Hello. Thanks to the six people that reviewed, I really appreciate it, as well as the person who followed my story. However, I did look at my stats for the first time in ages, though. 67 VISITORS – 6 REVIEWS :-( Not good. The people that have reviewed are forgiven, but to everyone else, pretty, pretty please PLEASE TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK!

I won't update quickly unless I get more than eight reviews for this chapter, I'm sorry but I don't have much time on my hands to write, so unless there are more than eight reviews, updates may be slow. I am sorry to those who do review every time, and I love you lots but that's the way it is!

Thanks!

Read. Enjoy. Review (pretty, pretty please? With sugar on top?)

Chapter Fifteen# False Accusations#

Nick slung his bag onto the floor as he trudged forlornly into the house. He was covered top to toe in mud. Their football coach, Frank Tripp was eager to win their first game of the season, due to the unusual heavy rain Nick didn't think he had ever been so covered in mud.

Rosa came forward, before freezing on sight of him.

"¡Dios mío!" she exclaimed. "Oh, god, Nicholas! Outside, outside, now!"

Nick groaned. "Rosa, I need a shower-"

"I washed this floor today, into the back yard, now!"

Nick trudged into the back, shivering slightly as he did. Rosa opened the back door and pointed to a trail of newspaper that led straight to the bathroom.

Nick nodded his thanks and took a long hot shower, shoving his muddy gear straight in the washing machine. Though it was only seven o'clock, he slipped into his pyjamas for comforts sake and checked his phone.

"One missed call from Tali." He read out loud. He pressed call and sighed tiredly.

"Hello?" a voice on the other end laughed.

"Hey Tali, it's Nick, did you call me?"

"Oh, yeah, before I realised it was football, sorry. Greg just called a meeting with everyone going to the party, with a few exceptions and I wasn't sure if you were coming."

"Oh, okay." Nick smiled slightly. "What was it about?"

"He made me and Ryan decide what everyone's costumes have to be. We decided that you should go as a cowboy."

Nick snorted. "Huh, original."

"Aw c'mon Nicky..."

"Did I say I wouldn't?"

"Thanks, Nick."

"Who else was there?"

"Oh, all of us apart from you and Sara, Abby and Lindsay and their group, a couple of Greg's cousins, including this one really fit guy called Jamie."

Nick swallowed. "Oh, cool. Does he go to school?"

"No, he goes to a different school. He's eighteen, and I'm helping him shop for his costume this weekend."

Nick's heart fell. "Oh...okay. Do you like him?"

"I think so..." Tali sounded almost shy. "He's really nice and really good looking."

"That's great Tali." Nick tried to sound happy. "If anything happens, well, he's a really lucky guy...if not then he's an idiot." He sighed. "And if he hurts you in any way at all I will track him down and kick his sorry ass."

"Thanks, Nicky." Tali laughed softly. "You're a great friend, you really are."

"Thanks." He said, swallowing.

"Are you okay? How was practice?"

Nick chuckled darkly and avoided the first question. "Horrible. It was pouring with rain the whole time, I came home covered in mud...Coach Tripp really doesn't want to lose this..."

"Aw, I'm sorry, Nick. What are you doing now?"

"Talking to you." Nick couldn't help but grin.

"That's not what I meant."

"Nothing much."

"You wanna come out?"

Nick yearned to say yes but instead he just sighed. "Nah, I'm in my pyjamas and I really need to do that math homework..."

"Aw, c'mon Nicky..."

"Sorry, Tali."

Tali sighed. "Okay, Nick. Oh, you'll never guess where Sara was!"

"Uh...clubbing with Calleigh Duquesne?"

"No, crazier."

"Hmm...taking drugs with Shane Casey?"

"Close, but crazier."

"Crazier? Okay...joyriding with Tony DiNozzo?"

"Nope. Crazier."

"Okay, I'm all out."

"She spent five hours locked in a girl's bathroom at school with Catherine Flynn, and then apologised to Warrick for getting Catherine all wrong."

"You're kidding?" Nick sat up. "She didn't-"

"Kill her? Nope."

"Wow." Nick ran his hand over his jaw. "Wow."

