Disclaimer: Sadly I don't own CSI but I do own this plotline!
Sorry this is a short chapter.
Previously on Who I Am: "I'm sorry Nicky. I just thought you would be up by now since you were last time I saw you." She told him smiling as she took a seat on the couch. Nick shook his head in silent mirth.
"It's alright, Mom. How's Cisco?" He asked from the kitchen while he was up he might as well start the coffee.
"After getting over the shock he was pretty happy to have another granddaughter." Carol said searching for the small jewelry box she put in her before she left. They sat in a comfortable silence while she scoungered through her purse until her finger found it.
"Ahha! Nicky come here for a minute." She called as she pulled out a soft blue velvet jewelry box. Nick gave a groan. He had hoped that he would have some time to make her into a tomboy before his mother and his sisters turned Auggie into a girly girl.
"No groaning. When your brothers and sisters had their first born child your father and I gave them this pendent also. It was their choice if when their children got older if they wanted the kid to where it or not just like it is to you. Check it out I'm pretty sure you will like it." Carefully Nick tool the box from her and opened it. His eyes were widened in shock. There nestled in the blue velvet was a pewter St. Michael's pendent with Protect Them curving at the bottom. What shocked Nick more was that there was a smaller one for Auggie if he decided to give it to her and he did. (He needed all the luck that he could get.)
"Mom, I don't know what else to say other than thank you." Nick told her giving her a hug. Behind him he heard a soft groan and his mother gasp softly. Nick rolled his eyes his mother always was one for dramatics and Auggie was up.
"Hey Peanut. Sorry if Grandma woke you up." Nicky said softly as he picked his little girl up. His mother gave him a soft slap on the arm. He was lucky if he didn't have Auggie in his arms it would have been a head slap. She just rubbed her head against his shoulder and giving a groan. Nick gave a chuckle.
"I know it is too early we'll get some much needed sleep tonight. How does that sound?" He asked leading them into the kitchen and setting Auggie into a chair in front of the island. Auggie gave a grunt as she set her head on the table.
"Oh, Nicky! She's just like how you were at that age!" Carol gushed making Nick blush as he started to make pancakes. Somehow Nick couldn't shake the feeling that the woman was faking it a little bit, but this was his mother. Mothers were supposed to love their children's children no matter what. Auggie lifted her head from the table when she smelled something delicious coming from the stove. He loved this guy's cooking! It was always good and yummy.
"Pancakes?" she asked hesitantly, trying to get a look at the pan but wasn't succeeding. Nicky flipped the object in the pan before turning to her and giving her a smile.
"You'll just have to be patient or the tickle monster will get you." Nicky told her waving his fingers threateningly at her. Auggie gave a grin back before giggling. He looked at her suspiciously before turning back to the flap jacks.
"Daddy!" Auggie whined from the table, it was getting easier and easier to interact with her father every day now. Carol watched the two interact from the doorway. They interacted so easily and Nicky adapted to being a father quickly. Though she did not approve of the way he became a father but she could see that he adapted to the part quickly and he was made for it.
"Auggie!" he whined back, placing a plate of flapjacks already buttered and with honey on them. She looked at them with confusion but shrugged it off and took a bite anyways. Nick swore the next time he brought her into work again he will have to see if she will eat one of Grissom's chocolate covered bugs.
"You need something to eat Mama?" Nicky asked holding out a plate of flap jacks for her to take. She took a step back and picked up her bag.
"No thanks, Nicky. I'll just put these in the guestroom." She told him with a hesitant smile. Nick looked over to Auggie and back to his mama. How was he going to do this?
"Uh, Mama, the guest room is Auggie's room now. You can have my room and I will take the couch." Nick offered gently, with a sheepish smile. Carol looked between the two in suspicion though her face was a calm mask on the outside. This little girl has changed her baby boy so much that it scares her. Yet she found an anger building up inside of her.
"No, no, Nicky I'll just go to a hotel for the nights."Carol told him with a shaky smile, barely containing the emotions from the surface. The feeling Nick had earlier came back, making Nick shake his head in denial to get the feeling out of his head.
