One Song; Part Four

Author; CatherineStokes

Main summary; Catherine goes undercover as a stripper and asks Nick to help her.

Summary for this part; Nick finds Catherine, but somethings wrong.

Nick couldn't find Catherine in that hour he had looked, he tore apart Vegas from head to toe from the minute "you have an hour" till the moment he was at now. Hour was gone. He could only pray Catherine didn't pay for his mistake.

Nick sat down in Catherine's office, looking at her things, mentally beating himself up for going to that house, leaving her alone, for not finding her.

He noticed a little note had slipped under her desk and reached down and picked it up, It had several letters scratched on it, but it spelled a hotel name. 'Long Inn'.

He raced out of the office, he didn't check there. He checked everywhere but there, it was an abandoned place and as far as everyone in Vegas thought, it was being destroyed.

He was there so fast he didn't remember even getting in his car and starting it and driving to the location, the only thing that was on his mind, was 'Catherine could be here'

He parked his denali in the front, under the old neon sign that read 'Long Inn'. Nick remembered Catherine and him used to sneak off there during one of their 'unusual places to have sex'.

He walked through the familar torn down door, and walked into the lobby. It was more dusty then he remembered it, Looking around, he was brought back to the memory, Catherine and him walking in, her figuring out a place that was good enough shape for the two of them.

Hearing and feeling a rat running across the top of his shoes, brought him back to reality. He began looking around with his flashlight, his gun on his side, just incase.

He entered upon a room, he never saw before, and it wasn't like the rest of the hotel. This room, wasn't dusty. It still had the spark the rest of the hotel used to have. He walked in and noticed a little whimper of a voice coming from behind a curtain. Having his gun ready, Nick went to the curtain, pulling it back.

He had to gasp, it was Catherine, all bloody and messed up, but it was Catherine.

TBC