Author: Joyce

Title: The Consequences of Flirting

Disclaimer: I don't own them. And sadly, I don't own Gary either.

Note: what can I tell you guys? First of all, thanks for your kind reviews, it was very much appreciated. It's good to see that people are getting into this story and making suggestions. I really love it so please don't stop! Secondly..well, I've got no second point to be honest, except for this one: Thanks again for reading my story and keep those reviews coming!

Let the flirting begin

Nick entered the break room the next day, finding Warrick with a huge grin on his face.

"What has gotten you so happy, bro?" he asked while he poured himself some coffee, interested in anything that could make his friend this happy.

"Me and Tina broke up," his friend announced in a tone that suggested that is was the best news ever.

"What?" Nick said, sounding shocked and he turned around to see Warrick on the same spot, still with that ridiculous grin on his face while nodding contently. "Why is that good news?" Nick wanted to know, really not getting why anybody would let Tina go and be happy about it.

"She doesn't love me," the dark man told him calmly and Nick gave up at that point and just stared at him blankly. "I don't love her either, bro," Warrick helpfully explained but the confused look remained on his friend's face.

"What the hell happened?" Nicky finally managed to choke out and the other man shrugged before he answered;

"We were both looking for some excitement in our lives. After everything that happened...I don't know... I guess you can say we wanted to live for once and for a while we found that in each other. But in the end we both neglected the fact that we're not in love with each other, no matter how hard we try."

"So," Nick said, trying to grasp the information while asking a question he was just curious about. "Now she's a friend you have sex with?"

"No," the taller man replied, trying very hard not to laugh. "She's a friend I had sex with. As in past tense."

"You two are really over?" Nick asked again and when his friend just nodded he continued; "Ok, but why the hell are you so happy about it?"

Warrick wanted to answer when the door opened and Sara walked in, not even looking at him.

"Hey, girl," he said cheerfully, giving her his best smile and she raised her eyebrows responding with a small wave before she turned to the other man in the room.

"We have a robbery uptown, you coming?"

She left the room before he could answer, not paying any attention to Warrick anymore and Nick followed her, turning back to his co-worker one last time.

"We'll talk later," he told his friend, the look on his face indicating that he still wanted to know a lot more and Warrick nodded, his smile disappearing once the door closed behind Nick.

"This is going to be harder then I thought," he mumbled before the smile came back. "Oh well, I better double my efforts then..."


Outside Nick turned to the woman walking beside him, who was being awfully quiet today.

"Have you heard?" he asked, hoping that some good old gossip would cheer her up and she looked up at him.

"Heard what?" she responded, knowing that Nick was gonna tell her anyway but he liked it when she showed some form of interest in his gossip.

Nick looked around the parking lot, making sure that nobody saw them before he whispered in her ear;

"Warrick and Tina broke up."

He pulled back with a satisfied look on his face, wanting to see her reaction but there was nothing, she just stood there. Her face a blank mask.

"They what?" she eventually questioned and he repeated it again. "They broke up."

Still no reaction, Sara didn't move at all and he was starting to worry about her when a frown appeared on her face, quickly followed by something that looked very much like rage and she turned around.

"That asshole," he heard her mutter and she shoved him aside, walking back to the building with short, angry steps.

"Where are you going?" he yelled after her and she never looked back when she replied; "I'll meet you at the scene. I've got someone I need to talk to first."

Then she was inside and he stood there, alone in the parking lot.

"What just happened?" he whispered to himself, getting into his car and looking back at the building he worked in one last time before he drove off.


Sara stormed through the lab, never stopping to greet the people she worked with for over five years now. When she reached the break room she opened the door with such force that both Grissom and Warrick jumped up.

"Sara?" her boss said, "What has gotten into you?"

She didn't even look at him, her eyes fixed on Warrick, who had overcome his initial shock and was smiling at her in a way that she had only seen once before. When she caught him flirting with Mia. The thought intensified her anger and she finally registered her boss.

"Could you give me and Warrick a minute?" she asked and Grissom frowned. "Is this about eggs again?" he then wanted to know and that got a grin out of her.

"No," she told him. "It's not, trust me."

Grissom looked at both his protegees eventually deciding to leave them alone, sensing that they had a lot to talk about. "You make this quick," he warned Sara. "You both have cases you need to work on. You work this stuff out and you get to your crime scenes."

Both nodded, Warrick still with a big smile on his face. When the door closed behind Grissom, Sara turned around faster then he could register.

"You are such a jerk," she told him and he blinked, the smile vanishing.

"I'm sorry? What?" he asked her, a bit confused by the anger he could see in her eyes.

She started pacing the room and he could sense that she was getting angrier by the minute.

"You told me we were friends yesterday!" she almost screamed and he raised his eyebrows in confusion.

"We are," he said in a soothing tone, one that didn't help much because she was in his face now, actually shoving him.

"You made me cry last night," she confessed, while giving him a shove. "You made me accept that we're friends!" Another shove. "I didn't sleep at all because I couldn't get that kiss out of my head..." There was no shove this time, all he could see was pain and this was the point where he knew without a doubt in his mind that he was in love with her. He was in love with her. The thought overwhelmed him and he just stared at her while she turned around, some of the fury gone.

"I spend all night trying to come to term with the fact that we're friends and then I walk in here and you..."

She paused, looking at him with eyes that were filled with confusion, anger and something he could only hope was love.

"And you give me a big flirty smile," she finished.

"I'm sorry?" Warrick said lamely, his brain still not caught up with the situation.

"Yeah," Sara answered, sarcasm in place. "I'm sure it's hearthbreaking when the first rebound girl you turn to after a breakup turns you down."

He blinked, slowly processing what she said and then he cursed Nick in his mind.

"Stokes told you," he realized and she just nodded.

"What did you think, Rick?" she wanted to know from him. "You thought that you could just move on to the next girl that was waiting in line?"

"No!" he said, his voice sounding a little harder then he intended to.

"No?" Sara repeated his words. "So, I was what then? Available maybe, since Tina dumped your sorry ass?"

She knew she had crossed a line when anger flared up in his eyes.

"You really think I could use you like that?" he asked her in a low whisper, barely constrained anger behind the question.

"No," she told him again. "Because I won't let you. You made your choice last night when you decided that you owed Tina something that you obviously didn't owe me."

"You don't get it, Sara," he said with a sigh, wanting to explain it to her but she interrupted him.

"I understand it just fine, Rick," she almost hissed. "But it's not gonna work, I'm not some substitute for Tina so you better stop whatever you had planned."

She gave him one last angry look.

"It's not gonna work!" she reminded him again.

She walked out of the room, slamming the door behind her, leaving him alone in the room.

"Ok," he mumbled, a look of bewilderment on his face. "So, obviously doubling my efforts is not going to be enough..."

Tbc..