The Team's Reunion

Christopher got in the passenger side of Pride's car and rode with him back to the NCIS field office, and when they got there no one was in the front room so they were able to hide the fact that Chris was there. Pride took Christopher upstairs and said, "you seem like you might be tired. You can lay down up here and rest till everything is over." Christopher looked at Pride and said, "thanks I am pretty tired let me know when the team has the guy in custody."

Christopher laid down on the bed that Pride had left up there for when someone decided to stay at the office overnight to keep working on a case. It didn't take long before he was asleep and all Pride could do was stare at Christopher for a while. 'He's so beautiful when he sleeps' Pride thought with a smile on his face. Pride then heard the team coming into the front room so he headed downstairs only to have them staring at him. "Don't ask I can't tell you now but you'll know when this is all over with. Tell me we got him and that there was plenty of evidence against him please." "We got him and he is being hung out to dry as we speak cause there was so much evidence that we had to have help from Percy here cause it was that extreme," Hannah explained.

There was a noise from upstairs that had everyone looking up but it was Pride who went up to check, because he knew who was upstairs. As soon as he made it upstairs he ran over to Christopher's side cause he was on the floor. "What happened Christopher? You were just fine when I left the room." Christopher looked up at Pride and then his eyes rolled into the back of his head. "Christopher! Sonja get up here now!" Sonja came upstairs and said, "what's going on, what happened and why is he here?" Pride looked up at Sonja and said, "I brought him here so when everything was all over he would be able to see everyone." Sonja stared at him and said, "well now that I can understand but what happened to LaSalle?" "That I can't explain, I was asking the same thing when he looked up at me and then his eyes rolled into the back of his head."

"What's going on up there? We all heard that noise what was it?" Pride looked at Sonja and said, "that was Hannah we have to let them know. I know that he is in hiding but we have the bad guy he's safe now." Pride picked up Christopher and put him in the bed. He covered the man up with the blanket and the moved the hair from his eyes. They then went back downstairs and Pride looked at everyone went to the phone and called Loretta and said, "come over to the office I have something to tell everyone and I wish to do once and only once." After he hung up the phone he turned to everyone in the office and said, "you'll find out as soon as Loretta gets here no sooner. I'm going back upstairs and I don't want to be disturbed until she gets here."

Pride headed upstairs to check on Christopher and all he could think was, 'please be okay I can't loose you again.' He sat down in a chair beside the bed and laid his head down beside the love of his life, only to fall asleep. Sonja came up to get Pride when Loretta showed up only to see that both men were asleep. She decided to let them sleep and went back downstairs. As she came down the stairs she said, "let's just wait for a little while and I'll get Pride in a bit." Everyone stared at her and Hannah was the first to speak, "you've got to be kidding me. We want to know what's going on with Pride, he's been acting unusual today. Percy tell us what's going on, now."

Sonja realized that she had to let them know the truth so she led them upstairs and showed them what Pride's secret was. The moment that they saw Christopher everyone thought that it was his dead body. But it was Sonja that let them know what it was. "That's our best friend Chris and he's alive. Trust me I'm not lying to you he's the reason we knew that the man who shot him and killed Cade was a hitman. Pride has had a hard time dealing with the loss of Christopher and hadn't realized just how much until I came in and asked about Chris only to find that my friend had been murdered. It was at that moment that he realized just how much Chris' death had impacted him."

Christopher was the first to wake up and then he touched Pride's head and ran his fingers through the man's hair.