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"Hey Greg, what are you doing here?" Catherine asked as Greg joined her and the team at the lab.
He was covered in bruises from head to toe and a long scab had formed on his face. "I was bored at home, I thought I could come and help out." He told everyone with a weak smile.
Everyone shared glances. "Err, I'm afraid you can't help Greg, we're working your case." Russell told him.
Greg frowned. "My case? You really think there's a case here?"
"Well yeah, this has got to be connected with... with Danny's case." Nick told him calmly. "It can help us catch those guys."
"You know no one's going to buy whatever evidence you find? They're not gonna' take this seriously."
"Why wouldn't they?" Morgan asked him as he still stood in the doorway.
"Because... you know" he told them, suddenly quiet, "they'll say it was... they'll say it... they won't believe it was..." He told them with a quiet voice looking down, unable to finish his sentence.
"But we can still get them for beating you up." Nick told him. And he was right.
"Right. I guess I'll go back to my hotel then." Greg said, slightly detached.
He'd been staying in the hotel for a week now, obviously not being able to go back home after it became a 'scene'.
"There's a B and E that we were going to hand over to days, if you wanna' do that?" Russell asked him as he'd turned to go.
"Am I going to be on my own?" Greg asked hesitantly.
Before Russell could speak up, Nick did. "No, I can go with you."
Greg nodded. "Okay, I'll go get my kit." He said quietly as he limped slightly down the hall.
Russell turned to Nick. "Nick, why do you think we were going to hand it over? We need you here."
"But he wants to do something and he doesn't wanna' go alone. I think it's only reasonable he can go to a scene with someone." Nick argued. "I'll see you guys later" he told them as he pulled his gloves off and left the room.
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"You sure you're up for this?" Nick asked Greg as they were making their way to the scene.
Greg looked over to him and nodded. "Yeah. I'm alright."
Nick looked doubtful but didn't say anything else. So they sat in silence for a while.
"Greg? Greg!" Nick called and gentle touched Greg's arm.
"Don't touch me!" Greg yelled startled as he woke from his slumber. He'd dropped off to sleep not long after they'd set off and once they'd arrived Nick had called him numerous times to try and wake him.
"Alright, alright." Nick told him with his hands raised in surrender. "Sorry man, I was just trying to wake you up. You look pretty tired. Have you... you been sleeping alright?" He asked cautiously.
Greg eyed him up, debating whether to tell him the truth or not. "Yeah, I've been sleeping fine." He quickly undid his belt and got out the car as fast as he could, which wasn't very quick.
Nick followed him and chose not to bring it up again whilst they were at their scene. He kept an eye on Greg and noticed how he tried to avoid bending down whenever possible. The poor guy was still in pain.
"How's it going at the hotel?" Nick asked him in general conversation.
Greg looked over to him. "It's... a hotel." He said with a slight laugh.
"So it's not that great" Nick said and laughed to which Greg raised his eyebrows. "You know, the offer still stands for you to come stay at my place."
"No I couldn't do that. Besides, it can't be long until I can go back to my own place." Greg told him whilst bagging some evidence.
Nick lifted his head in surprise. "You're actually going to go back there? Live there?"
Greg looked at him with a frown, "What? Why not?"
"Greg, you were ra- attacked there" Nick corrected before saying it. Greg wouldn't allow anyone to say that word around him. Since the incident, he had refused to talk about it and tried to pretend nothing had ever happened. But everyone saw through it and noticed the slight changes in him.
"Those people know where you live." Nick continued.
"You think they're gonna' come back?" Greg asked him nervously.
Nick shrugged stiffly. "Who knows, it's possible. Why don't you stay with me? Just for a little while?"
Greg shook his head with a mumbled laugh. "You don't want that."
"What, why wouldn't I?" Nick asked confused.
"Not long ago, you hated the fact I was gay, now you want me over at your house?" Greg asked him incredulously.
Nick spun around quite angrily. "I thought we cleared this up? I'm not bothered."
"Oh yeah? So you wouldn't be thinking all the time that I might sneak into your bedroom, or that I might get a bit too close for comfort, huh?" Greg told him with an irritated voice.
"Why won't you listen to me? I don't care that you're gay." Nick told him in an angry tone.
