Title: Mortality
Author: Beverly aka Bev *too*
Prompt: #064 "Fall"
Fandom/pairing: CSI: Vegas, Gil Grissom
Wordcount: 100

Sometimes Gil hates his life.

When he's not able to solve a case, for example. Or when the last bit of evidence is missing and he knows EXACTLY that the man who's laughing in his face is a murderer.

Sometimes even when he's lying in bed, when Nick Stokes is in his arms and the sweat of their previous lovemaking is slowly cooling on his skin. Because it is in moments like these that he can feel his own mortality. And he knows that, while Nick is still in his prime, he is already in the autumn of his life.

The end