"Grissom." Sara approached the table where her mentor sat eating his lunch. "What did you want?" She looked at him expectantly hoping that he couldn't tell that she was still feeling a little breathless from the hormonal tizzy that she and Nick had worked themselves up into before Greg had proved one of Murphy's Laws oh so well with his interruption.

Grissom quirked an eyebrow at her oddly. "What do I want?" He wasn't really sure what she was talking about, but then again it certainly wouldn't be the first time that Sara had thrown him for a loop.

Sara crossed her arms over her chest hoping that she sounded casual. "Greg said you were looking for me, he said it was important."

Grissom looked slightly confused at where Greg had gotten that impression. "I wasn't looking for you." He pursed his lips together for a moment as he considered if he'd said something aloud to himself that Greg might have overheard. "I merely made an observation that you were gone and I asked him if he'd seen you."

Sara's tone was a bit brusque. "You didn't want to talk to me." Her irritation at Greg was building and she had half a mind to march right back to her room and see if Nick was still up for a nice romp in the sheets instead of lunch.

"Are you feeling ok, Sara?" Grissom noticed that she looked a bit flushed as he studied her over the rim of her glasses.

"No. Actually I'm not." She didn't give Grissom much time to reply as she turned on her heels and headed purposefully back towards her room, hoping that Nick was still there. As she opened the door a bit forcefully, she was met with a startled Nick staring back at her. He had just been walking towards the door to leave when she arrived.

He looked at her frustrated state curiously. "You're back soon." He didn't want to get his hopes up that her return was good news.

"Grissom didn't need to talk to me." Sara was fuming.

"He didn't." Nick wanted to clarify what she was saying.

"Apparently, you and I are going to be killing Greg later." She was only half joking and the tone of her voice was winding up a few notches.

"Not a good idea with this many CSIs around." Nick quipped with a smirk at just how frustrated Sara was about Greg having interrupted them.

"Well just how many more times do you want to get interrupted?" There was a distinct whine in her voice for a moment and then a more determined look took over.

Nick smiled and whispered. "You know what they say, third time's a charm." He stepped towards her and then reached behind her and locked the door.

Sara pushed him away. "We cannot do this now...as much as I want to, I don't even want to try and do this now." She looked at him as if she was waiting for yet another interruption.

"Ok." Nick tried to keep his tone even, given her obvious frustration. He did not want to inadvertently become the target of it. He took a deep breath and quirked an eyebrow. "What's really bothering you?"

Sara nervously nibbled her lower lip. "I feel like we're sneaking around...I thought we said we didn't want this to be a secret." She gestured between them.

"I don't want it to be a secret, Sara, but what do you suggest, walk into the session and give everyone a demonstration?" Nick smirked at her. There just hadn't been a reason to tell anyone as yet that they'd decided to see each other, other than Catherine and Warrick, and a formal announcement seemed out of place.

The idea of them getting it on in front of everyone during one of their sessions caused Sara to snort out a laugh.

"See, we could kill two birds with one stone." Nick had an impish smirk on his face. He was clearly not serious, but his comment had made Sara smile and that's what he'd been trying to do.

"You're impossible." She smirked back at him and then stepped towards him and slid her arms around his neck.

"Maybe." He grinned at her as he slid his arms around her waist. He leaned down and kissed her. He didn't care if they were late to the session; all he cared about right that moment was Sara. The kiss was soft and unhurried, both of them wanting to enjoy the sensation of each others lips.

As they pulled apart, Sara whispered as a smile pulled at her lips. "Do you think anyone would notice if we skipped the next session?"

Nick couldn't help but laugh. "Probably." He leaned in and kissed her again, a bit more insistently and smiled against her mouth as she seemed to melt against him.

Sara murmured against his lips. "We could tell them we were working on some of the teambuilding exercises we've been hearing about..."

Nick was tempted to laugh, but his hormones were already kicking right back into overdrive and so he simply replied by deepening the kiss.

Coherent thought was quickly fleeing Sara's mind at the sensation of Nick's hands gripping her butt through her jeans and the distinct impression that they were moving in the general direction of the bed. Her impression was confirmed as they tumbled onto it still kissing madly.

Grissom glanced around the meeting room quizzically. The session was set to begin shortly and he was two CSIs short of a team. Seeing Catherine approach he quirked an eyebrow at her. "Have you seen Nick or Sara?"

Catherine did her best to successfully suppress the smirk that so badly wanted to flit across her face; instead she considered Grissom's question with a casualness that belied her knowledge. "I think they were going to get a head start on the exercises we're supposed to break off into...I don't think either one of them was really feeling up to eating lunch."

Grissom pursed his lips together. "Sara did say she wasn't feeling well." He furrowed his brow. "I certainly hope there isn't a bug going around..." He smirked boyishly as Catherine arched her brows in amusement. "Of the flu variety that is."

"Greg did mention that Nick wasn't feeling very well before lunch either." Catherine knew full well that the pair felt just fine and she had a suspicion that she knew exactly what teambuilding activities they were getting a head start on; something that she and Warrick were going to have to wait until later to work on.

"How did I keep my hands off of you for almost five years?" Sara was completely breathless as she and Nick lay tangled under the comforter from one of the beds in the room she was sharing with Catherine.

Nick just lay there smiling from ear to ear. "I don't know; how did you?" He snickered as Sara swatted at him and then began to nibble at his neck.

"There is no way we're going back downstairs anytime soon." Sara's voice was decidedly husky and just as she was starting to return from orbit, she was ready to go for round two.

"I like your line of thinking." Nick rolled them over so that he had her body pinned under his. "This is my kind of retreat." He grinned at her. "It's more like an advance."

He was silenced as Sara pulled him down into a searing kiss and they let themselves get carried away all over again.

The End

Author's Note: Thanks to all my readers; I appreciate the time to you take to read and review. This is going to my last story for a little while. The writing Mojo seems to be on vacation as I'm trying to pack and move and then make that all important decision about an internet service provider. So there may be a one shot here and there when I borrow someone else's connection, but this is the last multi-chapter one for a while.