Chapter 3
"EVERYONE GET IN HERE, NOW!" Grissom shouted out of the room, everyone ran from their rooms into the monitor lab room. They saw Grissom standing by the computer and all slowly walked towards him. "We have a problem," he paused as he picked something off the table and bought it in front of him. "This is a letter that was sent to us with a website download. I have stolen one of your C.S.I.s. You must use you 'skill' to bring him back before his time runs out, I want 1 million dollars in 12 hours or he dies.' And that's about it."
"Who do they have?" One of the lab rats asked.
Grissom sat down on the chair at the computer and clicked the mouse. A screen came up. On the screen was a face Nick knew all to well.
"Greg!"
Nick closed his eyes, only to open them two seconds later. It wasn't a nightmare, this was real. Greg had been taken captive, he had been kidnapped before Nick could say sorry for being a prick and ask him to forgive him.
Flashback
"Greg, can we talk?" Nick nervously asked. Greg nodded. "I love you but …um … I think we should go on a break, just for a few weeks, to see if there isn't anyone better."
"What?" Greg said, eyes filling with tears, he started to back away from Nick and put his fingers in his ears. "NO! Not listening to you, you're joking. We've been together for roughly six… Leave me alone!"
"I'm so sorry, Greg," Nick said walking towards Greg, who was still backing away from hit. Greg hit into the sofa behind and stop still, Nick reached him and pulled his fingers from his ears. "I still love you but I want to see if there is someone else I love more. Then if there is no one, we can get back together."
Greg shook his head, pulled away from Nick and pushed past him, "no, no, if we break up then that's it. You say you love me but how can you love me when you want to find someone else. So if you want to break up then fine, but that's it, no second chances."
"I don't want to slit up forever Greggy, I just want a break."
"Well, you're not getting one, unless you want to break up for good!" Greg shouted nearing the door. "You're a scared little man, who has no feelings for people around you." He yelled slamming the door behind him.
Nick stood there and stared, the only sound that could be heard was the sound of his and Greg's car pulling out the driveway. He swallowed, walked towards the phone and angrily dialled Warrick's number asking for a lifted to work for later that night.
End of Flashback
"Nick, are you ok?" Catherine questioned, waving her hand in front of his face.
"Is Greg back yet? Is he here in my arms?" Nick replied, forcing his way to the door way. Catherine shook her head, looking down sadly. "No, then I'm not fucking bloody alright."
"Nick, calm down," Grissom said, rising his hands in the air in front of himself. "We are all up set about Greg."
"Ya, well, you didn't make the most stupid mistake in the world, have you? You didn't break up with someone because you are scared that your life will come boring because you are with someone you love more than the world, and now you realise that it was the person you love that was making your life interesting and you're the boring one. …. And now … now that person is missing and you can't do anything to help find them." Nick paused, wiping the tear from his cheeks. "I'm going to go to the toilet and freshen up, then I'm going to come in here and sit at this screen and watch the person I love more than my whole family put together." Nick said walking out the room in tears.