"How's your night going?" Warrick asked. "Hopefully better than mine."

"You tell me yours I'll tell you mine."

"A five year old stabbed his passed out drunk father with a kitchen knife and then his mother stabbed him a few more times to cover it up and called the police saying someone must have broken in." Warrick stated.

"Okay you win. I only got my mother-in-law arrested and then had to go and tell Sara about it." Nick leant against the edge of the counter.

"You got your mother-in-law arrest? I thought she was still in…"

"She got paroled, and then turned up at the lab to see Sara. I had Vega check it out while I made her coffee and she's in breach of her parole and she is in custody awaiting transport back to San Francisco in the morning." Nick explained.

"What did Sara say?"

"That most guys wish that they could get their mother-in-laws arrested." Nick replied. "I think she was in slight shock."

"Why was she even here?"

"All she would say is she wanted to talk to Sara. Sara told her that she didn't want anything to do with her when we saw her at the trial." Nick sighed.

"So what now?"

"Back to work until she wants to talk about it." Nick shrugged.

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"So he got your mother arrested?" Catherine said as they drove back to the lab.

"For violating her parole." Sara confirmed.

"How do you feel about that?"

"Nick did what he was supposed to do. He checked that she wasn't violating parole and when he found she was he had her taken in to custody."

"I mean her being in town." Catherine clarified.

"I don't know. I told her to stay away from me."

"You could go and see what she wanted." Catherine suggested.

"What would I say to her?"

"Just ask her what was so important that she broke her parole to come all the way here to see you."

"She's getting transported back to San Francisco first thing in four hours."

"We know a police Captain who could pull a few strings so you could talk to her. If not we work for the Clark County Sheriff he owes me a few favours." Catherine suggested.

"I don't know if I want to talk to her." Sara admitted.

"Well you have four hours."

"You know at her original trial she insisted it was self defence. Stabbing someone once is self defence, 23 times is murder."

"It's up to you." Catherine told her. "Maybe hearing her out my ease the bitterness."

"Let's just see how the case goes when we get back to the lab."

"Okay." Catherine left her deal with it her own way.

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"She's being transported in less than thirty minutes. I'm sorry." The guard apologised.

"Okay." Sara gave up.

"Wait a second." Brass put his hand on her arm. "Look it's her mother; she broke her parole to come here to see her daughter. Can't you give her five minutes to find out what she wanted?"

"Who exactly are you?" The guard asked.

"Captain Jim Brass Las Vegas PD."

"You'll vouch for her?"

"She's a county employee; she works for the crime lab." Brass pointed out.

"Five minutes." He conceded.

"Thanks Jim." Sara said.

"That's what friends are for."

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"Sara." Her mother said.

"Mom." Sara turned around her look at her mother who was chained ready to go leave.

"Come to gloat that you're husband got me arrested?"

"Nick had to check that you were violating parole, otherwise he could have been suspended. He did the right thing. You're the one who left California when you were on parole, you're the one who is going back to jail so don't blame Nick for this." Sara crossed her arms. "Since I had to get a friend to pull some strings for me to be here. Do you want to tell me why you're here?"

"I wanted to talk to you."

"Well you've got two minutes before they throw me out."

TBC