Nick hung up and went back to paying attention to the road ahead of them, and he made a decision. Alaska would be a good place to go. The terrain alone would help him make a getaway if need be, and he had a four wheel drive truck from his mother. It'd be perfect. Nick pulled off the highway he was on and pulled onto a different one that headed in that direction as soon as he had a route to do so. Nick made it to Fort Nelson before he could head towards the Yukon Territory and work his way towards Alaska. He pulled off to a rest area where he had Diana and himself go to the bathroom, and they slept. Nick fell asleep in the back seat with Diana on his lap and his arms curled around her.
When Nick woke up the next morning, he took Diana for a walk before they climbed back in the truck, and headed back on the road. That day they made it to Whitehorse before making another stop, and that's when the phone rang. Nick let it go to voicemail, and then listened to the voicemail.
"Nick, I know you told me not to call you at this number, but your house was burned to the ground today. People are asking questions about whether or not you were in the house or not, because a body was found in the remains." Rosalee's voice said in the voicemail, but Nick didn't call her back, he dialed Trubel, who picked up on the second ring.
"Hello."
"Trubel. It's done?"
"Yeah, I was about to call you actually. We made Juliette's body unidentifiable, so it could seem like it could have been you. Sean, is having it not dug to into about whose body it is, so people might stop looking for you. At least that's what we hope until we can get this thing sorted out with the Resistance and the Royals. Sean and I figured that was the best idea."
"Yeah, keep everyone else out of the loop, except Adalind, but make it known that she needs to shut her lip if she wants Diana to be safe. I'm headed east, so in case any questions arise about my location."
"Thanks, Nick. I'll roll with that. No more information though, and you should probably get rid of this cell then, so if anyone tries to contact you our story might be plausible, alright?"
"Yeah, of course not, and I'll turn it off and toss it after this call."
"You're not really headed east are you?"
"You wanted no more information, Trubel." Nick said before he hung up, and he kept driving. They made it to Dawson before Nick stopped for food, bathroom breaks, and sleep, and Nick hid the cell phone in the trash can in the men's room. They then found a rest area where Nick parked the car and they fell asleep, Nick with Diana in his arms.
Hank, Sean, Monroe, and Rosalee showed up to the scene of the remains of Nick's house, now a black pile of ash on a concrete slab. The arson crew at work trying to figure out the cause of the fire, and how it took the house down so quickly.
"I can't believe it's gone. Why would they think Nick would come back here with Diana, and if they did come back wouldn't they think that she was in there with him?" Monroe asked.
"Not necessarily." Sean answered, not revealing his part in taking the house down. "Maybe they thought they could lure him back by torching his place." Sean said as he walked up to the crime scene tape and Hank followed.
"Captain, we have a body over here?" one of the firefighters shouted. Everyone turned and looked around thinking who could it be that was in Nick's house. They knew it wasn't Trubel or Adalind because they called them after they got the call from the fire department. Sean and Hank walked over to the firefighter and examined the remains and then Sean walked away, and made a phone call. Monroe followed him with his eyes.
"I wonder who he's calling." Monroe said as he wrapped his arms around Rosalee.
"I don't know, does it matter. Probably Nick." She said and they both shrugged. Sean hung up the phone and he walked back up to the firefighters.
"Let's get anything we need back to the precinct and the body to the M.E. to see if they can identify the remains." Sean walked back towards his car, and Hank followed him. "Let's get out of here."
"Captain, there is no way that's Nick right."
"Will talk about that once we get to Trubel's. Not here, too many ears around." Sean climbed into the driver's seat of his car and everyone pilled in after him. He drove to Trubel's apartment and they ascended the stairs and knocked on the door when they reached the apartment. "Now, we need to talk."
"Come on in. I've had…you brought everyone." Trubel stumbled as she noticed everyone else behind Sean.
"Yeah, was I not supposed to bring them?"
"I'll explain inside." Trubel said as she stepped out of the way for everyone to walk in. "Can I talk to you in private, Sean?" Trubel said as she walked off and Sean followed her. Once they were in her room she shut the door and turned on her stereo.
"What's wrong?"
