Warrick Brown stood in front of his locker changing out of the shirt and tie he'd worn for a court appearance earlier that day and into one more appropriate for working crime scenes, when Nick sauntered in just before shift with a rather large grin on his face. Warrick quirked an eyebrow at him a bit suspiciously. "You look a little too happy." It was one thing for Nick to take Sara on a date, it was quite another if he thought he could treat her like any other woman he'd gone out with and Warrick wanted to make that quite clear that if he hurt her that he'd be a dead man.

Nick let out a knowing chuckle. "Relax, Rick." He wasn't going to let anything spoil his good mood, not after Sara Sidle had agreed to date him. They'd finished up their coffees and headed back to her apartment, shared a few kisses and then he'd hightailed it home to grab a shower and had just made it to work with a few minutes to spare, thanks to some long yellow lights.

Warrick finished buttoning up his shirt and closed his locker, leaning a shoulder against it as he crossed his arms over his chest and gave Nick a look. "How did the date go?" It wasn't that he didn't want things to work out between Nick and Sara; it was just that he was friends with both of them and didn't want to be put in the middle if something went wrong.

Nick couldn't keep the grin off of his face. "Very well." His mind was clearly on 'Planet Sara' and he was going to have to work at focusing tonight if he was going to be much use at any crime scene they were called out to.

Warrick's eyebrow went up again in big brother fashion. "How well?" His tone indicated that Nick had better tread very carefully.

Nick chuckled again and shook his head. "You should know Sara better than that."

"It's not her I'm worried about." Warrick quipped.

"And you should know me better than that too." Nick answered in all seriousness. "I'm not about to do something stupid and blow it with her." The truth was that Nick hadn't really dated much lately at all, and ever since Kristy Hopkins had been murdered, he'd approached the dating scene a little differently than his overblown reputation would indicate. That experience had matured him in a way that had him much more serious about work and more serious about the women he was interested in.

Warrick's interest was piqued. "So she wants to go out with you again?" There was a hint of a smirk on his face.

"Yeah, she wants to go out with me again." Nick had a smug expression on his face.

"Who wants to go out with you again?" Catherine had chosen that moment to walk into the locker room in search of her shift so that she could hand out assignments. Since she'd become supervisor it seemed that she wasn't as privy to what was going on in the lives of her coworkers since she felt like she was always buried in paperwork.

Warrick glanced over at Nick to see if he would answer the question, or if he would be purposefully evasive.

Nick had no such hesitation. "Sara." He shut his locker door and faced Catherine with a smile.

Catherine looked a little surprised. "Sara." Her tone was a bit skeptical as if Nick had just suggested they all skip work and go to religious revival meeting for the evening. The last she'd known, she thought Sara was still hung up on Gil Grissom.

Nick chuckled softly. "Yes, Sara." He puffed his chest out slightly and continued. "In fact we've decided to start seeing each other."

"After one date?" Warrick wasn't sure he was hearing him correctly; he knew Nick had it bad for Sara, but he didn't realize that Sara was that interested in him.

"Two dates." Nick smiled satisfied. "We went running and had coffee this afternoon."

Catherine stood there with an incredulous look on her face. "You're dating." This was definitely a newsflash and one she wasn't sure was going to go over very well with a few people around the lab, the first being Grissom. Not only did the man not get out much, he was relationally clueless; she'd thought he was interested in Sara, but apparently his chronic inaction had made him a little late.

Nick smirked at Catherine, resting his hands on his hips. "Why is it so hard to believe that Sara Sidle just might want to date me?" He was more amused than annoyed at Catherine's reaction.

A smile stole over Catherine's face as she gave Nick an appreciative glance and let out a throaty laugh. "It's not hard to believe that any woman would want to date you, Nick, but this is Sara." She smiled softly at Nick leaving unspoken the fact that Sara had been so focused on Grissom for so long that some of them thought she'd never move on.

"Well if you have any doubts, you can ask Sara." Nick hoped that this mini-interrogation was almost over. He'd prepared himself for the third degree, but he didn't want to spend the entire shift in the locker room.

"I didn't say I doubted you." Catherine remarked to Nick and then shot Warrick a glance as she noticed he was just standing there taking it all in with amusement on his face.

"Actually, Cath..." Warrick began to refute her statement.

She cut him off with a smirk and a raised eyebrow. "We have shift, gentlemen." She turned and walked out of the locker room towards her office where she expected Nick and Warrick to follow for the briefing.

Nick glanced over at Warrick and let out a chortle. "She shot you down, man." He had picked up on a vibe between the pair that there just might be a little bit more brewing underneath the surface, but neither one of them was about to admit it. Still, Nick enjoyed getting in the occasional barb towards Warrick.

Warrick just shook his head and laughed good-naturedly as they strolled down the hallway, glancing over at Nick. "You just be careful with Sara." There was no way he was going to take the bait that Nick was trying to throw out about Catherine. There was far too much at stake if he ever went down that path, and he wasn't sure if it was a good move for either of them, especially since she was his supervisor now.

"I will be." Nick replied sincerely. He couldn't remember the last time he felt this way about someone. He was definitely into her and he sure as hell hoped this shift went by quickly or that he ran into her when she showed up for her own shift because he couldn't wait to see her again. Sara Sidle had agreed to date him and no one was going to wipe the smile off of his face today.