Different tactics
Chapter 17: Safety
A/N: Sorry for the lack of updates...again. my idiot friend decided to get a concussion so another friend and I had to stay up all night with him. (He's fine otherwise I wouldn't have called him an idiot. Just goes to show you, you shouldn't play football indoors.). Anyway, this may be a little shorter than normal, as I haven't gone to bed yet. I'm a little too wired on caffeine at the moment. So if this makes no sense, blame it all on the caffeine.
"You hungry?" Grissom asked Greg as the younger man settled down on the couch. They'd just barely gotten back to Warrick's and the others had left to follow the lead Sara had found. Catherine had ordered Greg to take it easy and had even brought over some movies for him to watch while they were looking for Nick. "I'm not that good of a cook but I can make you some scrambled eggs or some soup."
"I'm fine," Greg said as his stomach grumbled. Grissom chuckled and began to prepare a can of vegetable soup for the lab tech. He figured Greg didn't want to be a bother and that's why he refused the offer of food. He needed to have a talk with the young man. Grissom needed Greg to see that family was never bothersome.
"Greg, you can't just shove away everyone that wants to help you," Grissom sat down next to his youngest team member. He wasn't exactly certain how to proceed so he hoped he was going to say the right thing. "I know you think if you ask us for something that we'll eventually get fed up with you but I promise you we won't. I know there's sometimes an argument between someone in the lab, a lot of the time it's between you and me, but what family doesn't have arguments? The point is that you are a part of our family and we're not going away."
"Okay Gris," Greg gave him a half-smile then they both laughed as his stomach growled again. Grissom got up and ladled some soup into two bowls. He brought them over to the couch, as Greg got up to put no movie in the VCR.
"What movie are we watching?" Grissom asked as he waited for his soup to cool. He smiled when Greg ate a spoonful of soup and flinched at the hotness. "You okay Greggo?"
"Fine," Greg coughed and got up to get a glass of water. He sat back down to watch the movie with his boss. "It's 'Remember the Titans', by the way. It's supposed to be really good. It's about football and white and black working together."
"Sounds interesting," Grissom said. They watched the movie and ate in silence for the next while. For the first time since Greg was first attacked he felt perfectly safe.
A/N: Next chapter: Do they find Nick? I thought I'd let you guys know what's coming next as I can't update for three weeks. I'm going camping! Just kidding. The next chapter will be up tomorrow.
A/N: Sorry for the lack of updates...again. my idiot friend decided to get a concussion so another friend and I had to stay up all night with him. (He's fine otherwise I wouldn't have called him an idiot. Just goes to show you, you shouldn't play football indoors.). Anyway, this may be a little shorter than normal, as I haven't gone to bed yet. I'm a little too wired on caffeine at the moment. So if this makes no sense, blame it all on the caffeine.
"You hungry?" Grissom asked Greg as the younger man settled down on the couch. They'd just barely gotten back to Warrick's and the others had left to follow the lead Sara had found. Catherine had ordered Greg to take it easy and had even brought over some movies for him to watch while they were looking for Nick. "I'm not that good of a cook but I can make you some scrambled eggs or some soup."
"I'm fine," Greg said as his stomach grumbled. Grissom chuckled and began to prepare a can of vegetable soup for the lab tech. He figured Greg didn't want to be a bother and that's why he refused the offer of food. He needed to have a talk with the young man. Grissom needed Greg to see that family was never bothersome.
"Greg, you can't just shove away everyone that wants to help you," Grissom sat down next to his youngest team member. He wasn't exactly certain how to proceed so he hoped he was going to say the right thing. "I know you think if you ask us for something that we'll eventually get fed up with you but I promise you we won't. I know there's sometimes an argument between someone in the lab, a lot of the time it's between you and me, but what family doesn't have arguments? The point is that you are a part of our family and we're not going away."
"Okay Gris," Greg gave him a half-smile then they both laughed as his stomach growled again. Grissom got up and ladled some soup into two bowls. He brought them over to the couch, as Greg got up to put no movie in the VCR.
"What movie are we watching?" Grissom asked as he waited for his soup to cool. He smiled when Greg ate a spoonful of soup and flinched at the hotness. "You okay Greggo?"
"Fine," Greg coughed and got up to get a glass of water. He sat back down to watch the movie with his boss. "It's 'Remember the Titans', by the way. It's supposed to be really good. It's about football and white and black working together."
"Sounds interesting," Grissom said. They watched the movie and ate in silence for the next while. For the first time since Greg was first attacked he felt perfectly safe.
A/N: Next chapter: Do they find Nick? I thought I'd let you guys know what's coming next as I can't update for three weeks. I'm going camping! Just kidding. The next chapter will be up tomorrow.