A/N: this chapter is for NickGilGreggonumber1fan……..a spectacular turn of advents takes place, please let me know if your happy again?
0.34
Returning to the land of the living was something Gil Grissom had wanted to postpone indefinitely, but unfortunately he had to face reality. Upon hearing voices he slowly opened his eyes, groaning softly as his eyesight adjusted to the lights and showed the people who were standing a few meters from him.
Alerted by this sound they slowly walked toward him, one more slowly then the others.
"Gil, finally your awake," a relieved Catherine spoke, "the doctors said that you had a severe concussion and it would be possible that you would not wake up for quite some time but I knew you would wake up if it was just for the latest news."
Not even trying to gather the strength to reply, Grissom closed his eyes again. What was the point of him being awake again: Nick was death……he had failed. At that moment the person who had moved more slowly reached him. And a wobbly voice spoke: "Hey Gris, it's Greg…..I don't know why Catherine didn't tell you this the moment you opened your eyes, because I can only imagine how you must feel, but Nick…….Nick's alive." Gaining more strength when Grissom opened his eyes again and stared at him, Greg continued: " Sofia managed to get Nick out. She sneaked up on Nick and Thayer from the backdoor….Thayers dead though. She shot him and ignited the fuel by accident she barely had time to grab Nick but she managed. Before you ask anymore questions can I please sit down first…my leg is killing me."
Grissom stared in wonder as Greg let himself fall on his bed, which earned him a glare from Catherine. Sighing Greg stretched his good leg, "ahh, that feels wonderful. I'm never going to complain again about desk work."
Focusing his energy on stringing a sentence together Grissom managed to formulate his questions in his head: "Nick's alive….is he injured, where is he can I see him and,.. Sofia where is she are they both alright?" that's what he wanted to ask but all he managed was a croaked, "Nick?"
Catherine responded to this. "Nick is fine, Grissom. He's pretty shook up but he will be fine. Sofia and Nick are both in a room two doors from here. Because of the multiple injured the hospital received they decided to put the two together, since the doctors knew we wanted to see them. Now sleep for a little while and I will ask if you are allowed to see them ok?"
Sighing Grissom closed his eyes, Nick was alive he hadn't failed him…..
03.45
Grissom's eyes snapped open. Looking around himself he saw Brass slumped in a chair next to him. Getting up as fast as he could he called out to him.
"Jim, wake up. Jim!"
Not waiting to see if he was fully awake, Grissom started to grab a pair of sweats from the end of the bed while he kept on talking.
"Jim I just realised something…..god how could I've missed that. Thayer had a partner Jim. It was not possible for him to enter the lab, so someone else put the bombs in place. Which means that everybody is still in danger. Come on we have to go check on them…..first stop Nick and Sofia." With those words he grabbed a now alert looking Brass by his arms and dragged him out of the room.
Waiting a minute in front of their room, Grissom took a much needed gulp of air before he pushed the door open, stepping inside he turned around towards Brass. "Jim the others need to know that there is still someone out there who wants to kill us, could you do that." Getting a nod as answer he turned around and entered the room.
Blinking his eyes and adjusting to the darkness that was present in the room he let his eyes roam over the two figures that were in the hospital beds and took a moment to take in the view of two alive colleagues. They both were asleep but were Sofia looked like she only had a nasty sunburn, Nick's appearance was much drastic; a bandage covered his forehead, his arm was plastered and his face was a much angrier red then Sofia's. Feeling guilty about waking them from their much needed sleep Grissom knew they had to be told about the other maniac that was still free, so calling out their names he woke them up, and started explaining the situation.
TBC…
