Title: Birth
Author: Dee
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 226
Pairing: Gil/Nick
Characters: Gil Grissom and Nick Stokes
Warnings: Fluff and AU.
Spoilers: None
Disclaimer: In my dreams they are like, totally mine!
Beta: jayceepat for her invaluable help in the Americanisation of the fics and her insightful comments – which I may well have ignored! I thank high_striker for his wonderful icons. I am indebted to them. Any errors are mine.
A/N: The first ‘challenge’ I have ever undertaken…but I've got to get them into my own Lj first! Starting off with three little ones. CSI100Fics Prompt Challenge – No. 29

It was official...he was old!

A Great Uncle…and he wasn’t even forty but the very title implied a certain gravitas and responsibility and assumption of age. Mind you, no one had expected Melissa to marry and produce a baby before she was twenty two. Least of all his brother, her father, who had ‘high hopes’ for his first born.

Now that sounded familiar. Judge and Mrs Stokes had high hopes for all of their offspring and generally speaking they hadn’t been too disappointed.

Speaking generally; at least Nick had a responsible, salaried job, even if it wasn’t quite what they had in mind and, thank goodness, he didn’t flaunt his homosexuality in any Texan faces. They couldn’t just disown their son, but it was a big disappointment to them that he chose to waste his education on Forensic science and that he had a ‘man friend’ as opposed to a wife and children. Luckily for the Texan family he lived in Las Vegas.

But now there was a bigger scandal. Melissa had a child and an African American husband. Barack Obama’s election hadn’t come a day too soon.

And, as a celebration of that birth, at the christening there were a bus load of white family and a bus load of black family and at least two gay men …truly the birth of a new era!

The End