The Final Chapter! It's really sad that's it's over already! I will hold my shout-outs to everyone at the end and please, I wanna see an explosion of reviews lol. I've really loved adding to this story. At first, I began typing this at night on an old Windows '97 computer and one day, I just thought, well, why not post this. I didn't think it would get as popular as it has. Thank you all. I'll try to make this my longset chapter, I'll try.

The last sentence on the last chapter, should have been "I bet you wish I WAS Nick, Baby." A female voice said threateningly, shutting the door behind her. Greg completely froze. Sorry bout that.

Dukes of Hazzard should be up by the time this goes up, if not, it'll be up in like a couple hours. Hope some of you check it out.

The Final Chapter: Chapter 19: Uneasy Recover

Greg sat up in his bed, stunned. Megan Malone was standing in the doorway, with an evil grin on her face and even worse, a gun in her hand, trained on Greg.

"Did you think you had seen the last of me?" She asked, closing the door and walking inside.

"I figured you had ran out on your friends when you knew they got busted." Greg answered. He was way beyond scared, again. What's he going to do. He was thinking of what to do in his head as he strained his hand into a fist and learned he couldn't. His cell phone! He had to keep Megan's mind from well, shooting him, and not seeing the cell.

"True, I was on my way over to the shack when all of a sudden I saw all these cars coming towards the house. I just stopped behind a cliff side and watched," She just told her story about seeing Richards and Crane being escorted out of the shack. While she was telling her story, Greg was looking, casually of course, down at his cell, searching through the numbers for Nick's name. Once he found it, he clicked 'send'.

He looked up and he hadn't noticed that Megan had been watching him. "Turn your phone off, Greggo." She instructed. "I'm guessing he most likely is about to come up here, huh?" She asked.

"Yeah, he will be so you better get out of here now." Greg threatened. "Or you'll be in the state pen for at least ten, fifteen years."

Megan glared at him.

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"Where do you think Megan Malone could be?" Sara asked Grissom as she and Warrick sat across from him in his office.

"I honestly do not know. She did what she did to Greg, and then she left. It was only a one room and bathroom shack so she wasn't there." Grissom explained.

"She hasn't checked back into the institution, which is smart because she knows we're looking for her." Warrick said. "Do you think she fled the state?"

"She couldn't have or else someone would have stopped her. We're monitoring all the exits. Do you think she'd want revenge on Greg? Didn't Greg say there seemed to be a little bit of spark between her and Richards. Maybe they were an item or something." Catherine suggested.

"Yeah he did, but they didn't show any affection. He said that she talked to him in a flirtatious way, but that's it." Warrick retorted.

"What if she wants to get back at him before trying to leave?" Grissom wondered.

"Would she risk going to the hospital?" Sara thought aloud.

"No one but the police department know about her. Civilians can pass her on the street. She'd get into a hospital quick if they knew where she works." Warrick said quickly.

"Let's just give Nick a little heads up. We'll cut her off as soon as she enters." Sara suggested.

Grissom pulled out his cell phone and began dialing Nick's cell number.

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"Hey mom, I'm home now." Catherine called as she stepped into her home.

"How'd it go?" She asked. Her and Lindsey both known about Greg's abduction, Catherine told them.

"Is Greg okay?" Lindsey asked eagerly, running up to her mom.

"He's fine sweetie, he's fine. He's at the hospital now resting." She told her daughter, embracing her in a hug.

"Did you get them all, all those awful people?" Catherine's mother asked.

She hesitated for a moment, she didn't want her mother or daughter get jumpy or anything. "Yeah, we got them all." She lied, with a quite evident fake smile.

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The machine had just finished making the second cup of coffee and Nick began to carefully balance the coffees when his phone rang. He looked around somewhere to put down the coffees and when he finally did, his phone stopped ringing. He looked at the caller ID and it said 'Greg'. "Why is he calling me?" Nick asked. He dialed back. 'Greg, I'm like two levels below you, and you insist on calling. He must want a magazine or something.' He thought to himself. Greg didn't pick up his cell phone. He grabbed the coffees and took one step and then his phone rang again. Without looking at the ID, he answered the phone. "I've got the coffee, I'm coming now."

"Nick?" Grissom asked on the other line.

"Oh, sorry, Greg called a second ago and I thought that was him again."

"What'd he want?"

"I don't know, the phone only rang twice and by the time my hands were free it had stopped. I tried to call him back but he didn't answer."

"Nick, not to sound jumpy but, Megan Malone, we think she might be there, or she's going to be there. It's just a hunch."

"What? You don't suppose that's why he's not answering...I'll call you back." Nick hung up the phone and ran to the elevator. He pressed the button impatiently more than twenty times. He was only two levels up so Nick took off for the stairs. He skipped two to three steps at a time. He burst through Greg's room door and saw Greg looking up at him.

"Are you okay?" Nick asked.

"Yeah,." Greg answered, eyes wide, yet voice confident.

"Are you sure?" Nick asked curiously.

"Why wouldn't I be? Where's the coffees, you didn't leave them down there did you?" He asked confused.

"I don't know. Well in that case, I better get those coffees, but let me write down a note for the nurse if she comes in." Nick said. He walked over next to Greg and wrote on a piece of paper; "Is she in here. Cough when I get to the door if so." He wrote it down and backed out of the room. He was about to go downstairs feeling stupid because Greg wasn't doing anything. He turned around to go downstairs when, to his surprise, Greg coughed. He stopped, turned around, and pulled out his gun. Greg looked at Nick then on his left side, below the bed. He kept looking down that way until Nick took the hint. He rounded over to that side and there she was.

