"Grissom where have you been?" Catherine said filling her coffee mug with some fresh coffee.

"I was in my office doing some work" Grissom said not letting anyone know about the phone call he had just received.

"Oh" Catherine said as she went to sit on the couch next to Nick, who was sitting next to Sara.

"Nick and Sara, are you still working on that case with the dead mother?"

"Yeah" Nick said before Sara could even open her mouth

"Okay you guys work on that. Catherine and Warrick, you have a B&E on 445 Eastland Drive. Brass is already there" "Everyone okay with that?"

"Yeah" Everyone replied

"Okay" as he turned around to leave

"Hey Gris, what are you going to do?" Catherine said wondering why he didn't assign himself to anything.

"I have more work to do in my office," he said just turning his head around to see who had asked the question.

"Come on Warrick we have work to do"

"Okay, let's go" Warrick said as he got out of the chair he was sitting in.

"We better get going to before Grissom comes looking for us." Nick said putting a hand out to help Sara up.

"Yeah, we don't want get in trouble do we?" Sara said with a grin

"No way" Nick said with a laugh

Once they both got up, they walked out of the break room and headed to the locker room.

"Hey Sara what do we have to do tonight" Nick said as he was trying to open his locker

"Find the killer" she said, in a matter of fact tone

Nick laughed. He always liked being around Sara. He had liked her ever since she arrived. He just couldn't get the guts to ask her out.

"Besides that"

"All I think we have to do is wait for Greg to finish doing the blood work from the son's knife" "We already have this case solved." Sara said as she put her hair in a ponytail. "Do you need some help opening you locker?" Sara said realizing Nick had still not opened his locker yet.

"Yeah" Nick could have opened it himself but he kept messing up because he was to busy watching Sara.

"What's your com" Sara said coming closer to Nick

Nick could hardly stand it. For the past couple of months he realized he really liked Sara a lot.

Sara snapped her fingers in his face. "Nick what's you COM?"

"Oh, sorry, 12-31-10" Nick replied after he was out of his trance.

Sara got his locker open on her first try, as she opened it, and a piece of yellow sheet of paper from a legal pad fell out.

"Oh this fell out," she said as she picked it up and gave it to Nick, who was puzzled because he didn't know what it was.

"Thanks" he said giving her a smile

Nick read it to himself as Sara finished putting up her hair and shut her locker.

The note read...

Nick

There is a CSI banquet being held at the Four Seasons in Los Angeles. They invited me to come and asked to bring someone else too. I chose to bring you because I thought you could do a good job and you would have fun. Here is the information below.

It's July 21-24

You will represent everyone from Vegas

There is a formal dinner one night

and you can bring a date if you want to keep you company

Ask me if you have any questions, and get back to me soon if you are bringing anyone.

Grissom

Once Nick finished reading the note he put in his pocket. He was shocked that Grissom would ask him to go with him. And that he could bring a date. The words bring a date were the ones that really stuck out. Who would he bring? He could only think of one person who he could bring. And that was Sara. This could finally be the chance he had always wanted.

"What was that?" Sara asked standing next to the lockers.

"It was a note from Grissom, he asked me if I would go to this CSI banquet with him and…." It was now or never. All he had to do was ask her if she wanted to go. " and he said I could bring a date. Would you like to go with me and" right in the middle of his sentence Sara phone rang. "be my date?"

"One sec" Sara said as she answered her phone. Sara was surprised that Nick asked her to go with him, she hadn't really gave much thought that Nick might like her. She had liked him as a friend since she had been in Vegas but really never gave much thought of being more than that because she liked Grissom at the time. But that was over. She was tired of waiting for Grissom. Her and Grissom would never be. She had to move on. "Sidle"

"Hey Sara, this is Grissom" "Can you come to my office"

"Yeah I'll be there in a sec," Sara said

Nick just stood there watching her talk on the phone. This was the worst torture that he had ever experienced. She didn't answer his question. He put everything on the line and then she got a phone call.

Sara hung up the phone and put in the holder on her waist.

"That was Grissom" "He wants me to go to his office" Sara said as she looked at Nick

"Why don't you go there and I'll see if Greg is finished yet." Nick said trying to disguise the hurt in his voice because she didn't answer his question.

"Okay" Sara replied

"Okay" Nick said as he turned to leave

"Nick" Nick turned around to face Sara

"Yeah"

"Let me think about your question. I'll get back to you" Sara said with a smile.

"Okay" he said relieved that she hadn't ignored his question. "See you in a little bit. Meet me in the lab."

"Okay" "Bye" Sara replied realizing that Nick really wanted her to go with him to this banquet. And when she really thought about it, she really wanted to go with him too.

Nick left and Sara walked to Grissom's office.

Knock-Knock…

"Come in" Grissom said

Sara walked in, and stood there with her arms crossed across her chest.

"Sara why don't you sit down" he said pointing to a chair. " I want to ask you something"