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the characters, especially Nick and Sara, dance in my head.
A/N- Hello. Thank you for the reviews!
~~~~~~~~~ After gathering evidence that may or may not be pertinent to the case, Catherine went out to look for Grissom.
"Hey." She greeted.
"Hey. Found anything?" Gil asked. "Hmm. just blood, footprints, shoeprints, fingerprints that may or may not belong to our suspects, photo albums hair/fiber that may or may not belong to our perpetrators and a broken string in a piano." Catherine reported.
"You looked in the piano?" Grissom asked, his eyebrows raised.
Catherine smiled. "Just humoring you. So, you found anything?"
"Just that there were four thieves and that they have big feet. One might actually be a chain smoker. I bagged it." He showed Catherine the zip-lock bag with a cigarette in it. "I'll send it to Greg. Are you finished gathering evidence?" he asked.
"Yes. Why?"
"Brass told me that his men found an abandoned car with a dead body in it. One of the burglars." Grissom replied.
"How did they know he was one of the burglars?" Catherine asked.
"Everything they stole was inside."
"Everything?"
"Everything. So can you come with me?" Gil asked
"Yeah. First body of the night." Catherine replied ~~~~~~~~~
"We sifted through this mess and bagged almost everything we can call evidence. Is there something we forgot to take?" Sara asked. She looked around the room, which was as big as a garage that can fit two cars, and surveyed the focal point of the room. The bed.
Nick was relieved. He thought Sara will never speak to him again "Can we take the bed? It looks so comfy." He teased.
"Can it fit inside the bag?" Sara retorted. A pause. "Did you find anything in the terrace?" she asked.
"Yeah. A couple of fingerprints, a cigarette butt and a set of shoeprints." He replied.
"What about the hallway?" she asked again.
"Uhh. some blood and muddy shoeprints." Sara just nodded and went back to her work. After a few minutes she said "Let's go check on Warrick, if you're done.
"I'm done." He confirmed.
"Too late. I'm done. Shane's room wasn't this trashed." A voice said. It was Warrick and he brought a piece of paper with him. "I found this-" he motioned to the paper "in Shane's room. It's a genealogy of their family. From both sides. Guess who's in it." He said. Like contestants in a quiz show, Nick and Sara put on their thinking faces. Nick glancing in the ceiling, Sara, pouting.
"Who? Brass? Dr. Robbins?" Nick guessed.
"Who is it Warrick?" Sara prodded.
"Gregory Liam Sanders II. Nickname: Greg."
"You're kidding. Let me see that" Nick said as he walked towards Warrick. He inspected the family tree. After a few minutes of examining, he finally said something. "He's thorough. Every relative in his father and mother's side are in here. Even their relatives with almost unpronounceable names are here. Isn't Greg of Scandinavian descent? His grandparents are Norwegian right?" He asked. As they were getting ready to leave
"Yeah. Grissom made him his guinea pig when we had this case about murder in a real estate house. He brushed his feet with algae that has an effect with people with Scandinavian descent." Warrick answered.
"What happened?" Sara asked as they went out of the room. She was assigned in another case where a cheerleader was dismembered on their school's football field.
"After a few days, his feet were swollen. He can't walk properly." Nick responded.
"So Christianna and Shane have Norwegian blood in them?" Sara asked
'Yeah." Nick replied. "They also have Scottish blood running through their veins. The family tree indicated that their grandparents are both from Scotland. Their middle name is Campbell." He added as they headed towards the car. ~~~~~~~~~
"So one of our suspects got shot in the head?" Catherine asked. She and Grissom were in Highway 54 and to check the abandoned car and body.
"Yes. With a .45 caliber." He replied as they walked towards Brass. Brass was standing besides a dark green SUV.
"Its nice to see you again. Meet Victor Wells, age 33." Brass said referring to the body. It was now carried by the people from the coroner's office headed by David Philips. "He lives in Boston and currently unemployed. But he was taking a vacation Vegas. Guess where he's staying."
"A rundown motel?" Catherine guessed as she and Grissom inspect the interiors of the car. The stolen properties were strewn around the driver and passenger seat as if they burglars were in a lot of hurry to escape.
"Nope. Guess again." Brass replied.
"You're sounding like Greg" Grissom said as he shone his flashlight towards the wheels.
