"Did I miss a joke here?" Warrick walked into the layout room that Nick and I were working in and noticed that both of us were trying not to smile. "No joke here." I replied, keeping my attention on the file in front of me.

Nick glanced up and chuckled. "How did the eggnog latte work out for you?" I appreciated the fact that he was subtly trying to change the subject.

"Good, thanks. There's just something about testifying in court and then having to go work a crime scene, especially when some slime ball lawyer thinks he can try and get your evidence tossed out." I could tell that Warrick needed to vent.

Warrick seemed to remember that he held something in his hand. "Oh, Nick, this came for you." After handing Nick the envelope, he headed back down the hallway.

Nick opened the envelope and smiled. "This is it, Sar." I stood up and walked around to the other side of the table, glancing at the picture as Nick slid it out of the envelope.

"Which one is he?" I studied the picture as Nick looked for any identifying information in the envelope, finally pulling out a piece of paper.

He pointed at the picture. "From this it looks like that guy right there." The man Nick pointed to stood right next to our victim in the photo.

"Well, we've got a face, now if we just knew what his name really is." I felt frustrated that we still hadn't gotten very far in this investigation and I knew that if we didn't make more progress soon, we'd have to shelve the case.

"Crap. I don't know why I didn't think of it until now." Nick just shook his head and looked at me.

"What?" I looked at him with confusion on my face.

"We ran the baby's DNA against Lieutenant Smith, but did we run it through CODIS? I mean, we've tried almost everything else, and if this guy is the father and he's wanted for both rape and murder, it's possible he's already got a sample in CODIS." Nick looked excited.

I grinned at him. "I could kiss you right now."

Nick raised an amused eyebrow at me. "As much as I'd like to let you kiss me right now, I think I'd better take a rain check."

"Count on it." I winked at him and headed out the door toward the DNA lab with him trailing behind me, hoping that Greg could help perform a miracle by finding a needle in a DNA haystack.

I think Greg was becoming frustrated at Nick and I as we both kept pacing back and forth in front of him. We'd been in his lab since we'd asked him to run the check in CODIS. He finally looked up and glared. "Could you two go find something else to do, I'll page you when I'm done."

I shot him a sheepish grin. "Sorry, Greggo, we're just anxious to find out if this theory pans out."

Nick glanced at me with his eyebrow raised a gestured with his head. I just nodded. We both turned and headed into the hallway and I followed Nick to the parking lot toward his Denali.

I climbed into the passenger seat and grinned at him as he climbed behind the wheel. "Where are we going?"

"I'm just following Greg's suggestion that we find something else to do for a while. We really don't have much else to do until we get his results." Nick looked mischievous.

I raised my eyebrow at him suspiciously. "So in other words, you want to go somewhere and make out."

Nick feigned innocence. "If you insist, Sara."

I had to try and restrain the grin that was spreading across my face as Nick drove out of the parking lot. "You know, if anyone finds out about this, we're going to catch hell." I just shook my head in amusement as Nick drove.

He finally pulled the Denali into the parking lot of a deserted park and turned the engine off.

He unfastened his seatbelt and reached over to flip the console up. "You know, you promised to kiss me earlier, and I'd like to collect."

"Do you use that line on all your girlfriends?" I was amused at how absolutely cute Nick was when he was trying too hard to be charming. He could have thrown any cheesy line at me at that point and I would have kissed him.

He shook his head and scooted over toward me. "Nope, I reserve it just for the cute ones."

I still hadn't unfastened my seatbelt. Nick reached between us and unfastened it for me. His face was a fraction of an inch from mine and he was smiling, and for some reason, that made me giggle. "What?"

He looked at me with a coy expression. "I believe you said you wanted to kiss me. I just thought I'd give you the opportunity to kiss me before I kissed you."

I tried to restrain my smile. "Oh, I didn't realize that you kissing me was part of the deal."

He chuckled and his grin widened. "It's the least I can do. It just doesn't seem fair that you get to kiss me if I can't kiss you."

"Is that so?" It was all I could do to keep playing this game. The tension of anticipating this kiss was excruciatingly good.

He nodded. "Uh, huh."

I could feel his breath against my lips and my resolve to prolong our game wavered. I closed the distance between us and pressed my lips against his, sliding my arm with the splinted hand around his neck and splaying my other hand against his chest.

Nick slid his arms around my waist and we quite literally got lost in that kiss. Breathing became secondary to exploring every part of his mouth with my tongue, and Nick returned the favor. He tasted so good and I just couldn't get enough of him. I'm not sure how much time had passed, but the shrill sound of Nick's cell phone going off interrupted the quiet in the Denali. We pulled away from each other desperately trying to catch our breaths.

Nick answered his cell phone, still sounding a bit breathless. "Stokes." He looked at me with a sheepish expression. "Uh, hi, Greg. No, she's right here. Uh, we decided to run a couple of errands while we waited for you to finish running the sample through CODIS." He cleared his throat and suddenly, I don't know what possessed me, I leaned over and kissed him again as he listened to Greg. He pushed me away with an amused expression on his face. "Uh, no, that was just a little interference on the line. Yeah, we'll be back there in a few minutes. Thanks." He hung up and leaned back in to kiss me, murmuring against my lips. "Don't do that again, I think he heard you kiss me."

I giggled against his lips. "So, what did he say?"

Nick kissed me again before answering me. "Greg thinks he might have a match."

"Really." I kissed him again. I couldn't seem to pull myself away from Nick.

"Uh, huh. But we need to get back to the lab." He kissed me again. I could tell Nick didn't want to go back to the lab any more than I did.

"Maybe we can continue this later." I suggested, kissing him again, hoping I sounded more convincing than I felt, because at the moment, I just wanted to stay there and continue kissing Nick.

"Ok." Nick pulled away, resting his forehead against mine. "We really do need to get back." He leaned in and kissed me again.

"I know." After several more kisses, I finally pulled away and leaned back in my seat.

Nick scooted back over to his side of the Denali and fastened the seatbelt. He grinned at me as he started the engine. "Damn, Sara."

I grinned back at him as I fastened my seatbelt. "Yeah, I know."

We didn't say a word to each other as we drove back to the lab and went in search of Greg to find out what CODIS had come up with.