Re: The new Snickers Kidnapping
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Sara stuck her tongue out at Nick when he mentioned Catherine, but when Nick said something about her smile, she blushed, bright pink.
When he made the remark about the lab's clown, Sara couldn't suppress the laughter that emitted from her mouth. She let a big burst out, but caught it quickly when Nick gave her one of his 'looks.'
"Sorry.. you thought.. Greg? Oh, come on, Nick. He's just a kid," she laughed a little more. Then, he mentioned something about dinner. She responded, "Oh, I might be able to squeeze you into my over abundant social life." Nick knew she was being sarcastic. Then, she became serious.. if that meant fluttering her eyelashes at the sexy Texan. "So, what were you thinking? Are we going to do the whole dinner-and-a-movie thing, or the whole dinner thing?" she asked.
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Nick felt embarassed about thinking that there might be something between her and Greggo. Even after there was so much flirting between the two of them.
"Well I know this very nice Italian place. How does a candle lit dinner sound?"
Nick could tell that when Sara heard him say that her face lit up with happiness. He looked longingly into her eyes wondering if he should kiss her.
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Sara started putting test tubes and petri dishes away, getting ready to go home. She paused, visibly, when he mentioned the candle light dinner. She was a little unsure of what to say, but she soon smiled. It would be fun, besides, she hardly ever got out those days.
"Umm, that sounds great, Nick," she smiled, her back still turned as she stood on her toes to return the dishes to their proper place. She turned back around and made eye contact with him. Nick had that look in his eyes... that look that meant he wanted to kiss her. She wanted to kiss him too, boy, did she want to kiss him, but she couldn't get Grissom out of her head. Sara knew that if she kissed Nick, and Gris found out, there would be hell to pay. Besides, she didn't want to kiss Nicky with thoughts of Grissom in her head. It would be too weird.
"We have off tomorrow night, why don't we go then?" she said, pushing the 'Gil' thoughts out of her mind.
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"That sounds great. Tomorrow it is."
Nick could tell that something else was on Sara's mind. He was only hoping that she wasn't having second thoughts about the date. Then, he went back to putting away the lens covers.
As he turned to put a cover up on a shelf, he noticed out of the corner of his eye, that there was something in the window. It looked like a hulking black figure staring in at Sara. When he saw it, he got instant chills. So much, that he dropped the covers that were in his hand. The figure felt evil. When he looked again, it was gone. He walked over to the window and there was nothing there. He thought maybe it would be best not to say anything to Sara.
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There was a strange awkward silence for a few seconds. Then, suddenly, Nick dropped all of the lens covers he had in his hands. Sara jumped at the sound they made hitting the ground. Her head whipped around to face Nick, who was as white as a ghost.
"Nick, are you okay? What's wrong?" she asked, immediately going to him. She carefully laid a hand on his shoulder.
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Nick strained to get it out, "I could have sworn I just saw something. It was evil. I can't describe it, and then it was gone."
He just stood there in shock. He then came to his senses. "It was probably just my eyes playing a trick on me. We have been pulling a double. It starts getting to you after awhile," he said, as he began to laugh.
Just as he turned to pick up the covers that he had dropped, he heard Sara's cell phone ring.
"Wow, aren't we the popular one, getting calls all the time?" he asked, with a smile, looking over at Sara.
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Sara looked at her caller id. She sighed, looking over at Nick as she answered her cell phone.
"Sidle," she stated shortly. Then, her hand went up and she started rubbing her eyelids. It was the last person she wanted to talk to at that particular moment. "Grissom, hi. Yeah, we're done in here. Well, Nick and I are about to head out." Then, she looked up at Nick, saying, "Well, actually, I have plans for tomorrow night, but thanks for asking. I'm tired. I just want to get home this morning and go to sleep. I'll just grab some breakfast on the way home, but thanks. Okay, I'll talk to you later. Bye." She got off of the phone with her old flame.
Before Nick could even start up the subject, she changed it. He opened his mouth as though he was going to crack a smart-aleck ((that's actually a word, I looked it up for the spelling... haha)) remark, but she cut him off.
"So, are you ready to get out of here? I'm so exhausted," she smiled. She was indeed exhausted. She hated when Grissom made her work so many doubles, which had been happening more and more lately.