Ch. 27

JJ watched as Ella was brought into the room and Nick's face lit up like a Christmas tree. She watched as Ella launched herself into his arms and the two clung to each other. The only thing JJ could think of was that she would never have that. She would never have a husband who loved her or kids who couldn't wait to throw their arms around them. She felt the tears fall from her eyes and tried to stem the flow but it was no use, she wasn't going to get over the fact that her life belonged to FHI and there would never be anyone for her, never anyone who understood what was going on with her.

"Ella this is daddy's friend JJ." Nick said as he pulled away and then glanced at JJ. Seeing the tears falling from her eyes he picked his daughter up and they both went and sat down next to her. He put his arm around her while holding his daughter with the other one.

"JJ sad?" Ella asked confused.

Nick was confused about why the tears were flowing down her face. But he could tell that whatever was wrong was something she would never discuss with him. He sighed as he started rubbing her back and trying to comfort her the way he had always done while they were growing up. They had been friends for a very long time and there was nothing that could change their friendship. "JJ whatever is wrong, you know I am here for you."

"There is nothing you can do for me Nicky, not this time. I just realized seeing you with her, that I will never have that. I am destined to be alone for the rest of my life and it makes me sad. When I die there will be no one there." JJ said wiping her eyes.

"I will be." Nick said softly.

"It's not the same. You will be there with your kids and your wife, but I won't have someone who loves me the way you love her." JJ said with a glance at him.

"I love you." Nick said finally admitting what he was feeling.

"But you belong to someone else. No matter how much I love you to; there is nothing that can happen." JJ said with a glance at Ella who was falling asleep and not listening to their conversation.

"I think that I need to sit down and really think about what I want." Nick admitted slowly.

"What you want is your family and don't you dare give that up." JJ said and then she frowned. "Nicky Ella is your daughter and you belong with your daughter."

"But Krisalyn won't be there." Nick said with a gleam in his eyes.

Krisalyn walked slowly towards her car in the parking lot with a nervous glance around her. Something just wasn't right and she knew it. Suddenly she saw the people surrounding her and then she saw Grissom standing there with Greg, Catherine and Sara. She gulped knowing that there was no way to get out this one.

"Did you think we wouldn't find out?" Grissom asked with a mad look on his face.

"No one else ever knew." Krisalyn said with a smirk. "I had everyone fooled and you knew it."

"Did you ever give a damn about your daughter?" Catherine asked feeling nothing but anger and hatred for the woman standing in front of her.

"She isn't my daughter." Krisalyn said with a smirk on her face. She saw the look on the faces of everyone in front of her and had to laugh. She had surprised them yet again.

Grissom wasn't sure how to break this news to Nick. He wasn't even sure what this news meant. FHI had done a paternity test and Ella was indeed Nick's but who was Ella's mother? Grissom could see all the questions on the faces of his crew. The team was unsure of what was going to happen at this point or how Nick was going to take the fact that his fiancée was really the dirty cop. She was the one who brought this killer here to Las Vegas and she was the one responsible for Brass and JJ being taken away.

"We have to help Nick through this. There has to be something we can do." Sara said with a sigh.

"I think the big issue is finding out who her mother is. We need to know who Krisalyn took this little girl from. Who was it that Nick had a child with?" Greg asked with a confused look. "Do you think he might remember the women or woman he slept with around the time of her conception?"

"Nick doesn't sleep around so it's possible." Catherine said with a frown.

"So if Krisalyn is the evil one does that mean that all along JJ was the good one?" Greg asked with a confused look.

"I believe it does mean that." Sara said nodding her head. "We were so mean to her and all along she was only trying to protect us and solve the case. There has to be a way we can make it up to her."

"I don't think she minds so much considering it was part of her cover the whole time." Grissom pointed out with an arched eyebrow. "However if she wants to stick around here we can offer her our friendship and maybe help her get a better job with LVPD."

"That sounds like a plan." Catherine agreed with nods from both Greg and Sara to go along with it.

Nick looked up when the door opened and noticed the person standing there wasn't anyone he recognized. He gripped his daughter tightly but relaxed when he felt JJ's arm on his and noticed her shaking her head to let him know it was all right. Nick simply waited for some word on who was standing there and what this was all about.

