"One Nightmare to Another"
Chapter One
By: Faith/Hope&Love951
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters of CSI. I am just writing this for fun and in hopes that others will enjoy the story.
It has been too many years since I've seen the outside of that horrid place. Those dingy walls that I was forced to live within, just because I trusted him. Trusted him to remember who I am. Just because I had given him a part of me and he took that and thrown it in my face and for that I hate him, but at the same time I know it wasn't his fault. It was the fault of the people he works with and they will have to pay for that. He will have to watch as I make them pay.
One by one, he will see that it doesn't pay to have anyone else as a friend. I am the only one that he needs and the only one that he will ever have for the rest of our lives.
He looks around the room and smiled. It had been a long time since he'd been there and he was glad it would be his last. Before this day was over he would make sure that this whole building was destroyed, just like his dreams was destroyed in this room years before.
Soon, I will have what was meant to be mine, and when I do he will know that I am the only one that he will every need for now and forever.
Faith Hope and Love
Looking out the window of his truck, Nick didn't hear half of what the driver had said to him. His mind on the city lights outside instead of how crowded it seemed in the small area. He had been in the hospital for two weeks, and today he was going home for the first time since he had been buried alive in that darn box.
"I tell you, I thought that mom was going to have a heart attach right then and there," Nick heard his brother Robert say. He turned to look at his brother and wondered what he was talking about. "Hmmm?"
Robert smiled as he turned to Nick and then looked back to the road and stirred the vehicle down the street that lead to Nick's community. "I'm glad I had a chance to come here when mom and dad headed back to Dallas. It's going to be good spending some time with you and learning more about what it's like living away from Dallas, if only for a few weeks."
Nick sighed as he turned his attention back to the lights outside. "Sometimes I really wish things were more like back home. That we had more open range without having a desert."
"Do you miss Dallas?"
The CSI nodded, "Yeah at times, but I love my job. Enjoy working with the guys here. I don't think I will every go back to Dallas to live. Vegas is my home now."
Pulling into Nick's driveway, Robert parked the car and turned his attention to his brother. "You go on inside and I'll get your things and bring them in."
Nick didn't need to be told twice. He just wanted to be in his home and in his own bed. He was tired and at that moment, he didn't care what happened with the rest of the day. He just hoped he could get a few hours sleep without the nightmares coming back to haunt him.
Faith Hope and Love
Gil Grissom sat at his desk filling out paper work when he heard a knock on the door. Looking up he waved for Brass to enter. "Hi Jim, I thought you went home already."
The CSI frowned as he saw the sad expression on his friends face. "What's wrong?"
Jim took a deep breath before starting. "I just got a call from Upstairs. It seems that Nigel Crane has escaped."
"What…how could this have happened. I thought he was in a high security area." Grissom said standing and moved closer to where the detective stood.
"I don't know how it happened yet. Another district is over that case. I'm going to head over and see what I can do to help find Crane and get him back where he belongs before he can do any damage."
Grissom thought for a moment. "Nick was released from the hospital a little while ago. His brother was bringing him home. I need you to get someone there and at his door at all times. He has been though too much already, I don't want anything else to happen to him."
Brass held up his hand to stop the CSI as he headed toward the door. "I've just called for a Black and White to be sent to his home."
"Good, Nick can't handle anything like this right now…" Grissom started to pace. "My God he's hasn't really dealt with being buried alive…and now this had to happen."
"We'll make sure that nothing happens to him…" Brass explained as his cell phone started to ring.
"Brass…WHAT! Are you sure? Yeah I'm on my way and will have a forensic team with me. Yeah." Brass looked to Grissom tears already forming in his eyes. "We've got a new case. That was a call from the Black and white sent to Nick's. His house is inflamed and several firefighter teams are trying to put it out."
Grissom looked at the man for several moments before asking, "was Nick at home?"
Brass nodded, "His car was in the driveway. They don't know if he was inside the house, but no one saw anyone come out after Nick was spotted going in with his brother."
Faith Hope and Love
Everything seemed to go in slow motion as the five CSI's looked at the scene before them. The flames that had destroyed their friend's home were being slowly put out. Each one's mind going a million miles a minute, and each one said a prayer that no one was inside and by some miracle Nick and his brother had gotten out.
As they watched, they each remembered weeks before how Nick had struggled to live for hours in that box, they couldn't see how all that could have happened just for a fire to take his life now.
After some time, they heard one of the fire fighter's call out, "We've got a body in here."
To Be Continued.