Chapter 1
Disclaimer: I don't own any characters from CSI, just borrowed them.
"Well look at you!" Nick grinned at the figure of Sara approaching in a dress, "Hot date before shift huh?" She did look great in a red short dress, very unlike anything he'd ever seen her wear before.
"When my private life becomes your business Stokes, I will let you know" Sara said grinning back, ignoring the questions.
"You do look good Sara, Really who is the lucky guy, Greg will be heart broken"
"Nick, leave it out and could you excuse me while I change, will you?" Indicating that Nick was to leave the locker room.
"Can't I help?" Nick asked moving towards the door, already knowing what her answer would be.
Chuckling Sara began changing into more suitable work cloths. If only Nick knew she had been at the Opera solo, what would he say? Nick always has a date for all occasions according to Greg. Sara didn't feel the need for one. No man needed to go to the Opera anyway. She had always loved it, but told no-one, keeping that romantic side to her a secret. Maybe Nick wouldn't laugh though. They had got closer lately; he seemed genuinely interested in her friendship. It certainly broke the loneliness to have a friend like Nick. And he made her laugh.
Changed and drinking coffee in the break room she tried to ignore the others teasing and suggestions as to where she had been and who she was with.
"Nick, did you have to detail what I was wearing? Really its not big deal"
"You in a dress Sara, and were not supposed to ask questions, get real" Catherine quipped.
"Well if you won't tell us Sara, we'll just have to make it up as we go along" Warrick was wearing a bemused expression.
"I don't feel the need to discuss it, thank you for your interest though guy's"
"Its more than interest on some of our parts" Warrick cracked looking and immediately received a light punch in the arm from a shocked looking Nick, all of which escaped Sara's sight line but not Catherine's or Grissom's who had just arrived. Grissom raised an eyebrow at Nick, who had just turned a light shade of red.
"Really, and what does that mean exactly Warrick?" Grissom spoke for the first time since entering the room. Catherine interjected and immediately began handing out assignments as Grissom had been late due to a meeting with the Governor about funding for new equipment. Grissom's question was not answered.
"Right Warrick, you are on your own with a Jewellery Store Heist" handing him a green page. "Sara, Nick you two have a Jane Doe found in a Summer Mansion in the hills, they think she may have been a squatter" also handing Nick a green page.
"Actually Nick, you take the Jewellery store and Warrick you take the DB with Sara, I think that will work better" Grissom said before walking out of the room, not stopping to calls of why from both Catherine and Nick.
"He gets stranger and moodier every day" Sara said "Meet you in the car park War" and walked down the corridor oblivious to Nick's embarrassment.
An amazing, intuitive CSI, but when it comes to copping on to what is happening around her concerning herself, not a clue, Warrick thought. Also Nick was going to kill him for that comment. Grissom would never switch them for that reason, would he? He put the question to Catherine later.
"Well you never know with Gil, I don't think he has Romantic feelings for Sara, he had his opportunity in fairness and didn't take it or seem to cut up about it. But, …….. he did behave strangely today! and I for one am not going to mention it to him. Poor Nicky, he is in over his handsome head with this latest crush"
"More than I crush I would say, just as well Sara seemed not to notice, Nick would kill me. But he is never going to tell her so maybe it wouldn't have been a bad thing"
"Probably not, but I'm not sure if there suited, do you? Nicky is such a people person and Sara is well, lets face it, barely a person herself at times.
"That's not fair Catherine, I thought more of you than that - to be so biased" and walked off before Catherine could reply, Sara and her really had never got along, but she adored Nicky like a little brother. Sorry for her comment, she knew should cut Sara more slack. The only two women on the team should stick together. Was Gil jealous? Having been friends for years she couldn't imagine it. Smiling she thought of the look on poor Nicky's face. She will help him; she thought to herself, if he loved Sara then she would do anything she could. Nicky always had her back, she would have his.
Damn him, thought Nick, knowing exactly why the assignments were swapped. Trust Grissom to react like this on a titbit of gossip. Thank god Sara hadn't noticed anything… yet but a bright Girl like her would figure it out soon enough if Warrick kept making comments like that, and he still had Catherine to face yet. I won't let Grissom do this, I have tried to hard to get closer to Sara over the last year, and he is not going to wipe all that out because his ego has suddenly taken a bruising. Maybe I'm being unfair, maybe he thinks they work better together?... hmmm better put my mind on my job for the moment, it's the wrong time so soon after Hank to even think about telling Sara how he had fallen for her, the entirely wrong time.
Will I continue, i.e. is it good enough to bother, please R&R.
Thank you.
