Disclaimer: Not mine, never has been, never will be.
A/N: Nick's POV.
Pairing: N/S
A tale of tears
I'm scared, scared of what is wrong. I have seen her cry before, on more occasions than I would have liked to, but this is different. I have never seen her cry at the lab. She has never let herself fall apart at work and while I'm holding her, which is all I can do at this moment, my mind drifts back to the first time I saw her crying.
No words of love were uttered that moment. We just knew the time had come to stop playing hide and seek and this is how I found myself mesmerized by the want in her eyes, which matched the want in my eyes. Tears were slowly falling from her eyes. So many questions were forming in my head, so many things to say, but none of them made it to spoken words. As the silence continued between us I understood that there was no reason to be scared of crossing the line which we had carefully drawn between us, because we had already crossed it. Finding ourselves at a point of no return we were scared to death to act upon what had been lingering between us for so long. It was then she spoke up, her words spoken so softly, but so clearly at the same time.
"Promise me, promise me that we will stay friends."
As my lips found hers I knew I made a promise I knew I could never keep. I knew then and I know now that I can never be just friends again.
Her quiet sobs start to subside and she looks up into my eyes. We both now that standing here like this could mean the end of our careers at the Las Vegas Crime Lab, but our jobs are not enough to satisfy us anymore, not anymore.
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