"He was staying in the Red Dragon Hotel"
"Where? In that new establishment?" Catherine remarked
"Yes. And get this, he was staying in a $5,000 a night suite. And he's in day three."
"Well if Victor Wells is currently unemployed, how can he afford a $5,000 a night suite? Win the lottery? Wiped his savings clean?" Grissom commented as he powdered for fingerprints.
"Robbed a bank?" Catherine added. "How many days since the twins went home?" she asked.
"Three." Brass answered.
"Maybe it's a hired hit." Catherine hypothesized.
"On the children? I don't think so." Grissom replied as he showed her the gun. "And besides, if it is a hired hit on the children, how did they know when to strike? To strike when the parents are not in the country?"
"I'll leave you two for a while" Brass told them as he walked towards the officer who called him. Catherine's attention went back to Grissom. She looked directly at his boyish face and answered. "What if they had the house guarded? What if they know something dangerous? And as you said, they are very exceptional. Their IQ's high, over 140."
"You mean they were kept under surveillance? Are you watching too many spy movies?" Grissom asked. Catherine looked at him in a weird way. "Or are you humoring me again?"
"No. Just speculating." She answered.
"We're not supposed to speculate Catherine, we're supposed to get evidence and uncover the truth." Grissom replied. 'Why is she looking at me like that?' Grissom thought. They kept on working. This time in silence. After gathering fibers and hair, blood, fingerprints, shoeprints, tire prints, cigarette butts, etc. that can help in the case, they started organizing their "find"
"So, you two finished?" Brass said, appearing again after an hour.
"Yes. Almost" replied Grissom.
"Good. I've got a warrant for Well's hotel room. Will you still be the one who will process it?" Gil and Catherine looked at each other, as if reading each other's minds. After a few seconds, "Sure. Red Dragon Hotel, right?" he looked at Catherine "I'll just tell Nick to take Sara with him when he asks the twins some questions." ~~~~~~~~~~
"Hey Greg. I need you to process this" Warrick asked as he entered the lab.
"Ok." Was his reply.
"What are you doing?" Warrick asked.
"Grissom's cigarettes."
Warrick waited for a few minutes. 'No use in speculating.' He thought. "Hey Greg, do you have any relatives living in Nevada?" he asked.
"Yeah. second cousins. Why? Did you meet any of them?"
"Yeah. Last year. And maybe we'll reacquaint later in the hospital." He said. He didn't mean to make it sound a bit heartless but.
"Hospital?!?!? Did anything happen to them?!?!?!?" Greg asked. He was shocked and confused at the same time.
"Somebody broke into their house. They were the only ones on the second floor and they were shot. They're ok now" Warrick said quickly. 'I think. But I got to assure him or he'll bolt out of the building.'
"Where are they staying? Did you inform Aunt Camille and Uncle Samuel?" he asked
"Las Vegas Medical Hospital. And yes they were informed. They're still in France and being held by the storm. But they're on their way." Replied Warrick. "Nick and Sara will go to the hospital later to ask them a few questions. You can go with them if you want to." He added. They talked for a while and after a few more minutes, the mass spectrometer beeped. "Look's like Grissom's cigarettes are done." He commented.
"Ok. Time to go out Warrick. Please tell Nick and Sara I'll go with them ok?" Greg told Warrick.
"Yeah. I'll tell them." he replied as he went out of the room. ~~~~~~~~~
Nick was in the break room when Sara went in. "Hey Nick, Brass left this on my desk." She said, showing him the files. "Its Shane and Christianna's files." Sara gave Nick Shane's files while she got Christianna's. Both of them sat down and started reading.
"They're going to turn 18 this December 23" Nick said after a few minutes of reading.
"Did you say December 23? Why is it that in Christianna's birth certificate, her birth date is on December 24? Aren't they twins?" Sara asked, puzzled.
"Let me see." Nick asked. Sara gave him the folder and after a few seconds of studying the birth certificates, he smiled "they were born 10 minutes apart. Shane was born on December 23, at 11:55 pm while Christianna-" he paused to look at her folder "was born on December 24 at 12:05 am." He then gave her back the folder. And they kept reading.
"She was promoted to CSI level one this year." Sara said breaking the silence. "She also works at night. She goes to the lab at 7 pm then goes back to the dorm at 1 am and her classes' starts at 9 am. And, listen to this 'her first dead corpse was a headless body which she found in a closet. She also found the missing left leg and the head of the body.' That was a bit gruesome for a beginner CSI."
