Nick was sitting in the break room reading a magazine patiently waiting for his assignment when Sara walked into the room. She leaned over his shoulder looking at the magazine he was reading, seeing it was one from Greg�s �secret stash� when Nick spun around and spotted Sara with a smirk on her face.
"Trying to find a girlfriend Nick?" Sara snickered.
"There are plenty of better girls in Vegas than in this Sports Illustrated Magazine.� Nick replied and could see Sara grabbing herself a cup of Java.
�Sure Nick, the only place you�ll be able to find women who would willing to take their clothes off for the camera would be in the Strip Clubs.�
�Your just jealous,� Nick stated and saw the scowl Sara was giving him knowing that he was beginning to push her buttons, something no one should do at the beginning of a double shift. �Anyway I need you to see this letter someone gave me,�
"Someone must have mixed you up with someone else for you to get it," Sara replied and snatched the letter out of Nick's hands. She unfolded it and read the poem to herself as a smile crept across her face to help stop her from bursting into laughter.
"What are you smiling about?" Nick asked.
"The poem it's too funny!" Sara said before she started to laugh.
�I knew I should have asked Catherine, she would have been more professional about it,�
�Whatever. See you later, Nicky-poo!� Sara spit out laughing and left the break room.
Nick looked at the poem and read the last sentence to himself. It was the same as what Sara just said. Then he thought that maybe she was just making fun of him and his stupid secret admirer. Grissom then walked into the break room and sat down at the table with Nick. Nick kept looking at the letter he found in his locker not even noticing his bosses� presence.
"Any luck with finding out who your secret admirer is?" Grissom asked eyeing the magazine.
"Maybe, do you something with Sara�s handwriting on it?" Nick asked deciding to go with his gut about his admirer being Sara and solve the mystery forensically.
"Yes, why?"
"I have a hunch on who my secret admirer is,"
"I'll give you her latest report to use for comparison"
The two investigators went back to Grissom's office and Nick noticed the red roses on his desk. He checked out the card while Grissom was searching for Sara's report, on his cluttered desk.
�You got one too huh Griss?" Nick said and compared the handwriting and they didn't match, �Well at least we know it's two different people, hopefully women, but your card smells like Catherine's shampoo� Nick confessed. The only reason he knew that was because he had to borrow some of hers one night after processing a decomp. Everyone, including Grissom joked about his hair smelling like strawberries.
Grissom looked up when Nick said that remembering Catherine had said the aroma smelt familiar. He snatched the card out of Nick�s hand and read the first part it stated, bug man, just like Catherine said when she left his office earlier. He handed Nick Sara's latest report and then took out Catherine's as well.
"Was it something I said?" Nick replied seeing his bosses� wheels in his head turning.
�I have a hunch on mine as well� Grissom stated and Nick smiled.
They walked down the maze of hallways bringing their letters and samples to Ronnie the labs handwriting analysis. They walked into the lab and saw he was finding forged signatures on legal documents.
�Ronnie, I need you to compare this letter to this report" Nick said holding up his letter and Sara's report
"Alright,� Ronnie said looking up from his magnify glass. He took the two documents and placed them under the comparative microscope looking at each one carefully to come to a conclusion.
�Well the s in sugar matches the s in suspect and the v in violet matches the v in victim meaning that Ms. Sidle wrote both documents," Ronnie concluded and handed Nick back his letter and Sara�s report.
"Thanks," Nick said.
"Can you compare mine as well?" Gil asked
"Sure no problem Mr. Grissom,� Ronnie said taking the card and report from Grissom�s hands and placing those two documents under the microscope.
�The a in admirer matches the a in apartment and the r in red and roses matches the r in revolver which concludes Ms.Willows wrote both of these documents,"
"Thanks Ronnie"
"No problem just doing my job" he replied and got back to work on the legal documents.
Nick and Grissom headed back to the break room with their new found evidence and hoping to get an explanation from both Sara and Catherine about the stupid charade they conjured up. When they passed the windows in the break room Gil could see the to girls in their laughing about something.
The men walked in and the girls stopped talking looking up at their co-workers with smiles plastered across their faces as if they were painted on.
