"You what?"

"I quit, the stares, talking behind my back, not to mention no one talked to me today even my secretary was scared of me. Never mind the fact that it was him who was fucking stalking me but I killed him"

"Well it's not every day you kill someone"

"Could you please not say that, it's bad enough already" kicked off her pumps crawling on top of the bed, facing away from him. He flicked the TV off and crawled up behind her.

"Did you tell them where'd they could shove it?"

"No, letter of resignation, they signed it and said it was a loss to the company – which was a lie, they even looked at me weird" he massaged her back as she talked, knowing that no matter how bad he thought he had it, having nothing to do, she had faced everyone and even quit her work something he never thought could do.

"So now what?"

"What do you mean now what? I quit not even three hours ago and you're already questioning where the next paycheck is coming from?"

"That's not what I meant, what are you going to do with your time now?"

"I don't know"

"Okay that's a great answer" he kept his mouth shut for fear of her snapping at him again.

He awoke to tiny little kisses being placed all over his face, the sun shining through the curtains that he hadn't pulled the black out curtains shut.

"mmmm" he groaned rolled over putting a pillow over his head

"Nicky" she whispered in his ear before running a hand down the side of him, cuddling against he back of him and around the front.

He almost jumped a mile when her hand came in contact with something that was excited to say hello. He rolled over giving up on the getting more sleep plan and welcomed a kiss that she gave him.

If he had known that the phone call she would receive on her cell phone while she was showering would separate them for the better part of several weeks, he would have pressed ignore, but no being the nice guy he was he answered it, giving the greeting of Katie McAdams phone the person asked if Katie was around and Nick replied that she was in the shower and if he would like he could leave his name and number and she would call him back. The guy did and thanked him politely.

"Some guy named Jack Burnaby called while you were in the shower, wanting to speak with you, he left his number and that it was urgent that you call him back as soon as you can" he told her minutes after she came out of the bathroom on a cloud of steam.

"Hmm last I heard his fourth marriage was going strong" she pondered the thought before picking up the phone dialing the numbers.

"Jack it's Katie McAdams calling" she laughed before disappearing into the bathroom closing the door firmly behind her.

He took this time to make a phone calls one to his mother – she'd left three messages on his phone since last night wondering what the hell was going on – how she'd heard about it, he would never know but she had. That out of the way he called Grissom he wanted to know how much longer he had to live in this hellhole, he just wanted to be able to go to sleep in his own bed, drink coffee that he could make himself and actually eat something that wasn't take out and he'd been here all of two nights now. Getting Grissom's answering machine he left a quick message

"Hey Griss it's Nick, just wondering how the case is going and when I can come back to work"

She still hadn't come out of the bathroom by the time one of the sitcom's he began watching from about ten minutes in and the next one started he put the TV on mute to see if he could hear what was being said but subconsciously smacked himself for eavesdropping, he had been taught better than that.

"I'll get right on it" was spoken as the bathroom door opened and out popped Katie and flipped her phone shut. She crawled into bed beside where he had laid down midway through another sitcom. She laid her head on his chest, laying a few minutes without saying anything waiting until commercial before saying anything.

"I have to go to Hawaii"


A/N: Thanks LocoGreggo for being the only one who reviewed this.

Still don't own it.