A/N: Ok i know the title won't make sense but it will eventually trust me on this one D This is my first fic in over 6 months so apologies if I'm a little rusty.

Come with me?

Sara's cell phone woke her. Sighing she reached over not caring to look for Caller ID, there was only one person who would ring her at this time. It was times like this when she felt like she really hated Gilbert Grissom.

"Sidle" she stated trying to sound as sleepy as possible in the hope Grissom would feel guilty, she really was in need of sleep.

"Hey Sara, it's Grissom" Like I didn't know that she thought to herself praying that she had actually said it in her head. "Sorry if you were asleep, but were having an emergency meeting in the breakroom in one hour. See you there" Sara murmured a bye and slammed the phone shut.

"Goddammit" she cursed out loud, well, she thought, I'm awake now anyway. Climbing out of bed she went and got ready for work.

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Sara wandered into the break room, praying Greg was at this mysterious meeting with some of his Blue Hawaian – what she needed something to make this visit worthwhile!

She walked in to find the whole of the lab sat around. Dammit, she thought, there's something wrong here. The only person missing was Grissom.

Ten minutes later he shuffled through the door to find a completely silent break room, waiting for the reason for them being woken up or all their plans for the day being ruined.

"Okay, Ecklie is well Ecklie so it's been left to me to tell you this" Everyone in the room knew this translated as Ecklie couldn't be bothered, or it was really bad news and Ecklie didn't want the blame for the anouncement.

"Okay this is slightly weird but, the lab's been shut down for a month" The room errupted in whispers and talking. Grissom held up his hand for quiet. "The lab has, well fallen short on an inspection and there are certain health and safety issues that need to be dealt with before were allowed to work in here again. You will all be either be on paid leave or be working for another nearby lab. All our cases will be handled by the closest labs." He paused "All of your postings are on a piece of paper on the notice board. That's all" and with that he left the room not wanting to be there to be interrogated or qustioned by his colleagues.

There was a rush to the notice board as people found out their future for the next month and then they slowly filtered out. Some delighted, some not so.

Cath, Warrick, Nick and Sara all had the same idea – sit and wait on the couch till everyone's gone and then figure it all out. Eventually the last people filtered out, and then there was just the 'fab four' left. Nick got up to look turning round grinning.

"Paid leave" His grin got wider, somehow, and Sara's heart skipped a beat, "All four of us"

"Wow" or a word to that effect escaped all of their mouths at the same time.

"Well, in that case, I think I'm going to go and pick up Lindsey from school and give her the good news. Man this is weird," Cath grinned and stood up. "See you guys soon" and with that she left.

Warrick was next to leave muttering somethign about his wife and being a house husband. Nick chuckled to himself and sat down opposite Sara.

"Wow, this is well, rather .." He trailed off.

"Unexpected? Strange? Scary?" Sara offered

"No" he said, "more like bloody brilliant," and with that he flashed her one of his heart stopping smiles that made her legs feel like jelly.

"What are you going to do for your four weeks vacation?" Sara asked secretly hoping he would be in town and they could hang out together.

"Well, I think I'm gonna go out to Texas, I've not had a proper chance to see my family in a while, it would be nice to see them" Sara smiled to him nodding in approval but her heart sank thinking of how much she would miss him being around, even just fo four weeks. "What about you Sar? Got some man hidden away somewhere?"he teased grinning at her.

"Well, you know me nick" she grinned trying her best not to laugh, "Nah, I'll probably just chill out, watch some T.V, catch up on some reading, that knd of thing"

Nick looked at her and couldn't help but smile, he's been in love with her for a long time now, he just didn't want to tell her incase it scared her off. He couldn't cope with her not in his life.

"Come with me?" he blurted out

"What?" she exclaimed not quite sure if she had heard that right, Did Nick just ask me to go to texas for a month with him? She thought to herself, again hoping that really did say that in her head.

"Well, you don't have any plans, and I'd love you to meet my family, you'll have a really great time and you really could do with getting away from this city. And besides I'm gonna' need someome to keep me company on that long drive there" he grinned, praying inside she would say yes.

"Well, I, er... I don't know, I don't want to get in the way or..." she trailed off not certain what to say.

"Sara, let me rephrase that, you are coming with me to Texas for four weeks and I'm not taking no for an answer."

"Well, you know Mr Stokes, when you put it like that..." she grinned her gaptooth smile that made Nick feel like he was melting inside.

"So it's settled, I'll pick you up in two hours" He winked at her and got up to leave.

"Nick wait" Sara got up walked up to him and wrapped her arms around him embracing him in a tight hug, "Thanks Nicky" She beathed out, just loud enough for him to hear. Then without another word she left, grinning uncontrolably.

A/N: Ok so i know this may seem a little unrealistic the whole lab shutting down but I've just been watching ER, the one where they shut the ER down. And it seemed like a good idea to get Nick and Sara on vacation at the same time. Anywhos, you know what to do, make my day, hit that review button, positive and negatives welcome, just tell me what you think – more soon if you so wish P