Fic: Life Changes 27/29

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TITLE: LIFE CHANGES
RATING: NC-17
PAIRINGS: Nick/Greg
WARNINGS: Very adult content and language
SUMMARY: A casual remark can change a life
SPOILERS: None
BANNER: Created by Bflyw
DISCLAIMER: If you don’t recognize it, it’s mine. Otherwise, everything belongs to Bruckheimer, CBS and Zuicker.

Previous chapters can be found here



Nick thought that he would never feel the same about Desert Palms again. For so many years the Medical Facility had been associated with the worst moments of his life. The explosion in the lab that injured Greg, Nigel Crane throwing Nick out of a 2nd story window, the long recovery after Walter Gordon used Nick to ease his own pain and finally, the long ordeal with Greg’s injury had left Nick with a feel of dread whenever he got within a block of the place. But now, he was feeling almost fond of the whole hospital.

LeAnn had been brought back to her birthing suite but the hoped for hours of sleep were sort of postponed. Between everyone in the hospital wanting to come see her and the new one and everyone in the Crime Lab AND the police department wanting to come see Greg, Nick and the new one, the place was like Grand Central Station. Finally, Gil, Cath and the formidable Brass’s went to the hospital administrator and asked if Greg’s bed could be moved into LeAnn’s room.

Poor Mr. Haskell had started shaking his head before they even finished their first sentence. He put his head in his hands and said, “You know you are all going to be the death of me. I know I’ve lost at least 5 years off my life since Greg became a patient here.”

Cath leaned over his desk and smiled at him, making sure he was looking down her blouse at her impressive cleavage and said, “Yeah but you know you love us anyway. Just look at the press you’ve gotten from all this. Charlie is the darling of the medical world because of his revolutionary treatment of Greg and this last operation, rebuilding Greg a new hip joint from scratch; I know I’ve seen reporters here from all over the world. So come on. All we’re asking is that you let a family be together to enjoy their new baby. Is that so bad?”

Jim chimed in with, “Besides, if you put them all in the birthing suite just think how much easier it’s going to be to control the traffic in and out of the place.”

Haskell looked up at them and sighed. “Oh what the hell. I’ve already broken every rule in the book for you people. I guess one more isn’t going to hurt now.”
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When they came to get Greg he was fussy and pissed. After all, he hadn’t seen his son for almost 2 whole hours and he was beginning to suffer from separation anxiety. Catherine and Annie looked at each and just burst out laughing.

Greg shrugged and said, “Well what the heck, it sounded good when I rehearsed it in my head. Now, someone get me in a chair and take me up to Lee’s room.”

Jim leaned over, hugged the man he had been thinking of as a son ever since the moment he had put his hands into the horrible wound in his side and held his life in his hands and said, ”We’re going to go you one better. Just lay back and take it easy.”

Greg looked at Cath and Annie who had brought in a gurney from the hall and were loading up all his possessions. Considering the fact that he had been there for close to 2 weeks, there was a lot to load up. He looked at Jim and said, “What the heck is the ‘demolition duo’ up to now?”

Jim just grinned at him and told him to practice being patient. It would build character.

It wasn’t long until two aides came in and began getting Greg’s bed ready and the next thing he knew, he and his bed were heading out the door and into the freight elevator followed by Jim, Cath and Annie pushing the gurney that was so loaded they had to pull up the sides to keep everything on it. When the door opened on the birthing floor, Greg was speechless. He was pushed into Lee’s room where her bed had been pushed over to make room for his beside her. There was enough room for a comfortable chair for Nick between the two beds and of course the reason why everyone loved the birthing suite’s at Desert Palm, the crib with a beautiful, baby boy. The babies stayed in the room with their parents on the birthing floor. The only exceptions were the little one’s who had medical problems and needed to stay in incubators until they were strong enough to join their families.

The other nice thing about the birthing suite was the size, the couches and the fact that everyone was welcome unless the nursing staff felt they were stressing the new mom and infant.

