Title: Sharing Oneself
Spoilers: none
Pairing: David Hodges/Greg Sanders
Rating: PG-13 (a little cursing)
Summary: Greg decides to stop pursuing the lab tech and David follows him to a concert to win him over.
Disclaimer: I don't even fully own the computer I am writing this on, how could I ever own CSI.
Warnings: Slash, prolly some cursing and angst. Enjoy!
Author's Notes: I have no idea what brought this on. I think I am just too excited about Ozzfest to hold it in. snickers Hodges in goth clothes. Or it might have something to do with me listening to my Rob Zombie CD, ponders, then gives up and shrugs Whatever inspired cracky story please enjoy. This was first posted to my livejournal account and I decided I might try and put it up here…
"Who kicked your puppy
Sanders?" David asked the CSI standing in his
lab. A look of
confusion crossed said man's face, which caused David to
comment,
"Well you looked like someone kicked your puppy."
"I
was thinking, Hodges." Greg reacted immediately almost out of
instinct.
Their battles of wits were legendary around the lab,
Greg was one of the few
people who could keep up with David's
banter and not always be buried under
it.
"Oh, that's why you
looked like you are in pain, you were using your brain.
It must
not be used to such abuse." David quipped back to the man. This
seemed to wound the man more than normal and instead of saying
something
witty back Greg left the lab requesting David page him
when the results were
done. This of course confused the lab tech,
after all the banter between him
and Sanders was what kept him
from getting bored during the night. He began
shaking his head
and found himself humming a tune that he recognized as one
that
Greg often played, by that Marilyn guy. Honestly who named themselves
after a woman? Crazy singers. His musings were cut short when he
turned to
see Sidle staring at him tapping her foot impatiently
waiting for her test
results. He then realized that this was
going to be a very, very annoying
night.
He merely glared at Sidle
and snarked "Staring at me like that Sidle will
not make these
machines go any faster so follow Sanders' example and wait
for
your page." With that he turned his back on the CSI and ignored her
foot
tapping and found himself humming that tune again. He
growled at the fact
Greg's music was invading his senses. It
bothered him more that he was
ceasing to actually hate the CSI's
type of music.
Greg was tired of this shift, honestly he was.
All he ever got from Hodges
was insults, he wouldn't admit to
himself how much that actually hurt. He
actually tried asking
that man on a date, the tech of course refused.
Hodges, he
decided was allergic to fun, so he should just get over his
little
crush and forget Hodges. Maybe he should just transfer shifts. Wait,
why would he do that, that would be running away, besides, he was
not going
to let Hodges keep him from his friends. He was after
all friends with most
of the people on night shift. He decided he
was going to get over the man.
He really needed to after all it
had been almost a month since he last
asked Hodges out and almost
an entire year since he first tried his hand at
Hodges hunting.
No, if the man had any interest he would have shown it by
now.
Better move on with at least a little dignity left, no more flirting,
no more asking him to do stuff. Nope, he was done. That decided
Greg went
over to Archie's lab, he had a question about the
evidence and honestly he
really needed a friend right about
then.
"You know he likes you,
he is just toying with you." Archie answered the
CSI after he
explained his decision. "You are not the only one flirting you
know, he is probably as hung up on you as you are on him." He
said with
superior knowledge and returned to his episode of Star
Trek that he should
not be watching, but since Ecklie was not
there he took his chances. It was
a slow night anyway.
Greg glared. "If that
is so true then why won't he go anywhere with me or
do anything
with me! I have tried everything! I asked him to the opera, to a
foreign movie premiere, hell I even asked him to a concert once.
Nothing.
Nada. I am tired of his playing hard to get. I mean he
won't even go out to
get a few drinks with me." Greg slumped
in his chair feeling defeated, but
jumped when his pager went
off. "Speak of the devil. Well I guess now is a
good of time as
any to put my plan into action. Thanks Arch for listening.
