The Way It Is

By: Anti Darth Ani

On to chapter three. Thanks to all my wonderful readers and reviewers. I love you all so much!!! Hugs and kisses for everyone! Let me continue before I bore your head off and you leave me all along doing this thing by myself!!

One last thing - If you like this fan-fic, try reading I Need To Let It Go, which is another Nick/Sara fan-fic.

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Chapter III - Rules

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Sara slammed her locker door shut with a satisfying snap. Picking her bag up off the bench, she turned around to come face to face with Nick. She froze on the spot, "God, Nick," she muttered, "talk about giving a woman a heart attack. You don't sneak up on people in this job."

Nick grinned at her, "I'm sorry. Let me make it up to you," he whispered before covering her mouth with his in a delicate kiss. Sara curled her fingers around the collar of his shirt, taking a step back until her back was against the lockers. Nick took the hint and pressed her back against it even harder, resting one hand on the lockers while the other one gripped her waist.

Sara let a low moan escape between her lips, causing Nick to kiss her more passionately by managing to pull her tongue into his mouth. Sara began to unbutton the top button of his shirt, her fingers slightly shaking with want. Earlier that morning he had gone off to court and he hadn't been done testifying until after shift started, so she hadn't gotten any one on one time with him. Grissom had given them different assignments so she hadn't seen him until five minutes before shift ended. By the time she final saw him, thousands of scenarios of the upcoming night had played through her head.

Although now that she was thinking about it, she was feeling a sharp pain and she wasn't quite sure why. It took her a moment to move a little to the left in order to get the Masterlock out of her back. Nick grinned against her mouth, causing Sara to push him about an inch away from her. "So you find that funny?" she asked, gasping for air.

Nick shrugged slightly and brought his head much closer to hers. "Maybe just a little," he admitted. Sara rolled her eyes and slipped her arms around his collar to his neck. She turned her head halfway to the side and cocked one eyebrow up, giving him a funny expression. "You have to admit that it was at least a little bit funny." Sara glared at him this time and he faked a frown. "Would it help if I apologized?" he asked.

Sara sighed. You really had to train guys to be sensitive. Nick tried, but he just didn't get her. Of course, men could never understand women. The only difference was that women cared and men didn't give a rat's ass. She ran one hand up through his shortly cut hair and nodded slightly, waiting for him to put the question and the response together. It didn't take him as long as she thought it would. Maybe he was finally starting to get it.

Nick grinned at her and brought her lips back to his. Sara would have sighed, but it was nearly impossible now and she didn't want to waste the precious air she was going to need. It would go to much better use doing what they were currently doing, she figured. Even though it had been two months since that one night that changed everything, she sometimes still felt as if it had been only yesterday when he had cheated during their little game of strip poker. As she looked back on the event, she was very happy he had cheated after all.

Sara and Nick were so into their kissing, they didn't hear the locker door open quietly. They also didn't hear when someone walk into the locker room. They didn't hear anything until that someone cleared his throat.

Nick jerked away from Sara to face the supervisor. He was quite breathless and Grissom wasn't saying anything. He just stood rooted to the fall, studying Sara's face, which was covered with a look of horror mixed with just a little fear. Grissom couldn't see because Nick's body was blocking the way, but she had a death grip on the back of Nick's shirt. If the situation hadn't been so serious, Nick may have started laughing. But he never laughed when Grissom was staring at him, mostly because Grissom didn't have a sense of humor. He didn't even know what humor was.

"In my office, both of you. Ten minutes," he spoke in two short sentences before turning around and walking back out of the locker room. They waited until they heard the door click shut before Nick even dared to turn around.

"You don't think he was too mad, do you?" Sara asked, already nervous. He shrugged and kissed the tip of her nose. "You know," she added, "this would never have happened if we had just told them what was going on between us."

Nick gave Sara an accusing glare, "And whose idea what that, Sidle?" he asked her.

Sara pretended she didn't know, "Well, it might have been my idea, but I do know that you agreed with it."

Nick shook his head before turning around to head to Grissom's office. So much for the evening he had planned.

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Thanks to everyone who's still hanging in there with me. Next chapter's going to be really good. Hope to see you there as well! It's going to be a little longer because things are going to get a little complicated. Hint, hint.