It was a wonderful time for Mom, both Dad’s and their families and friends and they all enjoyed just being together. Jim said later that the whole thing was worth it to see the dapper Chief of Detectives, Alex Vartann with a bubble gum cigar in his mouth and an smile so big he almost lost the cigar. The cherry on top was when Gil showed up to congratulate everyone. He was talking with Nick, Jim, Greg and Annie when he felt a chair pushed up behind him. Catherine told him to take a load off and he sank gratefully down into the remarkably comfortable chair. He only got to enjoy it for a second because the next thing he knew, Catherine had placed a small bundle in his arms and was telling him to be sure and support Danny’s head. Nick had his camera ready and took a succession of photo’s that were so candid they made everyone stop talking when they saw them. The first one showed Gil in full panic looking up at Catherine with his mouth open in shock. In the second, he was holding Danny out trying to get Catherine to take him back. In the third, it was obvious she had refused and he was holding the baby somewhat awkwardly against him but the fourth photo was wonderful. Danny had worked his little hand out of the blanket and had grabbed hold of Grissom’s finger and was holding on for all he was worth. Gil was frozen with such a look of wonder on his face that it made your heart hurt to see it. It was only topped by the last photo. Catherine had asked him softly what he thought of him. Gil had looked up at her and the smile on his face and the sparkle in his eyes said without words that he thought he was pretty special.
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If Nick and Greg thought life was hectic before Danny joined them, there were no words for what it was after. Greg with Gil’s support had decided he was going to apply for a teaching position at the university. He needed to audit some courses to bring him self up to speed. He was back in full rehab mode again learning to use his new knee and hip but he felt that it would be more efficient to stick to his motorized chair at school. The campus never knew what hit it.

One moment everything was pretty normal and the next Hurricane Greg was on site. The student body began to report his sightings and look forward to them. It wasn’t often you got to see a living legend, zipping around the campus in a metallic, cherry-apple red, motorized chair complete with a neon green snuggle sack holding the cutest little black haired baby boy. Greg had matured into a striking man. The pain and trauma he had endured showed on his face and was most apparent in his striking silver white hair. He had gone back to wearing it in the Julius Caesar cut he’d gotten when he and Nick first started dating but the neck was longer and sported silver curls. Greg had always been almost pretty. The injury had added character and strength to his face and Nick thought he looked the way he imagined the Angel Michael would look. Of course he never told anyone that; not even Greg.

Nick had also made a big change. Ecklie had acted on his political ambitions and was now mayor of Las Vegas. Catherine had been promoted to Director of the Las Vegas Crime Lab. Warrick had made it very plain that he would leave home if they tried to make him assistant director so Catherine had drafted Nick. Nick now worked days for the first time in more than 15 years. It was a shock to his nervous system and he was still trying to get used to it but it meant that for the first time he and Greg had a so-called normal schedule.

When Danny was three months old, Greg and Nick stood up for Charlie when he married Lindsay Willows. It was an emotional time for everyone and for a week, their whole extended family was either laughing hysterically or bursting into tears.

They had the rehearsal dinner at the Bellagio Hotel. The whole dining room was closed just for them. It was quite a night.

When Nick and Greg bought their house, the neighborhood they chose was an older, slightly run down residential area. It was one of those places that had been nothing but desert and bare ground 40 years before. The houses were pretty well built and were cheap so lot’s of young couples snapped them up. Now, forty years later, the original families were moving or dying out and the houses were going on the market. The up side was the fact that there were trees and grass and flowers already established. The streets were wide with big trees that arched over the street and there were sidewalks were people could walk and kids could ride bicycles. The only problem was, when Nick and Greg bought, there were no kids and most of the remaining occupants weren’t able to do much walking. But as more and more of the houses went on the market, the cycle began again. Couples bought the old houses and began renovating and cleaning and the neighborhood began to come back to life.

Cath and Warrick had taken the wrong turn one day when they left the guys house and drove down a street they hadn’t seen before. There was a house, with a For Sale by Owner sign. Warrick had never said anything but Catherine was well aware that he wasn’t that happy or comfortable living in her house bought with Sam Braun’s money. They stopped, looked and 2 days later were Nick and Greg’s new neighbors.

