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That night, Nick went to work.

As soon as he stepped into the lab, he regretted it.

People gave him sympathetic looks, or avoided him all together.

So he sought refuge in the locker room.

It was empty, thankfully, so Nick sat down on the bench, just staring ahead into nothingness.

He had officially lost everything except his job. He'd lost his daughter, and his wife, his life, had left him. Taking his heart with her.

That's why he had come to work. Because it was the only thing he had left.

Plus, he couldn't sit at home. Constant reminders of his daughter and Sara were there.

Why had she left him?

He needed her so badly.

He pulled out his phone again, and called Sara's number. He got voice mail for the 34th time. Slamming his phone shut, he hurled it across the room, smashing it against the wall, grabbing his own head in grief.

"Nick?"

Warrick's voice startled him, and he glanced up to see him standing there, holding what was left of Nick's phone in his hands.

"You okay?" Warrick asked. The question was rhetorical, really. Warrick knew Nick wasn't okay. He sat besides Nick, glancing at him questioningly. He was surprised Nick was back at work so soon. He didn't expect him for another week.

Nick just shook his head. "I don't even know what I'm doing here," he admitted.

"Then go home," Warrick said simply. "Go home to Sara. You need to be together."

At his words, Nick hung his head. "I know," he whispered. "It's hard though, because she's not there."

Warrick hung his head too. He had loved Emily with all of his heart. It was still killing him inside, and the fact that they weren't any closer to finding the killer was hurting him more. The least he could do for her was find the man who had hurt her, and he couldn't even do that.

He couldn't even imagine how bad Nick was feeling.

But at that moment, Nick needed to be home with his wife.

"I think you should go home to Sara," Warrick repeated. They needed to do this together.

Nick looked at him as though he were crazy. "I already told you she wasn't there."

Warrick looked at him, confused. "I thought you meant…Emily?"

"Sara…" Nick croaked out, and Warrick felt his confusion heighten.

"Where's Sara?" Warrick questioned. Nick just shrugged.

"I don't know," he said hoarsely. "She just… left me."

Warrick closed his eyes in shock, taking a deep breath to steady himself. Sara had left Nick? How could that be? Sara loved Nick with all her heart, and Nick had loved Sara more than anything.

Maybe except for Emily.

"I need her," Nick mumbled. "I can't loose her and Emily."

Warrick had no idea how to comfort Nick. Nick had lost his whole family. His whole world.

"Nick… I…" Warrick trailed off as Nick stood up, and without a word to Warrick, left the room.

Sara couldn't sleep. It wasn't the cheap Motel 6 beds, or that the people in the room next to her were very loudly expressing their love for each other, it was the fact that Nick wasn't with her.

For the millionth time she wondered whether she was doing the right thing. She loved Nick so much. She loved him so much, that she didn't want him to hurt anymore.

It was her fault Emily was dead. She was a terrible mother, and because of that, Nick had lost his daughter.

She couldn't do that to him again.

She rolled over, her hand coming to rest on her abdomen. At 3 months along, she was barely showing, but she could feel the presence of her second child.

Her and Nick's second child.

Tears welled up in her eyes as she thought about what she was doing to Nick. He would be so excited that she was pregnant again. He would be over the moon. And she was taking that away from him.

Her phone vibrated besides her, and she glanced at it, thinking it would be Nick. She was surprised to find Catherine's name flashing up at her.

She and Catherine had grown a lot closer of the years, ever since she had told her she was pregnant. It had been nice to have a woman to help her through it, especially one who had already experienced what Sara was going to go through.

She grabbed her phone, staring at the caller ID, wondering whether she should answer it.

But she needed to tell someone what was happening, and if she couldn't tell Nick, she would tell Catherine.

"Hey," she croaked out, flipping her phone open.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?" Catherine's voice screeched at her at the other end. Sara swallowed miserably.

"Cath…"

"Just, don't," Catherine said, more calmly than before. "Warrick told me what happened. He heard off Nick. How could you do that to him?"

"I didn't want to," Sara whimpered. Catherine sighed.

"Why don't you come home," she suggested, hoping to coax the brunette into seeing Nick again.

"I cant," Sara whispered. "I don't want to hurt him again."

"What happened with Emily was not your fault, Sara," Catherine told her, her voice taking on a more solemn, sympathetic tone.

"What if it happens again?" Sara asked softly. "I just don't want it to happen again. It would kill him."

"You're pregnant, aren't you?" Catherine whispered. Sara gasped. How could Catherine just guess.

"How did you…"

"It wasn't hard, Sara," Catherine told her. "I could tell a while ago. The symptoms were all there. Nick doesn't know, does he?"

Sara swallowed. "No."

"But Sara," Catherine argued. "This is exactly what the two of you need. This could be a new start, a new chance for the both of you. Nick would be so happy."

"You can't tell him," Sara panicked.

Catherine sighed. "I wont. But I think you need to."

"I cant," croaked Sara. "What if something happens, what if something happens to the baby, like what happened to Emily? I couldn't do that to Nick again. He needs to live again."

"You cant live for long without your heart, Sara," Catherine told her, and hung up, leaving Sara crying alone in her motel room.

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