AN: Thanks again for the reviews and views, hope you are enjoying the story so far. I am posting sooner then planned but since I was in a generous and good mood, here you go! I still don't own the main characters.
Chapter 3
Before they knew it, it was the end of their double shift and everybody met at the bar and at that time Haley met Amanda the wife of Greg and BreAnna the wife of Warrick.
They all sat down at a booth and immediately Greg asked how Sara was in college and Haley wasted no time in telling how much of a party animal Sara turned out to be, one night they went to more then one party, she was even dared to kiss a complete stranger and even some drinking.
A few of the stories that Haley told was so embarrassing to Sara that she had shook her head or covered her face with her hands or her favorite spot hiding her face into Grissom chest while he wrapped an arm around her shoulders.
After the tenth story or so, they all looked at Sara shocked, they had no idea that she had a different side to her, Sara just smiled and said while shrugging her shoulders. "Hey I said I was a Science geek not an angel."
They all laughed, then they all noticed a man walking over to the table Catherine smiled when she saw Vartann coming their way and the tension in the area just got thick.
Nick watched Catherine stand up and kiss Vartann, then Catherine looked at Haley and said ."Haley Jackson this Lou Vartann." Haley holds out her hand and he takes it and shakes it then they release hands and he said. "nice to met you."
Haley nodded, then he looked at he rest of the group smiled and said hi, helps Catherine back into her seat and he sits down next to her and takes her hand.
Nick cleared his throat and said. "I am going to get another pitcher of beer."
They nodded and started to talk about small things.
Nick gets up while taking the pitcher with him, when he was halfway to the bar, Haley gets up and follows him, Nick stops at the bar and orders more beer, Haley stands next to him and said. "So Catherine is the women that hurt you?" Nick looks at her and she continued. "Sara said that you were dealing with something and you have been hurt by someone."
"It's not like we were dating or anything."
"But you wanted to right?" Nick looks away and that gave her the answer and before she could talk a fast song came through the speakers, she puts her hand on his shoulder and said. "come dance with me I love this song."
Nick picks up the pitcher of beer, looks at her and said. "I don't thi.." she puts finger to his lips to stop him and said. "Come on, would you rather sit there being miserable watching the women you love flirt with some other man or be dancing with me?" Haley smiles a cute looking smile.
Nick thinks about it for a second knowing Haley had a point, just watching them tore something in him, then nods and said. "OK lets dance." they both smile at each other, he turns to a waitress and asks her nicely if she would take the pitcher of beer to his friends, grabbed Haley's hand and they walk to the dance floor to start dancing to the fast beat.
The waitress walks over to the table sets the picture down and tells them that their friend asked to bring it over, when the waitress turned around to leave, the group looked at each other wondering what was going on, then Greg gets their attention and points to the middle of the dance floor and sees Nick and Haley dancing pretty close together and that got the other girls riled up so Amanda and BreAnna took their husbands hand and dragged them to the dance floor too, Sara looks at Grissom and he shakes his head no with a small smile and she nods in understanding, she didn't care how they spent time together, she puts her head on his shoulder and they both could tell that Catherine was trying very hard not to look Nick and Haley's way, both wishing that their friends can find the happiness that they had.
After a few more glasses of beer and a few stories from everybody else, they called it a night. Haley said goodbye to the new people she just met, really liking them, then Grissom took Sara and her home and immediately Haley said goodnight and went right into the spare bedroom to crash.
Sara and Grissom finished locking up the doors and windows then walked down the hall and into the bedroom, after they went through their routine for bed and changed, they turned down the covers and Grissom was staring at her, she looked at him and said. "what?"
He gets in bed and said. "you really went that wild in College?"
Sara gets in her side of the bed looks at him and said. "she made it sound like I went wild all the time but that wasn't true or at least the whole truth, I don't know I guess I was just tired of always doing homework and staying in, I wanted college to be different, a new experience."
Grissom nodded, grabbed her hand and said. "I understand, I am not judging I just had no idea."
She smiles puts her hand on top of his, then said. "I know your not judging me, I guess when I met her she sort of brought out my fun side."
She shrugged her shoulders was taking her hand out from under his but he grabbed it, brought it up to his lips and after he kissed her knuckles he said. "well I always have fun with you just by being in the same room with you."
