Title: He'll Be Back
Author: anmani
Rating: R for language
Pairing: Nick and Greg
Genre: Angsty drabble
Warning/Spoiler: Post Grave Danger.
Beta: serenity151979

Greg just stared after the ambulance not showing much emotion. Sara stood there too just as stock still. He was still very aware of the many people at the scene and he couldn't allow himself to react like he wanted to. Sara cast a glance at him and motioned for him to follow her.

She drove carefully away from the nursery and they both stayed silent. Somewhere on the road back to Vegas there was a truck stop and she pulled in parking round the back.

"Fuck!" She banged her head against the steering wheel in frustration.

"Fuck!" He threw his head back against the headrest hammering his fists into the seat.

"What a sick fuck." She snarled sitting back up taking his left hand and squeezing it tight.

"I can't believe he came this close..." Greg couldn't finish the sentence. The tears that he had kept barred from everybody since the call came in started to pour out of his eyes. Sara stroked her thumb over his hand repeatedly to let him know that he had her full support.

"He'll be back, Nick always bounces back." She said as soothingly as she could, knowing that it was not really a quality of hers. Greg huffed while he tried to formulate an answer.

"Thing is, I don't want to go back to that." He whispered with a voice swollen with tears.

"That's laying a lot on him Greg. Coming out as well as coming back."

Sara was right of course. But he was getting weary of living down low with someone on a different shift.

"I know, but I ain't coping. We barely have time together, and when we do; all we do is bitch at each other."

"He'll be back." Maybe if she said enough times they could both believe it.

"He'll be alive, but..." Greg didn't have the words to express his fear and sorrow. Instinct told him that Nick's fight to live had only just begun and he feared that there wasn't going to be room for him in that life.