Love Is Your Color
Chapter 17: Life As a Family
Little fingers and little toes; Roxie just touched them gently. The little baby they belonged to just squirmed. She smiled down at her daughter. It had been entirely appropriate that Roxie and Nick named their daughter Sophia as Baby Sophia had been born on the 1st of December, the same day that Roxie's mother Sophia had passed away.
Three weeks had now passed since Sophia was born. For the first week Nick had taken time off, staying home with Roxie and Sophia, but alas he had to return to work, but Roxie now had the extra help in Jillian. Nick's parents had arrived to spend Christmas with the new family and to meet their newest grandchild. Roxie just looked down at her sleeping daughter who looked so much like Nick. Sophia's skin was a fair shade of beige and her hair a dark chocolate brown. Roxie felt a tear slide down her face. In quiet moments like this it was hard to not cry because everything was so perfect and so peaceful. She couldn't imagine that one day she would go back to work and leave her perfect baby behind. She heard her bedroom door open. She looked up to see Nick who had come home from work.
"Hey." He whispered as he walked over to her and kissed her quickly before kissing Sophia on the top of her head.
"Didn't get too much sleep tonight. Sophia just wanted to eat all night. She just fell asleep." Roxie said in a whispering voice to Nick. He frowned. Roxie looked exhausted and he knew she was, but being Roxie she wasn't going to admit it.
"Do you want me to take over for a bit?" Nick asked Roxie. He could see her face light up. He knew she needed some moments to herself.
"I really just want a shower." Roxie said truthfully.
Getting the time to take a shower had been hard to come by. Being a mother was more difficult that Roxie could imagine. It made her appreciate her mom more than she had. Roxie had Nick and her mom had no one. Roxie watched as Nick took off his shoes and got onto their bed. He reached his arms out to take Sophia from her. Slowly working together she transferred a sleeping Sophia into Nick's arms. He lied there with tiny Sophia on his chest. Roxie smiled at the sight.
"When did my mom leave last night?" Nick asked Roxie as she stood at the dresser grabbing her some clean clothes.
"About 10:30 last night." Roxie answered. "She says she will be back this morning. Barbara also came by with food last night." The Russell family had really become a second family for Roxie. Barbara had been amazing. Once Sophia was born she brought over a ton of homemade food for them and every few days would bring a little something. It helped Roxie out tremendously.
"More peach cobbler?" questioned Nick who had been won over completely by the peach cobbler.
"I think there was a little." Roxie said. She then stopped talking as Sophia squirmed a bit. "I'll shower quickly." She said before disappearing into the bathroom.
The feeling of the warm water running over her body felt nice. She couldn't really remember the last time she'd actually gotten to enjoy a shower. She smiled to herself as she stood under the warm water. She had a beautiful little family. Everything was great and she didn't want to change anything except maybe get a little more sleep. Getting out of the shower she put in her clean clothes. She could hear what she thought was Nick's voice. She walked from the bathroom and she was sure it was his voice now.
"Roxie!" he called out. He sounded panicked. She followed the sound of his panic and found him in Sophia's room standing over the changing table. Sophia was crying. She looked at Nick who had his shirt pulled over his nose. "I don't know what to do. It smells so bad."
Roxie burst into laughter. In that moment she wished she had her camera. Nick looked at her. He couldn't figure out what was so funny because this was very serious. Every time Roxie looked at him she would laugh. She walked to the changing table and cleaned up what Nick failed to do so. She then closed the clean diaper around baby Sophia and picked her up into her arms cuddling the baby girl who slowly stopped crying.
"You can process even the most disgusting and smelly crime scenes, but you can't manage to change a poopy diaper." Roxie said looking at him and laughing.
"It's not funny." Nick said.
"It is funny. It's hilarious. I think this is why God made moms." Roxie said as she rocked Sophia in her arms. She looked down at Sophia whose little eyes started to close. "Let me get her down and maybe we can manage a little breakfast."
Nick watched his parents coo over Sophia. This had been the scene at their house ever since his parents had arrived in Vegas. You would think that Sophia was their one and only grandchild by the way they showered her with love. He stood from the couch and walked down the hall into the bedroom where he found Roxie fast asleep. He hated that he had to leave to work every night and leave Roxie alone with Sophia who hadn't quite figured out that nights were normally for sleeping especially when home alone with mom. He walked over to his wife and pulled the blanket over her exposed shoulders. Roxie stirred and opened her eyes. She looked to see Nick looking down at her. She smiled up at him.
"Hey." She said as she slowly sat up in bed.
"Hey." Nick said as he sat in bed with her.
