Ovarian Grievance

Pairing: Sara and Nick

Spoilers: Viva Las Vegas, Assume Nothing, Justice is Served and Nesting Dolls

Sara tells her colleagues the news. Catherine invites Sara to go on a shopping spree and a day in the spa with her and Lindsey.

A/N: This is based loosely on what happened to me the past three months.

Disclaimer: I don't own Sara, Nick or any other CSI character. If I did own the show, the final scene from 'Way to Go' wouldn't exist. I only own my original characters and this story plot.

The News and an Invitation

Later that Night

Warrick and Catherine were sitting in the break room drinking some of Greg's famous Blue Hawaiian coffee. It was the beginning of their shift and they were waiting for their assignments. Greg joined them after he helped himself to some of his coffee. Nick and Sara were the last to arrive before Grissom would show up. The young couple looked surprisingly calm. Warrick, Catherine and Greg looked at each other in disbelief.

"What's going on between the two of you?" Greg took the initiative. "Did you elope at that infamous Chapel of Intergalactic Love or any other weird chapel in Vegas?"

"Greggo, as tempting as it sounds," Nick chuckled at the question. "Sara and I decided to get married at my family's church in Dallas. My parents would have had our heads if we ever did something like eloping at the alien chapel."

"I am scheduled for surgery on June 16," Sara blurted out.

"That's great and your problem will be over," Catherine said.

"My parents are coming to help take care of her," Nick smirked.

"Who are coming to take care of whom?" Grissom asked as he entered the break room.

"I was telling everyone that my surgery has been scheduled for June 16," Sara mentioned. "Nick said that his parents are coming to Vegas to help care for me while I am convalescing."

"I have your assignments," Grissom announced. "Greg, Sara and Catherine, you are at a 419 at the Luxor. Vartann is waiting for you. Nick and Warrick, you are with me at a 404 near I-15. Brass is already there. Sara and Nick, I need to speak to you briefly before you go to your crime scenes. You aren't in trouble, but it's extremely important."

"Okay," Nick and Sara replied in unison.

The three were seated in Grissom's office. Sara and Nick looked at their boss to find out what he was going to say.

"Sara, I need you to fill out these forms," Grissom said. "It contains your request for medical leave. Who is going to take care of you while you are recovering?"

"Nick and his parents will care for me," Sara replied.

"They are coming three days before Sara's surgery," Nick added.

"Did the surgeon tell you how long you will be out of work?" Grissom asked.

"I should be out for about two and a half weeks," she explained. "She told me that when I return, that I will be confined to the lab for some time."

"You will have three weeks of medical leave," Grissom declared. "I want you to be in the lab for about four or five weeks after you return. I'll see by then if you are ready to return to the field. Nick, here are some forms for you. It's for a vacation request."

"I had taken enough vacation for about four months from May to September," Nick protested. "Ecklie will have my ass and head if I take more vacation time.

"You were on medical leave following your ordeal of being buried alive and getting bitten by those fire ants," Grissom tried to calm the younger man. "This time, you are going to take a few weeks off to help take care of your fiancée. I am pretty sure that Ecklie will understand. He was the one that allowed you to take an extra month of medical leave. If he wants your ass and head in a silver platter, he'll have both Catherine and me to deal with. "

"That's good to know," Nick chuckled. "Can we fill out our forms now and report to our assignments?"

"You can do that when you get back to lab," Grissom smiled. "We need to get to our assignments."

Nick and Sara had a quick embrace and kiss before Sara left to meet with Catherine and Greg. Grissom and Nick left the lab a moment later to meet Warrick.

Sara, Catherine and Greg's Crime Scene

"Wow, I have seen blood spatter in large and small amounts," Catherine sighed as she, Sara and Greg processed the scene. "However, there's too much of it. I think there is another dead body in this room."

"There's no way one person could lose so much blood," Greg looked disgusted.

"A few years ago, Grissom, Warrick and I had a crime scene in which there was so much blood in that apartment," Sara scanned the walls at the spatter. "We thought it belonged to the murder victim. It turned out it was a former tenant who had a creative way of getting even with his ex landlord for not fixing the hot water heater. We found out the real victim was the boiler room. Some of Grissom's buddies helped us find her."

"So that's why he was feeding a bug instead of joining you and Nick for breakfast at the diner," Greg nearly gasped.

"Guys, we have a crime scene to process," Catherine said. "You can still talk, but Vartann is going to suspect that we aren't doing our jobs."

"We are talking and working at the same time," Sara insisted and stopped when she found something. "Hey, I just found something really interesting."

"It looks like the victim must've torn a piece of cloth before he died," Greg observed. "Maybe the suspect accidentally ripped a piece of the victim's clothing."

"We found the other victim," David Phillips announced. "She was in the closet. This is one of the most heinous scenes I have ever seen."

"Tell us about it," Catherine scoffed.

"Her throat was slashed," David shook his head.

"They were either husband and wife or prostitute and client," Sara inferred. "This reminds me of a case that the killer or killers had to change their MO after the news leaked out part of our investigation."