Enjoy
your show." Greg winked then dejectedly walked back towards the
trace
lab.
A very dejected CSI
walked into the lab minutes later, his decision to give
up his
crush reminded him of the first time he walked into the lab to ask
the man on a date. The day, er night was a slow one similar to
this one…
A
confident blonde sauntered into the trace lab, his smile a mile wide.
He was going to do it, over the past few days he gathered his
courage and he
was ready. The blue eyed man of his dreams was
his. Smiling ever wider,
though he felt that he couldn't get it
much wider, he stood in front of the
trace tech mildly annoyed
that the man didn't notice his entrance.
"Hard at work as
always I see Hodges. It has been a slow night, what do you
really
have to run? Would it kill you to take a break?"
The blue eyes that he
longed to see finally looked up at him, he was so
lost in them
that he barely heard the growl from the owner of said eyes.
"Well
I am surprised that you can recognize what I am doing as work
Sanders,
after all you do so little yourself being able to see it
someone else must
be quite a shock for your system. I have no
evidence for you. Now shoo."
Barely
fazed Greg went on "Are you busy this weekend Hodges? I know a
sweet
concert we could go see." Blurting, out off the script he
wrote in his head
for this moment. He hadn't meant to come out
and say this.
"What the hell are
you talking about? A concert? What concert could we both
enjoy?"
David snapped back raising an eyebrow, "After all you have
deplorable taste in music."
"Oh I know you'd
enjoy this concert, after all you have so much fun making
fun of
the clothes I wear, you'd have more fun there. There are people who
dress even worse than me my dear lab tech. You'd probably
explode from all
the insults you could throw." Greg answered
with a grin. A little self insult
will go a long way...he hoped.
The look of
incomprehension passed over David's face, "I know that there
are
people who dress stranger than you Sanders, I just didn't think
they let
you all gather in one place. What gathering did you say
this was?"
"Ozzfest." Greg
answered simply with another grin.
David
merely shook his head. "Now Sanders, come on, I may not exactly be
Christian, but I do not wish to participate in your Devil
practices. Go by
yourself. Now, again, since I have no evidence
for you, go find a crime or
something. You are wasting the air in
my lab. Shoo."
Greg pulled himself out of his
memories. Maybe Ozzfest wasn't the best
first date. He later
realized that. He really wanted to share a part of who
he was
with David though, he never took anyone there. If he didn't have a
group of friends to go with he usually went alone. The CSI had an
obsession
with music. He loved the feeling of the bass running
through his body, the
chaos of the mosh pits where bodies mashed
against each other, people
punching and kicking violently one
minute then the next they were dancing
again as if nothing
happened. He loved watching the other people at the
concert, they
were always so comfortable with who they were, and this
"gathering"
as David put it was a way for them all to reaffirm their love of
music and of who they were.
"Hey Sanders, you look
pained, thinking too much again perhaps?" Hodges
quipped as
soon as Greg crosses the threshold to the trace lab.
"Is my evidence ready
Hodges?" Greg said a little icier than he intended,
it was hard
after all to give up on your dreams. "I have work to do."
Hodges merely tsked and
shook a finger from side to side. "What already
ready to get
back to working? I am shocked. You usually spend five or ten
minutes
trying to flirt, if that's what you call it before even asking for
your evidence. Get your own routine, Sanders, the lab already has
a
bootlicker -- me." He pointed the finger he was shaking a
second ago to his
chest. "Use your brain to come up with a new
one. Here's the analysis
though. That substance was botulinal
neurotoxin, bacteria. Pretty deadly to
humans and mice from what
I know about it." David easily switched to the
trace technician
persona and handed the paper analysis to Greg who was standing
shell
shocked at what Hodges said to him. He insulted him. He thought he
was
joking, he never would see Greg as anything more than a joker
who wanted
nothing more to goof off. He thanked the tech quietly
and left the lab
feeling worse than he did walking in. Thankfully
he had the case to distract
his mind. The neurotoxin found at the
scene complicated the case. It was a
chemical he knew little
about so he decided that research was called for in
order to
understand what this meant for the case. Greg ever the chemist went
to the internet and began his search.
