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Chapter 4: Meeting the New Guys

When Nick and Warrick came back they spent the rest of the day relaxing and pulled out a few board games to play, like Chess, Checkers, Scrabble and Yahtzee.

At one point of the evening Greg was playing chess against Grissom to see if he could bet him but he didn't, so Greg asked for a rematch before they leave and Grissom accepted the challenge.

When it got late they called it a night and they all slept comfortably because the mattresses were so soft they all slept like a baby, including Catherine and Nick on the pull out bed.

The next morning when everybody was up, BreAnna offered to cook breakfast and nobody disagreed with that, and after they ate and the dishes were put away, Grissom and Sara grabbed their books that they were reading, while the rest of them gathered around the TV.

A few hours later Greg and company was starting to get restless, so Greg looks outside and saw that it was nice out, he looks at everybody and asked. "How about we go swimming, it looks to nice to be stuck in here all day."

They all nodded and Grissom replied. "I'll go out there but I won't go swimming." They all looked at him but didn't say anything.

The get up from their seats to go change and Grissom went to his room to change into something lighter and to grab his sunglasses.

Once everybody came out of their rooms changed, the guys had on t-shirts and swim shorts and the women had their bathing suits on under their clothes.

They went outside after making sure they all had their towels, Grissom then grabbed a lawn chair from the stack that was on the deck and they all walked down to the dock talking and laughing. Everybody was feeling great and at ease about being out of Vegas for few days.

When they got down there Grissom set up his lawn chair as far away from them as he could so he wouldn't get splashed, and as he was getting situated the guys took off their shirts and the girls took off their clothes reveling their colorful bikinis.

Amanda had on a pink and white one, BreAnna had on a lime green one, Catherine had a red one and Sara was wearing a blue and white one.

Sara looks at the guys and they were staring at her like they never started at her before, so she raised an eyebrow and said a little self-conscious. "What? Do I got something on my face?"

Greg shook his head and replied. "No it's just that we have never seen you in a bikini before."

She puts her arms over her chest and said. "You got a problem with it?" He shook his head and looks at his girlfriend.

Sara looks at the other guys and Warrick is shaking his head while looking away and Nick was still staring.

Catherine looks at him and slaps him on the shoulder.

At the contact Nick gets out his daze, shook his head, cleared his throat and said. "No there is no problem."

Sara nods, satisfied, then said. "Good, now that you guys have stopped staring at me how about we start swimming?" They all nodded and was getting ready to jump in.

Sara saw that Greg was already at the edge of the dock first, so she gets an evil grin, walks up to him and pushes him in the water.

He landed with a big splash and everybody started laughing. When he lefts his head up for air, he looks at Sara and shouts. "That was so no fair I wasn't even ready."

The guys shook their heads and Nick replied. "Oh grow up Greg." And right when he stopped speaking Catherine surprises him when she pushes him in.

When he lefts his head up he looks at Catherine's smirk, he just shakes his head and looks at Greg, which he has a smirk on his face too. Nick raises an eyebrow and they start splashing each other.

Up on the deck Warrick is laughing at the guys, then looked around him and saw that the girls were looking at him with that 'your next' look so he shakes his head and jumped in before they could attack. The girls laughed and jumped in after.

Sitting in his lawn chair, Grissom was shaking his head and smiling, it was nice to see his team like this and he had to admit that Sara was looking very good. But then he shook his head and thought. 'Forget it, you might have already lost your shot, besides she is still too young for you and might not be interested in me anymore.' he shook his head one more time, sighed then went back to his book.

A few hours later their fun in the water was coming to a close and they laid out on the deck getting a little sun, something they didn't really get to do very often since they worked the night shift.

After ten minutes they decided to go back to the house.

As they were walking up the dock music had started a few houses down and when they looked in that direction they see about 12 guys and girls outside, the ages ranging from early to late twenties.

The gang sees some of them getting ready to play volleyball, thers were tossing a football and the rest was sitting down in chairs on the yard, but the one thing they had in common was that they were all having a good time.

