A/N: Sorry it's been a couple of days since I've updated, work has been tough, anyways i hope you like this chapter, in chapter 12 will be my 1st attempt at smut. Please review and let me know what you think, good or bad, thanks.
Disclaimer: I don't own CSI, :( wish i did
Chapter 7:
The 1st Phone Call-
At the start of shift Greg and Nick were already in the break room when Catherine walked in to hand out the assignments.
"Sorry guys but there is only one case tonight, you two can fight for it." They look at each other, Nick stands up and walks to her.
"I'll take it, Greg has an important phone call to make." Catherine looks at Greg, Greg looks at his watch then back at Nick and Catherine.
"Isn't it early?"
Nick looks at Catherine and starts laughing.
"Come on Greg, your not afraid of Grissom, are ya?"
"Yea, a little, and he's going to catch me in this lie, we all know that I'm not a good lair."
Catherine starts laughing really loud.
"Greg, Grissom isn't superman, and I've known him a lot longer than you and Nicky, believe me there isn't anything he can do to you over the phone, the only thing he can do is yell."
"I know but..." Nick jumps in.
"Man up Greg, they need us, and by doing this your helping us get information to help them." Greg sighs heavily.
"Fine, but only because they need us." Nick and Catherine smile at each other.
"Great, and make sure you tell us what you find out." Catherine gives Greg a folder.
"What's this for?"
"Write down everything and put all the information in the folder, so when Sara returns to work, in two days, she will think it's an active case that you, Nicky, and I are working on."
"That's really smart."
Nick and Catherine walk out. Catherine turns around to Greg.
"Keep me posted." Greg looks up at her.
"You got it." Catherine walks out the door and makes her way to her office. Greg flips open his phone and finds Grissom's number. He pushes the talk button, after the second ring Greg starts getting nervous. 'Please don't answer the phone, please Grissom don't answer the phone.' on the forth ring Grissom answers.
"Hello this is Grissom." Greg remain silent.
"Hello anybody there?" Greg still doesn't say anything.
"Greg, I know it's you, Cell phones have Caller ID, you know?" 'Dam I knew that, well lets get this done and over with.'
"Yea, I know Grissom."
"So what's wrong?"
"Why would there be something wrong, maybe I was just calling to see how you were doing?"
"Greg you never call unless something is wrong, or you need help, and I am doing okay, So what's up?"
"Well it's this case I've been working on, I'm having a lot of trouble dealing with it."
"Oh, I thought you were calling about Sara."
"Well, yea I kind of was calling about Sara, see I usually talk to her about this kind of thing but Catherine said you two were having problems but she never said what kind of problems you guys were having, so I thought I should call and ask if it would be okay if I talk to her, out of respect for you."
"Greg it's obvious that you never called before to ask for my approval, so why are you calling now?"
"Well..I don't know why you two are fight about and if it was about her talking to men without letting you know first.." Greg paused to gather his thoughts. "I didn't want to cause anymore problems between the two of you, if that was the case."
"Well that's very thoughtful of you Greg, I appreciate the consideration, but no we're not about her talking to other men without telling me first, but since we're talking about it, do I know the men that she has been talking to?"
"Yea sort of, most of them are the guys at the lab, but the others are just people she has to talk to, nothing to worry about, Hey Grissom can I ask you a question?" Gil sighs he knows what he is about to ask.
"What is it Greg?"
"What 'are' you two fighting about?"
"Don't worry about it Greg, I'm going to make it up to her some how, just got to get her to talk to me first. Hey does she go out anywhere or with anyone when she is off of work?"
"I don't know Grissom, don't really hang out with her outside of work, you could ask Nick, he's like her brother." Gil sighs again.
"Well, thanks anyways."
"Sounds like you don't trust her."
"It's not that I don't trust her, I do trust her, but she doesn't trust me. You know most of the time when you point a finger at someone, it's more than likely your doing something wrong yourself, weather it is what your accusing that someone did or it's something just has bad." Greg sighs at this, while writing everything down on his pad of paper.
"If you want I can talk to her and find out whats going on?"
"That would be great, but don't let her know that I want to know, it will just make our situation worse."
"No problem, I'll slide it in while I talk to her about this case."
"Thanks, have a good night Greg, if she tells you anything will you let me know?"
"Yea, and Grissom it's not a problem, I am glad I could help, and I will let you know if she tells me anything, have a good night, bye."
"Bye Greg."
After Greg got off the phone with Grissom, he jotted some more things down on his pad of paper and put it into the case folder. He then took out his phone and text Nick and Catherine to let them know he just got off the phone with Grissom and had some new information to add to the case. Nick is the first to text back.
