"Eric". Calleigh Duquesne greeted in a monotone voice as she entered fingerprint.
"Calleigh." Eric Delko greeted in the same tune, perhaps with a bit of a coldness showing.
"What?"
"Hum?"
"Eric how long do we know which other?"
"A few years why?"
"I know you Eric, I can tell when you're…" she waved her hands not knowing the exact word.
" When I'm?" Eric said challenging her to continue.
"Like this, mad."
"I'm not mad." Eric shrugged getting back to the evidence
" You know you can talk with me right?" Calleigh assured with a loving voice.
"I know that, we're talking right now."
" Eric…"
" I got evidence to process. See you." He said geeting up from the bench and walking to the door.
" Eric wait!" Calleigh practically begged grabbing her friend's harm.
"WHAT NOW?" He took a deep breath his expression filling with slight guilt when Calleigh took a couple steps back dropping his harm. "Sorry, what?"
"Nothing, I'll leave you alone." She muttered looking down
"Thank you."
"Can we talk later please?" she asked sadly.
"I don't think so." He retorted coldly.
"Eric you can't do this forever." Calleigh breathed looking down.
"Do what?"
" Run away."
" I'm not running."
" No?" she said raising her eyes to meet Eric's so intensely that he looked away.
" Whatever. I'm going" Eric shrugged pulling his harm from hers not bothering in retrieving Ryan's hello.
" Still the same?" Ryan questioned Calleigh as he entered fingerprints with a bag of evidence in hands..
" What are you talking about?" Calleigh asked pretending not know what he was aking in a way of making Wolfe drop the subject.
" You don't think we noticed?"
" I've no idea what you're talking about."
" This coldness between you and Eric." Ryan sighed.
" You're imagining things Ryan."
" Look he's my friend, you're my friend and I don't believe you didn't noticed it."
" Ryan just say everything already."
" Eric loves you. Brian is just using you." He reaped what everyone at Miami dade crime lab was saying or thinking.
" Wolfe –" Calleigh warned putting the magnifier back in the table with more strength than necessary.
" Listen to me Calleigh. Brian is a jerk. He's just using you and everybody knows it. Eric loves you, he always did."
" Look, I'm marrying Brian o.k.? He's not a jerk."
" C'mon Cal, are you serious? Tell me, how many times did he spent the night out?"
" You got nothing to do with it."
" You're my friend, friends have which others back."
" This is my privet life Wolfe; you got nothing to do with it!"
" You're hurting Eric!" he spat shooting his hands in the air.
" It's not my fault he has a crush on me!" she spat too.
" A crush? He loves you, he's totally in love with you."
" Look, me and Eric, we're over."
" I love you Cal. Don't leave me Calleigh. Please don't go." He said monotone keep his eyes on hers.
" Wha-"
" That's what he said on the hospital, you know, when you were caught in that fire and were incubated, when Brian wasn't there. He thought nobody was listening. He was crying."
" That was heat of the moment." Calleigh defended trying to cover her reaction to this new information.
" No Calleigh, that's love."
" I got to go."
" Fine, but then don't say we didn't warn you."
" I won't cry."
" Want to bet?"
" Just leave me alone Wolfe."
" Just don't come cry on our shoulder."
" Go to the hell" the blond muttered storming out.
" Wow, what did you say to her?" Natalia asked to her slightly mad partner as he entered fingerprints.
" That Eric loves her and Brian is a jerk."
" Ryan…" She sighed shaking her head.
" It's true." He defended.
" I know, but it's Cal, she'll handle it."
" She doesn't understand that she's marrying a jerk!"
" You can't do anything about that so just keep quiet."
" Whatever."
Next day.
" You're coming right?"
They were in trace, Eric on the microscope and Calleigh sitting in front of him trying to have a decent call, which, after thousands of failures was almost a lost cause.
" Where?"
" The wedding."
" I don't think so."
" Eric please."
" Calleigh…"
" Please Eric, I need you there, you're like a brother to me, you know that."
" Yeah. A brother. Look I would love to but I can't."
" Liar."
" What!" Eric shuttered raising his eyes from the instrument in surprise.
" Liar, you can go, you don't want to go, you would hate every second in there."
" Then why are you asking me to go?" Eric questioned now confused.
" I… I don't know. I just feel I can't do it without you." Calleigh tried to explain fidgeting with the magnifier.
" Why not? Brian's there right? The love of your life."
" I never said he was the love of my life."
" You're marrying him." Eric stated rising his eyebrows.
" I know."
" So what? You're just playing with his feelings?" Eric joked knowing that Calleigh would never do that.
" No!"
" Do you love him?"
" Yes!"
" I mean, do you really love him Calleigh?"
" I… yes."
"Are you sure? 100% sure?" he pressed.
" Why are you asking all this?"
" I don't want you to get hurt." Eric muttered.
" Is it?"
" Yes."
" Are you sure? 100% sure?" Calleigh repeated.
" Yes." Eric answered with a smile.
" Isn't it because you still in love with me?"
" Of course it is, if I wasn't in love with you I wouldn't care."
She froze lightly.
" You got to forget me."
" Yeah right, that's impossible."
" Eric I'm going to get married and you can't do anything to stop me."
