Niks
"So Niks you owe me ten, I was right about Kieran!" Real smooth Lake. Ah well. She always did know how to stop me moping.
"Lee…" Danny said shocked, I shook my head.
"Well that means you owe me ten for the new hole I have in my side." I laughed, discreetly wiping my eyes from under my glasses. Lee gave me a ten, I felt like a kid getting pocket money. "Next time the guys mine. I guess all we have left to do is book Kieran?" I dug into my back pocket, grabbed my white Ed hardy wallet, looked inside and dug out- not much. I had the ten I owed as long as pics of Angel, Ma and me and Lee on our last day of college- sober of course. I also managed to drag out a old photo of our little crew. Me, Lee, Freya, Lara and Jake. "Hey, remember that day?" I showed Lee the photo, she sent me a questioning look. I nodded.
"That was a rare sober day in college, yeah I remember that. Hello, photographic memory?" I stuck out my tongue at the damn cagna.
"Smartass bitch. C'mon, let's book the sorry fuck. We'll leave the asshole here to drown in his sorrows." Angel pouted and I had an idea. "Dude, reinstate your tough guy card and quit with the damn pouting. Come here." He leant in closer and I, being the ultimate all round awesome one that I so awesomely am, took the opportunity to smack him upside the head. "That's for trying to play the damn hero and for just being a all-round jackass and dickhead. La vita è una cagna, ma quando mi vengono fucilati o incazzato, non è niente su di me. C'mon, wait a minute. You've put me in a very good mood." I had my evil smirk with that lucky little glint I get which means I am pissed and conspiring. Which can never mean anything good. Lee caught on oh so quick and returned the smirk and the glint, which still makes me think we're related. Which would be creepy but still extremely awesome.
"Should we be scared?" Don asked, a little wary of our matching expressions. Damn straight.
"Only if she gets her hands on a baseball bat. Or extremely pissed. She'll flip out on anyone. Cept Lee." Damn brother. I was going for the scary, not wary. I turned to face my brother with a death-defying glare. "And I'm going to shut up now."
"Damn straight you should. I have a weapon and I will use it on you, Angelo. Don't test me. Lee, hand." Angel looked scared cuz he knew I was pissed and conspiring and definitely not afraid of trouble. Lee held out her hand and I grabbed it, linking it with mine. She hoisted me out of the chair so I could stand. "Take the chair and get the hell out of here before Ma comes in and explodes. She did that the last time I got shot and she brought down hell and sent it back. Damn freaking coma. " I walked out with Lee following next to me, evil smirk planted. "Take me to the victim." She led me there and I heard Danny ask: What the hell do you think she's going to do? Easy. And Don's reply: The hell if I know. Hehe. This was going to be fun. But then my phone rang. I hate having my phone ringing when I'm conspiring. I scowled and grabbed it. Unknown : Answer or Reject ? I could tell my expression changed by the way Lee was looking at me. I clicked answer and put the phone to my ear.
"Ah, Nicola-Carmen. Long time no fuck." Erik. Bastard. I will freaking murder him one day and that day I shall await with pleasure.
"Didn't know you could call me from jail, Knight. Only thought you got the one phone call when you're arrested. " Lee's attention was snatched. I had my prison-bound demented as fuck ex-boyfriend on the phone and I was inches from murdering somebody already, he just loved me getting in trouble. 'Parrently it's a turn on.
"Girl's got jokes. I was just calling to let you know, I'm coming to find you in New York. You can't and won't get away from me Nicola. You know that and so does your pretty little friend Kaylee." Oh hell no.
"You leave her out of this. She ain't got nothing to do with it. And you damn freaking well know that." I all but shouted.
"If you say so, Nicola. Just keep those pretty boys out of this little reunion. Yes, I know about Messer and Flack, you've both gotten comfy with them am I not correct? Bring them into this and watch what happens when someone you love gets killed in front of you. You never know, I may even kill your brothers and your mother." My eyes narrowed and a scowl planted itself on my face. I was definitely pissed and if I ever got my hands on that douche bag I will not be held responsible for my actions.
"You know what, Erik? You can take your creepy stalking and your empty little threats and shove right where the monkey sticks its nuts. If I ever get my hands on you, I will be the one going to jail for murder where as you will going in a furnace dead as a doornail. I will burn you alive myself if I damn have to. Lara, Freya and Jake deserve revenge and god so help me I will fucking get it. Even if it's the last damn thing I do."
"It very may well be." And with that the bastard hung up. I scowled and put my phone back into my pocket. This douche bag will die even if I have to die first.
"Niks, what happened?" Lee asked. She knew what happened and she had always felt that me getting shot and put in a coma was her fault cuz she wasn't around to protect me or help me. I never blamed her, how could I? She's my best friend, I wouldn't blame her for that even if it was her. She was off on a case somewhere, while Erik had kidnapped me, Freya, Lara and Jake. This was an attempt of getting me back. I did say he was demented, remember. How he even thought it would make me even consider getting back with him is beyond me. I don't want to know what was going through his head to make him think that. Sick, twisted, demented little segaiolo per le età.
"Erik's here in NYC. I don't know how the hell he broke out of jail, let alone find us here in New York. He brought you into it and he even brought in dumb and dumber over there. He even freaking knows about Antonio and Primo. No one else knows about them. Part from Angel, only you and Danny know. I don't know if Don knows and right now not my priority. He threatened to kill my family, you and the boys. That's more than a good enough reason to murder the good freaking daylights out of him for me." I ranted quietly as the boys walked in front of us.
"We need to be careful. If he knows about Don and Danny, that could put them in danger." Lee mused, I get where she's coming from there.
"Yeah, but what do we say, my completely unstable, sick and twisted ex-boyfriend is stalking us and threatening to kill you all, be freaking careful? Lee, you know as well as I do, Erik won't give up and he's smart enough to know our plans. You have to understand, he was with me for 4 years, he knows me as well as I know myself, maybe so not much." Lee started smiling, she had an idea. I wasn't too sure about this.
"Maybe not so much. We need to do something completely unexpected and out of character but still totally us. He may be smart but we're smarter. We outsmarted him for a year with our pranks in college. He's expecting that we're going to panic, do what he wants and be completely cooperative. He only thinks you're going to comply to every whim and demand. Well, we got to ask for help from the boys for starters. We'll have to give a lowdown for ya Ma, Angel and your other brothers, if we can even find them. We're going to outsmart this shit. I know it. He won't beat us Niks." Lee smiled. Damn this girl is good. I taught her so well. I smiled, reassured.
"Never. Not if I have anything to do with it, he won't. But we need to check on the escapade. Once we book Kieran." I smiled and looked in through the window.
"Or they do. I'll call Mac and have him check on the escapade. Or we could get Horatio and deal with it that way." Mac or Horatio?
"Horatio, he knows the deal, plus this is personal. I'll only tell Mac if I have to." I answered, watching Danny and Don do their thing. Well, Fletcher wouldn't be going nowhere anytime soon with him being handcuffed to his bed. If looks could kill, mine could probably burn lasers through the glass and cut Fletcher in half. No one ever said I could never imagine hurting people. Cuz, hell, I do it most of the time. Its kinda a thing of mine.
"Niks, he escaped yesterday, the day we left for New York. He killed a dozen guards. Police think it was an inside job, ain't found nothing connecting anyone to helping him though." I scoffed at that.
"I'm so going to freaking murder that damn son of a bitch." I left it at that.