National Secrets Chapter 2

See part one for infoNational Secrets 2 Tony hit number two on his speed dial. “I hope he’s awake.”Nick groaned as his cell phone went off. “Damn it.”“Let it ring. If it’s Grissom, he’ll call the house. Go back to sleep,” Warrick muttered.Nick stared at the phone. “But, it might be important.”Warrick, knowing his mate, loosened his hold on him, who then rolled over to answer his phone.“Stokes.”“We have a slight problem.”Nick sighed, “What now, Tony?”“It’s been found.”“What’s been found, Tony?”“The Templar treasure.”“What?!”Warrick gave Nick a look at the outburst from his mate. He hadn’t been actively listening to the conversation until that point.Tony cleared his throat nervously, “Um, someone found Charlotte and the pipe. That led them to the Declaration, which was stolen. Apparently, they knew about the hidden map and cipher and they have the Silence Dogood letters. They found the glasses, read the map, found the church, and found the treasure. Don’t yell at me.”Nick took a deep, cleansing breath. “Please tell me you are kidding?”“I wish I was. The people who found the treasure also have copies of the documents and received a small percentage of the findings.”“Documents? Tony….”“I know, I’m already kicking myself, Nick.”“Ok, let’s hope they just like to look at your pretty pictures and decide not to translate the documents. Didn’t we tell you putting that stuff in with the treasure was a bad idea?”“I didn’t think I was going to live to see if found, Nick! Besides, it seemed like a good idea at the time.”“Let’s try to keep it under the radar.”“I can keep an eye or five on them. They’re in DC, so I can have Sandusky watch them. Maybe I’ll have McGee work on it, too.”“Just keep a very close on this. Please? I really don’t need this right now, Tony.”“None of us do.”“I don’t need him to be up all day, Tony! We have a shift tonight! Control the problem and call us later!” Warrick yelled at the phone.“Ok, he’s right. I’ll call you if anything happens,” Tony agreed.“Do that, please. Goodbye, Tony,” Nick said.“Bye, Nick.”Nick snapped his phone shut and placed it back on the nightstand. “Well, this could be a problem,” Warrick intoned.“You need to break this nasty habit you have of listening in on my phone calls.”“Oh, please, you know I have to.”“I know,” Nick smiled. “This is bad.”“Who would have such an obsession with history to want to translate all those documents?”“Who would want to find that treasure?”“Good point.”Nick sighed and moved closer to Warrick. “I just want, for at least a hundred years or so, for nothing to happen. Ya know?”“Yeah, but you know that won’t happen.” Warrick pulled his mate closer.“Tony’s going to keep me up about this.”“You need to sleep. Every time we try to relax, we get a case or a call or something else happens. I think I hear a vacation calling our names.”“Convince Grissom and I’m there,” Nick mumbled.“I’ll work on it. You stop worrying. Those people won’t find out about us,” Warrick vowed.Nick closed his eyes and mumbled, “For the sake of my sanity, I hope not.” And with that he finally fell back to sleep.Warrick watched his mate for a while; the stress of this new situation was rolling off the other man, even in his sleep.“I try to get him to relax and Tony has to call with this.”