Nick woke up. He could feel the blood dripping down his face. Everything started to come back to him. He was at Ray's house looking at some things for the Jeckyll case, and was hit with a blunt object and then everything went black. He thought about Catherine, his soon to be wife, and his stepdaughter Lindsey, and his unborn child. Just as everything was going good, everything went bad again. He smelt something that was very familiar. It smelt a lot like cologne. Conrad Ecklie's cologne to be exact. After years of working with Ecklie, Nick knew that he put way to much cologne on, that would make any human being with a sense of smell run the other way when they say him coming. Ecklie can be as dumb as a doornail! He doesn't have the brains to do something like this, Nick thought. He was tied to a chair, cold and metal. The room was pitch black, and it smelt bad.
The door opened and he could smell the cologne even more now, the sent was standing in front of him, "So Nick, are you having fun?"
The voice was Ecklie's. Great, Nick thought, I can now add a crazy Dr. Jeckyl killing boss to the long list of people who have hurt me. "Yes I am Ecklie," Nick said.
"I am very glad," Ecklie said leaning so far in to Nick's face that Nick could smell what he eat last, "Listen closely, you are next on my list of people to kill. My partner is watching his dad slowly die. You are next. But if you break up with Catherine, call the wedding off and say the baby is mine, then you will live."
"Ok my turn to talk, Ecklie," Nick said with his temper starting to rise, "I won't break up with Catherine! What makes you think I will?"
"Fine," Ecklie boomed hitting Nick in the face with a plastic baseball bat, I will give you 5 minutes to think about it." Ecklie walked out of the room. Five minutes later the door opened. Nick could smell Ecklie walk in again.
"I will call off the wedding, I hope you know Catherine will be very heart broken."
"To bad, I will fix it," Ecklie said walking over to Nick and cutting the ropes, "You made a smart choice Stokes."
Nick felt the ropes fall to the floor, he stood up. Ecklie shoved him out the door. Nick was out in the cool Las Vegas night. He could hear Ecklie in the background talking to himself. He was rambling about something but Nick could careless. He needed to get to the lab, and fast. Nick ran like he has never ran before, not in football, not to catch up to his older brothers. He ran 10 blocks, and right into the police department. Nick could see Brass, Catherine and Lindsey in Brass's office talking. Catherine had her hand on her stomach. Nick burst the door, everyone looked up.
"Nicky!" Cath said jumping up and throwing her arms around Nick.
"No time we have to get outta here, I'll explain on the way. Lindsey let's go. Brass if anyone asks where Cath or Lindsey is, lie say they are somewhere. And if they ask about me say I am still missing. This is very important to my welling being, and Cath and Lindsey's too. Just trust me on this," Nick said looking at Brass and pulling his lover and stepdaughter out the door. Brass knew Nick wasn't playing games. Brass looked at the 3 leave in a hurry. Something was up and he and the rest of the team were going to get to the bottom of it.
About 2 and half hours later Nick's mom, who everyone called Mamma, was driving the trio to Nick's childhood home, "Now Nicky, would you like to tell me what happened with you'r head? It looks like you stood in front of a baseball player as he was tryin' to hit the ball," Mamma said looking at her son.
"It was nothin' Mamma, don't worry about it," Nick said looking in the mirror at his head.
"Well I'm taking you to the ER," Mamma Stokes said.
"NO!" Nick almost yelled which made Lindsey and Catherine jump.
"Nicky, what on earth is going on? You like kidnapped me and Lindsey and now you don't want you'r cut looked at!" Catherine said with a puzzled look.
"Ok fine, you really want to know? I know who Jeckyl is, he was the one who kidnapped me. I was at Ray's house and something hit me in the head really hard," Nick said looking back at Cath and Linds who both had looks of shock on their faces.
"It' Ray?" Cath exclaimed.
"No, no. It's Ecklie," Nick said.
"Who is Ecklie?" Mamma Stokes asked.
"Our boss, the guy is insane. He is always tryin' to get someone fired. Yesterday I walked into Wendy's lab and he was yelling at a machine. Not Wendy or Hodges. A machine!" Catherine said.
"And you don't want to go to the ER because?" Mamma Stokes asked pulling to the driveway of their house.
"Because Ecklie is probably looking for Catherine at the moment. He told me to call off the wedding!" Nick said taking Cath's hand getting out of the cry Catherine looked at Nick with tears in her eyes, "And I lied and said I would but I could never do that to you."
"Ok good," Catherine said following Lindsey and Mamma Stokes up to the house, "You are the best Texan a women can ever ask for." Catherine kissed Nick's side. To Nick everything fe;; back in place again, for now at least.
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