"Her first dead body was a legless and headless corpse? And she found the missing body parts?" Nick asked.
"Yeah." Sara answered. "What was the state of your first dead body?" she asked.
"Bullet ridden. The guy was one of the bank robbers. He got into a fight with their boss and was killed off the gang." Nick answered. "What about yours?"
"A girl drowned in a swimming pool" Sara answered. Nick looked at her but she started reading again. 'Hmm. let me try this. If mom thinks that I'm dating Sara, I guess I should look like I'm in love.' He thought. He started to stare at her and think that she is the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. He began studying her face, memorizing. This was how Warrick found them. Sara, concentrated on reading, Nick concentrated in watching Sara.
"Is there something I've missed between the two of you?" Warrick thought, aloud as he walked in.
Sara raised her head "Huh?" and looked at Warrick. "I didn't get what you said." Warrick looked at Nick and he looked back at him. A look at Sara's face gave him the notion that she didn't noticed that Nick was staring at her.
"Nothing. I just asked, if I missed something." He said, rephrasing the question.
"None at all. We just found out that they were born ten minutes apart, thus giving them different birth dates." Sara replied. Warrick walked towards them and sat down beside Nick. He picked up Shane's folder and said "Greg wants to go with you to the hospital."
"Oh. You told him? It's ok for him if he waits till 7?" Nick asked. Greg is normally is impulsive when it comes to his family.
"Yeah. He said he wants to help catch the people who did them wrong." Warrick replied. Sara stood up. Closed the folder and said "I'll just go to the bathroom." With that, she went out.
"What's with you and Sara?" Warrick asked Nick as soon as he was sure Sara cant here them.
"Nothing. My mom is pairing me off with a horrible woman I've already met. I told her that I'm already seeing someone else. She assumed that it's Sara. To stop her from setting me up on blind dates, I sort of agree to what she said. And now she wants to meet her." He explained.
"You told her you were dating Sara?!" Warrick said. Surprised. "How did she know Sara?" he asked.
"She saw her picture at home." Nick replied.
"You have a picture of Sara on frame? At your house?" Amazed, Warrick shook his head. "Do you have a crush on her?" He teased.
"No. And besides she wasn't alone in the picture. She was with the whole team. It was the only picture where we were complete and the lighting was good. And she is the only one whom mom didn't meet. She asked me about her." He clarified.
"Does Sara know about the 'date'?" Warrick asked.
"Yeah. She was fuming when I told her that I told my mom that I'm dating her. I told her we're just gonna pretend. She's thinking about it. But I think she's going to refuse." Nick answered. Worried that the last things he said will really come true. Warrick saw Nick's trouble. He decided to drop the subject. He then started reading Shane's files. Nick got Christianna's files and started reading. A few minutes later, Sara came back. At the same time, Warrick's pager began to beep.
"Uh gotta go guys. Grissom's wants me to go to the Red Dragon Hotel." And he went out of the room.
Sara took the seat beside Nick. 'It seem like he really wants to make his mom happy' she thought.
"Will it give your mom peace of mind if you're-" she was looking for the right word "-attached?" she asked. 'Sounds like I didn't find the right word' she thought. Nick looked at her. He closed Christianna's folder and put it down on the table.
"My mom wants me to settle down and have a family. If she will like the person I'm supposed to be dating and she feels that I'll take care of her and love her as my father loved and cared for her. Then yes it will give her peace of mind." He answered.
"But if I'll be the one who'll go with you on Saturday, won't that be like misleading her? If she finds out the truth, she'll be upset." Sara responded to Nick's explanation.
"It will upset her more is her unsuccessful attempts in setting me up in blind dates. And she just assumed that were dating. I can just tell her that we just had dinner once or twice." He answered. Sara thought for a while. She was pondering if she will agree to Nick's request. While she was thinking, Nick was praying that she will say yes to his problem. After a few moments,
"OK." Sara answered. Nick, inside, was rejoicing. "In one condition. We will tell her on Saturday that she made a mistake, that we're not seeing each other. Understand?" Sara continued.
"OK." Nick said, smiling. Suddenly, Nick, pager began to beep. "It's Greg."
