Title: 101 Things Nick Stokes Loves About Greg Sanders
By: templestars
Pairing: Greg Sanders/Nick Stokes
Fandom: CSI: Vegas
Spoilers: General to end of Season 5.
Rating: Um. Very light R for references?
Summary: Exactly what the title says. 101 things Nick loves about Greg in no particular order.

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1. He loves the way Greg refuses to speak in the morning until after his first cup of coffee.


2. He loves the way that, even though Greg won't speak, he's still quite happy to make out.


3. He loves the way that Greg will always kiss him goodnight, even if they're fighting.


4. He loves that Greg has named all his fish and insists that they all have personalities.


5. He loves that Greg has had the same best friend since kindergarten.


6. He loves that Greg says that Nick is his best friend.


7. He loves his hair.


8. He loves that Greg won over Nick's mother with homemade cookies.


9. He loves that Greg is just like his mother.


0. He loves the way Greg tastes just after he has eaten a chocolate bar.


1. He loves the fact that Greg's second toe is longer than his big toe.


2. He loves that Greg didn't blame Catherine for the explosion.


3. He loves that Greg's trembling always stops when Nick holds his hands.


4. He loves Greg's sense of humour.


5. He loves that Greg can still laugh even with everything they see at work everyday.


6. He loves Greg's imagination.


7. He loves that Greg tries to learn about birds for him, even though he always confuses the peregrine falcon with the northern goshawk.


8. He loves that Greg leaves notes all over the house from him to find.


9. He loves Greg's disgust in his taste in music.


20. He loves the way Greg tries to convince him that Queen, The Who and Pink Floyd are the best things to come out of the 70s.


21. He loves that Greg loves him.


22. He loves that on their first official date, Greg took him to the planetarium and pointed out the constellations.


23. He loves that Greg knows the stories behind the constellations.


24. (He loves that when Greg doesn't know the story, he'll make something up.)


25. He loves the way Greg tries to convince the new lab assistant that it is Thursday and that she shouldn't be in as it is her day off.


26. He loves that Greg always brews enough Blue Hawaiian for Nick too.


27. He loves the way Greg will ambush him in the back hallways of the lab and steal kisses.


28. He loves the way Greg's hair looks when he wakes up – all rumpled, like a disgruntled hedgehog.


29. He loves that Greg refuses to stop kissing him, even though Nick is sick.


30. (He loves the pitiful eyes Greg makes to convince Nick he should still kiss him, even though Greg is sick.)


31. He loves the way Greg was almost bursting with pride when they hung the sign on their new letterbox: Sanders-Stokes.


32. He loves the way Greg will tuck his head into the curve of Nick's shoulder when they're relaxing on the couch.


33. He loves the way Greg will cook him tuna steaks, even though he says his fish will hate him.


34. He loves the sheepish grin Greg gives him when Nick catches him drinking from the milk carton.


35. He loves that his nieces and nephews all say that Greg is their favourite uncle.


36. He loves that his youngest sister threatens to disown him if he ever breaks up with Greg.


37. He loves that Greg threatens him with the labrats if he ever breaks up with him.


38. (He secretly loves that every time Greg says that in lab, Jacqui somehow manages to be in the background, glaring in such a way as to suggest that she has a long list of tortures she's just waiting to use on anybody that hurts her friend.)


39. He loves that Greg just cradled him without saying anything when Nick told him about the babysitter.


40. He loves that, the next evening, he found the pile broken crockery that was every mug in the house that Greg thrown in his helpless anger against something that happened to Nick when Greg was just a baby.


41. He loves way Greg buys him inappropriate gifts from sex shops and leaves them in his locker at work.


42. He loves that Greg insists that scrambled eggs smothered in maple syrup and cinnamon is the breakfast of champions.


43. He loves the way he can look at Greg and instantly be reminded that, despite what he sees everyday, there is still good in the world.


44. He loves that Greg says the same thing about him.


45. He loves the look in Greg's eyes when he's thinking about they did last night.


46. He loves the look in Greg's eyes when they're in the middle of making love.


47. He most especially loves the way Greg's eyes widen and his mouth forms a little 'o' like he finally understands something profound when he's in the throes of orgasm.


48. He loves the way Greg tastes. Everywhere.


49. He loves the fact that Greg seems to have more hair care products than any two of the woman Nick used to date.


50. He loves the way Greg will rub against him, warm and slick, when they're in the shower together.


51. He loves that, for their fourth anniversary (and their first one in their own house), Greg blindfolded him, took him to a pet store and told him they were taking home the first dog to bite him.


52. He loves that Greg still calls their bordercollie Lassie, even though she's black and white and her name is Stella. And Greg chose that name.


