I've come to a conclusion that this is to be set after Grave Danger but beforeBodies in Motion. Also being buried alive is gonna make you slightly freaked but people have already done the whole Nick angst thing so for this story his freakouts are going to be at a minimum.

Bodies in Motion is finally showing on Channel 5 tonight (England). Yah!

"Mr Ecklie! Mr Ecklie!"

He was surrounded with no escape. 'It's only the public aspect, they said, just some paper work and cleaning up other people's messes. Humph!' he thought.' Why the hell did I take this job? I've never been good with people.' He forced himself out of his head and back into reality.

As he was about to start giving the media some 'politically' correct answers a familiar black (Gil's car) drove past him coming to a halt a couple of metres away. It came a little too close for comfort but he knew an escape when it nearly ran him over and this was his.

He excused himself from the reporters, saying he needed to confer with a colleague to find out more details, and walked away as quickly as he politely could. On reaching the driver's side of the car he knocked on the window. After a few seconds, which were a few too long for him, the window was rolled down.

"Yes?" the driver asked almost too politely.

"Grissom you're late! I wouldn't want to have to give you a bad report because of tardiness."

Now he remembered why he had taken this job. To piss off every one he possibly could and especially the man sat right in front of him. So what if the Grave Yard shift had solved more cases, he had never let one of his guys get buried alive and so what if the Grave Yard were friends outside of work, none of his staff had ever had a gambling problem. In fact the Grave Yard shift, in his opinion, was made up of a bunch of trouble-making misfits. He had taken the job to prove to Grissom that, even if the Grave Yard shift was better than the Day Shift (although he would never admit it out loud), as a CSI, Ecklie was going to do better. But what really got on his nerves was that the other man didn't seem to care.

"Come now! We both know that's not true. There's nothing you'd like better."

Ecklie just scowled.

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He had been making a sandwich when he got the call. It had been a hard shift but he wasn't tired. He more annoyed at the fact that he would miss the marathon on bugs that he planned to watch in half an hour. But he couldn't let the rest of his team have to suffer while he watched TV.

He finished his sandwich, got changed and was out of the house just as the bug marathon started.

On arriving at the scene, he almost ran over Ecklie as he had been thinking about the likelihood that the case would be solved before the end of the 5hr marathon. He was not sure whether to be glad or disappointed about 'almost running Ecklie over'. Being the type of person he was, he settled for indifferent.

Ecklie, he thought was looking rather perturbed, so when he came and knocked on Grissom's window, he took a few seconds contemplating the advantages of simple driving off. He decided however that this would infuriate Ecklie even more and he would probably split the team up again. Having recently got his team back together he was in no mood to lose them all again.

After he had shared the usual 'pleasantries' with Ecklie, he collected his kit and headed over to where Catherine was stood by a body bag.

" Catherine. Um… where's the body?"

The body bag was empty. Catherine didn't reply but instead pointed towards the edge. His eyebrow went up. Why had they been called to a suicide? Curiosity took a hold on him and he approached the edge. Looking over he realised somewhat why they had been called. About 2m below him, on a small ledge lay the remains of a teenage boy.

" He looks like a train hit him, doesn't he?" asked Catherine walking up behind him.

"The nearest train line is quite a distance so are you proposing he was hit walked here and jumped off? More likely that it was that truck that's lying on it's side way down there!" replied a new voice. The two leaned over to see the truck before turning to see the familiar face of detective Jim Brass. " I wasn't expecting you two. What happened to Day shift and the rest of yours guys?"

"Days' tapped out, Greg is helping the lab get through DNA from the new cases, Sara's finishing off the deadly twins case, Nick doesn't get back from his parents' till 3 and I haven't a clue where Warrick is but I am going to kill him when he does turn up." answered Catherine without stopping for a breath.

Grissom and Brass exchanged glances before walking off in different directions. Grissom was getting bored and needed to do an experiment or something. Hopefully it would something involving a pig.