Nick wasn't sure how long he'd been sitting in the AV lab with Archie going over video footage from the scene of a multiple homicide that the rest of the team had worked earlier in the shift, he just knew that it was already well past the end of the nightshift. They were trying to isolate the faces of the two gunmen that had burst into a 24-hour mini-mart and had opened fire, killing both cashiers, one patron, and had critically wounded two others. Archie had been glad for the help when Nick had walked in.

Nick felt a pair of hands descend on his shoulders and a smile began to tug at his lips; he didn't need to turn around to know that it was Sara. "Do you need a ride back to your ride?"

Sara began to gently massage Nick's shoulders, a gesture that didn't escape Archie's notice. "I was just going to see how long you were going to be. I think I left my keys inside your house, so I'm going to have to wait until you're done unless Grissom comes up with something else for me to do."

Nick glanced at Archie out of the corner of his eye noticing the telltale smile on the tech's face. He turned his head to look at Sara over his shoulder. "I'm not really sure how long I'm gonna be." He furrowed his brow. "I could take you over there and just come back."

Sara smiled. "I can wait." She glanced over at Archie who had remained silent. "Or I could help."

Finally Archie interjected. "Nick, you live, what, ten minutes away?"

"Yeah." Nick answered, trying to keep his smile at bay.

"In a half hour I should have this rendered so we can see your suspects a little more clearly." He turned to Nick and Sara, giving them a knowing smile. "There's not much more you can do until then anyway."

Nick let out a soft chuckle. "Thanks, man."

"Thanks Archie." Sara couldn't keep from smiling as Nick stood up and turned to face her.

He grinned at her. "Let's go then." He figured that with a ten minute drive to his house and ten minute ride back, he'd have a good ten minutes to spend some quality time alone with Sara, maybe more if he drove fast.

They were on their way down the hallway towards the front door of the lab when a somewhat frazzled looking Grissom intercepted them. "Sara, I need you to go meet Warrick at the scene to help transport some additional evidence back to the lab."

She gestured back towards Nick and looked at Grissom with a slightly perplexed expression. "I left my SUV at Nick's and my keys are in his house."

Grissom didn't look especially pleased at the news and Nick wasn't sure if it was because Nick had been spending time alone with Sara or if he was just so engrossed in the case that what few people skills the man possessed had been discarded temporarily.

Nick stammered. "I was going to take her there and come right back. Archie won't have anything from the video we've been working on for about another half hour or so."

Grissom looked at Nick over the rim of his glasses and from the softening of his facial expression it appeared that he'd realized that his tone had been a bit sharp. "Fine." Other than that his expression was unreadable.

Nick and Sara made their way out into the parking lot and as she walked a little ahead of him, he couldn't seem to stop watching how her jeans hugged her in quite a flattering manner. There was just something about those jeans and that T-shirt that he found incredibly sexy and the memory of holding her in his arms as they kissed brought a smile to his face. It wasn't until they were almost at his Denali that Nick realized that his jeans were starting to hug him too, but not in a way that he wanted to announce to the entire world; or to Sara for that matter.

Sara didn't seem to notice as she slipped into the passenger side of the vehicle, at least until Nick was moving a little too carefully getting into the driver's seat. She smirked, her cheeks a little pink. "Having a problem there?" One of her eyebrows was raised and she gave every indication that she knew exactly what Nick's problem was.

Nick let out an embarrassed laugh, his cheeks turning a little red. "Nothing I can't handle." He wisely kept his attention straight ahead rather than to glance over at the reason why he was having discomfort in the first place.

"You sure about that?" Sara seemed to be enjoying this a little too much as she let out a giggle.

Nick just cleared his throat and turned on the ignition. The ten minute drive to his house seemed far longer as he tried to shift his weight to ease his discomfort which seemed to be increasing.

Sara kept stealing glances at him, trying to keep the smug smile off of her face at the effect she was having on him.

He pulled into his driveway and cast Sara a sidelong glance, speaking through slightly gritted teeth. "Do you want to just take my keys so you can go find yours?"

Sara smirked. "Archie won't have anything for you for at least another twenty minutes and it's only a ten minute drive back to the lab."

Nick closed his eyes and let out a groan. "Do you have any idea what you're doing to me right now?"

Sara feigned innocence as she reached for the door handle. "Why don't you tell me."

Nick just shook his head and let out a soft chuckle. "Darlin', you have the sexiest little ass and those jeans of yours are hugging it in all the right places."

Sara tried to swallow a smile unsuccessfully. "Maybe you should just give me your keys then."

"Why don't I?" He smirked at her and then pulled the keys out of the ignition, handing them over to Sara. "I'll just wait here." At the moment he really didn't trust himself to alone inside of his house with her.

Sara began to climb out of the SUV, but paused and looked back at Nick with a mischievous grin. "You know, you can't go back to the lab like that. You're going to have to do something about it."

Nick glanced over at her with a pained smiled. "Unless you're offering to help, Sar, I'm staying here until you're gone."