Thanks for all the reviews. And I'm sorry this next chapter is so short. It's been a while and I wanted to post something.

The next few months were somewhat uneventful for Sara. She forgot all about Grissom turning her down…yet again. Her mind was on other things; all the matches she was receiving from her personal ad. She met a few of her matches but had no interest in them for a relationship.

"Come on Sara," Nick whined from the locker room bench in the lab. "Please go out on just one date with Kevin."

Nick loved Sara like a sister, and he didn't like seeing her spending all her time alone. One of his best friends, Kevin, had seen a picture of Nick's from the last CSI Christmas party and really wanted to meet Sara. Kevin was a terrific man and Nick knew that he and Sara would get along great. "I swear you'll like him."

"I'm tired of being set up with everyone's friends Nick," Sara replied, standing up from the bench. "Just give it a rest, please?" Sara closed her locker and turned to look at Nick. "I'm giving up dating for a while."

Nick got up from the bench and followed Sara out of the locker room down the hall of the crime lab. "Fine, but when you feel like starting up again, let me know."

Sara smiled back at him. "Sure. You'll be the first to know."

"Great. Have a good weekend Sara." He gave Sara a little salute and took off towards the parking lot.

"Bye Nicky." Sara wandered to the break room to get her left-overs from lunch and went home.

Dropping her lunch off in the refrigerator, she went to the bedroom and changed out of her work clothes into sweats and a t-shirt. After grabbing a bottle of water, she headed over to her computer, turned it on, and sat down.

She told Nick a little bit of the truth. She was giving up dating for a while…the dating where she was set up with someone.

Opening up her email program after connecting to the internet, Sara saw the email she had been waiting for; an email from John. Through his profile on the dating site, she learned they had a lot in common.

On Monday, Sara's last night off, her and John had met for the first time. Meeting someone from an internet dating site had scared her a little. More so since the murder she worked on a few years ago with a young woman who met a man over the internet who turned out to be an ex-con. But she had to take her chances.

They shared a pizza at a restaurant outside of the local mall, and when finished, strolled around the mall just talking and getting to know each other. He was a firefighter/paramedic for the Clark County Fire Department.

After their walk he drove them around the city. She knew it was dangerous to get in a car with him. After all he was a complete stranger. But for some reason, she felt extremely comfortable around him and could be herself. When they said goodnight a few hours later, John told her he'd email her about their next date.

Sara left that night looking forward to her second date with John. Her thoughts about John were different than with any of the other guys she had dated in the past. She thought she could start a meaningful relationship with him. She was amazed with all they had in common and how easy it was to talk to him. And he didn't even mind her job or hours.

Sara opened her water bottle, took a sip and clicked on the email from John. Reading the message, a smile spread on her face. He said he really enjoyed spending time with her and wanted to know if she would like to hang out at his fire station, go on a ride-along or two, and have lunch on Sunday...her next day off.

She immediately sent him an email saying yes.

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