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'Vartann is husband material however Nicky my boy makes me feel so alive. But now I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place' Catherine POV. Story is set six months after Meat Jekyll, Lou and Catherine are engaged and Nick is on a slippery slope towards disaster because of the shooting.
Ch1: Booty Call
Oh how did I get myself in this mess? I feel awful actually a little more than awful I can't find the word for this.
I've been sleeping with Nick on an off for a few years now. There is something about him, and something many of you do not know about him. He is very bad the last few years he's been a little unpredictable. He tried not to be out of line at work, however everywhere else he was. He has been suspended a few times especially recently but he was still a damn good CSI.
Nick started working out like crazy, he learned hand to hand combat.
However we started sleeping together after he was buried alive, it's was wrong but something about Nick was different. We stopped when Ecklie investigated Grissom and Sara's relationship. We stopped to save our own ass, we liked each other but we liked our jobs more.
Then I have Vartann, Vartann and I just recently got engaged. I really do love him, he's funny, sweet, kind and he's just special.
Whatever Lou lacked Nick made up for and vice versa. I couldn't or can't bring myself to leave either of them. However now I'm getting to a point in my life where I need to decide. What example am I setting for my daughter? God forbid she ever finds out!
Nick knows about me and Lou but, nobody knows about Nick and me. Nick was a bachelor and I was the only person Nick was sleeping with on a more typical basis.
Lou was a wine and dine fellow while Nick probably was too but the side of Nick I saw was a backseat, behind the courthouse, or in the bathroom stalls kind of love. I love them both but both men I had different love for, both men were so different especially towards me.
Unfortunately, I hated lying Lou but seeing Nick made that feeling go away. Or when I would see Lou after a fight with Nick, in a sick twisted way I was using both men.
And now I'm sitting in court thinking about this, every time I go to think about something else I get drawn back to think about it. I watch as Greg testifies about some case the name even slips my mind. I felt my phone vibrate.
'U still at the courthouse?' Nick texted
'Yea u?'
'I just finished u want 2 meet up somewhere?'
'Behind the courthouse or the garage?'
'Courthouse in 5, ok' he sent back quickly, I quietly left the courtroom. That was typically how long our conversations were about this topic.
"Hey babe" Lou said
"Hey you, when do you testify?" I asked
"In like two minutes, you want to get a bite to eat afterwards?"
"Sure, good luck" I gave him a sweet kiss on his cheek and he left.
I met Nick in the usual spot. I can't believe that this is our 'meeting spot' behind the courthouse with the risk so high of getting caught and both our careers being in jeopardy we still meet here… a lot.
"I gotta to talk to you..." I say pulling my skirt down.
"About what?" Nick said zipping his pants and fixing his belt.
"Lou asked me to marry him,"
"Ok?" Nick says buttoning my shirt, as I fixed my hair.
"What do you mean 'ok'?"
"What do you want me to say?" he said resting against the brick building loosening his tie. What did I want him to say what was I going to say? "I mean..." he says lightly rubbing my arm "I mean... He asked you but your still with me behind the courthouse, why what did you say?" he says confused.
"I said yes.."
"How romantic?" Nick mocked I pushed him back. I started to walk back to the front of the courthouse. I hear Nick follow me.
"You're a jerk, Nick" I say he laughs.
"Ok? Well I can obviously tell you are not happy with him, or you wouldn't keep coming back"
"Don't flatter yourself" I said turning around "what's going on with you? Why are you being such a jerk?"
"I am not! Besides you know you love it... So are you going to marry him?" he laughs.
"I don't know"
"Do you want to? Because it doesn't seem like you do?"
"Don't say that! You don't know!" I yell he rolls his eyes making me angrier with him.
"Then explain it to me... Huh? you say yes to him but have sex with me?" he said as his phone beeped, he looked at it. He was actually a little upset that I was marrying Lou or was it something else. "I gotta go" he said leaving me alone to think... Again.
I fixed it up a bit. Reviews?