'ETA 5 min. B&E solved. Need to log evidence in, b done in 20 min.-NS'
Then Catherine texts back.
'NS b done 30 min, met n my office n 45 min.-CW'
Greg texts both back the same text.
'K c u then.-GS'
Half and hour later Nick finished logging in the evidence and has to wait for the results to come back before he can interrogate his suspect, who has already confessed. Greg and Nick met up in the hallway and walk into Catherine's office together. Catherine is sitting behind her desk doing paperwork, when she heard her door close, she looked up and checks her watch.
"Wow, Nick that was fast."
"Yea, the guy confessed at the scene, but I still have to wait on the evidence to be processed before Sofia and I can interrogate him."
"Great, so Greg what did you get out of talking with Grissom?" Greg sits up in his chair and opens the file folder he has in his hand.
"Well..He confirmed what we already know, that their in a fight but now it sounds like he doesn't trust her, but he also said that he is going to make it up to her, he's just got to get her to talk to him." Nick turns to Greg.
"Why do you say he doesn't trust her?"
"Well he made a comment about when you point a finger at someone, its most likely that your doing something wrong yourself." Catherine leans in and rolls her eyes.
"I'm guessing that he is referring to Sara accusing him of cheating, got to give it to him, he has a very good point."
"Yes he does, he also wanted me to talk to Sara, and he wanted to know if she goes out anywhere or with anyone after work." Nick shifts in his seat.
"Well this fight their having just got a little worse." This confused Greg, so he turns and looks at Nick.
"What do you mean?"
"Well one Sara thinks he is cheating on her, and two he now thinks that she is cheating on him because she is accusing him of doing it, this makes the fight between them worse, its just adding bigger flames to a already hot fire." Catherine thinks about it then busts out laughing. Both of the men look at her, Nick clears his throat to grab her attention, she try to calm herself down and looks at them.
"I'm sorry, but this fight their having is serious but they are acting so childish about it. It feels like we're back in high school." They all start laughing, Greg stops and looks at Catherine, he hands her the folder.
"So do we treat them like teenagers, or do we let them fight it out?" Catherine regains her composer.
"Well Greg, if we let them fight it out we maybe seeing a very messy divorce in the near future, so I think it's best if we treat them like teenagers and give them all the help we can."
"Good point, so should I talk to Sara like Grissom asked me to?"
"Well you can try and call her and see if she will talk to you. If she will go ahead and try but I doubt you will get any information out of her." Nick jumps in.
"Why does he get to talk to her but I can't?"
"Well Nicky, your closer to Grissom and Sara than Greg is so I think she is more likely to talk to him rather than you or myself. She wouldn't expect Greg to talk to Grissom about anything they talk about." Greg cuts Catherine off.
"Hey Catherine do you want me to tell her about her notepad that we have?"
"No! Believe me that won't turn out to good for you. You would be putting yourself in danger and risk our whole plan to get them over this."
"How so?"
"Well, it was only Brass and myself in the car with her, so if you tell her about the notepad, she will know that we're trying to interfere with their relationship, which won't be good at all."
"So what do I tell her?"
"Tell her that I told you that when your around her not to ask about Grissom, but that's all you know, let her talk to you, don't try to force her to talk, she might shut you out if you do, okay?"
"Yea I got it. Should I call her right now?" Catherine looks at her watch.
"Yea she should be sober by now, but talk softly, she might have a hangover."
"Alright." Greg steps out and goes into the break room to call Sara. Nick is a little pissed about the situation.
"Catherine I would really like to talk to Sara before you do but after Greg does, please I feel like Sara and I have a strong bond, and Sara has more trust in me than she does in Greg."
"Okay I'll give you a chance but you can't say I didn't try to warn you."
"Thanks Catherine." Just then his beeper went off as he was standing up to leave.
"Hey Cath my results are in, I'll give Griss a call when I'm done with this B&E case."
"Alright keep me posted." She hands him the file folder that Greg had given back to her.
"Okay." He knew that he would also have to write down all the information down that he gets from Grissom. As Nick was leaving Greg pokes his head into her office.
"Hey Sara said that I can go to her place in a couple of hours when I'm done with my shift."
"Alright, here take this folder, when you finish talking with her write everything down."
"You got it, I will call you when we finish talking."
"Thanks." Greg leaves to finish out his shift. 'This is going to be a long 2 hours before shift is over, well I could help out in the DNA lab, they could always use my help.'