Tue. Evening March 5, 2005
"Nick.." Gris was cut off by his phone he frowned and looked at the caller id.
" This is grissom... yeah brass...okay see you then..." he hung up and turned back to nick.
" Brass has something he thinks we should see he's on his here now."Grissom explained and led nick to his office where they waited for brass to show.
" Hey guys, I have something interesting you should know." brass greeted the two cs i's who remained silent.
" It seems that there was another case of death at the hospital two months a Jerry Brian was found in a pool of blood, by a night nurse. Same mo as this one, strangled and then slit the wrists to look like suicide."Brass said handing Gris the file.
" we sent some one in undercover to see what was happing but nothing ever turned up till now we were kind of hoping to sen one of you in, we feel you guys would be able to find something we couldn't." brass hurried to explain. Grissom sat silently thinking eying brass.
"Who did you think would be duped into going?" Nick asked brass and Grissom shared a look ad then turned their eyes to nick. Nick looked form one the to other his eyes going wide and understanding finally dawned.
"ME!You want me to go in?" nick asked incredulously Grissom let a small grin spread over his face.
" you make a better subject for this your with in the age range and fit the description of the victims, that and the only one here who doesn't look like a cop." Grissom soothed nick looked confused for a minute and then sighed.
" okay how does this work" he caved. They spent the ext three hours coming up with the perfect plan the brass left and the two other men went back to the investigation with the new details brass and left them.
Wens. Evening March 6 2006
Nick looked anxious as he enter the lab that evening his brows furrowed, his muscles tense he knew what he had to do and he hated to do it but it was the only way to get him to listen, Nick entered Gil Grissoms office and watched the man he once Respected until him looked up at him.
"Nick what up?" Gil asked smiling as if nothing were wring nick acted fast pulling his pocket knife from behind him and placing it on his wrist then looked back at Grissom who has risen from his chair his hand out stretched as if to stop him.
"NICK DON'T IT'S NOT WORTH IT!"Grissom screamed drawing everyones attention to the room in question.
"Hey Nicky whats goin' on man?" Warrick asked carefully, standing now just inside the room. Nick looked lost an forlorn, he toke a deep breath and launched into the triad he'd rehearsed the night before.
"I can't take it anymore the nightmares, the flashbacks, there to much on top of everything else the faces i see them all time now, i see his face most, when i sleep i go back to the damn box again i can't take it anymore." and with hat he slide the knife across his wrist and watched in fascination as blood dribbled over his wrist and dripped to the floor, Warrick lunged at him taking him down before he could do more damage to himself and Grissom brought over rags to staunch the flow of blood.
"Nicky man are you nuts this is not the answer." Warrick said he throat tight with unshed tears as he continued to try and keep his friend still while Grissom administered first aid.
"GOT OFF!"nick yelled as squirmed and fought with every ounce of energy he had left in him but Warrick held tight.
"Nick calm down man it okay." Warrick tried to calm him nick looked at him he eyes filled to the brim with tears he hated this he had wanted to tell the others about this stupid idea but both brass and Grissom had warned him not to. They would be told later after he had been taken away to the hospital.
"hey buddy just calm down okay everything alright.' Warrick continued to reassure him and nick continued to relax letting the words calm him like they'd planned.
It was almost twenty minutes later when the hospital showed up to take him away he had sufficiently calmed down and was sitting on the couch in the break room; his knees pulled to his chest, his arms banded around them staring at the floor sedately.
"I'm sorry guys" he cried hugging himself tighter.
"For what man?" Warrick asked, nick looked up at him.
"Spazing out on ya." nick replied his texan accent thicker then usual.
"Hey no problem what are friends for if you can't spaze out on them once in a while." sara smiled, and was rewarded with one in return.
"Hows the wrist feel?" Grissom asked coming into the room followed by two guys in scrubs nick felt his heart jump into his throat but tamped it back down.
"Still stings a little." he explained fingering the makeshift bandage that they had used to cover the wound once the bleeding had stopped.
"Mr. Stokes your going to come with us for a while, okay?" the first guy asked nick just stare him like his was speaking a different language or something.
"It's okay nick go with them okay we'll get this sorted out i promise."Grissom said nick nodded and stood to go with them turning to say good bye to his friends.
"We'll see ya man don't worry you'll be back here before you know it." Warrick smiled clapping a hand against his shoulder nick tried to smile but failed miserably and saying farewell to the rest he walked out with the orderlies.