Sorry it took some time, but here's the third chapter! Please tell me what you think of it!

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Somewhere a cell phone rang and Nick had to get up to find it. It was Grissom telling him he needed Nick at the lab. Nick drove Sara home so she could get a chance to change clothes, then they headed back to the lab. Grissom handed out their assignments and Nick and Warrick drove of to the crime scene in Nick's car.

Warrick sat down on the seat that Sara had been sitting on just a few minutes earlier. He fastened his seatbelt, but his eyes froze when he saw a red rose on the car floor. He picked it up and waved with it in front of Nick.

"Lost something?" He asked sarcastically. Nicks face turned red and he grabbed the rose.

"No…" He stayed quiet.

"Then who lost it?" Nick thought about telling Warrick, he was his best friend, and Warrick knew about his crush on Sara. But he thought he should ask Sara first.

"Probably the girl from last night." He replied with an amused smile.

"Does this girl have a name?" Warrick asked him.

"Yep."

"Are you going to tell me her name?"

"Nope." Warrick understood what his friend was trying to do.

"Well do I know her? I mean, have I ever met her?

"Yeah…"

"Oh, c'mon Nicky! Give me something to go on!" Nick shocked his head and smiled.

"Where here." Warrick looked around and noticed they were at the crime scene.

"Fine, but don't think you'll get away with this!"

They investigated the scene. It was a double murder, two women in the living room. When they got back to the lab there minds where on the case and Warrick didn't ask more questions about the mystery girl for the moment. They where back at the lab handing Greg the fingerprints and blood samples the got from the house.

"So how old is she?" Warrick suddenly asked. Nick thought he had forgotten all about it, obviously he was wrong. Nick looked at Greg who was watching the two men with interest.

"You're not getting anything out of me that way" He replied.

"What's going on?" Greg interrupted them.

"Nick's got a mystery girl." Warrick said and turned to see Greg's reaction.

"What? Who?" Greg almost seemed desperate. But can you blame him?

"Well I don't know, if I did she wouldn't be a mystery girl." Warrick replied.

"It's not a big deal…" Nick tried to explain but Warrick got in between.

"Yeah, cause you just like giving away red roses to every girl around you, right?" Just then Sara walked in, she had heard the part about the rose and she looked suspiciously at the three men. Greg looked pleased that she was there, Nick looked at her and smiled, his eyes were filled with love, Warrick on the other hand didn't seem to notice any of these things.

"Hey guys… What's going on?" She asked, stepping in to the room.

"Do you know who Nick's mystery girl is?" Warrick asked her straight away. Sara's face turned red and she had to tell herself not to look at Nick. 'I' amazing how fast these things get out!' She took a deep breath.

"Mystery girl?" She asked, trying to find out exactly how much they knew.

"I found a red rose in his car." Warrick raised his eyebrow. Sara finally took her courage and turned to look at Nick.

"Really?" Nick looked at her with a face that tried to say too much than it could. She gave up. "Well?" Sara asked him. Nick looked confused 'Am I supposed to tell them about us or what?' He tried to send the thought to Sara.

"Well, we've only been out on one official date… So I'm not sure where we stand, but I guess that if we keep on seeing each other you guys will find out sooner or later." At the last part he tore his eyes of Sara's smiling face and looked at his two friends. They were both looking puzzled. But before any of them could respond anything Grissom and Catherine walked in on them. With one glance at their faces Catherine knew something was up.

"What's going on?" She asked. Grissom hadn't noticed anything and looked up from the papers he was holding. He looked at his team; they all had different expressions on their faces.

"Nothing." Nick replied. "What've you got?" He asked Grissom.

"A suspect. One of the victims boyfriend just got out of jail a week ago."

"Have you talked to him yet?" Sara asked him.

"No, I was going to check if either one of you could go?" He looked out on his team. Catherine was right, something was going on, but he didn't know what. Since neither one of them said anything he had to pick two of them out.

"Nick, Sara, you guys go talk to the boyfriend, here's the address." He said and held out a piece of paper. Sara smiled and took the paper out of his hand. Without another word she stepped out of the room. Nick glanced at Warrick and followed her out. Out on the parking lot they decided to take Nick's Tahoe. They drove in silence for a minute until Sara said.

"So how much do they know?" Nick smiled and turned to look at her.

"Just that I was on a date… How much do you want them to know?"

"I'm not sure… but, Warrick's not just a co-worker, he's your best friend… I guess if he keeps asking you, then you should tell him… otherwise he's going to start asking questions to everyone at the lab… but if he doesn't asks, we could wait until our second date?"