"I know... Oh, damn Nicky, I have to go..."

"That's fine..." Nick grinned.

"I can hear you smiling. Bye Nicky, love you!"

"See you tomorrow." The phone went dead and Nick sighed, flopping down onto his bed. "Love you too."

CSIVCSIVCSIV

"Hey guys, what's up?" Nick called the next day as he came into A11.

"Ah, Nick. Late again? I guess this isn't gonna be a crazy day then." Sara grinned.

"Funny, Sara, real funny." Nick sighed.

"Sit down." Morgan commanded. Nick frowned, and slowly obeyed.

"Hey!" he cried as Morgan promptly sat down on his lap, wiggling for a moment before settling into place.

"Wrap your arms around me." Morgan ordered.

Nick glanced at Greg who rolled his eyes. "She's gone through the rest of us already."

"Why?" Nick frowned.

"Don't ask me." Greg shrugged.

Nick frowned and wrapped his arms around Morgan, who snuggled into his embrace. Then she burst out.

"Okay, I have made my decision." She announced. "Nick has the comfiest lap. Then Greg. Followed by Warrick, Archie, then Ryan last."

"Hey..." Ryan frowned.

"Sorry. You're almost as small as me." Morgan explained.

"Why is Nick above me?" Greg frowned.

"Because he has the comfiest lap." Morgan sighed, wrapping her arms around Greg's neck. "But second best is pretty good too."

Greg rolled his eyes as Morgan hopped onto his lap.

Suddenly the door flew open and Catherine Flynn burst in looking furious and upset. Jess Angell and Don Flack stood on one side of her looking shocked, and a whole crowd of seniors burst in through the other side.

The younger teens stood up as Catherine ran at Greg and pinned him to the wall.

"Ow, stop it, what're you-" Greg cried.

"You told him!" she shrieked. "You promised and you frickin' told him!"

"Told who what?" Greg asked, baffled.

"Get the hell off him!" Morgan cried, pulling Catherine's arm off Greg, but the strawberry blonde shoved her out the way with a thrust of her shoulders.

"Catherine..." Nick and Sara began at the same time.

"You know what you little jerk! I confided in you I didn't tell anyone what you said! But you told, you asshole!"

Greg's eyes lit up in fear and more confusion as he realised what she was talking about. "I swear I never told anyone!"

"Then how the hell does Eddie Willows, know, Sanders, huh?"

Greg struggled against her grip. "I didn't even tell Morgan, and I tell her everything! Why the hell would I tell Eddie Willows?"

Catherine slapped him and Sara, Nick and Warrick leapt into action, pulling her off of him.

"You must have told, you must have!" she cried, tears on her cheeks.

"I didn't!" Greg insisted.

"Didn't tell him what?" Sara asked, looking from face to face.

"Actually he didn't." Eddie Willows whispered to Catherine. "The kid sat next to Greg in the waiting room was my cousin."

Catherine's mouth popped open and her hands flew away from Greg shoulders. "I...I..."

"What the hell are you talking about?" Nick frowned.

"Apparently Greggo over there didn't deserve that, Catherine. He never told anyone." Eddie whispered again. She glanced at Greg who was rolling his aching shoulders, a confused, hurt look on his face.

"What's going on?" Morgan looked at Greg, her hand resting on his arm.

"Oh, none of you nobodies know?" Rick Stetler sneered. Warrick, Morgan, Ryan, Nick and Sara's hands balled into fists and Archie and Greg narrowed their eyes.

"That slag is pregnant. You all hear that?" Eddie cupped his hands around his mouth. "CATHERINE FLYNN IS PREGNANT!"

Six mouths popped open in unison, and if the situation was less serious Greg would have laughed at the look on his friends' faces.

"You asshole!" Catherine hissed, blushing furiously.

"What a slut!" Rick Stetler crooned, before shouting, "OW!"

Gibbs head slapped Eddie Willows as well, a furious expression on his face. Grissom came out from behind Gibbs, a similar thundering expression on his face.

"Stetler, Willows, my office right now." Grissom's voice was dangerously low.

"That's assault-" Eddie started, pointing at Gibbs.

