Ch. 28

JJ wasn't sure if she was ready to hear the results or not. All she knew was that there was a big possibility her life was about to change and she wasn't sure if it was for the better or not. She clutched Nick's hand and could see the confused looks on the faces of Catherine and Sara who were standing at the doorway as they had just entered the room. She then looked at Nick and could see the anxious look on his face. As much as she wasn't sure if she wanted it to be her because of what that meant had happened to her, she wanted it to be her because a part of her didn't want Nick to have a baby with someone else. She was shocked at the thought that had popped into her head and then she bit her lip knowing her feelings for Nick would never go away. Even if Ella wasn't hers she was going to have to part ways with FHI and see if there was a place for her in Nick's heart. Maybe she could find a job with LVPD.

"All right go ahead and tell us." JJ whispered with a slight nod of her head.

"Ella is yours JJ. You are her mother." The man said with a slight smile.

JJ was in complete and total shock and she could tell she wasn't the only one. She felt Nick pull her in for a hug and briefly registered that she had hugged him back but that was it. She was a mother to a toddler. She had missed so much of her life already she wasn't going to miss anything else. She looked at Nick squarely in the eye.

"I want to tell her as soon as possible. She should know the truth and I don't want her to think of Krisalyn as her mother a moment longer." JJ said stubbornly.

"I agree." Catherine and Sara both said from their spots.

"I thought the two of you hated my guts?" JJ said as she stared at the two women.

"Well that was before we knew the truth. You are a great undercover officer. You play your role a little to well. We definitely couldn't stand you and it had the desired effect in not getting you out to crime scenes but it also saved our cases because you didn't touch anything. Thank you." Catherine said with a smile.

"Thank you, it means a lot to me that understand that it was just an undercover character and not who I really am. Just like who Krisalyn portrayed herself to be was not who she was. However there is still a master killer out there." JJ said with a sigh.

"I thought Krisalyn was the partner." Sara said confused.

"She is the inside partner but not the main one. There is still someone out there that we haven't been able to find or get to. That means we have a lot of work to do if we want to catch a killer and I mean a lot of work to do." JJ said with a sigh. She looked at Nick and could tell that he was extremely excited and then JJ thought about her family and nearly fainted, Nick caught her.

"Is she still weak from the gas?" Nick asked getting up from the bed and lying her down.

"No I think it's just shock. I think it finally hit her that she is a mother to a two year old toddler and she has missed so much of her life. It must hurt her to know she gave birth to a child and never got to raise her baby. It takes a lot to know you were kidnapped, impregnated and then were out of it for nine months and then gave birth to a child and since they kept you so out of it you didn't remember it at all." Her boss said softly feeling really bad for JJ who was finally coming around.

Nick stroked her hair and finally realized all that she had finally just heard. He couldn't imagine what she thinking or going through. It must hurt her terribly to know she wasn't there for her child the way she should have been able to be and then to know that a serial killer was acting like a mother to her baby that must be the nail in the coffin.

Catherine was staring at the two of them and finally saw it. She could tell they were meant for each other. He never saw Nick as caring or loving with Krisalyn as he was with JJ. He was slowly stroking her hair back and seemed sorry that he had allowed their daughter around that woman for as long as he did. It almost seemed like he was sorry that he chose that woman over the right one for him. Catherine could tell that these two were going to end up together and were going to be the two that got married.

"I hate to be the one to bring this up but there is an appointment at a chapel to get married next week and I think you two should keep it. Just go and get the marriage license you were supposed to get with Krisalyn and then marry the right woman this time. You could even invite your families up if you wanted to." Catherine said getting into it.

"No." JJ said at once. "My family isn't coming anywhere near my child, ever." JJ was very firm as she said it and then glanced at Nick. "You can invite your family if you swear that your family won't say anything to mine and you know how hard that will be since our dads are friends. Nick I don't want my family around and when I am feeling stronger and have gotten to know my little girl I will explain to you why but please understand that I can't have them up here." JJ begged evenly as she looked at Nick with pleading in her eyes and suddenly she wasn't the strong FHI agent but she was the little JJ that used to follow him all around wanting a friend around.

