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Having arrived at C.J's, Sara and Greg took up residence at a nice corner table with a view to where they had just spotted Lorraine sitting near the bar.
"God she still looks great" Greg whispered to Sara adding hastily "but not as great as you" and immediately put his arm around her in a mock show of affection to catch Lorraine's eye. Sara laughed knowing that tonight was going to be fun. Better than having a boyfriend was pretending to have one.
"I just don't understand how you could still like her after what she did?" Sara could never really understand matters of the heart, not her own and certainly not someone else's.
"Neither can I if it's any consolation" Greg looked at Sara thoughtfully, "I guess she made me laugh, there were sparks between us, you know and she was smart, all the things I rate highly and she reminded me of you a little bit. Smart, funny, beautiful but totally hard to get close to!"
"Hard to get close to? I am not, well a little I suppose, but surely not that bad"
"Oh really, then how come we really know little about you compared to Catherine, Nick and Warrick? You're just like Grissom, an enigma."
"Oh we're supposed to be having fun, enough with the analysing, get me another drink would you, and make it a double vodka, no ice and easy on the lime, ok, I am going to powder my nose" Sara didn't like the turn of this conversation, nor did she want to think about how close he is to the truth or how much alike Grissom and her actually were. Making her way to the toilets, she bumped into a big tall blond guy accidentally. As she apologised and went to move past him he turned and stood partially in her way.
"Hey Babe, you want to know me over do you, how about you do it later in the privacy of my bedroom" the guy proposed.
"Not in this lifetime, can I please get past you". Sara tried to move to his right. The guy moved again in order to block her.
"Think your too good for me, you may look like a classy chick but baby don's be so stuck up"
He leaned menacingly towards her backing her against the bar. "Have a drink babe, on me"
"No thanks, I would rather dehydrate, now please excuse me"
A male voice came from behind her "Have you got a problem dude?" Sara turned around was surprised at her rescuer.
"No, do you?" the blond guy answered moving forward in a very threatening stance.
"Just leave my girl alone and we will be cool, that's all man, I don't want to have to fight but I will!"
"She's not worthy it anyway, she looks high maintenance" the blond guy backed down.
"She is high maintenance, but believe me worth every single ounce of it" turning to Sara her rescuer said "I will wait here for you with your drink, don't be long in there" meaning the bathroom.
Sara leaned in a whispered to him "I never knew you could be so forceful, you always play the clown so much, I am seeing you in a whole new light this evening and thanks for that" Not mentioning she was completely in control of the situation, yet.
"And just think Sara, our date isn't even nearly over yet" Greg replied, proud of his intervention and desperately thankful that big blonde guy backed down.
Laughingly Sara replied "Oh be still my heart, and just so you know I had that situation under control, be back in a minute, and don't move"
Returning from the bathrooms Sara found Greg in the company of Lorraine and caught the end of a question she was just asking him. "……..still on you own and pining away for me I suppose Greg, I do have that effect" tossing her hair over he shoulder in a teasing manner.
Bitch, thought Sara, rubbing his nose in it. "Hey baby, did you get my drink" Sara asked draping her arm around Greg's Shoulder and turning in to him so she was practically wrapped around his side.
"You remember each other do you guys? Sara this is Lorraine" Greg said smiling mischievously thrilled at Sara's entrance and in the manner she entered in "Lorraine in answer to your question no, we have been together oh about..."
"Three months and two weeks darling, you should be counting" Sara interrupted.
"I am honey" replied Greg lying as shamelessly as Sara just had "I am, and oh Lorraine we are very much in love" Greg bravely turned to kiss Sara and she reciprocated while thinking of how she was going to kill him for taking things too far.
Not angry exactly but put out that a line had been crossed, the need for another drink hit her, extracting herself from Greg's grasp "Greg tell her the story about how you saved me for some big guy one night. I'm going to the bar" not waiting for a reply she turned for the bar where what greeted her knocked the wind out of her. . . .. . "Jesus, you scared me……………………."
At the lab.
"Catherine, care to tell me what was going on in the break room yesterday?" Grissom asked Catherine as they were sorting paperwork and assignments for the night ahead.
"What are you talking about?" asked Catherine knowing exactly what he was talking about.
"Warrick's comment, Nick's embarrassment and Sara's prancing off as if she was actually happy"
Damn him; well I might as well tell him some of the truth, not necessarily all of it "Oh that" Catherine turned to face Gil and thought in her head 'O here we go' saying aloud "Oh Sara had arrived at work glammed up to the nines and calm and relaxed. Obviously she had just had a date she had enjoyed and didn't talk about it. Nick saw her arriving in a hot red dress and we all tried to extract the who and the where out of her, that's all".