"So I talked to Nick, and he just wants you, me, and Adalind in on this. Monroe, Rosalee, and Hank are Nick's closest friends and he thinks that if they act like they haven't heard from him or seen him in a couple of days, then they might treat the body as him, because I made sure that they couldn't identify Juliette as Juliette, at least until we want them to know that it's Juliette, per DNA that one of us happens to find at our place. We treat this body as Nick, until he's 'found' that's how he wants it. If they know it's not him they could act differently. He wants Adalind to know because the stress of the baby and because he's going to keep in contact with her because of the baby and Diana. They can't know. At least not for sure. They have to question if it's him or not, which they are probably doing right now sitting out in that room." Trubel finished, and Sean looked from her to the door behind him.
"Wouldn't Adalind be telling them right now what's going on?"
"No, I already told her she can't tell anyone that she's in contact with Nick, not even Monroe, Rosalee, and Hank."
"Alright, but they're going to ask questions that we can't answer."
"I've already figured that out, and clued in Adalind. We're going to tell them that Nick's off grid, and we haven't heard from him since the spice shop, anything could have happened, Adalind is going to act like she's going to be sick and head for Nick's room, which she's now sleeping in by the way. Then you are going to take everyone home and let them ponder the possibilities."
"Alright, I don't know if it's going to work, but we can try. Can you deal with lying to them until Nick and Diana are safe?"
"If this is what Nick wants I'm going with it. I owe Nick more than I owe them, he's the only reason that I came back when they called."
"Alright, let's do this."
The pair walked back out to find four pairs of eyes on them, and Trubel walked over and stared back at them, while Sean sat down next to Adalind and whispered something in her ear, but the other three were too focused on Trubel to notice.
"Alright, so Nick's off grid, he could be anywhere, and that includes in that house. I haven't the faintest idea of where he is, and he hasn't contacted us, we also can't reach him on the cell phone that he called to Rosalee's shop with."
"I'm going to be sick, I'll be right back." Adalind stood up and she almost ran to the bathroom. Monroe stood up and he walked up to Trubel.
"What do you mean? He isn't dead, wouldn't that mean that the Resistance already had Diana though. Why would they still be talking to us and negotiating with us if they already had her?"
"Maybe they want us to think that they don't have her to put us off, I don't know, but we are going to go under the assumption that it could be Nick, but it might not be Nick. We don't know because we haven't heard from him. That is what you are going to tell anyone that asks you anything about it, because it's true, and if Nick is still out there it'll give him and Diana the best shot." Trubel responded calmly, and Sean was impressed though he didn't show it on his face in case anyone was paying him any attention.
"For now I think we should head out in case anyone shows up and asks you any questions about Nick." Sean said as he went to stand, and he grabbed his coat and headed to the door. Everyone that road with him followed him out, saying good bye as they left. Trubel went to go check on Adalind, and when she walked into Nick's room, she found Adalind curled into Nick's sheets.
"He is going to be okay, right?"
"Yeah, Adalind. Nick knows how to take care of himself, he's been doing it for years." Trubel smoothed her hair back, and laid down on the other side of the bed. "Try not to worry about him, he'll find a safe place to stay." Trubel and Adalind drifted off to sleep.
Nick woke up again in his mother's truck with Diana in his arms, and Nick opened the car door and stepped out still with her in his arms. He stepped out into the sunlight and slipped on some sunglasses to hide his eyes. Nick walked to the bathroom, and when he got there he realized that he didn't know what to do with Diana while he went to the bathroom. Usually she just waited by the door or went into one of the stalls to go to the bathroom while he did, but now, she was asleep.
The counter for the sinks was right next to the urinals, so Nick decide to place her on the counter next to the last urinal, while he went to the bathroom. When he was finished he quickly washed his hands and picked her back up, carrying her out of the bathroom and back to the truck. They were only few miles from the Alaskan border, and then he would figure out how to work his way to Fairbanks.
He placed Diana in her car seat, and he climbed into the truck, pulled back on the highway, and headed north. It didn't take long before he was at a border check, and he had to get out their passports again. "Passports, sir." The border police asked as Nick put the truck in park at the gate. Nick just handed the passports over as the officer asked, "What is your business in Alaska?"
"Temporary get away. I needed to get away from my life for a while and my daughter wanted to see Alaska, and her babysitter told her about the Northern Lights and I just had to take her. She's my little girl."
