A/N: one review wasn't happy I killed pride in my story voicemail. I don't think they will actually kill pride. I mean how can you kill off the boss? That would be like killing Gibbs. The show I don't think will survive doing that. Anyway here is another one. I don't own anything that is familiar.

Sonja woke to her cell phone ringing in the middle of the night. She was worried when she saw it was chris.

"what's wrong?" She asked already knowing something because he would never call her in the middle of the night.

"Hey city mouse. I'm sorry I didn't realize the time... go back to sleep." He told her his voice sounding off to her.

"Chris? What's wrong?"

"I don't know, everything, nothing." He said sounding frustrated. "Never mind. Forget I called and go back to sleep."

"You do know that I won't be able to do that right? Talk to me. You obviously called for a reason."

"Pride was shot in the upstairs of his bar with all of us celebrating downstairs." He finally spit out.

"Is pride going to be ok?" She asked worried for chris if pride didn't make it.

"He's in intensive care now that he's out of surgery. They are saying 60/40 if he wakes up soon."

"Did you get the person that shot him?" She asked wondering if that was the issue.

"Yeah. She was trying to get back outside unnoticed but the whole team was there and she was supposed to have still been in the hospital in a coma. If we hadn't have spotted her we might not have checked on pride in time to get him to the hospital for surgery."

They sat for a moment neither talking before Sonja said. "Well you guys were celebrating. You were able to capture what sounds like the last player. Pride made it through surgery and he probably will make it. Sounds like well maybe not a good day but not one of the worst either." She was still trying to figure out why he had called her.

Chris was silent so long she looked at her phone to make sure the call was still connected. Then he heaved a huge sigh and said quietly. "I miss you."

She was taken aback he called her because he missed her?

She must have made a noise or was quiet too long because chris asked, "Sonja, you ok?"

Her brain scrambled for a response to that. Was she ok? She wasn't happy with her new job like she thought she'd be. She had spent most of the past few weeks thinking about the team and wondering if they were ok. If she was honest with herself she had by team she meant chris. So she sighed and said, "I miss you too country mouse."

"The team is on leave again because of the leak and attack on pride."

"Oh, what are you going to do this time?"

"Go home and figure out the mess the company is in with the irs thanks to my father's shady business practices and this last case for getting them to look into the company."

She frowned she had thought he had said that looking for an invitation to visit. "What happened?"

"The asshole that was after pride told the irs to dig in to lasalle inc. and they found tax fraud. Which means I get to clean up tax returns I barely understand, and pay back taxes, penalties, and fines."

"I'm so sorry Chris." She said sounding shocked.

"It's not that big of a deal but I think that Rebecca helped him with the shady returns and now I don't know if I can trust her." He sighed, "I don't know everything about the business, and I can't run it without help, which I have been getting from her."

"Well why not find the lawyer that helped with the business before her? Have them help you and help train a replacement since I assume they are probably retired. And if your tax returns are messed up I'd look pretty heavy at your accountant too."

"See this is one reason why I miss you. Thanks, I wouldn't have thought about the previous lawyer. And yeah the accountants are being reviewed by the irs. They are going to let me know which ones they think were involved."

They lapsed back into silence. Sonja drifted in and out of sleep the phone still to her ear. Chris must have heard her because he said so softly she wouldn't have caught it if his voice hadn't pulled her from sleep. "I don't just miss you Sonja. I love you, there is this huge whole in my life without you. I hope you sleep well city mouse."

He hung up before she could say anything not that she knew what to say in response to that. Chris loved her? She sat up too shocked to fall back to sleep.