I don't own Dane Cook, any of his work, nor do I have any affiliation with the 'wonderfuls' that do. I don't own Nick, Greg, Sara, Brass, Grissom, the LVPD, Catherine or her leash...(y'all have to read the chapter to understand that one). I own everything else though.
--Well...all that's left to do is...READ THE STORY PLEASE! XD XD...which I'm sure y'all will...XP--
Chapter 14 (wow...chapter 14 already?)
(Later that day)
Riley stepped out of Nick's shower and wrapped the fluffy midnight blue towel around her wet body. She stepped up to the mirror and wiped away the steam to get a look at her appearance...at least she looked cleaner. A soft knock at the door sounded, and the door became slightly ajar. She laughed and shook her head. "You can come in..."
"Are you decent?"
She laughed. "C'mon Nick, you've seen me naked before."
He walked in and shrugged. "I'm headin off to work." He informed her and she nodded. "Good luck at work."
She laughed. "It's a bar Nick, pourin drinks ain't that hard."
"I meant the hospital. Today's your first day...or did you forget?"
She smiled triumphantly and looked at him through his reflection in the mirror. "You remembered."
"Of course I did. I'm sorry that I can't take you in today, Griss called us all in early, but I already called a cab company and its scheduled to pick you up at seven...so get your beautiful ass movin." He swatted her butt and she laughed as she spun around and wrapped her arms around his neck.
"Thank you baby. My car should be out of the shop in a few weeks...we got it insured this time so we're lucky."
Nick internally frowned at the mention of 'we'...she was talking about her and Deven. "I think it's time for a new car baby...the General Lee doesn't seem to be so lucky for you...two car accidents..." He shook his head and she gave him a look. Nick raised his hands in surrender and shook his head. "And it's not just because Deven got you the car...although I think that's some pretty fantastical symbolism."
She brightened up and ignored the wickedly awesome burn on her ex. "You used a Dane Cook word!"
Nick smiled and shrugged. "My friend Greg had one of his CDs...I listened to it a couple days ago..." He laughed and she shook her head.
"He's funny isn't he?"
"Yep...'That Dane Cook is a silly bitch'." Nick quoted and she laughed. "I gotta say, my favorite one was when he did 'The Car Alarm Song'."
She laughed at the thought of the crazy insane song that Dane Cook had come up with. "The funny thing is, after Kiersten and I heard it a car alarm went off in the parking lot...all we could do was sing the song. We still sing it randomly through out the day."
Nick shook his head. "You would...y'all are insane!" He replied and she laughed again. "Alright Baby, I gotta head into work. I'll see you later." He pecked her cheek and she smiled at the chaste notion and shook her head.
A few minutes later she heard the front door and she walked out of the bathroom, and into the kitchen. She went to the counter to pop a bagel into the toaster (the only thing she'd eat after she woke up) and looked around his recently painted kitchen absently. She smiled when she looked down at where she as standing and realized that, mid-paint, they had gotten caught up and had sex right there on the kitchen floor a few weeks ago. She laughed softly and looked back up when her bagel popped out of the toaster, only to see the light of the coffee pot was still on, and all the coffee was gone.
She shook her head. That man always forgets to turn off the coffee. With that thought on her mind, the front door opened to a very frantic Nick running into the house. He jogged over and turned off that coffee pot, a smirk on his lips. He shrugged and kissed her quickly before he ran back to the door. "I'm late!" He stated as he ran and she laughed.
"You could have called me to ask me to do it!" She said laughing as he held up the phone he picked up from the couch.
"I forgot my phone!" He called over his shoulder. "See ya later Ry." With that he closed the door and she laughed as she began to apply the cream cheese to her bagel.
--Yup...y'all guessed it, the 'tard' of a bar thingy doesn't work...BTW, y'all should really listen to Dane Cook...XD--
Nick sighed in frustration, lethargy, and all around anger. The Pin-up rapist had struck again...a younger girl...just turned nineteen...she was just a kid. That shouldn't have happened to her...it shouldn't have happened to any of those women. Brass had taken it upon himself to put all the women on Swing and Nights in the lab that fit the profile of the victims under heavy supervision. That annoyed most of them, but the department wasn't taking any chances.
The media had leaked word about the serial rapist, and spilled any information they could get about him to the media. Hell, one reporter had her photographer sneak into the scene and get pictures of the CSIs working with their evidence. The photographer was caught and Brass was dealing with him now, but not before the pictures worth a million big ones each were plastered all over the news.
