A/N- I want to thank bauerfreak, Meg-Breanne and lostladyknightfor their reviews. I really appreciate the help I have gotten with my writing from bauerfreak. Please review I really need to know what you like and dislike, and write accordingly. As I promised this chapter is full of drama. FYI bold or italic writing is just for emphasis now, not their thoughts anymore. Also for MY convince Sara lives about two blocks from the Stokes household. AND I still don't have some one to beta so ALL MISTAKES are mine. Now I'll get on to the story
Disclaimer: (you didn't think you were getting off that easy did you?) I don't own CSI, or the song "Death in the Garden, Blood on the Flowers" so sue me (JUST KIDDING!)
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Nick and Eliza walked out of the theater squinting at the bright Las Vegas sun. Nick blinked trying to adjust to the light, Eliza however kept her eyes closed and clung on to Nicks arm letting him lead her.
"You're going to have to open your eyes sometime." Nick led her to a bench and they both sat down.
"Sometime, yes. Now, no." Nick admired how consistent Eliza was even on the small issue of opening her eyes. Nick stood taking her hand with him, and leading her up. Nick walked her to the escalator and was not about to let her get on with closed eyes so he nudged her.
"Come on, open your eyes." Nick said with a steady voice to let her know he was not joking around. She obeyed and got on the escalator. It was crowded but neither of them seemed to mind. Once they got off various escalators they were finally on their parking level. Nick looked around but couldn't find his car anywhere. Eliza stuck the hand control in the air and pressed the panic button twice making it honk once, and leading them to it.
Once in the car Nick said, "Do you want to go to lunch?"
"Yea oh lets go to that diner by your work." Eliza loved the homey/old-time feel to the place.
"Okay." Nick didn't see why Eliza loved it so much, but ever since he took her there at ten, she has.
They drove to the diner in a comfortable silence, until Eliza asked, "So how was your date?"
Nick couldn't believe she had cornered him like this, and let out an exasperated sigh. "You planned this didn't you?"
"Can you get away?" she asked with a smirk.
"I'll take that as a yes." Nick said still trying to avoid the question.
"I don't hear an answer!"
"Yes, okay? Yes it went very well, are you happy?" Nick was getting very uncomfortable.
"No, I want DETAILS!" Eliza said with tremendous emotion in her voice.
"What is it with you guys and keeping secrets?" Eliza said annoyed
"What do you mean?" Nick was getting confused.
"Both you and Sara are like mouths zipped about the whole thing!"
"Have you talked to Sara?!?!"
Eliza was shocked at how much she let slip, but bit her lip. "Yes." She said in a whisper.
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Sara was in the layout room when she heard someone raise their voice down the hall. She poked her head out and saw the one and only previously Kimberly Stokes. She went right back in the layout room, but stayed by the door to listen.
"WELL WHERE IS HE?" Kim screeched.
"I'm sorry, he's not here." Judy said in the calmest voice someone can have when being yelled at.
"WELL HE ISN'T AT HIS HOUSE SO HE HAS TO BE HERE!"
Sara knew that he and Eliza were going out to a movie and lunch, but wasn't about to tell her that. By the way she was acting it would probably be best if she didn't find them.
"Miss, tonight is his night off. I can assure you he is not here, would you like for me to take a message?"
By now Catherine, Greg, and Warrick had come into the layout room to listen to the fight with her. Catherine was shooting her looks of sympathy when she was trying to brush them off.
"NO! WHY WOULD I COME ALL THE WAY DOWN HERE TO YELL AT HIM IF I JUST WANTED TO GIVE HIM A MESSAGE?" Catherine muffled her laugher at this last statement.
Sara was getting pissed, how dare she just walk in and ruin his life again?
"Well now that we have that cleared up, would you like me to refer you to our psyche consult?"
Judy was Sara's favorite person at the moment.
The last thing they heard was the door being slammed.
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Nick had cooled down considerably since their little dispute in the car and Eliza was having a wonderful time with her father. They were talking about her school talent show, and how Eliza "wouldn't go embarrass myself playing electric guitar in front of the whole school, only geeks perform in the talent show!" Nick laughed and pushed away his plate, because he was full. The sudden Eliza's phone rang out, "DEATH IN THE GARDEN, BLOOD ON THE FLOWERS." Eliza freaked out and shut it off as quickly as she could.
"'Blood on the flowers', who was that?" Nick asked wondering who could make his daughter so angry.
"Umm, it was… umm, my friend who I'm fighting with." She said in a hurried voice.
Nick didn't totally believe her but thought it would come out in time. "Okay, if you say so. Oh that reminds me, did you call your mom?" Kimberly finally called last week to talk to Eliza but eliza forgot to call her back, twice.
"Yea, I called her last night." It saddened her lying to her dad but there was no way she was calling her mom after what she did to them.
"You okay? You look sad." Nick said concerned.
"Oh no, I'm fine." Eliza said still looking sad.
Just then Nick's phone rang.
"Saved by the bell." Eliza muttered under her breath.
"Hello?" Nick answered
"Hi Nick, its Sara." Nick didn't like the tone in her voice, unlike the strong Sara he knew, she was unsure and scared sounding.
"Hi, I thought you would be at work. Is everything okay?"
"Umm yea I guess, and I am at work."
"Oh, what do you need." Nick was trying to hide the worry in his voice.
