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A/n:Okay, so with Riley being so new, I was a little worried about writing her, plus this is the first chapter with more than one charater, not including Grissom. I just felt being new she needed someone to bounce her thoughts off of. Let me know if you think it's in character, or not. Thanks for reviewing. :D:D
Riley
Riley Adams Walked down the hall surveying the lab rooms around her. She'd been working here for a few months now, and she was becoming familiar with the personalities of the lab.
There was Hodges bent over a microscope, he was an odd mix of cockiness and neediness… and in the next lab was Wendy. Riley sensed something between those two, but wasn't sure exactly what that 'something' was.
Wendy seemed cool, as did Mandy, in fact, Riley liked all the lab techs. She especially had fun teasing David Phillips, the assistant coroner. She got a kick out of watching him blush.
Grissom walked out of the fingerprint lab and Riley stopped to drink out of the fountain so as to avoid making eye contact with him. She didn't know what it was, but she seemed to have done something to piss him off.
They had started off alright, but then she'd made the mistake of questioning that little boy without representation, though she still maintained that all she'd done was talk to him, but since then she'd been in the shit house.
Someone cleared their throat and Riley popped her head up from the fountain.
Greg Sanders grinned down at her. "Hiding from the boss man?"
"Not at all, I just needed a drink of water." Riley straightened and gave him a smile.
"Yeah, right. " He turned serious. " You know, he's not usually like this. He's had a rough couple of years."
"Well, that's no reason to take it out on me." Riley was on edge. She wanted her boss to respect her, and to be honest, she had the feeling she'd seriously gunked up the chances of that. She was just too stubborn to admit it to anyone else.
"Hey, one of the things that sets Grissom off is a child being harmed, and you just caught him on a really bad day." Greg frowned. "Of course, he's been having a lot of those lately."
"Well, I hope he pulls out of it soon. I don't have the money to move to anther city and start over. I need to make a go of it here."
Greg smiled. "Don't worry. Things will get better, they usually do."
Riley shook her head. "I hope so, because something seems wrong, and I don't know enough to know what would make it right."
Greg frowned. "Yeah, neither do the rest of us." He shook himself and smiled. "So, how 'bout breakfast, that should cheer you up, and maybe I can fill you in on all the lab gossip."
Riley laughed. "Sure, I'll take you up on breakfast, but I'm not sure what gossip you can you can tell me that I don't already know, latex boy."
Greg's face flushed as he watch her head down the hall. "Well, we'll just see about that," he muttered under his breath, then hurried to catch up with her.
TBC