Yes, another scene

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Title: Marilyn Manson For Babies (the first parts can be found here and here)
Author: Bry
Fandom and Pairing: CSI; Nick/Greg
Rating: PG
Claim & Prompt: baby; song!fic (wordclaim50)
Notes: No, I didn't pull the songs out of nowhere--I *am* familiar with them, but you don't have to be. And, of course, I had to end with the last one.
Summary: Greg just wants to see...

"What CD are you putting in?" Nick asked, legs crossed to support the paper he currently skimmed.

"What do you think?" Greg replied, contorting his face into goofy expressions for the sake of his 'tiny' audience. As at two months old, the baby barely looked like even one.

Nick looked up, critical. "No."

"I just wanna see if he likes it," Greg said, still as if he were talking to the baby. The carrier sat on a chair, letting the infant inside watched quite contentedly as Greg inserted the CD.

Nick stood, then walked to them. "No. We're only supposed to play them, like, baby music. Barney and stuff."

"They can't tell the difference."

"Yeah, I know I always get Marilyn Manson confused with purple dinosaurs."

Greg smirked. "You do."

Nick snorted.

"I'm just going to play 'Sweet Dreams.' It's gentle."

"'Gentle'?"

"In comparison. It's pop, not too hard. Come on, just let me see how he reacts."

"Fine, but don't turn it up too loud."

"You hear that, Evan? There will be no blowing out your eardrums tonight. We'll save that for when you're a toddler."

Nick groaned.

Greg shrugged, cocking his head and frowning slightly as his eyebrows raised. "Okay,"—he stood upright, volume set—"this is it."

They both looked to the baby, and he seemed to stare off at nothing.

"He's concentrating—he hears it," Greg insisted, and so he turned it up a bit louder.

"Mm hmm," Nick hummed with his cautious skepticism, still watching.

Then Evan's eyes met theirs, alternating between them a couple times as obvious distress set in. His face started reddening, and he even whimpered.

"I think that's enough."

"No, no, just give it a second."

"Greg, look at his face—he's gonna start crying. He's scared."

"That's how most people react at first—he just needs to get used to it."

Nick sighed, still watching with wary concern.

Evan emitted a few more grunting whimpers, limbs jerking nervously, before he finally broke down. It began quietly, like a shy lamb's "bah"-ing, before turning into all-out desperate screaming. And though Greg immediately turned the music off, his cries didn't consider ceasing.

"Aww, honey," Nick sympathetically laughed as he lifted Evan to his chest, clutching him there. "It's okay, sweetheart. Oh, I know," he shushed with soft amusement. "We didn't mean to make you cry."

"I'm sorry, baby," Greg assured through a babyish murmur as he kissed Evan's head. "He didn't mean to scare you."

"I didn't scare him."

"No, Manson."

"But…I thought that was his intent."

"Actually, contrary to popular belief, Marilyn Manson has no known vendetta against babies."

"Ha. I meant scaring people in general."

"Nick, just because he scares you doesn't mean he scares everybody."

"Mm hmm. Well, I'm going to bring him to the nursery, see if some rocking won't calm him down."

"Wait, isn't Eric still sleeping?"

"He could be up by now. Go check on him."

"Okay. I'll be right back," Greg said with too much excitement before heading off.

"Oh, yes, darling, I know. Life is so, so hard," Nick lovingly assured with mock pity, slightly bouncing Evan and rubbing his back. He continued like that for a little while longer, until he heard Greg coming back.

"Look who's awake!" Greg announced with Eric seated on his forearm, back against his chest, and with a hand clutched over the baby's chest.

"Look who's going to hopefully go to sleep," Nick said as he then walked past Greg.

Greg turned around to watch them go, encouraging Eric to "say 'bye bye'" as he waved the infant's hand for him.

It took a few minutes of gentle shushing, back rubs and rocking before Evan gave in to calming down. And before Greg cried with unreasonable excitement for Nick.

"You have to come see this!"

"Now?!" Nick called back.

"Yes, now, hurry!"

Nick sighed and worked himself out of the chair and down the hall, baby still wrapped in his arms. "Greg, turn that off."

"No, just wait. See, I tried playing 'Sweet Dreams' again, but he started making that Evan face. So, I pressed skip, and it landed on 'Fight Song'—also not a baby favorite. And then we hit 'Personal Jesus' and look at him! He's smiling!"

"That's gas."

"He's not crying. Neither is Evan. They love it!"

"Mmm…" Nick raised an eyebrow.

"You know what good music is, don't you?" Greg cooed, leaning in close to Eric. A finger then tickled the baby's cheek, prompting a wide, toothless grin. "There's my smile! Man, I should market this or something!"

