Sorry for not updating for a while, my laptop is broken so I don't get as much time to type and update. Thank you once again to Shadowchaser56 and Goonie Girl for your reviews, Thephoenix1996 but I wanna hear from the rest of you guys too! Come on guys, if you're reading, please review? If you're going to follow, please review! It will make me update way quicker! Anyway, for now, here's chapter six.

CSI is not mine. Sigh.

"Archie! Archie wait" Lexi called after him.

"What do you want?" he asked her.

"I want to talk to you." she told him.

"Then talk." Archie said coldly.

"Right here?" she asked, looking at the hallway around them.

"Right here." Archie confirmed.

"Can't we go into the apartment?"

"Fine." he gave in. As soon as they were inside the apartment, Lexi began to talk.

"Listen Archie, what happened last night, and we're not even sure that did happen, but if it did..."

"Can we get to the point?" he asked, his dark eyes unyielding. Lexi decided to go for the long shot. She crossed her arms over, squeezing her breasts together, and began to beg.

"I'm so, so sorry..." she whispered.

"You've said that already."

"How many times do I have to say it?"

"I don't think you can say it enough times."

"Maybe I should show you how sorry I am instead?" she suggested huskily, coming closer to him.

"How do you propose to do that?" he asked her, still not showing any emotion.

"Just tell me what you want me to do." Lexi whispered, pressing her body against his.

"See! Here we go again! You can't make al your problems go away by doing... that!" Archie yelled, pushing her off him.

"I don't understand what I was doing?" she attempted to act innocent.

"Don't play dumb with me Lexi. You were trying to turn me on. Like that would just make me forget everything!"

"I was just trying to make it up to you."

"Listen to me Lexi. Get this into your pretty little head: sex does not solve everything."

"I wasn't trying to solve it! I was doing it for you!"

"Some guys want more than just sex Lexi. They want a trust, and honesty and..."

"You can trust me! And I trust you..."

"I can't trust you Lexi. You proved that when you slept with my best friend."

"Maybe! When I maybe slept with your best friend."

"Oh, cos that makes it better."

"We can get through this Archie."

"You see? That's what's so sad. You think we can get through this. You think we can forget it, and I'm going to just forgive you if you have sex with me too. That proves it. You're nothing but a stupid, blonde, slut."

"Don't call me that!"

"You are a slut Lexi! s-l-u-t, SLUT."

"Archie!"

"You know what? Get out."

"What?"

"Get out of my apartment."

"This is our apartment Archie, you can't just tell me to..."

"I don't want a slut in my apartment." e told her. And then something snapped in Lexi. Something snapped, and she realised that she didn't have to take this.

"And you know what? I don't wanna stay here anymore." she told him.

"Good then get out." he yelled.

"I will." she yelled back.

"Nice having you." he said sarcastically.

Lexi turned around and gave him the finger before storming out of the apartment. She collapsed against the wall as soon as she'd slammed the door behind her, in fits of tears.

A few minutes later, when the pain had dimmed enough for her to stand, she stumbled down the stairs to Greg and Kelly's apartment, and knocked on the door. Kelly opened it. She wore sweatpants and Greg's baggy Stanford sweater, and she'd swept her blonde hair into a messy bun. Lexi could see the tear stains on her face, and she felt a pang of guilt for what she had done. Behind her, Greg sat at the island, both of his hands wrapped around a mug of coffee. He looked up and gave her a slight smile as she came in.

"Archie kicked me out." Lexi told them, before Kelly or Greg could ask her why she was there. "Can I stay with you?"

"Oh Lexi..." Kelly sighed. "Of course you can."

"Thank you." Lexi whispered, stumbling into the apartment and falling into her best friends arms. Once there, she started to cry again.

"Ssshhh." Kelly soothed. "It's going to be alright."

