Title: Never fail Them
By: Marabella
Pairing: gen
Rating: PG
Summary: My take on what goes through Nicks head before he enters the bunker. Some spoilers for "Shooting Stars".

...underground......thought I should suffocate.....
....never go down there.....claustrophobic......

He could hear the uniforms talking while he stood outside the bunker, trying to gather enough courage to enter. He wondered if he could make it to the crime scene without panicking, but he had to try. Sure, it would be embarrassing to panic and Greg would tease him for weeks, but they would be disappointed if he didn't at least try. After all that's why they gave him this assignment, they could have given the bunker to Greg but they gave it to him, gave him a chance to fight his demons because they thought he could do it. So if he didn't try he would fail them, fail there trust in him, and he never wanted to do that, never wanted to fail them, not Catherine and not Grissom.

Especially not Grissom.