Warrick noted the tan on Nick's scruffy face and smirked. "So I guess it was a good vacation then."

"Yeah." Nick's smile spread across his face. "Sara and I are just grabbing something to eat; they don't feed you anything but peanuts on the damn planes any more."

At the mention of Sara's name, Warrick let out a chuckle. "You guys have a good time?" There was something in the tone of his voice that implied that he knew exactly what had transpired on their vacation.

"Great time." Nick played it cool as he let Warrick in and glanced over at Sara. "What was your favorite part, Sar?"

With an ace of her own up her sleeve, Sara smiled. "Meeting Ned."

Warrick looked a little surprised, but quickly recovered. "Ned?" The guy at the hotel didn't say anything about another guy in the picture.

"Of course Juan Carlos was pretty great too." Sara took another bite of her pizza and mumbled as she ate. "Want some pizza, Warrick? There's plenty."

"Juan Carlos." Warrick glanced at Nick with an expression that said he thought his friend was a complete idiot for taking a gorgeous woman on vacation with him and letting other guys hit on her.

"Yeah, we met him, what our first or second day?" Nick tried to remember exactly when they had met the quirky taxi driver.

"Second, we slept almost the entire first day." Sara recounted. "He took us out to San Gervasio where we met Ned."

"That's right." Nick smiled at the memory of Sara snuggling up against him in the backseat to get Juan Carlos to stop hitting on her.

"Uh, huh." Warrick wasn't sure what to make of the whole situation.

Sara smiled broadly at Warrick. "In fact you might get to meet Ned; he's coming to visit at the end of the week." Of course the fact that he was coming to Vegas to marry Carla was a convenient detail to leave out for the moment.

Nick arched his brows at Sara as if to congratulate her for pouring it on thick, she was doing such a convincing job that he was starting to feel a little jealous.

"Really?" Warrick looked a little perplexed. He had planned to come over and grill Nick about what had happened with Sara on their vacation, and maybe catch the two of them in a compromising position to prove his point, but the last thing he'd expected was to hear Sara gushing about some other guy.

"Did I mention that Ned's a doctor? A pediatrician." Sara smiled. She knew that Warrick was buying her story hook, line, and sinker.

"A doctor." Warrick gave Nick a meaningful stare; he was definitely going to have to smack Nick upside the head later. He had all but paved the way to Sara for him by making sure they'd have to share a hotel room and he still blew it.

"That came in pretty handy, what with you getting sick." Nick had a mischievous glint in his eye. "I seem to recall you thought he had a pretty good bedside manner." Nick was referring more to the fact that Ned had come through with protection rather than about his doctoring skills.

Sara smirked. "Yes, he did." While it was true that Ned had indeed had a wonderful bedside manner, Sara had been far more interested in the bedside manner Nick had provided.

It now occurred to Warrick that by making all the arrangements over the phone that he'd left himself wide open to getting scammed. And it had cost him a damn pretty penny to rent that room out from underneath them too. "Hey, well I'll have to hear more about it later. I just finished a double and thought I'd stop by and see how the trip went." He let out a yawn so he could leave gracefully.

"No problem. See you at shift." Nick headed towards the front door in a subtle attempt to get Warrick moving that way.

Warrick walked out of Nick's house with a rather perplexed expression on his face. His plans had certainly not worked out the way he had intended and now he was out some serious cash. It seemed that gambling, no matter in what form always came around to bite you in the ass.

Sara started to giggle as soon as Warrick left, noting the smile on Nick's face as he walked over and plopped himself on the couch next to her.

He grinned. "That was some kind of fast talking." His drawl was decidedly more pronounced.

Sara studied his face as she set her plate down on the coffee table. "Think he bought it?" She knew she'd done a commendable job judging by the look on Warrick's face as he left.

"I almost bought it." Nick feigned a hurt expression and then winked at her.

"Ned was kind of cute." Sara smirked.

With an impish smirk on his face, Nick launched himself at her and tackled her on the couch, pinning her underneath him as he began to tickle her. "He was what?"

"He was cute." Sara giggled as she tried to get a hold of his hands.

"Then what am I?" Nick knew that she was teasing him, and his tone reflected that.

Sara finally grabbed his hands and she smiled up at him as she answered him. "Sexy as hell."

Her face was slightly flushed and at that moment, with her pinned underneath him, all Nick wanted to do was kiss her senseless and that's exactly what he did. The remaining pizza and the Discovery Channel were forgotten for a long few minutes as they traded deep exploratory kisses.

When they finally did break apart, Nick whispered huskily. "You're so beautiful." His eyes drank in the features of her face; her kiss swollen lips, her deep soulful brown eyes, and just the way she looked at him. There was such trust and desire in her expression that Nick couldn't help but smile.

"You're not so bad yourself." Sara whispered back, reaching up to trail her fingers along his jaw line where the makings of a real beard were growing. She arched a brow at him enticingly. "You could keep this and I wouldn't complain, but since I haven't had you clean shaven yet that could be interesting too."

Nick chuckled, not particularly interested from moving from on top of her. "Just what did you have in mind?" He had plenty of ideas of what he'd like to do, he just wasn't sure they had enough time before they both had to be at work, especially if they wanted to get some sleep.

Sara pursed her lips together thoughtfully as she continued to run her fingertips through the stubble. "Well, I was thinking maybe a shower." She smiled. "A shave." Her eyes seemed to have mischief dancing in them. "And then bed."

Nick waggled his brows at her. "And exactly in what order did you want to do that in?" He grinned at her, giving serious thought to ducking his head and kissing her again.

"Mmn, any order is fine." Sara ran her fingers up Nick's cheek and slid her hand around to the back of his neck.

"How about bed?" He leaned down again and kissed her softly. "Then, when we get up I can shave." He kissed her a little longer this time. "And then we can shower." The smile on her face matched his own as he leaned down and kissed her again.

"I guess that might work." Sara didn't really care what order things happened in.

"Ok, bed it is." Nick kissed her again, sure that at some point they'd actually make it to the bed.