"What, Marilyn Manson For Babies?"

"Yes!"

"Sure, it'd do great right alongside Baby Mozart and The Wiggles. Besides, what kind of parent wouldn't buy it?"

"Probably the boring ones like you."

"Yeah, that sounds about right."

"Oh man, look at his arms—he's trying to rock out already."

"He's just moving."

"I knew they'd love it. I knew it."

"Yeah, okay," Nick replied, unable to avoid his smile.

Just then, the song finished, catching Greg unaware as it immediately switched to another, less "pop" song. Greg didn't stop it and instead he watched them, certain that they just might like this one, too. But Eric started it all off first, opting to wail without hesitation. Nick didn't give Evan the chance, as he immediately hurried back to the nursery before Greg even stopped it.

"Man," Greg sighed as he lifted Eric. "You had me so excited, baby. That's okay," he said through his shushing. "We'll just have to try again later, when it's only you and Papa. I know you'll love '(s)AINT.'"

Comments

[downloadable08.livejournal.com]

As always, I am in love with this series. Our boys and their boys are too adorable for words. Laughed out loud at the "inside" joke. BTW, as I'm not a huge Manson fan (though I have seen the video for obvious reasons), how would you pronounce the name of "(s)AINT"? Do you say it "saint" or do you say it "ain't", as he does in the song?

[imxkonstantine.livejournal.com]

Really sweet. I especially liked the part where Greg got really excited about the whole baby liking manson thing. You could really imagine Greg acting excactly like that.

Manson Rocks, by the way. and '(s)AINT' is my favorite song, besides 'You Spin Me Right Round'.

[onigaminanashi.livejournal.com]

*giggles helplessly at the (s)AINT tribute*

These are great!! Every one gets better and better!!
~Onigami

[schizojuc.livejournal.com]

LOL! Greg and his music!I loved this! :)

[brandinsbabe.livejournal.com]

ahhh i loved it!!! haha (s)AINT. that was cute ;) we all love that song dont we!!!! ;)

[brandinsbabe.livejournal.com]

hey there! can you credit my icon in your icon keywords please? thanks!

[punky-cherry-x.livejournal.com]

i am officially creeped out now... int he middle of reading this fic my playlist (which is on random) decided to to play manson - personal jesus... creepy. ok well anyhoo back to the point of this comment. i LOVE these fics. keep writing them!!!

[imxkonstantine.livejournal.com]

sure!

[boy-ish.livejournal.com]

I'm really not sure, as I've only heard it in the song. I'd suppose it's still pronounced "saint" but the "ain't" is a bit more, uh, pronounced. But I know nothing for sure.

And I'm glad you're still loving it :)

[boy-ish.livejournal.com]

Thank you :) I could really see Greg like that, too--he's rather excitable.

[boy-ish.livejournal.com]

Thanks :) I'm glad you feel that way.

[boy-ish.livejournal.com]

Thanks for letting me know :)

[boy-ish.livejournal.com]

Glad you're enjoying it and, yes, I think it is a requirement as a Greg fan to love it :p Even if you're like me and want to like the video but it stills scares you so you can only watch Eric's snippets...heh.

[boy-ish.livejournal.com]

Heh, for a second I thought you were creeped out by my fic. Glad to fin that's not the case, and that you're wanting more. So long as people still let me know they're enjoying it, I think I'll still have the inspiration to keep getting them out.

[brandinsbabe.livejournal.com]

heh yes its definitly a scary video!

[abouttheboys.livejournal.com]

Haha, I loved the "(s)AINT" tribute for Eric. That was great! What made you decide to write the babies' reaction(s) to the different songs? Personal experience?

[abouttheboys.livejournal.com]

Now, this is pure speculation on my part (seeing as I've never read/heard anything where Manson talks about the meaning of this song), but I think it's supposed to be a some type of pun or something. Like he's saying he AIN'T a SAINT. That's just my take, though, feel free to cal me an idiot, I'm a big boy, I can take it.^_^

[abouttheboys.livejournal.com]

And maybe I am an idiot seeing as how I never finished my comment.:-P But I think it's pronounced "AIN'T" 'cause of that little theory, but everyone I've ever talked to (vocally) says "Saint"...guess that don't really help, does it?o.O

[boy-ish.livejournal.com]

Wow, um, hmmm... I'm trying to remember now, lol. I guess I was kind of just thinking about Eric Szmanda and his appreciation for Marilyn Manson, then I was thinking about Manson saying "Sweet Dreams" was a pop song, then I thought of Greg repeating the same, and how it might be 'softer' or easier for the babies to take. And so it went from there.

[brandinsbabe.livejournal.com]

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