By the time Nick returned to the AV lab, forty-five minutes had elapsed since he and Sara had left. Getting his libido under control had taken a little more time than he had anticipated since Sara seemed to have a little trouble remember exactly where she'd left her keys in his house and enlisted his help, finally finding them under the coffee table. That and at least half a dozen kisses later followed by some time spent alone and he finally returned to the lab.

Archie glanced up as Nick entered. "Wasn't sure you were coming back." There was a knowing smile on the tech's face.

Nick cleared his throat. "Sara couldn't find her keys."

Archie let out a soft chuckle. "I lost my keys a lot when Kate and I started dating."

Nick couldn't keep the smile off of his face, but changed the subject. "So, did you get the image rendered?"

Archie nodded with a smile. "Take a look here." He selected an area of the image and pointed at what he was referring to. "At first I wasn't sure we were going to get much, but there's a clear reflection of his face in the glasses of one of the cashiers before he opened fire. The other one I'm still trying to work on."

Nick furrowed his brow and glanced over at Archie. "Can you print that out?"

"Already done." Archie reached over and pick up a printout of the image that he'd enhanced.

"How long until you think you might have something on the other one?" Nick queried without glancing up.

"Ten or fifteen minutes. I'm just trying to see if the door reflected the image of the other one." Archie offered.

"Yeah, thanks man." Nick stood to leave so that he could show Grissom what he'd found.

"So, Nick, if you don't mind me asking, how long have you and Sara been together?" Archie looked at Nick curiously.

Nick let out a nervous chuckle and tried to swallow his smile. "Not very long."

A few moments later Nick stood in the doorway of Grissom's office. The nightshift supervisor glanced up as he sensed the presence of someone standing there. "What do you have, Nick?"

"Archie was able to get a fairly good image of one of the killers. He's working on the other." Nick knew that Grissom probably hadn't had much sleep, but wouldn't go home until he'd run down every lead that they had.

"Good." Grissom rubbed his temples for a moment and then gestured to Nick. "Have a seat for a moment, Nicky."

Nick immediately knew that Grissom wanted to ask him about Sara. He seldom called him Nicky unless he was pulling the father knows best card out of his pocket. He took a seat and waited for Grissom to say something further.

Grissom looked at him over the rim of his glasses, clearing his throat before speaking. "What exactly is the nature of your relationship with Sara?"

Nick wondered if he was asking because he was jealous or if he was asking because he wanted to be an informed supervisor, or perhaps a mixture of both. He leaned forward in the chair, resting his elbows on his knees, fingers laced together. "Well, Gris, Sara and I are seeing each other."

Grissom nodded; his expression unreadable. "I trust that this relationship won't interfere with your work." He raised an expectant eyebrow at Nick.

Nick smiled at his supervisor. He knew that his concerns were valid, but he also sensed a protective tone with regards to Sara coming through. "I can assure you that our personal life will not interfere with being professional on the job." He stood; handing Grissom the printout of the image Archie had given him. "I need to get back to the AV lab."

Grissom didn't say another word and returned his attention to the photos he'd been pouring over when Nick had walked in.

Nick just shook his head to himself as he walked back down the hallway. He nearly collided with Greg. "Hey, man, sorry."

Greg looked a little annoyed. "So is it true?"

Nick looked at him a little confused. "Is what true?" It wasn't unusual for Greg to start in the middle of a thought and work his way backwards.

"You and Sara." Greg stood there with an expression that looked as if he expected Nick to deny it.

Nick couldn't keep the smile from his face. "Yeah, it's true."

"And I had to hear it from Warrick." Greg looked somewhat put out. He and Nick were friends and that was exactly the kind of news that he expected to hear first hand.

Nick let out a soft chuckle and spoke in a low voice. "Look, we just started dating, ok? It's not even twenty-four hours old."

Greg's eyebrows curved upwards in surprise. "So you weren't keeping it from me then." It was well known that Greg had been carrying a torch for Sara since he'd met her, but she just wasn't interested in him that way.

Nick shook his head. "I wouldn't do that to you man."

Greg smiled. "I got your back." He turned and disappeared as quickly as he'd emerged from the DNA lab.

Nick continued on down the hallway, his thoughts returning to Sara. A smile spread across his face and he inwardly cursed the perpetrators of the crime they were investigating for interrupting his time alone with Sara. He reasoned that if Grissom hadn't sent her to the crime scene to help Warrick and if he wasn't working on the video with Archie, that things might have been a little different inside his house.

He had been sitting in his SUV for a good five minutes when Sara had emerged from his house with a frustrated expression on her face.

"What's wrong, Sar?" Nick looked at her with concern.

"I can't seem to find my keys." A tiny smile began to play at her lips. "I didn't pay attention to where I set them down and I've looked in the living room and your bedroom and still can't find them.

At the mention of his bedroom, Nick felt himself getting excited again. "Well I guess I'd better help you find them." He descended from the vehicle and followed Sara back into the house.

They searched the living room, then walked back to the bedroom, giving it a good once over before emerging into the hallway. It was there that Sara had pulled him into a kiss and they had spent some quality time becoming reacquainted until Nick decided that they'd better stop.

He cleared his throat and pulled away, his voice rather husky. "We need to wait."

Sara furrowed her brow, her lips were slightly swollen from their kisses and she couldn't find a single reason she wanted to wait at that moment; she could tell just exactly how much Nick didn't want to wait either.

"We have to work." Nick stated simply, placing a kiss on her forehead.

She nodded and stepped away, moving towards the living room where she finally spotted her keys on the floor under the coffee table.

Nick realized that his thoughts were putting his libido in overdrive again and he let out a curse under his breath and made a quick detour past the men's room before heading back to the AV lab.