POV-Nick --------------------------------------

I'll admit in he beginning I was a little threatened, maybe even a little resentful. Here was this new girl, hand picked by Grissom to replace a fallen colleague. Granted I never knew Holly, but I didn't like the idea of new blood, so to speak. But as time went on I realized that she was as brilliant as she was beautiful. Damn, she was a knock-out. But all that aside, after a few weeks of her being here we got to know each other better. Grissom was right to call her out.

We had a playful banter between she and I, but when we were on a case she was all business, no bullshit. I have to give her credit where credit is due...she IS the job. In and out. Get the evidence, catalog it, interpret it and close the case. Like I said, she IS the job.

I'll miss her. I'll miss the way she would just pop out of nowhere and sneak up behind you, scaring the living daylights out of you. I'll miss the way she frustrated Grissom...so cute. He'd say something seemingly innocuous and she'd come back with a comment that would just leave him with his mouth hanging open, speechless. it's a shame they never got together...they might have even been good for each other...at one time anyway. But now all they do is argue. More often than not their heated conversations leave him dumbfounded, trying to figure out what he'd said or done wrong and her storming from the office, lab or other location.

She's spirited, to say the very least. I remember Brass telling me about when he, Grissom and Sara had gone to Scott Shelton's apartment on a warrant and the way she'd confronted the man. She was all up in his face and damn near picked a fight with him. But she never backed down, not for an instant. That's what I loved about her, her spirit. If she knew something she knew it and wouldn't let up until her point was made.

Wherever she goes, Los Angeles or Washington DC, I know she'll do well. She's one of those people that you can drop in the middle of nowhere and they'll flourish.

I hope wherever she winds up, she finds what she's been looking for and I'm greatly sorrowed that she couldn't find it here.