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The walk was wonderful. The air really had helped Nick and it helped him unwind a little. Catherine, Sara, Grissom, Nick, and Lindsay all walked into the lobby with smiles on their faces.

"Thank you so much you guys," Nick said as he had a smile on his face. A smile that the team thought had disappeared.

"It was our pleasure," Catherine said rubbing his back. Another wince came through Nick's body as Catherine had rubbed a rather raw spot on his back.

"Sorry," Catherine said with regret in her eyes. "Linds, how about you go get your backpack and we'll head home?" Catherine asked as she attempted to get Lindsay out so they could talk.

Lindsay got the message and walked to the room.

"You guys don't have to go yet," Nick said as he glanced at his watch. "It's only…6:00? Wow, time flies!" he said as he covered his arms back up.

Catherine grabbed his arm and pulled the sleeves up. Nick tried to pull away but Catherine was intent on what she was looking at.

"Hasn't your mother ever taught you to rub, not itch?" Catherine said while trying to lighten up the mood.

"Yes," Nick said finally freeing his arm from her grip. He pulled the sleeves over his arms.

Nick was about to tell Catherine how much he didn't like her grabbing him in such a rude manner but was interrupted by Lindsay walking into the room.

"All set," she said with a somber tone.

"Why such the long face?" Grissom asked as he looked into Lindsay's eyes.

"I don't want to leave Uncle Nick yet. I don't think he's ready," Lindsay said seriously. They laughed as she attempted to be so….adult.

"I'm not joking," Lindsay said with a serious look which matched her serious tone perfectly.

They stopped laughing and looked at her.

"Why wouldn't you think I'm ready?" Nick asked with a shrug of his shoulder.

Lindsay debated telling him. "If I tell you, you have to promise not to freak out,"

"Sure. I promise," Nick said as his nostrils flared.

"You're lying," Lindsay said. Sara, Grissom, and Catherine all looked at Lindsay with jaws dropped.

"Why would you say I'm lying?" Nick said as he got on one knee.

She pointed to her nostrils and he knew exactly what she was talking about.

"I know my nostrils flared but I promise, I won't freak out," Nick said as he looked into her eyes. Lindsay saw that he meant it and was about to continue with her statement when she realized where they were.

"Can we go to your room and talk about this?" Lindsay asked wanting the most privacy for Nick as she could possibly give.

"Sure," Nick said as Lindsay grabbed his hand.

Warrick and Greg were at a diner grabbing a quick cup of coffee before they went to go see Nick again. They too, were getting sick of the hospital atmosphere.

"How do you think he's doing?" Greg asked while adding creamer to his coffee.

"I don't know man. We all think he's doing so great now, but what's to say that won't all change within the next couple months. When it really starts to sink in," Warrick said while sipping his coffee black, as always.

"When what sinks in?"

"Reality. When he finally realizes that we saw him in that box. Everything he went through, we saw. The ants. The light. The dying for air. We saw all that. He's gonna have to live with the fact that the entire lab saw his meltdown," Warrick said bitterly.

"It seems like Nick's more over it then you are," Greg said adding sugar to his coffee.

"Yeah," Warrick said looking out the window. "But I've been thinking," Warrick said as he leaned forward. "Nick weighs what, 170, 180. Right?"

"Yeah I guess, why?" Greg said stirring his coffee.

"Walter Gordon wasn't exactly the type of guy that could drug let alone pick up a 175 pound man, and dump him in the back of a truck," Warrick said as he took another sip.

"Stop," Greg said as he put his hands on the table. "Just stop. If Nick is close to closure, then just let him go. Don't drag these ideas into his head that there might be another guy out there that was expecting him to die in that box. For all he knows, the guy that tried to kill him, killed himself. I mean don't you think he's been through enough? Kristy, and then Nigel, and now this. All of the 'what if's' need to be left as 'what if's' and nothing else. They are just theories. There is no concrete evidence that there was another man or woman at the scene. So until there is, I would suggest you keeping your little ideas to yourself," Greg exploded. He got up from the table and walked out of the diner. He didn't mean to let all of his emotions boil over onto Warrick. It just….happened….. all by itself.

They were now in Nick's room in various areas. Nick had already changed into his hospital gown. Grissom was standing next to the monitor on Nick's left. Sara and Catherine sat on the hospital chairs and Linds sat with Nick on the bed.

"I had a dream," Lindsay said looking into Nick's eyes. "More of a daydream actually. The say you disappeared."

"What happened?" Catherine asked impatiently.

"I was about to get to that," She said while looking at her mother. "You were in a box. A green box. At first I thought it was weird because you hate the color green. You were…..crying. You pounded on the sides of the box, but no one came," She said as she wiped a tear from her eye. Lindsay has never been told these details. How would she have known about the box, let alone the color of the eerie green glow sticks that lit up the tomb that Nick had been put into.

She continued by saying, "You died. I tried to wake up, but I couldn't. You were suffocating. Just as you took your last breath, a light came from the top of the box. That's when I woke up,"

Nick couldn't believe what he was hearing. He was in to much shock to really say anything.

Sara cut the silence and started asking questions that were on her mind. "Have you had anymore?"

"Yes. When I was with Uncle Nick. We were on the bed and then I looked out the window, and I just, dreamed," Lindsay said with a confused look on her face.

"What was it about?" Grissom asked as he sat in the chair next to Sara.

Lindsay looked at Uncle Nick and started to cry. "You chest started moving really, really fast. The doctors came in and did CPR but you didn't breathe. They said that your throat was closed. They tried to stick a tube down you throat……" Her words trailed off as she wiped her tears.

Nick picked at the pedals on the flower as he listened. How could she know what was gonna happen?

"They got the tube in your throat but you never woke up," Lindsay said as she stormed the room crying.

A teary eyes Catherine chased after her and embraced her. Lindsay cried into her stomach and gripped her back.

Sara sat their shocked at the events that had just passed. Grissom sat in the chair, silently thinking about what Lindsay said. They all new that she wouldn't lie about something as serious as this. Plus, they all saw how visibly upset she was.

"Maybe, she read something wrong in the dream. Maybe you woke up, but not before her dream ended," Sara said as she tried to make more sense of the fact that Lindsay told them the fate of Nicholas Stokes.

Nick looked at them with cold eyes, and rolled over onto his right side. He stared at the scratch at the wall, as he slowly feel asleep, He tried to push all the thoughts out of his head as he focused on sleep. Nick gripped his pillow, and slowly crept into unconsciousness as Sara and Grissom looked at each other with teary eyes. Sara stormed from the room as she sobbed all the way to her car. Grissom sat there looking at Nick, and wondering if this would be the last time he ever saw him. This thought made Grissom sick, so he stayed with Nick, until his eyes could stay open no longer.

Mwahaha! A new twist! Do ya like? To be continued defiantly! Read and Review whether you want me to continue down this path! The fate of this story lies in your hands!

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