"Nick, you've got to stop kissing me in the locker room." Sara was sitting on Nick's lap in his recliner as they watch TV at his house.

He chuckled and kissed her neck. "You didn't seem to mind at the time."

"Well if you want to keep this a secret, that's not the way to do it. I'm pretty sure that Warrick didn't buy your story about my looking for something in your eye." She replied. They had had more than a few close calls at work since they'd starting dating a few weeks before.

"I'm sure he hasn't bought any of our stories, but he can't prove anything." Nick seemed pleased with himself.

"You know, I'm just as competitive as you are, but at some point we're going to have to tell them." Sara observed.

"I thought you wanted to make them figure it out." Nick looked at her curiously.

Sara leaned her head on his shoulder and smiled. "I'm just getting tired of sneaking around to be with you. It's not like we're doing anything wrong."

Nick kissed her neck again. "I think the only one that doesn't suspect anything is Grissom."

"I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing." Sara considered for a moment.

"Are you worried about what he's going to think?" Nick pulled back and looked at her for a moment.

She furrowed her brow as she looked at him. "I don't know. I mean I never seem to know what he thinks and it makes me nervous sometimes."

"I know what you mean." Nick began to kiss her neck again.

Sara giggled. "You're not even paying attention to this show."

He mumbled against her neck. "I've seen it before. The dog walker gets the girl at the end and they open a doggie daycare in the park."

"He looks a little like you." Sara observed.

"Nah, I'm much better looking." Nick teased, still planting kisses against her neck.

Sara relaxed against him, his arms encircling her waist. "You are pretty cute."

Nick chuckled. "I think you're pretty sexy." To emphasize his point as he continued to kiss her, he slid his hands up the front of her shirt.

"Mmn. Nick." Sara closed her eyes and reached back and wrapped her arms around his neck.

Nick kissed along her jaw line as his hands massaged her breasts through the fabric of her bra. "Sara, you feel so good."

Sara turned her head towards Nick and kissed him. They shared long slow deep kisses for quite a while as Sara lost herself in the sensation of Nick's hands on her body.

The TV was all but forgotten as things between them began to heat up. Nick had unfastened Sara's jeans and began to slip his hand inside when someone knocked at the door. They pulled apart for a moment to try and catch their breaths. Another knock sounded at the door and Nick put his hands on Sara's waist to steady her as he tried to extricate himself from behind her. As Nick walked over to answer the door, Sara refastened her pants and smoothed the rest of her clothes down, trying to act natural.

Nick glanced at Sara before he opened the door.

Warrick stood there with a curious expression on his face. "Hey, man. Sorry to bother you on your night off, but you left your cell phone in my rig and Grissom said you weren't answering your home phone." He handed Nick the cell phone.

"Thanks." Nick furrowed his brow. "What did Grissom want?"

"Is Sara here?" Warrick asked, knowing full well that she had the night off too and that her Denali was parked next to Nick's in his driveway.

Nick nodded and opened the door wider to let Warrick in. "We were just watching TV."

Warrick raised a doubtful eyebrow and glanced over at Sara, raising a hand in greeting. "Grissom's been trying to get a hold of you too, Sara."

"I didn't hear my phone ring." She glanced over to where it sat on the coffee table and noticed that the message light was flashing. "Shit."

Warrick tried to restrain a smile at the situation. "Whether you two are going to admit it or not, I'm pretty sure that there is something going on between you."

"So what did Grissom want?" Sara asked knowing that Grissom probably needed one of them to come in to work.

"Yeah, what did he want?" Nick was a little annoyed. He had been looking forward to having the night off with Sara and he was looking forward to where things were going between them before Warrick had knocked on the door.

"Hot case, he wants all of us on it. I know you both have the night off, but the sheriff is chewing his ass out, so Grissom sent me to find you." Warrick concluded.

"What is it?" Nick queried, glancing over at Sara who shot him an apologetic expression.

"Seventeen year old girl found dead of an apparent homicide." Warrick informed them.

Nick and Sara looked confused as to why all of them needed to work the case.

Warrick continued. "Her prom date for the evening was the mayor's oldest son and he's currently missing."

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The scene had been ugly. A young vibrant young woman had been brutally beaten and raped before she'd been stabbed to death. Her updoo and prom dress were splattered with her own blood. All preliminary evidence pointed toward the mayor's son as the prime suspect, but the fact that he had disappeared just brought more questions than answers. The team of CSIs spent several hours meticulously combing the scene and as they were preparing to pack the evidence up and transport it back to the lab, Brass called to say that they'd found the body of the mayor's son about a mile and a half away. Any thoughts Nick and Sara had about getting at least part of the evening off disappeared with that new piece of information.

By the time the team returned to the lab the next shift had already begun. Sara stood in front of her locker trying to stifle a yawn as she stowed her gear. She smiled as she felt a pair of hands rest on her shoulders and begin to kneed them. "Hey."

Nick chuckled softly. "You're tense."

She closed her eyes and let Nick work on the knots in her shoulders. "I need sleep."

"You gonna go home?" There was a hopeful tone in Nick's voice that she might come home with him.

"I really need to sleep, Nick." Sara wanted nothing more than to be with him, but her body craved sleep more than it craved him at the moment.

"Who said anything about anything other than sleep?" Nick tried to sound innocent.

Sara chuckled softly and glanced over her shoulder at him and spoke softly. "I do sleep better with you."

Nick leaned forward and whispered in her ear. "I sleep better with you too."

As the pair made their way out the parking lot to head back to Nick's neither one of them was aware that Warrick had been standing just around the corner at the end of the bay of lockers and had overheard the entire conversation.