From the island, Greg shuffled uncomfortably, unsure of what he should do, and guilty over Archie's reaction. In the end, he settled for bringing his coffee out to the porch to give the girls a chance to talk, mumbling something incoherent about 'needing some air.'

Once he left, Kelly drew back from the hug.

"Kelly, thank you so, so much for..." Lexi begun.

"Oh save it." Kelly told her, her expression suddenly changing from one of comfort to one of anger.

"What?" Lexi asked.

"He's gone now, show's over."

"I don't understand?"

"I may forgive Greg, but I will not forgive you."

"But you said..."

"I was acting."

"Why?"

"Greg may think you're oh-so innocent, but I know the truth."

"What truth?"

"You want him. You have done since the day you met him. Back on the island, all you did was flirt with him. But he chose me instead. And you've never stopped trying to steal him away from me. You can't have him Lexi."

"I'm not trying to..."

"I know you Lexi. I know everything about you. And I know that you want him."

"I don't want Greg, I want Archie! I just want everything back to the way it was."

"I don't believe you. And if you try anything I swear..."

"Listen to me. Yeah, sure there was a time when I liked Greg. Like he's totally hot, and funny and...okay, so not helping. Anyway, there was a time when I would have given anything just to...but that time is over now. It's gone, in the past."

"Why should I trust you?"

"Because I'm you oldest and best friend."

"Just stay away from Greg." Kelly told Lexi.

"You know what Kelly?" Lexi asked her.

"What?" Kelly yelled.

"Maybe I won't stay away. Maybe I will take him."

"You wouldn't dare..."

"Wouldn't I?" Lexi asked.

"Greg wouldn't do that." Kelly told her, although her voice quavered a little.

"He sorta already did." Lexi reminded her.

"He was drunk. You both were." Kelly reminded her.

"Was I? Was I really?" Lexi asked mischievously.

"Lexi..." Kelly began.

"All I'm saying is, Greg? Woah." Lexi winked at her.

"I am going to..." Kelly started, but Greg coming into the kitchen interrupted them. Immediately, their faces changed to happy.

"Hey girls." Greg smiled.

"Hey." Kelly smiled back at him.

"Heya Greggie." Lexi said, giving him a little wave. He waved back, before settling on the couch to watch television.

Kelly shot Lexi a look of pure loathing, but Lexi just winked back at her. Then, she leant in real close to Kelly and whispered "It's on." And then they raced each other for the seat on the sofa next to Greg.

And two floors up, in an almost identical apartment, Archie was sitting on his couch watching television. Alone.

He took out his phone, and stared at it blankly for a few moments, trying to decide who to call. He knew that he needed to speak to someone. And in a normal situation he would talk to Lexi. But he couldn't call Lexi.

If he had a problem with Lexi, he called Greg. But there was no way he wanted to talk to Greg.

He couldn't talk to Nick, he was Greg's best friend, and somehow, Archie figured he would probably on Greg's side. He could hardly call Abby, he hardly ever spoke to her, and she was best friends with Lexi.

If Greg wasn't available to talk to him about girl trouble, he would normally call Mandy, because she was a girl and she normally knew what to say. But she was in a coma.

Archie he couldn't call Henry or Wendy, because even though they were two of his closest friends they were still in the hospital, with Mandy and probably were too worried about her to care about Archie's troubles.

Calling Kelly wasn't right either, she was forgiving them and would probably just tell him to do the same. And after all he'd done for her too. It was almost her fault. She was the one who liked Greg so badly that he ended up trying to set them up, but then Greg was sneaking around with Lexi – history repeats itself – so he had to try and attract Lexi so Greg would be available and ready to date Kelly. And then he'd ended up marrying Lexi. And getting hurt. So it was totally Kelly's fault. He couldn't call her.

So that only left him with Hodges.

Sighing, he punched in the numbers. The phone rang three times before Hodges eventually picked up.

"Dave."

"Seriously, that's not gonna catch on. Guess who?"

"Archie."

"Correct."

"What do you want?"

