PART ONE:

Glancing over at the woman once more, he saw her eying him as well. Waving at her after a minute longer, Nick saw her smile at him before flicking her dark hair over her shoulder. She coughed before silence reigned again.

“Right, come with me Mr. Stokes.”

He glanced back at the woman again as she collected the mini black leather coat next to her. Confusion showing on his face, Nick saw her dig for some keys. “Excuse me.”

“Dr. Dagny Sheppard, pleasure to meet you.”

He then noticed the accent. Welsh possibly, he didn't exactly know his accents very well...at least not foreign. Swallowing he followed Dagny back to her office. Entering it, his eyes automatically went to the open window and then to another door which focused on a black punching bag. Something told him she wasn't a normal shrink.

The books on Criminology made that fact sink completely in. “Dr. Sheppard,” he stated taking the seat she pointed out. “I don't exactly know why I'm here.”

Dagny nodded before she sat slowly behind her desk. “To talk.” She pointed out after a minute. Not opening a file folder, Dagny swallowed. “All I'm here for is to listen.”

She almost seemed like a liar. Most shrinks he had seen were all about asking questions. She still however didn't seem normal like those that worked in the police shrink squad. But she wasn't one of them.

“I've got nothing to talk about.” Nick stated after a moment. Watching her a minute longer, Nick leaned back into the chair before nodding. “Ecklie told you then.”

“Of your coming to see me yes,” Dagny replied. “But nothing else.”

Eyebrows raising, Nick nodded. “So.”

“So?”

She was getting close to annoying, Nick knew that much. But he couldn't simply just walk out. “Nothing of my abduction?”

Of course she knew he was testing her, why wouldn't he be testing her. Relaxing farther into her chair, Dagny twirled a pen on her fingers. “Oh that.”