"Okay considering you always have had a good reason for the things you say I am going to assume that something really bad happened between you and your family. Besides there is still a killer on the loose and that means that we can't really put anymore people at risk then necessary. My family doesn't need to come up here. We can had a big wedding later and they can come then and at that time I expect to know why you can't have your family around our child." Nick said with a sigh that gave JJ the comfort that she needed.

"Our child, I don't think when we were little we ever thought we would have a child together." JJ said softly it just seemed so weird.

"Now we are going to end up having more than one. Once we are married we are really married. We are going to have a big family just like you always said you wanted." Nick said with a smile.

"You remember what I said I wanted when we were younger?" JJ asked a little shocked.

Nick grabbed her hand and then used the other one to stroke her hair back making Catherine and Sara a little uncomfortable. "Of course I remember. I also remember you asked me if I ever married who would be my dream girl and I never answered you. I want to answer you now. You would be my dream girl JJ." Nick said with a smile as he leaned forward and kissed her.

"I am going to have them bring Ella back in so you may tell her." Her boss said before leaving the room and making it clear they should get ready to tell a toddler that her real mother was JJ and not Krisalyn.

"This is going to be fun." Nick said sarcastically as he groaned and rolled his eyes. Toddlers didn't understand things the way older kids and adults did and so it was going to be really hard to get her to understand.

Grissom was staring at his old friend Brass and wasn't sure what he was supposed to think. His friend was trying to recover from the poisonous gas that had been released into the air that he had breathed in a little to heavily. Grissom wasn't allowed in the room to see him because he was still trying to recover from the exposure so he was staring at his friend through a glass window. He vowed to get the remaining killer and he was going to make him pay for everything he had done. He had turned his team upside down and caused them to be nicer to a killer than a real person. That was going to be one of his main motivations for taking down this serial killer. That and all the victims who lost their lives for no reason at all to this guy and his friends, they had two down and one to go.

JJ was nervous as Ella walked in with her boss. When Ella ran to her dad it made her want to cry because she hoped that one day she would trust her enough to run to her like that. She wondered if Krisalyn had done enough damage to where Ella would never want to call her mommy even if she was her mother. JJ watched as Nick set her in between us.

"Honey there are a couple of things I need to tell you. Do you think you can listen to daddy for a few minutes?" Nick asked his toddler daughter.

Ella nodded her head and was swinging her legs back and forth on the bed. She was staring at all the people around her and for some reason she started snuggling next to JJ.

Nick was watching his daughter and smiled. She felt comfortable with JJ and that was a good thing but would she feel the same way when she found out the truth.

"Honey Krisalyn wasn't your mother." He said not wanting to say it all at once.

"I know. She told me she stole me from my mommy and that my mommy didn't know about me and would never find me." Ella said simply shocking everyone in the room. "She made me call her mommy but I didn't want to because she was mean."

"I am sorry and you never have to call her mommy again. How would you feel if I found your mommy?" Nick asked her with a smile.

"Did you find my mommy?" Ella asked seeming wise beyond her two years.

"Yes honey, I am your mommy." JJ said finally speaking up and then wincing thinking that it make Ella mad or she wouldn't want her to be her mommy.

"You're my mommy? Yay!" Ella yelled and then climbed up and started jumping up and down on the bed. "I have a mommy!" She was yelling as she jumped up and down.

"Sweetheart let's not jump on the bed, mommy is still a little sore from the bad guys that hurt her." Nick said pulling his daughter gently down so she was once again sitting in between the two of them.

"Are you happy that I am your mommy?" JJ asked the obvious question.

"Yea!" Ella yelled with joy and happiness.

They left the CSI unguarded again and if he really wanted to he could kill him but that was not part of his plan. He was going to make sure that his captured friends were released he needed a hostage and he would find one that they would trade for. He was getting angry at the thought that the two of them had been outsmarted. He would take care of business and he would make them pay.