Every Month Is The Month Of October

bold Italics are greg's pushy thoughts

Normal Italics are Greg's Shyer thoughts.

Underlined Bold is October's Upfront thoughts

Normal Bold is October's Shy thoughts.

It had been 3 weeks since October joined the lab, and all was going smoothly, though Vegas has a bigger criminal record than Essex could ever muster up, October was loving it. She was sitting in the lab with her imported Kerrang Magazine when Greg walked in.

"I've made a revelation." He said and October looked up from the Madina Lake special and raised an eye brow.

"And that is..." She asked, smiling, wondering if he would ever spit it out.

"Okay, Your last name is Pepper, and you are a scientist which makes you a doctor, you following me so far?" He explained.

"Greg, I'm not dumb, I know that my last name is Pepper and I really hope I'm a scientist by now otherwise all those years of collage and Uni were all for nothing." She went back to her mag, she knew what was comeing.

"Ohh sarcasm, did you know that's the lowest form of wit, any who...YOU'RE DR PEPPER!" Greg said bouncing with excitement.

"Well done Grego, you figured out what I've been called since senior school and do you know what's the worst that could happen?...Me hurting you in 101 different ways if you ever call me that again." She said with a big fake smile.

"Okay something's up, you've only been here for only 3 weeks I know, but I'm good at reading people, so spill." He said, sitting down on one of the little swively lab stools.

"...Fine, you wanna know, I'll tell you...My house burned to the ground because of stress relief candles my cat died someone stole my PS2 and my Nintendo (A/N Don't forget this is in the 3rd Series which was a few years ago, so no wii :( ) I dropped my phone in a pond and now the lab is backed up 'cos of a freakin drug bust...Yeah Greg I'm just Dandy!" She said in one breath, it really hadn't been her best 48 hours ever, but it wasn't Greg's fault and she knew it, she was going to apologise...at some point.

"Jeez and I thought I had a bad week...Stress relief candles, huh, talk about irony" Greg laughed lightly.

"Try 2 days...And it's not funny so shut up" She corrected and Greg's mouth dropped open.

"2 days?" He asked, October nodded in conformation. "And the house burned down to the ground, meaning...Nooooooo...You've been sleeping in the lab...And not just your garden variety sleeping, Living sleeping!" Greg gasped and grabbed October's wrist. "Okay come with me." He demanded.

Greg dragged October to Grissom's office and left her outside to speak to him.

"Hey Grissom, ya got a minute." Greg asked him with his goofy grin.

"Of course Greg, I've actually got 10, go ahead." Grissom replied.

"Okay, I was wondering if you could maybe let me take about an hour break and let October take a few days off starting from like now." He asked, no longer with a goofy grin, but with a pleading grin.

"Are you kidding Greg, with that drug bust we're gonna be backed up in that lab for at least 2 days, why does October need time of anyway?" He asked, sounding a little peeved, because Greg was asking for quite a lot.

"Because she's been sleeping in the lab, her house burned down, her cat died, her phone got dropped in a pond, her games consoles were stolen and she was called Dr.Pepper in high school, and this is all in the past 48 hours, except the high school thing, though I did call her Dr.Pepper just a few minutes ago, so it brought back the memories, c'mon Grissom, I'm just gonna give her somewhere to stay and I'll cover all her shifts, I'm just trying to be a good friend." Greg said begging now, Grissom just looked at Greg for a few seconds and nodded his head as a yes. "Grissom, you rock, I'll be back ASAP...Don't let Hodges near my lab...Or my coffee." And with that, Greg and October were heading towards Greg's car.

"You drive this piece of crap?" October asked, snorting.

" Hey don't knock the Greg-Mobile, it gets me from A to B, B being my place right now." Greg explained.

"And we are going to your place why?" She said inquisitively.

"Because you need a temporary roof over you head, in other words, your gonna be couch crashing." He said laughing slightly.

"Hey, I'm down with that, it beats living in a lab." She smiled and got in the car, turning on the radio. There were only rubbish songs on so she pulled her Avenged Sevenfold album from out of her bag and switched it to A Little Piece Of Heaven and started singing along, quite well.

"You do realise your singing about necrophilia" He asked her, tapping the steering wheel to the song.

"Yeah, so what, you rock out to a fooking Marilyn Manson, who probably practices it." She came back with.

"Oh harsh, mock my idol, okay maybe not my idol, but he still rocks." He said.

"Whatever." She laughed and went back to listening to the music, they both joked around a little in the car, it took them another half an hour to get to Greg's apartment. They both got out.