"Hello Nick." She said, standing up, gun on Greg's temple.

"Megan." Nick monotonously welcomed.

"Be a good boy and shut the door." She instructed. Nick walked over and shut the door.

"Such a shame, thinking it was over, thinking you're safe in the hospital." Megan taunted.

"Leave him alone, don't you think you've done enough harm?" Nick asked. Megan let her guard down slightly.

"Enough harm? Not nearly as much as I planned on." She laughed. "Now I get to kill your friend, then you, then myself. It works out perfectly."

"Why not just skip to the third step?" Nick asked.

"Now, that's no fun."

Nick saw that Greg also knew that Megan had forgotten about him. The gun was just dancing right in front of Greg. He was going to grab it.

"How about you just go to jail?" Nick suggested.

"I have the upper hand on this situation, how will that happen?" She asked.

Nick just sighed. Greg took this as a sign and he grabbed her gun, she still had a grip on it though. Nick came forward, gun drawn. Megan punches Greg and gets her gun and stumbles back.

A gun shot rings out. There are two cries. "NO!"

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"Nick should have been in Greg's room and called us back by now." Sara said impatiently.

"Maybe he forgot and they're talking right now." Warrick suggested.

Grissom's phone rings.

"Grissom."

"Mr. Grissom this is Dr. Abrahms, there was an accident in Gregory Sander's room.." He began.

"What!" Grissom yelled, startling the doctor, Sara, Warrick and even himself.

"It'd be easier if you come here and we'll get the story straitened out.

"Thank you doctor." Grissom looked at Sara and Warrick's surprised faces. "Something happened at the hospital. Sara, call Catherine."

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All four CSI's got at the hospital at the same time. Someone was being carried out of the room in a body bag. All of them froze.

"We would like one of you to identify the body please." A doctor asked them. Warrick decided he would step up and look. He cautiously approached the bag. He took a deep breath and nodded for them to open it. It was Nick. He gasped.

hahah, gotcha, I had to trick ya. Take a deep breath, relax, here's what happened;

He took a deep breath and nodded for them to open it. He was relieved to see it was a motionless Megan Malone. "It's Malone." He told them coming back over. They all sighed in relief. They went to the elevator and made it to Greg's floor. They saw Nick sitting on the ground in the room.

"Nick!" Warrick greeted him.

"Are you okay?" Catherine asked.

"Where's Greg?" Sara asked.

"Slow down guys, Nick, just tell us what happened." Grissom asked.

"Well, "He told them about the call and when he got up to Greg's room. "...then Greg grabbed her gun, she still had a hold of it. I came forward with my gun to stop her. She punched Greg in the face and it forced him to let go of the gun. She was about to shoot Greg, so I shot her. She shot at Greg the same time I shot at her. I killed her by hitting her in the forehead but, she shot Greg too." Nick stopped, apparently shaken up. " She shot him in the right side of the chest. Between his chest and collarbone. I don't know how he is." Nick finished, putting his face in his hands.

Catherine at this point was sitting next to Nick on the ground, with her arm around him. Sara and Grissom were sitting on the couch in the room, staring in disbelief. Warrick was standing in the doorway, spaced out. They all waited for the doctor to come to them and see if Greg was alright.

"Mr. Stokes? Mr. Grissom. Are any of you these gentlemen?" A doctor asked, after what seemed like forever.

"I'm Stokes, Nick Stokes." Nick said jumping up. Grissom told the doctor who he was.

"What ever you tell us, they can know as well." Grissom told the doctor.

"Well, Mr. Sanders is fine. He took a bullet right underneath his collar bone. It didn't go all the way through and we did manage to get it out. He lost plenty of blood but not life threatening. We were able to transfuse some blood into him and he'll be fine, just sore. If you ask me, he's one of the luckiest guys alive." The doctor told them.

"Can we see him?" Nick asked eagerly.

"Yes, but only two at a time." The doctor said.

Nick and Grissom went into Greg's new room. This time he had a bandage over his right shoulder and around the top of his chest.

"Isn't this great?" Greg asked. "I get to stay in here longer." He had some sarcasm in his voice.

"Glad to see you're all right." Grissom said.

"Me too." Greg replied.

"Greggo, I, I'm sorry that happened, I should have been faster." Nick apologized.

"Nick you've saved my life twice in one day. Let's just be glad you're not preparing for a funeral. I'll be fine." Greg told him.

"Yeah.." Nick agreed.

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"Greg, what are you doing here? You're not allowed her for like another week." Nick asked, stopping as he noticed his friend back in his lab.

"Yeah, well ,I got bored at home. So I deiced I might as well make myself useful." Greg replied.

"Glad to see you back." Nick smiled, continuing down the hall.

"Glad to be back." Greg said, smiling as well. He then turned up his loud metal music and he started to dance around the room, using the infamous broom as a guitar.

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Sorry about my earlier chapters and the spelling errors, I use word pad so it doesn't spell check and I type fast so I don't even notice. Sorry bout that but this chapter, I've decided to check it.

I'm done! I was going to end it at the gun shot and then have one more chapter lol, but I thought I'd just end it. I better see loads and loads of reviews lol. Now I love everyone that reviews me, but I'm going to personally thank all the reviewers that have reviewed almost every chapter. If you're not listed, don't take it personal please, these are just the few people that I've read their work and they've obviously left reviews for me and I just wanted to thank them. But I thank you all!

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