"But it's a small wedding; surely you have room for a small one." Sara sounded as if she was at her wits end as she spoke to yet another wedding venue. She let out a resigned sigh. "No, I understand. I'll keep that in mind." She hung up with a harrumph and glanced over at Nick.

"I take it that Chapel of the Frog Prince is booked." Nick smirked at her a bit tiredly. It had been the same story for the last three hours as Sara had called one chapel after another trying to find something that wasn't already booked for Valentine's Day.

"This is never going to work." Sara voice was beginning an ascent that would undoubtedly culminate in a complete melt down if she kept this up. "How are we going to get married if everything is booked?"

Nick thought that now was as good a time as any to break the news to her. "We could wait." He knew she had her heart set on the 14th, but after the phone conversation he'd had just a little while ago, it was probably for the best that they couldn't get married quite that soon.

"But I don't want to." Her pitch was slightly higher. "I don't want to take months and months to plan something that only lasts a couple of hours." She had never envisioned that it would be this hard to plan a wedding; and she hadn't even gotten to the part about picking out a dress yet.

Nick smiled in spite of himself and unfolded himself from the couch and walked over to where she stood in the kitchen. "We don't have to take months, but it's not looking good for it to happen on Valentine's Day." He furrowed his brow as he reached up and caressed her cheek.

There was something about his expression that gave Sara a sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach. "Why?" She could tell that there was something he hadn't told her.

"Well, for starters, my parents can't come." Nick explained gently, and then registering the confusion on Sara's face, he thought he should explain. "My dad said they have some cases on the docket for the state supreme court that he needs to be there for...if it was on the weekend, he said it would be no problem."

Sara's lips twitched upwards. "I suppose it would be important for them to be there." For some reason, Sara felt relieved at the prospect that she wasn't going to have to give up sleep to plan the wedding. As it was, Grissom had said he wasn't going to be able to give them both much vacation time with such short notice. Now maybe they'd get to have a real honeymoon too.

"Yeah, it would be really important." Nick grinned at her for understanding. "And a couple of my sisters were kind of mad at me for springing it on them so quickly." Yes, waiting a little while would be a good thing. There were the practicalities of getting married that they needed to talk through and figure out still; for starters, they had two households to combine and while he owned his townhouse, Sara was only renting.

"And it would be important for them to be there too." Sara was beginning to get an appreciation for how everything you did had some ripple effect on your family, and the bigger the family, the larger the ripples.

"They think so." Nick winked at her. "I think they'd give me an even harder time about getting married on such short notice than they did spending years trying to get me married off if they missed it." Nick slid his arms around her waist and leaned in and kissed the end of her nose. "So now that we have as much time as we need, where would you like to get married?"

Sara couldn't help but grin at him. "Anywhere but the Chapel of Intergalactic Love." The oddity of the case they'd investigated there together had put her off on ever wanting to get married in a cheesy chapel on the Strip.

"Well since we have it narrowed down then." He leaned in and softly kissed her. He couldn't think of anything he wanted more at that moment than to spend some quality time showing Sara some sweet love and then get some much needed sleep before they both had to be at work.

Sara smiled against his lips and enjoyed the exchange for a few moments before she pulled away from him and looked up into his eyes. "You know, there is this one place that I really liked."

The expectation in her eyes made Nick stop and wait for her to continue.

"I really didn't want to get married on the Strip, but it's far enough removed from everything that I think it would still feel like it was a clapboard church out in the middle of nowhere." She nibbled her lower lip as she tried to read what Nick thought about the whole idea.

"You mean the Little Church of the West don't you?" Nick had seen the place numerous times as he'd driven past on the way to work a crime scene and he always thought it looked a little out of place given the gaudy nature of so many other chapels. It had occurred to him on more than one occasion that he wouldn't mind getting married there if he found the right woman; and now that he had, it seemed only natural to think of it.

"Yeah." Sara smiled at him and laced her arm around his neck. "There's just something about it that seems perfect for us." She too had noticed it mixed in with the casinos and other wedding chapels and thought that it seemed to be a spot of calm in the midst of the storm of lights and entertainment that was the heart of Las Vegas. She wasn't sure she had ever really envisioned herself getting married until this relationship with Nick happened, but in the back of her mind, she always wanted it.

"Then I guess we should find out when they have a date open and go from there." Nick felt relieved that she'd taken the news that they couldn't get married on Valentine's Day so well. He wanted something memorable and he knew that she did too and he was more than willing to wait for it.

"Can we wait until tomorrow?" She tilted her head slightly as she studied his lips; wedding planning could wait, right now all she wanted was to be with Nick.

"We can wait." Nick ducked his head and kissed her, a little surprised the she pulled away so quickly, at least until he noticed the look in her eyes.

Sara had a sultry smirk on her face. "I have a little something that I want to show you...but you need to stay right here for a minute...ok?" She had been formulating this idea in her mind for a while now and she was glad that she was finally going to be able to put it into action.

As Sara stepped away, Nick watched her with interest. "I'll be right here." He wondered exactly what it was she wanted to show him as she disappeared into her bedroom and shut the door. His imagination began to take over when she didn't immediately come right back out. He was about to go knock to see if everything was ok when the door opened.

Sara stood there in a rather sexy combination of silk and lace that made Nick glad he was a man. She leaned her shoulder against the door frame and with a sexy smile she crooked a finger at him.

Nick's eyes widened as he drank in the sight of her and then as he stepped towards her he let out a soft chuckle, remarking just before he gathered her in his arms and kissed her. "That's a very little something and I like it a hell of a lot."