Title:Last Drink Tonight
Author:Nicksfriend
Disclaimer:I do not own or have any sort of connection to CBS or the CSI franchise...wish I did though it would be nice to have a little extra cash.
Summary: A trip to a missing person is interrupted by a drunk driver.
He opened his eyes,"Is it normal to still want to die even with it over with,because right now I really have no desire to live,no desire to deal with this crap anymore." he rolled onto his side, away from the doctors,away from the pain they were inflicting.
Dr Kasey had heard the words come from his patient, the words that obligated him to commit Nick for a psychological evaluation, a mandatory hospitalization. He knew what had to be done for his patient, and he knew nobody else would appreciate it right now.
Dr Kasey looked over to Doctor Mason,"You know what I have to do?"
Dr Mason nodded, he would let the others know after the new central line was placed, he needed for Catherine to call her lab and see if they had any information on what Rebecca had used on Nick. They both knew Nick needed a sedative, something to take the edge off what he was feeling, what he was dealing with right now.
Crime Lab
"Grissom, Catherine is on line two!" Hodges informed Grissom who was now sitting in his office looking over Nick's file chart, awaiting for more of the bloodwork to be completed.
"Catherine, how's Nick?" he asked,knowing that the doctors were working on him when she had called earlier.
"Hodges just gave me the results of the preliminary blood work at the scene and the name of the other drugs found there. I just wanted to inform you that Nick is going to be taken back to the hospital but they'll probably need to drug him first, he will fight it, he's scared Gil."
Catherine continued watching the staff in the other room,Nick's screams had died down after the insertion of the tube,they had been unable to give him any drugs to help him endure the procedure due to the unknown amount and type of drugs used by had been painful for him, she had never seen him in such pain before, she had actually seen nobody in that much pain before.
"I'll meet you there, they still haven't found Rebecca but Sara lifted some tire molds that were fresh, we think she is driving a Ford Taurus,probably this year's model. No luck in finding her yet, it's like she fell off the face of the earth. Sara's going back to the cabin with some officers and Brass to see if we missed anything." he took a deep breath,removed his glasses and lay them on the desk,then pinched his eyes,wanting it all to be over with but knowing that it had actually had just begun.
"Listen, I have to go, but I'll see you at the hospital." she hung up the phone and walked back into the bedroom to be with Nick, he was upset, he was listening to Dr Kasey tell him that he was putting him into the hosptial for a sevety-two hour psychiatric hold, time enough for the antibiotics that Nick would need to take effect and hopefully by then he would be thinking a whole lot clearer.
Nick felt betrayed, he had cooperated, he had allowed them to stick a damned rod into his neck and stitch it without anything to numb it except some lidocaine but they hadn't used much, afraid to send his heart rate further upwards.
"Go to hell! I'm not going back to that place, I won't let Sybil get access to me again, I mean it, I won't go!" he shouted as loud as his voice would allow,but the men in the room had dealt with it before,other patients,other scenarios, they weren't backing down, and this frustrated Nick even more.
He watched as Dr Mason and Catherine walked out and shut the door. His eyes stayed glued as he watched as Dr Kasey pulled out a syringe."We can do this the easy way Nick or the hard way,either way we are taking you back with us to the hospital, I promise I will keep you safe."
"No, I won't go back, I won't go back to that damned place! Catherine help me! Warrick please help me!" he cried out,hoping that his friends would come to his rescue,knowing that they wouldn't,knowing that he was all alone again.
Suddenly Nick's hand automatically went for the new line that had just been stitched into place, his hand immediately caught and easily restrained by Dr Kasey,"I'm sorry Nick but I have to take care of you right now." with Grace's help he rolled Nick onto his side, as Grace tugged down his pants, deep bruises that hadn't been seen before now caught both of their attention, Rebecca had whipped him with something, something that had left deep,defining marks. Their actions simultaneously stopped, he had been through enough.
"Grace, get me a flush, I'm going to give this through his IV line." Dr Kasey rolled Nick back on his back, the look of anger had faded from his patient's face, instead he looked defeated, his fight was gone.
He slowly injected the medication into the line,then flushed and heplocked the port,no response from his patient,no more fight left.
Nick had said something that had gotten his attention though, now he wondered why he had called Rebecca, Sybil.
"Grace, see if Dr Mason has called an medic to transport,we need to get him to the hospital." he felt the fever radiate off his patient's skin,knowing that Nick's fever was increasing.
Grace opened the door, both friends stood awaiting to see their friend,hearing the words he had spoken just minutes before but knowing if he didn't get the help he so desperately needed that he could die.
Dr Mason had just gotten off the phone,"They'll be here any minute." he informed Grace,walking back into his patient's room, Grace handing him the thermometer, Nick's fever was one hundred and four point one,they needed to get him to the hospital fast before he started to experience febrile seizures.