"Sara, your wonderful fiancé told a friend and that friend blabbed to the press," Catherine reminded the younger woman. "I am not saying that it was completely Nick's fault, but he should have known better than to talk to one of his buddies about a case."

"We did find the son of bitch that did it," Greg added.

"Yeah, but you keep the investigation out of the hands of the media goons," Sara smirked as she placed a tiny, but crucial piece of evidence into a bindle. "We all forgave Nick for unconscientiously blabbing about it. He promised that if he ever met that friend of his again, he would talk about their days at Texas A&M."

About two hours later, the three CSIs were on their way back to the crime lab. When they dropped off the evidence to be process, Greg went to the locker room while Catherine and Sara went to the break room. The two women helped themselves to coffee and sat down to sip.

"Sara, can I talk to you about something?" Catherine asked. "This isn't about the case."

"Yeah," Sara replied.

"I told Lindsey about your problem," Catherine continued. "She wants to invite you to a shopping spree at a mall. She's including a day in the spa with just the women."

"Catherine, that's great," Sara smiled. "I'd love to go with you and Lindsey for shopping and a spa day. Is Sophia coming with us?"

"No, but Jacqui is going to join us for the spa," Catherine beamed. "Lindsey thinks you deserve some pampering."

"When are we going?" Sara asked.

"The day after tomorrow," Catherine responded.

"I am looking forward to the Girls' Day Out," Sara giggled.

Grissom, Warrick and Nick's Crime Scene

"Whoa, that really reeks," Warrick whined. "I thought a 404 would mean unknown trouble."

"It is, bro," Nick turned up his nose. "I don't know what it is."

"Looks like it's decomp," Grissom informed the two younger men. "Somebody dumped the body or bodies nearby and nobody even looked or smelled them."

"Everybody who travels on that interstate should have had a hint of that stench," Nick protested. "It was that young woman from Northern Arizona that took a whiff of it, pulled over and checked it out. She is over there giving her statement to an officer."

"When is the coroner going to get here?" Warrick grimaced. "I don't think I can handle another moment processing this gross scene."

"Whatever Catherine, Sara and Greg are doing at the Luxor is processing a crime scene," Nick pointed out. "This is another incidence of us doing combat duty!"

Warrick just chuckled and Nick gave him a death glare.

"Hey, do you remember that case a few years ago involving that creepy nutritionist had her dog kill people so she could eat their organs?" Warrick continued to chuckle.

"Oh, how could I forget that?" Nick hissed.

"We had to process where that dog was and you said something about it being combat duty," Warrick countered.

"I think I remember my whining about it!" Nick responded.

"Boys, continue to process!" Grissom came close to yelling at them. "I am going to call the office to see if we still have lemons. I'll ask Hodges to go buy a whole bunch."

"We wouldn't want our women to put us in the doghouse for smelling like decomp," Nick chuckled.

Nick and Sara's Place – 12 Hours Later

Sara was already in bed reading a novel when Nick climbed into his side of the bed. She put a bookmark on the page, closed the book and put it on her night table. Nick pulled her into an embrace and they kissed. She smelled a hint of lemons on his skin and hair.

"Let me guess," Sara said as she gently released herself from the embrace. "You, Warrick and Grissom had a scene with decomp."

"Sara, that was a really lucky guess," Nick smiled. "We were on Interstate 15 and processing the scene with two decomps. It turned out that they were two bank robbers that were killed by their greedy associate. She had her boyfriend help her dump the bodies in a concealed area of the Interstate near one of the exits leading to Vegas. It still amazes me that nobody passing through would notice the horrible odor. Thankfully, a young woman on her way back to Flagstaff, Arizona did notice, called the police and now case closed. After we were finished, we all needed a lemon shower? How was yours?"

"Just a case of a psycho ex-boyfriend not letting go and moving on," she sighed. "It was a gruesome scene. The guy kills his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend after tracking them down. However, it was overkill. He also put a GPS device on her car. I don't even want to remember what else he did to her."

"You don't have to," he responded while peppering her arm, neck and cheek with kisses. "We have two silly little kittens to come home to and help us unwind. This is our haven from what we deal with on a daily basis. Now, let's watch something on the Food Network until we both fall asleep."

"Nick, I need to tell you something that is not related to work," she remembered.

"You can tell me anything," he smiled.

"Catherine and Lindsey have invited me to a shopping spree at a local mall and a day in the spa," she beamed. "It's a Girls' Day Out. Jacqui will join us for the spa date. Lindsey thought that I could use some pampering."

"Sara, I keep telling you that you deserve to be pampered," he was insisted. "However, I am happy that you and Catherine are repairing your friendship after you blew up at her about a year ago."

"I love you, Nicky," she purred.

"I love you too, Sara," he sighed.

They were in each others' arms as they watched a show on the Food Network until sleep overtook the couple. Nick woke up briefly to turn off the television with the remote, gently took Sara back in his arms and was asleep again.

TBC