"Either the pair of you get into his office or I will take you outside and I will show you what the Marine Corps do to people who disobey orders." Gibbs growled, and the two teens scampered off, followed by Gibbs.

"Okay, everyone out. Everyone!" Grissom ordered. "If I see anyone in this corridor before the bell I will personally see that person gets an afterschool detention, so move, now! Apart from Catherine, I want to speak with you for a moment."

Nick and Warrick started getting their bags as everyone filed out talking excitedly, but Grissom stopped them.

"You guys sit in here normally; you can come back in as soon as I've talked to Catherine, so leave your bags if you like." Grissom said, his tone softening slightly.

They filed out of the room and waited on the other side.

"Oh my god, Greg, why didn't you tell us?" Morgan cried.

"Because it wasn't my secret to tell." Greg retorted. "If I told you guys it would be like her telling Calleigh Duquesne and Jess Angell and all of the others what happened with Ellen. She didn't even mean to tell me, it just slipped out."

"I guess..." Morgan muttered. "No, you're right."

Greg nodded. "I don't tell other peoples' secrets."

"Except mine." Archie rolled his eyes.

"Except Archie's." Greg nodded again. "When they concern me."

"I didn't see that coming." Sara sighed.

"Neither did I..." Ryan frowned.

"I have to admit, I was a little shocked." Nick nodded. He turned to the last member of the group. "'Rick?"

Warrick looked up. "Me? I...I wasn't really that surprised."

Morgan frowned. "Why?"

"Because, y'know...Teen pregnancy, it happens. And if it was anyone in the school, it would be someone like Catherine Flynn." Warrick explained heavily.

"I s'pose." Nick nodded.

"Poor Catherine..." Sara shook her head. "She's had a rough couple of days, huh?" Everyone stared at her and she sighed. "Look, I know that before I was judging her before I knew her. Even though yesterday we didn't talk much until the end, when we did talk I realised that I was wrong. And besides, I really do feel sorry for her."

"You feel sorry for Catherine Flynn? Not even sarcastically?" Archie raised his eyebrows.

Greg interrupted Sara's reply. "I agree with Sara. I mean, her boyfriend cheated on her with a total cow, then she faints, wakes up on route to the hospital only to be told by doctors that she's pregnant. Then her ex-boyfriend tells the whole school about how she's pregnant, she accuses the wrong guy. Now she's gotta figure out whether or not to keep the baby, if she's gonna give it up for adoption or whatever."

"Or if she wants to keep it." Sara nodded, carrying on. "And if that's the case then she's gotta figure out finances, who's gonna help her, all that sort of stuff..."

"Damn..." Nick shook his head. "Y'know, my oldest sister Joanne was eighteen when my cousin Halley was born but it was kinda different. She married Cody when they were seventeen."

"Seventeen? That'd be like...Jess Angell and Don Flack getting married." Morgan frowned. "They're both seventeen, right?"

Nick just nodded.

"So if Joanne was eighteen when she had Halley, how old were you?" Greg frowned.

"Five and a half."

"So you were five years old when your first niece was born?" Sara asked.

"Five and a half months, Sara."

"You're six months older than your niece?"

"Let's just say she never calls me uncle."

"Is she hot?" Warrick asked with a slight grin.

"Warrick, she's my niece, man!" Nick grimaced.

"Anyway, back to Catherine." Morgan interrupted. "What d'you think'll happen to her?"

"I have no idea." Nick answered, and everyone else shrugged. The door suddenly opened and Grissom walked out, a solemn look on his face.

"You can go back in but I'm trusting you not to harass Catherine at all, okay?" he looked at each of them slowly, one at a time.

They each nodded, and slipped into the room.

Catherine was sat in her usual chair, hugging her knees but when she saw Greg she stood up. "Greg, I'm really sorry, I-"

Greg shook his head. "Save it."

Catherine looked horrified. "You're the only one I told, I'm sorry, so sorry, I..."

He smiled wryly. "I get it, it's okay. Was I really the only one?"

Catherine wiped her eyes. "It was an accident...I didn't know who I could tell. Everyone thinks I'm a slut already..."

Morgan frowned. "Not everyone."

