AMAZING
I'm posting this for my friend who wrote it for me for Christams. Tell me what you thought about her first CSI fic. And yes, the main characters are based off of me and her. All reviews will be sent to her. You will see where I get my sense of humor…
Thanks
Chapter Three
A year had passed already. Archie had recovered from the loss of his girlfriend. Jess and Jamie had settled well into their new environment. Jess became fast friends with Greg and Warrick, as well as friends with Nick, Sara, and Catherine. Jamie on the other hand, though she was loved, could be a nuisance. She was best friends with Archie and she and Greg got along well because of her love of playing incredibly loud music. She and Nick became friends due to her rather perverted sense of humor, and she enjoyed being with Warrick. Catherine just seemed too boring.
Jess and Jamie made a big impression on the lab. Though Eckley, the head of the lab loathed their presences, he knew they did good work. They both knew what they were doing, they just didn't like to act like it.
Grissom on the other hand had taken a liking to Jess and became sparring partners with Jamie. Jess, like Jamie, was serious about her work. But she didn't blast music, though she played it, nor did she dance to it while working. Jamie soon dispersed this habit and began to play softer music later on, but on days when she felt like plucking each and ever nerve ending from Grissom's body, she would blast some of the most annoying music ever heard.
But in the end, Jamie and Jess became two members of the Las Vegas Crime Lab and didn't plan on going anywhere for a long while.
It was March twenty-fourth two thousand six. Six days before Jamie's twenty-seventh birthday. And Jess was contemplating.
When she finally had an idea for Jamie's birthday party, she went to each of her co-workers with a small envelope and slipped it into their lockers where they would find it later.
Warrick and Nick stood side by side reading the envelope that after noon:
CSIs,
April first is Jamie's twenty-seventh birthday. I plan on giving her a surprise party, so please do not mention this envelope in her presence.
I have booked a semi-large room at Martin's West for April first from five to whenever. Several of our friends are flying in from Maryland, as well as her family and mine.
So please meet me at Martin's at the specified time. Hope to see you there!
Jess
"Jamie is an interesting character," Warrick laughed. "Her party is going to be a lot of fun."
"You going to bring your wife?" Nick asked.
"Well, I'll talk to Jess about it. I think Tina will like to come see everyone again,"
Warrick smiled, donning his jacket. "By the way, have you noticed how close Jamie and Archie have become?"
"Yeah, I have. Archie told me months ago that he and his girlfriend had just broken up when Jamie arrived. And Jamie's got him smiling all the time. You know how much he loved his girlfriend."
"I know. I was so surprised to hear she left him just like that."
"I think they're a cute couple," Sara walked into the locker-room. "Archie and Jamie? They're both into the same things and he's only a few years older than her."
"Oh did you hear?" Catherine followed Sara into the room and opened her locker.
"What?" Nick adjusted his belt and slid on his baseball cap.
"Greg just asked Jess out and she said yes," Catherine smiled, sliding into her jacket and cap.
"Really?" Sara looked at her. "They're cute too."
"She wants to be one of us," Warrick said. "And she'd be good at it too. But I think she's afraid of leaving Jamie alone here in the lab. CSI isn't Jamie's thing, she told me she's an A&P nerd."
"But they're such close friends…" Nick sighed.
"Well, let's throw Jamie that big party Jess has invited us to. She'll just love it," Sara said. "Is Grissom coming?"
"Yeah, he'll be there. Though he's not one to party much," Catherine said.
"Well…let's go. We got a DB in a dumpster outside of the McDonalds down the street," Warrick said, looking at Nick.
"And Catherine and I have a DB sitting against a tree in the middle of this guy's front yard," Sara rolled her eyes. "Man, people are sure getting daring these days."
"You know," Nick looked at his friends. "If Jamie were a CSI, I think we'd be laughing too hard at her jokes and reactions to really concentrate on work."
"Good point…" Catherine smiled, leaving with the rest of the group.
Jamie sat at home alone. Jess was out with Greg on a date and had been for three hours so far. Of course they did go to a movie and to dinner. It was really the first time in a long while that Jamie felt alone since they had moved over two years ago.
She rolled over on the daybed in the sunroom and sighed as she rested on her back, staring through the sunroof ceiling at the moon. It was nearing her twenty-seventh birthday. Only three days away.
"Well," she told herself. "My life sure hasn't gone the way I had it planned."
And it was true. At fourteen years old, she was pulled out of high school and home schooled. At fifteen she started taking college classes, working on her prerequisites for nursing. By seventeen she was ahead in all of her classes, and at eighteen, she graduated with an AA degree in Sciences. When she turned twenty-one, she was accepted into the nursing program after three years of trying to get in. She graduated soon after and became an R.N., going on to become a Doctor. She finished her residency earlier due to the amount of time she worked and the fact that she had such a head start on her education.
Okay, so her education had gone as planned. But her love life? She wanted to be married by twenty-three and have a child by the age of twenty-five. Here she is, single, alone, and bored. Sure, she had a great job and all. But she wanted more.
Just as she closed her eyes, the phone rang. "It always does that. They have this planned…" she groaned as she rolled off the bed and stood up. She grabbed the wireless phone and held it to her ear. "Hello?"