After about three hours
of searching Greg had a better understanding of the
chemical that
apparently killed their D.B. The chemical was one of the most
poisonous chemicals known to man, except for tetanus. It took
only about one
nanogram per kilogram to be deadly. Well there was
about 200 nanograms in
the victims system which is probably what
killed her, the vic was only about
75 kg. There didn't seem to
be anything at the scene to indicate foul play,
but how did the
neurotoxin enter the blood stream? Greg decided more
research was
in order and he went back to the internet to read more journal
articles. Since he had a lot to go through Greg pulled out his
mp3 player
that techs gave him for making CSI. It allowed him to
listen to music
without subjecting the entire lab to it. He was
also able to keep himself sane
on nights like these where he
needed to play the chemist. He took out the
sleek silver player
and pressed play blasting Rob Zombie's "Dragula" into
his
brain and allowing the blond to shut off the rest of the world, he
even
found himself in the lyrics. He went through so much to try
and get his
attention, but now that he knew it could never be he
felt dead inside. His
sun was gone. He pushed the skip button on
the player finding another less
haunting song, with this one he
was able to forget anyone else existed,
especially certain
annoying blue-eyed lab techs.
About an hour later Greg
pulled together all of his research and took it to
Grissom. All
of research indicated a couple of things could have happened.
He
needed to know a few more things about the victim's life in order
to draw
any conclusions. Hopefully Sara had taken care of that
like she was supposed
to. Greg actually didn't mind much
working with Sara, but her crush
borderline obsession with
Grissom really creeped him out. He wasn't sure how
to deal with
it, especially when she thought to confide in him. Damn Nick
and
Warrick abandoning him to her clutches, 'all is fair' or some
crap like
that as they allowed the newest CSI to be their
sacrificial lamb. He found
Sara in Grissom's office discussing
exactly what he needed to know. He
winced inwardly at the thought
that she might want to talk after this little
meeting with
Grissom to analyze exactly what Grissom said to her. Greg made
hasty
plans in his head to escape as fast as humanly possible.
"Apparently the victim
worked in a lab. She was a chemist who ran PCR
samples and
cultured them. From her employer she had no boyfriend and stayed
late nights at work. Hence the no significant other. Her friends
said she
had no enemies that they knew of, apparently she barely
talked to anyone
anymore. They think she was trying to do her own
research."
Greg smiled. "Well the
victim had botulinal neurotoxin in her system. It
was probably
what killed her. I was wondering how it made it there since the
toxin is only made in labs. It is possible she was working on
running a
sample of this toxin and could have cut herself. It is
pretty rare to
contract it outside a lab."
"There was a cut on her hand." Sara brought up. "It looked deep."
"She probably dropped a
culture and had to pick it up, she cut her hand
through the
gloves and the culture contained our toxin. They had time to
probably multiply in her system before killing her which is why
she died at
home."
Grissom looked to Greg,
"I am impressed. Good job you two." Greg left
feeling
elated for helping solve the case, but still found he could not
ignore the pang in his heart. He found himself though thinking of
the case
again, he needed the distraction, after all it was that
or his bottle of
vodka. The case was better for his health. It
made no sense, the bacteria
wouldn't have been able to
reproduce that much before killing her. Something
was amiss. He
knew something else was up. Also he realized something, the
report
said she was left handed. The cut was on her right hand, and when you
drop something or pick something up, a person generally used
their dominant
hand. The cut was also and was very thin, thin but
deep. He remembers seeing
the cut it was too thin to be a culture
glass, and there were no shards in
her had like one would have
suspected.
The next day, he shared
his thoughts with Sara and she agreed they
should look into it
further. They dug a little deeper and found out the
nights she
stayed late at the lab so did her boss. They ended up
finding out
that he killed her and tried to make it look like an accident.