Sara smiled her 'Sara' smile at him, takes her hand out of his and puts it on his clean shaven cheek then leans forward and said. "that is very sweet of you." she pecks him on the lips and when she pulls back he brings his lips back on hers and they kiss a little bit longer, When they pulled back they put their foreheads together basking in the loving feeling of them just being together then he ruined the moment by yawning, she smiles, pulls back and said. "tired, old man?"
He sees the smirk and her eyes twinkling indicated she was joking about the old part and he smiled then smirked himself. "yeah hearing about your crazy times in college wore me out."
She shakes her head with a small chuckle and they kiss one more time then crawls under the covers after they shut out their lamps, he lays on his back and a few seconds later Sara lays her head right on his chest close to his heart.
He puts his arms around her shoulders and she puts her hand on the middle of his chest, he kissed her head and said. "I love you Sara, goodnight."
Sara yawns then said as she was closing her eyes. "I love you too."
Grissom closes his eyes too, holds her tighter and in no time they were both asleep safety in each others arms.
Two weeks had past and Haley was still there in fact she told the gang that she was planning on staying longer and in that case she found her self an apartment and a waitress job at a new restaurant that opened up since she did have experence as a waitress.
They were surprised that she had decided to stay longer and the new job but they didn't question it, right now, they were having a good time when she was around and Sara seemed to be enjoying it herself and that's all they wanted was to see Sara happy and when she is, they were too.
Haley walks into the crime lab and gets a visitors badge, she has been coming by so often she doesn't get stared at anymore. She smiles, says thank you and started searching for the person she wanted to see, she looks into the empty lab rooms and the break room and then the last place the locker room, when she gets there she stands in the doorway and sees Catherine and Nick at their lockers, she looks at Nick and said. "Nick."
Nick turned around and she gets into her purse pulls his watch out of it, walks in the room and hands it to him and said. "you forgot this at my place I thought you might need it."
Nick smiles, steps closer to her grabs it, nodded and said. "Thank you Haley." Haley smiled back. nodded and noticed Catherine was trying not to look but could see in the corner of her eye she saw it all, she leans to Nick and kissed him on the cheek, looked back at him and said. "have a good shift." Nick nodded and Haley said bye then turned to leave as Nick was watching the whole way.
Catherine made an objective noise and Nick looks back at her and asked. "Something you want to say?"
Catherine looks over at him shook her head and said. "no."
Nick shook his head, walked back to his locker then Catherine stood up and said. "actually you know what there is something I want to say." Nick turns to her and Catherine continues as she was looking at him. "you couldn't have the original so you went to the second best thing?"
Nick looks at her confused and said. "what?"
"you couldn't have Sara so you go after her look a like."
Catherine knew about Nick's feeling for Sara when Sara first got here and she could sense a little hurt from him when Sara and Grissom told everybody they were a couple.
Catherine sits down on the bench and looked away, not believing she just said that out loud, bringing her feelings out in the open.
Nick stood by his locker for a second thinking about what he should say to that but then knew it was time to say what he was feeling so he took a deep breath and answered back with. "that wasn't about Sara."
Catherine looks over at him a little surprised and asked. "it's not? but I thought you looked sad when Sara and Grissom told us they were a couple."
Nick looks at her and said. "yeah I was sad and happy because Sara finally got to be the person she loved but on the flip side I was still waiting for mine."
Nick stared longer at her waiting for her to get it and a second later it seemed to click something, she mentally gasped and said. "me?" she never thought it was possible between them.
Nick smiled, walked up closer to her, grabbed her hand to stand her up and said. "yes, I have felt this way for awhile now, I have just been to scared to tell you."
She looks at their hands a little emotional, then when she looked back up, he puts his hand on her cheek and continued. "and Haley and I aren't dating it was a few dinners and I stayed at her house to watch movies but that was it nothing serious is happening with her, she was just a distraction on the pain I was in."
Catherine could see the truth in his eyes and joy was radiating inside of her, she was just about to open her mouth when Sara walked in and said. "Catherine you OK?" Sara could sense something but wasn't exactly sure on what it was.
Nick steps away from Catherine then goes to his locker, Catherine wipes a few tears away that leaked out, looks at Sara and said. "Great." with a small smile.
Sara looks over at Nick and he nods, Sara smiles to them then goes to her locker to get ready for work.
While her back was turned, Catherine looks over at Nick and he looks back they share a look then go back to the task of getting ready, knowing something shifted in their relationship.
AN: well there you go, hope I didn't make Sara too much into a party animal I just thought it would be different.
So a possible start of Catnip? will it happen? How will Haley react. Review if you want more and again Enjoy!