See look, no cliffhanger. Aren't I a good girl.

Part Five

As soon as my lips touch hers reality screeches into place. I'm kissing Sara, all my attention is focused on her mouth, how soft her lips feel, how fantastic it feels to have her mouth pressing against mine.

I pull back from the kiss, my eyes still closed, I don't want to face the shock I'm sure will be on her face, and I'm in no hurry to have the 'I'm flattered but no thanks' conversation.

I just want to revel in the fact that I've just kissed Sara for as long as I can.

"Catherine."

Her voice is giving nothing away and I still haven't opened my eyes. So I have no idea what she's thinking. She hasn't run away screaming though, so it's going better than I thought.

"Catherine please look at me."

Okay, here goes.

I slowly open my eyes and lift my head to meet her gaze, she has a look on her face that I've never seen before, god I wish she'd say something.

Her hand comes up and she cups my face, I automatically lean in to her touch.

She still hasn't said anything and I'm getting a little anxious.

"Sara...I..."

I have no idea what to say; I look at her pleadingly, trying to convey my feelings. Then I stand there motionless as the hand she has holding my face moves to the base of my skull, tangling in my hair. Her eyes darken and she pulls me in for another kiss.

This is nothing like the almost chaste kiss I gave her. She latches on to my bottom lip, nibbling it and licking it until I grant her tongue entrance to my mouth, her tongue teases me until I can't take it any more. Sinking my hands into her silky hair, pulling, wanting to deepen our kiss further.

The way she's kissing me is driving me wild, the initial intensity replaced by a slow sensual dance, she lazily swirls her tongue around mine, god this is fantastic.

When oxygen becomes an issue I pull back, not wanting to lose contact with her gorgeous mouth just yet; I give her little kisses between ragged breaths.

"Well, that's never happened before."

She's panting too, and I smile at the thought that I caused that.

I finally open my eyes to see her smiling at me.

"Mmm hmm, that's was definitely new."

Coherent thought is still a bit of a problem it seems.

"Good new or bad new?" I hear the concern in her voice, the fact she's worried after that is mildly amusing.

"Oh, very good new, so good in fact I think you should do it again."

She smiles at me, moving her free hand to my hip, pulling me flush against her.

I can't stop thinking about how good a kisser she is, my eyes have been firmly planted on her mouth since I opened them, watching every tiny movement. Now I know how it feels, how am I supposed to be around her and not be kissing her?

"I think we need to talk."

She's right, I know she is; but damn I wanted to continue with the kissing.

"Come on." She says, taking my hand and leading me into the living room. We sit on the sofa, facing each other and I lean in to capture her lips once more, I get within a hairs breadth of my target and she pulls back, chuckling.

"There will be no talking if that happens."

Again, she's right, but I pout a little just the same. She moves back from me, but taking the hand she's still holding with her, so there's still some contact.

I settle back into the sofa getting comfortable.

"I don't know where to start." I offer.

"Firstly, are you still feeling sick? If you are, we should do this another time."

I'd forgotten about that. "I wasn't feeling sick, it was you."

"Me?" I can tell she has no idea what I mean.

"I had noticed you all shift, you've been distracting me all night, so it's no wonder I was a little hot when you stepped close to me."

"Wow, I had that affect on you? Is it wrong that I feel proud of that?" She grins. "But seriously, I'm shocked; I didn't have you down as being so easily distracted."

"I'm not usually; then again, I've never worked with anyone I was attracted to until you, so it's never been an issue before. And besides, I still wouldn't consider myself easily distracted, you just have no idea the affect you have on people."

She laughs at my statement. "You have to be kidding, me having no idea? I suppose you're fully aware of almost the entire lab drooling over you?" What's she talking about? It's her they drool after. "I can't count the amount of times I've heard people saying how hot you are; I even caught Grissom checking out your ass once."

"That's just disturbing."

"I agree; that's what I told him."

I lean in and kiss her lightly. "Thank you." It's adorable that she did that. "I'd love to have seen his face."

"It did amuse, but I have to admit that I only noticed because I was doing the same." She grins at me, blushing a little.

I shift myself closer to her, simply because I can, placing my hand on the leg she has tucked under herself.

"I've been attracted to you since the moment I set eyes on you; lust at first sight." She laughs. "But that was it, that was all it was. Since we've been spending time together though, that's changed. I'm not sure what it's changed to, but it's changed, there's more there now, and I'd very much like to see what it could be."

Her honesty makes me smile; I lean in for another quick kiss. "I haven't had as long to get used to the idea. In fact until three days ago I didn't see you as anyone but a work colleague." She looks a little disappointed.

"So what changed?" She asks.

"Well, I loved that we were getting closer, finally becoming friends, it seems however my subconscious wanted a lot more."

"Your subconscious?" She looks confused, and it's so adorable.

"Mmm hmm, I erm, had a dream about you." I blush, both at the embarrassment I feel and the memory of the dream.

She leans in, giving me a slow kiss, taking my breath away. I think I like this talking stuff.

"Tell me about it." She whispers when she pulls back. That's not a good idea, but who am I to refuse her?

"Well, we were in my bed, I was asleep." Her hand is making lazy circles up the outside of my thigh making it very hard to concentrate. "I felt your hand slide down my back, across my hip onto my stomach, your fingers making random patterns. You started kissing your way across my shoulder to the back of my neck." Her hand is sliding higher up my thigh, moving to the inside, she's moves so she's impossibly close to me now, I think I should shut up.

"We were naked?" She asks, her mouth right next to my ear.

"Yeah." I whisper, my voice doesn't seem to work right now.

She whimpers, oh god that's sexy. "So we must have already..."

"Oh god." The thought alone making me shiver.

"I think you need to move away a little, and your hand definitely needs to stop doing that to my thigh, that is unless you've decided this talking thing is overrated?"

"Sorry, it's just...well..."

"I know, and apologies are unnecessary." I place my hand over hers, stilling its movement as she moves back a little bit.

"I think maybe you should tell me about that dream, in great detail, another time."

I can't help laughing, I have to agree but my body is every inch the traitor right now.

"Right, anyway, I didn't think too much of it, until I saw you at work that night."

"Why, what happened?"

"Oh not much, just a million butterflies settling in my stomach all because you smiled at me." She smiles at me, and the same thing happens again.

"Followed by three days of not being able to take my eyes of you, very distracting you'll understand."

"So we're pretty much in the same boat, the big question being, is this just a physical attraction for you? Or more?"

"I think it's more, I definitely want to find out where this is going."

"Good, me too, that said, I was wondering if you'd like to go on a date with me?"

"I'd absolutely love to." YES! I'm ecstatic at the prospect; Sara's just asked me out, yay.

"Excellent, we can sort out the details later, right now I believe you've persuaded me, talking is overrated, wanna make out?"

We both laugh, how cute is she.

I don't reply with words, my mouth is otherwise engaged. Damn she's good at this.

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Sam