Leigh ended up having to take Caitlin to the bathroom for a while. I wondered what they are doing in there. With Leigh in charge, I knew Caitlin was going to be alright, though. The rest of us were silent, we couldn't really talk. First it was because we thought we had lost Nick and now it was because we knew we hadn't.
"Why are all of us so quiet?" AJ asked, "he's coming back. This Jordon dude is gonna spill his guts and we're going to get Nick back." I could only nod in an attempt to get a conversation going.
"Ladies and gentalmen," Officer Davis said walking into the room, "I have really good news you for. I just sent an ambulance to get Nick."
"He's alive!?" I shouted.
"Yeah he is. Jordon told us that he didn't know if Adam had moved Nick after he had been arrested but he did tell us were he last knew Nick to be. I sent a car over there, they radioed back that he was there, but," she said softly, "he's hurt really badly. He's on his way to the hospital right now. I can take you guys over there so that you have clearance to go to see him."
"Alright, that's great," I said happy to know that we were finally going to have Nick back, "We just have to get Caitlin and my wife, they went to the ladies room."
"I can do that," officer Davis said, "you guys just go wait outside."
"Thank you, thank you so much," I said, "you don't know how much this means to us."
"I was only doing my job. I was glad to help."
"Nevertheless, you brought someone back to us, alive, thank you," Howie added.
"Go outside," she said smiling. I think we were getting to her. I couldn't help but to smile. She turned to go and get Leigh and Caitlin and we stood up and began to walk out of the station. When we got outside, I couldn't help but get excited. Nick was safe and alive and he was going to be back with us soon.
Officer Davis soon came out of the station with Caitlin and Leigh. Caitlin was just about running, I couldn't blame her. Officer Davis had told us to follow behind her in our cars, we did. I found myself getting really anxious, I wanted to see Nick so badly. Tension was all over the car, I could feel it from everyone.
It wasn't a long trip to the hospital. That was the good thing I don't know how much everyone longer everyone in the car was going to be able to hold back from bugging out. When we got to the hospital, we all stepped out of the car and we walked over to Officer Davis.
"I'm going to give them all of your names so that you have clearance to see him. You'll be glad to know we've kept the hospital out of the press so no one will come and bother him," she told us.
"Alright, lets get rolling," AJ said. Officer Davis smiled at him and then we walked off to the hospital. We reached the desk and Officer Davis went to talk to the nurse. She was giving all of our names, I was glad to know that Nick wouldn't be bothered. Moments later, Officer Davis told us to follow behind her. We were walking through the hallways until finally we reached Nicks room.
"This is it," she said, "again, I must warn you that he's been hurt badly. So don't be too surprised with how he looks." I nodded, as long as he was alive, we would help him through anything. "One last thing, you should only go in one or two at a time."
"Okay," I said, "me and Caitlin will go first. Is that okay with everyone?"
"Mr. Littrell, go on in," Officer Davis said to me. She could tell that I was just stalling because I actually was afraid to see the damage to him. I just nodded and opened the door with Caitlin holding tightly on my arm. There was Nick, I could tell that he was in pain. He had taken a hell of a beating.
"Nick?" I said trying to see if Nick was awake.
"Brian?" he said in a whisper.
"Yeah, it's me, man. How are you?"
"How do you think I am? I hurt in places that I didn't even know that I had. How would you feel?" Nick said. Same old Nick I thought.
"Nicky," Caitlin said softly.
"Caitlin," Nick said trying to sit up but I made him lay back down, "I love you. I missed you so much."
"Nick I have to tell you something and I want to tell you now. I haven't been able to tell you before I just didn't know what to say or when to say it...." she said.
"Caitlin, just tell him," I told her. Nick was looking over at us. It was hard to recognize his face. He had a lot of black and blues around his face and it was slightly sweld.
"I'm pregnant."
"You are?" Nick said surprised in a good kind of way.
"I want to hug you, but it looks like it would hurt if I did," Caitlin said holding on to my arm even tighter. Her grip was getting tighter but I really didn't care.
"Yeah," he said softly and hurtfully, "are the other guys here?"
"Everyone's here. They wanted to see you again, we were just told to come in two at a time. I could send in someone else if you want to talk to them," I told him.
"Not yet," he told me and then looked at us, "just how bad is it?"
"Real bad man," I told him, not sure what else to do.
"Did they get the fucks that did this to me?" he asked seriously.
"Yeah, they are both in jail right now," I answered.
"Good."
"But there's more," I said sitting down. I didn't know if I was going to be able to stay standing. Caitlin walked over to Nick and took his hand. She looked confussed as to what to do next.
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