Title: Guilty Pleasures
By: Caroline Crane
Fandom: CSI: Miami
Characters: the new guy
Rating: G
Series: 1) Sunglasses Of Justice, 2) Sunglasses Of Justice II, 3) Sunglasses Of Justice III
Summary: Everybody's got ambitions.
Author's note: Uh...this is complete parody. Although now I kind of want to write more. I think it was geekwriter143 who inspired the idea. Someone this weekend, anyway. Blame them, not me.

He only does it when nobody's looking. He knows he shouldn't even do it at work, that he should keep it to the privacy of his own apartment. Because that's safe, and in the lab anyone could walk in while he's preoccupied with…other things.

It's hard, though, because it's been his dream for so long and now that he's taken the first step, he wants to rush the process. Wants to prove that he's worthy, that he can be just as good as Horatio believes he can. He wants to show them all, wants them to look at him and know that he's everything Horatio saw that first time they met, when Horatio gave him the shot he'd been waiting for.

And he doesn't want to blow his only shot, so he really shouldn't do this in the lab. But it makes him feel better – calmer, more in control – and that helps him be patient. Because he's still the new guy, and he's going to have to wait awhile longer before Horatio really sees how much he can do.

The door swings open and he shoves his hand in his pocket roughly, affecting his most innocent look before he turns to find Calleigh looking in at him. "Hey. Your DNA results are in, I told Valera I'd pass on the message."

"Thanks," he says, giving her a casual smile. For a second she just looks at him like she's trying to decide what she's missing, but before he's forced to come up with a plausible lie she says something about checking on Trace and lets the door swing shut again.

He lets out a sigh and pulls his hand out of his pocket carefully, lifting the sunglasses to make sure he hasn't bent them in his haste to hide them from Calleigh. And this is exactly the reason he should leave them at home, but he likes the feeling of the metal in his pocket, pressed against his thigh and reminding him that they're there.

He never wears them when he's on duty. Not yet, not when he still hasn't proved what he can do. But someday he'll wear them – someday he'll stand side by side with Horatio, and together they'll be unstoppable.

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