"And Warrick's implied comment, that Nick may have cared she was out with some guy?"
"Now that I know nothing concrete about" Catherine said evasively and lowering her gaze back to the paperwork.
"Catherine?" Grissom asked in a warning tone, "these are things about my team I need to know, if there's some conflict of interest there, I have to know".
"Look Gil, firstly I have no concrete evidence from Nick, I haven't even talked to him since, and well you know Sara, there is just nothing there from her anyway. Warrick was messing around, that's all. Anyway if Nick did have designs on Sara, its him I would be worried about, not Sara."
"You think I am worried about Sara?" Grissom asked knitting his eyebrows together in a quizzing and thoughtful expression "Correction, only worried about Sara? I am worried about my team and what affects them"
"Gill, before I go and hand out assignments, I am going to tell you something as a friend not a member of this team ok. You just like having Sara following you like a lost puppy, its human nature, you don't want her but no one else can have her, so you are annoyed that maybe Nick cares for her. I think you know this kind of thing would never interfere with their work. They are both professionals and love their jobs more than just about everything. Cut Nick some slack, let him have a go. It's his heart that may get broken."
"Hmm, so you think that it may just be one sided then?"
Catherine stared a Gill in bewilderment. "Have you heard anything I have said Gil, have you and it's nothing to do with your hearing difficulty this time, its selective hearing. Well listen to this, DON'T INTERFERE, Sara might not know it yet but Nick would be about the best thing that could ever happen to her, and you are not to say anything to him. I think he may be embarrassed enough as it is. You know Sara would tell you to go to hell. Not to mention you could ruin what little chance Nick has. Now have you heard that? Have you?" Catherine had spoke more forcefully this time and meant everything she had said. Nicky deserved a chance without Gil interfering. She had promised herself she would help him.
"I have heard you Cath, on both occasions. Let me assure you that my interest is purely to do with the damage this could cause the team. That's all. To use your words its human nature to let your personal feelings interfere with work, especially with Nick. And know I won't mention it to them but I will be keeping a close eye on them. If it means separating Nick from her for a while on cases, then so be it, now can you hand these out to the Day team now, Lord knows they need all the time they can get." Turning back to his work, Gil made it obvious the conversation was closed.
Exasperated, Catherine went to do as she was told. Hoping it was purely professional reasons Gil would separate them, both for Nicky's sake and for her own she supposed. Not that she loved Gil, they had passed that point in there friendship where it could turn to love, but she didn't like the idea that Gil's affections for her could be surpassed by anyone else in the CSI Lab. Selfish but seeing as they were throwing out the word's a lot tonight, she would use them it was human nature.
Back at the bar
Nick and Warrick had had quite a few beers at the other end of the bar not having noticed their colleagues….yet.
"So you are not going to ask her out, ever?" Warrick looked enquiringly at Nick.
"No man, no point and anyway what would I say, Hey Sara, let me blow our working relationship and our friendship by asking will you go out with me, I don't think so War, I know she would she wouldn't be horrible about it, but a firm never would be her answer" Nick sunk lower into his pint.
"Ok man, sorry I asked. Let's do what we said we would and look for some ladies, take your mind off things" The pitch in Warrick's voice becoming high pitched towards the later end of his quote. Warrick sipped his pint and looked around and suddenly "Well would you look over there isn't that Greg? He's got some hot brunette wrapped around him. Can't see her face properly but look at that frame man, a girl like her has got to have hot friends"
Nick perked up at the suggestion, no point in waiting around for something that wasn't going to happen.
"Yeah, lets join him, whether he wants us to or not"
Striding over to the other side of the bar, they over heard the conversation between a blonde who looked a lot like Greg's ex, Greg and the well framed brunette.
"Lorraine in answer to your question no, we have been together oh about..."
"Three months and two weeks darling, you should be counting" the brunette interrupted. "I am honey" replied Greg, "I am, and oh Lorraine, we are very much in love" Watching Greg kiss his girlfriend in such a manner made both Nick and Warrick laugh.
"Greg tell her the story about how you saved me for some big guy one night. I'm going to the bar"
Just about to mention that he didn't know Greg had been dating or that he was in love to Warrick, Nick got the land of his life. The brunette swung around and banged straight into him.
"Jesus, you scared me……………………………………Nick, Warrick well this is a surprise"
TO BE CONTINUED.
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