It wasn't until Nick heard a yelp and a string of curse words that he realized that he hadn't put the toilet seat down. In an effort to try and not wake him, Sara had apparently not turned on the bathroom light. He pulled himself out of bed and padded toward the bathroom and flipped the light on. He was met with an angry glare from Sara who was trying to save her dignity and dry her tush at the same time.

He flashed a sheepish grin her direction. "I'm sorry, babe, I guess I forgot to put the seat down."

"You think." Sara snapped at him and then let out a deep breath instantly regretting it.

Nick frowned. "I said I was sorry."

Sara closed her eyes and let out a sigh. "Nick, go back to bed."

"Can I do anything to help?" Nick was at a loss.

She smirked. "Nick, I think I can pee alone. Go back to bed."

He turned obediently and crawled back into bed, rolling onto his side and trying to get comfortable. A few minutes later, he felt a rush of cool air and then Sara's warm body spooning against his back.

She slung her arm across his waist. "Nick, I'm sorry. I just didn't want to wake you after you pulled a double."

He rolled onto his back and reached up and caressed her face. "I'm sorry I forgot to put the seat down."

She leaned down and kissed him. "I should have checked. I live with a man now."

He chuckled softly. They had been married now for nearly two months. Things hadn't exactly gone smoothly. Not that they didn't love each other, they did, but at times the communication that had been so easy when they'd been just friends had become a bit more difficult. Nick surmised that it had a lot to do with the fact that they lived and worked together and their expectations for each other had changed.

"How'd your case go?" Sara knew that Nick had been in court after shift that morning to testify and he'd ended up being the last on the billet.

He let out a yawn. "Good I think." He looked at her in the dim light filtering through the blinds. "I'm sorry, I wasn't thinking earlier. I should have put the seat down."

She nudged him in the ribs. "Hey, it's ok. I should have looked. I just didn't expect to go for a swim and at least you flushed. If you hadn't I think I would have had to bathe in Non-Oxynal 9"

He chuckled. "I really am sorry."

"I know." Sara leaned down and kissed him before resting her head on his shoulder and slinging her arm over his waist. "Just don't let it happen again."

He grinned in the semi-darkness as he wrapped his arms around her and drifted off to sleep.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Nick looked nervous as he sipped his coffee at the break room table. He had been mulling something over in his mind and he finally decided to try and broach the subject with Sara. The last time he'd brought it up though, they'd ended up fighting.

Sara noted his expression and she looked at him curiously. "What's up?"

They still had about a half an hour until the beginning of shift and were taking advantage of the relative calm before the proverbial storm that each shift tended to be.

He smiled. "I was just thinking that maybe we should sell the condo."

She furrowed her brow. "Which one?"

He paused his coffee cup midway to his mouth. "Both."

She looked a little confused. "But Greg's renting mine."

He nodded and set the cup down on the table. "I know, but I was talking to him and he would be interested in buying us out."

She looked slightly surprised. "He would?"

Nick smiled. "It's a nice condo, and he really likes it."

"But I thought we didn't have enough equity." Sara recounted his words.

Nick let out a deep breath. "I've been doing a little research and even if we take a slight loss on your condo, there is enough equity built up in mine that it would offset it and give us a nice down payment on a house."

Sara bit her lip nervously. "You want to buy a house?"

He studied her for a moment. "Or a townhouse, or something that we both pick out that maybe is a little bigger than where we are now. I just think that it would be nice to have a place that says 'us'."

Sara considered his words for a moment before speaking. "Uh, this isn't a hint that you want kids is it?"

Nick looked a little surprised. "No. I mean, I'd like them someday, when you're ready, but that thought really never occurred to me." He looked a little hurt as well that she seemed to think that he wouldn't just come out and tell her what he was thinking.

"Oh." There was something about her response that was almost disappointed.

Nick almost did a double take. "Do you want kids?"

She glanced around to make sure they were still alone and a faint smile tugged at the corners of her mouth. "I'm thinking about it."

Nick raised an eyebrow. "Thinking as in someday, or thinking as in thinking about trying?"

She coughed nervously and gestured almost imperceptibly toward the door where Catherine had just appeared.

Nick glanced up at Catherine who was headed directly for the coffee machine. "Catherine."

Catherine smiled and could tell she interrupted a private conversation. "Did I interrupt something?"

Sara looked directly at Nick. "Nothing we can't finish talking about later."

Nick was grateful that Sara wanted to finish the conversation, but as shift was about to begin, he was sure he wasn't going to be able to keep his mind on work that night.