AN: The idea involving Nick in this chapter was my friend Emma/ DNAGirl who just thought of it while we were eating lunch one day. Unfortunately neither of us own Greg (No matter how much we pretend to) or any of the other characters!

To Act, or Not to Act?

Sara Sidle seemed as if she was carrying the weight of three worlds on her shoulders as she drove home. She had a massive dilemma. She had always liked Grissom more than she was supposed to but now it would seem she has transferred her affections for him to someone else. That someone who goes by the name of Greg Sanders! Up untill yesterday she just thought of him as a friend. Although, she must admit, they had both been getting more flirtatious recently. There was a time when Sara would scowl at him for any remotely flirty remark but now she didn't mind. She actually kinda liked it! That wasn't enough to make her mind up though. Her affections for Grissom had been growing since she met him in San Francisco. Surely they couldn't be replaced so easily. Not by Greg. Could they? Greg was cute and he did make her feel comfortable whereas with Grissom, she always seemed to feel as though she was being tested. She knew he would never jeopardise his job for her. He would never even think of marrying her. He was married to the crime lab. Greg wasn't. Greg would consider marrying her at some point in their relationship. If they had one.

"Wait…. Am I seriously thinking about marriage?" She said out loud as she exited her black Tahoe and went on thinking about Greg and Grissom.

As soon as she got inside her apartment the phone started ringing so she made a run for the phone….before realising she didn't know where it was.

"Damn it!" she said to herself. The phone was still ringing. "I hope your patient!" she said to the non-existant person on the end of the invisible phone she couldn't find!

"Hello" she said when she eventually found it!

"Hi Sara, did you loose your phone again?" Said the Texan (and slightly cocky) drawl that could only belong to one person.

"yeah well, it's not like I spend all my time on it…like some people."

"Ok, fair point. I was just wonderin' if you'd like to come out for a drink. I'm bored and everyone else is busy."

"It's nice to know I was your first choice Nick…..you really know how to make a girl feel special….but…I'll come anyway…out of pity….and boredom!" she admitted, "where are we going?"

"ummm, how about that bar a couple of blocks away from the lab? The one we went to the other day."

"ooh, the one with that pretty barmaid who kept checking you out?" she mock innocently asked.

"yeah, that's the one, I'll meet you there"

"ok, Bye Nick!" and with that she hung up. And she left her apartment intent on not thinking about "the problem".

She didn't! All the way to the bar she just sang along to the radioand tried to decide how hard to make Nicks job of flirting with the barmaid. She wasn't aware that at the bar, something would screw her up big time!

She walked inside the bar and the smell of alcohol mixed with smoke hit her immediately. She scanned the room for Nick, but when she found him she found something else too. Something that would mess her brain up completely.

"Hey Sara, guess what? Greg was bored top!" Nick said calmly as Sara was screaming on the inside. She tried her best not to show it.

"Hey Greg" she said as she sat down on the bar stool next to him.

"hey, I got you a drink. Here you go." he replied as he handed her a bottle of beer.

"Thanks!"

That's how it went on for three hours. Greg would be his normal charismatic self, Nick would be shamelessly flirting with the barmaid, and Sara would be trying very hard to act normally around Greg but every time he handed her a bottle her hand slightly touched his and she shivere slightly, and for a second, when she looked into his eyes, she could have sworn that she was falling for him!

It took both Greg and Sara to get Nick out of the bar because the only way to get the barmaid to come to him was to order more drink, and then he had to drink them so that he could order more drinks to get her to come over again….and this went on untill they left.

"It's probably a good idea not to let him drive." Greg said

"Yeah, Where's his car?"

"I don't know walked and met Nick here but I don't think we should drive either."

"ok, good point but how are we supposed to get him home, he can't get there on his own and cabs don't usually come here?"

"we can take him to my place, it's closest and within walking distance!"

"ok" and with that they walked to gregs apartment, carrying an extremely drunk Nick!

When they got there, Nick passe dout on the couch when Greg suddenly jumped up.

"I have the greatest idea ever!" he said grinning.

"what?" Sara asked with caution….

"Well….Nicks gonna be like that for a while" he stated pointing to the comatose Nick "we could always see if we can improve the way he looks!"

"What it must be like to live in your brain….? How do you get these ideas?"

"It's a gift" he bluntly pointed out, "Please Sara, it will be fun.." he looked at her with those puppy dog eyes and she melted.

They put lipstick of his lips aswel as his cheeks and mascara on his eyebrows aswel as the eyeliner they used to write messages on various parts of his face! When they had finished he looked more like a clown than a CSI!

Sara had to admit, Greg was a lot more fun than Grissom, she doubted Greg would let work overtake his life!

They both sat down opposite nick and laughed.

"what do you think he'll do when he wakes up?" Greg asked

"I don't know, but I'll try to leave before that happens…just incase!"

"Why?" Greg, suddenly sombre, asked. It was only then that she realised how close he was to her. He was looking at her with those puppy dog eyes again. He knows by now that she can't resist those eyes.

"Greg..I…I…" but she was cut off there. Greg had put his hand on the back of her neck, pulling her face to his own….

…Sara didn't fight him off…

… Greg Sanders kissed Sara Sidle…

…And Sara Sidle kissed him back!

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