"I don't know if I should be telling you this, but Kimberly just showed up at the lab looking for you." Sara said very quickly
"She WHAT?" Nick couldn't believe it.
That got Eliza's interest, "Who what?"
"What did she say?!?!" Nick asked baffled.
"Um, she was kind of yelling at Judy looking for you." Sara seemed even more unsure than before.
"Thanks for telling me, I've got to go." He said thinking of what to do.
"Okay, bye."
"Bye." Nick hung up, and waved the bill over.
"What happened?" Eliza asked impatiently.
"Oh nothing you should be worried about." Nick said not soothing Eliza any.
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Nick drove straight home and when he turned on his street he saw her car parked out front.
"WHAT IS SHE DOING HERE!?!?" Eliza practically screamed at Nick.
"I don't know." Nick said angrily.
They pulled into the driveway, and not bothering to park in the garage put the car into park jumped out of the car and into the house where his ex-wife was sitting on the couch looking daggers at him.
"HOW DARE YOU!?!?" Kimberly said not wasting any time.
"HOW DARE I? DID I JUST WALK INTO YOUR HOUSE UNINVITED?" Nick yelled back.
"OH YOU KNOW WHAT I AM TALING ABOUT!" She said with disgust in her voice.
"OBVIOUSLY NOT!" Nick was pissed and confused at the same time.
"I NEVER THOUGHT YOU WOULD STOOP SO LOW!" She spat out.
"WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!?!" Nick was really confused at why she was so angry.
"KEEPING MY DAUGHTER FROM ME?!?! REALLY WHAT DOES THAT GET YOU? SHE IS STILL MY DAUGHTER NO MATTER WHAT OUR RELATIONSHIP IS! I HAVE CALLED THREE TIMES YOU CAN'T KEEP TELLING ME THAT SHE FORGOT TO CALL!" Kimberly looked as though she might blow up from anger, or break down crying, he couldn't tell.
"SHE CALLED YOU LAST NIGHT!" Nick was extremely confused.
"WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!?! SHE NEVER CALLED ME!"
Nick turned around to face Eliza whose glare beat out the one Kimberly was giving Nick when he first came in, except it wasn't at Nick, it was at Kimberly.
"I DIDN'T CALL YOU BECAUSE I DIDN'T WANT TO!" Nick had never seen Eliza so angry; this was surprising because they had their share of what Eliza called "heated arguments".
"I TOLD DAD I DID BECAUSE HE ASKED ME TO CALL YOU! DID YOU REALLY THINK EVERYTHING WOULD JUST GO BACK TO NORMAL WHEN YOU FINALY HAD THE TIME TO TALK? IT HAS BEEN EIGHT MONTHS SINCE YOU LEFT AND THE FIRST TIME YOU CALLED TO TALK TO ME WAS LAST WEEK!" Eliza was so furious Kimberly actually started to break down, and nick finally put it together. Gardening was the only thing Eliza and Kimberly actually liked doing together, and it Kim that called Eliza in the reasturaut.
"YOU HURT DAD, YOU HURT ME AND YOU STILL DON'T CARE! AND NOW YOU'RE CRYING BECAUSE YOUR HURT, YOU DON'T THINK ABOUT ANYONE BUT YOURSELF AND I WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU!" Eliza was in tears and ran out of the house at the speed of light.
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Sara just got home from work and she just changed out of her work clothes and into a t-shirt and jeans. She hadn't been in the mood to listen to police scanners since she started dating nick a little over a week ago, so she started looking through people magazine when she heard a knock on her door. The knocking went from two slow knocks to the person on the other side of the door incessantly knocking by the time she got to the door.
"God, what is it?" she asked her door. She looked through the peep hole and saw a broken down Eliza Stokes and quickly opened the door. Eliza hugged her and Sara walked both of them over to her couch and sat down.
"What's with the waterworks?" Sara asked Eliza who had calmed down a little.
Eliza just cried, and cried into Sara's shoulder. Sara knew what would soften her up. "How about I get us some ice cream?" Even through her tears Eliza smiled. Sara got up and went into her kitchen. Once out of earshot of Eliza Sara grabbed the phone and called Nick.
One ring and he answered, "Sara I can't talk now, I don't know where…"
Sara cut him off, "Eliza's with me." Sara swore she could see his relief through the phone.
"Thank god, can I come over there now?" Nick asked anxiously.
"Do whatever you feel best, but I think you should give her some time to cool off. She is pretty shook up." Sara said as she got the ice cream out of the freezer.
"Sara you have no idea how relived I am, do you think an hour would be enough time?" Nick wanted to give her time but he still wanted to see his daughter.
"Yea, I do." Sara grabbed two spoons and walked toward the phone handset.
"Thank you Sara."
"No problem, Bye."
"Bye." Sara hung up the phone and placed it on the handset and went into her living room.
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A/N- I told you there was drama didn't I? I like this chapter the best so far mostly because it has Eliza and Sara but because it introduces Kimberly also. Eliza's ring tone is "Death in the Garden, Blood on the Flowers" By Irving if you were wondering, and I probably won't update until Friday unless my teachers are nice (not likely) if they are I may update on Tuesday. ANY WAY THANKS FOR READING, and PLEASE REVIEW!!!!
(Sorry for babbling!)
