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Part 3

"Oh man too bad Catherine couldn't come" Nick voiced as he sat at a table in the darkened, Smokey bar.

"Yeah it's too bad. But hell we'll do it again" Warrick smiled, he looked over to where Sara was stood at the bar, "I think I could manage another three days out of this one" he joked.

Nick looked to Sara, he had been keeping a close eyes on her ever since the first time she had go up to the bar and some guy was looking at her, giving her the eye. If it was any other time he would have been straight over to his 'girlfriend' and wrapped his arm around her waist showing everyone they couldn't have her. But with Warrick sat at his side all he could do was sit and watch. He was getting jealous, and couldn't help it. Some guy standing there, edging closer to Sara, a smile on his face – Nick wanted to get up. "So…you going to tell me what the bet was about bro?" Nick asked, still glancing at Sara every so often.

Warrick lifted his bottle to his mouth, and took a swig, then looked to Nick, "you'll have to wait and see"

Up at the bar Sara was trying to get served, it was proving difficult surprisingly even though it wasn't that busy. "So how about you tell me your name?"

Sara turned to look at the guy, "Excuse me?" she questioned.

"Come on Doll, let me get you a drink" he had a deep, gruff voice.

"I tell you what you can do…back up four or five steps" Sara shot, "And then go back to drinking your beer before you regret this" She looked back over the bar waiting to be served, silently hoping that Nick wasn't watching. Though she could feel his eyes burning into her back –

"One of them your guy?" The man asked, leaning closer to her again.

Sara looked to him, "What's it to you…" she shot.

"Lets just say…I'm perceptive…" he smirked, seductively as he looked her body up and down.
"Well how about you observe my words carefully…I'm not interested"

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She looked across to Nick who was trying to open the door to his house, unsuccessfully she may add. He hadn't said much to her since they had left the bar. And she got the feeling he was pissed off. Leaning on the wall she tried to get a look at his eyes, most of the time his eyes told her everything that she needed to know. Before she could though Nick lost it and kicked the door.

"Nick" Sara shot, "What the hells got into you" she bent down and picked up the keys that he dropped.

"Into me… I'm surprised your even here?" He growled back at her. This clarified the fact that she was in fact the reason he was pissed.

"Where else would I be?" She asked, looking at him unsure as to what he was getting at.

"Well – you looked pretty sweet with the guy at the bar?" He accused.

Sara looked shocked, she laughed in disbelief. "You got to be kidding me, Right?"

His look told her all that she needed to know – he wasn't kidding at all. "He had his hands all over you" He shouted, catching the attention of more than one of the neighbors.

Sara looked around, then to Nick; "I'm not doing this with you" She growled throwing his keys at him, "not here".

She looked at him, "What do you want from me Nick?" She shouted, "I can only be who I am…you've known me long enough to know I'd never cheat on anyone. I thought you knew how much you meant to me?"

Nick looked over to the neighbor who was stood looking at the two of them, he turned his back and headed over to the door – this time successfully getting the key in and throwing it open.

Sara Rolled her eyes, and followed him in slamming it shut, "What do you want me to Say Nick?" she demanded.

"Nothing…I just…" he really didn't know what he wanted, he had no idea what was going on here.

"What? You just what?" She shouted.

"You're sending me crazy Sara, look what you're doing to me" He swung around to face her, "I'm jealous, like really jealous. I'm becoming this possessive guy who… I don't like."

"You're Jealous?" She asked, her tone softening, "Of what?"

"Of the way the guy was with you, I wanted to hit him Sara. I wanted to walk over and take you in my arms just to let everyone know you were mind but I couldn't"

"This isn't about the guy is it?" She demanded, Nick just looked into her eyes. "It's about you wanting them all to know, I mean…the team. You're pissed because no one knows about us."

"I'm pissed because, I'm crazy in love with you Sara" He explained.

"You're backwards Nick…you know that right" She shouted at him, "You do realize what you're saying?" she just wanted to be clear.

"I'm saying, I love you like crazy…and I want you to know that you're the only person that has ever turned me into a mad man!" The words were filled with anger.

"You're arguing with me because you love me?" She stopped shouting now, she more stammered the last out of her mouth - and just looked at him in disbelief, "You shouted at me out there in front of the whole neighborhood, because you're crazy in love"

Nick nodded his head, then took a few steps towards her briskly grabbing hold of her shirt taking the material into his fists and pulling her passionately into him, no chance to talk her lips were met with his and the two found themselves finally been able to give into the need to have each other. There was no one around to walk in on them, no one around to open the door to the Locker room, or the break room – just the two of them. He backed her up to the front door, pressing her against it and then pressing himself against her body.

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"Why did you tell me it went fine last night?"

Sara turned in his arms, leaning her head on his bear chest as he ran his hand sensually up and down her back over his large cowboys jersey that she was wearing, from the top of her neck to the lower back – he sent a warm, burning sensation right to Sara's heart. She knew what he was talking about- when she had got in from shift the previous morning he had asked how it went and she had lied. She told him it was all good but it wasn't – it had been one of the hardest cases she'd had in a long while. She moved one of her hands to his chest, so the two were holding each other. "Couldn't tell you the truth…" She explained simply.

"Can you now?" He asked.

She thought a moment, and then she nodded slowly – "I can try"

"It's all I ask" He smiled warmly as he tightened the arm that was around her pulling her against him for support.

"I got an abuse case…thought I could handle it" Sara's words weren't rehearsed; she was reeling of her thoughts as they came. "I couldn't though…that bastard…Nick he bludgeoned her to death. He must have been looking into her eyes…really looking into her eyes before he killed her. Bringing it down on her…over and over…and…over" She stopped, Nick knew just what she was doing. She was picturing it all again, right now see was re living the scene. "No matter how long I do this job, I thought I'd never understand it" She mumbled.

"Understand what?" Nick purred softly, supportively.

"How…anyone can kill, how anyone can take the life of another person" Sara explained, she trailed off for a few moments then came back to him "She was pregnant" She offered, and then she sighed. "You know what's even sicker?"

"What?" He asked, "That the highest rate of domestic violence is when the women are pregnant."

Nick moved the hair back out of her eyes and tucked it behind her ear, "Hun?" he asked wanting to make sure she was okay as she seemed to have withdrawn a bit into a daze.

"I was sat in the interrogation room, in front of this bastard… I had the images of her body spread over the table…" She continued, "he showed no emotion, no remorse or regret. I lost it… I went for him. Before I knew it I had him on the ground and I just kept hitting him…looking into his eyes and I felt nothing." She was taking sort breaths now, unable to talk without gasping.

"Sara, Honey…Baby" Nick had never seen Sara get so worked up. She really wasn't breathing now… she turned over and lay with her back on the bed looking up at the ceiling. Nick lent over on his side, moving his had to her arm.

"I so scared because…I felt it" She explained, moving her hand up to her head she pushed her hand through her hair and let the tears finally came. It wasn't something that Sara often did, but right now she was crying like she had never before – "You want the truth…last night…I understood…" She spat, "I could have killed him and I wouldn't have cared" She pulled her arm away from Nick, she didn't want him to touch her right now and he respected this. Nick couldn't believe what was happening right now, Sara was so broken. "Grissom pulled me off..." She continued, she clenched her fists as though she was reliving it, "but I kept…throwing punches…over and…" She stopped, she looked to Nick, "I'm so scared." She explained.

He lay next to her, he moved his hands around her body knowing that no words could comfort her instead her held onto her. She tuned on her side and buried her head in his neck breaking down altogether. He just held onto her, knowing that Sara may very well be in the worst state she had been in a long while.

Tbc…