Hi, this is my first fic...this kinda of came to mind when I was watching something on TV. Hope you like it, andreviews are highly appreciated. Good or Bad. :)
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He was listening to her interview the victims brother and the victims parents. It had been a week since he came back to work from the second brain surgery he has had in his life. He stayed away from work longer then he did the first time he had surgery, because he knew he wasn't ready to come back. Physically and stayed away for two months, spent most of his time going to doctors to make sure everything was ok, the rest he spent either at home or sitting at the beach. Those two months gave him a lot of time to think about his life.
Mostly about things that happened in his past...made him think about howimmature he was back then, about the loss of his best friend, about almost being deported to Cuba, finding out who his real father was, about the relationships he got involved in, if you want to call them that. About being sued for something he wasn't really wrong for, being suspended for testing positive for marijuana, which wasn't his. He had time to think about him and calleigh and he thought a lot about his sister, Marisol. That's why this case was bothering him.
He sat there listening to Calleigh ask Alex, the victim's brother questions about his sister. She was asking him what he remembered, since he was there when his sister was murdered. His parents thought Alex had been a bad influence in his sister life and once they found out he had been at the scene of the murder they started blaming him for her death. Eric heard calleigh telling them to calm down and stop blaming the kid before anything was proven, but they didn't stop. Eric didn't know what to do, because throughout the yelling and crying all he could think about was his sister. All he did was sit there, as if he was stuck to the chair and stared at Alex. He saw how Alex started crying and telling them he was sorry, that he tried to save her but wasn't able to. Eric saw that he did feel guilty for his sister death, which later they found out he wasn't. They were just at the wrong place at the wrong time and his sister got killed by mistake. Calleigh was shocked when Eric just got up from his seat and left, she looked at him for some explanation but he didn't even look back, just got up and left.
She finished the interrogation and went to her lab, she was looking out of her lab when she saw him talking to Horatio and then walked towards the locker rooms. About 5 minutes later, he walked out with his bag on and holding his car keys. She noticed he looked distant, kind of sad. She wondered what could've happened that made him walk out like that, it wasn't like him to just do that. Then she realized what the case was about, a girl being killed while her brother was there and Alex wasn't able to help her. Marisol, he was remembering Marisol, which was never a easy topic for him.
Horatio walked into her lab a couple of minutes later and told her that she would be working the case with Ryan because Eric had to leave.
" Is he ok?" calleigh asked him, she knew he would understand what she was talking about.
" He's fine, just asked to go home early, he wasn't felling to good." Horatio replied while standing there with his hands on his hip.
" The case, I think it kind of got to him...reminded him of Marisol" she continued, not sure if she should mention marisol, since it was a hard topic for horatio as well.
Horatio nodded. " I believe so ma'am, but he'll be fine, just needs a little time."
calleigh nodded and with that Horatio left the lab. She tried to go back to work and not worry to much about Eric.
After the case was finally closed she went to her locker room to get her stuff so she could head home. She looked at her phone and checked what time it was, it was only 6:45pm, she was surprised it didn't take as long as she thought it would to close the case. She then checked to see if she had any missed calls or text, she was checking to see if she got any from Eric actually. But she didn't see any. She wasn't really surprised since they had taken a break. After he got out of the hospital she decided and him aswell (after a while) that they probably needed a break to work some things out. She had to be honest and say that she did miss him, a lot...and even thought they haven't been talking much she still cared a whole lot about him, more then she cared to admit to him and herself.
She got her bags and started walking towards her car, on the way home she took a different rout. A rout that would take her past his place, she just needed to see if he was home, just make sure he was ok, because if he was at home that she'd be a little relieved that maybe he was doing ok.
