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A/N: Thanks to everyone who has reviewed my stories. I truly appreciate it. I'm not sure how much I will be able to write when Uni starts again, but hopefully I will be able to write some fics. You must wonder why I'm writing this since Uni starts in about 3 1/2 weeks, but I've started arranging things for a special research program I'm entering today and I kinda panicked thinking about the amount of work it will be. I needed to calm down and take a deep breath, which is when this story entered my brain and my brain instructed my hands to type it, so here it is.

Pairing: N/S

The evidence never lies

Sara

"The evidence never lies," she thought. She hated to admit that it was so true. It never did. Lie that was. The evidence had been staring her in the face and she chose to ignore it. She felt so stupid. He had been perfectly clear and still she felt the need to humiliate herself. Not once, because that wasn't enough, but several times. Four years gone by holding on to some kind of hope. Hope that hadn't been based on evidence.

The evidence was: his refusal to go out with her, the plant he had sent her (someone who didn't know that a living object would die under her care didn't know her at all) and his explanation why he had given the promotion to Nick.

There was other evidence. Evidence she had thrown out the second she realized it was there. Now she wanted to take a closer look at it, investigate it further. She couldn't do it alone though. She had to use his expert knowledge on the subject. He was the one who had given her the evidence in the first place. Would he be willing to go over it with her? She wasn't sure, because the evidence she had given him was that she wasn't interested at all.

She glanced at him, her evidence. Trying to read his thoughts and feelings about her. Trying to gather evidence so she could make her case when she was ready.

She sure hoped the evidence wouldn't lie in this case either...........

Nick

"The evidence never lies," he thought. But he wasn't sure what the evidence was. He had taken a risk before and tried to make her see his evidence, but she wasn't interested. She was interested in him. The one who chose to ignore her. The one who was scared of taking risks where he had taken them so easily. It was almost like she enjoyed being hurt by him. She kept coming back for more.

How could he blame her, because he knew that love could make people do foolish things. It made her blind to him, just like he was blind to her. Would he wait for her? Just like she was patiently waiting for him for four years now. Would he be just as foolish? These thoughts made him realize he actually understood her behavior better than he thought. His behavior was exactly the same.

He hoped that one day she would reopen the case and go over the evidence again, maybe she would see what was right in front of her.

He caught her glancing at him with that look in her eyes which had been there for a little while now. A look which was different than before. Maybe, just maybe that day would arrive sooner than he had thought.

Catherine

"The evidence never lies, or does it?" she wondered. Year after year she had witnessed the tension between her boss and best friend and his young employee. She was aware that he had turned her down on several occasions, but she didn't give up or did she? That was confusing her. She had seen him change slowly. Gathering the courage to do something about his feelings, but she had the feeling she hadn't noticed the change. She had changed too. She had changed rapidly over the last weeks. The last weeks she had seen a new woman develop right in front of her eyes. A strong confident woman. This woman had changed her focus on something else or better on someone else.

She almost forgot that evidence. The very crucial evidence, the kind that can make or break a case. She had noticed his feelings for her. He hadn't displayed it openly, but it had been there for everyone to see. He had stayed in the background, but unlike him he had always been there for her.

"No, the evidence never lies", she concluded. It just clearly pointed in another direction now.

Warrick

"The evidence never lies." he said.

He startled his best friend, who shot him an annoyed look.

"Come on, you know what I'm talking about."

"The evidence never lies, but sometimes you have to gather more to convince someone."

"I know, I'm working on it," he said while he was staring at her openly.

Grissom

The evidence never lies, but sometimes it gets tainted when you wait too long. Science had changed so much over the last couple of years. It almost made you believe that you could make a case with evidence gathered many years ago. That wasn't entirely true. Science had its limits as well.

And so had her feelings. They had limits and those limits had been passed a long time ago, but he hadn't seen it coming. He had lost her. He had lost her to someone who had taken much better care of the evidence.

"The evidence never lies, but it does get lost sometimes," he thought with regret.

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