4. Cath & Nick - Fortunate cookie

Dating somebody from the team was a big 'no - go' and so it wasn't a date Nick was about to have tonight. No, it was only a…friendly meeting with Catherine. A night at a show on the Strip, something friends and colleague sometimes did together. It didn't have to mean a damn thing. Didn't have to. But it did. At least to him.

For a while he had a secret crush on the reddish blonde woman, his supervisor, which made his crush an absolute 'no go' and…still didn't change a thing. How could he not have a crush on her? Seriously, Catherine was everything he wanted. She was sexy, she was smart, she knew what she wanted and had a big heart. The woman, you wanted to start a family with. Or share the family she had already.

Okay, maybe he made more out of it than it was, maybe he skipped a few stages of their relationship, friendly and professional relationship. Who could blame him?

"Wow Cath, you look fabulous." He almost drooled when he saw Cath in her cocktail dress.

"Thanks, you don't look too bad yourself. Tuxedo. Must be a high end show we're about to watch." She got in the car with him.

"It's your call, we go wherever you want to go." And if you don't want to see a show but do something else, he was her man.

"Bellagio."

"Not in one of Sam Braun's casino? Keep the money in the family?"

"Sam has enough money. Lets go there, have some dinner. I heard they have a new terrific Chinese restaurant. I feel lucky and want a fortunate cookie to prove it."

"Don't tell me you believe in it."

"A girl has to believe in these things, they make her life more interesting, Nicky." Cath grinned and stretched on the seat, made him forget to concentrate on the road for a second.

With charm, smiles and some extra dollar they got a table in a corner, where they had enough privacy. Instead of chairs a little u-formed bench offered them the chance to slip closer to each other, in case the evening would lead towards this direction - and Nick hoped it did.

"Nice place, I like the ambience." Cath sipped on her glass of champagne. "Big place cozy booths, lights are not too bright so you notice the candles and the waiter seemed to be very discrete. It says glamour in a not arrogant way."

"Just like you do." He smiled. Gosh, she was so beautiful, it was impossible not to stare at her and he was glad, the light wasn't this bright, so Cath didn't see the way he act. A little bit like a boy back in high school on his first date. In a kind it was his first date, at least the first date, or the first night, with Cath alone. Not work related, no colleagues around, only the two of them.

"Aren't you charming tonight? Oh look, our fortunate cookies." She took the plate with the two fortunate cookies with a smile and placed them in front of them. "Which one do you want?"

"I don't care, it's not like I believe in it. You wanted them, you go ahead and have them."

"Oh no, I can only have one, the other one is yours. I take this one, you open yours first." She held her cookie in the hand and waited for him to take his cookie.

Whatever makes your girl happy, you do it. He opened the cookie. "Luck and love are sometimes very close." To him it was right next to him. Maybe fortunate cookies weren't always wrong. "Your turn."

She opened the cookie. "The one is closer than you think he is." Her eyes met his. "Looks like our cookies are right, what do you think?"

What he thought? He since less than a minute he was almost convinced fortunate cookies were right. All he needed was some evidence. Carefully he bent over and kissed Catherine. When she responded the kiss, he knew their cookies had been right.