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Krissy

Chapter 31

JJ was staring at Nick, knowing he was waiting for her to answer him about him calling his family to let them know about the marriage their son had just entered into, as well as about Ella and about the fact that Ella was JJ and Nick's daughter. She bit her bottom lip nervously and watched as he eyed her, almost like he was willing her to hurry up and give him the answer that he wanted. Sighing she got up and started pacing back and forth, glancing over at her husband every once and again. Finally she stopped and put her hands on her hips, cocking her head to the side and slowly nodded her head.

She watched as Nick smiled widely and he walked over to her and kissed her slowly and deeply on the lips. He pulled her flush against him and she wrapped her arms around his neck as he held onto her hips.

"Thank you baby." Nick said with a huge smile. "I know that my family is going to be thrilled and if you want us to work towards finding out who you are really and where you belong, besides here with me and our daughter and any future babies we might have together, then I can hire a private investigator or ask my dad to do some digging." Nick told her as he lifted one hand and light brushed a strand of hair behind her left ear.

"No, I am fine with being who I am right now. I think if we started dredging up a long buried past, it's only going to open up a carton of snakes and make things so much easier for things to go real bad for us." JJ said as she briefly shook her head.

"All right then." Nick said as he leaned in and kissed her forehead. "I still can't believe you are my wife and I am your husband. I can't believe we have a toddler together and I can't believe that we are going to be spending the rest of our lives together like I always wanted when we were growing up." Nick said excitedly.

"You can't believe it? I can't believe it. I had the biggest crush on you when we were growing up, everyone knew it and everyone teased me non stop about it. They thought it was so funny that I would get so upset whenever you got a new girlfriend or went out on a date. When I finally went through puberty, I thought you might notice me and give me a chance, maybe tell me that you thought I was hot and ask me out on a date." JJ admitted with a slight blush creeping into her cheeks.

"Hmmm… I did notice you, I noticed you all the time." Nick told her. "I just didn't think you noticed me."

"Everyone noticed you Nick, you were Mr. Popular." JJ teased as she kissed him lightly on the lips and went to pull away but he refused to let her pull away and he deepened the kiss and moaned as his tongue speared into her mouth and started dueling with her own tongue. Pretty soon they broke apart and JJ winked at him. "You are going to have to wait till tonight for more than that." She said and a quick glance down showed that he was indeed reacting to the feeling of her lips on his.

Nick was also smirking and a quick glance down at herself also showed her own reaction, she just shrugged and turned and walked away, leaving Nick to phone his family back in Texas, the very thing he was going to do anyway.

Warrick was sitting up now. He had started to eat solid food again and he was awake, something that meant a lot to everyone close to him that came to see him. Greg had been the last one in the room and he had told Warrick that JJ was actually on the good side and that she and Nick had a daughter together, the toddler was never Krisalyn's but it was JJ's and the whole story would be explained later on. The big deal was that Ella was finally with both of her real parents and they were married and living together. JJ had turned out to be an undercover federal agent and she left the federal branch she was in and had transferred officially to Las Vegas Police Department, Metro really, and was a detective. Warrick had been shocked at the turn events, even learning that Krisalyn was in on the whole thing and she was the one that had been steering the team in the wrong direction, pretending to do the right things so that she would get close to everyone and she was the one that had leaked valuable information out to their killer, who for some reason, was still sticking around.

Warrick looked up as the door opened again and he smiled as Catherine walked into the room, and she seemed relieved to see him awake. She set some things aside and he could tell that she was exhausted and possibly spending her time off with him, instead of sleeping like she needed to.

"Shouldn't you be catching a few hours of sleep?" Warrick asked her with a major frown on his face.

"I couldn't stand the thought of you waking up in here without someone to talk to you or someone to be in here with you and try and harm you without you able to defend yourself and with your bodyguards unable to get to you or completely unaware that you were in any type of trouble." Catherine informed him as she sat down in a chair next to the bed.

"Well, I guess I should be flattered that you are taking every precaution that you can." Warrick said as he watched the blush creep into her cheeks as she listened to what he said and the knowing look that entered into his eyes.

