Un-Professionalism

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Ch4: Awkward

Finn slides out of his strong unforgiving grasp to attend to her buzzing phone. She gets the necessary information for a crime scene. She sees him asleep. Why must she always fall for the bad boys? However she was stuck with this one he would never let her leave. Finn starts to get dress quiet not wanting to wake her partner. She uses the bathroom down the hall not wanting to disturb him and pay the price.

She gets ready in the dark knowing better then to turn on any light, as she leaves the bathroom she is pushed violently to the ground. She covers her face and tries to defend herself but cant. She smells booze but more so whiskey on his skin and breath. She tries to crawl away and he stomps on her hand.

"Where are you going, Julie?" he says angry as he still stands on her hand. The pain radiates through her hand. She turns and kicks him as she can in between his legs. He groans and doubles over in pain.

Finn gets up and runs outside right to Nick who picks her up and plants a hot kiss on her lips. She runs her fingers through his hair as the pain from her hand is gone as soon as she feels him. She feels tears come down her cheek as she feels Nick's inviting embrace get ahold of her, protecting her from his doppleganger. She feels safe here.

The sun is shining bright, brighter than it has shined in day but for Finn more like four years, ten months, and four days. She thought that if she married him he'd be nicer and the hitting would stop, but it didn't. But when Nick kisses her again the thought of his look-a-like disappears from her mind along with all the agony and hurt he caused. She realizes this is only a dream but she will let this happen. She has been used and abused by all these bad boys that she will let this good boy take care of her even if it is only for one night.

"I'm not him…" Nick whispers in her ear.

Finn wakes up and pulls the sheet up to cover her shoulder, still feeling the after effects from her dream and the adventures of the night prior. She rolls over and sees Nick on the phone whispering. His back was towards her and it was obvious he didn't know she was awake.

"Okay, give me like an hour and I'll be in." Nick whispered. "Okay, text me the address." he hung up, and saw Finn awake. "I didn't mean to wake you." he said sweetly.

"Did you get called in?" Finn asked battling her own thoughts. Her brain battles with what happened and remembers the dark times with her ex-husband.

"Yea," Nick said rolling over search for his clothes. He finds and puts his underwear and pants back on.

"We can't do this again." Finn said putting a pajama shirt on, as reality sets in.

"I agree." Nick said relieved that Finn was the one to say it. They had no real interest with being with each other. It was a heat of the moment, impulse almost.

"We will really be in DB's hit list if he finds out."

"I'm not telling anyone." Nick said feeling like if it only happened once and if they had no feelings for eachother they should be safe even if someone were to find out. However he did feel like it would be better if no one knew.

"Thanks," Finn said propping up on one elbow. Nick smiled sitting back on the bed.

"Are we good?" Nick said almost scared of starting an argument. He was relieved to see her smile and nod.

"We're good." Finn said, a tremendous awkward silence took over.

"Give me a high five," Nick said putting his hand up.

"What? Why?"

"It's the awkward high five. C'mon give me a high five." Nick said smiling; Finn laughed giving him a high five. "I'll see you at the lab." Nick said still smiling as he put his shirt on.

A couple hours later Finn and Morgan arrive a couple hours later to the same scene as Nick and super Dave. Finn was surprised that DB put her at the same crime scene as Nick. Even though Nick and Finn were 'good' she shook her head at the way DB handled it. DB didn't know that they had hashed it out, so for all he knew they were still at each other's throat, but It was the same old DB, back in Seattle if two people weren't getting along he put them on all the same cases and made them work side by side together. They didn't have to be friends but had to have a healthy work relationship.

"hey…" Detective Moreno said to Finn touching her forearm.

"oh hey," she said back awkwardly.

"I heard what happened yesterday. I tried to call you last night."

"yeah, sorry. Everything... Everything just got really crazy." Finn said her mind racing as she saw Nick watching.

"tell me about it. I'll talk to you later though, I have to canvas the neighborhood." He says touching her arm as he went outside.

Nick was photographing the body. His worn LVPD hat was on backwards as he works his camera, it rested softly on his band aid. His left glove stretched as it barely fit over the casted part of his hand.

"What do we have?" Morgan asked.

"One John Doe was DOA, and the other is critical doc doesn't think he will make it, and a lone survivor, Mary Allbeth. She says..."

"Wait, did you say Mary Allbeth?" Finn interrupted, shocked.

"Yea, she's over there. Do you know her?" Nick said confused pointing at the woman who was covered in blood smears.

"Yeah, I know her from Seattle."

"Julie Finlay!" Allbeth yells in a wretched scream startling Finn and Brody. Finn instinctively grabs Nick's shoulder.

"Mitch, bring her some water or something," Nick says as Officer Mitch graciously nods, and instructs his partner to get the woman water.

"Julie Finlay!" Allbeth yells again.

"Ma'am you have to be quiet." Officer Mitch says trying to reason with the woman. Finn began to feel nervous and didn't move her hand from Nick's arm. Both of which hadn't gone unnoticed by Nick and Morgan.

"Are you alright?" Nick said Finn just nodded. "How do you know her?"

"Back in Seattle, she..." Finn said but was interrupted by gunshots. Nick stepped in front of the women, and felt a familiar but still painful, white hot pain burn its way into his leg. The force of the shot made him fall onto Finn as he tried to upholster his weapon, sending it sliding across the room.

Nick sat up clutching the wound on his inner thigh as a million thoughts started running through his head. He looks and sees Officer Mitch clutching his side lying against the wall. Super Dave was lying on the ground next to the dead body fearful of any other shots. Nick was blocking Allbeth's view to Finn as Morgan too laid on the ground for cover.

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