A/N: Really sorry that I haven't updated but powers beyond my control have kept me away from doing so. Only I know what happens, actually no I don't I write it as it comes to mind but you know. I didn't it intend for it to be so long it just kept coming out. Sad to announce that next chapter is the last but of course there will be a sequel dealing with things. But i think that may only be one or two chapters.

"Looks like I win" Greg said happily, just thinking about the case made his head swim.

"Ya I guess you do"

Who would have thought that if you bad mouth a carnie's girlfriend could get you killed. The finger was still a mystery nothing came up until Nick saw it and said that his vic who was at the other end of town was missing a finger. They ended up matching the finger to his owner and have no idea who cut off his finger prolly someone with a fetish of fingers.

"Great I'll meet you there at 10am" he left the room and she never saw him for the rest of the shift.

When the carnival was in town, everyone came. The place was packed and you could easily get lost in the crowd.

But one person stood out, well the crowd moved for him, she wondered why everyone had moved over to let him pass. She couldn't see the guy but she did see the guy's head, which was spiked every which way. Dread filled her stomach, she saw what he had in his hair.

"He didn't" she muttered under her breath. He saw her and waved frantically. Then she saw him, he was dressed in the full complete ballerina costume minus the slippers and had added a hot pink feather boa over his clothes.

"Hey Sara!" he shouted too loudly and passers by gave them a weird look but she guessed it was from his costume not that he shouted.

"what are you wearing?"

"I felt bad that you didn't win and see me as a ballerina. So here I am!"

"I made that bet because I agreed with you that one of the workers did it. I knew I wouldn't win"

"Why didn't you say that before we made the bet?"

"I didn't get a chance"

"Well I won in two ways so I'll share" he removed the tiara and boa and placed it on her and around her neck

"I'm not wearing this"

"If I'm wearing the costume you've got to wear the accessories so we match"

"When have you ever matched?"

"Plenty of times, my pajama's for example, they consist of pants and a bare chest that matches" she looked down to her shoes to hide her flushed cheeks thinking about Greg naked or half naked made her hot and she couldn't help that she enjoyed that he was close to her putting on the boa, just the right way, his fingers already brushed her skin several times and those places burned.

"How did you win in two ways?" she looked up confident enough that she wasn't blushing anymore. If he asked it was because he was wearing a tutu and getting weird looks from people. It was Vegas for Christ sake's the city of weird.

"Well I guess we both won since you knew it was one of the workers" he glanced around he didn't want to say carnie to their faces or anyone to overhear them. "but I won in another way cause I finally got you to go out on a date with me" he touched the end of her nose with a finger before taking her hand and disappearing into the crowd.

"Wanna win the la-" the guy stopped seeing what Greg was wearing. "a prize" Greg stopped and let go of her hand to reach for his wallet

"Greg you don't have to"

"Nonsense!" he laid his money on the little counter before the guy gave his darts. He aimed carefully and hit all three balloons he targeted.

"Another ten dollars gets you a large sized animal"

"I'm going for the X-large one" and plopped down a twenty. The balloons broke apart with a pop.

Now the people were moving away from them because the animal was huge, which thankfully hid most of his costume.

"Where's you car?"

"Three blocks away why?"

"Can I put this in yours I do not want to carry this thing around when I could be holding your hand"

"I thought this wasn't a date" she said teasingly, she really hadn't minded when he took her hand and had never let it go before.

"I lied"

"So where are you parked?"

"Right this way"

"No"

"Yes"

"No"

"You have to how else are you going to conquer you fear?"

"Not by going on a thing that looks like its ready to break at a moments notice"

"I assure you it's quite safe"

"I'm still not going"

"Yes you are" he pulled her to stand in line at the ticket booth and held her hand tightly so she couldn't back out. The tickets bought they stood in line, Sara looking everywhere hoping for once she ran into someone so she could get out of line to say hi.

"See anyone you know?"

"No not – how'd you know?"

"Ah Miss Sidle it is one of my talents to know" he grinned and stepped up, soon they would be on the Ferris wheel. As the line drew neared she squeezed his hand tighter and tighter.

