick.

Warrick gulped again, not really wanting to go first. "Okay . . . Nick I-I . . . I know..." Warrick rubbed the back of his neck looking down at his feet.

"You know what?" Nick asked confused.

Warrick huffed loudly, looking up at Nick. The conversation he planned in his head went differently to this and it seemed easier to think then to say.

"Nick is there anything you wonna tell me . . . involving secret fetishes?" Warrick asked avoiding eye contact.

"Secret fetishes?" Nick asked confused again.

Warrick looked up at his friends puzzled expression. "Doing geeks in the shower for instance?" Warrick asked then saw Nick blush a bright red. "I know that's not the best way I coulda said it."

"What did you hear?" Nick asked nervously. He felt as though he was going to throw up.

"Well . . . apparently you love Greggo, doing geeks in showers has always been one of your fantasies and Sanders ass is yours . . . I miss anything out?" He asked feeling hurt and sick at the same time.

"Listen Warrick..."

"No Nick." Warrick cut him off. "I can't believe you . . . why didn't you trust me with this? I'm supposed to be your best friend . . . so is this how our friendship works? I tell you everything but you lie to me about everything..."

"I didn't lie about..."

"Save it." Warrick snapped then stormed out the room. Nick dropped his head heavily onto the table giving out a heavy sigh. He suddenly jumped up deciding not to give up just yet. If he couldn't make his best friend Warrick understand his relationship with Greg then it was no point in flying out to Texas to make his family understand him.

Nick eventually caught up to Warrick in the parking lot. "Warrick." He shouted getting his attention.

"Go away Nick." He shouted, walking towards his car.

"Look 'rick, just let me explain." Nick pleaded, not wanting to lose a friend, just because he loved someone a little different. "We've only been together a little while..."

"So it's not just sex in the showers, you're in a relationship with him too?"

"Yes." Warrick finally stopped walking to hear Nick out. "Look man . . . I don't expect you to understand . . . yes I lied to you, but I did it to protect myself . . . and Greg. We really love each other Warrick . . . I didn't lie to you about the person I loved . . . I just never told you their name or sex."

"How long?"

"What?" Nick asked not sure he heard the question right.

"I said how long? How long you two been screwing around behind my back."

"We've only been together four months..."

"Since you went away on the conference?" Warrick thought back to his conversation with Greg about the girls he hooked up with then gave out a laugh. "I can't believe you two. How could you lie to me like this Nick? I tell you everything, do you even know what loyalty is man?"

"Yeah I do, but Warrick you don't understand." Nick pleaded, trying to get his friend to listen.

"Save it Nick, I don't wonna hear more of your lies." Warrick tried to step back, but Nick stopped him still trying to talk to him. "Get out of my way."

"Warrick I don't wonna lose you as a friend coz of this."

"Too bad . . . see I thought I had a friend, but you're not my friend. You lie and sneak around behind my back. That time I went to your place after I had an argument with Tina . . . were you with him then?" Nick awkwardly nodded. "Why didn't you just tell me Nick? You really thought I wouldn't understand? Think I'm a homophobe or something? Have I ever given you any reason not to trust me or to think I was anti-gay or something? Half my bloody friends are gay Nick, I don't look at them any differently, but you . . . you were supposed to be my best friend, my brother even . . . how can you not trust me? I thought you knew me Nick . . . you're a liar, I hope you burn in hell." He shouted angrily at Nick. "Now get out of my way." Nick looked at his friend then stepped aside, trying to bite back his tears as Warrick stormed off to his car then sped out like the place was on fire.

"Damn it." Nick shouted, slamming his fists down to his sides.

A/N: From the last chapter when Grissom could smell Nick on Greg then he thought to himself 'If I didn't know any better, I'd think they were sleeping together' That wasn't a mistake. I purposely did that because Grissom's character is in denial, even about his own relationship with Sara. Even though he saw Nick and Greg kissing after the conference and heard from Nick's mouth that they're going out, he still doesn't quite believe in their relationship still. The CSI in him needs hard proof and evidence. That's why I did that in case anyone else was confused :D

Please Review, I hope you enjoyed this chapter

~ Holly