"I don't know. I just called for a chat."

"Can't you chat to your girlfriend? Or Greg?"

"That's kinda what I was calling to chat about."

"Your girlfriend and Greg?"

"My wife and Greg."

"Your wife and Greg what?"

"My wife and Greg…. You know….."

"Your wife and Greg you know what?"

"My wife and Greg you…"

"I'm actually getting kind of tired of this game."

"It's not a game its…"

"How's Mandy?"

"Mandy?"

"Yes, last I heard you and Kelly were going in to see her. And Wendy's not replying to my texts."

"Oh… Mandy… well she's pretty much the same, Nick and Abby went in to see her for the next few hours."

"How is Wendy?"

"She's alright. Naturally she's very upset, but she's coping alright. And her and Abby were quite close so I'd say it will be good for her to have her come in."

"And Henry?"

"Not so good. He's very shaken."

"Makes sense."

"Yeah."

"Are they planning on coming home?"

"I don't think so."

"Really? Did they say anything?"

"No, and we thought it was best not to mention it. But they didn't even want to leave her for a minute, we had to drag them to the canteen to get food after six hours."

"I should bring Wendy a change of clothes then?"

"That might be a good idea."

"Okay then. Who's coming in next?"

"Who knows, Lexi and Greg are having a bit of a dilemma of their own."

"What sort of a dilemma?"

"It's actually too hard to explain over the phone."

"Oh. So they won't mind if I go in to see her next."

"I doubt it."

"If Greg, Lexi and Kelly are involved in a dilemma and Nick and Abby have just been I suppose its just me going in then."

"Hodges?"

"Yeah?"

"Would you mind if I came too?"

"Sure, why not. That would be good actually."

"I have a key to Henry and Mandy's place, how about I go over there and get some stuff for him and then I meet you outside the hospital at twelve?"

"That sounds good. You can tell me about the dilemma then."

"Oh, I will."

"Great, see you then."

"Bye Hodges."

Archie smiled to himself, suddenly feeling a lot better. He had found a friend. A very unlikely one, but still, a friend. And a friend in need is a friend indeed. That sounded like something Greg would say.

Greg.

His best friend.

The guy he had became friends with on his first day at the lab.

The guy he had driven out to the nearest beach with to surf too many times to count.

The guy who had celebrated with Archie when he passed his final proficiency test, even though Catherine, Nick, Warrick and Sara had asked him first.

The guy who had nominated and trained him to become a CSI himself.

The guy who he had once watched movies with for 43 hours.

The guy who bought him a playstation four for Christmas, even though he had to order it from Japan.

The guy who he'd called his best friend for more than a decade.

The guy who'd slept with his wife.

The guy who was no longer a friend of his.

Good.

Sighing, Archie turned the T.V. back on.

Downstairs, Greg sat squashed between Lexi and Kelly. The two of them kept talking to him, but not to each other. They kept offering him stuff or complimenting him on everything he did, and Greg felt a funny sense of déjà vu. And he did not like it.

So far, it had not been a good day. And it was only ten o clock in the morning of Friday the thirteenth. There were still fourteen more hours, and one more bad thing to come. It was not looking good for the lab rats.#

ONCE AGAIN….so so so so so so so sorry for not updating sooner! I promise updating will be much more regular from now on! And I swear next chapter we will go back to Mandy and have less of the Greg/Kelly/Lexi/Archie thing. (Even though that's definitely my favourite part to write about, tee hee) It will probably have a little bit though, because I have to have Archie explain to Hodges what happens before they go in to see Mandy. Then the next chapter will be about Henry and Wendy because I'm sure you're almost forgetting who they are by now, sorry! I also have a Nick/Abby chapter, which I can put before or after the other two, it doesn't really matter which way it goes, but let me know which one you want to see next? PM me or say it in your review! So that's Nick/Abby or Archie and Hodges go to visit Mandy, followed by Henry and Wendy. Review!