"You know for someone who likes to have personal space, you sure are going to town on my hand"

"Sorry" she released her grip some

"No it's alright, I like women who are scared, it means they need me to protect them"

"I don't need protecting"

"Everyone does" they were next in line

"Tickets" he hand them to the big beefy guy and got on he had to pull Sara on

"You know you being scared is a turn on for me"

"Perv"

"He I'm a guy remember its in out natural instinct to protect a damsel in distress" she did the mistake of looking down and sat back, making the seat rock a bit and closed her eyes, they were only ten feet off the ground and Greg told her so.

"Oh and by the way don't close your eyes it makes it worse" she opened them grabbing the bar in front holding on for dear life

"Sara we're not even ten feet off the ground" he placed his arm around the back and pulled her closer to him

"Relax its going to be fine"

"A guy says that about driving drunk too and nine times out ten look what happens"

"Just forget everything you know about gravity and just let the ride take you away"

"Easy for you to say" the ride moved until they stopped at the top

"Why'd we stop?" Greg looked down causing the bucket to sway, she held on tighter

"He let more people on"

"I should have never let you talk me into coming on this"

"You had no choice, I pulled you on"

"It doesn't matter"

"You need to take your mind off of how high up we are"

"Not going to happen"

"Not even when I do this?" he kissed her, just a quick kiss to see if it was okay or if she would hurt him. He was surprised when she pulled him into the next kiss. The ride started moving, cheers and whistles were heard as they neared the ground the first time. They broke apart but remained close.

"Wow" he stated as she rested her head on his shoulder

"Your right it did take my mind off of it"

"Umm….Sara the ride just broke and we're stuck up at the top"

"Well I guess I need to do something to take my mind off of it don't I?" she said mockingly

"Any way I can be of service?" he joked

"No I was thinking of using the guy infront of us as a distraction if he and his girlfriend say no then I'll use you" she pulled him into a kiss.

He eventuallybroke off the kiss some time later

"Sara if this keeps up for another minute I'm going to want to rip your clothes off" he said his breath rugged against her mouth

"Glad I'm not the only one thinking that"

"We could always talk" she suggested

"ya"

"What about?"

"Since I won the bet I suggest we play twenty questions and you cant start your answer with because"

"Okay fair enough"

"Question one why have you never been to a carnival?" he took in a couple of deep breaths to calm himself.

"never had time growing up, always being shuffled here and there"

"Question two why were you shuffled around so much?"

"I thought I got to ask the next question"

"Nope now answer"

"I was in foster care" she said easier than she thought she could

"Question three why were you in foster care?"

"You don't have to say the question number every time"

"Okay but why were you?"

"My mother was in jail"

"And your father?"

"Stabbed to death by my mother"

"Oh"

"That's what everyone says no one says anything else, they always change the subject"

"Have you told anyone else?"

"Only Grissom but I doubt he really cared"

"Why would you say that?"

"He hasn't spoken to me much since"

"Its his loss"

"Are you going to stop talking to me now too?"

"Never I'm afraid you're stuck with me. I just ask one thing"

"What's that?"

"Don't break my heart"

"I wont" she said fully heartedly

"Okay my turn what got you into carnivals in the first place?"

"It was a family event actually my parents would take me and my two sisters to it every year, we always got to bring a friend with us"

"I never knew you had sisters"

"You never asked"

"what are there names?"

"Jenny's the oldest and the baby of the family is Jaimie Lee"

"How come they start with J's and yours don't?"

"Mine does"

"Your real name isn't Greg?"

"I'm not telling you that"

"Oh come on"

"Nope sorry"

She did something very unlike herself, kinda like the whole day she hadn't been herself and she hadn't minded and still didn't. So she pouted.

"Please?"

"Alright fine it's Juma"

"Juma?" she said with a smile

"Yes Juma, my father who is obsessed with Africa found out that it meant born on a Friday"

"And let me guess you were born on a Friday?"

"12:21 am"

"Juma? She asked again

"Yes what is so funny about Juma?"

"It's the first four letters of Jumanji actually three quarters of it. You have a movie named after you" she laughed not really knowing why she was but his face made her laugh even harder.