She
was threatening to make their affair public. It would've have
ruined his
career.
Greg found himself easily
able to forget the pain in his chest when he was
busy with work.
He was dogged with each case going over every bit of
evidence
often staying overtime to try and figure things out. His friends
were a bit worried though, he never wanted to go out anymore, and
he was no
longer taking evidence to trace for people. He had
whoever was working on
the case with pick up the analysis from
David.
The other techs began
noticing he was avoiding David like the plague.
Whenever Greg was
with one of them chatting amiably and David walked in Greg
suddenly
had somewhere to go. He no longer went to breakfasts that he knew
David would be going to as well. Finally Jacqui couldn't take
it and stalked
into the trace lab.
David saw a very angry
fingerprint tech and tried to escape, but it was
futile. "What
did you do to Greg?" Jacqui angrily sputtered.
Tilting his head as if
confused, David tried to look innocent. "Whatever that
boy has
told you is a lie, I don't kill little fuzzy animals, I certainly
didn't kill his." Pointing at the fingerprint tech and then
to the door. "Go
do work that does not involve you bothering
me, after all you are not paid
to be a detective and figure out
little Sander's problems."
The
woman in front of him looked ready to kill, it was meant to
intimidate
him but he was unfazed. "You know what Hodges, I
honestly don't see what
that boy sees in you. He was trying so
hard to get you to notice him, to
want him. You couldn't just
let him down gently and say no once and for all.
You dragged it
out, turning that poor boy's feelings into a joke. You don't
deserve him." She blew up on David then stormed out, wanting
him to think
things over. Or possibly to keep from killing the
man and making it look
like Ecklie did it. Either or.
David once again realized
how fiercely protective she was of anyone in
their circle. He
knew that, after all she did her best to make sure they
were all
happy and had healthy relationships, she had gotten rid of a couple
of less worthy "boyfriends" for all the techs. She was like
the tech's own
personal guard dogs in bars. It usually amused
him to watch her at work, but
he did not like having it thrown
back at him. He hadn't realized Greg was
serious, well actually
he was scared to actually admit the blonde's interest
to
himself, fearing it would turn out to be a joke. After all he wanted
nothing more than to have a go at the delicious looking
Norwegian.
David found himself at
home after shift rethinking his last encounter with
Sanders. He
cringed when he realized how cruel he was to the poor CSI. He
then
found himself remembering when the sandy-haired man first actually
tried asking him out.
He
saw the boy saunter into the lab like he owned it out of the corner
of his eye. This irritated him to no end, he was fiercely
protective of his
"territory" and no one was allowed to act
otherwise. Sanders then started
their usual case of banter which
he found no problem in continuing. Sanders
deviated from their
well founded routine when he asked about David's plans
for the
weekend. This threw David off his center, but he was quickly able to
recover and snark back. David saw Sander's eyes light up when
he spoke of
Ozzfest, it was apparently something important to the
man, but David could
not keep himself from belittling the man's
feelings and kicking him out of
his lab. After the CSI left he
remembered looking up what Ozzfest was and
could not believe he
was actually invited to go to a metal concert.
Looking
back on every reaction that he had to Sander's advances he was
shocked the man kept trying. The other man probably thought he
was playing
hard to get, liked to think he was a challenge or a
puzzle. David of course
was doing no such thing, trying to
actually chase the CSI away. David was
scared that Sanders would
invite him somewhere and when David accepted would
later stand
him up. He could see Sanders laughing at him with the other
CSIs
like Brown and Stokes. He couldn't bring himself to actually
believe
Sanders had any real interest in him. With Jacqui's
kick in the teeth threat
he began to slowly realize that the man
had real feelings for him and he had
brushed them off. He
actually felt bad for hurting Sanders. The two had
gotten along
well the entire time David had been in Vegas. Sanders had
jovially
greeted him the first day and then gleefully introduced the rest of
the lab to the trace tech. It was because of Sanders that he
found a group
accepting of who he was and didn't judge him. He
then winced and realized
that the CSI had never done anything to
indicate he was cruel and play with
others feelings. He swore he
would not let what happened to him in LA effect
him here in
Vegas, but he realized he did. He pictured Sanders as the day
trace
tech from LA who did just that. He knew Greg, and he didn't deserve
that. He
made a decision, that he thought would normally be out
of character for him,
and decided to try and "woo" the CSI
who had tried so long to win his heart,
who had no idea that he
had already won it.
