Title: Viva Las Vegas-
Spoiler: This story takes place after Thanksgiving.
Rating: PG-13 Disclaimer I have nothing to do with The Agency and receive no compensation

Chapter 8

They arrived at the hotel and checked in. The penthouse was gorgeous. Terri stepped out on the balcony, Stiles followed her. "Small world isn't it?. We're standing in Paris. There's Venice, and New York. I want to see all these places for real with you Terri." She turned and kissed him. "I need to go and talk to those two terrorists. Why don't you check in with Quinn, and start getting comfortable?" he kissed her again. "But not too comfortable until I get back."

"Get out of here." Stiles walked out and Terri began looking around the suite. It had 2 bedrooms. She couldn't figure out what to do about this. Should they try to keep it just business. While they hadn't made love since Nice, it wasn't all that uncommon for him to spend the night at her place. She did like waking up next to him.

Stiles arrived at the police station and talked to the detective first. They really didn't know much and the suspects were not talking. The police were very concerned about what they were trying to do. All of their belongings were brought to Gil Grissom at the CSI unit. Stiles talked to the prisoners but knew he wasn't going to get anywhere.

He went back to the hotel and picked up Terri. "We need to meet with Gil Grissom of CSI he is currently analyzing what they got out of the terrorists apartment."

Terri and Stiles walked into CSI Lab. "I'm looking for Gil Grissom."

"You just found him. Who are you?"

Stiles and Terri took out their ID's "Stiles and Terri." Stiles said as he introduced them. "What do we have?"

"You can just call me Grissom."

"Another man who just uses his last name." Stiles and Grissom both smiled. Immediately Terri and Grissom began talking about a bunch of things Stiles couldn't understand. He just followed them as Grissom showed them the evidence.

"I would like you to meet some of my staff. Terri and Stiles are with Homeland Security. This is Sarah, Warrick, Catherine and Nick." Nick was always impressed by a pretty woman and Terri was no exception.

He walked up to her and kissed her hand. "Very nice to meet you Terri. I'll be looking forward to working with you." he was flirting with her. Terri did enjoy this a little, but Stiles did not.

Sarah and Catherine immediately noticed how Stiles tensed up when Nick did this. Catherine just laughed "Nick why don't you and I take Stiles out to the apartment. Sarah you and Terri can start sorting through these things. Warrick could you give Sarah and Terri a hand. Grissom you are already late for your meeting."

Grissom smiled "I don't know what I would do without Catherine to keep me in line."

Catherine walked past Stiles "You owe me one. Come on lets get going."

Nick was mad, he wanted to work with Terri, he stormed off ahead of them. Stiles walked by Terri and whispered. "See you later. I love you." Terri had a huge smile on her face as he said this. Stiles turned to Catherine. "I do owe you one. Was I that obvious?"

"I can tell by the way you both look at each other. You'll be married before you leave this town." Stiles was completely surprised by this, she could tell by the look on his face, so she explained the facts "I've lived here a long time. It always happens." Stiles had a big smile on his face. He wouldn't mind leaving Vegas with Terri as Mrs. Stiles. Catherine looked at him and was convinced she was right.

Nick, Catherine and Stiles looked around the apartment and gathered a few more things to bring back to the lab. The tension between Nick and Stiles was unbearable. Each one kept trying to one up the other. Catherine wanted to make the point to Nick to back off. "So Stiles, how long have you and Terri been involved?" She knew Nick and knew that he was to wrapped up in Terri's beauty to notice he didn't have a chance with her.

"Since September. The best three months of my life."

Nick now realized his mistake. "Stiles I'm sorry about back at the lab. I shouldn't have been coming on to her. I didn't know."

Stiles smiled relieved "That's fine Nick. No problem. I know how beautiful she is." The three laughed and the tension was broken. Stiles and Nick got along fine after this.

They worked all day back in the CSI lab and it was now 8:30. Stiles looked at Terri. "I'm starving."

"Me too."

"You guys up for a great buffet." Nick asked.

"Sounds good to me." Stiles said enthusiastically. Terri was surprised that Stiles wasn't jealous and that Nick had stopped flirting with her. She was really curious as to what was going on.

Catherine walked in. "Which one Nick?"

"Does everybody like seafood. The Flamingo Hilton has a great seafood buffet tonight.."

Everyone agreed so that's where they headed.

After dinner, they all wanted to see the penthouse of Paris. So Stiles invited everyone up for a drink.

Warrick smiled, "Homeland security provides pretty good accommodations."

"Actually not. I'm picking up most of the tab on this one. Terri and I haven't been able to get away in a while."

Sarah walked up to Catherine. "Ten bucks, New Years Eve."

"Got it." Catherine turned to Terri. "So how do you like Vegas so far."

"Its interesting." She walked up to Stiles. "As long as we get to work together. I'm happy."

Nick and Stiles were very much alike in Nick's mind. He could tell Stiles wanted some time with Terri alone. "I think we should let you guys get some sleep. You're still on Washington time. See you guys at the lab. 9:00."

After saying goodnight to everyone. Stiles went and stood on the balcony. He didn't want to approach sleeping arrangements with Terri right now. Terri went in one room and took a shower. He couldn't stop thinking about her, and considered joining her, but he was afraid she would throw him out.

Terri walked out of the bedroom, wearing her robe. "Stiles where are you?"

"Out here."

"I thought you might be in bed already." she walked up and put her arm around him. "This is a great view. Are you really picking up most of the tab for this?"

"Uh huh."

Terri was a little surprised. "Why? I'm sure we could have found a motel or something the agency would cover."

"You deserve better than that. Terri you deserve the best." He was looking down. He finally decided to go for it. "I wanted something romantic. This is our first New Year's together."

Stiles still hadn't looked at her. She leaned up and kissed him on the neck. "This is very sweet of you."

"Terri I was hoping to take our relationship to the next level."

"Stiles."

"It's ok." Stiles kissed Terri on the cheek and headed into one of the bedrooms alone. Terri followed him in.

"Stiles, can we at least talk about this?"

"I don't really feel like talking, goodnight."

"Stiles, I was just going to ask you what bedroom we should use." Terri walked up to him and kissed him. Stiles looked at her a little surprised as she let her robe fall to the ground.

Stiles picked her up and carried her to the bed. After making love Terri and Stiles just held each other and talked. Stiles kissed Terri's neck and whispered "Thank you."

"For what?"

"The best present I could ever have. You." she smiled at him. "I love you Terri."

"I love you too, Stiles." a big smile spread across Stiles face as he heard her say this. She couldn't believe how great it felt to say. Stiles couldn't believe how great it felt to hear her say it.