53. He loves that Greg tells everybody that his favourite movie is Monty Python and the Holy Grail, when Nick really knows that its secretly A Street Car Named Desire.


54. Although Nick does love the way Greg always cries "Run away! Run away!" when he sees a white rabbit.


55. He loves the way Greg was speechless for almost a full thirty seconds when Nick asked him to move in with him.


56. Even more, he loves the grin that almost split Greg's face as they signed the contract on the house they purchased together.


57. He loves that Greg had the contract framed and hung it on their bedroom wall. He says that just because they can't get married doesn't mean they can't have a framed certificate.


58. He loves his deep brown eyes.


59. He loves that Greg never laughed at him when it got around that Nick had cried when he had a gun pulled on him.


60. He loves that Greg turned up at his house the day Nigel Crane was arrested and told him Nick was staying at his place for the week, even though they weren't together then.


61. He loves that Greg insists that Nick go out and spend time with his friends.


62. He loves that Greg bought him tickets to see Keith Urban despite the fact that he can't understand what Nick sees in people who sing about dogs and trucks and women who leave them.


63. He loves the identical puppydog looks Greg and Stella gave him to convince him to let Stella sleep on the foot of their bed.


64. He loves that Greg proudly shows everyone the doggie door 'he and Nick' installed, even though Nick did most of the work while Greg handed him the tools.


65. He loves that Greg still practices with his guitar, insisting that it's only a matter of time until his unquestionable talent is discovered.


66. He loves the way Greg's tongue pokes from the corner of his mouth when he is concentrating hard on something.


67. He loves the zooming sounds Greg makes when he is playing racing games on the X-Box.


68. He loves the way Greg pouts until Nick kisses him when Nick has beat him on the X-Box.


69. He loves the way Greg tries to distract Nick from winning by leaning over and licking his neck.


70. He loves making out on the couch while their cars crash in the background.


71. He loves that Greg threw out the green lava lamp he'd had since college when Nick came home from hospital.


72. He loves that Greg has planted a lemon tree in the backyard so that they always have lemons on hand when they most need them.


73. He loves that Greg will go hiking in the mountains with him.


74. He loves that Greg makes Nick take him tandem paragliding. Greg says that he trusts Nick to catch him if he falls.


75. Nick doesn't like that he loves how mushy that makes him feel.


76. He loves that Greg clung tightly to his hand as they told their friends and co-workers that they were together.


77. He loves that for weeks after he was found, every time he opened his eyes, Greg was there.


78. He loves that Greg stood up for him to a couple of bad-mouthing homophobic cops, even if it cost Greg a bust lip and an official reprimand.


79. He loves looking through the glass walls of the lab and seeing Greg.


80. He loves watching Greg process a car boot.


81. He loves Greg's enthusiasm.


82. He loves waking up in the middle of the day, wrapped firmly in Greg's arms.


83. He loves that Greg will often steal Nick's undershirts and wear them to work, claiming that the smells comforts him.


84. He loves that Greg makes him go dancing.


85. He loves the jealous looks he receives from other guys when Greg's grinding up against him.


86. He loves that thing Greg does with his tongue.


87. He loves that Greg wants them to host Thanksgiving, even though he knows how big Nick's family is.


88. (He loves the wistful look Greg gets when they see a couple with a young child.)


89. He loves that Greg loves to walk down the street hand in hand with Nick.


90. He loves that he's managed to convert Greg to baseball, though he suspects that Greg maybe likes the popcorn, hotdogs and hollering the most.


91. He loves that Greg will let him worship Greg's back, kissing each of the scars as though he can heal it with love alone.


92. He loves that Greg will talk to him about everything that he is feeling.


93. He loves that Greg understands that sometimes it's hard for Nick to be as open. Even if it does occasionally lead to them fighting.


94. He loves the make-up sex.


95. He loves to watch Greg in snark-wars with David Hodges. They pretend to hate each other, but that doesn't really cut it when David and the rest of the labrats are over at Nick and Greg's place almost every second weekend.


96. He loves that their home is sort of the unofficial meeting place for all their friends. Greg makes everyone feel welcome.


96b. He doesn't like it so much when he's trying get some alone time with his boyfriend, and Sara and Jacqui are cooking the kitchen and Archie's re-wiring their stereo system again.


97. He loves that Greg sings Skinkamarink to him.


98. He loves that Greg is learning to say 'I love you' in every language he can think of.


99. He loves the expression on Greg's face when he says the words back to him.


100. He loves that Greg forgave him for freaking out and running away after the first time they had sex.


101. Most of all, though, Nick loves that Greg gave him a second chance to love him.

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