It was a very slow night at CSI Headquarters. The whole night shift (graveyard) was in the break room doing nothing productive. Catherine was sitting on the couch that looked to have just come out of a burning house reading a fashion magazine, well not really reading it just skimming though the pictures. Sara was nibbling on a carrot and looked to be having a staring contest with the floor. Warrick was half asleep at the table and Nicky was asleep on the other side. All the while Grissom was working on a crossword puzzle.
They only had about two cases the whole shift and they were solved in two hours. Warrick, Nick and Grissom had a murder of young woman in her boyfriend's apartment. The boyfriend confessed with in five minutes of the interrogation. Catherine and Sara had a robbery at a Seven-Eleven once they watched the security tapes the robbers were stupid enough to look at the camera. The police arrested the guys while they were at the coffee shop next to the police station, the place was loaded with cops that were on there break time.
Sara seemed to have given up on the staring contest and let the floor win. She took a look around the room and everyone but Grissom looked to be bored out of their minds. They needed something to do, or have another case to come in. Catherine was fed up with the magazine she had been flipping though ten times in the last half an hour. She threw it across the room hitting the half asleep Warrick right in the forehead. Of course he didn't know what hit him and frankly he didn't really care. He shrugged his shoulders and went back to half sleep land.
"That's it, I can't take this anymore, we need to desperately do something fun like play a game or just leave since shift is over in." Catherine said with rage she looked over at the clock on the wall but Sara beat her to it.
"Five minutes and thirty-eight seconds but who's counting"
Catherine looked over at her and smiled. Warrick was now fully awake by Catherine's voice; she could be loud when she wants to. Nicky of course was in la la land and was dreaming about girls in bikinis giving him a nice well-deserved massage. Grissom didn't even look up form his crossword puzzle instead he asked:
"What's another name for ice cream thinner, it's the only one I can't get"
Warrick, Catherine, and Sara looked at him with shocked looks on their faces, when no one replied he looked up to see if anyone was even paying attention. He saw one person asleep and three more staring at him.
"Was it something I said?" Grissom asked sheepishly.
"Griss, did you even hear me yelling like three minutes ago, I even chucked a magazine and Warrick" Catherine said as she bent down to pick it up and placed it back on the pile beside the couch.
"So that's what it was?" Warrick asked and smiled.
"No sorry, but shifts over so you can all go home"
"Alright! Time for nap in a real bed!" Warrick said and practically jumped out of the chair and ran to the lockers.
Sara shook Nick awake he moaned and said "not yet, no don't leave yet" he said.
"Nicky, it's time to come back to the real world for like fifteen minutes so you can go home and sleep" Sara whispered in his ear.
"Where's everyone going?" Nick said as he saw people leaving the break room.
"Home Nicky, shifts over" She told him.
"Thank god for that" and they got up and left.
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