One night when the whole mob was over at Jim and Annie’s for their ‘movie night’ which had grown into a once a month movie, card game, dinner whatever night, it became very obvious that the Brass residence was pretty crowded and not really geared to big gatherings. Two weeks later, they had bought one of the houses. Then Nancy and David Hodges announced their wedding plans and guess what; they bought one of the smaller houses, followed by Alex Vartann and Marcie Jepson; Yeah, that Marcie Jepson. It seems when Marcie and Catherine had told David so long ago that they wanted time with their boyfriends, Marcie had been talking about Alex. It took him a while to admit he was well and truly taken, but when he did, he wasted no time in marrying his girl and the next thing everyone knew, he was a full-fledged, settled-down, married man with a house and wife. Hell they even got a dog for him and a cat for Marcie.

When Alex and Marcie bought their house everyone began referring to the neighborhood as the LVPD/CSI annex.

That night at the rehearsal dinner, Warrick stood and knocked his knife against his glass to get everyone’s attention. He made a very nice speech as befitted the father of the bride and then he took an envelope from Catherine and walked over to Lindsay and Charlie.

He looked at them both for a minute and the love he felt for the beautiful young woman who was the spitting image of her mom was obvious to everyone. He cleared his throat and then said, “Linds, Charlie; you know everyone in this room. Most of these people feel like they had a hand in raising you Linds and Charlie, I know we all feel that if it hadn’t been for you, we wouldn’t all be together right now. I know you probably expect to get a room full of presents from all these people but it’s not going to happen. The only thing you’re going to get from us is this.” He handed the envelope to them and they both reached for it at the same time.

Lindsay told Charlie to open it and when he just looked at what was in the envelope she got impatient and demanded to know what it was. He looked at her and said, “It’s mortage papers on the house we’ve been looking at.”

Linds gasped and said, “You mean the big, old, two-story the block over from Nick and Greg?” Charlie just nodded.

Lindsay looked at her dad and said, “What have you all done?”

Warrick said, “We all of us, everyone in this room pooled our resources and came up with a down payment big enough so you two can handle the payments and insurance on your own. We aren’t giving you a house. We’re giving you a chance to build your own home the way you want it. We are being selfish because we’re keeping you in the same neighborhood as we are.”

Lindsay was crying out loud when she got up and threw her arms around Warrick. She hugged him tight and told him how much she loved him and when Charlie got up and opened his arms to include Catherine in their four-way hug….well there wasn’t a dry eye in the house.
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If everyone thought the rehearsal was emotional, the wedding was over the top. The moments started when Catherine was escorted down the aisle on the arm of one of Charlie’s doctor friends. She was almost 62 years old but she had never looked more beautiful. Her strawberry blonde hair was now naturally highlighted with silver strands but pulled up on top of her head with long curls falling softly around her glowing face it was a crown that would have made any woman proud.

Then LeAnn and Leah followed her with LeAnn carrying Danny who was dressed in a very spiffy pair of grey pants. But when Charlie walked out followed by his two best men, there was a distinct sigh. Nick and Greg were dressed in matching pearl grey tuxedo’s just like their baby boy’s trousers. Greg was moving slowly and leaning on a handsome black ebony cane. The cane was a gift from Charlie and Lindsay and was a work of art. It was inlaid with mother-of-pearl and had a sterling silver handle. He and Nick made a striking couple. Nick’s thick black hair was marked at the temples with silver stripes now and it just made him handsomer if that was possible. The pride on his face when he looked at his long time partner was so evident, no one could miss it. Charlie was so nervous he was shaking but when the wedding march started and Lindsay appeared in the doorway on Warrick’s arm he was so dumb-struck he just stood there. Nick leaned over and whispered in his ear, “Look at that gorgeous woman Charlie. See the love in her eyes. That’s all for you.”

When the minister asked, “Who gives this woman?” Warrick answered in a strong, firm voice, “Her mother and I do.” He put her hand in Charlie’s and started to turn to sit with Catherine but Lindsay grabbed his arm with her other hand and pulled him down for a warm kiss and an audible “I love you daddy.”’
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The wedding was lovely, the reception was a time of joy and happiness and so many friends having a good time together. The Atlanta group was there with bells on and their gift to the newly weds was a complete renovation with plans by Collin and the promise that when they were ready to start, they would bring their whole crew to Las Vegas and do the work themselves.