Catherine half smiled gratefully but shook her head.

"What happened?" Sara asked softly.

"I don't know..." Catherine hung her head.

Nick jumped about a foot into the air. Everyone stared at him as he went bright red. "Sorry. Phone."

Catherine looked confused, but the others rolled their eyes. Warrick snorted, and explained. "When he gets distracted Nick's phone makes him jump. It happens at least twice a week."

Nick scowled playfully at Warrick as he answered his phone. "Yello?" he winced and held the phone away from his ear. "Ow, MJ, you trying to deafen me? No, I know it's not funny. I know." He rolled his eyes. "I know, I was there, I'm still there. Yeah...I think she's okay...Well I'm not exactly clairvoyant, Mary-Jane. Yes she's here." Nick rolled his eyes again and held out the phone to Catherine. "It's for you."

Catherine paused, unsure of whether she should take the call. Nick smile warmly.

"Hey, I don't know about a lot of your friends, but I do know that MJ won't bite. Not you, anyway."

Catherine took a deep breath and held the phone to her ear. "Hello?"

"Oh my god, Cath, that asshole! Are you okay?" Nick's older sister gushed.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine..."

"Is it true?"

"Yeah..."

"Oh, Catherine...How are you feeling?"

"Not to good at the moment." Catherine half laughed.

"I'm not surprised. You must feel so confused as well..."

"Oh, a little."

"Hey, y'know, I'm here for you, Cath. No matter what, you're my friend, 'kay? I got your back."

Catherine sniffed and wiped her eyes. "I know..."

"So have you decided anything yet? If you're gonna keep it, what you're gonna do?"

Catherine sighed. "Yeah. I will keep it."

"You sure about that?"

"Yeah, I think so."

"Okay, then I got your back."

"Thanks MJ." Catherine sighed as the bell rang.

"No problem. I gotta go, Cath, I'll see you at recess, okay?"

"Yeah. Bye." Catherine handed the phone to Nick. "Thank you."

"No problem." Nick nodded. The class slowly started filling and people stared at Catherine and Greg. Everyone took their seats and Grissom walked in last, and Greg noted that Rick Stetler was not in the classroom.

"Hey, where's Rick?" John Hagen, one of Stetler's friends called.

Grissom responded with three words. "Three week suspension."

"What for? He only told the truth!" Hagen fell silent under Grissom's icy glare.

"Let me make something quite clear. Behaviour towards other students demonstrated by Eddie Willows and Rick Stetler will not be tolerated by the school, but also it will not be tolerated by me. Am I clear?"

The whole class nodded meekly, and the thick silence stayed until the end of the session.

CSIVCSIVCSIV

"Slut!"

"Slag!"

"Whore!

Catherine ignored the hissed jibes and made her way to her normal table. MJ ran straight up, her auburn curls bouncing as she ran, reminding Catherine of her best friend in New York, Stella's hair. The senior gave Catherine a massive hug, swore at the crowd and escorted Catherine to the table. Jess instantly budged up to make a space beside her, but Catherine leant down.

"Can I talk to you for a minute please?"

Jess nodded, a sympathetic look on her face. She stood up.

MJ squeezed Catherine's shoulders quickly. "You want me to..."

Catherine sighed. "Would you and Don mind coming as well?" MJ shook her head, as did the arriving Don.

They made their way to the same hidden alcove that Tony DiNozzo discovered and Don leaned against the wall. He was first to speak.

"Why didn't you tell us, Catherine?" he looked shocked and hurt.

"I was going to, at McDonalds! But then, I got locked in a bathroom with no cell phone. I've only known for two days...and...I was scared. Confused..."

Don looked away, and Catherine hung her head. Jess looked at the pair of them and swallowed. "Cath, if you need anything...just ask. We're right here. I'm right here."

Catherine nodded. "What I wanted to say is...I wanted to tell you before, I... I really wanted to. But I couldn't."

"And why not?" Don's voice was tight and he was still not meeting her eyes.

"Because-"

"Because you don't trust us."

Catherine tried to stop the tears pooling in her eyes. "No, I do, but-"

"Well you obviously don't Catherine, or you wouldn't have told a freshman you hardly know before us!" he snapped.