Greg looks at the gang and said. "That looks fun want to see if we can play?"

The majority of them all thought why not so they nodded their heads and headed toward the 'party' house.

As they got closer a man with short brown hair that was on the left side of the volleyball net pointed to the gang walking their way.

A man with dark blond hair, who seemed to be the leader, turned around.

He smiled and it got bigger looking at the women.

When the gang got there Nick asked. "Hi, we heard the music and saw what was going on here do you mind if we join in?"

The man shook his head. "It's fine. By the way I am Tony Dinozzo."

Tony Dinozzo was 27, clean-shaven, 6'1, short dark blond hair, hazel eyes, a athletic body and a smile that was very charming.

He holds out his hand to Amanda first and smiles. She feels Greg's arm go around her shoulders, and she looks at her boyfriend then looks at Tony and he still had that smile on his face, she could tell they were both sizing each other up. She mentally sighed, then to be polite she smiled back, shook his hand and said. "Hi I am Amanda." He nods and promised himself that he will always remember that name. Then they release hands.

As Tony was getting acquainted with everybody else Sara noticed the guy that was standing next to Tony looking at her, but it wasn't the flirty look that said 'I want to get to know you' it was more like he already knew her but couldn't remember how. So before Tony introduced the other guys around him Sara speaks up. "Do I know you?" Her team looks at her wondering what's going on.

The man standing next to Tony replied. "That's what I am trying to figure out." After a second hesitation he speaks again. "Where do you work?"

Sara answers. "I work as a CSI in Las Vegas."

After another second hesitation the guy nods and smiles like he just figured it out, Sara looks at him still confused and before she could speak, he replies. "You are friends with Calleigh Dusequne." Sara nods slowly and he continues as he was holding his hand out. "I am Ryan Wolfe." Ryan was also 27, clean-shaven, 6'0, short brown hair, hazel eyes and an athletic body.

As Sara was taking his hand she speaks. "I'm sorry I still do..."

Ryan cuts her off. "We met once, four years ago. You were just meeting Calleigh's team at the lab and I had walked in.."

Sara cuts him off this time with a shake of the head and a smile. "Yes that's right you were a rookie cop back then." Ryan nodded with a smile, then Sara continued. "I'm sorry I didn't recognize you."

"It's all right. You only met me once for a few minutes and I wasn't technically a part of the team but that is about to change." He smiles bigger and continues. "I am about to become a CSI once I get back to Miami."

Sara smiled for him and said. "Congratulations. Calleigh didn't tell me you would be up here."

He shakes it off and said. "She didn't know, this was kind of a last minute decision. I had a little free time and Tony called out of the blue and invited me here, and since I haven't seen him since High school and we were such good friends we decided to rent this place out for a couple of weeks with a few friends of ours." He looks at Calleigh's house and asked. "Is the house as great as I heard?"

Sara smiles and was about to talk but Greg interrupted. "It's probably better than you heard."

Ryan looks at Greg then nods, he looks at Catherine now, who was standing next to Nick, and said. "Maybe I should check it out some time." After he said that Nick puts his arm around Catherine's waist and Ryan looks away while clearing his throat.

Before Tony could finish the introductions the guy standing next to Ryan speaks to ease the tension that was slowly brewing. "Hi I am Peter Hart." He was also a very good-looking guy at the age of 26, smooth face, 5'9, short brown hair and brown eyes. He smiled at everybody, but Grissom could sense where his smile was truly aiming at, which made him tense and bite the inside of his cheek. Before the feeling grew Peter continued, interrupting Grissom's thoughts. "I just started working with Ryan about 6 months ago."

Ryan cuts him off jokingly also feeling the tension again. "And I taught him everything he knows."

Peter just shakes his head with a smile and said jokingly. "Yeah you keep telling yourself that." They all laughed while Ryan gives him a mock glare then just shakes his head with a smile as Peter continued. "Anyway It's really nice to met you all." He said that directing to the group, but most of the people standing there somehow knew that it was more directed to Sara.