"Is Sophia sleeping?" Roxie asked as she stretched.
"No just hanging with her grandparents getting all the attention." Nick said as he pulled her into his arms. Roxie looked at him and smiled. It was nice to have a moment for just the two of them. Nick pressed his lips to hers. Roxie melted into his arms. She put her arms around his neck and pulled him closer. Nick's hand slowly inches up her shirt.
"No wait." Roxie then said as she broke away out of breath "We can't… not yet. We still have 3 more weeks."
Nick groaned. "I'm dying here." He said as he looked at her. It had been months since they last had sex. During the end of the pregnancy Roxie was just too uncomfortable to have sex and managing it around a giant belly was awkward for both of them. Now they were in the 6 weeks after birth and only halfway through it.
"I promise it will be worth it when it's time. I swear it." Roxie said before kissing his lips. "Believe me I want it too."
"My mom was going to make dinner." Nick then said as he held Roxie who laid her head on his shoulder.
"I'm going to hate to see your parents go. They've been so helpful." Roxie said. She had been joying all the extra help, but she knew eventually she was going to have to get used to life with just her and Sophia when Nick wasn't around at least until she went back to work in the next month.
Life seemed to pass by so quickly especially with a sweet baby. Roxie had awoken at 5am like always to feed Sophia who was getting so big now at 2 months old. She was even starting to smile at the faces of Nick and Roxie. It was early and Roxie had just finished feeding Sophia when her cell phone rang. She looked at the phone and saw it was Barbara.
"Hey Barbara." Roxie said as she answered the phone.
"I'm sorry to be calling you this early. I just called D.B. and Jim Brass answered his phone. Apparently D.B. is missing or something. I don't know, but I'm freaking out. Do you know anything?" Barbara seemed frantic.
"I don't know anything, but I can call Nick." Roxie said.
"Can you please?" she asked. "I don't know what to think. Jim wouldn't give me too much information."
"Yeah let me call him." Roxie said before she ended the call. She then dialed Nick's number and waited for him to answer.
Nick was finishing up processing where they had found Russell's truck with the backseat filled with blood. Everyone was worried and with both Russell and Catherine missing he was in charge. There were so many thoughts, but he know the people they were up against had a lot of money and many resources. He then heard his phone ringing. He saw it was Roxie and instantly became worried.
"Roxie." He said at once. "What's wrong?"
"Nothing is wrong with me. Barbara just called me. She said something about Russell missing. She was pretty frantic." Roxie explained.
"Yeah I can't get into it now." Nick said at once. The team had decided that all communication would be face to face and he wasn't up for giving any details over the phone even to Roxie.
"Well what's going on? Is it serious?" Roxie asked.
"Rainbow, listen to me. We've got this under control, but I can't say anything. Just know I'm ok and I will try and let you know as soon as I can. Maybe you can go give Barbara some company. I will talk to you later." He then said trying to remain as calm as possible.
"Umm… ok… yeah talk to you later. I love you." Roxie said.
"I love you too." He said before he ended the call.
Roxie packed up Sophia's diaper bag and loaded Sophia into the car. They were off for a little fieldtrip. Roxie hadn't seen Nick in over 48 hours due to work and she felt like it was time for a visit. She'd at least heard from Nick and learned that Russell and Catherine were both ok. Roxie had avoided taking Sophia in for a visit to the lab until she had gotten her first vaccinations. Roxie loaded the baby into her stroller when they reached the Police Station and rolled her in. As soon as they came in the reception staff was going crazy over the sweet baby girl who was just confused with all the new faces. Roxie then continued up the hall looking around for everyone. She then found everyone all huddled in Russell's office. She saw Nick glace into the hallway and she could tell he had been crying. She was very confused. She walked into the office and head's turned her way. Everyone looked so emotional.
"Sorry if I interrupted anything." Roxie said.
"No, no. We're finished." Russell said. "Looks like we've got a visitor."
"Yeah we were up early like always so I thought I'd bring her by. Plus we haven't seen dad in 2 days. I wanted to make sure he was still alive." Roxie said with a small laugh.
"I'm here and alive." Nick said as he walked over to his wife. It had been a hell of a 2 days in the lab and just now he and the rest of the team had learned that Catherine was leaving them. He'd known her and worked with her for most of his career. It was a hard pill to swallow that she would be leaving, but he knew she was happy with her decision.
"Come here my little lady." He said as he unstrapped Sophia from the stroller and picked her up. Sophia simply smiled at him.
"So what did I miss?" Roxie asked looking around the room at everyone. They were all so somber.