"I didn't even mean to tell him, it just slipped out, he was upset, I was comforting him, told him about my day, it slipped out."

"Oh, it slipped out, did it?" he shouted.

"Why won't you just look at me?" she yelled. Don looked up at her, anger and betrayal in his red rimmed eyes.

He walked right up to her and she took a couple of steps backwards. "You were my best friend, Catherine. I would have told you everything. Everything. No, it's not even would. I did tell you everything. Every big or little secret I have had in the last year and a half, you were the first person I would tell." Don wiped angrily at his eyes. "And when you have a secret, you go to a frickin' freshman before me? It's obvious Cath, you don't trust me. And if you don't trust me, then I don't wanna know."

He turned and walked away.

"Don!" Catherine cried in shock and pain.

Jess started after him. "Don!" He just waved his hand without looking back and melted into the crowd. Catherine gasped and Jess grinded her teeth. "Asshole!"

Fresh tears pooled in Catherine's eyes. "Oh my god..." she breathed. "What the hell have I done?"

Jess put a hand on Catherine's shoulder. "Nothing. You haven't done anything wrong, Cathy. I'm gonna go talk to him. He's upset, but at the end of the day, he'll come around, Catherine. He loves you, Catherine, you're his best friend. Trust me, I know. He'll come round, I swear. I'll see you in a bit." She hugged Catherine tightly and ran off, shouting, "DON, YOU ASS!" as she went.

MJ sat down next to Catherine, her arm around her younger friend comfortingly. "It's going to be okay, Catherine."

"I'm pregnant, MJ. Didn't you get that memo?" she sobbed.

"Yeah, I did. But it's not the end of the world. It's a baby. In some ways it's a good thing... it's a baby, Catherine. A tiny little baby. In here." She placed her hand over Catherine's womb. "We're your friends Cath, and we're gonna get you through it."

"Don-"

"Don is just shocked. He'll come round, like Jess said."

Catherine shook her head and looked at MJ. "I don't know anything about babies, I-"

"That I can help you with." MJ smiled. "I may be six out of seven, but I have fourteen nieces and nephews."

Catherine wiped her eyes and MJ pulled out a tissue. "Fourteen."

She nodded. "Joanne has six, Robert has two, Katie's got three and Lily's pregnant."

"And the only ones without kids are you, Ethan and Nick?" Catherine sniffed.

MJ nodded with a smile. "The babies."

Catherine spoke softly. "How much older is Joanne?"

MJ smiled slightly, recognising her friend trying to change the subject. "She's thirty four. Robert's thirty – mom thought she couldn't have kids after Joanne but she was wrong. Katie's twenty eight, Lily's twenty three."

"Pretty...pretty big gaps then?" Catherine whispered. MJ nodded. "But your parents aren't that old to have been having kids for...eighteen years."

"They married at eighteen, straight out of high school. Mom loved her career, but she also loved kids. When she became a grandmother at thirty six she thought it was a good time to stop."

"My mom will be a grandmother at thirty two... she was a teen mom too." Catherine shook her head and the tears started leaking again. "Eddie's right, I'm a whore just like my mom."

"No."

Catherine just sniffed.

"Catherine, no."

"Uh...MJ..." someone hesitantly said.

Both girls looked up at Nick who was standing in the doorway looking slightly scared.

"What Nick?" MJ snapped, her arm protectively over Catherine's shoulders.

Nick recoiled slightly from his sister's usual snap, but his face hardened and he looked straight at Catherine.

"Calleigh Duquesne and a bunch of her friends cornered Greg on the way to the cafeteria and they don't believe that he didn't tell anyone! Willows told everyone before he left school that Greg told him and they're beating him up, bad. They won't stop!"

Catherine stood up quickly. "Oh my god."

"We tried to help but we're just getting pounded, MJ, please, we need help, you have to make them stop!" Nick cried, and MJ's mouth dropped open as she noticed the blood on Nick's shirt for the first time. "The teachers can't stop it, everyone's going crazy, Atwater's actually out of his office but they keep trying to hurt Greg, we can't make them stop, he didn't do anything!"

