Hello again everybody! Thank you for the lovely reviews, and as I said Barb I have a Grissom/Sara idea in the works so you'll just have to wait and see for that one. Right now I have to satisfy all nick/Sara Shippers so here indeed goes chapter 13 (I think the final chapter!!!).

She felt the presence of his eyes on her face and she turned to face him slowly, savouring the moment. They kept eye contact for what seemed an eternity and she moved closer to him, the need to kiss him filling up inside her. She closed her eyes slowly and moved in closer once more. He moved in closer to the inevitable embrace and then..

He moved his hand to cradle the cheek of the person opposite him and moved in even closer. He could feel her soft breath on his lips and he felt a tingling sensation ripple through him, the waves repeating over and over his body making him tremble with anticipation. He savoured the moment, as he finally knew that what he'd been waiting for for quite some time was now in front of him ready and waiting for his lips to complete the embrace. Sara kept waiting for Nick to kiss her but as always never one to wait she opened her eyes and directed her lips towards the muscular Texan in front of her.

She felt the sheer ripple of delight course through her veins and all around her body. Her skin was tender to the touch and she felt complete being touched by Nick. Their lips broke from the contact and their eyes locked once more into intense contact. Nick lowered his head and started kissing Sara's neck each kiss seemingly burning the spot of origin. Her breathing was becoming faster and her hands reached up to stroke Nick's neck and face. This wasn't like anything either of them had felt before. Sure they'd been in the same situation but they hadn't felt this intense feeling with it.

The kissing continued for a while. Neither of the pair wanted to stop and when they did it was somewhat reluctant.

"Wow,"

"My sentiments exactly," Nick smiled.

"That's weird,"

"What is?"

"Well," She paused, "Before you got here I was thinking how I wasn't going to get involved for quite some time. I think I may just have to change my mind after that."

"So I'm not rushing you then?"

"As if," She smiled and giggled flirtatiously. "I thought I was the one rushing you!"

"Yeah course you were," He pulled her in closer. "Did you feel that?"

"What?"

"Well, when we were kissing did you feel what I felt?"

"What amazing?"

"Yeah that pretty much covers it," He smiled and the grin reached his eyes filling them with a renewed sparkle.

"So, what happens now?"

"Just take each day as it comes," He stroked her face tenderly.

"Well I'll just have to scrap the wedding plans then." She joked.

"I hope your joking!"

They pair laughed and joked for a while longer before deciding to retreat back to Nick's house. It was 7.46am when they got home and decided to hit the sack for some well-deserved rest. They sleepily got into bed and curled up together, holding each other tightly.

At 10.12am the telephone rang with an annoying shrill tone that didn't fail to wake the couple in the bed. Nick woke up first and reached over to the bedside table for the cordless phone.

"Stokes,"

"Hey man,"

"Hey Warrick, What's up?"

"Well you know you rang me yesterday saying you were considering coming back to work?"

"Yeah, but that was only considering mate,"

"Well, this is an emergency we got a bad case down on the strip and we need as much help as we can get. Even the graveyard shift got roped into it." Warrick's disapproval showed in his voice.

"Let me have a quick shower and get dressed and I'm there,"

"Cool man, hey one more thing?"

"Yeah shoot,"

"Can you persuade Sara to come in? I mean it'll only be for a couple of hours but we desperately need some help. If she's not up to it though it's cool."

"She's more up for it than you know man. She was only telling me this morning that she was going to phone Gris and tell him she was coming back. She'll relish the chance to get back out there."

"That's great news man, see you soon."

"Yeah see you,"

He turned back over only to be greeted with Sara resting on one arm and smiling at him sweetly. "More up for it than he knows eh?"

"Bad choice of words anyway you told me you wanted to get back out there I just saved you a phone call!"

"Yeah that's fine, I'm just racing you to the shower!"

She jumped of bed sprightly and ran to the bathroom.

"Oh no you don't!" He rolled across the bed and followed her into the bathroom. It was going to be a fun morning.

After the fun with bubbles, they dressed quickly and Nick drove his SUV down to the strip hoping to catch a glimpse of whatever emergency had happened. Sure enough it wasn't exactly easy to miss. The overturned bus and crashed cars looked like a wacky races set up. It was going to be a hard day but he hoped that since Sara and him had only just come back they'd be nice and send them to and fro the lab with samples etc.

Sure enough about an hour later after saying hellos and answering all the how are you's the two were given the job of designated sample takers and were grateful for the easy way back into the routine. By 5.00pm the site had been cleared of most vehicles and the couple had taken most if not all the samples from the scene to the lab. It had been a tiring day even if they hadn't had much to do but they felt great. Being part of the whole team again.

It was a chaotic evening in the CSI offices by 7.00pm however contrary to the previous month; all CSI team members were present and accounted for. There were no unanswered telephone calls going to Sara, in fact she was back to normal bossing Greg around in the lab for the crash samples. Grissom was getting ready to hand out the assignments but they were pretty obviously going to be working on the crash from today.

Nick sneaked a glance of Sara at every available opportunity and smiled whenever he caught her eye. He felt good, better than he hand for a long time, and the way the two were flirting they seemed like a pair of high- school kids. Sara looked happy; she looked like she was 'home' again. She chatted to Grissom and to her surprise there was no bad feeling or awkwardness between them.

Indeed life was looking up again. And with a new love interest, going back to the job she loved and no Chad to speak of, everything from now on was going to be fine. From the sunrise she'd seen this morning she'd decided that this indeed was a new beginning, a new start and definitely a new life, and she liked it like that, she liked it a lot.



Well there we go ladies and gents I think I'm going to wrap it up there. I know I've kind of forgotten Grissom but hey Nick and Sara were meant to be together in this story so he'll just have to wait until I pair him up with Sara won't he! Please review and tell me if you like it as a finished piece, and your feedback on my first ever fanfic would be greatly appreciated. Until the next story ladies and gents =) XX