"Hey Roxie. Come with me for a sec." Catherine said. Roxie simply nodded and followed Catherine to her office. Catherine closed the door behind them. "I was just telling everyone that I've made the decision to leave. I was offered a job with the FBI."
"Oh my gosh that's amazing!" Roxie said happily. She was truly happy for Catherine.
"Yeah… it's hard, but I think leaving is the right choice. Though I want you to do something for me." Catherine said.
"Yeah sure." Roxie answered.
"I want you to take care of Nicky. He's been like a little brother to me here and I know it hit him pretty hard when I made my announcement." Catherine said.
"You know I will." Roxie said.
"I know you will. You are the best thing to have happened to him." Catherine said happily. Roxie smiled to herself. She felt like it was the other way around and he was the best thing to have happened to her.
Roxie strolled up the hall looking for Nick and Sophia. She found Sophia first being cooed over by Morgan and Greg. She smiled at the two of them playing with her small baby. They looked like the perfect couple. She then found Nick coming out of Russell's office. Nick spotted his wife and smiled at her. She looked exhausted, but she was still just as beautiful. He made his way to her and pulled her to him.
"Are you off tonight?" Roxie asked looking up at him.
"I've been working over 48 hours. I better be off tonight." Nick said.
"Good." Roxie said looking into his eyes. "Barbara said she would watch Sophia tonight. We are doing a dry run to see how things will go when I come back to work next week. I figured we could finally…" Roxie trailed off.
"I like that plan." Nick said grinning down at her.
"Well I'm going to head home." Roxie said.
"I'll be there soon." Nick said to his wife.
Roxie walked into the bedroom where Nick was lying on the bed. Sophia was with Barbara for the night and this was the first night that Roxie and Nick were alone since Sophia was born. It has been 8 weeks since Sophia was born and even though they were allowed to be physical with one another at 6 weeks it had been impossible. Roxie cleared her throat and Nick looked over to her. She stood there wearing an open silk robe with cream-colored lacy underwear on. Roxie didn't feel 100 percent confidant in her body since giving birth, but she tried her best to ignore those feelings of not being sexy.
"Hey." She said softly as she walked over to him.
"Hey you." He said as he put his hands on her waist and pulled her closer. He pulled her onto the bed. "You look amazing."
"This is weird." Roxie then said.
"What's so weird?" Nick asked as he started to kiss her neck.
"I feel like I'm losing my virginity or something." Roxie said with a chuckle.
"It's been awhile." Nick then said. He pulled himself on top of her and placed a kiss on her lips. "Don't worry. I'll be gentle." Roxie simply nodded.
Nick slipped Roxie's robe from her shoulders and looked down at her in her lace bra and panties. She knew he liked lace and she looked absolutely sexy in lace. He ran his hand down her body from her shoulder to her waist. Roxie bit her lip nervously. She was afraid of how it would feel.
"It's going to be ok." Nick whispered down to her.
"Are you sure?" Roxie asked nervously.
"I'm sure it'll be ok." Nick said softly before kissing her.
Roxie loved the feeling of him kissing her. His tongue slipped into her mouth. Roxie slipped his pajama pants off of him. She could feel him smiling with his lips on hers. Nick broke the kiss and reached down to the elastic or Roxie's lace panties. He slowly pulled them down and ran his hands down her legs. Nick returned above her and looked down at her Roxie simply nodded. Nick used his hand and spread her legs. Roxie's breathing had become quick.
"Shh… it's ok my Rainbow." Nick said to her.
He placed his lips on her neck and kissed down to her collarbone and left a trail of kisses along her collarbone. Roxie moaned. Nick then entered her slowly. Roxie inhaled and grabbed at his arms. Nick's eyes met hers. He started to move slowly. As he moved Roxie relaxed her body. It wasn't as bad as she had expected. She was enjoying it. Nick then pressed his lips to hers. He and his wife were once again making love. He ran his fingers through her hair that had now grown much longer.
"Oh yes…" Roxie groaned out. It had been too long. They both had missed this. Roxie gripped at Nick's shoulders as his speed increased. Her breathing was hard and ragged. Both of them were sweating. "Oh Nick!" Roxie said loudly as her entire body went stiff. She then went limp under him and his body went limp as well.
The couple lied in bed. It was amazing to have such a quiet night without a baby crying. Nick held Roxie close to him. He ran his hand over bare back. Roxie placed a kiss on his chest. Roxie looked up at Nick.
"I love you." She whispered.
"I love you too my Rainbow." Nick said down to her before he quickly kissed her gently.
A/N: A few more chapters left. Going to end this story at the premiere episode of season 13.