"Alright, may I ask about your wife?"
"She was taken out of my daughter's life at a young age and after this trip I'm hoping that'll change. I wanted her to have something nice, in case something doesn't go as plan." Nick commented, and after regretted that he may have said too much.
"You dying?"
"Well, that's what the doctors say, because they aren't sure if it's too late or not yet. They ran some tests, and we'll just have to see." Nick was surprised at how, after becoming a Grimm, the lies just rolled off the tongue without a second thought.
"Alright, well, enjoy your stay. I hope you get better for your daughter's sake. She's adorable by the way."
"Thank you, I appreciate it." The gate went up, and Nick pulled forwards. He continued forwards on the highway, and he kept driving, until he could hear Diana start to wake up in the back seat.
"Daddy, where are we?" Diana's voice came from the back seat, Nick jumped slightly at the sound of the word Daddy on her lips.
"Alaska. We're in Alaska, Diana."
"Oh, alright. Mommy told me about Alaska. She said that she had a place here, and she was going to take me here sometime. I really looked forwards to it."
"She ever say where this place was?"
"Fairbanks. She said it was the most beautiful place in Alaska, and you could see the Northern Lights from her cabin very well."
"Do you happen to know where she said the cabin was?"
"The north side of Fairbanks off of Goldstream Road."
"Alright," Nick sighs as he pushes the gas petal down a little farther trying to get there a little faster. He'd been on the road since the boarder cross for three hours, he couldn't be that much farther from Fairbanks. After another hour, Nick was getting tired and he pulled off at a rest stop, so he could go to the bathroom, and hopefully get Diana to go, since he had only gotten a few hours of sleep before heading back out and she hadn't gone in a while.
After the rest stop, Nick buckled Diana back into the seat, and he tossed the one disposable cell that he had used to call the Spice shop and Adalind, smashing it before he threw it away. Nick climbed into the truck and pulled onto the highway, and he pulled out another of the cell phones that he took from his mother's house and he dialed Trubel's cell. It was probably almost 7 in Portland. Trubel picked up on the sixth ring right as it was about to go to voicemail.
"Hello, who is this? Do you know how early it is?"
"Trubel," Nick started but he could feel his voice cracking from lack of sleep.
"Nick! What the hell? Do you know how early it is?"
"Yeah it's early I know. I can't sleep, and I'm still driving. I just need a reassuring voice right now. Please can you just do that for me?" Nick pleaded, and he could hear the brokenness in his own voice, he could only imagine how it sounded to Trubel.
"Yeah, but let me give the phone to someone whose awake." Nick could hear Trubel getting out of bed and shuffling around the room. He heard her talking to someone as they took the phone.
"Hello," Nick heard Adalind's voice on the other end of the line. "Nick, is that you?"
"Yeah, Adalind. It's me." Nick muttered with relief. She sounded alright considering the circumstances. "How are you?"
"I'm great. I have a doctor's appointment today for our little boy. They want to check everything out, make sure he's healthy. Have you seen a doctor yet?"
"No, I thought we had a place to settle and then a Hundjäger found us, and we had to run. I'm still trying to find a new place, but I think I'm almost there, and then I will see a doctor, promise. Who's taking you to the doctor?"
"Trubel. She won't let me out of her sight until you're home. She's afraid that the Resistance might try and kidnap me to get to you, though everyone who knows you're the father is dead or tight lipped about you being the father. At least it hope so, but she's very protective of me right now, and I'm kind of alright with that right now given the circumstances. See a doctor, Nick, please. I need you, and I'm trusting you right now. Please don't let me down."
"I won't not if I have anything to do about it. Tell me about him."
"I have been thinking about names, and none of them so far have seemed like they would fit. I was thinking we could name him after your father, but I wasn't sure if that was a good idea, I know I want him to have your last name, since he is yours and honestly mine is a bit tainted at this point. I was also thinking about names that you would like, but then I realized that I didn't know enough about you to know what you would want to name our son. What do you think?"
"I think we should pick a name that fits him after we see him for the first time. It'll be easier to do that than trying to guess what would be a good name. How about that? And with that you don't have to stress about it. I mean you didn't name Diana until a few days after she was born, so I'm not rushed."
