"What are your names?" a woman said from behind a table outside the dining hall

"Nick Stokes and Sara Sidle" Nick said to the woman

"You are seated at table E" "Have a nice dinner" the woman said giving them a smile

"Thank you" Nick said to the woman as he put his arm out so Sara could grab ahold

"Shall we" Nick said looking at Sara

"Wow, look at all these people" Sara said walking next to Nick

"There is our table," he said pointing to a table that had a sign that had an 'E' on it

"I think you are right and besides there is Grissom" Sara said walking towards the table

"Oh good you guys are here" Grissom said as he turned to face them

"Sorry we are a little late we were talking to this very nice couple who work in Seattle" Sara sitting down on the other side of Nick

"Oh that's fine; they haven't started yet"

"Good, so what did you do Grissom?" Nick said cutting into their conversation

"I talked to some people who I have heard about and I talked to some people who I haven't seen in a long time"

"Can I have everyone's attention" a man said on the stage "My name is Mike Johnson, and I would like to welcome you to the CSI banquet. I am glad to see that we have a good turnout. Also I am honored to be here with some of the top CSI's in the country" "During the night I will be calling up people to talk about them and their co-workers who couldn't be here"

Nick, Sara, and Grissom all watched the man, as dinner was being served to them. Everyone received slices of prepared meat, a portion of salad, and a roll. Right as the waiter put down the plate in front of Sara, Nick knew this was going to be a problem since Sara was a vegetarian. Sara just sat there and starred at it.

"Sara, are you okay?" Nick said in a whisper, not wanting to distract anyone away from the stage

"I can't eat this, Nick. It is meat," Sara said pointing to the meat

"Give me your plate" Nick said looking at Sara

"Why?" Sara said giving him her plate

"You'll see" Nick said as he took Sara's meat of her plate and then put his salad on her plate. "Here you go" Nick said giving her back her plate

"You're great" Sara said giving him a smile

"Thanks" Nick said giving Sara a smile back

"Okay can I have the members from the Las Vegas CSI team please come up on stage" Mike Johnson said into his microphone. After he said that; Nick, Sara, and Grissom all stood up and walked up, onto the stage. Mike handed Sara the microphone. Sara didn't want to talk but she knew she had to.

"Hi everyone, my name is Sara Sidle and to my left is Nick Stokes and this is our supervisor Gil Grissom" Sara said pointing to Nick then to Grissom. "The people who are not in attendance tonight is Catherine Willows, a wonderful woman to work with; Warrick Brown, a wonderful friend and co-worker; and Greg Sanders, our loveable DNA analyst; who are all working back in Las Vegas." Sara finished and gave to Grissom so he could say some talk.

"I am glad to here and joined with two of my finest CSI's. There are great to work with, there are always up for everything and that is why we are the number two CSI lab in the country." Grissom paused as everyone applauded. "I wish that my other workers could be here, but they had to stay in Vegas and take over for us while we are here. I know they wanted to come and talk to all of you. Thanks for having us here" Grissom said as he gave the microphone to Mike Johnson. Then they all went back to their seats.

"That wasn't that bad" Nick said with a laugh

"Yeah because you didn't have to talk," Sara said giving Nick a smile

"You did good" Nick said giving Sara smile. Then they both ate while they watched everyone else come up on the stage

"That was fun," Sara said as she walked into their room in front of Nick

"Yeah it was" Nick said as he took his tuxedo jacket off.

"I am so tired" Sara said as yawned

"I am too," Nick said as he took his shoes off. "It is probably because we only got to sleep on the plane and we haven't really slept since yesterday.

"That is probably why" Sara said as she searched for her pajamas. She found them and stood walked to the bathroom. " I am going to go change out of this dress"

"Okay" Nick said as he undid his tie

While Sara was in he bathroom Nick changed out of his tuxedo and into a shirt and shorts. He had enjoyed having Sara with him today. He was also glad that she liked her necklace. And he was really happy with all the progress him and Sara had made today. In Nick's mind he was thinking…Sara called me her boyfriend today. Did she really mean it? I think she did the way she talked to Ali and Austin. I like that. I am Sara's man; Sara is my girl. Man, am I tired. That reminds me we only have one bed. Should I offer to sleep on the floor? I should. I don't know if Sara is ready to go to that level. I'll just offer to sleep on the ground and see where it goes from there.

"Hey Nick" Sara said as she walked out of the bathroom seeing Nick was watching television

"Hi Sara" Nick said as he turned to face Sara.

"What are you watching" Sara said as she went to sit next to Nick

"I am watching the weather. I wanted to see if the weather was going to be nice tomorrow" Nick said as he pointed to the screen

"How is it going to be?" Sara said as she looked at Nick

"Cloudy" Nick said looking at Sara as she covered her mouth as she yawned, "Sara, you're tired. Why don't you go to sleep? I'll sleep on the floor since we only have one bed if you want, I don't mind," Nick said as he put some of Sara's hair behind her ear

"No Nick, you are the one who asked me to come here, I don't want you to sleep on the floor. I don't mind if you sleep with me in the bed" Sara said as she looked at Nick

"Are you sure?" Nick said looking at Sara who was fingering her necklace that he got her

"Yeah Nick, I am" Sara said as she stood up from sitting on the bed and walked to the side of the bed and pulled back the cover with Nick's help from the other side.

"We have that Q and A thing that Grissom volunteered us to do tomorrow, don't we?" Nick said getting into bed

"I totally forgot about that, but we do" Sara said as she climbed into bed

"Nick" Sara said as she laid on her side of her bed turning on her side so she could see Nick

"Yeah" Nick said as he faced Sara

"You know when we were talking to Ali and Austin, when I called you my boyfriend" Sara said as she put some hair behind her ear

"Yeah I remember." Nick said as he looked at Sara

"Was I out of line by calling you that?" Sara said truly wanting to know how he felt about it