A/N- that's all. The third's one shorter. I think.
A/N- Hello. Thank you for the reviews!
~~~~~~~~~ After gathering evidence that may or may not be pertinent to the case, Catherine went out to look for Grissom.
"Hey." She greeted.
"Hey. Found anything?" Gil asked. "Hmm. just blood, footprints, shoeprints, fingerprints that may or may not belong to our suspects, photo albums hair/fiber that may or may not belong to our perpetrators and a broken string in a piano." Catherine reported.
"You looked in the piano?" Grissom asked, his eyebrows raised.
Catherine smiled. "Just humoring you. So, you found anything?"
"Just that there were four thieves and that they have big feet. One might actually be a chain smoker. I bagged it." He showed Catherine the zip-lock bag with a cigarette in it. "I'll send it to Greg. Are you finished gathering evidence?" he asked.
"Yes. Why?"
"Brass told me that his men found an abandoned car with a dead body in it. One of the burglars." Grissom replied.
"How did they know he was one of the burglars?" Catherine asked.
"Everything they stole was inside."
"Everything?"
"Everything. So can you come with me?" Gil asked
"Yeah. First body of the night." Catherine replied ~~~~~~~~~
"We sifted through this mess and bagged almost everything we can call evidence. Is there something we forgot to take?" Sara asked. She looked around the room, which was as big as a garage that can fit two cars, and surveyed the focal point of the room. The bed.
Nick was relieved. He thought Sara will never speak to him again "Can we take the bed? It looks so comfy." He teased.
"Can it fit inside the bag?" Sara retorted. A pause. "Did you find anything in the terrace?" she asked.
"Yeah. A couple of fingerprints, a cigarette butt and a set of shoeprints." He replied.
"What about the hallway?" she asked again.
"Uhh. some blood and muddy shoeprints." Sara just nodded and went back to her work. After a few minutes she said "Let's go check on Warrick, if you're done.
"I'm done." He confirmed.
"Too late. I'm done. Shane's room wasn't this trashed." A voice said. It was Warrick and he brought a piece of paper with him. "I found this-" he motioned to the paper "in Shane's room. It's a genealogy of their family. From both sides. Guess who's in it." He said. Like contestants in a quiz show, Nick and Sara put on their thinking faces. Nick glancing in the ceiling, Sara, pouting.
"Who? Brass? Dr. Robbins?" Nick guessed.
"Who is it Warrick?" Sara prodded.
"Gregory Liam Sanders II. Nickname: Greg."
"You're kidding. Let me see that" Nick said as he walked towards Warrick. He inspected the family tree. After a few minutes of examining, he finally said something. "He's thorough. Every relative in his father and mother's side are in here. Even their relatives with almost unpronounceable names are here. Isn't Greg of Scandinavian descent? His grandparents are Norwegian right?" He asked. As they were getting ready to leave
"Yeah. Grissom made him his guinea pig when we had this case about murder in a real estate house. He brushed his feet with algae that has an effect with people with Scandinavian descent." Warrick answered.
"What happened?" Sara asked as they went out of the room. She was assigned in another case where a cheerleader was dismembered on their school's football field.
"After a few days, his feet were swollen. He can't walk properly." Nick responded.
"So Christianna and Shane have Norwegian blood in them?" Sara asked
'Yeah." Nick replied. "They also have Scottish blood running through their veins. The family tree indicated that their grandparents are both from Scotland. Their middle name is Campbell." He added as they headed towards the car. ~~~~~~~~~
"So one of our suspects got shot in the head?" Catherine asked. She and Grissom were in Highway 54 and to check the abandoned car and body.
"Yes. With a .45 caliber." He replied as they walked towards Brass. Brass was standing besides a dark green SUV.
"Its nice to see you again. Meet Victor Wells, age 33." Brass said referring to the body. It was now carried by the people from the coroner's office headed by David Philips. "He lives in Boston and currently unemployed. But he was taking a vacation Vegas. Guess where he's staying."
"A rundown motel?" Catherine guessed as she and Grissom inspect the interiors of the car. The stolen properties were strewn around the driver and passenger seat as if they burglars were in a lot of hurry to escape.
"Nope. Guess again." Brass replied.
"You're sounding like Greg" Grissom said as he shone his flashlight towards the wheels.
