Chapter 9
One of the other detectives had to interrogate Ellie as I was so mad I wanted to kill her, I finished my paper work and headed over to the hospital. In the waiting room sat Sarah, Julie, Hodges, Gregg and Nick. Morgan was out of surgery and was doing well we were waiting for her to wake up so we could see her before going home for some well earned rest.
Nick and I went for a walk to grab some coffee's.
"I'm proud of you" he said grabbing my hand.
"why?" I asked looking confused.
"because in the last 3 days you've had like 4 hours sleep and still smarter than all us put together" he laughed.
"I don't know about that" I said.
"it's true how did I get so lucky to find someone as gorgeous and clever as you" he said.
"God knows but you are one lucky son of a bitch" I smiled.
He used my hand to pull me into him, he put his one hand behind my neck and kissed me so deeply and lovingly, which shocked me. He pulled away still holding my neck gently staring down into my eyes.
"I really am lucky" he said "I wanted to tell you something, I've been wanting to tell you for ages now"
Just then I heard someone clear their throat, we both turned to look to see Gregg stood there looking awkward.
"Erm..., sorry... Morgan's awake" he said.
I pulled away from Nick "thanks Gregg" I said and walked back up the hall towards Morgans room, leaving Nick and Gregg to talk. I had a phone call as I got to the room it was from Warwick, he had been on Holiday visiting family for the last week and had no clue what was going on.
"hey" I answered.
"hey I just heard what happened is Morgan okay?" he asked.
"yeah she just woke from surgery I'm about to go in and see her call Nick he will fill you in" I said.
"I've tried but it's switched off" he said.
"I'll get him to call you" I said.
"thanks Kat" he said. I put the phone down and walked into the room, to see Hodges Julie and Sarah.
Morgan's eyes lit up when she saw me.
"hey" she smiled.
"hey you" I said walking over to the bed.
"you look like shit" she said.
"oh thanks, nice one" I said rolling my eyes and laughing, "it's your fault I've been worried sick"
"my bad" she said " I should of listened to you"
"yes you should of" Hodges said.
I chatted to her for awhile and gave her a kiss "you going already?" she asked.
"yes I'm shattered and starving. I will be back in the morning, I'll bring you some Pj's and toiletries and I'll spend a few hours with you I promise"
"you better" she said.
Nick and Gregg came walking in and I felt so awkward.
"we all still going to the diner?" Hodges asked.
"yeah" I said " I am going to pass out if I don't eat."
So we all headed over to the diner after Gregg and Nick saw Morgan for awhile. Nick was in my car but I couldn't ask him what was going on as so was Sarah, plus Nick was on the phone to Warwick filling him in on the gossip.
When we got to the diner I ordered the biggest burger on the menu, with chilli cheese fries and a mango iced tea.
I loved the CSI crew, they had all become close friends of mine and we very often went for food. I was well and truly bloated when I came out the diner.
"you alright to take me to my car?" Sarah asked.
"yeah course" I said.
"and can you take me home please?" Nick asked.
"yeah sure" I smiled. So we dropped Sarah back off to PD and then headed to Nicks.
"so what did Gregg say?" I asked,
"he's pretty pissed with me" he laughed.
"why?" I asked.
"because I didn't tell him what was going on and when I told him how long it had been going on he wasn't very happy" he smiled.
"so is he going to tell anyone?" I asked
"no course not" he said grabbing my hand. "but I don't see why we can't tell anyone"
"we've been through this it doesn't look very professional look what happened to Sarah and Grissom" I said.
"yes but they work in the same department" Nick replied.
"but we met through work" I said.
"I will ask Russell" he said.
"oh yeah because that doesn't look suspicious" I replied rolling my eyes.
"are you embarrassed of me?" he asked.
"are you mad? I love you" I said, "why would I..." I stopped, as I realized what I had just said.
He looked at me with a big grin on his face.
"I love you too" he said kissing my hand.
I smiled and turned back to look at the road, "well that went better than expected" he said.
"what you mean?" I asked.
"well that's what I was about to tell you when Gregg interrupted us" he said.
"really?" I asked.
"yeah" he laughed.
"so what then?" I asked, "are we officially boyfriend and girlfriend?"
"I thought we were anyway" he said.
"well we never really had the conversation did we?" I said.
"true, well I guess we are now" he replied.
We arrived at Nicks house "are you staying?" he asked.
"yeah if that's okay?" I replied.
"course, I want you too" he said.
So I got out the car and locked it, Nick opened the door and Sam his dog came running to us. When he saw me he ran straight past Nick and jumped up me.
"hello boy" I said rubbing behind his ears and kissing him.
"is that how it is?" Nick said, " don't wanna know me now?"
I closed the front door and went into the living room, sitting on the sofa Sam put his head on my lap and let me fuss him.
"Assez" I said after awhile, which meant enough in French as Sam was born in France.
"I'll take him for a walk" Nick said.
"No let me I need to work off that burger" I laughed.
I went to the bed room and got into my gym things, I spent so much time at Nicks that I had my own draw, section of the wardrobe and a rack on the shoe rail. I tied my hair up on the top of my head in a messy bun, my running trainers had been cleaned from the last time.
"bless him" I said to myself.
I grabbed Sam's lead from the cupboard and called out "MARCHE SAM". He came bounding out of the living room and let me slip his lead on.
We went for a half an hour run and when we got back to the house Nick had done Sam his dinner and ran me a bath.
"you are too sweet" I said kissing him and drinking from my water bottle.
"have yourself a long soak and then we can watch a movie before bed" he said.
"sounds like a plan babe" I said kissing him.
So I spent the next hour soaking in the bath and I nodded off, Nick came in and kissed my brow. "you okay?" he asked.
"yeah sorry babe, I'm just so tired" I said.
"lets go to bed now baby" he said
"you sure?"
"course" he replied.
So we went to bed and cuddled before I fell asleep. I woke up it was still dark, I looked at my phone to see it was 4am. I tried my hardest to get back to sleep but I couldn't, so I put Nick's hoodie on over my pyjamas and slipped my trainers on. I kissed Nick on the head and whispered that I would see him later, he grumbled and turned over. As I got to the door he said "love you"
"love you too baby" I smiled.
I went out and closed the door behind me as I opened the car door, I heard a vehicle pull up and then someone call out " excuse me Miss but could you tell me how to get to the strip from here?" I turned to look to see a dark coloured van. I through my bag onto the car seat and stepped a little way down the drive. " yeah you just need to" I started. The sliding door opened on the van and 2 masked men jumped out and ran towards me, I started to run back towards the car but they were on me after a few steps. A bag went over my head and I was dragged backwards. I let out a scream then was whacked with something then everything went black.