Nick slept peacefully all night long, and woke up the next morning surprisingly refreshed. Maybe it was the fact that he had met a wonderful, beautiful woman and had spent all day with her and had a date with her this Saturday night. This was the first time since the kidnapping that he felt happy inside and out; he jumped from his bed and quickly dressing and sprucing up the joint, made for Alex' home. He was just walking out his front door when a dark SUV, he recognized and Alex' pulled into her drive way, inside he could see the shape of her body and a moving figure in the far back..
"Hey Alex, who's your friend back here?" Nick asked now able to make out the dog that paced the truck ready to be let out.
"Nick I want to meet my best buddy," She smiled opening the hatch back, the large German Shepard jumped out and laped at Alex' hands, before turning to take in Nick. The dog stopped just in front of him and looked him up and down, nick held out his hand and waited, the dog put his nose in the palm of the out stretched hand and then licked it, Nick scratched him behind the ears, before he could move the dog reared back on it hind legs and planting his front paws on each of nicks shoulders came face to face with him. Nick just stare in shock at the dogs face.
"Nick meet Tobias, or Toby as I like to call him." She introduced, Nick could swear he heard a chuckle in her tone and smiled.
"Hello Tobias, nice to meet you." He grinned Tobias planted slobbery kiss on nicks nose before sliding back down to all fours again.
"Aww he likes you." This time Alex was laughing, Nick wiped his face and laughed.
"Well it's nice to be liked." He answered still laughing Tobias ran between to the two them for a minute and then stopped a low growl rumbling deep in his throat.
"Tobias, what's the matter" Alex asked turning to see a tall blonde leggy woman coming up the side walk apparently from Nicks house where her car was parked.
"Hey Nick how are doing?" She asked.
"Go away and leave me alone I want nothing to do with you Ally, haven't done enough damage to my life?" He asked heatedly, Alex stayed quiet and Tobias' growling became more vicious as Ally continued to approach finally Tobias had had enough of this stranger and started to bark aggressively.
"I'd watch my step Toby doesn't like strangers very well, he might bite your hand off." Alex threatened and Toby tried to make good on the threat by moving a few feet and snapping at Ally's hand.
"But Nick I thought we had something going, did are little romp in the parking lot at the lab mean nothing to you?" Alex asked sounding wounded and drooping her eyes for good measure, Nick sighed heavily tired of playing games with this psycho.
"It meant nothing to me, you mean nothing to me, now turn around get in you car and drive away." Nick instructed, Ally's look hardened and she glare at him,
"Fine, But no this you will regret this." And turning around, stalked back to her car climbed in and drove off.
"I seriously doubt that." Nick spat Alex looked at him showing confusion and a little hurt.
"Come on, lets go inside and I'll tell what's been going on lately." Nick suggested she followed him up the front steps and through her front door Tobias in tow. They sat in the living room, and Nick began his story starting with the first day ally had shown up at the lab.
She came into the break room after having spent the better part of three hours talking with Grissom about protocol and rules. Boring, she sat through it in misery waiting for some kind of bell to ring and for that guy to shut up finally. She was hoping to see that hot tan, guy she'd noticed in passing, and apparently fortune was on her side, he walked in just a few minutes later.
"Two jocks go missing and turn up dead in a school yard three miles from where they were taken, no one sees or hears anything and they all have zilch in common." He was reading aloud from a file in his hand, as he used his free hand to pour a mug full of steaming coffee.
"Hi there, do you always talk to your self?" She asked making her presence in the room known, she smiled when he jumped and spun to look at her.
"Sorry, didn't know any one was in here." He apologized, and moved to leave again she stopped him by blocking the door, he fell back a step and eyed her.
"Excuse me." He said and came forward again but she didn't move away from the door, she did, however, move towards Nick, who backed away until that is, his bum hit the cabinet.
"You know your even cuter when your flustered Nick." She pressed her full weight against him pining him in place, she leaned in close to his face and planted a kiss on his lips Nick yank his head away and looked at her in disgust .
"Look lady I don't know how you know my name but back up now." He demanded pushing her back away from him, and taking his now cold coffee and his file swept from the room so fast if he were a cartoon he have left a trial of smoke in his wake.
"Ever since then she's been harassing me at work and now at home, she even got me suspended from work for a week." Nick finished and waited for her to scream and kick him out, it didn't come instead her voice was low and soft; soothing.
"Oh Nick why didn't you tell me, is she the reason you called to police that night?" She asked covering his hand with hers, and giving it a gentle squeeze.
"Yeah, she came over with out warning and tried to force herself on me." Nick admitted, Alex remained quiet for so long Nick would have thought she'd left if not for the reassuring pressure of her hand.
"Well, it sounds like you had quiet the time of her, why not tell your boss about this or of the friends I met that night?" Alex asked, still not understanding why he told her this.
"I want to, and I know I need to but there's more to this then I want to tell them." Nick slipped and he looked up at her she smiled warmly and nodded.
"What else is there? You Don't have to answer that." Alex added after the question had unintentionally popped out.
"It's okay. I need to tell some one if for no other reason then to get it out in the open," Nick sighed and tightened his hold on her hand she squeezed back, the way he was acting told what ever he was about to tell her was not good.
"When I was nine I had a last minute babysitter and she molested me, I never told my parents. I did tell Catherine, we were working a bizarre case and she threatened to send me home if I didn't lose my growing attitude so I told her." Nick stopped talking, a lump had formed in his throat and his eyes had filled with tears. Alex remained quiet as her thoughts ran a marathon trying to piece together why he told her that, and then it clicked.
"It's her isn't it, after all this time she come back for another go at you, that's what she was doing there that night?" Alex asked Nick looked up at her tears spilling down his cheeks.
"Yeah, your not disturbed by this?" Nick asked She smiled and kissed his wet cheek.
"Oh Nick, yes it bothers me that she hurt you at such a young age I mean I work with children who are victims of all kinds of abuse and torture but, Nick I like you and the fact that something happened to you so long ago doesn't change those feeling's one iota." She wiped his cheeks dry and then kissed him again.
"Thanks, will you go with me up to the lab to tell to others, they need to know what happened to today and what's been happening since last month." Nick explained, she didn't answer just stood gathered her shoes purse and keys and waited by the door for him to come along, He did feeling more alive then ever.
Okay there's chapter six, hope you enjoyed, more Nicky drama in the next chapter.