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Morning After Ch6: Head Games
Nick sat at his desk tapping his pen as he tried to read a report. The cut on his face had scabbed over and itched terribly. The incident had left Nick in a drowning pool of paperwork. He was also been waiting for some results from trace. He checked his watch it had been almost forever since he dropped them off. Nick wasn't going call Hodges out for it, besides Hodges was still pretty banged up, but insisted on working.
"hey Hodges, how is everything?" Nick asked, but as much as Nick tried to hide it, he was angry and slightly jealous of Hodges. Especially today, Nick felt as if Hodges wasn't doing his samples on purpose. Everyone else's samples were tested.
"hush..." Hodges spun around he was flame testing a piece of evidence and still had the torch on. Nick's shirt sleeve caught fire. Nick ripped his shirt and started stomping on it. Nick's torso was exposed showing the marks of his and Wendy's last encounter. Hodges felt the jealously and rage pump through his veins. Wendy was his; no one else's especially not, some Texan womanizer!
Finally Nick's shirt was out he picked it up and it fell apart.
"oahhh sorry about that you startled me" Hodges said
"did you run my samples?" Nick said trying to hide his own anger; the two men were on the verge of fighting.
"oh no... Sorry I knew I forgot to do something my bad" Hodges said, Nick stormed out mad as can be. Hodges looked over at Wendy's station as she watched Nick leave. Hodges walked over to Wendy. "Are you sleeping with Stokes?"
"what are you talking about?"
"Nick! Are you sleeping with Nick? Answer me... You owe me at least that much!"
"I owe you! Hodges I have been waiting for you for years, you didn't do anything. Now I have a great man who has taken an interest in me, he takes me out to eat, movies, everything that I wanted you to do he does! And I'm not sorry!"
"but don't you see he only wants to get in your pants! Are you that naive were you don't know? Or do you not care? He's using you!"
"no he's not, we like each other and that's all that matters. He's not using me and he doesn't play twisted head games with my emotions... You jerk, you make me wait for you and you still don't make a move! I can't wait forever!"
"I played head games you're one too talk!"
"Hodges shut up! You had your chance now get out of my lab!" she said in tears, pushing him out.
Later on Nick was in prints 'getting' results for a case but he was talking to Mandy.
"where's Wendy?" Nick asked looking around.
"she's in the locker room her and Hodges had a fight earlier she's a little upset... Nothing to stress about"
"why would I be stressed?" Nick said trying to contain himself trying to play it off.
"you are not fooling anyone Texan, I know you and Wendy… well you know"
"shhhhh… not so loud, I don't want people to hear… how do you know did she tell you?"
"you just did, but that is not the point Stokes, Wendy is a friend so if you hurt her I will pour acid on your eyeballs and remove your skin" Mandy said, Nick laughed. "do you at least like her? Be honest"
"yes I like her; it surprised the hell out of me. Yea I like her she's funny, smart, beautiful, and she is not freaked out about what I do… yea I like her I really do" Nick said, Mandy looked at Nick. "I'm serious Webster I really do like her"
"good now I don't have to kill you… just watch it though"
"watch what?"
"Hodges, you were a jock in high school, now don't get mad I'm making assumption but… Jocks have just the physical strengthen however nerds, like Hodges, have knowledge on their side so just make sure you watch yourself, okay?"
"Hodges… well he did just set my shirt on fire but I remembered to keep a spare this time, you really think he would do something?"
"love makes us do silly things, Stokes" Mandy said, Nick left her lab and headed back to his office. He started thinking about his and Wendy's relationship and what Mandy said. Love makes us do silly things, Stokes. Love, a four letter word with such a heavy meaning. Was risking his job a silly thing, was jeopardizing the reputation of the lab a silly thing, was breaking lab protocol a silly thing, was he in love with Wendy? He started to think he was. He sat at his desk thinking his head buried in his hands, when he heard a knock at the door he looked up and it was Hodges, they both starred nervously at each other. Though it was nerves it was anger, jealously, and a little envy of each other, that filled the hate stares.
"what do you want Hodges?" Nick said
"What do I want?" Hodges said, he walked in and shut the door behind him. "Listen hear, Stokes… everyone in the lab knows about you and Wendy, but no one has told Ecklie yet… you are a pitiful boss, and I will report you to Ecklie but I hold off on that if you…"
"You're gonna blackmail me… you're a pitiful excuse for a person! Go ahead and tell Ecklie I will get a shift change I will be the person she needs me to be and I won't make her wait! So report me and I will tell Wendy about our little chit chat!"
"I will win her back! I love her!"
"Well so do I and I already have her and I will be damned if she will go back to you!"
"I will win her back!"
"Over my dead body! Get the fuck out of my office!" Nick said, Hodges left and the whole lab was at a standstill. Nick slammed the door shut and Catherine came in so Nick confessed everything to her, she was his best friend. She wanted to report him but Nick said no, he didn't want to cause anymore problems.