Title: After All
Author: Beverly aka Bev *too* Prompt: #075 "Shattered"
Fandom/pairing: CSI, Gil Grissom
Wordcount: 100

Numbly, Gil Grissom stared at the shattered mirror, laying at his feet. His hand was bleeding but he didn't care.

He could've lost Nick today.

It would've destroyed him. Whenever he closed his eyes, he could see him ... the bandages around his hand, the cut on his forehead. He'd tried to suppress his feelings but after putting Nicky in his guestroom, he had stared into his mirror and had lost it.

"Gris, you okay? God, you're bleeding. Let me help you."

It was after all the tenderness in that voice that shattered him completely. He broke down in Nick's arms.

The end