The rest of the day was spent with bringing back memories. Talking about
what they remembered. Alex did not join in, she had gave them an angry
look, still not believing what they were doing, that they were giving up
that easily. And so she locked herself up in the control room. She was
trying to access all the information she could find, piling them up,
looking for anything that might be helpful in any way. Giving up wasn't in
her dictionary and sobbing in a corner wasn't part of it either.
Nick didn't join in either, he was staring out the window, propped up on
the couch with pillows and blankets. He thought about how cynical the whole
situation was. The Legacy was dangerous, he knew that from the minute he
joined. En he had been injured a lot during his time here, bumps and
bruises, broken arms or legs, concussions, drained from his life energy a
couple of times and the list goes on and on. And now he was going to die
from an overdose of morphine. Well, that was the official story. He knew
that he was going save this planet and his own soul. But still, only the
Legacy would know. He was going to be somebody who committed suicide to the
outside world.
Derek and Rachel glanced to Nick from time to time, their faces filled with
worry for their friend. Rachel still had a hard time believing it all. They
had been through so much, things hadn't been easy for them and now they had
to loose Nick, the one who kept them going when things got really bad. The
one who made them laugh with his dry sense of humour and who always looked
on the bright side to keep his team from going totally insane. She
remembered the first time she saw him, bashing through her hotel room,
protecting her from the demon who was raping her. It was a quick meeting,
since he followed the demon outside, but it was something she would never
forget. She had grown to like him from the moment they went on her first
case together. And she had spent sleepless nights over him, worried about
the feelings he kept hidden within himself. Wondering when he was going to
explode this time. She had always hoped he would find somebody special,
somebody who could make him talk, but that person never came, that person
had died in Ireland. Julia was the one he loved, still does, she thought.
Nick was an attractive young man, but the attention he got, was shaken of
with politeness. Only Karen had made something stir deep within her young
friend, but Rachel knew that Karen had used Julia to get to him. To make
him go that far with the succubus. To let him believe he loved her, only
using his love for Julia to make that feeling happening. And so Nick stayed
alone, all these years she had known him. And it wasn't healthy, the way he
dealt with his feelings, to not talk about it, but she was used to it now.
It was part of Nick, take it or leave it was his well known sentence for
her prodding in his feelings. And she took it, she left it, buried there in
the deep depths of his mind. The only thing she could do for him, and had
done, was watching him, be ready when those feelings emerged to the
surface. But the funny thing was, they never came, sure he was moody, sure
he had his moments. But he never exploded in the way she was waiting for
all those years. Even now, when he knew his final end came tomorrow, he
stayed silent. He didn't talk, didn't wanted to talk to get things of his
chest. She sighed. Never in her life as psychiatrist had she seen such a
complex case as that of Nick Boyle.
Derek played with the pieces of his authentic Greek game of chest. He
didn't like the situation, he didn't like the fact they had to loose one of
his team. He felt the pressure on his chest, the load of quilt playing
painful games with his heart. How much more he could take, he thought. He
knew his heart wasn't in his prime anymore, the doctors had warned him
about it. Sloan had warned him about it. Take things easy, everybody kept
telling him, go take an early retirement. And he had played with that
thought, about leaving the Legacy, go settle down. He had all the papers
lying on the desk of his office, ready to be signed by him and the new
precept of the house. But the unfortunate thing was, his new precept was
lying on the couch, ready to be killed tomorrow.
"I've got it!"
Alex came yelling and running in the living room, her face happy with what
she had discovered. And at that moment Derek moaned, his face turning pale,
his hands gripping his chest. A painful expression on his face when he fell
on the floor. Rachel, Nick and Alex all watched in horror when their
precept had fallen. The only one who had enough profession was Rachel as
she kneeled beside him, checking him over, her worried face going from bad
to worse.
"Alex, call an ambulance, he's having a heart attaché."