Going into work the next
night David was full of nervous energy, he wanted
to talk to Greg
as soon as he walked through the door, but the other man was
nowhere
to be seen. It seemed the lab rat turned CSI was still avoiding him.
Stalking around the lab like a man on a mission, which he was, he
searched
for Greg. He would ask someone if they'd seen Greg,
but it would somehow
get back to Jacqui and then he would have to
admit the woman was right. She
would gloat for months, he didn't
want that to happen ever. He finally found
the CSI in the A/V
room with Archie, he tried sneaking up on the blonde, but
he
seemed to have ESP or a tracking device on David because the man ran
like
a shot and left the lab and disappeared before David could
say a word to
him.
"What's with
Sanders?" David tried to ask nonchalantly even though his
nerves
were on end, "He shot out of here like a bullet." If he was in
the
ballistics lab Bobby probably would have started laughing at
that.
As it wasn't Bobby,
Archie didn't appreciate the humor and
merely answered, "He's
running from you David. You have really done it this
time, he
doesn't even want to see you right now. You really snapped his
heart in half dude. I mean really saying that he couldn't flirt
and insulting
his work ethic, I mean come on you had to know that
saying that shit would
cause some problems. I don't understand
you man. I really don't." Archie
merely shook his head after
his speech and went back to going over some sort
of evidence or
another.
David had never heard
Archie speak to anyone like that. It was rather
shocking to hear
the mild-mannered tech to really lay the guilt on. From
people
like Bobby or Jacqui he expected it from, Not Archie. David had never
heard him even say something against a suspect. That was the last
straw.
David knew he was screwed. He tried throughout the night
and found he still
couldn't corner the CSI. It really seemed
like Greg had that tracking
device, Jacqui probably put it on him
to help out the sandy haired man. He'd
ask her about it, but he
knew she'd end up using the idea on him if she
hadn't
already. He didn't need to give that woman any more ideas, she was
dangerous by herself.
He finally got his chance
with Greg, He had come to terms with using the
man's first name
in his mind, The CSI was saying good-bye to Brown and
Stokes and
walking back to look at some evidence before leaving. David
cornered
him in the evidence room, one of the few rooms in the building
without windows, trying to actually have a normal conversation
with the man
he had been crushing over and hurting for over a
year. "Hello Sanders,"
mentally cringing at calling him by
that name. Greg as if for the first time
noticing his presence
turned around and tried to get to the door. Where
unfortunately
for him, David took to standing in front of in order to keep
the
man from escaping.
"Hodges," he icily
returned, still trying to get out of the room. He began
pacing
like a caged tiger, looking ready to strike out at David as if he
was a predator or a rival. David felt a little scared just
looking at him,
he was more frazzled than he had ever seen him in
the pain the other man's
eyes. He felt terrible about putting
it there. "Is there a reason you are
keeping me from leaving?
After all, shift is over. I am allowed to leave, I
already have
put in my time for my job. Get out of my way." He then gave
David
the meanest face ever seen, It rivaled even the worst of his own
glares.
"Now, Sanders, I mean
Greg," he said uncertainly, even though now was the
time he
prepared himself for, "I wanted to ask you a question." He
wondered
if Greg had been this nervous before asking him out for
the first time. "Are
you busy this weekend?"
