Title: Joining Forces
A/N: Ok…I promised I'd get chapter 4 up ASAP and here it is. I really hate having to hurt Nicky, but it's necessary so please forgive me.
Chapter 4
Nick woke slowly, his mind and vision fuzzy. He heard movement and tried to focus on a location. He turned his head and everything spun. He groaned and heard a low chuckle in his ear. Memories started flashing behind his eyes. The meeting, running outside, a sharp pain in his neck, darkness. The killer had him, he knew it as sure as he knew he loved Tony.
"You woke up faster than the others, I'm impressed. You know who I am…or at least part of it. You still have no idea what my name is do you little CSI?"
Nick shook his head and tried to move. He found that he wasn't paralysed, he could moves his limbs, but he was tied down to a bed of some kind. He assessed his position, spread eagle, too vulnerable. He shivered in the cold and realized he had no clothes on. The voice crooned into his ear, the tone was comforting but the words were not.
"Shh…relax my little CSI. I'm not going to hurt you, not much anyway. I'm certainly not going to kill you either. I'm going to keep you, my own little pet."
Nick tried to yell at the man that he was no one's pet, but the words were muffled behind a gag of some kind. He struggled to get loose, but it was fruitless…the bindings were just too tight. He felt a hand come to rest on his neck and froze. The hand drifted lower, tracing patterns across his chest and abs, and sending little shivers through his body. A sinister whisper was all the warning he had as to the intentions of the shadowed figure.
"I'll make sure that Fed never wants to touch you again. You'll be so tainted he'll never want you."
Nick shook his head, and then arched off the bed in shock as a rough hand grabbed his cock and squeezed it. He tried to fight, he tried so hard, but he was helpless. Tears leaked from his eyes as the man continued touching and teasing. He screamed behind the gag as the man's hard length slammed into him, tearing the delicate flesh of his inner passage. He jerked, thrashed, screamed, and cried. The man whispered to him in that soft crooning voice. Whispered about how Nick belonged to him now, that no one else could have him, that he'd take good care of his little pet CSI. When the man was finally spent he collapsed on top of Nick and fell asleep. Nick continued to cry softly, afraid that the man was right, that Tony would never take him back now.
Meanwhile Tony was having a complete mental breakdown in front of everyone. He was pacing, ranting, and screaming. Ziva watched her partner with concern, she'd never seen his this upset about anything before…not even when Gibbs almost got killed. McGee looked at Gibbs, hoping he'd be able to do something. Gibbs was just letting him go for a bit, letting him get some of it out of his system. After about 15 minutes of it he decided enough was enough.
"Tony!"
Tony's head shot up and towards the sharp word command.
"Yes Boss?"
"Calm yourself and focus. You can't help find him if you can't stay calm."
"Yes Boss."
Tony took a few deep breaths and Grissom looked at Gibbs with admiration.
"You have got to teach me how you do that."
Gibbs chuckled at him with a wry look of amusement.
"You'd never pull it off, you're way too nice."
They all poured over every note, every clue, every tiny scrap of evidence for anything that might help them find Nick. Tony was scanning the camera from outside the building when he noticed something.
"Boss! I got something. There was a van parked outside just before Nick disappeared…I got the license number."
"McGee run the plate. Quickly."
McGee entered the number into the database and when the result came in he shot out of his chair.
"I got it Boss! The van is registered to an out-of-business florist. Here's the address."
Gibbs, Tony, Grissom, Warrick, and Ziva all piled into Gibbs' rental car as he took off down the highway. Upon arriving at their destination Grissom and Warrick wobbled out of the car looking a bit green. Tony gave them a sympathetic look before drawing his weapon and following Gibbs and Ziva inside. They cleared the first and second floors before noticing the basement door. They entered and the sight that met them had Tony's blood running hot and cold at the same time. Gibbs grabbed the man off of Nick and pinned him down while Ziva cuffed him none-too-gently. Tony cautiously approached Nick and his heart ached when he realized that his love was still crying. Ziva used her ever-present knife to cut Nick's bindings and Tony pulled him as close as possible. Nick tried to squirm away from Tony until the other man pulled him forward and kissed him firmly. The look of helpless adoration Nick gave him almost made Tony cry along with him. The man on the ground started screaming about how Nick was his pet, that Tony couldn't have him, that Tony wouldn't want him now, that Nick was tainted. Gibbs almost laughed when Ziva knocked them man unconscious to shut him up.
"Don't believe a word that bastard told you Nicky. You hear me? I will never not want you. I love you Nick Stokes, and that will never change. I will always love you. Always."
Nick buried his face in Tony's chest and cried. Tony just held him and kept repeating his words over and over. Warrick came over with a change of clothes he had nabbed on the way out of the lab.
"Here Nick. I nabbed these before we came over, thought you might need them."
Nick gave his friend a watery smile.
"Thanks Rick. You're always taking care of me man."
"I wouldn't have to if you could keep yourself out of trouble."
He said it with a grin and Nick laughed along with him.
"I know…I'm a magnet for trouble."
Tony let go of him, just long enough to let his get dressed, before wrapping him back up in his arms. Grissom popped in to let them know that Local LEOs had arrived along with an ambulance to check on Nick. Tony took Nick upstairs and outside, shielding him from the media vultures and herding him into the back of the ambulance. He never left the other man's side throughout the process and even volunteered to take Nick home and stay with him. Tony was determined not to let his love out of his sight anytime soon. Gibbs nodded and told him that the rest of them would see the two of them in the morning to get Nick's statement and such. Nick was not looking forward to that, but he knew Tony would be by his side. He knew Tony would always be there for him now, no matter what happened.
A/N: And so ends Joining Forces. I may do a sequel if enough people want one. I didn't want to continue on to the next day b/c it didn't fit right. Besides, the boys wanted me to stop here and so I shall. Hope you all enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.