"Mama you don't have to do that. We can work something out." Nick protested though it wasn't that strong of a protest. He glanced over at Auggie to see she was done with her pancakes and was looking at him curiously.
"Want some more, Auggie?" He asked her moving closer to her. She silently shook her head no and tried to get off from the stool only to be picked up by Nicky. "Think you could be a big girl and put your plate in the sink for me?"
"Yes, Papa." Auggie told him sweet, picking up her plate and placing it in the sink when Nick walked her over there. He gave her a high five and a kiss on the cheek.
"Good girl. How about you go up stairs and pick out the outfit you want wear today. Make sure it is real pretty we're going over to you new school today." Nick said setting her down in the living room, where she went down the hall in a soft trot. Once Auggie was out of sight Carol started talking again.
"Don't argue with me Nicky. I'll stay in a hotel, I'll be fine." Carol said giving him a soft smile. Nick looked hesitant at first but then looked down at himself and realized that he too had to get dressed. He flashed her a smile before heading to his own room to get changed.
Carol sat on the couch, left to her thoughts. Nick shouldn't be a parent yet. He shouldn't be a parent for another five years. Yet he has a little girl living with him with four years of life. If Nick was going to have children it should be his own flesh and blood. Not some adopted little twerp. Maybe she could talk Nick out of it. No, he was too stubborn for that. Maybe there was something the little things parents will. Yes, she will have to look when she gets to a hotel.
"Mama?" Nick asked coming down the hall with two pairs of shoes in his hands and Auggie following behind him in a pair of nice blue jeans, a purple t-shirt with Princess in pink writing with white socks on her feet.
"Yes?" Carol asked snapping out of her thoughts and turning her head towards her youngest son.
"I said you can stay here if you like while Auggie and I are out if you like. We have to go to her school, then we have to stop by her parent's house to pick up a few things before coming back here for the social worker at one." Nick told her taking a seat near her on the couch.
"No, no I'll go to the hotel. You won't be here so there will be nothing for me to do." Carol told him innocently, secretly thinking of looking at the little girl's parents will.
"If you're sure." Nick said uncertainly, looking down he started to undo the knot in Auggie's shoe.
"Positive." Carol said, patting his shoulder reassuring. Nick looked at her again before turning to Auggie who was seated in front of him.
"Alright, Peanut. I need your left foot." Nick told the little girl, holding out his hand out for her foot. Auggie looked down at her feet, trying to remember which was the left and what one was the right. She carefully placed a foot in Nick's hand.
"Your other left foot, Auggie." He said giving the foot a pat and setting it back in front of him. She placed other foot in his hand. "This is your left foot." He gave the foot a gentle shake before putting on the white converse. "Other foot" Auggie set her not shoed foot in his hand and waited for him to put the other shoe on before standing up.
"Thank you, Papa." Auggie told him softly, giving a hug before moving away. Auggie looked at her grandmother but she couldn't help but keep her distance from the woman. It was like the lady didn't like her. What did she do? She doesn't know this woman or not that she could remember.
"Alright, Mama we're off. Come over for dinner tonight and we will talk okay?" Nick asked kissing his Mom on the cheek before picking Auggie up in his arms. The little girl looked between the two for a moment before placing her head on her Papa's shoulder. As long as she happened to have her Papa she was happy.
Carol looked through the will of the McCarty's that they left everything to their daughter and gave a suggestion of a Leroy Jethro Gibbs or a Mike Franks to take care of the brat. Since Carol couldn't find the number for the Franks fellow but could for Gibbs she decided to give him a call. Carefully she typed the number into the phone and double checked it before hitting the call button.
"Gibbs." Was the answer she got on the phone.
"Mr. Gibbs my name is Carol Stokes and I am the adoptive grandmother of someone you know." Carol said a smile curling its way to her lips.
"And who would that be?" Gibbs asked sarcastically over the phone while he looked over a file.
"An August Athena McCarty."
A/N: Please read this one. I hate putting these things. Sorry its been so long, I've got writers block. But I need you guys to do me a favor and let me know if I should continue till Auggie's first Christmas with Nick or should I skip the holidays till the BAU comes into play? Let me know.