THE ENDING OF THIS MISERY
Disclaimer: I don't own any NUMB3RS characters I am not that lucky and if this ever happened on the show well that would be very different.
Summary: Terry and Don leave for a case in Reno Las Vegas. Charlie and Larry go missing. Amita is pregnant but does the father want it. David has a secret he's not telling either. Alan is going crazy because of the absence of his sons for his sons and someone strikes home while Don and Charlie are away.
Chapter 1 Leaving for Reno
"So if you do the dishes I'll cut the cake and clean off the table." Don said picking up his and Charlie's plate. "Okay." Charlie answered standing up, and stretching he walked into the kitchen and started rinsing the dishes and putting them into the dishwasher. "So where is Dad again?" Don asked Charlie setting the dishes down next to the sink. "He's is out having dinner with a friend from the shelter." Charlie replied with a smirk. "What's the smirk for?" Don asked going back into the kitchen and picking up the tray of lasagna that Alan had to explain to Charlie on how to make. Charlie did a good job, being the one of the first times he has made dinner "The smirk is because he is out with a girl." Charlie replied putting the last of the dishes into the dishwasher then bent down to turn it on. "I don't see how he does it. We're thirty and you've never even been on a date. And Dads sixty and he has been with more girls then we can count." Don said as he came in, and turned on the coffee pot, and took the lid off the carrot cake that Amita had made for Charlie.
"So how is school going?" Don asked taking out two plates and placing a piece of cake on each.
"Oh it's great; one of my students thinks that he is having a break through with the Stokes Equations. I'm going to take a look at it tomorrow." Charlie said wiping his hands off on a towel and walking back into the dinning room where Don had brought the two cups of hot coffee and the plates of cake.
"So what exactly is this "Stokes Equations" about?" Don asked taking a bite and chewing softly. "The problem deals with turbulence, hydrodynamics and fluid flow it could help us build better airplanes and ships. It's one of the seven hardest math problems." Charlie stated taking a sip of the hot coffee. Don said staring off into space. Charlie didn't say anything just stared into his coffee and pondered for a moment.
"Things are so dead at work it's nice but also so boring. When we don't do anything I always get stuck behind a desk doing paperwork. I want more action. I need more action. " Just as Don finished saying this, his cell phone went off. "Epps" Don answered picking up the phone. The person on the other end said something and Don answered back. The conversation went on for a couple more minutes Don saying very little but the other person was talking fairly loud and rapidly "Okay Ill be ready in the morning come pick me up at about 6 am from Charlie's house. Is it serious enough that we need Ch… Okay Ill see you tomorrow. Yeah bye." Don closed the phone and looked at Charlie who was staring at his coffee he knew what this meant it meant that Don had a new case good for him but that meant it would probably be a while before Don and him could do this again. He was use to his brother leaving him. "That was Terry they are having some problems in Reno with a drug lord they wanted the FBI to come and look into it so I am leaving tomorrow morning. They don't think they are going to need you but will send you word if they do. Is that okay?" Don said putting his phone back into his pocket and stood up pacing. "Don why would I have a problem with this? Remember this is you job not mine plus me and Larry are going down to the caves on Saturday to do some exploring I'm trying to prove to him that mathematically you cant get hurt doing it. So yeah just call my cell I promise that ill keep it on if you need me. When do you leave?" Charlie asked with a relatively blank face. He was use to his brother leaving but not out of the state to go deal with drug lords. That's the one thing that kills the most agents. I leave tomorrow at 6 am from here. Most of my work clothes are here so is it okay if I just stay here tonight?" Don asked picking up his dishes and placed them into the sink. "Yeah, that's fine. Think I am going to do some work." Charlie responded getting up and putting his dishes walked all the way upstairs into his sunroom and took out his calculations and started looking at them seeing where he left off and what was making sense and what wasn't.
After about 3hours, Don came in quietly without Charlie noticing, this wasn't hard because he was to busy scribbling down math problems and erasing rapidly. Don sat down and watched him. He noticed Charlie struggling with something and he then violently throw his pencil against the wall. The pencil hit the wall and shattered in two. He flung himself onto the couch and glared at Don. "What?" Charlie asked sharply.
"Charlie what's wrong with you?" Don asked nervously.
"Nothing." Charlie stated flatly.
"That's not true."
"Your never home long enough to notice before why would you care so much right now?"
"Charlie you don't have to be like this like this!"
"Like what? Don why aren't you ever there for me, when I need you, so enlighten me tell me how I should? Do you not like the way I am?"
"You act like I've been so horrible to you, you say that I am never there for you but however it seems like you're the one never allowing anyone to get close to you. You spend more time working on math problems that you are never going to solve then trying to open to people being there for you."
"Me, you're so busy with your work that if I want to ever talk to you I need a fricken appointment! Now if you would please leave I have work to continue." Charlie said getting up and getting out a new pencil.
"Whatever." Don said getting up and walking out. As soon as Don left the room Charlie lay back down on the couch silently cursing him, and thinking about how he had been acting and how much he was going to miss Don.
The next day Don woke up before the sun rose, threw two shirts, two pairs of pants, and a tie into a black duffle bag. He went into the kitchen, threw toast into the toaster, and put in the coffee pot. Charlie never came down to say good bye he knew that what he said yesterday hurt Charlie, but it hurt Don just as bad he felt bad about leaving him still mad. It there wasn't anything he could do at the moment, he knew the one thing that would make Charlie happy was if he stayed but that he couldn't do. He swore to himself that, that as soon as he got to the hotel that night he would call Charlie and apologize. In the meantime he brought his bag to the front door, and slowly drained his coffee cup, and waited for the arrival of his amazing partner, Terry. She arrived shortly before 6 and Don watched as she jumped out of the car and ran to the door. Knocking softly Don quickly opened to one more look towards Charlie's room, said a soft goodbye, and grabbed his bag unaware that Charlie stood just inside of his room listening to his older brother leave and praying to god that he would be back safe and soon. Just after Don shut the door Charlie ran down the stairs, and opened the door, and watched Terry speed out of the driveway. He would come back fine he knew Terry would never let anything happen to him, and vice versa.
Charlie turned around shutting the door softly behind him. Walking into the kitchen he took the coffee pot Don had filled and poured himself a cup of coffee. As soon as he sat down, his father came walking in. "Where is Don going?" Alan asked pouring himself coffee and sitting down next to Charlie.
"They were having some drug problems in Reno that they wanted the FBI to look into, so he's going to be gone for a couple days. Him and Terry left." Charlie said talking to himself. There was a knock on the door. Alan got up and opened. Larry stood there with his suit on and a big binder.
"I thought we were going to the caves today Larry?" Charlie said coming to the door and leading the way into the sunroom. "Yeah well I wanted to prove to you how unsafe this little journey is going to be." Larry said. As they entered the room he opened his binder and took out sheets with problems covering them.
"This is crazy Larry. Let's just go and then we can have more problems by how it actually is." Charlie said shaking his head. "You surprise me Charles. You really do."