First time
Title: First time
Chapter: Epilogue, 11/11
Pairing: Nick and Greg
Rating: PG-13 to NC-17, depending on the chapter.
Genre: Romance, Angst, Drama
Disclaimer: They belong to the CBS and not me
Summary: What happened later in life?
This is the first story I ever wrote and after having given it a makeover, I have decided to post it here.


A/N: This is the end and I wrote it as Greg looking back on his life.
I’ve been grateful for all the positive comments about this story and I know that much more could have been written. But every story has to have an end.


At work one night Warrick asked Nick directly if he had sex with Greg when they were on their way out to a scene. Nick had had this big goofy smile on his face and it was evident that he was overjoyed. He knew how scared Nick had been of how Warrick would react and he was glad that Warrick just openly gave Nick his support. It boosted Nick’s confidence enough to tell his parents and his mother insisted on meeting the man that had finally stolen his heart and didn’t seem all too surprised that her little boy was gay.

His first visit in the Stokes family had been a partial success; most received him well but two of Nick’s brothers in law were barely able to be polite to him. It took many years for him to realize that it was simply his personality they disliked and not homophobia. Nick had been accepted with open arms in his family and all the kids adored their uncle Nicky to a point where he nearly got jealous.

They both knew what it involved of risks to work in law enforcement even if they weren’t on the street. But Nigel Crane almost took them apart. They were both extremely thankful that they used Greg’s apartment and Nick only used his house to take a break away from everything. It made them go house hunting and six months later they bought one together giving some lame story at work about two singles sharing a big house was far better than living in two small apartments and that Nick anyway needed to get rid of his house. Grissom had called them on their relationship shortly after that and told them that he was okay with it as long as it didn’t become a problem. It didn’t, not even when he was blown up in the lab and all he remembered was feeling guilty that Sara went down in the explosion too. He survived the terror of Nick buried alive and he got out alive when he was held at gunpoint. Their love gave them the strength needed to come out on the other side fairly unharmed.

Children from both the Stokes and Sanders family loved staying with them for school holidays and during every summer they had the house filled with children; which gave an incredible empty feeling when the holiday ended. One year a 16 year old niece of Nick showed up in February. She cried her eyes out at first telling them why she was there. She had gotten pregnant and found out when it was too late and her dad had kicked her out and she could only think of coming to them. Nick yelled a lot at his sister and then enrolled his niece in the local high school and arranged for her to have her exams even though she would be giving birth in late may. A perfect little girl arrived and she was named Nicola and Greg got back to school. The baby took a real fancy to him so he went along to school and babysat while her mother was in class and later on at exams.

A boy of a murdered woman moved in with them as well and later a friend of his from school that had a pothead for a father and a mother nowhere to be found. Having a family and working long shifts did cause them some problems but they managed it together.
Nicola’s mother wanted to go to college and decided to leave her daughter behind and to let Nick adopt her. They shared her college fee with her grandmother so she could study law; she was a real Stokes after all.

Over the years several children found refuge with them; some just for a few days before moving on and never to be heard from again, others stayed for longer and had them as backup parents and some adopted them as parents for life.
Having children meant them against the kids. So they did a lot of good cop bad cop. Nick was always the good one because he could never get really angry at the kids. Greg wasn’t one to become angry easily but when he did everybody jumped to attention and humored him. He often wondered when they had become a copy of his parents. Nobody had ever said having children was easy and especially not when the children became teenagers.
But love conquers all as they say and ‘they’ are often right.

They worked better together than apart and they barely had to talk about what came next; it just fell natural. Sometimes the others would leave interrogations to them, simply because it just seemed easier for them to make people talk.
Nick had come out gradually; it had taken him a long time to trust himself and other people enough. A few years after Nick had okayed living in public Greg got involved in the gay-rights community, rallying for marriage and adoption.
He had never thought he would end up in politics; but people listened to him and they respected him.

When he looked back on his life he knew that it had not started for real until the day he met Nick. Until then he had never been so happy, so scared, so excited or so much in love. Nor had he ever fought so hard for anything as he had for his life with Nick.



Previous chapters can be found here:

First time, First night, chapter 1

First time, Second night, chapter 2

First time, Third week, chapter 3

First time, Fourth week, chapter 4

First time, Five days, chapter 5

First time, Six minutes, chapter 6

First time, It was the seventh, chapter 7

First time, Eight cards, chapter 8

First time, The whole nine yards, chapter 9

First time, Ten days to go, chapter 10