Nick squeezed Sara's hand before continuing, "Well the first time we talked about it was a month after my dad brought it up at that dinner. I was waiting for Sara to come over for dinner and my dad called. I was on the phone with him when she came to the door. When he heard that it was her, he asked to talk to her."

Sara decided to interject, "So, Nick hands me the phone and his dad starts asking me if he's treating me right, the way a proper Texas gentleman should. I laughed and told him he was. Then he asked me if Nick had asked me to marry him yet."

Nick sat up on the edge of the couch and a grin spread across his face, "So, I'm watching this conversation and Sara's face turns red and she manages to say 'no'."

Sara chuckled, "I thought I was going to die."

Catherine's eyes were wide, "You have got to be kidding."

Warrick chuckled uncontrollably.

"No, she's not kidding," Nick continued, "So Sara hand's the phone back to me and my dad starts lecturing me about not letting Sara slip through my fingers, and that I'd better propose before some other young buck comes along and marries her."

"Nick looked so uncomfortable." Sara chuckled as she remembered the call.

Nick reached over and put his hand on Sara's knee smiling at her, "I think my dad knew I was in love with you before I did." He turned back to Warrick and Catherine, "Well when I hung up the phone with my dad, that created an awkward silence."

Catherine was engrossed in the conversation, "I can imagine."

Sara grinned, "Yeah, I think we stood there for what felt like an eternity before Nick asked me if I wanted to sit down. Then we both started talking at once. Nick apologized for his dad being so forward, but he kept looking at me in a way he'd never looked at me before."

Nick glanced at the floor for a moment and started chuckling, "I think I realized at that moment that I was in love with Sara."

"Of course after the conversation with Nick's dad, I was afraid Nick was going to propose right there and all I wanted was to get some air." Sara added.

"So we went for a walk and talked about how we felt about each other," Nick continued, "I told her that I was in love with her and that I had never felt the way I felt about her about anyone else. Then she told me that she was in love with me too."

"You also asked me what I thought about marriage." Sara smiled wryly.

Warrick and Catherine exchanged a glance.

Nick chuckled and nodded at Sara, "Yes, I did. And I thought you were going to hyperventilate."

"Until you told me that you weren't asking me to marry you." Sara interjected.

An amused expression crossed Nick's face as he turned toward Sara, "And as I recall, you asked me why not."

Sara giggled and looked over at Catherine and Warrick nodding, "I did."

"Girl," Warrick just shook his head and laughed.

"Nick, I'm dying to know what you said next seeing as how you're sitting here in one piece." Catherine raised an eyebrow at him wondering what he could have managed to say that didn't have disastrous results.

Nick gave her a lopsided grin, "Catherine, she left me speechless."

"Now that's a major accomplishment," Warrick jested.

"Hey, now, bro!" Nick replied.

"See what I mean?" Warrick chuckled.

"Well, after I asked him why he wasn't asking me to marry him, he got this really perplexed look on his face," Sara interjected.

"And I did what any smart man in my shoes would have done." Nick commented with raised eyebrows.

Nick and Sara just grinned at each other.

With a wry smile, Catherine queried, "Are you going to tell us, or is this a big secret?"

Sara tore her gaze away from Nick and looked over at Catherine, "He kissed me."

Catherine smirked, "Nice move, Nicky."

He winked at her, "Sara thought so."

Warrick sat back in his chair and laughed.

"So is that when you asked her?" Catherine queried.

Nick shook his head, "No, I asked her a few weeks later."

Sara looked over at Warrick and Catherine, "He kept trying to get me alone, but if you recall, all of us were pulling double and triple shifts there for a while. So we never seemed to have any time alone and we were always at work."

Catherine raised a curious eyebrow.

Nick chuckled, "Ok, so Grissom had sent us out to help you two with the multiple at the Hyde place, and I decided that I wasn't going to get another chance for a while. So I took a little detour and stopped at a park and asked her to marry me."

"Nick, you didn't just ask me to marry you, you asked me to marry you after shift was over." Sara interjected.

"That explains a lot." Warrick commented grinning.

Catherine cleared her throat, "So all your little 'meetings' in the broom closet were trying to make up for lost time?"

Nick grinned like a Cheshire cat.

Sara put her hand on Nick's thigh and looked over at Catherine, "It's not like we've had time off for a honeymoon."

"Well it's not like anyone knew you two were together until tonight." Warrick commented.

"And we're sorry for that. We should have told everyone from the beginning, well at least as soon as we knew what we were doing." Nick replied.

Catherine's cell phone rang. She took a look at her caller ID and rolled her eyes, "It's Grissom." She answered the phone, "Willows. Yeah. I told you we were taking a vacation day. I know you're short. Ok. Are you going to stop acting like an ass? Uh huh. I think you owe them an apology. Yes, I do. No. Yes. Ok, then. I'll talk to you about it later. Ok, no he's with me. Uh, no. Nick and Sara. Ok. Fine. Meet you there." She ended the call and looked over at Warrick, "Looks like Grissom can't survive without us."

Warrick chuckled.

Catherine looked over at Nick and Sara, "Let me know if he doesn't apologize. We need to go, we've got a double homicide. Besides, I think you newlyweds could use a little time alone." She gave them a knowing wink and stood up.

Nick and Sara walked them to the door. After the door was closed, Nick looked over at Sara and gave her a devilish grin, "I think you promised me a rain check for something earlier."

Sara grinned, "Oh, really, and what would that be, Mr. Stokes?"