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Vanished
"Nicky?" Nick heard as he was grabbing a quick lunch at a fast food restaurant before he needed to head back to the lab to finish his shift.
"Savannah?" Nick asked with a smile as he turned around. (Savannah had been a serious girlfriend of Nick's. He had met her very soon after moving to Vegas. She had been in Vegas attending nursing school at WUNLV. They had dated for a couple of years and even discussed marriage but when Savannah's mother got sick she had to move back to her home town in Tennessee to take care of her mom and she put her nursing career on hold. Eventually the flame burned out between her and Nick)
"Yeah, hi, how are you?" The woman asked as she wrapped her arms around Nick. Her long and pretty gold colored fingernails caught his eye.
"Good, how about yourself?"
"I'm good. So are you still a CSI?" she asked.
"Yeah, what are you doing these days?"
"I'm a nurse."
"So you finished school, good for you. How's your mom?"
"She's doing much better now."
"Are you back in town for good, or just here for a visit?"
"I'm here for good, I just got a nursing job here at one of the hospitals."
"Good for you."
"You know Nicky, I never really stopped loving you, and now that I'm back in town we could rekindle our romance." She said as she leaned in close to him.
Nick took a step backwards, he smiled at her and said "I'm sorry Savannah, but I'm married now." He said as he showed her his wedding ring.
"Happily married?" she asked.
"Extremely happy."
"Well, you know, you could have your cake and eat it too, you're a CSI, I'm sure you could find a way to keep things between us a secret."
Nick shook his head "Sorry, but I'm not that kind of guy, I take my vows seriously, I'd never betray my wife like that, not to mention my three children."
"Well your loss then." She said sounding angry as she turned and walked out of the restaurant.
Nick shrugged his shoulders and ordered his hamburger and fries, waited for his order to come up and then drove back to the lab to finish his shift.
When he got home after work he walked through the front door. Jasmine and Houston were sitting on the floor playing with their toys and baby Johnna was in her basinet sleeping peacefully.
"Hi guys, where's mommy?" Nick asked as he picked up Jasmine and Houston.
He noticed that Jackie's van was gone when he had pulled into the driveway.
"Mama bye bye." Jasmine said.
"Oh ok." Nick said with a smile.
"Aubrey, I'm home, thanks for watching the kids." He called to his mother in law who he thought must be in the kitchen.
Jackie's mom watched the kids while Jackie worked. She also watched them on the weekends if Jackie had some quick errands to run.
Since today was Saturday Nick knew Jackie wasn't working so he thought that Jackie must have had a couple things to do around town.
"Gammy no here dada." Jasmine said.
"Oh ok, in that case, Rich, you can go home now." Nick said.
Jackie's dad loved babysitting the kids on the weekends when Jackie needed a babysitter because he worked throughout the week and didn't get to see his grandkids nearly as much as he'd like.
"Gampy no here dada." Jasmine said looking at Nick like he was crazy.
"Then who is watching you and your little brother and your baby sister?" He asked.
Nick's heart sank with Jasmine's answer.
"Me do dada." She said.
"You?" He asked his little girl alarmed.
"Yeah." Jasmine said sounding quite proud of herself.
Nick knew that there was absolutely no way Jackie would ever leave the kids alone, not even to go next door to the neighbors. Jackie didn't even like leaving the kids alone in the house while she was in the backyard. Nick immediately set Jasmine and Houston down and picked up the phone.
"911 what is your emergency?" the operator asked.
"My wife is missing." Nick said sounding panicked.
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