"He was staying in the Red Dragon Hotel"
"Where? In that new establishment?" Catherine remarked
"Yes. And get this, he was staying in a $5,000 a night suite. And he's in day three."
"Well if Victor Wells is currently unemployed, how can he afford a $5,000 a night suite? Win the lottery? Wiped his savings clean?" Grissom commented as he powdered for fingerprints.
"Robbed a bank?" Catherine added. "How many days since the twins went home?" she asked.
"Three." Brass answered.
"Maybe it's a hired hit." Catherine hypothesized.
"On the children? I don't think so." Grissom replied as he showed her the gun. "And besides, if it is a hired hit on the children, how did they know when to strike? To strike when the parents are not in the country?"
"I'll leave you two for a while" Brass told them as he walked towards the officer who called him. Catherine's attention went back to Grissom. She looked directly at his boyish face and answered. "What if they had the house guarded? What if they know something dangerous? And as you said, they are very exceptional. Their IQ's high, over 140."
"You mean they were kept under surveillance? Are you watching too many spy movies?" Grissom asked. Catherine looked at him in a weird way. "Or are you humoring me again?"
"No. Just speculating." She answered.
"We're not supposed to speculate Catherine, we're supposed to get evidence and uncover the truth." Grissom replied. 'Why is she looking at me like that?' Grissom thought. They kept on working. This time in silence. After gathering fibers and hair, blood, fingerprints, shoeprints, tire prints, cigarette butts, etc. that can help in the case, they started organizing their "find"
"So, you two finished?" Brass said, appearing again after an hour.
"Yes. Almost" replied Grissom.
"Good. I've got a warrant for Well's hotel room. Will you still be the one who will process it?" Gil and Catherine looked at each other, as if reading each other's minds. After a few seconds, "Sure. Red Dragon Hotel, right?" he looked at Catherine "I'll just tell Nick to take Sara with him when he asks the twins some questions." ~~~~~~~~~~
"Hey Greg. I need you to process this" Warrick asked as he entered the lab.
"Ok." Was his reply.
"What are you doing?" Warrick asked.
"Grissom's cigarettes."
Warrick waited for a few minutes. 'No use in speculating.' He thought. "Hey Greg, do you have any relatives living in Nevada?" he asked.
"Yeah. second cousins. Why? Did you meet any of them?"
"Yeah. Last year. And maybe we'll reacquaint later in the hospital." He said. He didn't mean to make it sound a bit heartless but.
"Hospital?!?!? Did anything happen to them?!?!?!?" Greg asked. He was shocked and confused at the same time.
"Somebody broke into their house. They were the only ones on the second floor and they were shot. They're ok now" Warrick said quickly. 'I think. But I got to assure him or he'll bolt out of the building.'
"Where are they staying? Did you inform Aunt Camille and Uncle Samuel?" he asked
"Las Vegas Medical Hospital. And yes they were informed. They're still in France and being held by the storm. But they're on their way." Replied Warrick. "Nick and Sara will go to the hospital later to ask them a few questions. You can go with them if you want to." He added. They talked for a while and after a few more minutes, the mass spectrometer beeped. "Look's like Grissom's cigarettes are done." He commented.
"Ok. Time to go out Warrick. Please tell Nick and Sara I'll go with them ok?" Greg told Warrick.
"Yeah. I'll tell them." he replied as he went out of the room. ~~~~~~~~~
Nick was in the break room when Sara went in. "Hey Nick, Brass left this on my desk." She said, showing him the files. "Its Shane and Christianna's files." Sara gave Nick Shane's files while she got Christianna's. Both of them sat down and started reading.
"They're going to turn 18 this December 23" Nick said after a few minutes of reading.
"Did you say December 23? Why is it that in Christianna's birth certificate, her birth date is on December 24? Aren't they twins?" Sara asked, puzzled.
"Let me see." Nick asked. Sara gave him the folder and after a few seconds of studying the birth certificates, he smiled "they were born 10 minutes apart. Shane was born on December 23, at 11:55 pm while Christianna-" he paused to look at her folder "was born on December 24 at 12:05 am." He then gave her back the folder. And they kept reading.
"She was promoted to CSI level one this year." Sara said breaking the silence. "She also works at night. She goes to the lab at 7 pm then goes back to the dorm at 1 am and her classes' starts at 9 am. And, listen to this 'her first dead corpse was a headless body which she found in a closet. She also found the missing left leg and the head of the body.' That was a bit gruesome for a beginner CSI."