"Sounds good to me. Can I know where you are?"
"No I think it's best for no one to know where we are. I love you and trust you, but I thinks it's best for all of us to not know where we are. Only you, Sean, and Trubel no for definite that I'm still alive. I want to keep it that way. I love everyone and I miss them, but this is what's best for everyone. I'm dead, I want everyone to treat me as such, or kidnapped because I hid Diana and won't divulge her location. I want those to be everyone's options. Is Sean there?"
"No, he's at the office handling the fire at your house. Do you want to tell him that you want to talk to him?"
"Yes, but don't use Nick. Use Nico. It's close but not close enough that no one will pick up on it if they don't think about it. Don't say it around Hank, Rosalee, or Monroe, or Wu for that matter."
"Alright, I'll bring everyone in the loop. Do you want me to give this number to Sean?"
"Yeah, you can right it on a piece of paper and tell Sean, 'Nico wants this burned.' Those words and only those words. Make sure while saying you indirectly say that you want him to read it."
"Alright, I understand, Nick. Anything else."
"No, how about you?"
"You said I love you?" Adalind whispered, and Nick was caught by surprise.
"Yeah, I don't…I don't know wh-where that came from." Nick stuttered over the words, and Adalind laughed.
"It's alright. I love you, too. Bye." Adalind hung up before Nick could say anything or come out of his stupor. Nick put the phone down, and looked back at Diana, who looked as if she drifted back off to sleep. Nick kept driving until he saw a sign that said Fairbanks Next Exit. Nick followed the sign, and he came into Fairbanks. He drove to the city hall, and he parked the truck. Nick climbed out of the truck, and he retrieved Diana and walked into the building remembering all of his mother's aliases. He walked up to the desk, and he smiled at the young woman at the desk. Red hair, blue eyes and a not pale but not tan compaction.
"Can I help you, sir?"
"Yes, I'm wondering who could help me with figuring out the address of cabin that my mother owned." Nick asked with a flirtatious smirk.
"Oh, um, I could help you with that. What's the name?"
"Well, that's the thing my mother has been married a couple of times and I'm not sure which last name the lease is under. Can I give you a few different names?" Nick tried to lay it on thick, but it's been a few years since he's dated, and he wasn't sure if it was working or not. The girl smiled at him, and Nick knew that it had to be working.
"Yeah, that's fine. What are the names?"
"Well, her first name is Kelsey and her last name could be Smith, Williams, Brown, or Johnson."
"Alright give me a second to look them up."
"I believe it's off of Goldstream Road, if that helps." Nick said with a teeth filled smile, and the woman smiles back.
"Yes, that is helpful." She says and goes back to her computer. Nick let's her do her job, and her head popped up a few minutes later. "Yes, there is a Kelsey Williams here, but it isn't on Goldstream road, it's on Stony Hollow Lane, 1853."
"Thank you… I'm sorry I where did my manners go. I'm Nico Williams. What's your name?"
"Kyla. Kyla Sanders. It's nice to meet you, and who's this tired little girl?"
"My daughter, Diana." Nick said with a smile. "Thank you so much for your help, Kyla." Nick started walking away, until he thought of something. "I'm sorry, one more question. I recently ended my cell phone contract, and I haven't picked up another cell phone company yet, where would be the best place to go for up here?"
"Honestly, the best option up here is to just get a satellite phone, most phone companies don't bother with up here, and trying to compare which one is better is just hard work. Can you hold on one second? I can give you a list of stores and places you might need." She stood up and walked way, and she was gone for a few minutes when she finally came back handing Nick a piece of paper. Nick took it, and he held out his hand.
"Thanks, I really appreciate this."
"No problem." Kyla said as she took his hand. Nick let go first, and he slipped his sunglasses back on before walking out of the building and back in his truck. He buckled Diana back in her car seat before climbing into the driver's seat and looking at the paper.
Stores that might come in handy.
1) Cribs, Cradles, and Things-610 Cushman St.
2) Sam's Club-48 College Rd.
3) Walmart- 537 Johansen Expy
4) Once Upon a Child and Frontier Outfitters in the Gavora Mall- 250 3rd St.