Nick and Greg both gave loving toasts with none of the somewhat off color jokes that usually marked the ‘best-mans speech’. But the high spot of the night was when the band leader asked for everyone’s attention. He said he had received a special request and it was his pleasure to play a song for two very special people. Everyone was looking at Charlie and Lindsay until Nick got up and walked over to Greg. He put his hand out and asked him to dance with him. Greg started to shake his head no because he was walking with a cane but he was far from the old graceful Greg. But when the first notes started to play and the words, “You’re just too good to be true. Can’t take my eyes off of you” were heard, he got up and walked into Nick’s embrace. He said in Nick’s ear, “I don’t know if I can do this babe.”

Nick held him close and said, “Just lean on me sweetheart. I’ll always be here to support you.” They were a little clumsy and Greg’s left side was still stiff and didn’t move like it used to but their friends thought it was the most beautiful dance they’d ever seen.
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Life went back to normal or what passed for normal in the lives of the men and women who made up their extended family. Greg became a full professor at UNLV and taught 3 classes a week. Between him and Grissom, their courses were packed and students were turned away even after they were moved from a regular class room to the auditorium. Collin, Larry and Steve came out and spent a week with them when Lindsay and Charlie started their renovations. Larry and Steven went back to Atlanta but Collin stayed with Nick and Greg for almost 5 months until it was all done. It was a good thing too because Lindsay must have gotten pregnant on her wedding night. She and Charlie had their first child nine months to the day after their wedding. Catherine and Warrick, Jim and Annie were walking on air and Nick and Greg were going to be joining them very soon,
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When Danny was fourteen months old, Leann and Leah came over to have dinner at their place. They had also bought a home in the LVPD/CSI annex and they were all in and out of each other’s homes all the time. Leah was wired and reminded Nick of Greg back in his hyper days. After dinner was over, the dishes were sloshing away in the dish washer and they were all in the living room with coffee and tea for Leah, they finally found out what Leah was so excited about.

“Mom, please can I tell them now?” She was almost bouncing in place. LeAnn laughed at her eager daughter and told her to go ahead.

“Mom and I have decided that Danny shouldn’t be an only child so we’re going to have another baby and give him a brother or sister.”

Somewhere in the back of his mind, Nick thought of all the many times LeAnn and her remarkable daughter had rendered him and his partner speechless; looks like this was another one.

“Well, what do you think?” Leah wasn’t about to wait for them to recover. She was ready to get the show on the road.

Nick looked over at Greg and said softly, “Oh yeah and since you got your ‘little Nicky’, this time I get my ‘little Greg’.”

So many of Nick’s nieces wanted to be a part of this new miracle that Mama Stokes had to made the final decision in order to keep peace in the family. She picked S’annah’s daughter because she looked so much like Nick, it was spooky. The whole family came to Las Vegas when it was time to harvest the eggs and Nick and Greg were a little worried about their donation. Greg was already a nervous wreck and the thought of trying to perform with a house full of relatives wasn’t doing his nerves any good at all. Thank God, LeAnn privately told them they could have their donation there the night before and it would be perfectly fresh and potent. Then she, Cath, Warrick, Jim and Annie took all the relatives out to the Cirque d’ Soleil for the evening. Of course, Nick and Greg were both called to work at the last moment and couldn’t go with them.

Alone in their home, they relaxed in their Jacuzzi. Nick had staged the room before he led Greg into the bathroom. No lights; but candle’s everywhere. Music was playing softly in the background, two crystal wine glasses were sitting next to a frosty bucket filled with ice and a bottle of their favorite wine. Nick undressed Greg almost reverently and then made Greg laugh out loud when he stripped his own clothes off so fast, Greg almost missed the unveiling of his favorite body parts (which was all of Nick). They stepped into the warm, swirling water scented with Greg’s favorite vanilla & jasmine bath salts. Nick poured the wine and toasted his handsome husband. Greg returned the toast by taking a sip of the wine and then leaning forward and passing the wine into Nick’s mouth when he kissed his lips. Nick swallowed the wine along with Greg’s happy sighs and soft words of love. They kissed and caressed each other slowly, stopping to feed each other sips of wine out of their mouths. The wine was good to begin with but flavored with the taste of love it was exceptional.

