Title: Untouchable Face
By: geekwriter
Pairing: Nick/Greg
Rating: PG
Legnth: 340 words
A/N: OK, so I know there have been ten bazillion fics written to Ani DiFranco's Untouchable Face, but this one's mine. It's all it_glitters' fault, I swear.

Nick tipped his beer up to his lips and took a swig. He set the bottle down a little too hard and scowled at the table.

"You all right?" Warrick asked.

Nick looked up at him quickly. "What? Yeah. Yeah, I'm fine."

Warrick raised one eyebrow and nodded. "You keep telling yourself that, man. Look, you know I'm not one for heart to heart, but you got something you need to get off your chest?"

Nick shook his head and took another swig of beer. "I'm just tired." He heard a woman's laugh from over his shoulder and clenched his fist beneath the table.

Warrick laughed softly, shaking his head. "Look at Sanders go, man."

Nick sighed. He didn't want to look but he didn't want to make an issue of it and have to explain to Warrick why he wasn't looking. He looked over his shoulder quickly at where Greg was playing pool with an attractive woman. Her red hair was twisted into two messy buns at the back of her head and from Nick's quick glance he could see a tattoo winding around her right arm and the glint of a nose ring. Greg was standing very close behind her, helping her line up her shot.

Nick turned back around and finished his beer in three long swallows.

"Look at that!" Warrick said with a smirk. "Looks like the dude's going to do her right up against the pool table."

Nick took a deep breath and dug for his wallet. "I'm gonna crash, man."

"You sure?" Warrick asked. "Night's young."

"I'm beat." Nick fished a few dollars out for a tip and dropped them on the table. "Catch you later."

"Yeah," Warrick said, already distracted by the women sitting down in the next booth over.

Nick stuffed his wallet in his back pocket as he headed towards the door. He heard the woman laugh again, heard Greg's voice saying something indistinct in a low, intimate tone. He forced himself not to look back since, obviously, Greg never had.