Lake Meade
Cabin
Sara walked around the now empty cabin, the smell still too strong for her senses, she had left the door open, Brass standing now in the kitchen area.
"Where did she go? She just couldn't disappear into thin air." she turned to see Brass standing looking at something, then it caught her attention too.
"What is that?" she asked,seeing that Grissom had overlooked a vital piece of evidence.
"My mother would have called it a switch." Brass answered, no more had to be said, the blood on the stick,spoke volumes.
"I'll get that back to lab." she took the stick with gloved hands and bagged it as evidence.
She was about to leave when she spotted something outside,lying on the ground, a piece of a keychain, it was a light yellow,faded out, with the word Adventuredome.With still gloved hands she picked it up and placed it into the small baggie as evidence,it meant something but she would need to get it back to the lab to figure it out.
"Jim, I going back to the lab, call Grissom and tell him to wait for me." Sara yelled back to the man who was still in the kitchen of the cabin.
She saw him nod and then she entered her car, she wondered what horrific crimes had happened to her friend, if he would ever be the same, if he would ever be Nick again.
Nick's House
John and Elizabeth had not slept, Nick had been found and they still hadn't heard a word on his condition,he wasn't at the hospital or the morgue, frustration was building, then the phone rang.
"John Stokes." he answered,knowing it had to be someone that could give him some information.
"Son, you and Elizabeth need to get home, we have a media storm at our house wanting to stick their nose in our business,what the hell are you doing out there?" his father sounded irritated,angry.
"Dad, Nick needs us right now and we aren't leaving him." John replied,wanting his father to understand that Nick needed his family,especially his parents.
"I didn't tell him to move out to Vegas, did I? That was his choice and it was the wrong choice and now he is paying the price, maybe after this debacle he'll come back home." his father was almost screaming into the phone.
"We're staying here dad, we are going to support our brother, whether you or mom choose to or not." John could not believe that his father was acting this way, that he was willing to abandon his son.
"You're opening a can of worms that you don't want to mess with son. I'm telling you, get home and do it now." he hung up the phone cutting the conversation off.
John slammed the phone down, angry at the man he called his father. 'What the hell?',he thought to himself.
"What did he say?" she knew it was their father from the tone of the conversation, she knew because she had had the same conversation just the day before.
"He said that we are making the wrong choice by staying here." John's voice full of emotion, he couldn't figure out his father, his motive for hurting his baby brother.
The phone started ringing again but this time it wasn't his father, it was Catherine Willows.
"Hi, is this John Stokes?" Catherine asked,hoping that it would be Elizabeth instead,she felt that she was a little bit less threatening to Nick.
"Yes, yes it is. Is my brother okay?" he asked,the fear for his brother audible in his voice.
"We're taking him to the hospital right now, Desert Palm. Just meet us at the emergency room." she felt that giving details out might end up hurting Nick, his family had not been the most supportive family.
"We'll be right there." he replied but was interrupted by Catherine.
"Listen, an officer will be coming by to pick you up, the media is storming the hospital right now so it'll be better if you come with some protection." she instructed,not wanting Nick upset by anymore impromptu media conferences.
She had figured it out too, Dorothy Cannon might be the person who had raped Nick, she just wasn't for sure, but the media felt there was a connection between the killer and Nick.
John understood, he had heard the coverage on the television, he had heard the connections the newscasters were making and it hurt, that Nick would have to deal with this after he got better,life for his brother wasn't fair.
"We'll see you there Ms Willows." he then hung up the phone, heading for the bedroom,"Nick is going to Desert Palm."
Elizabeth nodded in understanding but couldn't help but to ask,"Where has he been?"
"If my guess is accurate, he's been with Catherine and his friends,they're very protective like that." he turned and walked into the bedroom to get dressed, Elizabeth after lingering for a second in deep thought turned and went to Nick's bedroom to change, it was going to be a long evening.
Unknown Place
Rebecca had laid down to sleep, she couldn't keep the man off her mind,she had enjoyed her time with Nick Stokes,now they had something in common,maybe she could see him in a different light,maybe as a lover.
She turned on the television using the remote control,wanting to catch a glimpse of the man who she now wanted to have as her boyfriend,she had never had a real boyfriend before.
She closed her eyes and imagined them making love, of having passionate sex,Nick Stokes was going to be hers, all hers.
As she lay in the bed,wishing silently that she had made love to the man instead of beating him so badly, she knew he would understand,love requires a little pain sometimes, he would forgive her, she would make sure he did.
The older man and woman still lying on the floor of their home,their stab wounds still oozing blood as Rebecca slept in their bed.
Yeah, the nutcase lives,she will being causing more havoc soon but I just wanted you to know that she is alive and well,sort of.
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