Heya dudes….. thanks to everyone who reviewed and voted, to all those of you who PMed me, thanks for voting, but I wanna see you review the chapters too if you're reading! Don't be shy…. Also, can I say a big welcome to All For Szmanda? I missed you! Well this chapter is about Nick and Abby! And sorry I messed up the timeline so it doesn't quite fit in with thither chapters, forgive me?

When Abby woke up, she did the first thing she did every morning, stumbled into the ensuite bathroom. She was always careful not to look at her reflection as she stepped into the shower, because she did not look good in the morning. After her shower, she moisturized her face, applied lotion to the rest of her body, repqainted her nails, blow dried her hair, put on some make-up, sprayed perfume on herself and dressed in tight fitting denim jeans, a red shirt and red wedge sandals. She took a quick look at herself in the mirror and nodded. She was good to go. She found Nick still slumped at his desk, the same place he'd been last night, slumped over his desk, empty coffee cups already collecting at the top.

"Morning Nicky." She called, making him start.

"Morning…" he yawned, stretching.

"You been asleep?" she teased.

"I've been up all night." He groaned, rubbing at his eyes.

"I noticed. The bed is still made up on your side."

"What time is it?"

She checked her watch. "Ten thirty."

"Ughhhh…"

"Still not done?"

"Nope."

"Want some help?"

"It's fine. I'm finished all the paperwork, I just need to work out shifts."

"Bit of advice?"

"Sure."

"Go for a shower. Get changed. Have some breakfast and it can't be more coffee."

"But I still have hours lef to do and…."

"You'll get it done much wquicker once you're clean and you've eaten."

"I hate it when you're right."

"Happens a lot though doesn't it?"

"Haha. Not."

"Come on Nicky. Shower."

"Fine I'm going."

"Good boy."

As soon as he'd left, Abby went over to have a look at what he was working on. On the desk there was an assortment of papers, spreadsheets and open folders. Abby sighed. This was going to take some time.

Ten minutes later, Abby had made sense of the sheets and figured out that with Mandy in hospital, and Henry refusing to leave her, they were down two lab techs. Nick had tried his best to make out shifts for the others so they could cover for each other, but it left them with no days off and hardly a break in between shifts. Also, it was clear by the spreadsheets he had made out that his tiredness had been getting to him, unless Hodges really was working on Satnesdays. There was only one thing for it. She needed two new labtechs. Luckily she had a constant supply of them. She scrolled through her contacts, eventually settling on Brooke Stokes. She hit call and listened to the ringing, anxiously tapping her fingers.

"Brooke?" she asked.

"Abby?" the voice on the ophone said.

"Hye listen, how do you feel about coming down to Vegas for a few days? You're trained in chemistry right?" Abbhy checked.

"Yeah, that's me. What's going on?" Brooke asked her.

"Long story. But we need a tox tech."

"Toxicology was only a tiny part of my course, I'm not even sure if I remember…"

"Look, its fine. Lauren, the swing shift tech will tell you everything. And it's just for a few weeks."

"Okay then. I suppose I'm free."

"Great."

"I can book a flight and be out there by…"

"Don't worry about it. My dad had like.. a helicopter, he can pick you up and bring you there."

"Wow. Are you sure?"

"I'm sure. Besides we need you as soon as possible."

"Pick me up whenever. I can be ready in like, an hour."

"Really?"

"Sure. Send for me as soon as you want."

"Two o clock?"

"Perfect."

"Thank you thank you thank you! Don't tell your other siblings this, but you're my favourite."

"Aw, you're like the little sister I only had two of."

"Well now you have three."

"The more the merrier. So, see you this evening?"

"Perfect, thanks again."

"No problem. Later."

Abby grinned. That was the tox tech taken care of. Now, who did she know who knew how fingerprints worked? Nobody. She's have to call Tyler.

"Tyler? Its Abby." She said, realizing how long it had been since she'd spoken to her bother.

"Heya Blub, hows Vegas treating you these days?" he asked in the voice she had to admit she m,issed, using the nickname she did not.

"It's alright. But I need your help. Do you or dad know anyone who knows how to fingerprint and is looking for a job?" she asked him.

"I'll ask him right now. DAD?" he hollered.

Abby heard some muffling in the background, and then Tyler was back on the phone.

"Dad knows a girl called Ashley Parker, she apparently does fingerprinting."

"Great, does he have a number for her?"

"Yep, he can call her for you."

"Great. I'll text you the details. Will you put me onto him when he's done?"

"Sure. So, why do you need a fingerprint tech?"

"Two of our techs are missing and I need to try and replace them before Nick gets out of the shower."

"Oh Blub."

"Stopp….. it's Abby, remember?"

"You've been Blub since you were five, and Blub you shall remain."

"Tyler…." Abby moaned, but she was smiling. Tyler had always been one of her favourite siblings. The eldest of five, he was in private boarding school and then college for most of her childhood, so her memories of him were always him coming home, weighed down with presents for her Ryan, Parker, Kennedy and Cameron. She used to love his visits, and he could always make her laugh. Even when he insisted on calling her Blub. He worked with her dad now, he was an attorney at her dads big law firm and had taken most of the clients her dad lost when he moved from being a lawyer to owning his own company and being a high court judge.