The glare he saw on the
other man's face was painful to him, "Yes as a
matter of fact
I am. Now move."
David moved out of his
way and let him walk out, David's stomach fell and
he watched
the man he cared so much about walk out of the room and he knew
he
lost any chance of ever being with him. He knew he should have
apologized
before asking the other man out, but it just wasn't
his style. David had
never really apologized to anyone since
grade school.
Greg was pissed off, he had been doing so well
avoiding him that when he
cornered him he was caught off-guard.
He could tell David was nervous, the
optimistic part of him
thought that maybe he was actually trying to be nice,
the cynical
more realistic part of him would not allow him to think that.
After
all David was never nice, so he knew that this was only an act that
the other techs probably put him up to in order to get him out of
the
"funk," as Archie put it, that he was in. He knew they
meant well, but if
David didn't mean it then what was the point
in entertaining the thought of
going out with him. He had enough
heartbreak to go through that. David broke
his heart more than
once in the past year and he took a vow that he wouldn't
let
him do it again. Love was not worth that. Besides he told himself he
had
Ozzfest this weekend so he was busy. He didn't need anyone
messing that up,
he didn't want to share that part of him with
anyone anymore. He happily
turned on his stereo and blasted Iron
Maiden's self titled album, he wanted
to get himself in the
mood for the concert Saturday.
Friday came and he
successfully received time off from Grissom, it helped
that he
didn't really take time off often, after all he hated not working.
He grabbed some clothes and threw them into a bag ready to drive
himself the
five and a half hours from Vegas to Phoenix, grabbing
his lovely mp3 player
and drove out of Vegas blasting the music
from his favorite bands that were
all touring this year with
Ozzfest. This year he would get to see the
original Black
Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Rob Zombie and others. He hadn't seen
such
a great line up in a long time. He was excited to be going to the
concert, really needing it after the events of the past few
weeks, it made
him feel good to go to a place that he truly fit
in and truly made him happy
no matter what. The drive was slowly
clearing his head and the music
blasting through his speakers
allowed him to forget everything in the world
except for the
pounding of the bass.
He arrived at a hotel a
short drive from the Cricket Pavilion where the
concert was being
held tomorrow. He was so pumped for the concert he could
hardly
sleep, he couldn't wait, after all Zombie was headlining second
stage
and Black Sabbath headlining the main stage. He of course
had seen most of
the bands before in concert, but they were all
separate occasions. Ozzfest
was an all day event and there were
twenty some bands. His body practically
hummed with excitement.
He woke early from what little sleep his mind
allowed him to get.
He dressed for the occasion in black jeans and an old
White
Zombie tour shirt from the eighties. He spiked his hair wilder than
he
ever wore it at the lab and tipped it blue with wash-out hair
dye, he had to
go back to work after all. He applied a little
make-up to his face, only
some black lipstick along with some
blue and white eye shadow. Underneath
his shirt he wore a black
fishnet shirt and to top his outfit off he pulled
on knee high
combat boots and put a hoop in his ear. After looking at
himself
in the mirror he made sure that he had his tickets and plenty of
cash for souvenirs. Grabbing his keys he left the hotel and made
his way to
the Cricket Pavilion where he went through security
and began his favorite
day of the year.
David didn't
think finding one person would be too hard, after all he had
watched
said person for over three years now. He also did not believe that
Greg's terrible music could actually have such a large
following. He was
wrong. The easy part was for David to secretly
find out that Greg was taking
the weekend off and he realized
with a little web search that it was Ozzfest
weekend. David
discreetly took off, bought himself a ticket and followed his
crush
to Phoenix.
Passing through security
was easy as well, he didn't look threatening,
after all he
didn't have any tattoos, no piercings, and he looked relatively
normal. He realized looking around at the other attendees that
"normal" was
in very short supply. What Greg said last year
was right, people do dress
stranger than he ever did. Guys were
wearing skirts, a woman had actually
made hers out of bandanas.
