Disclaimer: Not mine, never has been, never will be.

A/N: I have been playing with the thought to write different POV's and have them center around Sara. I'm not sure I will have enough inspiration to continue, but I did manage to write this one.

Pairing: N/S


Favors?

Ecklie harbors a secret respect for the members of the night shift, the old night shift. The loyalty they had towards each other was something rare and it was part of the reason why he broke up their close knit team. His plan worked because even though his rival Gil Grissom pretended not to be interested in the solve rates, he and Catherine Willows, new supervisor of the swing shift, were currently caught up in a competition. Trying to outdo each other.

Gil Grissom had been furious to hear Catherine would take his favorite, Warrick Brown, and his people person, Nick Stokes, with her to the swing shift. It had been amusing to see the man who never looses his cool, loose his temper. Grissom never realized that he should be grateful, because he let him keep Sara Sidle. Loyal Sara Sidle, who would never turn her back on Grissom no matter how many times he hurt her. Ecklie was well aware of the lingering feelings of Grissom towards his young employee.

He envies Grissom. He longs to have someone like Sara Sidle in his life. He thought he had found someone like her in Sofia, but he was so wrong. She stabbed him in the back when the first opportunity presented itself.

He has done Grissom a favor by splitting up his team in more ways than Grissom will ever realize. Grissom seems to think he was left with the B team, although watching him talk to Sofia intimately makes him wonder if the night shift supervisor has changed his opinion.

Sara has never been a B team player, but he hoped she would become one once the team was split up, once she was she wasn't around Nick Stokes anymore.

They don't know he knows what is going on between them, but he knows and he has used this piece of information in his own favor.

He noticed long before he found out about their blossoming relationship that they depend on each other. Hoping Sara would slip up sooner or later and rather sooner, he has split them up, but more and more he finds one of them putting in over time. Not because they have a heavy case load, but just to catch a glimpse of one another while they are at work.

After standing in front of Grissom's office for a while watching the interaction between Grissom and Sofia he turns around to see a very distraught Sara Sidle sitting in front of a computer. Part of him wants to go up to her, but it will be out of character. She will never confide in him. That became abundantly clear to him when she blew up at him earlier that day.

Her blowing up at him had piqued his interest in her. He hates people sucking up to him and the fact she would never do that made him revise his opinion of her. Of all people she has the most reason to suck up to him. The reasons starting with her almost arrest and ending with the secret relationship she is having with a co-worker.

Snapping out of his reverie he sees Nick Stokes pulling Sara Sidle in an intimate embrace. This is the chance he has been waiting for for so long. It is the opportunity to punish them all, Nick, Sara and most of all Grissom. But he just can't do it, watching her fall apart in the arms of her lover, he can't find it in his heart to punish her.

Grissom will never know how much of a favor he has done him or has he really?

END