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Chapter 8

"Yes, yes I got that down, okay great. Thanks again. You too bye," Charlotte said as she got off the phone as she tried to type whatever she got on her phone in the notes app. She wished her right hand was functioning but working as best as she could with her left hand.

Though she wished she would've went home already, it was her second day in the hospital and with her next few assignments at hand, she decided to get an early head start on one of them. Her mom was going to stop by later on in the day since she had to take care of something at home while her brother is preparing to come to town the following day.

"What are you doing?" Nick asked as he entered the room.

"Working," she replied.

"I see that but why are you doing it?"

"Because what else is there to do?" she asked.

He could only shake his head as he pulled up the chair next to her bed. Charlotte put her phone on the side.

"How are you?" he asked sincerely.

"I'm okay, I had a little rough time sleeping but I'm okay," she replied.

"You should've asked for some sleeping meds," Nick said.

"Nah I didn't want to," she said.

"Is there anything else bothering you?"

Here he goes in police mode. He couldn't help it though. It was his instincts that he knows all too well whenever he had to question a suspect. But Charlotte was a different case.

"Nope," she replied.

He can tell she was lying slightly. But now wasn't the time to get into that just yet. Before he could say anything else, a nurse came into the room with tape and gauzes in her hand.

"Sorry to interrupt I just need change the bandages," she said.

"No it's okay I was wondering when I do get out of here do I have to worry about changing the bandages?" Charlotte asked.

"For a few days at first but then until you get the stitches out then you don't have to worry," the nurse replied.

Nick watched a bit carefully as the nurse changed her bandage. When her stitches were revealed, he couldn't help but made a note to himself that the doctor was right. Those weren't scratches were from the glass shards that's for sure. Whoever or whatever scratched her so bad, he was going to find out and make them pay no matter what.

"What is it?" Charlotte asked.

He snapped out of his thoughts as she looked at him with a confused look on her face. "If it's about the stitches then there's nothing to worry about," she replied.

"No it's not it's just," he said, trying to find the words.

By then the nurse was done and let them know that she'll be back later to check on her.

"Charlotte don't take it the wrong way but do you remember how you got those scratches?" he asked, as he sat next to her on her bed.

"Honestly?" she replied. "I don't remember much I felt a sting but I thought it was from flying through the windshield. You think there's something else?"

"I don't know it could be someone who did this," he said.

"But why go after me and Alex when she didn't do anything," Charlotte said. "I swear this mystery gets more confusing every time."

"What do you mean by that?"

"Nothing don't worry about it; you got enough on your plate as it is," she said.

"Hey," he said softly as he lifted Charlotte's face to his. "Whatever it is, you can tell me."

"It's nothing I have Alex looking into it since I mentioned it to her when she was here but…"

She grew quiet as she was about to tell Nick what she told Alex. Something made her stop though. Maybe she was afraid of his reaction or the fact that he would get hurt in the process of protecting her. She was stumped that she didn't know what to do.

"I got creeped out by a visitor yesterday that's all," she said.

"How so?"

"It's just something he said. I've never seen him before and god only knows who's going to come in here next," she replied a bit too quickly.

"Char, listen to me," Nick said, placing his hand on her arm lightly. "No one's not coming after you."

"You think I'm crazy, don't you?"

"Of course not," he assured her. "Whoever this person is, they're not going near you no matter what. I promise."

"You sure?" she asked.

"I'm sure," he said.

She took one look at him before slowly holding on to him and he returned the hug, hoping he wouldn't hurt her shoulder more.

"Find anything?" Hank asked Alex and Wu at the station.

"Who knew going through these tapes were a pain? Based on half of what we're seeing, I say that finding whoever did the robberies might be 50-50," Wu explained.

"Even if we get more witnesses to come forward, they're going to keep their mouths shut," Alex said. "I hate the whole snitch rule."

Hank was talking to Wu about something as she continued to scroll through the tapes. "Does anyone know when Nick should be in?" Wu asked.

"He's on his way he had to stop by to see Charlotte over at the hospital," Hank replied.

"Oh do you know how she's doing?"

"She was fine when I saw her yesterday," Alex replied, not taking her eyes off the screen.

She continued to look until something caught her eye. "Gentlemen, I think I found something," she said.

"What is it?" Hank asked.

"Let me just zoom in a little closer," she said.

She tapped a few button on the keyboard as Hank, Wu and Alex looked on the screen. The picture showed the scene somewhere in town a few minutes before the suspect fled. It only took a while as Alex slowed the clip down and then pressed stop as soon as the person came into view.

"I think we got our guy," she said.

It was getting towards evening when Lynda left for the night. In a day or two Charlotte would be able to go home. She couldn't wait to be home.

She was playing around with the TV remote when she noticed the quiet hallway outside her room. Charlotte reached over to grab her sweater and put it on to cover the back of her gown. She slowly got out of bed and grabbed on to her IV pole as she slowly walked over towards the door.

Charlotte poked her head out and she looked down the hallway. She looked up and down before she saw someone turning the corner quickly. She got out of the room and started to head down the hallway. She only got halfway down when someone put a hand on her arm.

"There you are, I went in to give you your meds and you left," the nurse from earlier said.

"Sorry I um, just needed some air and well…"

"I know it gets boring being in there all day but you still need rest and you'll be able to go home soon I promise you that much," she said.

All she could do at this point was nod her head. What good would that do if she told the nurse what she saw? Knowing them, they would give her more meds and call her crazy.

The nurse smiled as she led Charlotte back to her room, with Charlotte looking back once again and saw no one behind her.

A/n: Hey guys! So super sorry that I didn't update. Long story short, laptop bit the dust so I had to get a new one. Good news my files did recover so I didn't have to start over!

I'll try to update again soon and next chapter something goes down. You'll see what I mean.

Congrats to Grimm for being renewed again! That so made my day when I heard!

Leave a review on the way out! I thank you guys for your patience and support. You rock.

Until next time,
Spike