Title: I'll be Waiting
By: *bright
Fandom: CSI: Vegas
Pairing: Nick/Warrick with Nick/Griss implied
Words: 198

The man is blind, totally and utterly blind. Looking at him, face set in that eternal smile that doesn't reach his eyes anymore, Warrick just wants to scope him up, in a very unmanly, needy fashion and press him up against the wall. Wants to tell him to fucking open his eyes and realize that he's been here all along. Through all Nick's heartaches, through the crazy woman holding him at gunpoint, the stalker in the attic and the worst of all, the one time Warrick was sure everything was lost. That time he was contemplating eating a gun,that time when Warrick realized what a bitch empathy was.

Nick turns to him, pulls off the gloves and looks at him, "Man, I'm starvin' can we go get some lunch? I've been through this car with a toothbrush and there's nothing more to lift."

"You payin'?"

Nick ducks his head and smiles the first genuine smile Warrick's seen in days. "If you beg, bro! I'll just go drop this evidence off, see you in five?"

"I'll be waiting," Warrick replies, watching Nick walk out of the lab.

And he will, probably till the end of time and further.