"Welcome to chez Greg." He said shyly, for the first time since he met October, it was a two floored apartment building with a set of fire escape ladders on each side of the building, the building itself was made of some sort of orange stone and looked as if it belonged in Spain. Greg noticed she had been staring at apartment.

"Sorry if it's a bit dated, I think it was made in like, the 80's or something" He laughed.

"Are you kidding, I love it, actually, I love any building that looks dated, it gives that feel that history was living there, you know what I mean?" She said, still looking at the place, she really did love it.

"Nope, can't say I do, but you are the first person EVER, to like my place...20 bucks says your gonna hate the inside." He wagered.

"...You're on Sanders, loser also has to buy the other dinner." They shook on it and proceeded to Greg's apartment. He was on the second floor and to October's surprise, the apartment had looked a hell of a lot smaller on the outside than it did in. The floor was littered with pizza boxes, old clothes and a small growing pile of paper napkins that had been aimed for the trash can but missed, other than that it was a really nice room. It was a kitchen/living room joined together with a breakfast bar separating the two rooms.

"I'll be taking that 20 dollars now Miss Pepper." He said smugly, extending his hand for some money to be put in, only to feel October's hand pushing it away.

"Are you kidding, I've been waiting for someone who's as much of a slob as me, Sanders, in fact, if you were to go to my place before the fire...Why I believe it was worse than yours." She said, she being the one who was extending her hand now.

"Oco ,I believe this is the beginning of the middle of a beautiful friendship...If you don't take any more of my money that is...That part sort of sucks." He laughed.

"Oco?" October asked.

"Yeah well I figured, I needed something shorter than October and Miss Pepper to call you, C'mon you make a nickname for me" He said giving that grin that seemed to make a suicidal depressed person smile and forget their worries.

"It's okay, I like it...Now what to call you Mr Sanders, hmm, methinks I shall call you...Elmo." She said with a ten thousand volt smile.

"Elmo...As in Sesame Street Elmo? You're naming me after a puppet...A red creepy puppet?" He asked, his mouth agape.

"Ya, your both very huggable and funny on the Octoberomiter...You don't like puppets, you have a puppet fear." She laughed.

"Ya and, I have an evil cousin and she placed a chucky doll right next to my bed...You named me Elmo." He stated.

"Wow your a smart one aren't you." She smiled evilly. " Now Elmo, would you be so kind as to bring my stuff up...wait, I don't have stuff, it all melt-a-did." She said, now feeling a little more depressed.

"Well you do have insurance...right..." Greg asked

"..." October said nothing.

"Oh come on Oco! You're not even gonna get any money back on your place." He asked

"I was going to fill out all the forms and paperwork and whatnot tomorrow, seems pretty pointless now, for the time being anyway." She laughed. " So, you really don't mind me sofa surfing for a while?" She asked.

"Course not, next to Archie, you're like one of my official top 5 friends slash people to be around because they have a sense of humour." He smiled back.

Do it Greg do it now, ask her out...doitnowdoitnowdoitnow.'

'Who the hell are you?'

I'm you, duh.'

Well how come you've never shown up before?'

'Because WE'VE never been so much of a pussy before.'

' You do realise you're insulting yourself'

'No, I'm insulting you half of the brain dumbass.'

Greg's inner battle was cut short by October snapping her black nail polish covered fingers in his face.

"Hello, Earth to Greg, you spaced out there for a while buddy." October said smiling.

"Oh yeah, sorry...Well, I've got to get back to work, I'm covering your shifts, so umm mi casa, es su casa, you don't have to go into work for the next four days, so live it up and Par-tay, there should be a sleeping bag in that closet over there, so catch some z's, see ya later." He almost ran out the door because he thought he was going to be late.

" Hey Greg wait!" October made him stop and he turned around. "You still owe me that dinner, so don't forget Elmo." She laughed. Greg grimaced at the name, ran out the door and looked at the clock in the car. He wasn't going to be late at all, he just wanted to finish the inner battle with himself.

'Any way, back onto our previous discussion, YOU ARE CALLING YOURSELF A DUMBASS, DUMBASS!"

'Ahh see, now you're being a hypocrite, but your dodging the real problem here.'

'Real problem?'

'Duh, the only reason I'm here is because of October, and I'm not leaving, till we at least ask her out...I'm sort of like a Drop Dead Fred if you will.' (A/N If you haven't seen Drop Dead Fred, You need to, It's a bloody amazing film with Rik Mayall and will live on forever. ;)

'I love that movie...And FYI, I now know how Elizabeth feels...Having a Drop Dead Fred sucks gay monkey balls!'

'Just shut up and drive.'

And drive Greg did.

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