"Her first dead body was a legless and headless corpse? And she found the missing body parts?" Nick asked.
"Yeah." Sara answered. "What was the state of your first dead body?" she asked.
"Bullet ridden. The guy was one of the bank robbers. He got into a fight with their boss and was killed off the gang." Nick answered. "What about yours?"
"A girl drowned in a swimming pool" Sara answered. Nick looked at her but she started reading again. 'Hmm. let me try this. If mom thinks that I'm dating Sara, I guess I should look like I'm in love.' He thought. He started to stare at her and think that she is the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. He began studying her face, memorizing. This was how Warrick found them. Sara, concentrated on reading, Nick concentrated in watching Sara.
"Is there something I've missed between the two of you?" Warrick thought, aloud as he walked in.
Sara raised her head "Huh?" and looked at Warrick. "I didn't get what you said." Warrick looked at Nick and he looked back at him. A look at Sara's face gave him the notion that she didn't noticed that Nick was staring at her.
"Nothing. I just asked, if I missed something." He said, rephrasing the question.
"None at all. We just found out that they were born ten minutes apart, thus giving them different birth dates." Sara replied. Warrick walked towards them and sat down beside Nick. He picked up Shane's folder and said "Greg wants to go with you to the hospital."
"Oh. You told him? It's ok for him if he waits till 7?" Nick asked. Greg is normally is impulsive when it comes to his family.
"Yeah. He said he wants to help catch the people who did them wrong." Warrick replied. Sara stood up. Closed the folder and said "I'll just go to the bathroom." With that, she went out.
"What's with you and Sara?" Warrick asked Nick as soon as he was sure Sara cant here them.
"Nothing. My mom is pairing me off with a horrible woman I've already met. I told her that I'm already seeing someone else. She assumed that it's Sara. To stop her from setting me up on blind dates, I sort of agree to what she said. And now she wants to meet her." He explained.
"You told her you were dating Sara?!" Warrick said. Surprised. "How did she know Sara?" he asked.
"She saw her picture at home." Nick replied.
"You have a picture of Sara on frame? At your house?" Amazed, Warrick shook his head. "Do you have a crush on her?" He teased.
"No. And besides she wasn't alone in the picture. She was with the whole team. It was the only picture where we were complete and the lighting was good. And she is the only one whom mom didn't meet. She asked me about her." He clarified.
"Does Sara know about the 'date'?" Warrick asked.
"Yeah. She was fuming when I told her that I told my mom that I'm dating her. I told her we're just gonna pretend. She's thinking about it. But I think she's going to refuse." Nick answered. Worried that the last things he said will really come true. Warrick saw Nick's trouble. He decided to drop the subject. He then started reading Shane's files. Nick got Christianna's files and started reading. A few minutes later, Sara came back. At the same time, Warrick's pager began to beep.
"Uh gotta go guys. Grissom's wants me to go to the Red Dragon Hotel." And he went out of the room.
Sara took the seat beside Nick. 'It seem like he really wants to make his mom happy' she thought.
"Will it give your mom peace of mind if you're-" she was looking for the right word "-attached?" she asked. 'Sounds like I didn't find the right word' she thought. Nick looked at her. He closed Christianna's folder and put it down on the table.
"My mom wants me to settle down and have a family. If she will like the person I'm supposed to be dating and she feels that I'll take care of her and love her as my father loved and cared for her. Then yes it will give her peace of mind." He answered.
"But if I'll be the one who'll go with you on Saturday, won't that be like misleading her? If she finds out the truth, she'll be upset." Sara responded to Nick's explanation.
"It will upset her more is her unsuccessful attempts in setting me up in blind dates. And she just assumed that were dating. I can just tell her that we just had dinner once or twice." He answered. Sara thought for a while. She was pondering if she will agree to Nick's request. While she was thinking, Nick was praying that she will say yes to his problem. After a few moments,
"OK." Sara answered. Nick, inside, was rejoicing. "In one condition. We will tell her on Saturday that she made a mistake, that we're not seeing each other. Understand?" Sara continued.
"OK." Nick said, smiling. Suddenly, Nick, pager began to beep. "It's Greg."
A/N- that's all. The third's one shorter. I think.