All that the CSIs were waiting for now was a change in MO that hadn't yet come, and Grissom decided it would be best for them to wait at their homes. Nick sighed and walked by Grissom's office, casually looking inside to see Grissom and Sara arguing lightly about something.
Probably making her stay with him until they catch the rapist...good.
Nick shivered at the memory of when Sara had been used as live bait for Sid Goggle...all of them, especially Grissom, were worried they were going to loose her to some psycho rapist. He walked on past the simple lovers quarrel and into the break room and saw Greg. "Hey Greggo...what's good?"
Greg looked up to the Texan and gave a half smile. "Not much..."
"What's gotcha down?" Nick asked, already knowing the answer...the same thing that had everyone else in the greater Las Vegas area down...
"This...this sick bastard. How can he do that to women? And how are we supposed to deal with it...? How do you guys all just...just take it?"
Nick sighed and sat down next to the younger man on the couch, mocking his position of his elbows resting on his knees, hands folded loosely in his lap, and shoulders slumped forward in a hunched position. "You just do Greg." He said after several minutes. "...You just do."
Greg sighed and hung his head. "I don't know if I can."
Nick shook his head. "Yeah...you can. You're strong Greg...you're gonna give up and go back to the DNA lab just because one sicko?"
"But Nick, it's not just one sicko...it's a million of 'em."
"So you wanna run back to the lab and hide? You'd still have to deal with it Greg. The DNA lab ain't gonna save ya. You can do this Greg, I know you can. Think about all those people out there that you have to keep safe...because at the end of the day, that's what it's really all about...keeping people safe."
Just then, Nick's cell rang and they both looked at it to see the display, R.T. "There's one of 'em now." Greg replied, a small smile on his face. "The infamous mystery girl...when am I gonna meet her by the way?"
Nick chuckled. "You already have Greggo."
"I know...I was talking about the team meeting her." Greg lied.
Nick laughed. "Um, that would be a 'never'. I'm not bringin my girlfriend around so you can ogle her...her friends do that enough." He laughed at the pouty expression on Greg's face and answered his phone. "Hey you."
"Hey yourself. Whacha doin?"
"Nothin, just talkin to Greg."
"Tell him I say hi."
"No, he'll think you like him, then you'll never get away from him." Nick said and Greg shot him a dirty look as Riley and Nick both laughed.
"I just got of shift, you wanna go out for breakfast?"
"You're off shift already?"
"I'm still a trainee, I work part time."
Nick nodded. "Sure. The usual place?"
"Yep."
"Alright, see ya in a few. Bye Darlin."
"Awww!" Greg replied in a falsetto voice, and Nick threw a pillow at him. "Y'all are so cute!" He exclaimed in a horrible Southern Belle impression.
Riley laughed. "You'll see me sooner than you think...bye Baby."
They hung up and Nick laughed at Greg. "That's exactly why you'll never meet her." Nick pointed a finger at him while laughing, referring to the 'Southern Belle' impersonation.
"Not even if I'm kept on Catherine's leash...?"
"Hmm...you meeting my girlfriend while Catherine has you on a leash...? I think that might make the situation worse." Nick joked as he walked into the lobby and stopped dead in his tracks.
Riley stood at the front doors, a sly smile on her face. "Told ya it'd be sooner than you think." She said softly so as not to attract attention to them. "Now let's get outta here before Greg shows up."
Nick smiled and grabbed her hand and pulled her out of the lab and quickly scurried out the door. Once they were out of view he kissed her passionately. "This was a nice surprise...and may I say you look sexy as hell as a naughty nurse."
She laughed. "Actually I'm a nice nurse..."
"Aw, ya see...I think you can be naughty and nice..." He wrapped his arms around her and pushed her up against his car and kissed her passionately. She giggled and Nick pulled away. "But I think this kind of talk would be better somewhere else." He waggled his eyebrows.
"Yeah...like the dinner." She said with a smirk on her face. Nick pouted and she laughed. "Sorry. But I'm hungry! And you are too...admit it."
"Am not." He lied, but his stomach betrayed him and growled loudly. She gave him an 'I told you so' look and he shook his head. "I'm hungry for a different kind of meal Sugar." He growled in a lusty voice, a devious grin on his beautiful face. She gaped at him and swatted his arm playfully.