5) Geek Electronics-418 3rd St. #2
6) Arctic Gunworks-1307 Kalakeket St.
7) Frank's Menswear-535 3rd Ave
8) Sportsman's Warehouse-423 Merhar Ave
9) Rent-A-Center in Eagle Plaza Mall-418 3rd St.
10) Alaskan Gun and Ammo-308 6th Ave
11) Alaskan Barber Shop-305 Eagle Ave
12) Seekins Ford Lincoln-1625 Seekins Ford Dr.
13) Famous Foorwear-415 Merhar Ave
Hospital- Fairbanks Memorial and Denali Center- 1650 Cowles St.
Directions from 1853 Stony Hollow Lane
1) Turn left on Goldstream Rd.
2) Turn left on Ballaine Rd.
3) Slight right on Farmers Loop Rd.
4) Continue on University Ave
5) Turn left on Johansen Expy
6) Take exit 2 for Peger Rd.
7) Keep right at fork and follow signs for Phillips Field Rd. and Airport Way, and merge on Peger Rd.
8) Turn left on Airport Way
9) Turn right on Cowles St.
10) Turn left on E. Cowles St.
11) The hospital is on the right.
Directions to Stony Hollow Lane
1) Head north on Cushman St.
2) Turn right on 1st Cross St. onto 8th Ave
3) Turn right at 2nd Cross St. onto Noble St.
4) Turn left on 10th Ave
5) Turn left onto AK-2 W.
6) Turn left on Goldstream Rd.
7) Turn left on Stony Hollow Lane, 1853 on right
Or
1) Head north on Cushman St. towards 8th Ave
2) Slight right on Illinois St.
3) Turn left on Philips Field Rd.
4) Turn right on Peger Rd.
5) Turn left to merge on Johansen Expy
6) Turn right on University Ave
7) Continue on Farmers Loop Rd.
8) Turn left on Balliane Rd.
9) Turn right on Goldstream Rd.
10) Turn right on Stony Hollow Lane, 1853 on right.
Kyla Sanders – (907) 322-8673 Call me!
Nick smiled at the notion, but he soon wasn't going to look the same. He was going to die his hair, and get color contacts. To someone who had known him for years it might not fool, but to someone who's not looking hard, might not notice him. Nick decided that he would head to Walmart on his way to the cabin, since Walmart was on one of the roads that he had to take to get to the cabin. He pulled out of the stall and he headed in that direction following the directions that Kyla gave him. He reached Walmart with ease, and he got out of the truck and grabbed Diana and he headed into the store. First he went to the cosmetics section to by blonde hair dye, not a blonde-blonde but a dirty blonde and then a woman walked up to him.
"Are you going to use that for yourself?"
Nick turned and looked at the woman. "That was the plan."
"Well, you're going to want to start off with a color that isn't so light, because your hair is so dark the color won't be that color. You would want to start off with a lighter brown and have that for a couple of week and then dye it the dirty blonde. It'd make the transition a lot easier."
"Thanks, you have any recommendations?" Nick asked as he waved his hand in front of the up teen million different hair colors in front of him.
"I'd try this one," the woman said as she picked a color off the shelf and handed it to him.
"Thanks." Nick was about to walk away when she grabbed his arm.
"May I ask why you want to dye your hair? You are quite an attractive man, and I guess I'm a bit nosy." She smiled at him, and Nick smiled back.
"I needed a change." Nick said as he gently pulled his arm out of her grasp and walked away. He walked back to the camping stuff and found all the equipment that he needed. A folding saw, a machete, knives of all kinds. He lost his stash of Grimm weapons so he had to restock. He then ventured over to the grocery section of the store and started buying food, because he wasn't sure what his mother had at her cabin. He bought a few other loose ends and then headed to the checkout. He piled everything on the cashier's line and the lady at the checkout started scanning everything. By the end the price was so high, Nick wasn't sure if he could pay for anything, but he pulled out the wallet that held all his fake IDs and credit cards, and he scanned the one that said Nico Williams, and he punched in the pin number that was on the small piece of paper with all of them on it.
