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They drove, singing for about 20 minutes down the dirt path which lead in and out of Lake Tahoe until a loud thud shook the car and slowly bought it to a halt. Nick sighed heavily as he tried to restart the car, once, twice, three times before giving up.

"I'll go have a look, see if I can sort it out," he said as he popped the bonnet open, grabbed his torch from the side of his seat and made his way around to the front of the car.

Flashing the torch around, there were no obvious problems. As Nick placed his hands behind the heater to find out if any of the wiring had come loose he felt a burning sensation in his fingers. Pulling his arm out in pain, he stood up forgetting about the hood on the Denali and smacked his head.

"Ahhh! Damn car!" Nick cursed as he stepped away from the vehicle.

"Nick… I'm coming out to help," Sara opened her door ready to get out.

"No, don't worry... I'm okay, it'll get going in a minute."

"Don't be stupid Nicky, your hurt!" She wouldn't take 'no' for an answer and got out of the car.

She stood for a few seconds, contemplating how to get around the rather large mud puddle that they had stopped in. When she thought she'd found a safe route over it, she took a step forward in doing so she slipped on the mud beneath her. Grabbing for anything on the car to stabilize her, but finding nothing she fell, letting out a slight scream she fell.

Hastily, Nick made his way over to her and offered her a hand to help her back up. Unfortunately, neither of them had noticed how close Nick was to the mud and as Nick helped Sara up his foot slid across the mud causing both of them to fall over and land in a heap of bodies.

By this time, the 'date' atmosphere had most defiantly been obliterated. They both sat for a few seconds looking at each other before concurrently exploding into hysterics.

"Whatever Next!?" Nick chuckled as he rose to his feet. He offered Sara a hand, making sure his feet were steady and away from and slippery mud and pulled her to her feet.

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Two hours later, after Nick had called for a tow-truck and it had delivered them back to his place; Sara was sitting on the coach trying to figure out what movie to watch. She'd also changed into a pair of Nick's sister's trousers, which had been left behind from her last visit, and one of Nick's spare tops.

"So, what are we watching?" Nick asked as he set two beers down on the table in front of them and plonked himself down on the couch next to Sara.

"Do you have anything that doesn't have mindless violence in it?" She asked, a smile forming at the corner of her mouth.

Nick quickly disappeared down the hallway and returned triumphantly with a DVD in his hand.

"My niece left this over here last week." He said, flashing the case at Sara as he popped the DVD in the player.

"Bambi!?"

"Well, you did say no violence…" Nick challenged half-heartedly as he hit the play button.

Sara smirked at him before settling down to watch the movie.

Bambi was frolicking through fields of flowers as Nick turned to face Sara, "Hey... Sar?"

"Yeah?" she turned to face him, hearing the serious tone to his voice.

"I know that this date wasn't exactly one of the best, "Nick looked at the floor as he continued, "and I'll understand if you just want to leave it at this… Just friends…"

""Nick," she placed her hand under his chin so that he was looking her in the eye, "Nick… I wouldn't have said yes to the date if I just wanted to be friends still. Sure it's been a little," she paused for a minute, trying to think of the right word.

Nick finished her sentence, "Disastrous!"

Sara couldn't help laughing. Despite having soggy sandwiches, being bitten by midges, getting caught in a freak storm, Nick burning his hand and bumping his head and both of them ending up sitting in a mud puddle, Sara had enjoyed the evening.

Nick looked a little disheartened by Sara's laughter and looked back at the TV. Sara stopped laughing almost immediately and cupped his cheek as she twisted his head towards her. Their lips met in a soft kiss and as Nick worked out what was happening he pulled Sara a little closer; intent in getting completely lost in this kiss. Sara didn't seem to object as Nick laid back and pulled her with him.

A few minutes later Sara broke the kiss reluctantly for the need of air. She couldn't keep the smile off of her face as she looked down at Nick.

"Wow"

As Sara got her breath she quickly lent down ready to give Nick the kiss of his life when all of the lights went out and the TV turned off.

"What happened?"

Nick lent up slightly on his elbows with Sara still lying across his chest, "I guess its power-outage." He smiled wickedly through the darkness as he placed his hand around Sara's waist and pulled her close to him, "I think we should make the most of it," he said mischievously.

Sara let her hand wonder to the nap of his neck as she lowered her head towards Nicks, letting her lips hover over his as she spoke huskily, "I think you may be right."

With that Nick lent up, capturing her lips with his.

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The next night Sara and Nick had both arrived early for work after catching a cab together. They sat in the break room drinking coffee, Sara sat reading through a forensic journal and Nick was intent on finishing one of Grissom's crosswords he had left on the table from the previous night.

"Hey," Warrick greeted as he walked over to the coffee machine.

Both Nick and Sara nodded acknowledgement as Warrick made himself comfy in the chair opposite Sara.

Warrick couldn't help himself but ask, "How was the date last night?"

Sara looked up from the journal, a pointed look across her face, "How did you know about that?"

Chuckling Warrick replied, "The six o'clock news presented by the one and only Greg Sanders."

"I'm going to kill him!" and with that Sara speed out of the room towards the DNA lab leaving the two guys behind laughing.

"So how was it?" Warrick persisted as he changed seats over to where Nick was sitting.

"Erm... Let me think about that… Soggy sandwiches, red wine stained car, bug bites, rain, broken down car, burns and a bumped head, falling in a mud puddle and a power-outage," He concluded, smiling much to Warrick's confusion, "Apart from that, I think it went fine!"

End