Nick asked Greg if he was ready to get out or did he want to stay in a while longer and turn into a prune. Greg said he was ready for phase 2. Nick grabbed the towels off their latest toy, an electric towel warmer. He wrapped Greg in the towel and began to rub his hands over his body. Greg wanted to return the favor and it wasn’t too long before the towels were on the floor and they were wrapped around each other and the heat of their bodies was doing a great job of getting rid of any excess moisture.

They made their way into their bedroom and onto their big bed. Nick was not quite sure how they did it because he was sure he hadn’t taken his mouth off Greg’s for a second but there they were. He pulled away from Greg and looked, really looked at his love. His body had changed. There were scars from the IV port just above his left nipple. There was another scar on his left side just above the large patch of puckered skin that marked the place where his hip had been shot away. That was where the feeding port had been. The scar from the colostomy bag was actually sort of cute. It had left a round scar that had healed into a little dimple. Nick thought Greg had never been as alluring and sexy as he was right at that moment. Greg seemed to realize that Nick just wanted to feast on him with his eyes and he was no longer self-conscious about his body. It had taken Nicky a long time but he had finally managed to convince Greg that he cherished every single one of his scars. They proved what a strong, determined man he had chosen for his own. Nick never failed to kiss Greg’s scars every chance he got. He called them Greg’s badges of courage and said everyone of them proved to him that he still had his love by his side where he could touch him and kiss him and enjoy his body when ever he wanted.

Greg reached up and pulled Nick down to him. He kissed him deeply and then said against his lips, “I love it when you look at me like you could devour me with a spoon but I love it even more when you actually do it.”

The kissed became more heated and their bodies moved against each other in an age old dance of love and passion. They knew the movements of the dance so well and no one performed the movements better than they did. Nick was kissing his way down Greg’s body, paying special attention to all his ‘badges’ along the way when Greg pulled his head up.

“What’s the matter; aren’t you ready for me?”

Greg was panting slightly when he pulled Nick’s mouth against his. “Oh yeah, I’m more than ready for you but I want to taste you at the same time. What’s my favorite number, cowboy?”

Nick laughed out loud and nipped at Greg’s neck and sucked a hickey where it would be very noticeable. “Let me think, I’m sure I remember hearing you tell me once or twice. I’m just not sure I remember….OUCH.”

Greg had returned the favor only he’d used some teeth. “Ok, Ok, I know what your favorite number is. Do you have the baby making stuff ready.”

Greg said, “Yeah, the rubber and the specimen cup is right here. I’m just waiting for my ass-hole husband to assume the position.”

Nick wasted no time in turning around in the bed and positioning himself over Greg’s delicious, hard cock. As he began to lick around the rim of the leaking head, he felt Greg’s warm, wet mouth take his equally hard, leaking dick in his mouth. He felt Greg’s teeth just gently nibbling down the length of his shaft and then his cock was sucked into Greg’s mouth and he felt himself go down his husband’s throat. He yelped in surprise and realized he’d better concentrate on what he was doing and get on with the baby making or he would be shooting his load in that extremely talented mouth and then he would be too dazed to attend to his task. He began to work on Greg’s cock. He licked and sucked while he rolled the heavy sac between his fingers. He reached over and snagged some lube out of the open night stand drawer, got some on his fingers and slipped them into Greg’s tight, hot hole. He knew he had hit the spot when Greg hissed around his cock and took him deep into his throat again. He concentrated on the feel of Greg’s cock. When he paid close attention, he could swear he could feel the juice start to build up from deep in his balls. He could feel it rushing down the big vein on the underside and he knew when it was about to spurt out into his eager mouth. He had the rubber ready and was already putting it on Greg when he hollered NOW. He continued to pump his fingers in and out of Greg’s hole, rubbing and stroking over his prostate while he was doing it and it was a surprise when he felt Greg take him all the way down to the root and swallow around his cock. He shot his load so quickly he had to focus hard to finish Greg off and get the rubber safely off without losing one precious drop. He managed to get the top knotted and into the cup. He had just enough strength left to slip the cup into the little fridge they had installed in their bedroom so they didn’t have to go all the way down to the kitchen when they wanted tea, water, wine or a soft drink. He grabbed one of the towels, wiped them both off and slipped back into the warmth of the body he loved so much.

As he turned off the light and settled them down to sleep, he heard Greg say, “I’ll bet we made a gorgeous baby.”