"You know what I'm going to miss?" Sara asked.

"Not having worry about a babysitter if we want to go out?" Nick guessed.

"Now I'm going to worry about that."

"Sorry. What were going to say?"

"I was going to say I'm going to miss being able to sleep on my stomach."

The lights went flickered and then went out.

"Twice in a less than a week is a good advertisement for the power company." Sara stated.

"At least we ate and hopefully everything in the freezer won't melt this time." Nick said optimistically.

"It was an awful thing to do to perfectly good ice-cream."

"How about we just go to bed?" Nick suggested. "It's almost eleven and hopefully the worst of it will be over by the time we get up."

CSI CSI

"So much for the worst of it being over." Sara said as wiped her wet hair back from her face after they had run into the building that night avoiding the torrential rain.

"I guess it's going to rain until its stops."

"Way to state the obvious dear." Sara patted his shoulder. "Don't you appreciate my umbrella now?"

"Yes I shouldn't have made fun of your self opening and closing windproof umbrella that you bought from a home shopping channel."

"That wasn't very sincere. I'm going to find a towel and change my socks."

"Women." Nick muttered.

"What was that?" Greg asked when he came in the door dripping wet.

"Sara didn't appreciate me making fun of an umbrella that she bought from the TV."

"At least she didn't sock you one." Greg told him. "Why my cousin's girlfriend was pregnant he criticised something and ended up with a ten stitches, a black eye and a concussion."

"Sara's not the violent type."

"Nor is my cousin's girlfriend and she was 8 months pregnant at the time."

CSI CSI

"We don't actually have any cases at the moment." Grissom announced. "It seems most people are being sensible and staying in because of the storm and not finding a reason to kill each other."

"That's a first." Warrick joked. "No disputes over a bet or trying to find something to do that doesn't involve getting drenched?"

"Not currently. So everyone use this time to catch up on paperwork." Grissom instructed.

When Grissom got up and left Sara went and poured herself a mug of milk and stuff it in the microwave and waited for it to heat up. When it was done she added some hot chocolate mix and stirred it.

She turned around to find the others looking at her.

"What? I'm cold and I can't have coffee." She shrugged. She just left them too it.

"By the way how did telling your parents go?" Catherine inquired.

"Sara wouldn't let me use the phone in case lightning came down the phone line. Then we slept until 10 so it was too late to call them. We'll call them tomorrow."

"Your parents still don't know?" Warrick questioned.

"Not yet." Nick replied. "Time tide and paperwork wait for no man."

CSI CSI

Through out the shift there was only one case. Warrick and Greg happened to be stood outside Grissom's office at the time so they went with him.

"I'm bored." Catherine sighed.

"Want to play poker?" Sara suggested.

"What are we playing for?" Catherine inquired.

"M & M's." Sara stated.

"Works for me." Catherine replied.

"What works for you?" Nick asked entering the break room.

"We're going to play poker for M & M's." Sara explained. "You want in?"

"Sure."

Sara handed each other one of her unopened packets of M & Ms.

"Five card stud. Nothing wild."

TBC