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-CSIFanatic08

They had waited for the OK from the doctors to go inside. Nick had been awake for 2 hours as they ran tests and inserted more tubes into him. Warrick and Greg ran back to the diner to order more food on a count of the other food being dropped on the hospital lobby floor Greg had filled him in on the whole dream thing on the way there. Greg wasn't in the mood to flirt with Alicia so he plainly told her that he'd call her later. They arrived 5 minutes before Dr. Sparrow told them the information they needed to know.

"OK you guys," Dr. Sparrow said, "You have 20 minutes with Nicholas. After that, it's limited to one at a time. Am I understood?"

A series of yes' were the gang's response.

Nick was sitting up in the bed as he hummed the tune to an old Christmas song that had been lingering in his head.

"In the meadow we can build a snowman…..." Nick sang as the rest of the group anxiously made their way into the room led by Lindsay.

"Walking in a Winter Wonderland," Nick finished as the walked into the room.

"Uncle Nick! Uncle Nick!" Lindsay said as she jumped on the bed. "I had another dream!"

"Not right now Lindsay, please," Nick said with a somber look on his face.

"No you have to hear this!" Lindsay said excitedly.

"It's really important, Nicky," Grissom said with happiness in his eyes.

Nick smiled as his curiosity bubbled over. "OK, what is it Linds?"

"I had a dream that you lived and that you helped me put a star on the tree," Lindsay said as she hugged him.

"Star on a tree?" Nick asked the group as his eyebrow raised.

"Yeah, you know a Christmas tree!" Lindsay said as she released him from his hug.

Nick smiled to himself as he realized that he and Lindsay had an unspoken connection to each other.

"The song in the background was……" Lindsay thought as she tried to go over the memory in her head.

"Walking in a Winter Wonderland?" Nick asked with a smile on his face.

"That's it!" Lindsay said while pointing at Nick.

"How did you know that, Nicky? She didn't even tell us the song in the background," Brass said as he lowered himself into a seat.

"I……..don't know," Nick said as he never took his eyes of Lindsay.

Everyone sat there in silence for a while as the information sunk in a little deeper. How could Nick of known the song that was playing in Lindsay's head? Even Grissom was trying to think of someway this was possible, but yet he came up dry. Greg and Sara's stomachs grumbled in unison as the looked at the food in Warrick's hand.

"Food," Greg said, his face turning red as he realized that he said it out loud.

"You hungry?" Warrick asked as he looked at Nick.

"Starving," Nick said as he rubbed his stomach.

The crowd began gathering around the bags, grabbing the Styrofoam containers. However, Lindsay and Nick sat on his bed in silence, staring at each other.

Lindsay broke the silence as she whispered to Nick, "How did you know?"

"I don't know," Nick said with a smile.

Mrs. Stokes broke the trance as she handed Nick his Styrofoam container.

"Here you go son," She said as Nick grabbed it from her.

"Lindsay come here, it's time to eat," Catherine said as she cut up her food.

"Coming," Lindsay said as she hugged Nick one more time. She said excuse me to Brass and Sara and found her mom at the table, which was made from another chair.

"Thank you," Nick said as he began cutting his food.

"No problem man," Warrick said as he stuck half a pancake in his mouth.

"Pass the syrup, please," Mr. Stokes said.

"Here you go, Sir," Grissom said as he handed the syrup off to Sara.

"Please, call me Bill," Mr. Stokes said as he took the syrup from Sara.

"OK," Grissom said with a smile.

Greg then passed out the coffees to everyone and gave Lindsay her orange juice. She accepted it with a thank you and then looked at Nick who had been looking at her. Neither one of them said much as the tried to regain the connection that they had had earlier.

"Here you go, Nick," Greg said as he handed a coffee to Nick.

"Oh, thanks Greggo," Nick said as he sat it on the coffee table.

"Cisco, can you hand me a napkin," Nick asked attempted to swallow.

"Nicholas," both of his parents scolded. Bill let Jillian take this one as he submitted. "We've always taught you to talk with your mouth empty," Jillian said with a childish tone.

Nick's smile faded as Warrick, Greg, and even Jim and Gil laughed at Nick being scolded by his mommy.

"Mom," Nick said when his mouth was finally empty. "Come on," he said as he put his hands in the air.

