Sara pulled her Tahoe in beside Nick's. He was already at the front door waiting for her. Wordlessly they entered Nick's house. Nick moved to the kitchen and grabbed a coke for himself and a bottled water for Sara. When he returned into the living room, Sara was seated on the couch. He sat down next to her and handed her the water. She smiled over at him as she accepted it. Nick's face was set. The expression was serious. He wasn't exactly sure how he was going to say what he was feeling, but he knew he needed to say it with words.

Sara noted Nick's serious expression. She reached over and placed a hand on his knee, "Nick, hey, you look so serious."

He looked over at her and smiled at her warm expression, "I guess that's because we really need to talk and I'm nervous."

A bit of worry nagged at the pit of Sara's stomach. She wasn't quite sure where this was going, and it made her nervous too.

He placed his hand over hers as it rested on his knee. She smiled at him, waiting for him to say something, anything.

Nick cleared his throat, "Sara, I really care about you."

"I care about you too, Nick." Sara interjected.

Nick squeezed her hand, "I mean, I really care about you. I don't want to hurt you, and when Warrick chewed my ass out earlier, I really deserved it."

Sara looked like she was going to say something and then stopped. She could tell Nick really needed to get whatever it was off his chest.

Nick continued, "I haven't been treating you the way you deserve to be treated, Sara. I'm really sorry. If someone besides Warrick and Catherine had caught us, we might have lost our jobs for behaving like that on the clock. Not that I didn't enjoy it, believe me I enjoyed it. I can hardly keep my hands off of you." Nick grinned at Sara who was trying not to blush. "I told Warrick something earlier, and he said that if it was true, that I should act like it."

Sara looked at him, perplexed, "I'm confused, Nick."

Nick looked at the floor for a long moment before turning to look at her, "Sara, I'm falling in love with you."

"You're falling in love with me." Sara repeated, not completely sure that she had heard him correctly.

"Yes, I mean no. I mean to tell you the truth, I think I've been falling in love with you since I first met you." He just looked into her eyes.

Sara was speechless. Her brain was having a hard time processing the words that were coming out of Nick's mouth. "You love me?" She stuttered.

He grinned at her. "Yes, Sara, I love you."

"You love me." Sara repeated trying to allow it to sink in.

Nick grinned and nodded.

A smile broke over Sara's face. For the first time since they had left the lab, Nick's nerves started to abate. She looked at him grinning. "Nick Stokes loves me."

Nick chuckled.

"Wow." Sara said as she gazed at him. She leaned back into the couch her gaze not leaving Nick's face. He leaned back too and they just looked at each other not saying a word. Sara reached over and softly traced the features of Nick's face with her fingers. "Nick?"

"Yeah, Sar?" Nick answered softly gazing at her face trying to memorize the moment.

She locked eyes with him and a serious expression crossed her face, "Nick, I love you too."