"I came to let you know what was going on. I think it would be best if you let my secretary Emmeline take little Ella out of here for this conversation." The man said simply with an arched eyebrow.

Nick wasn't ready to let go of his daughter but he could tell that whatever was about to be said wasn't something he wanted his little girl to hear so he nodded his head slowly and then allowed the young woman to take his sleeping little girl from his arms. Once they were clear he simply looked at the man and asked one question. "Has she been arrested?"

"Yes but she made an admission that we weren't prepared for. She isn't Ella's biological mother. She confessed that the real mother was drugged and is completely unaware she even gave birth to a child. She wasn't even aware that she had been impregnated." The man said with a sigh.

"What do you mean? I should think back to women I slept with around that time then?" Nick asked trying to think.

"It won't be helpful. Krisalyn said she drugged you and managed to get a sperm sample from you while you were unconscious. They then drugged a young woman and impregnated her and kept her out of it for months before she gave birth. After the birth they slowly got her off the drugs and that was it. It was never a woman you slept with." The man said with a glance at JJ who was staring wide eyed at the two men talking in front of her.

"Wait a minute so there is a woman, who we most likely won't be able to find without the help of Krisalyn or this killer, who had my kid and doesn't even know it?" Nick asked not sure how to respond to this whole situation.

"Basically that is what I am telling you." The man said as he walked over and sat on the windowsill. "We have decided to just enter your daughter's DNA into a database and run it against every female DNA we have. That includes police officers and military members and so on."

"Run mine." JJ spoke up with a nervous glance.

"What?" Nick asked turning towards JJ with a wide eyed look.

"You heard me, run my DNA just to be sure. Remember that undercover assignment I was on that went bad?" JJ said looking at the man who nodded his head in understanding.

"I already thought of that. It's being run right now, that is why I am still in here. I am waiting for the results to be sent to my phone. I am concerned that if it turns out that she is yours JJ we are going to have to part ways, you know the rules." The man said sighing again, this time in displeasure.

"I am aware of that." JJ nodded her head in understanding.

Nick wasn't sure whether or not he was thrilled with the possibility that it was JJ that was impregnated with his child or not. It killed him to think of her being so helpless that someone could do things necessary that were done to her. He could tell that the possibility that Ella was her daughter was shocking and scary to JJ but at the same he had to think that she really wanted that, she had said she wanted that not to long ago. He knew from the look on her face that she wasn't all that sure how she felt about the situation either.

"JJ how do you feel about this?" Nick asked softly.

"I'm not sure yet. It could be nothing Nick, it might not even be me." JJ said with a sigh.

JJ just sat there with Nick's hand still on the small of her back. She wasn't sure how she was going to handle it if it turned out that undercover assignment had gone worse than she had originally thought it had. She remembered waking up from a drugged stupor in an abandoned warehouse, lying on a bed with some food and drinks lying near her. She looked over at Nick and could tell that he was worried about her but there was nothing she could say at that moment.

Grissom arrived at the secure facility with the team as they were escorted through the hallways. They had been told they were allowed inside the highly secret government agency only because two of their people were there. Sara and Catherine were going to go where Nick and JJ were and Grissom and Greg were going to be allowed to see how Brass was doing since he was all alone and freaking out. Once they got to a split in the hallway the four members split up and went their separate ways, unsure on what they were going to see on their respective ends.

Grissom and Greg arrived at their destination and were only allowed to see Brass from outside the secure room. They knocked on the glass and waited patiently as Brass finally focused on them. He got up and walked over so that they could talk through the speakers.

"Krisalyn is evil." Brass said simply when he walked over.

"She's been taken into custody already." Grissom said reassuring his friend that everything was going to be all right.

"JJ is a good person. You should have seen how badly she wanted to save that poor woman that they killed. They just killed her and there was nothing either of us could do about it. I don't think I have ever been in a situation where a woman was brutally killed just inches from me and there was nothing I could do about it." Brass said his emotions getting the better of him.

Catherine and Sara walked into the hospital room and could feel the tension. They were completely unsure of what was going on but they could tell that it was something really serious. They watched as Nick and JJ sat on the bed together and watched as a man stood by reading something on his phone.

"The results are in." The man said simply.