"Dad's ready now, you wanna talk to him?"

"Yes please."

"Later Blub."

"Later Tyler."

And then her dad was on the line. "Abby."

"Hey Pops."

"Ashley would be happy to help you out, for as long as you need."

"Thanks Pops. Is two o clock alright?"

"Yep, its okay. So since Ashley lives not far from here, the helicopter will stop off there first. We can pick up Nicholas' sister after and then fly them both to Vegas."

"That sounds great Pops. Hows work?"

"Same as always Abby. Too many clients, too little time."

"Same as always."

"What? Yes I'll be right there I have to just… no… Tyler will you tell Ms Willard that I'm…"

"Pops? I can o now if you're too busy."

"Thank you Abby. I will talk to you later?"

"Sure."

Then the phone was making the sound that indicated she had been hung up on and Nick was re-emerging, dressed in clean trousers and a grey shirt.

"Guess what I got you?"

"What?"

"Two temporary lab techs!"

"Really? Oh Abby, I love you."

"Love you too Nicky."

"Where did you find them?"

"My dad got this Ashley chick to do prints and your sister Brooke is gonna take over tox. They're flying in today."

"That's great. You're the best."

"Just a little."

But listen, we still need a CSI."

"Why? We still have four right?"

"Wendy won't leave either."

"She won't? So what are we going to do?"

"Well, I was hoping you could do it."

"Me?"

"Yeah."

"Then who's gonna do ballistics?"

"I know a girl."

"A girl? Who is she? Is she an ex girlfriend?"

"No, not at all."

"Do you want her to be a future girlfriend?"

"Abby chill out, I don't like her. She's a friend of Greg's."

"Oh. What sort of a friend?"

"She was his best friend all through college. She studied ballistics."

"What's her name?"

"Mackenzie."

"What's she like?"

"Oh…. She's nice."

"Nice?"

"She is."

"And…"

"Okay… don't take this the wrong way but she looks like something out of the pages of Hiya."

"Hiya?"

"That magazine you, Lexi and Kelly love….."

"Hello?"

"That's it."

"Are you attracted to her?"

"Not at all."

"Alright then. So what's a girl who looks like a model doing in ballistics?"

"Hey, you do it."

"Very funny."

"I'm serious. Abby, I don't say it enough but you're beautiful."

"Oh stoppit….. you just want me to make you breakfast."

"Now that you mention it, some pancakes would be quite nice….."

"Fine. I'll put some on. Don't forget we can go see Mandy whenever we like, so we might as well leave after breakfast."

"Sure. And then get back in time for Ashley and Brooke."

And Mackenzie."

"Yeah, she lives in the Hamptons so she's calling your dad now to make arrangements."

"When were you talking to her?"

"On the phone. I knew we'd need a ballistics tech so I called Mackenzie because I remembered Greg telling me she studied that sort of stuff. I'm texting her right now."

"Wow, I think this has to be the best organizing ever. We got three lab techs in under an hour and they will be here by then end of the day."

"I know. And you made pancakes. This is shaping up to be a pretty good day."

"Except for Mandy."

"Yeah, except for the Mandy thing."

"Oh no."

"What?"

"Greg just texted me."

"Oh no…. we really shouldn't have left him in that bar."

"He woke up this morning in his own bed."

"Well thank God for…."

"With Lexi next to him."

"You mean…"

"Naked."

"Oh shit…"

"And Archie standing right next to him."

"Oh Greg…."

"Yeah, I know."

"What's going on now?"

"Kelly forgave him but Archie kicked Kelly out and he said she could stay with them. But now they're both acting weird."

"Weird?"

"Remember the way you three used to be around Greg?"

"Yes….. don't talk about that…."

"That's what they're like now."

"Oh great. Not this again."

"Who knows why?"

"We might as well drop around after we've gone to see Mandy?"

"Sure. We can talk to them and stuff."

"Today has been so full of drama."

"Tell me about it."

"But hey, pancakes are ready."

"And I am suddenly felling a lot better."

"Me too. Move over."

"Here."

"Om."

"Omonom."

"You sound like the cookie monster."

"You look like him."

"Take that back."

"Nu-uh."

"Then I'm taking your pancake."

"Hey!"

"You're fault."

"Give it back."

"You'll have to catch me!"

"Oh, I'll catch you."

Nick took this opportunity to jump up and chase Abby around the table until he had finally caught her and taken the pancake back, as well as tickling her too, for good measure. Then they headed too the hospital to see their friend who was in a coma and then onto their other friends who were having a relationship crisis. And they didn't let go of each others hands the whole time.

Awwww….. I LOVE Nick and Abby! next chapter there will be Hodge Archie etc… and also, there were a lot of new charecters introduced in this chapter! (well, three, but that's a lot by character standards) And they are all going to be becoming OCs and they will appear in this story in about two or three chapters (sorry, timeline sucks again) they won't have main roles, but they will all be pretty major! I need some new guys to replace Mandy Wendy and Henry who don't really have much of a storyline for a while because they're just sitting there/in a coma. Anyway, hope you enjoyed, please tell me what you think! MWAH!