"Love Is Not A Crime"

Disclaimer: See Chapter one, if it really interests you.

Chapter Six: Call Back Home

Date: November 1, 2004

Nick was sitting at his kitchen counter, early the next morning. The Las Vegas Tribune sitting neatly in its pink bag, untouched. He wasn't intending on reading it anyways. He sat there, a cup of coffee resting in the corner, steam ever so gently rising from the cup. A case file was open in front of the crime scene investigator as he poured over the information he and Catherine gathered over the last two days. Everything was a dead end. The body of the young boy was being remanded to a funeral home that very morning. It was a hard case to solve.

Nick let out a grunt of annoyance and reached across the counter and grabbed a bowl of candy, which was left over from the previous night. He only had fifty trick or treaters. He popped a mini snickers into his mouth, and took a sip of his coffee.

Greg, his boyfriend of almost five months, was suspended from work, so it made Nick a little sad that he wouldn't be in today. Nick head a familiar rustling sound, which he quickly identified as mail through a mail slot. He hated that he received mail at eight o'clock in the morning.

He got up and bent down to pick up his small stack of mail. Bill, Bill, Bill, Junk, Junk, ESPN magazine, and a small white envelope with his name and address written in calligraphy.

He opened the envelope and pulled out card with a purple ribbon on it. He opened it and read:

Mr. Nicholas Stokes, and guest–

Richard and Evelyn Herring present their son,

George Herring,

and

Michael and Laura Stokes present their daughter,

Paula Stokes,

to be engaged in the sacrament of Holy Matrimony.

The date is November 6, 2004 at one thirty, with

a reception immediately following.

Please RSVP by August 17, 2004.

Nick was baffled, his older sister was getting married? And the RSVP date is several months past. How can his family forget to mention this important fact? Would he go? It has been awhile since he had been in Texas. Would he invite Greg? He needed to call his mother.

Nick picked up the phone from the charger and dialed his old home number in Dallas. He hadn't talked to his parents in quite while. They didn't approve of his career. Everyone in his family was in the law profession, 3 of his sisters, and his only brother, his other sister was a trauma surgeon, and that was an acceptable career in his parent's eyes, but his career wasn't. They viewed it as a blush on the Stokes family's good name, if there was such a thing.

– Phone Conversation –

Mrs. Stokes: Hello?

Nick: Hey Mom

Mrs. Stokes: Danny, is that you?

Nick: No Mom, it's Nicky.

Mrs. Stokes: How are you dear?

Nick: Fine, you?

Mrs. Stokes: Fine.

Nick: How's papa?

Mrs. Stokes: Fine. Why are you calling?

Nick: I just got the invitation for Paula's wedding. How come I didn't know about it?

Mrs. Stokes: I don't know. We figured you wouldn't want to be bothered from your job.

Nick: Bull. Mom, I' coming. I just wish I got an invitation on time.

Mrs. Stokes: I didn't send them. Your sister Melanie was in charge.

Nick: Oh. Well tell Paula I'll be there with a plus one. I got to go to work. Bye.

Dial Tone

– End Phone Conversation –

Nick threw the phone down onto the counter. He knew why he didn't get the invitation on time. He remembered a blow out he and his sister Melanie had two years ago. They were fighting at Christmas about the death penalty, and they both made low blows, and he wasn't sure if she forgiven him, even though he forgave her.

He rolled his eyes and sat back down to review the case file.

I know it's short, but it was just a filler chapter about Nick and a look into his family life. Here is a list of his family, in order from oldest to youngest:

Michael Stokes, father

Laura Stokes, mother

Paula Stokes, sister

Nick

Alexandra Stokes, sister

Melanie Stokes, sister

Daniel Stokes, brother

Trisha Stokes, sister.

Yeah, Nick has a large family. I'm not sure if he ever talked about his family life on the show though. On , they have a bio about Nick and that he has six siblings, and his parents don't like his occupation. Everything else, names, and fights were created here at my house in Connecticut.

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