A/N: Hey guys! We haven't had a happy story in a while so I thought I'd have a go at humour. Thank you so much for the great feedback on the last story too! Tag's from a few episodes back in the past, mainly 01x15, but nothing major I hope. Anyways I hope this at least makes you smile, not sure how I came up with this XD

Summary – Greg gets nostalgic and fears he's become boring. After sharing a few stories with Morgan and Finn, he decides to re-enact a special performance from many years ago. (fluffy fluff)

Boring

Greg was having a bad day. As he watched Henry and Hodges joke around and laugh together in the DNA lab he started to have a great sense of nostalgia for his old lab. It wasn't like a lab to him back then; it was a home, his own little piece of land as he liked to think. He played his own music as loud as he wanted, worked whatever evidence in what order he wanted and made many a CSI smile when he handed over results. Back then he had grown board of the lab, felt like he was stuck, but now he looked back on it, he kind of missed the old girl. Sure the explosion had been pretty crappy, but he'd had plenty of good times too.

It was also the place he'd been caught doing many… unprofessional acts. Apparently practising his air guitar and drums and dancing around in a headdress, was not what Ecklie classed as productivity. But he used to be… fun, and now that Greg Sanders had been a CSI for almost 8 years, he feared he had become a boring workaholic, who didn't know how to make people laugh anymore. He felt like he hadn't done anything crazy in years and he wondered what had happened to his hyperactivity. Sure, he'd had to grow up a lot for this job, but he couldn't stand the thought of being…boring.

"Immature is what boring people call fun people" he used to say whenever he was given disproval. It used to be like a motto of his. But now even he could thing to the odd occasion he'd snapped at Henry for being irresponsible and it made him feel like the biggest hypocrite in the world. He used to not give a damn what people thought to his antics, but now he felt forced to tone down and well… like he wasn't himself anymore. He accepted he had to grow up for the job, of course he did, but that didn't mean he had to stop being fun altogether right?

Eventually, Greg grew depressed watching the two lab techs in his old lab and went into the break room. Morgan and Finn were sat chatting and having coffee on their lunch break. Greg joined them at the table, sulkily plonking down onto a chair and placing his elbow on the table, propping his cheek in his fist.

"Aww, what's up mister grumpy face?" Morgan asked teasingly.

"Did they cut short your playtime?" Finn asked just as teasingly and women laughed.

Greg rolled his eyes "Jee guys, you really know how to make a friend feel better" he said sarcastically and placed a hand on his heart "Really, I'm touched"

"OK" Morgan said raising an eyebrow "Come on then out with it, what's really up?"

"It's just…well… answer me something truthfully ok?" Greg implored. He figured since Finn and Morgan had known him the least amount of time, they'd be able to give a more objective opinion.

"Sure, anything" Finn said with an encouraging smile.

"Do you… do you guys think I'm boring?" he asked with a sheepish look.

Morgan nearly laughed at the thought "Of course you're not boring!" she said reaching over and taking Greg's hand. The man smiled and a pink tint came to his cheeks which didn't go unnoticed by Finn.

"She's right" the older CSI said "Why would you even think that?"

"Yeah, you make us laugh all the time" Morgan sated.

"Thanks you guys" Greg said "but it's just… well if you'd known me ten years ago when I was a lab tech. You'd have thought I was a completely different person."

"Greg, are you having a midlife crisis?" Finn asked seriously.

"No!" Greg exclaimed feeling horrified at the thought "My God, how dare you!" he said in mock offence, it was obvious he was joking around. "Come on I'm still thirty…something" he mumbled. Morgan laughed; she thought he was being cute. "Besides I already made Nick promise he'd kill me before I turned forty, I ain't going through that"

"What?" Morgan continued to laugh, she was almost crying.

Finn was too "It's not that bad!"

"Whatever" Greg said with a roll of his eyes "the point is if you ask Nick and Sara what I was like in my twenties, it would be a whole different story"

"Well you just nearly made Morgan's sides split from laughter" Finn said with a smile as the youngest CSI was still snickering "So no, definitely not boring"

"So, if we were to ask Nick and Sara about the stuff you used to do, what kind of thing would they tell us?" Morgan enquired after she'd controlled her laughter.

"Well… there was this one time were Catherine and my old supervisor walked in on my practicing some air drums, what made it worse was that I had a rubber glove on my head and some fangs painted on a mask over my face." Greg explained. Both women burst out laughing at the thought. Greg smiled. "I think they seriously worried for my mental health"

"They had every right to by the sounds of it" Finn said through her laughter.

"What else, what else?" Morgan begged for more stories.

"Well… Catherine once had this case with a dead burlesque dancer, so she brought in this headdress for me to get some hair for DNA comparison. Anyways I got the DNA and I got a little bored of waitng for her to pick up the results so I… tried on the headdress, turned on some music and started dancing around in it"

"Are you serious?" Morgan asked in awe.

"Completely! And what made it worse? Not only did Catherine catch me but Grissom was stood right behind me!"

"Oh, awkward" Finn said as she and Morgan once again burst out laughing. This time Greg started laughing too at the thought of how insane he used to be.

"Boy, would I have loved to have seen that!" Morgan giggled.

All of a sudden Greg's face grew thoughtful. He wasn't going to give up being crazy, not yet. "You know what, growing up totally sucks!" he said prodding a finger on the table. "Morgan you wanna see that dance? It went a little something like this…" and with that, Greg climbed up onto the table top much to the surprise of the female CSI's.

"Woo, Go Greg!" Morgan encouraged clapping her hands together.

"Alright, alright, but bear in mind I had the headdress and music last time so it was way more sexy" Greg pointed out.

"Give it what ya got!" Finn encouraged.

And Greg started his supposed 'dance', he remembered it well and he hadn't felt so young and care free in years. Morgan and Finn laughed and clapped their hands, giving the odd whistle of encouragement.

They were having fun until "Sanders!" was barked from the doorway; all three CSI's looked round to find Conrad Ecklie. "Morgan!" he added looking rather shocked at his daughter. "What the hell are you doing?!"

"Shaking my money maker?" Greg answered from over his shoulder. Ecklie looked speechless.

"This is a crime lab Sanders! We are a respectable and professional work force…" he stuttered "If you're into that kind of thing now there's a male strip club just round the corner."

Morgan's jaw dropped "Dad! Did you just make a joke?"

"Is the world ending?" Finn asked.

"Whatever" Ecklie said. They could see that even he was trying really hard to supress a smile, or perhaps even a laugh "Just, get down from there!" he urged and then left.

"Seems I bring out the funny in people" Greg said with a wink, before he hopped down off the table and gave a bow to his clapping audience "Thank you, Thank you"

"Woo, you rocked!" Morgan said still laughing.

"That was the most hilarious thing I've seen in years" Finn said laughing too.

"You're too kind" Greg said waving his hands in dismissal.

"Never completely grow up Greg" Morgan said sincerely "At least, don't be so serious all the time. And never doubt for a second you're boring. Just remember we all have two sides. Work us and social us"

"Yeah" Finn agreed "You were a born entertainer Greg"

Greg smiled "Thanks you guys, thanks so much".

He had come to accept the fact that he couldn't act crazy all the time and he was proud of how far he'd grown. But that odd spout of weirdness now and again was worth it just to see his friends laugh.

I hope that was entertaining for you and at least made you smile XD

More prompts would be great and as always opinions are valued :) xx