(AN Sorry this took so long guys-ive been busy. But u can expect me 2 update heaps faster now, cause were on holidays now. Thanks to all the people who reviewed, and please keep reviewing, it motivates me 2 write the next chapter!)

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"Okay people, I have some news!" Catherine announced the morning after her - ah - chat with Grissom. "We're all going orienteering this weekend!" Sara groaned, Nick and Greg grinned, Warrick smirked and Grissom looked confused.

"Orien-what-ing?"

"Orienteering." Sara repeated with a sigh. It's this outdoors thing where you have to follow a map to look for markers in the bush. It's tiring and pointless, and you get COVERED in scratches. Last time I did it I was like…11, and I got bitten by some bug. And no, I can't remember what the bug or the bite looked like, she said, glaring at Grissom, who held his hands up in silent mock defeat.

"Greeeeeeat. Can't we just…like…go out to breakfast or something?"

"NO, Gil. You can strangle Ecklie all you want when you get back, but now we have to plan this thing, or we can say goodbye to all our money." Sara, Nick, Warrick and Greg looked at her inquisitively. "Ecklie says that if we don't do something to work on our "team building" skills all our paychecks are going to be cut."

"So we're going orienteering?" Sara asked.

"Yup"

"Cat - I fail to see the connection there. We could just go play Frisbee in the park or something."

"I'm with Sara on this." Grissom remarked. "Orien…whatever its called…seems a bit extreme. And besides, it's the middle of Winter! We'll freeze out there!"

"Oh stop complaining you two. This could be fun. I did orienteering when I was in high school. Being 6'2 has its advantages." Warrick smirked.

"Yeah guys, lets get out there and have some fun!"

"Greg, why are you always so cheerful?" Greg shrugged

"I dunno Gris, you tell me" Grissom just shook his head and turned back to Catherine.

"So you're saying that we're headed out into the middle of nowhere in the middle of winter to look for pointless markers that hold no meaning to any of us?" Grissom asked with a sigh, looking annoyed now - not confused.

"Yup, that pretty much sums it up" Catherine turned to the rest of the group. "Well, if any of you are getting paid too much at the moment - that's fine with me, but I am going orienteering."

A good may more minutes, grumbles and arguments later, it was settled. The team was going orienteering.

"Uh…there's one more thing before we wrap this up"

"What now Catherine?" came the complaint from somewhere around Sara's general direction.

"Since the point of this is to develop 'team building skills', everyone is going to be paired up for this, and you'll have to work together to finish." A mixture of groans and whoops followed this statement, and Catherine stood in the middle, smirking. "Okay, so there are six of us, so there are the numbers 1-3 in this hat. You'll all pick out a number, and the person with the same number as you is your partner."

Grissom bravely stepped forward first, and whilst wishing with all his might NOT to be paired with Greg, drew out a number-2. He sighed and stepped back, allowing Nick to step up and choose a number. "Okay I got 1" exclaimed Nick. "You didn't get 1 did you Gris?" Grissom shook his head.

"Now it's Greggie's turn!" exclaimed Greg, bouncing up and down in excitement.

"No it's not, its Warrick's turn" said Warrick, mimicking Greg's tone of voice, as he stepped in front and shoved his hand into the hat. "please not Grissom…please not Grissom…please not Grissom". As much as he admired the other man at work, he didn't think he'd be able to spent 48 hours with Grissom running every which way trying to catch some bug to add to his collection. He looked at the paper. "3". He looked at Grissom inquisitively, and let out a relieved sigh when the other man shook his head.

"Me next" said Sara. "This is going to be such a fun weekend!" Shaking her head, she slipped her hand into the hat and pulled out a slip, opened it and stared at it. She blinked, and stared at it some more.

"Hello! Earth to Sara!"

"What…oh yeah. I got number 2"