" You don't think I know that?"
" Is that what's bothering you?"
" No! I'm furious because you don't see the jerk he is and you're going to get hurt!"
" Well to bad, I can't just turn back right now."
" I can't o.k.!" she snapped eliciting concern from Eric that senced something in her voice. Panic, fear maybe, he didn't know what exactly.
" Why not?"
" Because."
" Calleigh you know you can talk to me right? About everything."
" I know."
" So…"
" I got nothing to say. I just came to ask you to go to the wedding."
" Ask?"
" Beg if I needed."
" You don't beg."
" I could make an exception."
" Really hum?" he wondered a devilish smile appearing in his llips.
" Yeah really." Calleigh said flirty, not in a romantic or sexual way, but in the way they flirted all the time, joking.
" For me?"
" For you."
" I may just accept that offer."
" Really hum?"
" Well, only if you beg of course."
" Funny."
" I'm serious."
" No you're not."
" Well, than have a good time, you can show me the pictures after you come back from the honey moon."
" Please come to my wedding Eric." Calleigh muttered smiling widely.
" No, you got to beg Cal."
"You're having too much fun with this aren't you?
" Just a bit." He shrugged smiling as he got closer to her, the ice between them completely gone now.
" Eric I beg you come to my wedding please."
" Well, you begged…"
"I did."
"But…"
"Hey beauty." A man's voice interrupted.
Calleigh and Eric both looking to where the sound had came from and Calleigh shook her head as Eric focused in the evidence again the smile and relax disappearing completely.
"Hi Brian!"
"You wanted to talk to me?"
"Yes but you didn't had to come."
"I wanted to make you a surprise."
"I loved it."
" Cool."
"You can come in you know?"
" Is there something gross in that table?"
"No."
Brian came in and kissed Calleigh in the lips slowly which made Eric grit his teeth.
"Not here." Calleigh pleaded pushing back.
" C'mon, they know you're going to marry me, what's the problem?"
"Just…"
" Is it you Delko? Do you have a problem with it?" Brian smiled coyly at the CSI.
"Brian." Calleigh warned.
"Do you have a problem with it?" Brian pressed leaning onto Eric.
"You shouldn't be here." The Cuban replied simply.
"Eric." Calleigh called as if apologizing.
" We're dealing with evidence, it might get compromised."
" Right." Brian mocked.
" Just get out of here now."
"Stop it now." Calleigh warned.
" Listen to her." Eric advised.
" Scared?"
" If I wasn't in this room you would see who got scared." Eric theatned facing Bryan.
" Don't tempt me."
" Go to the hell."
" You act like this big guy but you're just a rat hiding behind a badge and a gun."
" Shut the fuck up!" Eric spat.
" Don't boss me Casanova!" Brian spat too.
" Funny."
" What's funny?"
" You say I'm Casanova but you're the one who's cheating on his fiancée."
"W-what?" Calleigh shuttered getting between the two man her hand still on Eric's chest calming him down
Yes Calleigh, you got your hand on Eric's chest, not Brian's, you're protecting Eric, so much for loving Brian. Calleigh thought.
" Yeah, tell her." Eric pressed.
" I'm not cheating on you."
" Then what do you call to what you do at night in the motel?"
"What is he talking about?" Calleigh demanded tio know obviously mad.
" Nothing, he's just making things up so you' be mad at me."
"Really hum?"
" Yes! You don't trust me?"
"I do." She sighed.
Lie, you don't, he's cheating on you and you know it. Eric thought seeing right throw Calleigh's facade
" Then what is this about?"
"Nothing, let's go, I'm hungry."
" That's my girl." Brian smiled grabbing Calleigh's hand with another kiss to her lips.
" The hell she is. " Eric muttered
" You got something to say?"
" Me? I think I said everything I needed to. Oh right, Calleigh I won't go, sorry but I'm sick of this shit and I'm doing it for nothing."
"Eric…"
" You go eat; your lovely fiancé is waiting."
"Please."
" No, you can beg and my answer will be no."
"Eric."
" Just go."
" Come on baby."
She looked back again smiling to Eric who just looked away.
"That wasn't nice of you." Calleigh scolded Brian when they got in the elevator.
" He started it not me."
"You started it."
" Well, he just keeps hitting on you. It makes me jealous."
"Seriously?"
" I have feelings to you know?"
"I know it."
" Hum."
"C'mon let's eat."
" What did you wanted to talk to me?"
"Oh, we better sit and relax a bit then we'll talk."
" Are you dying?"
"No! Where did you get that idea from?"
" I don't know, it just crossed my mind, I guess it's because I don't want to lose you."
"That's sweet."
" Only for you."
"I love you."
" Me too."
"Am I the love of your life?"
" Yes."
He pulled her closely in a hug making her smile.
" Is this o.k.?" Bryan asked stopping the car in front of a small hamburger house.
"It's great."
" Welcome, hope you enjoy the meal." An Attended greeted immediately.
"Thank you."
" So, what will you eat?"
"Cheeseburger with fries; you?" Brian said
" The same."
"o.k."
" What's making you so nervous?" Brian asked a minute later
"I… how did you know I was nervous?"