Greg shook his head. "People don't change that quickly."
"You have." Nick retaliated, but as soon as he'd said it, he immediately wanted to take it back.
Greg spun around on the heels of his feet from his crouched position on the floor. "What did you say?" He asked quietly.
Nick sighed. "I didn't mean it."
Greg stood up. "I'm done here; I'll see you back at the lab." He said icily as he walked by Nick.
"Greg wait! I'm sorry!" Nick shouted, but it was too late.
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"Hey Morgan, have you seen Greg?" Nick asked as he walked out of Hodges lab.
"Err, no I haven't, why?" She replied as they walked through the lab.
"I need to talk to him."
"Haven't you just been to a scene with him?" She asked confused.
Nick looked in each room as they passed by. "Yeah, but I... I just need to talk to him." Nick settled on saying.
Morgan frowned sceptically. "Well I hope you find him."
She left Nick and carried on down the hall and into the locker room. "Greg."
He looked up to her and smiled slightly. "Hey Morgan."
She sat next to him with a smile. "Nick's looking for you."
"I know." Greg said and looked down.
"What's going on between you two?" She asked him outing a hand on his leg.
He quickly moved his leg from under her touch and breathed heavily. "I'm sorry."
Morgan shook her head. "Don't be."
"So... you and Nick?" She asked again, breaking the silence that had fallen upon them.
He glanced up to her and then back down. "Have I changed? Since... this whole thing?"
Morgan was a bit taken back. "Well, of course. I mean, I'd be worried if you hadn't changed after everything that's gone off."
"Have I changed in a bad way?" Greg asked her looking up.
"Not really." Morgan answered.
"But, do you guys still want to hang around with me?"
Morgan nodded her head. "Of course we do Greg. We love you, nothing can ever change that. You're still the Greg we've always known."
Greg shook his head. "But who is that? Who is the Greg you've always known?"
Morgan shuffled closer. "Well, he's kind; all he wants to do is impress people. He's crazy at times, funny... loving" Morgan said quieter as she moved closer again, and her and Greg's head's got closer until their lips touched.
They stayed there for what seemed like minutes until Greg pulled away. He had a shocked look on his face and swore. "Shit. Shit, shit, shit!"
Morgan looked back at him, not believing what had just happened.
"I have to go." Greg said and jumped off the bench.
Morgan just sat there not knowing what to do.
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"Please forgive me." Greg begged as he sat on a chair in the morgue, over Danny's body.
Tears were rolling down his face and he was finding it hard to contain his sobs.
"I don't know why I did it, I don't. I'm so sorry; I didn't want that to happen."
He heard the morgue doors open and turned around briefly to see who it was. Doc Robbins.
"Greg? Are you alright?" He asked as he came over to where Greg sat.
Greg shook his head with more tears creeping down his face. Doc pulled a chair up next to him and sat down.
"You know that you shouldn't be down here." He said softly.
Greg sniffed and nodded. "I know. I'm sorry, I just, I had to see him."
Doc Robbins nodded in understanding and gently rested his on the younger man's lower back. "I'm sorry for your loss, Greg. I truly am."
Greg nodded and let out a small sob. "Yeah so am I."
Doc rubbed his back sympathetically. "God only takes the good ones. And he does it for a reason."
Greg turned to look at him. "What's his reason for this then? Cause right now, I don't think there is one."
"There is a reason. I know it doesn't seem like it yet, but you'll realise it someday."
They both turned around when the doors opened again.
"Here you are- are you okay?" Nick asked when Greg turned back around, seeing the tears in his face briefly beforehand.
Doc smiled slightly at him and rubbed Greg's back. "He's just having a moment with Danny. I think we should wait outside." He said as he stood up, cane in hand.
He and Nick went outside the morgue doors and Doc sighed. "Poor boy."
Nick nodded sadly in agreement. "Yeah." Doc Robbins looked at him questionably when he didn't say anything more and was tense.
"Are you alright, Nick?"
Nick turned his head to him, mouth open a little. "Yeah, yeah I'm alright. This whole thing's just tough on him, and I don't think I'm helping."
"Well, whatever you think you're doing wrong, Greg doesn't care. He just needs his friend right now."
Nick nodded. "Yeah he does."
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