"Yeah, so when is the second date?" Nick asked.

"Tomorrow? We could have breakfast."

"Breakfast is not a date, is it?"

"It could be." Sara smirked. Nick pulled over and looked at her.

"Yeah, I guess it could." He leaned over and kissed her on the lips, then on her neck. They sat there kissing until Sara pulled back with a grin on her face.

"Maybe we should go talk to that suspect…"

"Yeah." Nick said and started the car again. When they got to the address they realized this guy wasn't in the same class as his girlfriend. The house was ready to become dust and the garden, if you could call it that, was nothing but dirt. They approached the door, but before they could knock on the door a man came out. He was wearing nothing but a pair of baggy pants.

"Who are you?" He asked in a threatening tone. Nick looked at Sara and answered the man.

"Nick Stokes, this is Sara Sidle, we're from the Las Vegas crime lab, are you Thomas Gray?

"Yeah, what do want?"

"Just to ask you some questions about Kate Roberts." Thomas closed the door behind him and took a step closer to them.

"What about her?"

"Where were you last night around midnight?" Nick asked him.

"Here…" he pointed back to the so called house.

"Do you have anyone to confirm that?" Sara spoke for the first time. Thomas looked at her for a while, printing in her looks in his mind. He took another step closer to her.

"No, I don't." Nick could see on Sara's face that she wanted to leave, but the still had to get some information.

"Sir, are you aware of that miss Roberts was killed last night?" Thomas didn't take his eyes of Sara when he answered.

"No…" he stayed quiet for a second then turned to Nick. "So she's dead?"

"Yes, you don't seem surprised. Were the two of you close?"

"Yeah, I guess you could call us 'close'… But I'm still not surprised. She had a lot of enemies. It was only a question of time." Nick and Sara glanced at each other realizing they weren't going to get anything useful of out this guy, he was just an idiot. But Nick still had one more thing to ask.

"Any of these have names?"

"Yeah, don't know them though." He grinned. Sara sighed and turned to go back to the car.

"Well if you do find out any names, call us." Thomas took the card Nick was holding out and watched Sara walk away.

"I will, I absolutely will." Nick nodded and walked back to the car. Sara was already sitting on the passenger seat looking out the window. Nick placed a hand on her shoulder.

"Hey, you okay?" He asked her.

"Yeah, he just creeps me out."

"I know, c'mon we'll go back to the lab and have some coffee." Sara gave him a little smile and fastened her seatbelt.

They didn't talk much on they way back and when they got to the lab they sat down in the couch with a cup of coffee in their hands. When the cups were empty they were talking and after checking no one was nearby Sara leaned over Nick's chest and wrapped her arms around his neck. He planted a soft kiss on her lips and she answered the kiss with another more passionate kiss. When they heard footsteps outside the door she pulled back fast and sat down on the other corner of the couch. Warrick and Catherine walked in the break room and looked at their friends. Catherine watched Sara, her face was red and she looked a bit puzzled, but happy. 'It's been a long time since I saw Sara that happy…' She thought. Then she glanced at Nick, he had the same expression on his face, but with a bigger grin. Warrick gave her a cup of coffee and sat down on a chair. This time even he notice the tension between the two CSI's on the couch. 'What if Sara is… Nah, there's no way!' He laughed to himself and tried to get rid of that thought.

"What did you get?" Warrick asked them.

"Well, the guy's a jerk, for starters, and he says he was at home last night, which isn't much of an alibi, and that Kate Roberts had a lot of enemies." Just then Greg came in.

"Hey, I was just looking for you guys." The four of them turned to the younger man. "I've got the fingerprints." He smiled and held up a few papers. Warrick stood up to get them. But Greg's hand flew away. "You gotta give me some credit! I wasn't easy, the finger prints you guys gave me were pretty much just parts from prints. And most o them belonged to Kate and Sophie Roberts!" He grinned at them, he was proud. Warrick looked at him with that piercing look. Greg's head nodded and he handed him the papers.

"Thomas Gray… Matthew Reed? Why do I know that name? Matthew Reed…"

"A murder suspect, a few months ago… Wasn't he the guy who everyone thought was the murderer and it turned out to be his brother?" Sara replied. Warrick nodded in her direction.

"Yeah… Yep, that's it."

"So then we have it down to two suspects: Gray and Reed." Catherine stated. They split up, Greg went back to his tests, Sara went to tell Grissom what they'd found out and Catherine went to do a background check on their suspects. Warrick and Nick went to the parking lot; Greg had found an address to Reed which they now were going to check out.

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