"No, buts," Jillian said in an even sterner tone. This cause the boys to laugh even harder until Jillian shot them a look as well. The discontinued the laughing and stared straight down at their plates.

"Boy do you know how to train em'," Sara said as she looked at the boys with a smile.

"42 years of being a mother can do that to you," Jillian said with a smile.

"I still need a napkin," Nick said with his hands in the air.

Jillian shot him another look.

"Please," Nick said with pleading eyes.

"There. You know you were raised better then that," Jillian said as she cut her food into smaller bites.

Grissom had a though back to when he was in the A/V Lab watching Nick say his last goodbyes into the tape recorder. He vaguely remembered Nick saying that his mother "Raised him right". This also caused Nick to remember the day he was locked in the coffin. He pushed the thought out of his head and swallowed his pain. But, Grissom saw the look in his eyes. Nick locked eyes with Grissom who sheepishly looked back at his food. Nick brushed it off and ate the last bite of his meal.

"Mom, can you pass the creamer please," Nick said making sure he said please and that his mouth was empty.

"Yes," Jillian said with a smile.

Lindsay sat looking out the window. What she saw caused her to cringe and look back at Nick. He smiled at her as he poured his creamer into his coffee.

They drank their coffee and basked in the noon time sun that was peeking through the dark hospital style drapes.

The serene moment was broken up when Dr. Sparrow walked in.

"OK, folks sorry to tell you this but, it's be 45 minutes," Dr. Sparrow said as he did a head count. "Eight of you have to go. You may want to do it soon because………" he stopped short at the sound of Nick sipping his coffee.

"Oh my. You didn't eat did you?" the Dr. asked as he stared at the empty Styrofoam containers.

"Yes," Nick answered. "Was I not supposed to?"

"No. The medicine we gave you was supposed to be taken on an empty stomach," Dr. Sparrow explained to Nick.

"So, what's gonna happen?" Nick asked with a little more trepidation in his voice then what was intended.

"All of that food you ate," Dr. Sparrow started.

"Yeah?" Nick asked with wide hand gestures.

"Is gonna come right back up. And soon," Dr. Sparrow said with a concerned look on his face. "You are going to become very dehydrated from the vomiting. I'll have nurse come in here and give you some nutrients. That should hold you until Thursday. Now I can give you something to subside your stomach. Would you like that?"

Nick didn't answer Dr. Sparrow. He just looked at the people in the room as their bodies began spinning around the room.

"He's gonna be sick," Lindsay said not taking her eyes off of the window.

They looked from Lindsay and back to Nick. He nodded his head in agreement and began gripping his stomach. Catherine acted on impulse and grabbed the wastebasket. It was positioned square with Nick's mouth. Catherine moved her hand just in time to see pieces of that morning's breakfast being projected from Nick's mouth.

"OK folks, I'm gonna have to ask you 7," Dr. Sparrow said pointing to everyone except Bill and Jillian, "to leave."

"Get better soon, Nicky," Sara said as she put her hand on Jillian's shoulder.

Everyone nodded and continued with 'see you soon'.

Lindsay was the first out as she sat on the chair in the lobby. The same movie that was on the other day was playing. She gripped her backpack and began slowly kicking her feet under her chair.

"How did you know he was gonna be sick?" Greg asked as he sat to the right of Lindsay.

"I don't know," Lindsay said as she got to her feet looked at the ground and asked her mother, "Can we go home? I don't feel so well."

"OK, babe. Say good bye to everyone," Catherine said as she grabbed her hand.

"Bye everybody," Lindsay said with a little less enthusiasm.

"I'll see you guys later," Catherine said with a wave. "Warrick, call me with anything new, alright?" Catherine said as she pointed at him.

"Sure thing," Warrick said with a smile and a wave to Lindsay.

Lindsay and Catherine walked to the car hand in hand.

"So, how are you really feeling?" Catherine asked as they got into the car.

"Just fine actually," Lindsay said with a smile. She pushed her seat so that it was in the laid back position.

"I want to bring Uncle Nick lunch on Wednesday," Lindsay said as she looked out the window.

"Doctors said that he won't be able to eat for at least a couple days," Catherine said with curiosity.

"Well, I have a feeling he'll be feeling a lot better by Wednesday," Lindsay said with a smile.

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-CSIFanatic08