Title: Pain Beyond Hurt
Author: Benny
Feedback: sure... angelofmusic_phantom@yahoo.com
Rating: FRAO
Paring(s): Greg Sanders/ Warrick Brown
Disclaimers: I don't own the characters of this story, they are property of...blah blah blah
Summary: What happens when things go wrong.
Warnings: M/M scenes...suggestive content...and a little bit of m/m sex

Greg stormed through the hallways of CSI. He flung his stuff to the floor in the break room and went to the sink. He needed to get something liquid in his system, he dived for his coffee. Cup by cup he downed it for five minutes straight until he had finished off the pot. He slammed his head against the cabinet and tears dripped off of his cheeks. How was I so blind to see that? I should have noticed.

"Greg, is everything alright?"

Oh great...Sara. Out of all the people, why her. "I'm alright Sara, just a rough morning. I didn't get much sleep." And he wasn't lying, after that late night he maybe got two hours of sleep. At that moment the rest of the crew walked in. All of Sophia and Grissim, that is a HUGE shift. Greg tried to rub his eyes, make it seem like that is what made them red. He promised Sophia that he wouldn't loose his fun personality. And he can't.

Grissim passed out the case assignments. Yay, another B&E. At least he trusts me to do it on my own now. The case was a simple one. The guys just wanted to intimidate the people. They were "robbed" with water pistols, and the cash was found out back. Obviously teenagers. Back at the lab he ran into Warrick. The fine, African-American man stood six feet two inches tall and nicely built. He was just so hot, it was so hard for Greg not to tackle this man down and just shove himself onto him. But Warrick is a ladies man, easier said than done. It's not like the entire lab doesn't know about Greg's sexuality...quite the contrary, they ALL knew.

"Hey Greggo. You have a good shift? Cause no offense...but you look like crap."

"It was just a long night. Guy troubles."

"Oh I gotcha, I do the same thing."

"Yeah but why wouldn't your women want to keep coming back to you-I mean that I'm sure your a great guy." Warrick just shook his head and laughed, Greg just let his head hung, he knew that he just blew it.

"Greg, who said that it was girls that I have the trouble with? Actually, I have the same kind of guy troubles." Greg knew he must have been dreaming, Warrick couldn't be - but he just admitted it. "Greg, let's go to my place and we can talk about it. Just to get the load off your shoulders."

They were both off, so why not. "Sure. Let's go."

They headed out, hopped into Warrick's Tahoe and drove off to his place, Greg could not see the devilish smirk on Warrick's face. Warrick had something planned. At his building they walked four floors and into his apartment. Greg walked in and shut the door. When he turned around he saw Warrick six inches from him, staring him straight into his eyes. Warrick leaned further towards Greg and kissed him. Greg did not put up a fight. He welcomed it happily. They stood there for what seemed like hours making out, using their tongues to explore each other's mouths.

Warrick picked up Greg while keeping them attached. He moved him to the couch, (because at that moment the bedroom was too far away.) and ripped Greg's colorful Hawaiian Shirt off and buttons flew all over the place. In no time flat the two guys were embracing each other completely naked. For two passionate hours they made love to each other, and they fell asleep holding each other.

Greg woke up and looked around, then he remembered the past night. It was great. Then his conscience kicked in. Oh god, we work together. I shouldn't have done that. But I can't leave him here. I will not abandon him in his time of need as Michael did to me. Thinking that made him remember Michael and all of the nights that they had. No. NO NO NO NO NO. I won't go back to him. He cheated on me for long enough. after two years I find out he has been cheating on me for seven months. Maybe Warrick is what I need right now. Greg laid back into Warrick's warm embrace and felt the man's warm crotch on his back. Then Greg heard his phone go off. He reached over and it was Grissim. He was being called in early. He didn't want to wake up Warrick so he just got up, got dressed, and left.

A couple of hours later he passed by Warrick. He saw the hurt look in his eyes and realized what he did. He didn't know that I was called in early. Greg knew that look and recognized it. It was the look he had had. He just hoped that it wasn't too late. But then he realized, No, I have feelings for Warrick. I think I'm falling in love. After that thought he felt real pain. He realized that he had hurt the man he loved. He felt pain beyond his hurt.

-"True love means never having to say your sorry."