Sara is kissing me! Was the only thing going through Nick's mind when he felt her lips on his he didn't have time to finish the thought because Sara pulled away from him.

"Thank you, Nick" was all she said before she turned around and went back inside.

Nick just stood there for a few minutes. One, to clam his body down after the fight with Hank and two, to calm his heart down after the kiss from Sara. Now what do I do? After taken a deep breath Nick walked into the house.

"Sara?"

Nick didn't hear anything so he walked further into the house. There was Sara passed out on the couch. I wondered how long it would take for everything to catch up to her. Nick just stood there and studied Sara. She was one of the strongest women he knew. He was once again pulled from his thoughts from Sara.

"No, Leave me alone." Sara started to fight in her sleep. Nick knew if he didn't wake her up she could hurt her arm worse.

"Shhh, its okay Sara, your safe." Nick said as he rubbed her head.

Sara was running. She didn't know where she was going, but knew she had to be away. Hank was behind her and would catch up to her any minute.

"No, Leave me alone" she cried.

But then she heard his voice. Telling her that everything was going to be alright and not to worry.

"Nick?" Sara asked when she opened her eyes.

"Yes, baby?" He didn't realize he had called her by a pet name till he saw to small smile on her lips. The first smile he had seen all night. And I put that smile there.

"Can you hold me?"

"Sure, but lets get you in the bedroom and then I'm going to have to call Grissom."

"Why?"

"Well, you saw me just beat the shit out of Hank. I need to tell Grissom before Hank does."

"But, he was trying to come into the house, right?"

From the look on Nick's face she could tell that wasn't the case.

"No, he was just standing there with a shit eating grin on his face and I lost it."

Nick looked down after he said this. He knew Sara was going to be disappointed in him.

"Nick, look at me," he did "I'm not upset that you 'opened a Texas size ass whoop'en' on him"

Nick just looked at Sara. He walked up to her and did the one thing he had wanted to do since he saw her when he was throwing dummies off the roof and something that he had wanted to continue just a few minutes ago outside his house. He kissed her. She returned the kiss and their mouths came together and a heated kiss. They both lost track of time and didn't pull apart till Nick had wrapped his arms around Sara and she winced.

"Sorry." Nick said as he went to move away from him.

"No," Sara said as she pulled him back with her good arm "I have wanted to do that for years."

Nick just stared at her. "Me too. I'm just sorry it took something like this to finally show me how much I" he stopped not knowing if he should finish.

"How much you what and don't give me that crap about me not being ready." Sara said giving him the glare that she knew he wouldn't back down from.

Nick took a deep breath. I've been doing that a lot. "How much I love you, Sara."

Sara started to cry.

"Damn it, Sara I'm sorry I shouldn't have said anything."

"No, Nick. These are happy tears. I love you too. And like you I'm sorry it took me being raped to show me how much I need you in my life."

The just looked into each others eyes. Letting everything that needed to be said pass between them.

"You should call Grissom now." Sara said with a small smile on her face. "And don't forget to tell the about the Texas size ass whoop'en you handed out."

Nick laughed. "Yeah, I guess your right."

At the lab.

It had been one of those nights for Grissom. He was short handed and everything just wasn't going his way.

His cell phone brought him out of his thoughts.

"Grissom"

"Hey Grissom?" Nick sounds upset

"What is wrong? Did something happen?"

"Yeah, Hank came to my house."

"WHAT?" How many times in one night can he make me say that?

"That's not all"

"Nick what did you do?"

"I kind of, hmmm.."

"Nick" Grissom said sternly

"I beat him up."

In the background he heard Sara say "No, you gave him a Texas size ass whoop'in"

Grissom had to smile. "I can hear Sara is feeling better."

"Yeah" Nick said very shyly.

"Okay first things first, how bad did you open this can?" Grissom said with a smile. He knew he shouldn't be but he was very proud of Nick for what he had done.

"Not too bad, he was able to walk away if that is what you mean." Nick could hear in Grissom's voice that the older man wasn't mad at him. Thank God.

"Okay I'll give Brass a heads up. I don't think we will have any problems after what Hank has done. But I have to tell you that you should have reframed from beating him up. He could press charges. But I'm sure we can figure something out. He did come to your home right?"

"Yeah, he just showed up. I thought it was Catherine or Warrick coming to check on Sara. When I opened the door he was just standing there with this grin on this face. I guess I just kind of lost it."

"Well, you are taking two weeks off so we'll just have to say you're on leave for this fight and leave it like that."

"Okay Grissom thanks."

"Can I talk to Sara?" Grissom asked not sure if Sara was ready to talk to anyone or not.

"Hold on, let me ask." Nick turned to Sara. "He wants to know if he can talk to you."

Sara thought about it for a minute. "Sure"

"Yeah Grissom let me hand her the phone."

Sara and Grissom's relationship and change over the last couple of years. Once Sara realized that it was Nick she really wanted Grissom became more of the father she never had.

"Hey Grissom."

"Sara, I know this is a stupid question, but how are you?"

"I'm good Griss." Sara couldn't help the smile that was on her face as she watched Nick come out of the kitchen with a glass of tea for her.

Grissom heard the smile and had to smile himself. "So I take it you and Nick have come to terms with your feelings huh?"

Sara spit out what tea was in her mouth and just looked at the phone. She heard Grissom laughing.

"I know you guys don't think I pay much attention to things, but I do. I'm just sorry it took something like this."

"Yeah, us too." That this Nick looked at Sara with a raised eyebrow Sara just shook her head.

"Well, just make sure it doesn't get in the way of your jobs and we'll be good." was all Grissom said.

Sara and Grissom talked on the phone for another five minutes when Grissom had to tell her why he really needed to talk to her.

"Sara, the DNA and the other entire test we ran came back. We are arresting Hank right now."

"Okay" Sara whispered.

"Well, I'm going to let you go. I have an ass hole to go talk to." Grissom was going to be the one to talk to Hank.

"Okay, Call us back and let us know how it goes."

"I will. Tell Nick we will talk more about his outburst later."

"I will" Then they hung up.

A/N: I'm not going to go into a lot of detail with Hank and the rape. I figure about 4 or 5 more chapters. If ya'll have anything ya'll want me to add or think I need to add please let me know. Thanks!