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Space-chase7029: here's the next part. No cliffhanger this time... lol
Equestrian-babe101: Yes it's a N/S lol... I'm glad you're happy now
Chapter Three: One Last Time
Catherine and Warrick sat in the break room watching Nick. Tonight was the last night Sara would be in Vegas. Tomorrow she'd be going back to San Francisco.
"Will you two stop staring at me? It's not going to happen." Nick sighed.
"This is your last chance Nick." Warrick said.
"I don't care. She's moved on." He said.
"Moved on?" Catherine asked. Nick nodded and took a folded piece of paper out of his back pocket. It was the letter from Sara. After Catherine read it she passed it to Warrick.
"That's interesting." He muttered, giving the letter back to Nick. "And you just found this now?"
"Yeah. You know that crack at the bottom of my locker? It fell in there when Sara put it in there." He replied.
"Maybe she put it there on purpose." Catherine suggested.
"Nah. Everything falls into this crack. One day a couple of weeks ago, remember that really bad stench?" Warrick said. Catherine nodded.
"That was a piece of a sandwich I had in there from Christmas. It fell in the crack and we didn't know." Nick said.
"Ew. Well Nicky she wouldn't write that if she didn't mean it." Catherine said.
"Even if she did mean it... it's too late. She's engaged to Mr. Big Head." Nick said. He was talking about James. James was very egotistical.
"You need to talk to her. Maybe she'll realize she's making a mistake." Warrick said.
"Well it's wicked serious in here." Sara said, walking in. Warrick and Catherine looked at Nick. "What's going on?"
"We have to go." Catherine said, pulling Warrick up with her. Once they were gone Nick turned to Sara.
"We need to talk." He said.
"About what?" she asked. Nick took the letter out and put it on the table.
"I found this in my locker the day you came back. I never knew it was there." He replied. "I came to the airport the day you left to tell you... to tell you that... Sara I love you and seeing as how you said so you loved me in the letter why didn't you stop and listen to me? You put it in my locker! How could I not find it? But it wasn't the letter obviously since I just found it. I always loved you from the minute I met you right up until I saw you go onto that plane and I still do."
Sara felt tears coming to her eyes as she looked at Nick.
"Because if you told me that you loved me right then and there I wouldn't have been able to get on the plane." She replied.
"You could've stayed here! Grissom had no intention of letting you go so easy. It was like two months after you left that Jen was hired. We were all hoping you'd realize the mistake you made and come back." Nick exclaimed.
"Nick I had to take the job. I would be going home to my family and I wouldn't be alone. When I wrote that letter to you I meant it but now all those feelings have disappeared. I love James now." Sara said, tears flowing down her cheeks. "I'm sorry Nick."
And with that she walked out. Nick ran after her.
"Sara wait!" he called.
"I can't Nick. I have to go back tomorrow. If I stay I'll never leave and I've built my life back up in San Francisco. My mom is there and all my friends." Sara said, still walking. Nick finally caught up to her and grabbed her arm, turning her around. By now a lot of the night shift was watching out of their windows or doors. Grissom was standing in his doorway, silent. Catherine and Warrick were peeping out of the DNA lab windows with Greg. Jen was talking with the receptionist and Ecklie was walking down the hallway. Brass just walked in, followed by James.
"Then don't leave! There are all of us here!" Nick exclaimed. "Griss, Warrick, Cath, Greg, Brass, hell even Ecklie. But most of all me!"
"Nicky stop. Please just stop and leave me alone. I told you. I don't love you anymore." Sara cried, tears flowing heavily. Now Nick had tears in his eyes. The next thing he did, Nick didn't know why he did it in front of everyone. He leaned down and kissed her and was pulled off by James, throwing a fist at Nick's jaw. Nick punched back at him and Grissom finally ran into the hallway, Greg and Warrick came as well, holding Nick back. Brass and Ecklie pulled James away and Grissom stood between the two of them. Sara walked out without giving anyone a second glance.
"I don't know what the hell you two think you're doing but it's not going any further. Brass, walk him out." Grissom yelled. "Nick, get in my office!"
Warrick and Greg let go of Nick once James and Brass were gone and Nick walked into Grissom's office. Grissom came in after him, slamming the door behind him.
"Griss..."
"It's over Nicky! You heard her. She doesn't love you anymore. If you loved her you'd rather her be happy then upset with you."
"Grissom..."
"Just go home right now and get your head straight." Grissom said. Nick nodded and walked out of the lab and to his Denali. As he was driving home thinking about Sara, Sara sat in James' car looking out the window as James ranted and raved about Nick.
'What just happened?' she wondered.
'Nick kissed you and declared his love for you. You should've let him do that a year ago.' Sara's inner voice said.
'No I shouldn't have. It wouldn't have worked out.' Sara thought.
'You're wrong and you know it.'
"SHUT UP!" Sara yelled out loud.
"What?" James exclaimed, nearly hitting the car in front of them.
"Not you." Sara muttered. She stayed quiet the whole way back to the hotel and when they got to the hotel Sara went straight to her room, leaving James dumbstruck in the hallway. He just rolled his eyes and went into his room. Sara threw herself onto the bed and turned the TV on. The first channel had Friends on.
"Did she get off the plane???"
Sara stared at the TV where Ross was nearly having a heart attack. Rachel walked in and Sara rolled her eyes. It was so... so... romantic? NO! Stop thinking like that Sidle. It's so predictable. Yes. Predictable. That's the word. Sara got sick of Ross and Rachel hugging and crying and kissing and changed the channel. This time it was a movie. Moulin Rouge.
"You're an actress. Make him believe you don't love him."
"I hate TV." Sara muttered. She changed the channel and it was some show with people kissing. The next channel, Spiderman with Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst's famous upside down kiss. Sara finally, after going through all the channels turned the TV off. "I really hate TV."
Nick, driving around in his Denali, got tired of the silence and turned the radio on. It was the normal teen music; Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, etc.
"You cried I'd wipe away all of your tears, you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears, I held your hand through all of these years and you still have all of me. I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone..."
Nick switched the radio station before the song went on. The next station was some sappy crappy songs but it was better than nothing, until...
"Please stay forever this way you are safe in my heart and my heart will go on."
"I cannot believe this." Nick muttered, turning the radio off. Why? Why him? What had he done to deserve this? Nick finally decided to just go home and he sat in his apartment the whole night. Sara sat in her hotel room, watching the rain fall outside. All she kept doing was thinking about that kiss from Nick. She had to keep her mind off him. Her wedding was in two months and Sara loved James. Not Nick. She had to remember that.'Then why did I feel something when he kissed me?' Sara thought.
"Because I'm being stupid!" she exclaimed, aloud.
