Like ships in the night, Juliette and Nick pass on the stairs, she had just finished a night stint at a local farm tending to a horse and Nick had been woken by a call from Hank informing him on a strange possible killing at a large residence.

"How was your night Juliette?" Nick asked as he gave her cheek a soft kiss as his morning greeting to her.

Juliette gently hummed the last song she had heard on the radio in her car but smiled at her boyfriends loving affection for her.

"Oh you dont even want to know." She replied as she continued to haul her over tired body up the stairs.

"That good huh?!" Nick replied with a smile as he continued down the stairs. "I will see you this evening Juliette, I've got a case to get to... but we will make time for each other tonight. I promise!" He called as he grabbed his black jacket and swung it over his shoulder.

He heard a faint call back which sounded to him like, "I will look forward to it."

Snatching his keys from the sideboard, Nick made his way to his car and set off to the crime scene.

"You got here quicker than I thought." Hank said as Nick walked in to the 6 bed home of the latest mysterious murder.

"Yeah the traffic was kind. So what do we have here?" Nick asked as he stepped over a path of gold glitter, he followed his partner through the hall and up the winding stairs of the property. Nick eyed a lot of expensive portraits and even a gold record or two as he ascended the steps up in to a large well lit bedroom.

"Well it's a weird one..." Hank replied as both the men walked over to the obvious dead body that lay in the satin red sheets of an expensive looking bed. Gold glitter adorned the body and pretty much every surface in the room "... The cleaning lady found him dead this morning, there was no struggle, no fight, no forced entry but the guy was only 23 years of age. A bit soon to die a death during a sleep in the night." Hank concluded.

Nick searched the body with his eyes. The deceased look peaceful, if not sparkly enough to dance on broadway. The eyes were shut and the mans body looked relaxed as he lay still tucked up in bed.

Slipping a blue glove on to his hand, nick took the sparkling glittered wrist of the deceased in his palm and pulled the arm upwards. "No pill bottles? No needle marks? Any sign of drug use or overdose?" Nick queried as he took a second glance at the familiar face of the dead body that lay in the bed. "Hey! Isn't he-"

"Jason Harlow!" Hank interupted as he finished Nick's sentance. "The drummer of that boy band from england." He concluded.

Nick nodded. "Juliet was humming one of their songs this morning." He said as he looked again at the famous face of the now very dead drummer of the latest fad band.

"The only thing that suggests there was any kind of foul play is the amount of glitter that is in here. It is all over the place! it carries on down the stairs and out the door." Hank said with a yawn as he rubbed a pinch of the sparkling gold glitter between his finger tips and let it fall back down to the floor. "The footprints we found in the glitter that didn't belong to the cleaner faced the frontdoor so we know this guy died first then his sparkly visitor left after leaving the trail of glitter and obvious sneaker prints." Hank explained to his partner.

"Maybe a sex game gone wrong or perhaps having a personal party and some pills were swallowed which caused his death?... either way we will have to get the body and the glitter checked out further. Maybe there is a craft shop nearby that will remember someone buying so much of it." Nick added. His eyes scanned the room which was neat and tidy apart from the glitter. He then looked back to the body on the bed. "A lot of teenage hearts are going to be broken when the news on this gets out." He said as he stood up straight and walked over to the door.

With a shrug hank nodded. "He has probably doubled the record sales by dying." He said truthfully.

Nick raised an eyebrow to this thought. "How many other band members are there? 3?" He asked.

"Just two more I think... not that I listened to it!" Hank said defensively, hoping his partner wouldn't think he listened to boybands or pop music.

"Maybe it will be beneficial to check out their where abouts for last night while we are waiting for the autopsy report and lab results.

"I'm on it." Hank said reaching for his cell.

As nick listened in to the one ended conversation of hank trying to track two other members of the boyband down he scanned the room once again. The expensive furniture and designer clothes caught his eye.

"23..." he muttered. "Such a waste."

Having had the day to herself, Juliette didn't get to catch up on the sleep she desperately wanted due to a neighbours dog that wouldn't stop barking, but she got lots of chores about the house done. She had even baked a basket of muffins for a new family that had moved in down the street. By 8pm though she was exhausted and had fallen to sleep on the couch watching lame Tuesday night TV.

As Nick walked in from his days work and saw his sleeping beauty he smiled. Keeping his footsteps light, he tiptoed over to the couch and swept Juliettes hair back from her face. "Let's get you up to bed." He whispered as he gently picked her up bridal style and carried her small frame effortlessly up the stairs and lay her down on the bed causing her to eventually stir.

"You're home." She whispered out with a smile. "I tried to stay awake but my eyes just got so heavy." She explained as Nick removed his shirt and flung it on the chair in the corner of the room.

Nick kissed his girlfriend on the lips, the love he felt for this one woman was insane. "You should get back to sleep Juliette." He said softly, the scruff in her hair making his heart warm for her even more.

"You promised me some Nick time... I've been looking forward to it all day. Sleep or no sleep!" She said matter of factly. Taking Nicks hand she pulled him gently on to the bed beside her.

"How can I resist a plea from such a beautiful lady." Nick replied as he wrapped his muscular arms around the girl of his dreams.

Juliette felt warm and safe in the confines of her mans arms, his scent was the most attractive thing she had ever smelt, it wasn't a cologne or a deoderant, it was just how Nick had always smelt and she adored it. She rubbed her hand on the side of his face, a slight stubble now in place. She liked the feel of the roughness as it grazed against her thumb.

Taking in the satisfying sight of Nicks bare chest she then ran a hand through the small patch of hair that grew there.

"I missed you today." Juliette said in a whisper as she looked in to the big beautiful kind eyes of her boyfriend.

"I missed you more." Nick replied softly, his own thumb now caressing the collar bone that had caught his eye, he had always found Juliettes neck a very sexy part of her body, he gave the area a kiss, allowing his tongue to trace gently over her skin.

Juliette smiled with the knowledge that her 'Nick time' was well and truly on its way.

A constant ringing noise was the offender that woke Nick up early in the morning. On hunting his cell down in his pants that he found tossed on the floor Nick noted that the time was just gone 4.

With his eyes still trying to focus he vaguely saw that it was Hank who was calling him.

"Hank... it's 4 am!" He grumbled down the telephone.

"Hey, man. I know, I know. Uniform finally tracked down one of the other band members. You are going to want to see this." He said knowingly.

Nick rubbed his tired eyes with his free hand. "Give me the address and I will be straight there." He replied.