Heres an update! Hope yall enjoy!
Chapter 25
"Hey Natalia..." Ryan called running from the DNA room.
"Yea?" Natalia said turning around.
"Grab your kit, H needs us to go back to a crime scene."
"Ok."
At the crime scene. It was a dark tunnel underground.
"You go that way and I'll go this way."
"Ok." Natalia said as they separated.
Ryan found a light switch and turned it on. The lights flicked on and off. When Ryan didn't find anything he headed back towards Natalia.
"Natalia?" Ryan called but there was no answer.
"Natalia?" Ryan called going further back into the tunnel.
He turned a corner and saw Natalia and a man walking up behind her with an axe. How she is not hearing him he does not know.
"Natalia!" Ryan screamed as he pulled out his gun.
The guy took off running. Ryan took one shot and hit the guy in the back of the leg. Ryan ran over to Natalia to make sure she was ok.
"Are you ok?"
"Yea, yea I'm fine."
"Nat, how did you not hear him coming?"
"It's a tunnel Ryan, alot of sounds are coming in and out of this thing. I probably just thought it was something else."
"Natalia this isn't the first time its happened to you. Not to mention you listen to your Ipod on full blast."
"Um...a little help down here." The guy that got shot yelled.
"Shut up." Ryan said looking down at him.
"Ryan I'm ok. Stop bugging me about it."
"Natalia, until you go get your hearing checked, you're not allowed out in the field again. Or someone gets killed." Ryan said walking away from her and picking up the guy.
Back at the lab.
"Hey baby." Eric said walking into the DNA lab.
"Hey." Natalia said looking up to him.
"So how bout we do lunch?" Eric said wrapping one arm around her waist pulling her closer to him.
"I would but I have a doctors appointment." Natalia said ignoring him and looking at CODIS.
"You aren't like you know..."
"No, I'm not pregnant Eric." Natalia said letting out a little laugh.
"Whooooo, ok. I mean..."
"No, four kids is enough for me too." Natalia said as she laughed and looked up at him.
"I love your laugh." Eric said smiling at her.
"I love you." Natalia said as she stood up on her toes and kissed him.
"I love you too, but if your not going because of pregnancy, then what are you going for?" Eric asked with a confused look on his face.
Just then the door opened.
"Nat, have you made an appointment for you hearing ye.....?" Ryan started to say but when he saw Eric stopped.
Natalia rolled her eyes and let out a sigh and held her breath as she knew what was coming from Eric.
"Nevermind, I'm gonna go see what Calleigh found." Ryan said turning around and running out the door.
"What is he talking about?"
"Eric, you remember when Nick abducted me?"
"Yea, how could I forget?"
"Well when he hit me, everything started spinning, and I could barely hear what was going on. My eyesight was going in and out and ever since then I've had headaches. They've just picked up though more recently. That's why I'm going to the doctor."
"Why did you keep this from me?"
"Because I didn't want you to panick."
"I wouldn't have panicked...."
"What do you think you're doing now?" Natalia said looking at him.
"I just ugh, you aggravate me. I thought we were husband and wife?" Eric said storming out of the room.
"Eric..." Natalia called after him as she followed him.
"I don't wanna talk to you." Eric said getting on the elevator.
Natalia felt tears forming in her eyes. She ran her fingers through her hair and sat down on a bench.
"Hey Nat." Calleigh said as she walked over to Natalia and sat beside her.
"Hey Cal."
"What's wrong?"
"My life." Natalia said looking at Calleigh.
"Nat, it's gonna be ok. Trust me. Where's Eric?"
"Um, well, about 5 seconds ago he stormed out of here because I didn't tell him about this whole thing." Natalia said as she placed her chin in her hands.
"So he's not going to the doctor with you?"
"I guess not. I want him too. Every time I've been to see a doctor he's been there. This will be the first time he wont be."
"Well, just give him a little while. Let him cool off and maybe things will get better before then. Come one, we don't want you to be late." Calleigh said taking Natalias hand and pulling her up.
