A/N: Hey guys hope you're all ok and ready for the next story :) This is one of my own ideas but I'm still working on prompts too! It's a tag from the Season 11 episode 'Bump and Grind' and something that for a while I thought I could make a funny/cute story out of so I hope you enjoy :)

Summary – At first Greg thought Nick was only jealous about Hodges calling him G, but is there a deeper reason the older CSI seems upset?

Not Just a Nickname

After Greg had gotten off the phone after yelling for five minutes at the bastards who'd scammed him, he decided he needed some coffee to calm himself down. He went to the break room to find Nick and the Texan asked what all the yelling was about. Nick knew Greg only got mad on rare occasions and for a very good reason. Greg explained whilst he made a coffee and then sat down next to Nick at the table.

"You ok?" he asked when he noticed the older CSI was being quiet.

"Huh" Nick said shaking his head "yeah, yeah I'm fine."

"Are you sure?" Greg asked raising an eyebrow questionably. Nick nodded.

"Hey G" Hodges said cheerily as he appeared at the doorway. Greg saw Nick roll his eyes but didn't question why "Listen, I'm sorry to hear about what happened, can we re-schedule later?"

"Yeah H sure thing" Greg said with a smile, which Hodges returned before leaving the room. He turned back to Nick but then frowned as he saw he older friend looking rather annoyed. "Dude seriously, what is up with you!" Greg asked getting frustrated himself.

"Why has he started to call you that?" Nick mumbled.

"Who call me what?" Greg asked in exasperation.

"Hodges. Why has he started calling you G?" the Texan mumbled looking at the floor.

"I don't know" Greg said rolling his eyes "because I call him H, because it's my nickname…" but then a thought occurred to him "Oh" he said with a smile creeping across his face.

"What?" Nick said giving his younger friend an incredulous look "What!?" he exclaimed when Greg wouldn't stop smiling and raised his eyebrow.

"You're jealous" Greg said playfully hitting Nick's arm.

The Texan scoffed "I don't think so"

"You so are!" Greg laughed.

"Err, you wish!" Nick said determined to remain indifferent.

"Oh come on, you gave me that nickname!" Greg laughed "Everyone knows you're the only one who ever calls me it."

"Except now it's Hodges too" Nick blurted out before he could stop himself.

"See I knew it!" Greg said clapping his hands together. Nick folded his arms and frowned. "Aww Nick, that's so sweet" the younger CSI said pinching the Texan's cheek jokily but Nick batted his hand away. "Ok so you're sulking now" Greg said with a light laugh.

"No" Nick lied.

"Ok, ok, I'm sorry" Greg said with a gentle smile "how can I make it up to you? Do you want me to start calling you N?" he asked teasingly.

"What?" Nick said with a confused tone.

"Yeah you're right it doesn't have the same ring to it. I don't see what the deal, it's just name. In fact it's not even that it's a letter. Anyway, I've never called you Nicky" Greg pointed out.

"Well, Griss and Cath only called me that when I was in trouble. Besides, that was always Warrick's name for me" Nick said a little sadly at the thought of his friend. Greg felt a little guilty then and put a hand on his friends shoulder as a sign of comfort, Nick gave him an appreciative smile.

"I do call you by your nickname anyway" Greg said as he lowered his hand. "Nick is your nickname, it's short for Nicholas."

Nick rolled his eyes "that doesn't count, nobody calls me Nicholas" he said with a light laugh. "Then I can argue Greg is your nickname because it's short for Gregory." He said with a smile, he knew Greg hated it when someone called him Gregory, he always said it made him feel like he was 80 years old.

"And I accept that" Greg said just because he knew it would annoy Nick further.

"Look, it's not about the name, alright" Nick said a little sadly and Greg gave him a worried frown. He didn't like to see Nick upset.

"Then what is it about?" Greg asked in a serious tone, determined to get to the core of the problem.

"Ok… not to sound like I'm twelve…. But you're my best friend." Nick said, he paused a second to wait for Greg to make some remark, making fun of him, but he was surprised when the younger man just looked at him quietly waiting for him to continue. "I mean don't get me wrong, I have no problem with you being close friends with Hodges, he's a good friend of mine too… but I gave you that nickname as a sign of how close we were."

"Were? Do you not want to be friends with me anymore?" Greg said looking upset too "I'm sorry; I didn't know I'd done anything wrong."

"No, No Greg you haven't done anything wrong. Of course I still want to be friends with you" Nick said reassuringly and the younger CSI notably relaxed a little. "It's probably just me being paranoid, but… I don't know first Warrick…and then Riley came, Grissom left, Ray came, Riley left and Sara came back. It just feels like so much has been changing over the past few years and we've had to deal with so much, we just don't hang out as much as we use to. It feels like we're drifting apart and I don't want that. I guess when Hodges called you G, it made me realise that's how close we use to be. I haven't called you that in a long time."

Greg didn't know what to say, he definitely hadn't been expecting that. It was so unlike Nick to be so open about something like that, but the really sad part was Greg knew it was all true. He agreed. They had been through a lot in the past few years and cases had only seemed to be getting harder, people kept changing, it was hard to keep up with everything.

"Well then we can't let happen, I won't let that happen. I mean we've just spent the past five minutes ragging each other like we always do" Greg pointed out. "People may have been changing but we're still the same. Yes, me and Hodges have been more pally than usual but he's really upset about Wendy and I want to be there for him." Greg explained. Nick nodded, he understood that. "But you know what, I can have tonnes of friends, but you're the only older brother I have." He said sincerely.

Nick smiled. "Thanks, that means a lot. You'll always be my little brother too."

"So, what are we doing this weekend for our guy time?" Greg asked with an excited grin "We could go see the baseball game, or there's that new bar just opened a couple of blocks away."

Nick's smile grew wider, he was pleased Greg was willing to make the effort and so was he; he couldn't wait to start properly hanging out with his little brother again. "How about both?" he suggested.

"You're on" Greg smiled "and I'll tell Hodges to stop calling me G" he said reassuringly "that is your thing."

"You don't have too" Nick said genuinely, he felt more than a little childish about the whole incident.

"No it's ok I want too" Greg said with a roll of his eyes "No offence to Hodges but when he calls me that, it makes me cringe" he said with a slight shudder and both the CSI's laughed.

"Thanks for the reassurance G" Nick said with a soft smile which Greg returned.

"Thanks for calling me G"

Sorry but I struggled to remember specific details from the episode so sorry it's a bit loose in that sense :P but Bromance is still good right? ;)

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