Disclaimer: Not mine.

Focus

"Nicholas Stokes!"

Nick snapped his head up to meet the piercing brown eyes of his partner. No one in Vegas called him by his full name, no one in Texas did either, except for his mum. Nicholas Stokes was what she called him when she was angry and the voice trying to get his attention was dangerously similar to his mother's right now.

"Huh?"

"Can't come up with something more intelligent to say?" She asked him trying to mask her amusement over the situation by biting her lip.

How he would love to bite that same lip.

"What?"

"Come on, Nick. I have been calling out your name for the past five minutes and you couldn't stop investigating the evidence which clearly isn't the evidence you should be investigating."

So he was caught, but he wasn't giving in.

"So, I liked what I saw and I needed to fully observe it. You know how Grissom always tells us to look for details?"

She rolled her eyes.

"You men. You can't focus on your job for just a second, can you?"

"Oh, I can focus when I want, you saw how focused I was just a minute ago. You just have to give me the right object to focus on."

"Just focus on collecting the right evidence right now, will you?" She said in mock anger, turning around before he could see the smile appearing on her face.

"Sara, Sara!" He waited until he had her full attention.

"What!"

"I...want ... you."

"You want me to...?" Her tone of voice told him she was getting frustrated, but he was having too much fun with this.

"Just you."

"What? I...you... I...

"I know, but you will."

He turned around and continued gathering the evidence he'd been collecting, but he still noticed she was still standing in the same spot, looking at him, mouth slightly open.

"Women and attention spans." She heard him mumble loud enough for her to hear when she finally returned to working the scene.

The shift had been long and both of them were tired to the bone.

Nick didn't know what was happening to him when he felt her lips softly pressing against his own and then as sudden as it started, it ended and she was gone.

He didn't leave for another hour when Grissom found him sitting in the locker room.

The next shift, unfortunately for Nick the story of him staring into the void in front of him had spread across the lab and to Sara.

He was sure he had heard her say "Guess men still have a harder time focusing than women" during the staff meeting.

FIN