"Nicholas Garret Stokes! What would your mama say if she heard you talkin like that?" Riley exclaimed and Nick laughed and helped her into the car. He smiled and closed the door for her and jogged around to his side of the car. "Anyway, I'm actually hungry...in the actual way of wanting food."
Nick chuckled as they pulled out of the parking lot. "Fine, we eat...then I eat..."
"Nick..." She moaned in half exasperation, causing Nick to chuckle deviously. Truthfully she was fine with his joking, anything to keep his mind away from the dark anniversary that had threatened to cloud his day.
--Sigh...as guessed, the bar thingy doesn't work...hmm...maybe they should fix that...(hint hint to The Powers That Be)--
Riley laughed at the dirty joke Nick had just told her as they walked into his house. "Nick Stokes...you have a very dirty mind." She scolded and Nick chuckled yet again.
"Well you can only expect that kind of joke when you ate as much as you did today...I mean damn girl! Where do you put it all?" Nick asked and she slapped her butt in response. Nick chuckled and walked over, wrapping his arms around her as he whispered. "So...now that you've eaten..."
She gave him an apologetic look, "I'm actually kinda tired..." She admitted. Nick looked at her in shock and she bit her lip. "I'm sorry..."
He pouted and whined as he buried his head in her shoulder. "Man...I thought watching you eat whipped cream off your pancakes after your car accident a few weeks ago was bad knowing that I couldn't have you...but this..." He whined again and she laughed.
"I'm sorry Baby..." She fanned herself with her hand and knitted her brow. "Why is it so hot in here?"
Nick chuckled. "Sorry, that'd be my fault. It's my innate hotness heating up the room again...I don't know why I even bother with a heating system." He shrugged as if he couldn't help it (which he can't XD) and kissed her softly. The kiss grew more passionate as Nick wrapped his arms around her waist and pushed her up against the front door. "Riley..." He mumbled and began kissing her neck. He moaned softly into her shoulder as he tugged at the navy blue scrubs uniform she was wearing. His hands dropped to the generous curve of her ass and he gripped it tightly.
Nick's passionate kisses began making her weak at the knees, and sensing this, Nick picked her up so she could wrap her long legs around his waist. She buried her fingers in his shaggy hair as he continued to devour her chest, shoulders, and neck, all the while slowly grinding his pelvis into hers. She leaned her head back against the door and let a throaty moan escape her throat. His ministrations on her body were having a zealous effect on her, and soon her hands began to tremor.
Nick pushed her into the door harder and she grunted in pleasure. She could feel his erection growing, her heart beating faster and harder, so much that it almost hurt, and all of her blood rushing to her lust filled core. She began taking deeper breaths, trying to steady her breathing (something she could normally do)...but she couldn't now. Something wasn't right...not with Nick... but with herself...something felt off. Nick seemed to notice something was wrong with her, and he pulled away from her and allowed subtle distance between their bodies, in result, not pressing her quite so hard into the door.
"Riley...Hon what's wrong?" He asked, the concern in his tone kicking his accent into full swing. She didn't respond, only squeezed her eyes shut tighter and tried to slow her heart and dispel her labored breathing. "Riley?" Nick asked more concerned as a sheen of sweat appeared on her upper lip and across her forehead. He pulled away from the door completely She doubled over in pain and gripped her abdomen tightly. Nick swung her around and placed one arm under her back, and the other under her popliteal (the back of her knees). He opened the door and hurried out, kicking it closed with his foot, and quickly strapped her into his Denali.
He climbed in the driver's side and sped off towards the hospital, holding her hand the entire time.
--Ahhh! Drama drama drama drama! Man...these two are just as theatrical as can be huh? XD--
Okay...I know, I'm very evil to end the chapter here...but hey, everyone calls me evil and I'm okay with that XD –evil laugh—
On and on and on we go...what's wrong with Riley...no body knows...(except the doctors you'll meet in the next chapter...—rubs hands together evilly—Oh man it's gonna be good!) PS, sorry that chapter (and the last chapter) were so long...I got carried away :D
Okay, review or I'll really show my evil side and end the book right here...(which means Riley will die...) REVIEW PLEASE!
-Chella Belle
As for you Kiersten...—smirk—I put 'The Car Alarm Song' and 'fantastical' in there for you... XD You too Emma! Just a little ray of sunshine in our current dark situation... :(... (BTW, sorry for confusing the hell outta everyone else who has no clue what I'm talkin about...)