Aw…what is it with my stories? People think they're over when they're not! lol! OK, here's the deal, the story is far from over! You will know it when it's over! Trust me! it will be a happy ending…eventually!
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The Worst
Chapter 5
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"Dammit" Nick said, frustrated, kicking the chair in the process. "Oi, Warrick, Catherine, could I have a hand?" He heard Catherine say, "You go, I'll send this" to Warrick before she kept walking and Warrick came to help Nick clean up the mess of glass he'd made from breaking a rack of test tubes.
"Dude, what happened?"
Nick shot Warrick a glare, "I don't want to talk about it. If you don't mind" he answered as he pulled out a broom from the utility cupboard.
They silently set to work, sweeping up the glass and mopping up the small amounts of chemicals that were splattered around.
When Warrick felt it was safe to speak without getting a handful of glass thrown at him, he said, "I'm worried too."
Nick looked up from putting the last lot of glass in the bin, "I know man. That's what got to me. Everyone else is worried too, why am I so special that I have to worry so much as to break two dozen test tubes? What am I to her? I mean, Cath and her aren't exactly best friends, but they've got the 'girl bond'. You have this whole 'love-hate' thing going with her, Greg's had a crush on her since…forever, so they have this weird flirty understanding thing going on. And then there's Grissom and her with their…thing. And then me. I have no special bond. We compete 'cause we're both in line to get promotions when they come up. That's nothing…so why am I so worried, man?" he sighed.
"You see everyone else's bond but not your own? Nick, you're a damn brother to her. Why is that so hard for you to see? You're like the big family guy, while she hardly see's her family." Warrick said, starting to get angry that Nick thought that his relationship with Sara was less than that of his own; afterall it had been 'hate' before 'love'. "Why don't you just go see her, you'll know what I mean." He added to Nicks confused face.
"Yeah, maybe I should" he nodded, picked up the chair that he'd kicked over in his frustration and walked out of the room, only to bump into Catherine.
"Hey big fella'. Where's the fire?"
Nick smiled "I'm just going to see Sara, see if she can tell me anything that could help us nail this guy. Plus I just need to see she'd doing OK"
"Uh…" Catherine looked down at the text message she'd just received, "You don't reckon you could follow twenty minutes behind me? Do you? I need to straighten something out with her first."
"Yeah, sure."
"Thanks." Catherine sighed, knowing she was in for a hard conversation.
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"Hey again"
"Why'd he go?" Sara whispered
"I don't know, sweetie"
"I thought he'd gotten over all the fears"
"Me too. I never thought he'd send you flowers with 'I Love You' on the tag."
"Oh. They were from him?"
"Yeah. Who else would they be from?"
"Officer Carrigan. You know, he's always at the scene when we arrive? He'd been coming over lately, asking me out, but then at work he'd totally block me out. I thought that maybe the flowers were like an apology."
"They were. Only from Grissom"
They had gone full circle and Sara felt like asking 'Why'd he go' again, but refrained, instead saying, "I asked him out once."
"Really?" she looked up shocked.
"Yeah, he turned me down." Catherine just sat with her mouth wide open at this piece of gossip that had never reached her ears, "He said that he 'didn't know what to do about this'. Cath, maybe he still doesn't know."
"I think he does. He's just scared. Come on, this is a guy that examines bugs for a living, he's not going to come right out and start showing PDA's for you"
"I know, but it just felt…right. While I was asleep he asked me to dinner…"
"Did you bring it up?"
"No," she sighed
"You're just as scared as him"
She nodded, "Do you think that's why he left?"
"I don't know, but I do know he'll be getting a severe talking to"
Sara smiled briefly, "Thanks Cath. I mean it."
"I know" she winked, "Nick's gonna be here in about two minutes, so I'm gonna go find your man and…well, don't worry, next time you see him he'll be ready. Um…you should probably know that Nick has gone into severe big brother mode, I think it had something to do with Warrick"
"Catherine Willows. You're not advising her against me, are you?" the Texan voice caught both woman's attention. Laughing, Catherine walked out of the room, leaving Nick and Sara.
"Hey baby girl"
Sara couldn't help but laugh, and for just that moment, all her worries vanished.
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OK, next chapter may take a while…long story! but I hopefully will have it up by this time next week, I don't want to have to leave you wonderful guys waiting for this long again! I'm so sorry! You can blame my school certificate! I hated every second of those exams!
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