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It's quite a dramatic chapter and a little weird but…I hope you like it anyways!! REVIEW PLEASE!!:)
A/N: In case you don't remember who Nick is, he was the guy that wanted to get in JJ's pants and kind of harassed her.
Unbeta'd….for now:P
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"What do we have here?" Flack asked to the first officer on the crime scene.
"Male victim, in his late twenties. Seems like a robbery gone bad." The young officer said.
"Any witnesses?" Flack asked.
"No. The owner of the Deli went to have a smoke and found the body. It's a quiet alley."
"Thanks officer." Flack said and went to talk with the Deli's owner. After a few minutes he was back next to the body waiting for the CSIs to arrive, wishing that a certain new rookie was the assigned to the case. "Hey guys!" He said to Danny and JJ smiling widely.
"Detective Flack," JJ said grinning. "What do you have for us?"
"Well, Detective Hudson, I just happen to have a dead guy in an alley!" He said cheerily.
"No ID?" Danny asked as he kneeled near the body smiling at the little exchange between his friends, but before Flack could answer JJ spoke.
"His name is Nick Mason." She said staring at the victim.
"What?" Flack and Danny asked at the same time.
"He is Nick." She repeated tears starting to roll over her cheeks.
"You sure?" Danny asked.
"That mole in his neck….it's him, for sure." She added sobbing.
"Danny call Mac and tell him to send another CSI here, Jamie can't work this case-" Flack said but was interrupted by JJ.
"What? I want this case!" She said angrily trying to remove Flack's firm grip from her arm.
"You knew the victim, JJ, you can't." Danny tried to explain her.
"But…Please…" She said starting to sob harder. Flack his arm around her shoulders and guided her to the car.
"Make that call, Danny." Flack said as she helped JJ sit on the trunk's car.
"He called me last week, he wanted to meet me for dinner, have a proper date, he said, and I told him that I was with you, that we were living together and that we got engaged a couple of months ago, and he turned into a jerk and shouted at me to stop making him loose his precious time and just hang up!" She said crying harder. "I hated him so much after that!"
He didn't know what to do. JJ was crying in front of him and he knew that nothing that he could said could make her feel better at that moment. He just did the first thing that come to his mind and hugged her tightly against his chest and held her while she cried. That's how Mac found them 15 minutes after when he arrived at the alley.
"Flack! Take JJ to the lab. We will have to talk with her later. You are out of the case too." Mac said as he reached Danny.
"Mac. I knew that guy as much as Danny did. I want that case. I want to solve it, for Jamie, please." Flack almost begged.
"We would talk about it later, but I can't promise you anything." He said turning back to the body.
Flack helped JJ climb on the car and drove in silence the 20 minutes ride to the lab. She leaded her to her office and sit her down on her chair and then kneeled in front of her and started rubbing her hands.
"It's ok, Blue." She said drying the few tears that still had on her skin. "I'm sure you had better things to do that sit here and comfort me." She said sniffling.
"Are you kidding me, Jamie?" He said seriously.
She just looked at him and passed her arms around his neck and pulled him closer to her. A couple of minutes later she feel her tense again.
He pulled away and looked at her. Her eyes were wide open and she was even more pale than before. "What's wrong? You look like you've seen a ghost." He said gently touching her face. She just pointed to the door and Flack turned around. And there in front of them half hiding behind a huge bucket of flowers was Nick.
Flack stood up shocked. Nick stared at both of them and started to speak.
"JJ, I know I was a jerk last week, I'm sorry. That's why I'm here to ask you to forgive me…I know it's not an excuse but I had a really bad day, I had just lost like 3 millions of dollars from a client in the cereals market when I made a-"
"You are dead!" JJ shouted standing up beside Flack.
"I know you are mad at me but saying that I'm dead for you is to exaggerate a little bit, don't you think?" He said smiling lightly.
"I saw you! Dead!! An hour ago! On a dirty alley in the West side!" She shouted angrily crying again.
"What are you talking about?" Nick said confused.
"Nick, this morning we got called to a crime scene where the victim was a guy that looked exactly like you. JJ thought it was you the one that was dead in that alley." Flack explained.
"Wait! One guy that looked exactly like me was killed this morning?" Nick asked.
"Not one guy! It was you! I recognized that mole on your neck!" JJ said angry now.
"OMG!! That was Todd!" Nick said shocked.
"What the hell are you talking about?" JJ asked frustrated.
"I have a stunt double." Nick said as it was the most normal thing in the world.
"Do you mind explaining that to us?" Flack asked angry too. He already hated that guy for how he acted with JJ but now he was pissing him off.
"I receive lots of threats." Nick said.
"I wonder why." Flack said sarcastically.
"After almost getting shot last winter," Nick continued, "We thought it was better if I had a double…he is my bodyguard too. He had to look exactly like me so Todd had some surgical operations and got that mole tattoed."
"I'm gonna call Mac. I let you two talk alone." Flack said and before leaving the room he kissed JJ's forehead and asked, "You ok?"
"Yeah." JJ said. "Thanks." She added smiling warmly at him.
"So, that was your fiancée? He is a CSI or something?" Nick asked once Flack was out of sight.
"Nick, you met him, a couple of years ago." JJ said crossing her arms over her chest.
"I did? I don't remember…I guess I just had eyes for you and not for your friends." He said winking at her.
"Would you stop that, please?" JJ said rolling her eyes.
"Stop what?" He asked amused. "You care about me! You were crying like a baby thinking I was dead!" He said proudly. "You love me, admit it!" He said getting closer to where she was.
"If you take another step in my direction I'm gonna hit you so you better stay at least one meter away from me." JJ said angrily.
"C'mon, JJ…That Flack guy is just a friend you asked to pose as your boyfriend so you don't have to admit your feelings for me…you want me JJ, confess!" He said getting really close to her. "JJ don't fool yourself, you are not getting any younger and I can offer you a lot, I have money, I could pay you some surgeries so we can fix….well, everything that needs to be fixed." He said smirking and leaned to kiss her and just in that moment JJ's knee contacted furiously against Nick's crotch making him fall on the floor screaming in pain. Flack ran to the room after hearing the noise.
"What happened?" Flack asked half smiling.
But instead of answering JJ passed her arms around Flack's body and kissed him passionately. After a few seconds, JJ pulled apart smiling widely and turned around to watch Nick staring at them confused.
"Blue, take him downstairs, please. We would need to interrogate him later." She said firmly.
He helped Nick said stand up, he was about to say something but Flack stopped him.
"You better not open that big mouth of yours, pal, because if I ever discover what have you told her to make her kick you it would probably make me want to kill you." Flack said warning him. "And we already have a body looking like you in the morgue, we could always make it seem like the one in the alley was you."
JJ observed the scene sighting lightly. Nick was alive and being the jerk he had always been, she could work again in the case and that scumbag just reminded her how lucky she was to have men like Danny, Adam, Hawkes, Mac and of course Flack in her life. She smiled, grabbed her phone and after a short conversation with Mac, she went to the parking lot to wait for him and Danny to come back from the crime scene.
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