A/N: I own Jen, my own character and this chapter is a year later.
My reviewers:
Sweet16Moviebuff: Well thanks! Uh... you'll just have to wait and see what she comes back with and if so if Nick beats him up. I stopped my Harry Potter/CSI story cause I ran out of ideas.
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Chapter One: Back in Town
"Ok. Warrick, you got a shooting down at a gas station. Cath, you and me have a DB. Nick, you and Jen have a DB as well over at The Mirage." Grissom said, passing slips out.
"Got anything for me?"
Everyone turned to the doorway and Nick felt his heart stop. There, in the doorway, was Sara.
"Sara?" Catherine asked. She nodded, smiling and Catherine rushed over to give her a hug. Soon everyone was hugging and talking except for Jen, who didn't know Sara for she had replaced Sara when she went back to San Francisco, and Nick, who was in too much shock to move.
"Uh... we got to do our cases." Warrick said, pulling Catherine and Grissom out of the room. Jen followed them out, leaving Nick and Sara by themselves.
"Hey Nicky." Sara smiled.
"Hey." He muttered.
"That it? No hug? No how've you been?" Sara asked.
"Well how have you been Sara?" Nick asked, looking her straight in the eye.
"Good. Ok what did I do? I do remember I called you when I got to San Francisco so I can't be in much trouble." She replied.
"You're not in trouble." Nick laughed, walking over and hugging her.
"Anyway I want you to meet someone." Sara smiled as they pulled away. A young man around their age walked in. "Nick this is James."
"Nice to meet you." James said, extending his hand. Politely, Nick shook it, staring at Sara for answers.
"James is my fiancé." She said, wrapping an arm around his waist. Nick hoped his shock wasn't visible because knowing Sara, she'd take it the wrong way.
"Fiancé? Wow! Uh... congratulations!" he exclaimed.
LATER ON
"Nick, are you paying any attention to me?" Jen asked. Nick snapped his head up and stared at Jen.
"I didn't know you were talking. You're so damn quiet all the time!" he laughed. Jen put a hurt look on her face.
"Thanks Nicky. That makes me so much better." She muttered. "Anyway like I was saying, the guy went through a fight."
"Really? I didn't know. Sorry to disappoint you but I figured that out." Nick said.
"Who's that girl?" Jen suddenly asked. Nick stared at her for a minute.
"Oh. Sara. She used to work here but got transferred back to San Francisco." He replied. After they got all their evidence, Jen and Nick went back to the lab. Nick sat in the locker room for a few minutes, staring at the locker that used to be Sara's. Sighing, he stood up and opened his own locker. He hated his locker. There was a crack at the bottom and things slipped in there and you would never know. Speaking of things you'd never know about, something caught Nick's eye. Something white at the bottom of the locker was sticking up from the crack. Nick grabbed it and saw it was an envelope. On the front was his name in a familiar scrawl. This was from Sara. Nick opened the envelope and took out what was inside, a letter.
Nick,
It's me, Sara as you could probably tell by my handwriting on the envelope. Tomorrow I'm leaving for San Francisco and I most likely won't come back to Las Vegas. Nicky, you don't know it, but I love you. Not like a brotherly love that I have for Warrick and Greg but I truly, deeply love you. I always have but it's been masked by the admiration I had for Grissom. I know! You hate when you're in Grissom's shadow but Nick, you never were.
Nick paused reading for a moment. This letter was from a year ago. The night before she left. He went after her to tell her that he loved her and she wouldn't give him a chance to speak and now he finds out that Sara loved him all along.
I can't tell you in person because I know I'd break down so I decided to write it to you. I know it's not as good as me telling you. I'm sorry. I don't want to go back to California Nick. I really don't. Our last case together was bad. I don't want to leave without telling you I'm sorry. But I can't face you right now.
Nick, I love you a million times over and over. I'm writing this in the break room right now and I hear Warrick coming. I don't want anyone to read this so I'm going to stop writing.
I love you,
Sara
"Nick!" Jen exclaimed. Nick looked up, shoving the letter into his pocket.
"What's up?" he asked.
"Brass found our guy. We need to go right now." Jen replied. Nick nodded and stood up, thinking about the letter. It was too late. Sara was engaged to another man. Nick would never have another chance to tell her he loves her.