When Natalia went to her locker and got her stuff she went to a Hummer. Before she pulled out she took out her cell phone and dialed a number.
"Hey, it's Eric. I'm not here right now so just leave a message and I'll get back at you."
Beeep
"Hey, it's me. I'm sorry I didn't tell you. I wanted to, I just didn't know how. But my appointment's at 1 and it's at Dade Memorial. I would like it if you came. You've been by my side since the first time I was in the hospital. It would feel weird without you there, by my side. I love you. I always have and I always will." Natalia said as she hung up the phone.
She pulled out of the garage and headed to the hospital. When she got there she had to fill out paperwork.
"God, I hate doing this." She whispered to herself as she filled out the paperwork.
After she got done, she went and turned it in and waited for her name to get called. When they called her name she went back to a little room.
"Hi Mrs. Delko, I'm Dr. Smith." The man said as he shook her hand.
"Hi."
"So it says here that you're heaving hearing problems and they come with an extreme headache. Is that right?"
"Yes."
"Ok, well what we're gonna do is do a hearing test and we'll see where it goes from there."
"Ok."
After they hooked her up he told her the instructions and they started the test. After they finished the doctor came in with the news.
"Mrs. Delko?"
"Yes?"
"We are gonna have to do an MRI of your head."
"Why is that?"
"With your hearing test, you struggled with the last few sounds..."
"And, what does that mean?"
"It means something is going on and an MRI will probably be able to tell us what it could possibly be."
"Ok." Natalia said as she let out a sigh.
They took her back to another room and gave her the hospital outfit to put on. Then they took her back to the MRI room.
"I have to get in that thing?" Natalia said looking at the nurse and pointing to the machine.
"Yes mam." The nurse said.
Natalia felt her stomach go weak.
"Ok Mrs. Delko, when your ready." The doctor said as he opened the door.
Natalia walked into the room and laid on the table how the doctor told her too. They covered her up with a blanket to keep her warm.
"Ok Natalia, we're gonna do about 10 tests so don't move."
"Ok."
"Oh and hold on."
"Ok."
"Hey baby. I'm right here beside you. Don't be nervous cause I'm right here. I love you." Eric said over the microphone.
Natalia smiled as she heard Erics voice. Her body instantly relaxed at the sound of it. Before she knew it the tests were done. Natalia walked into the other room and put on her regular clothes. As she walked out her eyes met Erics. Eric walked over to her and hugged her.
"What made you come up here?"
"Well seeing the fact that my wife was gonna be in a hospital all alone...I decided to come up here."
"Yea, ok, I believed that for one second." Natalia said as they sat down in chairs.
"It was that message on my phone. I hate it cause hearing your voice just makes me go weak in my knees, especially when I can't see you."
"Thats sweet." Natalia said as she held his hand.
The door opened and the doctor called her back. Her and Eric stood up and walked back. Eric snaked his arm around her waist as they walked back.
"Ok, according to the scans, you have noise induced hearing."
"Ok...and will that just go away on it own?" Natalia said looking at him.
"Well, its hard to say. Can I ask you a question?"
"Sure."
"I've seen hundreds of these cases before and half of them are women and are from a hand slap."
"Well, I'm a woman obviously, but there's no abusiveness in my relationship, so that couldn't possibly be it."
"Before this relationship, had you had an abusive relationship?"
Natalia cringed at the thought of having to think back on those days. She closed her eyes and then reopened them.
"Ye, yes I was." Natalia said as she looked at the desk and then back up at the doctor.
"Ok, well, theres one option that we can start with, and thats a hearing aid."
"Ok."
"Come back in a few weeks and we'll do another test and see how its doing. I'm gonna give you some medicine to help with the pain. You will not want to drive after you take it. You take it twice a day."
"Ok."
As the months passed they did surgery to fix the problem.
Ok I tried to remember what all was said in the episode when she went to the doc for her hearing but I couldn't lol Hope you still liked it!
