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By: Leclair
folder CSI › General
Rating: Adult +
Chapters: 16
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Bad Moon Rising

Disclaimer: I do not own, I did not create, and I do not profit from. “Bad Moon Rising” – CCR. No infringement is intended.

Rating: G

A/N: Dedicated to Ashley because I love her… naturally. Here is your update and think that there will be more of these soon. Very soon.

Thank you to everyone who had reviewed. I’m on a different computer or else I think I would be having a longer a/n. Next chapter.


Chapter Four: Bad Moon Rising


There was awkwardness in the locker room as Sara put away her things into her locker that was a few down from Nick’s. The two of them stood in unpracticed silence, each of them searching their minds for something, anything, to talk about besides what they were both thinking about.

“Do you think we should… talk about it?” started Nick, continuing to rummage through his locker for nothing in particular. He needed to do something with his hands and as long as Sara had no idea that he didn’t really need anything from it, that’s all that mattered.

“Talk about what?” wondered Sara naively.

She stopped what she was doing, turned, and looked at him. She knew that he was purposely avoiding her gaze and she frowned at that. Nick wasn’t really the type of person to ignore things but handle them dead-on.

“You know,” Nick said expectantly.

Looking at him like he was stupid and with a dull expression on her face, Sara shook her head once.

“It,” he stressed.

Recognition flashed before her eyes and then she nodded her head slowly, biting at her bottom lip. Her right hand was clinging onto the edge of the locker shelf as she stared down at the floor, her other hand coming up to rub against her neck.

Finally, she met his eyes and searched them for something though she wasn’t sure of. He looked tired and she saw the dark circles beginning to form under his eyes as well as the stubble on his chin and across his jaw line.

“What’s there to discuss?”

He blinked twice, opened his mouth, and then shut it again. “You don’t think there’s anything between us? You don’t feel it?”

Smiling softly and letting out a small feminine snort, she replied, “I never said that. I’ve worked with you for four years and that’s all I think about.”


“Besides seeing me without any clothes,” he grinned arrogantly, causing her to smile wider.

“Admit it, you’ve thought the same about me.”

“Maybe once or twice.”

“I figured as much. You always do stare a little too much –”

“When you wear those jeans?” he interrupted, nodding to the pair that she was adorning at that moment.

“Yeah,” Sara answered hesitantly, eyeing him suspiciously.

He smiled his lopsided grin at her and then closed his locker at last.

“So we’re good, here?”

“We always were.”

“And what happened the other night…?”

“Will never happen again?” she finished, raising her voice at the end as if asking a question.

“What does that mean?”

“I don’t know. That’s why I asked it.”

“Sara, we’re seeing other people.”

“I know.”

“We can’t have something on the side,” he reasoned, furrowing his brow before adding, “can we?”

“I… umm…if we… want to,” she stuttered.

“You care about Hank?”

“Yeah –”

“And I care about Natalie but –”

“We can always wait, right?”

“But what if we never know…” Nick trailed off, looking up at her. He could practically hear the wheels in her head turning as she thought.

“What could have been between us?”

“Yeah.”

“Do you know how hard this is going to be?”

“Really hard.”

“I cannot believe we’re actually considering this,” muttered Sara, shaking her head. “I mean we should just break up with our partners. It would be so much easier.”

“What if things don’t work out?”

“Most people handle these situations well. I think we have to learn that we can’t have both. We might as well get out now before our relationships get serious.”

Nick pondered over her words and knew that she was right but he couldn’t help being selfish. He was a man that wanted both- two women- all for himself.

“You want us both, don’t you?” questioned Sara. He could see his dilemma written across his face.

“Yeah, I do.”

“I don’t know if I can handle sharing you with another woman, especially since her name is Natasha.”

“Natalie.”

“They both suck,” she replied coolly, watching as he stepped closer to her until he was standing right in front of her.

“We need to get a few things straight,” he began, placing a hand on either side of her head, bringing him closer to her as he gazed into her eyes. “Is this about sex or a relationship?”

“Between us?”

“Yeah.”

“I think we should keep it as simple as possible, particularly if this doesn’t work out, which it won’t.”

“Why won’t it?”

“This can’t go on forever. Either Natasha’s got to go or I do.”

“True but Sara I hope that you know that sex is never simple.”

“At least with you it isn’t, right?”

“Exactly.”

He dipped his head down to rest in the curve of her neck, breathing in her fresh scent and reveling in it for a moment.

“Not here,” she murmured. “We’ve got to get going.”

Nick agreed after he glanced down at his watch. “We’re already late.”

They left the locker room at separate times and Sara was the last to leave. She watched Nick walk away from her, glancing once over his shoulder to flash her a sexy smile.

This was the start of something new, of something that Sara couldn’t believe that she was doing. She wasn’t sure if it was the smartest move, or if it was even wise at all. Probably not. It went against her morals and even her logic but with Nick it didn’t matter. Nothing did. Only him.


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