Nick couldn't wait the three days his doctor mentioned to find Amie, he removed the iv from his wrist and walked around the room looking for his cloths, he found stashed in the closet a new pair of jeans and a tee shirt he changed quickly and climbed out the window.
'your out now what?' he hadn't actually thought that far, he'd have to hoof it from here to the woods from there he search all night if he had to, but he wasn't coming back with out Amie. He didn't walk for when an SUV pulled up next to him and drove along side the window rolled down to revael a very angry Grissom.
"What the heck are you doing, you had us worried!" Grissom exploded Nick stopped and stare at him, he really hadn't thought about that either.
'genius' he thought sarcastically. Grissom pulled to a stop and watched his CSI for a long moment.
"Gris I can't go back I have to find her now, she needs me, there's no telling what he'll do to her." Nick pleaded. Grissom remained silently, weighing his options, he could drag the man kicking a screaming back to the hospital only to have him jump out the window again or he could go and look with him.
"Get in, we'll go look for her." Grissom grinned Nick smiled and climbed in.
They pulled up the woods a few minutes later and piled out. Grissom let nick lead the way.
"This is where he took her, I think he went that way." Nick pointed east.
"Then that's where we go first." and they went, searching all day Nick cursed, they still hadn't found her and it was getting dark, Nick looked around and spotted something out of the corner of his eye, he turn ti look full at a cave entrance, he smiled.
"Hey Gris a cave." Nick pointed it out and Grissom followed him over to it, slowly and quietly they went inside and nick kept his eyes peeled. After a while he could just make out a voice, male forties at least; Don. As they got closer he heard another voice and his heart nearly stopped.
"…NO your lying, he's not dead, he'll come for me!" Amie shouted.
'I'm already here darlin'' he thought creeping up to have a better look. Don was hovering over her leering down at her shaking figure she was huddled on a small mattress against the wall crying.
"Stay here." Grissom told him and vanish back into the dark, moments later a noise was heard and Don left go right by Nick to check it out. Nick ran to get Amie .
"NICK!" She shouted happily and jumped into his arms, he wrapped his strong arms around her and held her tight, kissed the top of her head.
"Oh Amie sweetie are you okay?" He asked she nodded her head and tightened her grip. He felt her tense in his arms and scream letting go she feel back on the bed, and before nick could act he hear the eerily familiar sound of a gun being cocked. He turned around slowly keeping his body directly in front of Amie.
"Nice of you to join the party Nick." Don said, nick just glare at him.
"Where's Grissom?" he asked.
"He decided to take a break." Don snarled, Nicks eyes narrowed and he tensed ready to lunge at him.
"I wouldn't if I were you, I'm sure you don't Amie to witness her hero getting killed." Don pointed out and Nick let himself relax, Don walked around him to Amie and pulled her off the bed, dragging out of the cave Nick followed quickly only to be shot at he ducked for cover and waited till he was far enough away and then started tracking him again, his leg throbbed from the work out but he ignored it, he didn't focus so he could get Amie back again. He reached them in a few minutes Don was roughly pulling her along as she tried to free her wrist from his grasp.
"I have so had it with you Nick, just go away and leave us alone and I won't have to kill you!" Don yelled back over his shoulder, but kept following him, and eventually Don stopped threw Amie down by a tree and spun to aim the gun at Nick again.
"Fine you want be with her them get over there and sit with her she can watch you die." Nick looked at that gun muzzle and moved quickly to Amies side talking her in his arms only to have her pulled away, Nick continued to hold her eyes waiting for the bullet to hit.
'Well mister CSI who'd going to save you now?" That as far as he got something hard made contact with his head and after stumbling a few times feel to the ground unconscious.
"Me." Grissom panted blood ran down the side of his head from a nasty looking head wound, Nick leaned back against the tree every sapped for time being, Amie flung herself into Nicks arms crying.
"Nick I want to go home." She sobbed Nick chuckled.
"Alright baby we'll go home right now." He said panting he held her tight as he stood and watched Grissom tie up Don and leaving him to the elements they walked in the general direction of the waiting SUV.
There's the next chapter for you, almost done, sorry to those of still hanging in there with this thing, But I am trying. don't they give points for effort? ;-)