A couple weeks had passed. Everything had died down and gone back to normal. Amanda and nick were happy not having to hide their relationship from anyone and their friends were happy for them. The only problem they were facing was Maria, Nick was having a hard time seeing Zara and getting a divorce from Maria.
"I'm exhausted" said Amanda "we've been working on this case for 16 straight hours!
"go home babe, I'll finish up" said Nick
"you sure?"
"yeah, we'll take it from here" said Fin
Amanda grabbed her coat "thanks you guys"
She quickly gave Nick a kiss and whispered "I'll be waiting for you in my birthday suit" she giggled
Nick turned red as he smiled at the thought
"quit it you lovebirds" laughed Fin
Amanda walked passed the front desk and out of the building smiling.
Claire saw her and thought "hmph….what she's smiling about?...now is my chance" she smiled sneakily
A couple hours later. Nick was walking out of the building when all of a sudden Claire bumped into him.
"oh Gosh I'm sorry, I was looking for my keys"
"No problem, don't worry about it"
"Damn It!"
"uh everything okay?"
"sorry just been having a bad day and I think I locked my car key inside my car"
"oh why don't we call triple A I'll wait with you"
"oh no it's not necessary, actually do you mind just dropping me off at my place, it's not far"
"uh…."
"please, I'm just so tired and I'll deal with it tomorrow"
"alright sure"
Nick drives Claire home.
"Thank you so much" smiles Claire flirtatiously "come in let me get you something to drink before you go"
"no that's fine, I have to get going"
"I insist let me grab you a cup of water atleast" she unlocks her door "here, here come in, excuse the mess"
This was making Nick a bit uncomfortable but he didn't want to be rude and it was just a cup of water.
She hands him a cup "there you go"
He drinks it quickly and suddenly feels light headed.
"Sit down" she says
"um…yeah ok….I must be very tired"
"here let me get you a real drink"
She hands him a beer.
"Thanks but I shouldn't"
"oh nonsense one beer never hurt anyone"
He drinks it thinking he needs something cold to wake him up. All of a sudden everything goes black.
Claire Smiles and takes out her camera phone.
Nick wakes up really early. He's droggy and not sure what's going on. He has no shirt on and he's covered by a blanket on somebody's couch. He sits up.
"Good morning!" says a cheerful voice
He turns around and see's Claire.
"Claire?"
"yup, you ok?"
"uh, yeah, what am I doing here?"
"um, well we had a good time last night" she winks
"what?"
"Don't worry, I don't kiss and tell, I'll be your dirty little secret"
"I don't know what's going on but…."
"Nick it's fine" she says as slips on her heels "I have to get to work, you should to, I washed your shirt it's in the dryer"
She walks out the door leaving a very confused Nick sitting on her couch.
He hits his head. "what the hell? What just happened? God please tell me I didn't sleep with Claire"
Nick decides to do the only thing he can do and goes to work.
Amanda is sitting at her desk when he walks in she walks over to him with a smile. "Hey what happened to you last night….I figured you were too tired and just went home and crashed"
"yeah" he says barely able to look at her "what do we have today?"
Amanda finds his lack of eye contact disturbing.
"Everything okay?"
"Amanda yes! I just want to know what we're doing today" he snaps at her
This makes Fin and Olivia look up. Amanda feels embarrassed.
"I'm sorry" he says "can we just concentrate on work"
"ofcourse" Amanda hands him a folder
The day goes on but Nick has a hard time concentrating. He doesn't want to believe anything happened with Claire. He didn't want to believe he cheated on Amanda.
He could barely talk to her the whole day. He just stared at her when she laughed and when she smiled. He watched her as she worked on her computer and chit chatted girl stuff with Olivia. He felt as if everything around him was happening on a screen and he was sitting still just watching everything happened. He felt numb. Finally their shift was over.
"let's go" he heard a voice say that snapped him back to reality, it was Amanda
"oh you know what, I have an errand to run, why don't I see you tomorrow"
"um….ok" she leans in to kiss him but he turns and she ends up kissing his cheek. She gives him a questioning look.
He feels awful.
She feels awful she doesn't know what's going on but she leaves. She's confused by his behavior. Just a few weeks ago they were practically living together and now he didn't even want to spend time with her.
Nick starts going home. He didn't have an errand to run he just couldn't bring himself to spend the night with Amanda knowing he probably cheated on her.
As he arrives home and gets out of his car he sees a figure standing at his door. This alarms Nick so he reaches for his gun but then realizes it's Maria.
"you're home" she says
"what do you want, I don't need this right now"
"oh I think you do" she hands him a yellow envelope
"what's this?"
"open it"
Nick opens the envelope. They're pictures.
"How did you get this?!" he yells
"let's just say I have a friend at the precinct"
"Nothing happened with her!"
"maybe, maybe not, you don't really know do you"
"what do you want Maria? Why are you doing this?"
"I want full custody of Zara and I want every penny you're worth!" she smirks "or these go to you know who"
"you're blackmailing me?, no way in hell are you getting Zara!"
"alright have it your way" she starts walking away
"you set this up didn't you"
She turns her neck to face him and smirks "a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do"
Nick goes into his home and slams the door "what a conniving woman!...how could she do this?" He slams his fist on the wall not sure of what his next step should be.
Next day Amanda arrives at the precinct. There's a yellow envelope on her desk.
She opens it and tears immediately start streaming down her face.
"You alright babygirl?" asks Fin concerned
Amanda looks up to see Nick standing at the doorway staring at her and the pictures she's holding in her hands. He puts his hands on head and bends down to the ground hating himself for causing those tears.