It was the sound of Sara's voice coming from the other room that pulled Nick from the verge of another nightmare. He'd fallen asleep on the couch after they'd spent several hours talking. The intensity of the tone of her voice roused Nick fully from sleep and he sat up rubbing his hand over his head as he tried to discern who she was talking to.

"I understand; no, I'll tell him. Thanks, Grissom." Sara was quiet for a long moment as she let the information she'd just heard sink in. She was so absorbed in thought that she didn't hear Nick walk into the bedroom.

"Was that Grissom you were just talking to?" He looked past her at the clock which showed that it was three in the morning and he wondered if Sara had called the lab, or if he had just slept through the phone ringing.

"Yeah, he had some news." Sara's lips twitched upwards into a smile, but there was a sadness around her eyes as she looked at Nick.

"Oh?" He hoped that she planned on telling him exactly what news that was; there was no other reason that Grissom would have news for Nick unless they had solved Amy's case somehow.

"They found the father of her baby." Sara could see Nick's demeanor sag a bit as he seemed to be trying to filter through who it might be. "Brass talked to Amy's friend Courtney and she told him that Amy had dated a guy named Brad for quite a while before she dated you."

Nick sank down onto the bed. "Brad." He tried to remember if he'd ever met the guy; he couldn't recall Amy mentioning an ex-boyfriend named Brad, but then again, he hadn't exactly been interested in hearing about other guys when he'd first met her either. Nick glanced up at Sara with a question in his eyes.

"He said he didn't know that she was pregnant." Sara was still processing what she'd been told, but this one had sent her spinning.

Nick looked at her quizzically. "Did he kill her?" If the father of her child didn't kill her, Nick was at a loss as to who would have the motive. None of it made any sense to him at all.

Sara shook her head. "No, he has a rock solid alibi; he was in LA until the day before yesterday and he'd been there for over a week."

"So we're back at square one then." Nick was frustrated. He felt that he needed to make sure that Amy got justice; that her unborn child did too.

"No, we're not." Sara had a smile of satisfaction on her face, and this time it reached her eyes.

"Huh?" Nick looked at her in confusion for a moment.

"The only person that Amy had told about her pregnancy was her friend Courtney." Sara continued watching as Nick let this little piece of information penetrate his mind. "And Courtney was dating Brad."

Nick's eyes widened. "Courtney killed her?" It made sense; she had motive, it would explain how the supposed suicide note knew all about Nick and his ordeal and how Amy must have felt about it.

"Yeah, she did...she was afraid that if Brad knew Amy was pregnant with his baby that he leave her for Amy." Sara reached for Nick's hand and whispered. "We got her, Nick. Courtney's going to jail."

Six Months Later:

It had taken several more weeks before Nick had been ready to head back to Vegas. He and Sara had lasted a little over a week in Dallas before he suggested to her that they take a little road trip back to Vegas; a road trip that had taken them north and east before they'd wrapped back down south and west back into Nevada. By the time they returned; Nick had decided that he was ready to see a counselor.

It had taken Nick a while before he was ready to visit Amy's grave; he'd been in Texas during her funeral, but after Courtney was convicted of Amy's murder, he felt he needed to say goodbye so that he could truly go forward.

There was a soft breeze blowing over the cemetery as he just stood there staring at Amy's headstone. There was just something about looking at the relatively short span of time between the dates of birth and death that just seemed so unfair and Nick found himself sniffling a bit. Amy was one of the lucky ones; her murderer had been brought to justice; but her life had been too short and it was just one more reminder to Nick that he needed to live his life in the moment and embrace it for all it was worth because all tomorrow had in it was promises.

The feel of Sara's hand sliding into his caused him to glance over and smile. Her voice was soft as she squeezed his hand. "You ready?"

Nick nodded. "Yeah." He paused for a moment as he looked over at her and a sense of awe washed over him that she actually wanted to be with him. "Thanks."

She smiled softly at him. "There's no need to thank me." A lot had changed in the past few months; she had been working less overtime and spending more of her off time with Nick; and it seemed that the scars from the past had begun to fade a little bit more into the background for both of them.

As they walked to the car hand in hand, Nick couldn't help but glance over at her and smile. He couldn't even begin to tell her how much she meant to him; how much the news that she'd shared with him just three days before meant to him. He stopped next to the car and pulled her into his arms, smiling as the gold from his wedding band caught the sunlight. "I love you, Sar."

"I love you too." Sara couldn't help but grin at him; if anyone had told her five years ago that she would have happily run off and married Nick just a month and a half after starting to date him she would have told them that they were crazy. But she was the one that was crazy; crazy in love with Nick and ecstatic that they had just found out that they were going to have a baby.

The End

Author's Note: Thank you to all of my readers for your patience towards me in getting this out. Real life has been nothing but crazy of late, so I count it a miracle that I was able to finish this at all.