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Sara walked down the hall way of the lab towards the trace lab. Hodges had beeped her. She was calling Nick to tell him to meet her in trace when she ran straight into Tony DiNozzo. Sara lost her balance, but Tony caught her before she could fall.

"Umm...Thanks."

"No problem," Tony said with a dazzling grin.

He kept fumbling with his visitor's badge. He couldn't clip it to his shirt, the clamp was too stubborn. That was the cause of the collision between him and Sara. Normally, he'd be pissed that he wasn't strong enough to clip it on, but now was the perfect time to ask her out.

"Um, hey, do you wanna get something to eat when we get off work?" Tony couldn't believe how nervous he was.

"Uh, yeah, sure. I'd love to," Sara said, "Um, I just got a page from trace. Hodges has the results. Wanna come?" She had been unsure of what to say next.

"Yeah, let's go."

Sara never completed her call to Nick. But they were still kinda fighting anyway. Over something stupid. Sara knew she was just kidding about him being jealous.

She didn't think he was, anyway.

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Nick was thinking.

Why not? Just ask her out. It's not that hard. You've asked other girls out before, so why is asking Kate Todd any different? God, I'm such a wuss. Just ask her out. If she shoots you down, it won't matter 'cuz the investigation's almost over so you won't have to see her any more. Do it or you might regret it later.

Nick was processing the clothes found on the body. He spotted the special agent wandering around the hallway and constantly glancing down at her palm pilot as if she were lost.

Perfect timing, he thought.

"You need help?" he drawled out.

"Well, yes. Who's Frances Crick and James Watson?" Kate handed Nick her palm pilot.

Nick took one glance at the words on the screen and sighed, "Not again." He walked off, her palm pilot still in hand. Kate stared after him until he turned a corner and then decided to follow him. She finally found him in the DNA lab, talking to a man with shaggy dirty blond hair.

"Greggo, man, I thought Grissom told you not to page any one like that any more?"

"Well, I thought she could figure it out."

"Um, Nick?" Kate said from the door way.

"Oh, yeah, sorry." He handed her the palm pilot. "Greg thinks it's funny to page people like that," Nick said, and, due to the confused look still on Kate's face, added, "Frances Crick and James Watson discovered DNA."

"Oh," she said as if she should have known, "Um...do you have my results?"

"Yeah, here," Greg replied, "I moved them the top of my 'priority' pile. I only do that for the boss and pretty ladies."

"Thanks," Kate said, not listening to what he was saying and left to fill Tony in on the results.

Nick shot Greg a dirty look and followed her. "Oh, Kate!"

She turned around and waited for him to catch up to her.

"Would you like to get some coffee after shift? None of that sludge in the break room. Real coffee," Nick said hopefully.

She smiled a warm smile, "Yeah, sure. I'll come find you after shift."

"OK."

"I gotta go give these results to Tony. I'll see you later?"

"Yeah, later." She turned and walked off to find her partner.

Ugh, Tony, he thought.

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More coming soon! It could be a little while though. I'm dealing with drumline rehearsal and Drivers Ed so I'll try to post more soon.