"Hey Warrick." Sara said when she walked into the break room the following evening.

"Hey girl, you're back and early." Warrick smiled. "Where's Nick?"

"He was just finishing watching something. He'll be here later. I thought I'd come in and catch up on what I missed."

"How was Texas?" Warrick asked.

"Great. I went to a Cowboys game last night."

"Serious?"

"Serious."

"How'd you get tickets to a Cowboys game?"

"Friend of Nick's father." Sara replied. "It would have probably been better I understood the game more. But it was fun."

"Hey Sara." Catherine said walking in a few minutes later after Sara had finished the game. "How was Texas and meeting the family?"

"It actually went great." Sara said.

"Nick took her to a Cowboys game." Warrick told Catherine.

"Impressive. So what are Nick's family like?"

"Honestly I don't think you'd ever meet a group of people that big who are all on the right side of the law."

"Really?" Catherine asked.

"His brother Andy is a defence attorney, his wife Erin is a medical examiner and their eldest daughter wants to major in forensic anthropology."

"Impressive."

"Carrie is a DA, her husband works as a court bailiff, Becky is a forensic psychiatrist, her husband is a PI, Emily writes crime novels and her husband is an engineer at NASA. Heather is a school guidance counsellor, Bobby is with the FBI. Maggie works part-time in dispatch and Gibson is a cop."

"That is actually very impressive." Catherine said. "They could have a whole trial by themselves."

"Between them and the kids they have a pretty decent softball team too."

"Softball?" Warrick questioned.

"They have a family tradition of playing softball games after family cookouts. I even scored a homerun."

"Sounds like you had fun."

"They're a great bunch of people." Sara agreed pouring herself a cup of coffee. "I guess it's too much to hope Greg came in early and made coffee."

"What do you think?" Warrick asked.

"That I probably should have stopped for coffee on the way here."

"Did you get and decent stories out of them?"

"Even some I had to promise Nick I'd never mention."

"Now those are the ones we want to hear." Warrick said.

"I don't think so." Sara sipped her coffee then poured it down the sink. "And I'm making a fresh pot."

"Any that you can tell us?"

"Nick has a horse called Stardust he's a little protective of. Calls her his baby."

"I think that's just a Texan thing." Catherine said.

"You have to have something better than that."

"Well I do have pictures." Sara said.

"Pictures?" Catherine smiled. "We like photographic evidence."

"All supplied by his sister-in-law Erin."

"How many years of photographs can his sister-in-law have?" Warrick asked.

"This would be the sister-in-law who has been Nick's sister Carrie's best friend since they were five and who spent most of her time at the Stokes's house. The sister-in-law, who was there when he came home from the hospital, changed his diaper and was there when he took his first steps."

"That sounds like great qualifications." Catherine said.

"And makes for some very cute pictures." Sara paused. "Just don't tell Nick I have them and I'll bring them in tomorrow."

"Deal."

"You should see the kids they are cutest kids you ever saw. It's surprising how much they all look alike."

"Sounds like someone is getting broody." Warrick said.

"Not for a few years." Sara corrected. "I want to enjoy being married first."

"Did you ever set a date?" Catherine asked.

"We're having two weddings." Sara replied.

"Two?"

"If we got married here, it's going to be expensive to fly his whole family out and if we got married in Texas you guys won't all be able to get time off to come so we thought we'd have two." Sara shrugged then explained the plan.

TBC