Title: Lover's Walk
Author: Jeanine (jeanine@iol.ie)
Rating: PG
Pairing: Sara/Warrick
Feedback: Makes my day
Disclaimer: If it was in the show, it's not mine.
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Notes: For the LiveJournal CSReports Virtual Rewind challenge, to the "Buffy titles" challenge. And I couldn't just write one, so I ended up doing a minor series.
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Nick and Greg are on their way into the CSI lab, cups of coffee in hand, talking over that night's football games, predicting scores and results, when Nick sees something that stops him in his tracks.
"Hey man," he says, pointing to the car that's just pulling into the lot. "You see what I see?"
Greg frowns, follows his gaze. "Warrick's bringing Sara to work," he says, and it sounds as if he sees nothing wrong with that. Nick doesn't suppose that he should see anything wrong with it either; after all, Warrick and Sara are friends, and friends can give one another rides to work. There's nothing wrong with that, nothing at all.
Except for one thing.
"From opposite sides of town?" he questions, and when he glances at Greg, he sees that realisation dawn in the other man's eyes too.
As one, their eyes swing back to the car, now parked, and they see Sara getting out of the passenger side, stand there. Warrick gets out too, comes around the front of the car, stands in front of Sara, who hasn't moved. In fact, she's just standing there, looking at him, arms crossed over her chest, a smile on her face that Nick can see from clear across the parking lot, and there's something in the way she's looking at him that makes Nick's jaw drop, because it can only mean one thing.
Beside him, Greg must come to the same conclusion, because he mutters in disbelief, "No… way."
Nick would reply, but he's too busy looking at Warrick, who's smiling in just the same way that Sara is, saying something that makes her laugh. He reaches out, his fingers brushing her cheek before moving into her hair, cupping the back of her head, and that's when he does something that Nick would never, in a million years, have thought possible.
He draws Sara close to him and kisses her, full on the lips, right in the middle of the CSI parking lot.
It's not a long kiss, but what it lacks in duration, it makes up for in sparks, and when they pull away from one another, they share another one of those smiling looks. Then, without another word, they turn towards the CSI lab and make their way inside.
Nick's not sure they even realise that they're hand in hand.
Only when Warrick and Sara have vanished from sight does Greg find his tongue. "When the hell did that happen?" he wonders, and Nick can only shake his head, laughing from sheer amazement, because he's got no idea.
One thing's for sure though - he's looking forward to finding out.