The pizza delivery man was just pulling up as Nick pulled his Denali into the driveway. "See I told you if I called before we pulled out of the lot at the lab that he'd meet us here."

She looked amused. "You've done this before, haven't you?"

He just grinned at her. "Now what makes you say that?"

As they descended from the vehicle, the twenty-something delivery driver lifted his hand in greeting. "Hey, Nick."

"Carlos man, how's it going?" Nick pulled out his wallet and handed the young man more than enough for the pizza.

"You want some change?" Carlos raised an eyebrow at him curious if he was getting a generous tip or if Nick was just distracted by the beautiful woman standing next to him.

"Keep it man. You're gonna need it next semester, chemistry books aren't cheap." Nick smiled good naturedly as he took two pizza boxes from Carlos and then turned towards Sara. "Sara, this is Carlos, he's majoring in biochemistry at Western LVU and I think I might have convinced him he should think about a career in criminalistics."

Sara smiled genuinely and extended her hand in greeting. "Hey, Carlos, nice to meet you."

"Likewise." Carlos smiled back as he shook her hand and then gave Nick a curious smile.

Nick let out a soft chuckle. "Sara and I work together at the crime lab. You should pick her brain sometime, she majored in theoretical physics."

Carlos winced. "Smart and beautiful." He winked and then pointed at Nick. "You're a lucky man, Nick. I gotta get back to work. See you later."

"Later man." Nick waved as Carlos headed back to his car and then glanced over at Sara who was clearly amused. "What?"

"Is there anyone in this town you don't know?" Sara was always amazed at how Nick seemed to make friends so easily and keep them for so long. It was completely contrary to how she felt she was and it was one of the things that she found so attractive about him.

Nick laughed and slung his arm over her shoulder as he propelled them towards his front door. "Carlos has been delivering my pizza since he was in high school."

They made their way into his house and Nick headed into the kitchen to get a couple of plates for their pizza. He called out as he loaded up their plates. "Just make yourself at home, but don't try and turn the TV on yet, I just got a new remote and it's a little tricky."

Sara smirked as the TV came on just as he finished his sentence. "What was that you were saying?" She had settled herself on the couch and had turned the home theater system on without batting an eyelash.

He just shook his head and laughed as he rounded the corner from the kitchen into the living room with two plates full of pizza. "I should have known better than to tell you not to do something."

Sara noticed that both plates were loaded with two kinds of veggie pizza and a smile stole across her face at the thought that she was going to let him kiss her any damn time he wanted to. She took one of the plates from him, her smile widening. "Thanks."

Nick couldn't stop staring at her. "You're welcome." As he stood there a thought occurred to him. "You want something to drink?" He quirked an eyebrow at her.

"Uh, yeah." Sara couldn't stop staring at his lips.

"Iced tea ok?" Nick reasoned that alcohol probably wasn't a good idea since they were going to have to go back to work in a few hours.

"Sure." Sara watched as he set his plate down on the coffee table and disappeared back into the kitchen. A few moments later, he emerged with two glasses of iced tea and a couple of napkins.

For some reason, Nick felt nerves tumbling around in his stomach as he sat down next to Sara on the couch and put the glasses on the coffee table. "How's the pizza?" He glanced over at her and smiled realizing she had a mouthful.

Sara could feel herself blushing as she tried to chew and swallow and when she finally did, she smiled at Nick. "It's good."

They found themselves staring at each other for a good long minute and then Nick chuckled nervously. "I left the surveillance videos at the lab."

It took Sara a moment to follow what he was saying, but then she started to laugh. "Uh, good." It seemed that her vocabulary had been narrowed down to one and two word sentences since she'd sat down.

"We could watch something on pay-per-view." Nick suggested, having absolutely no clue what movies were even available since he'd spent more time at the lab lately than sitting in front of his TV.

"Regular TV is fine too." Sara really didn't want to have him pay for a movie since she had a sneaking suspicion they weren't going to be seeing all of it anyway.

He looked at her with amusement. "Discovery Channel?" He knew that the entire night shift crew teased him about his television watching habits, but he also knew that Sara watched the channel probably even more than he did.

"Yeah." She was really beginning to wonder if the portions of her brain that controlled intelligent speech had short circuited.

Nick quickly flipped the channel to find that an episode of the New Detectives was just beginning. "Oh, I love this one."

Sara glanced over at him, noticing that he was completely serious and started to giggle. "We are a couple of geeks, you know that?"

He grinned at her and for the first time since they'd gotten to his house he began to relax a little. "Maybe that's why we're perfect for each other." He had a momentary flash of panic that maybe he'd revealed too much of what he was feeling in that statement, but from the smile on Sara's face, he thought that just maybe she agreed with him.

She hoped that the stampede of elephants taking up residence in her stomach weren't evident on her face at that moment. "You think so, huh?"

Nick wasn't sure he trusted his voice so he just nodded and slowly scooted closer to her. "Yeah, I think so." He wanted to kiss her so badly and he felt like his heart was going to stop as he realized that she was going to let him.

Sara was very aware of the deep coffee color of his eyes as she stared back into them and she almost felt like she could drown in them. "Me too."

Nick garnered a little courage and dipped his head towards hers. He noticed Sara's eyes fluttering shut an instant before his did and then his lips softly touched hers as he began to tentatively kiss her and as she began to respond eagerly, he felt like he'd just tasted a little bit of heaven.

They moved towards each other as they tried to deepen the kiss and it was only then that Sara realized that she still had her plate of pizza on her lap. They pulled apart laughing at the gooey mess of cheese, sauce and veggies that had splattered all over Nick in the process.