The card was accepted and he packed all of his bags into his cart, and he pushed it out to the truck, where he loaded Diana into the truck first and then started loading the bags into the passenger seat. When he was finished, he pulled out of the parking lot and finished following the direction that Kyla had given him, and he was soon at the cabin. He unloaded the truck, and he looked around the cabin. It was a small three bedroom cabin one was set up as a master suite, a guest bedroom, and then a room with a crib, small toddler's bed and a twin sized bed in it with a fully stocked closet and dressers. The master suite held clothes that would probably have fit his mother and clothes that fit him.
This is when Nick realized that his mother would have really wanted him to join her at some point, and he felt guilty that he didn't give her that before she died. She would have been safer if she had never been brought back into his life. Nick walked out of the room and grabbed Diana and the baby carrier that he bought at Walmart. He strapped it on his chest and then strapped Diana into it, and he walked out to the truck, and he put Diana in her car seat, and he drove to the hospital. He promised Adalind and Trubel both that as soon as he found a place to settle he would go and see a doctor. He reached the hospital and he strapped Diana back into the baby carrier and he walked into the hospital.
He walked up to the reception desk and said, "Excuse me, I need to see a doctor."
"Fill out this form and a nurse will be right with you." the woman said as she handed Nick a clipboard with a bunch of papers on it. Nick went and sat down in one of the chairs and he started filling out the form to the best of his knowledge. When he was finally done, he walked back up to the reception desk and handed the clipboard back, and the woman took it and told Nick to go sit down and a nurse will be right with him. Nick sat down, and Diana looked up at him through lidded eyes, like she was about to fall asleep, and Nick started rocking her to sleep. By the time that he finally got her to sleep, Nick heard his fake name being called and he stood up and followed the nurse to a side room
"How old is the little one?" she asked and Nick looked down at Diana, and smiled.
"One and a half, almost two." Nick said, guessing at what age Diana could pull off being.
"She's adorable, but she doesn't look a lot like you."
"She gets her traits from her mother." Nick said automatically, because she didn't get any of her traits from him because she wasn't his biologically.
"Where is her mother?"
"Home. She couldn't make it on the vacation because of work and her pregnancy."
"Oh, how far along is she with your precious number two?"
"Six to seven months."
"Oh almost ready to pop."
"I hope not." Nick said through gritted teeth as he undid Diana out of the baby carrier and placed her on a small chair in the corner of the room, and he placed the baby carrier on the floor.
"What seems to be the problem?" the nurse finally asked and Nick sighed thanking God that she didn't ask any more questions about his fake personal life.
"I fell down the stairs a couple of days before we left on our trip, and I told my wife that I was fine and didn't need to go to the doctor, and she let it go, but as a condition of her allowing me to go was if the pain got worse I was to go to the doctor and get it checked out. My wife is a bit of a worry wart, so I'm appeasing her whims, and telling her that I went to the doctors finally."
"Ah, I see, and where is the pain?" Nick took off his shirt for the first time since the accident and he showed her where the pain was. "My god. Are you sure this was just from falling down the stairs. These injures indicate you were in a car accident."
"Yeah. That's what my wife said, but I assure you that I just fell down the stairs." Nick said.
"Well, I'm going to have to take a few x-rays, and maybe an MRI to make sure there isn't any internal damage. There is significant bruising and scratches on your back, arms and sides. A few scars that are only a few months to a few years old. What kind of work were you in, Mr. Williams?"
"I was formally a police officer until a few months ago, when I took a temporary leave of absence to help my wife take care of our daughter, and so she's less stressed during her last few months of pregnancy. Her doctor thought that was best because I'm a detective and have quite a few enemies that might try and come after me, not to mention her worrying that I might not come home one night or her getting a call that I'm in the hospital or morgue because of work. I agreed to for the safety of my wife and unborn son."
"What a great husband. May I ask why you decided to go on a trip with your daughter to Alaska then?"
"My wife was supposed to come with us but got held up on a big case. She's a lawyer, so she can't just leave during a big case."
"Wow, kids that grow up with both of their parents putting away the bad guys. Impressive. I'm going to go and let a doctor know about your case, and I'll be right back to finish your initial check-up and he can finish with the mechanics of it." The nurse walked out of the room, and Nick laid back on the table, when his cell phone rang.
He pulled it out of his pocket, and answered the phone, "Hello?"
"Nico, its Sean. How are you doing?"