Grissom and Sara were sitting in the lab with Greg. The three of them were trying to find something in all of their evidence that might be the proverbial smoking gun and bring down the serial killer, ending his tirade once and for all. Grissom knew that everyone was taking this case personal because this killer was a cop killer and because people in this lab and in the police officers were attacked and nearly killed. The fact that the killer had gotten a mole inside their organization really upset everyone, this wasn't something they enjoyed hearing about. They didn't like the thought that this killer could come into their world and get to their friends and fellow cops, they were all like one big happy family and so they had to protect the family and bring this guy to justice, keeping him away from everyone and praying he didn't do anything that could cost them the lives of innocents, the kids.

"There has to be something we are missing in all of this!" Greg said frustrated as he got to his feet and started pacing back and forth. He took turns glaring between the board and the evidence sitting on the table in front of him.

"Greg, we all need to be patient. If there isn't anything here, in this group of evidence, then there has to be other evidence that we don't see yet, or the evidence we will collect when we go to whatever new crime scene that turns up." Grissom told his young CSI who was eager to take down this serial killer, just like everyone else.

"But who will it be this time? JJ is one of us now, she is married to Nick and is an official part of this department, part of our family. Nick won't survive it if something happens to his wife or his daughter, he can't stand to lose her and she can't stand to lose him. Grissom, I have a really bad feeling, and I mean a really bad feeling about this whole thing." Sara said biting her lower lip nervously as she glanced between her supervisor and the young CSI who was always eager to please his mentor.

"I know Sara, which means all we can do is be there for our friends and hope that we can find out who is behind this, before he finally manages to take out the people we care about the most." Grissom said with a sigh.

JJ was cuddling Ella close to her, the toddler had been crying for the past hour and there didn't seem to be anything that JJ could do to calm down her daughter. She kissed the little girls forehead, and brushed some of her silky hair back behind her ears. She was rocking with her and she started to sing her favorite lullaby but JJ knew that whatever had scared her toddler, had done a lot of damage because the little girl was still shaking and her eyes were darting all around the room, almost looking for a monster that was terrorizing her and it was breaking JJ's heart. She already felt guilty for not protecting her daughter all along, now seeing this, it only made her realize how much she had failed her child, she was a failure as a mother, and it wouldn't be long until Nick thought of her as the failure of a wife that JJ knew she was and would always be.

"Hey, what's the matter?" Nick whispered walking into the room that belonged to their daughter.

"She won't calm down, I am not sure what has her so scared but she is scared." JJ said as she continued rocking and then went back to singing to her daughter. Ella was clutching her mother closer to her, and she reached out with one hand for her father.

Nick felt his own heart breaking, he could see the pain in his daughters eyes and the terror in his wifes. She was out of her element here, she had not been allowed to feel her way into this whole motherhood thing, she had to dive right in with a toddler who was traumatized and damaged, he could tell she felt horrible. He knelt in front of the chair and held onto his terrified daughter with one hand while he reached out with the other and lightly stroked his wife's arm. He could tell she wasn't sure what to do in this situation, she wasn't sure how to help her family and it was scaring her.

"This isn't your fault." Nick whispered to his wife. He knew she was blaming herself, totally and completely for this whole thing.

"I am her mother, I screwed up. How could I have not known I was a mother? How could I have failed to protect her?" JJ asked, the pain in her voice matching the tears and shudders coming from the vulnerable body that they were both trying to comfort.

"There was nothing you could have done." Nick said softly. "You are her mother, you are doing everything you can now, the way a mother should. She needs us both right now, her mommy and her daddy."

"Dada?" Ella whispered softly.

"Yes princess?" Nick asked her as he moved a strand of hair out of her face.

"You and mama no leave me?" Ella asked, breaking their hearts even more, something they didn't know was even possible.

"We aren't going anywhere baby girl. You are our little princess and we plan to be together, as a family, forever princess." Nick told her and gave her a small wink.

"I want sleep with you." Ella said as she glanced at her bed and then at her parents.

"I think we can do that for tonight." Nick said nodding as he took Ella out of JJ's arms and they both walked into their bedroom, Ella cuddled into Nick's chest.

They crawled into bed together, Ella lying between the two of them as she clutched at both of her parents. When she finally fell asleep JJ and Nick shared a look, knowing that things were only going to get worse. Whatever happened to their daughter, things were only going to get worse from here on out.