As the movie credits rolled up the oversized TV screen, Sara couldn't help but smile. She was wrapped up in Nick's arms as they sat on his couch with her head resting against his shoulder and their feet were casually propped up on his coffee table. There was such an ease to being here with him like this that made her feel like it was the most natural and logical thing to do. "You were right Clouseau does remind me of Greg in this one."
Nick's fingers caressed Sara's as he pulled her a little closer and pressed a kiss to her forehead. "Sort of a womanizer wannabe." He chuckled at his own joke and it occurred to him that this relationship with Sara was going to come out and of everyone, he had better the hell be the one to tell Greg and Warrick about it. If either of them found out that he and Sara were seeing each other through the rumor mills at work, he'd catch an earful and probably an ass kicking on top of that.
"Emphasis on wannabe; Greg's got a good heart." Sara had become rather close to Greg when the team had been split up and she'd spent a great deal of time mentoring him in the field. "Some woman is going to be lucky someday to snag him." She truly meant that; while he had flirted shamelessly with her for years when he worked in DNA, after he'd transferred to the field, he had become more serious and had really grown up.
"I'm the lucky one." Nick couldn't help it and he smiled as Sara glanced up at him. "I have you." He leaned in and softly kissed her and she eagerly responded as she turned her body to lean into him more fully. They sat there trading soft slow kisses for quite a while, finally breaking apart to try and breathe a little easier.
Sara unconsciously licked her lips as she looked into his eyes, smiling at the flavor of him that she found on her mouth. "We should probably talk about this." She knew it was going to kill the moment, but it wasn't as if they hadn't already spent about half of the movie making out as it was. She knew that if they let themselves get carried away now without the benefit of something on TV to remind them of roughly how much time had gone by they would never get around to talking about exactly where things were going between them and how they were going to act at work.
Nick's fingers unconsciously stroked Sara's hair. "What is there to talk about?" He hoped that she hadn't suddenly decided that they needed to keep their relationship under wraps; lest he remind her of the demise of her former relationship for the very same reason. He could tell that she was nervous and he smiled softly at her and dipped his head and began to plant kisses against her neck. "I want to be with you; you want to be with me, what else do we need to know?"
Sara resisted the urge to just give in and make out with him again; she needed a few things to be cleared up before she was willing to give herself over to the moment and enjoy being alone with Nick. It had taken her the entire movie to work up the courage to even talk to him about this and she didn't want to be distracted; well too distracted anyway. "How is this going to work at work? We can't do this at work."
Nick grinned as he lifted his head and then leaned in and pressed a soft kiss against her lips before resting his forehead against hers. "So we act the way we've always acted at work; we're professional, we do our jobs, but I don't see any reason why I can't kiss you now and then."
Sara felt her heart skip a beat. "We can't make out, Nick." She wanted to make it abundantly clear that in no way did she want to jeopardize their jobs by acting inappropriately at work, not that there were any rules prohibiting them from dating, per se, but she didn't want to draw unnecessary attention to them that might cause the powers that be to draw up just such a policy.
"We're not at work right now, silly." Nick leaned in and stole another kiss, smiling against her mouth as she responded earnestly for a moment.
Sara pushed him away and scowled. "Nick, I'm serious...I don't want Ecklie to have any reason to fire either one of us...I think we need to set some ground rules." She wasn't sure if that was for her benefit or for his, but she needed to be clear about where things were going.
Nick's expression was more earnest. "Sara, I am serious. I want to be with you; I don't care who in the world knows about it and if I see you in the locker room and one of us is pulling a double, I don't see any reason why I can't kiss you." Before she could protest, he continued. "I'm not talking about making out at work, even though that might be fun, it would be completely inappropriate and I don't want to make waves with Grissom or make anyone else feel uncomfortable."
"I'm sorry I guess I'm just a little scared about how this is going to go over with everyone else." She was still fully aware of the fact that she still had feelings for Grissom that she was going to have to deal with and she was afraid that it was going to end up being a recurring issue for her and Nick. She also wasn't sure what it would do to the group dynamic or if Warrick and Greg would think the two of them were making a huge mistake.
"Well then, we'll just have to deal with it when it comes up." He smiled at her, his fingers reaching up and caressing her face as he leaned in and kissed her again. He was definitely addicted to kissing Sara and as far as he could tell the feeling was very mutual. After a long few minutes they broke apart, both of them quite breathless from the experience and Sara had moved a little closer so that she was nearly on Nick's lap.
"So how is this going to work, outside of work then?" Sara wasn't sure what all of Nick's motives were, she only knew that for now he was attracted to her and that she couldn't seem to help herself when it came to kissing him. She wasn't in this for it to be a fling, but they hadn't exactly established just how serious this seeing each other was. Her intent was that she wanted to date him and only him, but he hadn't clearly articulated what he wanted.
Nick smiled. "Same thing; I want to be with you, and I don't care who the hell knows about it." He could tell that she was feeling unsure and he silently cursed the reputation he garnered for himself in the early years he'd known her; that was far from who he was today.
"So then does that mean we're going to go out now and then...or did you want to stay in?" Her voice sounded sexy without even trying.
"I definitely want to take you out." Nick leaned in and kissed her again, pulling away and softly whispering. "But right now I'd much rather stay in." He wasn't going to push her to take a step she wasn't ready for, but he certainly wanted her to know that he was ready whenever she was.
After quite a few more kisses, Sara pulled away feeling rather drugged by the effect kissing him was having on her ability to think straight. "We should take this slow." She needed to approach this logically; she wanted to be fair to Nick; wanted to be fair to herself. She couldn't just jump right into bed with him when they hadn't even really been dating more than about 24 hours or so, especially since she still had some feelings for Grissom; or could she? Her hormones were trying to convince her that she was more than ready, but her mind was having doubts.
"Slow is good." Nick didn't complain when she leaned in again and kissed him with even more gusto than the last one; the fact that her hands had worked their way underneath the back of his shirt registered about the same time he realized he was doing the same to her.
Sara broke off the kiss to catch her breath a little. "In case slow is faster than I remember...I'm on the pill." Why that little tidbit of information was important right then she wasn't sure and the definition of slow was quickly being rewritten in the back of her mind as she leaned in for yet another mind numbing kiss.
As the phrase 'I'm on the pill' made its way past the lusty haze that had begun to descend on Nick's mind and fully registered, he felt his libido shift into overdrive.