After the group said it was nice to met Peter they looked at the last main guy that wasn't introduced yet. He holds out his hand, and just as he was about to talk Tony puts his arm around his shoulder in a friendly gesture and said. "And this is McGoober."

The guy pushed Tony away while Tony is chuckling a little, since they became co-workers in Washington DC as NCIS agents Tony has always picked on him.

The guy looked back at the group and said. "Don't listen to him I am Tim McGee but most people call me McGee." McGee was also clean-shaven, 6'1, 26 years old, light brown hair and brown eyes, his body wasn't as muscular as the other three but it still looked pretty good.

They all said hi.

When the remaining introductions were said they were ready to play.

As they were getting the teams together Grissom spoke up. "I am going to set this one out."

The younger men looked at him and nodded then Catherine spoke. "yeah I am too."

They nodded again, and Grissom and Catherine walked away to find an area where they wouldn't be in the way.

As the game started Grissom and Catherine sat down. He was in his lawn chair and Catherine was on her towel.

After a few minutes Catherine looks at Grissom and his eyes were on the game, and she smiled to herself, knowing exactly who he was looking at.

Grissom felt Catherine staring at him so he turns his head, looks at her, raises an eyebrow and asked. "What?"

She smiles bigger and replied. "Why don't you ask her out already."

"What are you talking about?"

Catherine chuckles and said. "Oh come on Gil, how long have we known each other?"

"How do you want me to answer that? In years, weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds?" He smirks.

She sighs again and said. "I can tell by that look in your eyes you want to be with her and frankly I could tell for a very long time, and since I know you can't blame it on your ears, what other excuses are you going to come up with?" She smirks this time.

He looks back at the game and spoke. "There are plenty of reasons why it won't work." He watches Sara's team score, then Peter gave her a high-five and they were smiling at each other, Grissom sighed.

Catherine witnessed that too and shook her head, then replied. "Why? Because of what you just saw." She looks at back at him and continued. "Come on Gil I know that she feels the same as you do and one smile from the young man is not going to change that."

She looks back at the game as Grissom speaks again. "She should be with a young man like that, not with some old man who can't keep up with her." He picks up his book that was on the ground, indicating he was done with the subject.

Catherine looks at him, she opened her mouth to speak but she knew it was no use, nobody could make Gilbert Grissom do anything if he didn't want to, so she just mentally sighed and went back to watching the game.

A few seconds later Grissom could hear Catherine mumbling, he looks up and saw that a young woman on Nick's team was hugging him and they too were smiling. Grissom looks at Catherine and said. "You don't have to worry about Nick. He loves you."

Still looking at Nick she said. "Yeah I know." She looks at Grissom again and said. "but sometimes I wonder how much longer we will be together. I guess that's what makes us in the same boat because a part of me thinks that maybe he should be with somebody younger too."

Grissom shakes his head and said. "Catherine don't let my hang up's make you rethink your relationship with him. You guys care about each other and are very committed and I am sorry I haven't said this before but you two are good together. I don't think I have seen Nick as happy as he is when he is with you and I know you've never been happier." Catherine nodded with a smile as Grissom continued. "So just remember that and don't worry about outside interference. I am sure you two will be fine, ok?" Catherine nods again, he nods back with a smile then goes back to his book.

Catherine speaks again after a few seconds of silence. "Well I am not going to sit around watching those young things crawling over my man so see ya." Grissom just nods with his nose in the book.

Catherine gets up, walks to the volleyball game, then asked if she could play. They accepted and put her on Nick's team, which she was very grateful for that. Then after they scored the first time since she was there, Catherine kissed Nick in front of the girls and the girls stepped back and didn't touch him for the rest of the game.

During the day and at one point before another game started Catherine could see Sara and Grissom stealing glances at each other when they knew the other one wasn't looking, and all she could do was mentally sigh and shake her head, hoping they could get their act together and finally tell one another how they really feel, because like what Grissom said about her and Nick being good together, she knew they could be that too.

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