"Jamie!" Archie smiled.
"Archie!" Jamie couldn't help but smile. "This is a surprise. What's up?"
"I'm bored. You want to go out?" He asked.
"It's already nine o'clock…" She glanced at the clock.
"True, but who says we have a curfew?"
"I love the way you think, pick me up in thirty minutes?" She asked.
"I'll be there!"
They hung up and Jamie ran though the condo, casting her clothes to the ground as she jumped into a quick shower and back out, getting dressed in a casual outfit.
By the time Archie arrived, Jamie was ready, just adjusting her jeans as she ran out the door with him.
"Where are we going?" She asked.
"Greg called. He said Jess wanted me to pick you up and meet them at the movies. They want us to go with them to see the movie again," he replied, looking both ways at the four-way intersection they stopped at.
"She's always thinking of me."
"That's because you're all she has. Like she's all you have."
"No, she's all I have. She has Greg now."
Archie was silent. Jamie was, at the same time very similar to his ex-girlfriend and millions of miles different from her. They had big hearts and cared deeply for those close to them. But they seemed empty inside, their eyes were black holes. "Jamie," he said quietly.
"Yes?" She looked at him, crossing her slender legs.
"I have a question to ask you."
"Okay, I'm all ears."
"I want you to know that when you first came to the lab, I was immediately drawn to you. I felt like I could talk to you."
"I like it when people trust me like that. When they feel that I'm dependable."
"I wanted to know if I could talk to you. Not just as friends, but something more."
"You're asking me out."
"Yes, I am."
"Yes, I'll go out with you," she said. "And I want you to be able to talk to me, Archie. Please?"
Archie smiled. "When you came to the lab, I had just broken up with my girlfriend. And I was hurt really bad. I loved her with all my heart, more than I had ever loved anyone. But she left for another man. When she left, I thought I'd never love another that way again."
"You won't," Jamie sighed. "When you find your one true love, you never love the same way again."
"No," he said. "I can and I will. I want to get to know you even better than I knew Laura. With Laura, we didn't share the same interests. Of course I'm a computer nerd and you cut up dead bodies…"
Jamie threw her head back and laughed. "That's one way to put it!"
He smiled. "Your laugh…it's so much happier than Laura's was."
"Am I cuter?" She teased.
"Yeah, I think so. I like the way you are, I love your personality. I love the fact that you're not afraid to tick Grissom off. Have you noticed he hasn't fired you?"
"It's because he knows I'm good."
"You are."
Jamie smiled. "Thank you for noticing."
He nodded as they pulled into the parking lot of the movie theater. "There they are," he said as Greg and Jess waved to them from the theater door.
"Jamie!" Jess ran to her friend as Archie parked the car. "I thought you'd be bored at home so I had Archie bring you out here. We want to see the movie again, come on!"
Jamie laughed and held back, waiting for Archie to catch up with her and Jess. "Yeah, I'm up for a movie. Though I look too hot…a shame to waist my hotness in a dark theater…"
Greg stared at Jamie with a puzzled glance. Jess rolled her eyes. Archie agreed.
"Well, let's ignore the Queen and go to the movie," Jess said, linking her arm with Greg's as they walked into the theater.
Archie wrapped his arm around Jamie's waist and led her to the cashier where they bought their tickets. Alongside Greg and Jess, he took Jamie by the hand and they took their seats in the theater.
"It's raining…" Jamie looked up at the sky as she held her hand out. "I love the rain.
"I can't believe its midnight…" Jess looked at her watch. "But I'm not tired."
Jamie yawned and leaned on Archie. "The movie was good. I need a coffee."
"Coffee!" Jess yelled. "Where's the nearest Starbucks?"
"I know where, just follow my car," Archie said as he and Jamie proceeded to the car and Greg led Jess to his.
"Did you see how Archie had his arm around her the entire time?" Jess looked at Greg.
"Yeah, I did. But don't you think they're perfect for each other?"
"I don't know if perfect is the word, but they're cute together."
"You know they're perfect, you're just afraid of loosing your best friend to a guy."
"Hey!" Jess slapped his arm. "What gives you that idea?"
"I don't know. Just that Jamie seems out of the ordinary when you're hanging all over me."
"Greg, Jamie is out of the ordinary. You should know this by now."
Greg laughed. "I know, and I do. But she doesn't seem like herself. I wonder if that'll change now that she's got Archie."
"Maybe, maybe not. She's completely unpredictable. But…I can't help but worry about her, she worries more about me."
"Why do you worry so much about each other?"
"We're like sisters. We're all each other has here in Las Vegas. All of our family lives in Maryland. We never see anyone there anymore."
Greg reached over and cupped her cheek in his hand, running his fingers through her hair. "You have me now."
Jess smiled and leaned into his hand. "I know I do. And I'm very lucky for that."
Greg nodded and continued to drive behind Archie.
But as a thunderstorm moved in and lightning split the sky, the rain began to fall harder.
Greg flipped on the windshield wipers and sat back, turning the radio on.
Neither Greg nor Jess would ever forget what happened next…