"What have you two been up too?" Catherine asked as Sara tried not to laugh.
"Nothing," they answered in unison.
"Then why do you have mine and Catherine's latest reports in your hands as well as your love letter from your secret admirers?" Sara questioned.
Grissom and Nick hid the papers behind their backs shaking their heads; "No reason" Nick replied and smiled hoping that would convince them and get them to stop asking questions.
"You didn't by any chance go see Ronnie and ask him to compare the writing samples?" Catherine asked eagerly getting out of her chair and inching closer towards Grissom as he stepped back.
"Ronnie? No I was just reviewing your reports with Nick and excellent job�both of you�as usual" Grissom lied beginning to feel his cheeks redden.
�Grissom, we handed those reports in a week ago, how could you possibly be reviewing them now?� Sara said and Grissom gave her a nervous smile.
�You know me, always forgetful, leaving stuff to the last moment,� Grissom confessed and Catherine stopped moving as Grissom bumped into the counter; cornered like a rat. He did tend to leave stuff to the last minuet or forget about it altogether.
"What about you?� Catherine said whipping her head towards Nick who looked like he was about to jump out of his skin, �Did you go see Ronnie?� she finished and gave Sara a slight nod for her to take over.
�Because you know we could always go over there and ask him our selves" Sara added as Nick jumped at the sound of her voice.
"No way Sara,� Nick stuttered and Sara began walking towards him. Nick began walking backwards until he bumped into the counter as well, �Plus I gave up on finding out who my secret admirers is"
�I�m sure you did, that�s why your carrying around your love letter that you got in your locker huh?� Sara spat and Nick looked at her confused. He never told her that he had found it in his locker.
�How did you know that I found it stuffed in my locker?� Nick asked and Sara was about to hit herself for being so stupid.
Come on Sara you can think of something, you�re a Criminalist for Christ sake! Sara thought to herself and then replied, �I just guessed, I mean if I were a woman who was shy and love sick over someone I would stick a letter in their locker instead of confronting the person� Sara said and smiled as she turned to Catherine, �You would do the same thing wouldn�t you Cath?�
�Of course, it�s way less painful if the guy turns you down� Catherine replied and glared at Grissom who was sweating bullets and she noticed he was almost as red as a tomato, "Grissom you're blushing! You�re lying! You got Ronnie to analyze the report again the love note I g-� Catherine stopped before she said to much and said, �I mean some crazy woman gave you!" Catherine asked with rage diverting the attention away from Sara and back to Grissom who was almost as red as a beat.
Sara looked back at Nick and noticed that he was looking at the floor avoiding the rage in her eyes, he always did that when he was lying, �Your lying too Nick! What were the results?" Sara raised her voice, placed her hand on hip and tapped her foot, waiting patently for the answer.
Both men were afraid to say anything incase the two ticking bombs standing in front of them would explode with anger and do something they might end up regretting.
"The�� Grissom began to say but was too afraid to look Catherine in the eye.
�Spit it out Grissom I don�t have all day,� Catherine yelled and glanced at Sara.
�The umm results of both of the tests were that umm, Sara wrote Nick�s and you wrote mine" Grissom stated staring long and hard at the crumb on the floor in front of Catherine�s tapping foot when he finished, �What sick game have you two been conjuring up then?�
The girls glanced innocently at each other and shrugged, "We haven't been up to anything except working, so Ronnie must be wrong" Catherine said in a serious tone, almost threatening.
�I don�t think he�s wrong, I think your both lying� Nick said and Sara slapped him across the face for accusing her of such a horrible thing.
�Come on Sara, let�s go we have some real cases to solve� Catherine said grabbing her hand and pulled Sara towards the door.
�Damn that girl can slap,� Nick whispered as he massaged his reddened cheek. Grissom watched as both ladies left down the hallway and out of sight and earshot of the break room.
�I have another way that we can prove they wrote these,� Grissom said.
�What would that be, beat it out of them?� Nick asked and smiled as Grissom smirked as well.
�Fingerprints. They might be able to lie to our faces but what never lies?�
�The evidence�of course! Let�s go�
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