"I'm glad my name amuses you"

"Well I'm glad you're glad" she tried saying it normally but his face said it all and she laughed again. The ride started moving

"Hey look it's moving" he said sarcastically

"I'm sorry Juma"

"Don't call me that"

"Juma Greggers Sanders, that doesn't go together"

"I know, so does half my high school thank you. You are looking at Jumpy Leggers"

"Nice to meet you Leggers"

"And this is why I don't tell anyone my name"

"I think it's cute"

"You and my mom would get along famously, she always told me that I was unique"

"So you started dressing this way to stand out?"

"Well when you got two other siblings and only two parents you have to do something's to get attention. I was the weird one, Jenny the one who got in trouble and the drama queen and Jaimie Lee was the quiet and shy one gets better grades then us"

"Gets? How old is she?"

"Seventeen"

"Quite a large gap between you two" the ride stopped and they were able to get off, they walked side by side.

"Ya well Grams got sick so they had to put off having more kids for awhile. Mom found out she was pregnant the same day Grams died"

"Well I think we know all there is to know about each other" she finished as they neared the entrance to carnival. It was quite a difference to actually going to one for fun, then searching for clues at one.

"There's two things"

"And those would be?"

"Cotton candy like or dislike" she avoided his eyes so he guessed she did because before she looked away, he swore he saw a smile.

"Blue or pink?"

"Both" she answered finally with a smile

"Me too" he pulled her back into the carnival to the first cotton candy stand he saw. Armed with cotton candy they made their way to her car.

"You know that thing we were talking about earlier"

"Which thing?" she asked then placed some pink cotton candy in her mouth.

"The reason why we started talking in the first place. Ya that still hasn't gone away I wanna rip your clothes off even more"

She looked around before leaning in close to him

"Which one do you wanna do it in?" he pulled back quickly

"What?"

"Which port a potty do you wanna do it in?"

"You mean have sex in?" he said a little too loudly but only a kid looked at him, the people there had gotten used to him.

"Yes" she hissed through her teeth

"The one closest to the exit" she looked around again before pulling him to the port a potty.

"You're going to have to go in first" she whispered to him while watching the people who were weaving in and out of the booths set up a fair distance off. He went in first, he knocked on the door to signal he was ready. She looked again and satisfied that no one was watching she went in. He was sitting on the lid, legs apart, he helped her hoist herself up onto him.

"We have to be quick" she whispered into his ear before biting it. His hands cupped her bottom as he kissed her. His hand moved from her ass to in between her legs stroking her through her panties his tongue matching exactly what his fingers were doing as they slipped inside her.

"Now" she told him as she sank onto him, her overjoyed at how wonderful it felt to have him inside her. The moment was short lived as the door beside them opened, they stilled, waiting until the person did there business before doing anything else. She bit her lip to keep herself from moaning at the pleasure of his hands running across her nipples. The door opened and closed once again and she begin riding like she was being chased.

"Is that why you wore a skirt today?" he asked while she was driving, they'd almost been caught because someone couldn't contain his groan as he shot his load and the guy beside him thought he was taking a shit and told him to not push to hard.

"The thought did cross my mind" she admitted

"Well I'm glad you did" truth be told he was growing hard again and not sure if he could make it back to the agreed upon place of her apartment. Neither could believe that they had spent the whole day at the carnival, no one had gotten any sleep so someone was going to be extremely giddy and the other would be cranky that night at work. They had about four hours before they needed to be at work so they thought they would swing by her place let her have a shower, change of clothes, then onto his where he would shower and change then go grab something to eat. What she didn't know was he planned to skip as much of that as possible and go for a second and third round. In the car, a bed, shower he wasn't fussy he wanted her and he wanted her now.

"You ever do it in a parking lot?"

"No"

"Want to?"

"First a port a potty then a parking lot, have you ever had sex in a bed?"

"Ya but it' not the same you have way better O's when the fear of getting caught is mixed in"

"I see" he couldn't help but noticed that she pulled into a supermarket parking lot.

"So where should we park?"

"Not by a light"

"Where's your sense of adventure?" she asked

"Rising by the minute" he shifted in his seat trying to cover the tent in his pants.