Trench coats and giant pants were prevalent.
People had tattoos
covering half their face and piercings on the other half.
Looking
at the amount of people David realized finding Greg would be a lot
harder than he first believed. It would take a miracle to find
the guy in
this crowd. He felt like this trip was a waste, but
then the more he thought
about it the more he saw it wasn't. He
could use this time to learn more
about Greg and hopefully that
included how to forget about him.
Apparently someone up
there decided David deserved that miracle because
after watching
a few bands which amazingly he didn't hate as much as he
thought
he would, he suddenly caught sight of the blonde in question
fighting with a group of about six or seven people. They seemed
to be worked
into some kind of frenzy and were repeatedly
bouncing off one another like
pin balls. He saw Greg collide with
an elbow to his face and David's heart
reached his throat. He
never wanted to see that man in pain, especially
after seeing it
not only after the explosion, but in the lab while Greg
avoided
him. Greg got up and it seemed with no adverse effects, he just
brushed himself off and the frenzy seemed to have stopped. When
Greg stood
up David was able to finally get a good look at the
man of his dreams, his
hair was spiked more and seemed to have
tips of blue on the ends. He had
dressed in a pair of jeans that
molded to his skin, showing off an awful lot
of the blonde's
very attractive and very yummy looking body. What shocked
David
most of all was the make-up, something he never recalled Greg wearing
before and certainly not this kind. Greg's eyes were outlined
in black a
stark contrast to the lighter eye shadow on his
eyelids. The man looked
hotter than he ever had before. The
people watching and participating in
this 'battle' once again
went back to watching the stage, as if the whole
event never took
place. Some jumped up and down, others moved their heads or
arms
in time with the music. Greg of course was still oblivious to his
ogling, which did not surprise David in the slightest, after all.
David
slowly walked up to the object of his dreams and desires,
content in
following the man for now, just watching Greg move to
the music with a look of
pure contentment and bliss on his face.
He didn't want to miss this chance
though, the fates wouldn't
give him another. Steeling his resolve David
marched up to the
man and tapped him on his shoulder. Once Greg turned
around
confusion evident on his face, David wanted to kiss him, but his
resolve wasn't strong enough. He settled for dragging the man
behind a
t-shirt stand to get some privacy.
"What the fuck do you
think you are doing here Hodges?" Greg practically
screamed
after David let go of his arm, "On second thought I really don't
care. I am missing one of my favorite singers." With that said
Greg turned
to walk away, confident that Hodges would let him go,
unfortunately for him
David had no such intentions.
While holding Greg's
arm David spoke, "It was too damn hard to find you,
you are not
going anywhere." Suddenly David's voice failed him, again he was
unsure, scared at what could happen if he only said the words
that were
floating in his mind. Once the words were said aloud he
couldn't take them
back and it could change everything for the
trace tech and it might not be
for the better.
Greg
impatiently waited for an explanation, constantly watching the
fidgeting man who was holding his arm. He saw indecision on his
face and
allowed his hopes to be raised once again. His hopes
raised that high
allowed him to act brave, he moved closer and
closer to David until he was
standing no more than a few inches
from the man. He reached out the hand to
gently caress the other
David's face and lose himself in those deep blue
eyes. He moved
his face closer and closer to David's until he could feel the
other man's breath on his lips. He pushed their lips together
and David
reacted by pulling Greg closer and trying to deepen the
kiss. When Greg
allowed himself to sigh from the joy David
slipped his tongue in and they
battled for dominance. Once they
pulled apart Greg let himself sink into
David's arms and stay
there. This was the best day of his life, he got to
see his
favorite bands live and got the man of his dreams to share it with.
He didn't care anymore what David's intentions were, he was
happy that he
was here and he could share a piece of himself with
someone else. What he
did know was that he wasn't letting David
chase him away again, and with
that silent vow he closed the
distance between them and gave the other man
another kiss.
КОНЕЦ (end)