"I've been better. I'm at the hospital right now, getting checked on, to appease Adalind, and if she's in the room with you, can you tell her that? I've found a place to stay for the time being, and I hope no one finds it."
"Good. Adalind says thank for stopping at the hospital. I've got everyone in the dark right now, but I don't know how much longer I can keep Hank in the dark. He's going to look up the report on your house fire and notice the inconsistencies in the report, and what was there. He saw the remains of the house and body, not to mention if he goes down to the M.E.'s office and asks her questions about it. And if he's asking questions I can guarantee that he is talking to Monroe, Rosalee, and Wu about everything that he finds."
"I don't care that they're questioning the story. I just want them to have deniability in relation to talking to me and knowing where I am. No one can know where I am, especially with the package I have. I'm off grid, no connections. You never spoke to me, I'm now Nico. That's all you know. The person that you talk to is Nico, and he talks to me. You don't know anything about this man except his name is Nico. Got it. That is all the information that you, Adalind, and Trubel have. If Hank or any of the others start asking questions that's what you tell them and only as a last resort. You don't give away any other information about whether I'm out in the world somewhere or captured by the Resistance. Make it sound like you have no clue. The Resistance won't tell you anything about if they have me or if they have Diana. I'm MIA, and you just know that I'm alright."
"I hear you, Nick and I completely understand."
"Nico. Start calling me Nico. That way if anyone over hears you, you can stick with the story if you ever need to."
"I understand. How is she?"
"Asleep right now. The little thing is exhausted, as am I. I hope you end this soon, Sean."
"I'm trying, Nico. They won't give me the time of day currently, so I'm trying to get in touch with Meisner. Hopefully, I can talk to him."
"Alright, but I will inform you that I think he was the one that I took Diana from in the first place." Nick heard the doorknob turning. "I've got to go. My nurse is coming back. I'll call you when I'm safe and sound back at where I'm staying."
"Good-bye."
"Bye." Nick said as the nurse walked back in the room, and he hung up the phone and slipped it back in his pocket. "My wife." Nick said to cover his tracks.
"Oh, alright." The nurse then gave him a bunch of directions and things that she went through for his check up, and when they were done, the doctor came in to do x-rays and an MRI. Nick complied, and asked about Diana. The nurse said that she would watch her in this room and she'd be her when he got back. Nick was gone for about an hour before he finally got back to the exam room that he started in and found Diana still asleep in the chair that he placed her in.
"Alright, you're going to have to wait in here for a couple of hours while I examine your tests and then I'll discuss a treatment plan." The doctor and nurse walked out of the room, and Nick could have sworn that he heard the door's lock click. He didn't see either of them woge, but that didn't mean that they didn't know who he was. He walked over to the door and tried it, to find that it was locked. Nick wasn't staying in this room. He didn't know what would come back to find him.
So Nick grabbed the baby carrier and strapped it onto his chest and then strapped Diana into the carrier. Nick looked out the only window in the room and saw the almost two story drop, and he swore under his breath. He then saw that there wasn't a way to open the window, so he turned and grabbed a chair, and he, standing with his back to the window so no glass would get on Diana, swung the chair over his head and the window smashed. He climbed onto the edge, and he held his breath, wrapped his arms around Diana and he jumped.
He was surprised when his feet lightly touched the ground, and he looked down to find Diana awake in his arms. Nick then ran to his truck, and climbed in, not even bothering to put Diana in her car seat as he took off for the cabin. Reaching the cabin a speedy 10 minutes later, he parked the truck in one of the garages, and he walked out closing the door behind him. Nick walked back to the house, and he put Diana in her room where she fell asleep in the toddler's bed. Nick walked into the kitchen where he grabbed the box for the hair dye, and he walked to the bathroom. He dyed his hair the lighter brown, and after the allotted 30 minute wait time he washed the hair dye out of his hair and he pulled out the laptop he took from his mom's house.
He went online and ordered hazel and white colored contact lenses, and had paid the extra price for the one day shipping of the 20 boxes of each color. He paid with his credit card for Nico Johnson. He then walked to Diana's bedroom and picked her sleeping form up and carried her to the master suite where he curled up under the covers with her in his arms, because now for some reason he couldn't sleep without her in his arms.