"I know, I know..." Catherine nodded. "Where is the fight?"

Nick started running towards the cafeteria. Catherine followed with MJ on her heels and what they saw was complete pandemonium.

The majority of the boys of the school stood in a ring layer chanting, "Fight, fight, fight!" In the middle of the ring was a circle of chaos. Warrick was his knees on the floor, covering his face with his hands against Calleigh Duquesne's flying kicks, but curved protectively over a limp figure on the floor. Morgan was screaming as loud as she could, in hand to hand combat with Kate Todd and Natalia Boa Vista. Ryan and Archie were back to back, trying to hold off Aiden Burn, Alexx Woods, and Sofia Curtis. Tali was wrestling with Ziva, trying to keep her angry older sister away from her friends. No one could see Greg. Catherine watched hopelessly as three more girls picked up Sara Sidle before throwing her roughly to the floor. On the outside of the boys was a massive crowd of almost every student, which the teachers struggled to get through.

Catherine headed straight for it, but MJ pulled her away. "This way!"

Nick looked at his sister, horror-struck, "MJ what the hell are you-"

"Nicholas, follow me, now."

Sensing the urgency in his sister's voice he reluctantly tore his eyes away from his friends and followed, only to freeze as Ryan screamed in pain. He turned and watched the small boy drop on top of the other prone figure, blood splattering all over the surrounding people. As he did, Warrick shifted slightly, revealing the lifeless boy beneath him and Nick could see Greg's deathly pale face, closed eyes and the blood trickling down the side of his face, pooling under his cheek.

"NO!" he cried, and MJ turned, grabbing his wrist.

"This way Nicky, trust me!"

"Greg's down there, he's unconscious, he, he..."

"I know, Nick, but trust me, we're not leaving." Mary-Jane tugged on her brother's arm and he allowed her to pull him away. MJ led the two through and empty corridor and up to an English classroom and heaved open a window. She clambered out and Catherine and Nick followed in confusion, only to realise that they were on the roof of the cafeteria.

MJ whistled loudly and everyone ignored her. Catherine watched in horror as Calleigh's foot smashed to Warrick's chest again and the African-American fell on top of Greg who didn't move.

"Stop!" she cried. MJ threw a megaphone into her hands. She glanced at the Texan girl who shrugged. She turned back to the crowd and watched as Warrick's arms flew above his head to protect himself. "STOP!"

Slowly people looked up in shock.

Calleigh looked up at Catherine and pointed at Greg. "This little asshole-"

"Didn't do anything! He never told anyone! Leave them alone, people! Back off." She yelled, and everyone stopped.

"But...he told..." Kate frowned.

Catherine put the megaphone down. "No, he didn't. It slipped out to Greg when we spoke in the hospital and the guy next to Greg was Eddie Willows' cousin! Back off."

"Oh my god..." Calleigh looked down at Greg. "We beat up the wrong guy, he's..."

The teachers started to make their way through the crowd as she made to walk towards Greg. Instantly Tali, Warrick, Ryan, Archie, Morgan and Sara.

"NICK!" Grissom yelled. "DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT-"

Nick lowered himself off the roof, hanging by his fingers before dropping about a meter and a half down to the floor.

He raced over to Greg's side with the others. Morgan was crying quietly, shaking Greg's shoulders.

Peyton, the school nurse was the first to break through the crowd. She pushed the others gently out the way and hovered over Greg for a moment, as chemistry teacher Mac Taylor broke through the crowd and she stared at him. "What on earth is wrong with these students, Mac? They're fighting every day!"

He shrugged. "I don't know. Is he gonna be okay? The kid seems to be a magnet for trouble..."

She looked straight into the chemistry teacher's eyes as she finished her check over and he could read the panic in her eyes. "Call an ambulance. Now."

Okay, before anyone says anything I know it is very Greg centred at the moment, that there are nowhere near this many fights in a normal high school and that Greg keeps ending up in hospital.

THERE IS A GREATER REASON IN THE PLOT FOR THIS - unusually for me ;-) –so anyone who doesn't like Greg (:-0) bear with me please!

Please review!