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Summary: Calleigh and her late best friend's six-year-old son is starting a new life in Miami when someone from her past threatens to take their new found happiness away. Will Horatio be able to save them? Will Ducaine find love? How will it end? Read and find out. A little A/U. A few Characters from the original CSI do appear.
Hi everybody, I know it's been awhile but I'm back with a new Ducaine story.
AN: It starts three years after the real year that Horatio brought the team together, also pretend Jesse Cardoza (Instead of Tim Speedle) and Natalia Boa Vista were there from the beginning.
Title: A Different Beginning
Genre: Romance, Drama, Friendship, Hurt/Comfort, Family
Rating: T
Time-line: Pre CSI: Miami, and around the first season in the Original CSI
Spoilers: None
Warnings: Mention of a minor character death, Implied suggestive adult behavior
Main Parings: DuCaine
Minor Parings: GSR (From original CSI)
Other Characters: Characters from Original CSI, Natalia, Jesse, Alexx, Eric, a few OC's
A Different Beginning
Chapter 1: New Beginning
A 5'3, slim build, blond-haired, green-eyed, Calleigh Duquesne was sleeping soundly in her bed when she feels small hands shaking her shoulders. She blinks a few times before opening her eyes and sees a child's brown eyes staring at her with a smile.
Calleigh smiled at the little boy. "Good morning, C.J."
"Good morning, Aunt Calleigh."
"You hungry?" He nods, and she continued after ruffling his short blond hair. "Alright, go change for school and I'll make you breakfast in a minute." He nodded and gets off the bed, and as he was walking out of the bedroom she watches him while her mind drifts to how he became hers.
C.J. Robinson was five years old when his mother, her best friend since middle school, died in a vehicle accident. There was no one else to take care of him, so Calleigh took the responsibility of him, even though she was only 26 at the time. They had a rough start for the first few months, but after a while they started to get into the swing of things.
Now, even though it's been a year and a half since it happened, she could tell that he still gets a little sad every once in a while when he thinks of her, but those days have become farther and fewer in-between.
Calleigh mentally shakes her head from the past as she removes the covers off of her, then she gets out of bed, walks to her bedroom door, grabs her robe that was hanging on the back of it, and puts it over her shorts and tanktop before heading to the kitchen to make breakfast to start their day.
While C.J. was eating his breakfast and Calleigh was finishing up hers, her cell phone rings from the kitchen counter.
She gets up from the chair she was sitting in, taking her plate with her, then walks over to the counter, sets her plate down and grabs her phone, and as she walks to the sliding back door and looks out on the beach through the glass, she answers her phone in her southern accent, without checking who it is. "Duquesne."
"Hi Calleigh."
Calleigh smiled after hearing who it was. "Hi Sara, you're calling a little early, it's what, 4 your time?"
Sara Sidle was another good friend of Calleigh's. They had met when they were younger while bunking in the same cabin during summer camp one year, and they formed a close friendship. Which continued till this day, despite only seeing one another once or twice a year, or at least tries to, Sara had missed last year. But they are on constant speaking terms no matter what.
Sara was a CSI who worked in the San Francisco lab for a few years until the night shift supervisor from the Las Vegas lab asked her to come and help him out, then offered her a position to stay once she was done, she's been there a few months now.
Sara on the other line smiled and answered. "I had a break, so I just wanted to wish you good luck on your first day at your new location."
Calleigh was also a CSI, and her and C.J. had moved from New Orleans to Miami a few weeks ago, after finding out the day shift supervisor here personally requested her services. So wanting to start a new life she jumped at the chance, even though she knew they would miss family and friends in New Orleans.
Calleigh smiled again. "Well that was nice of you, thank you."
"You're welcome, so how is C.J. doing in his new environment?"
Sara had met Christy and C.J. a few times, and even though she didn't feel that friendship connection that she felt with Calleigh right away, she was devastated on what happened, so she told Calleigh that if she ever needed anything to let her know.
Calleigh turns away from the sliding door to look at C.J., and he had just gotten up from his chair and was taking his plate to the kitchen sink.
"He is doing ok. He started school last week and he already has a few friends, I think this move will be good for both of us, providing I get along with the team."
Sara smiled on her line again. "I'm sure you'll do fine. Its obvious that since you had a personal request from the boss there you've already made an impression on him, and you haven't even met him yet!"
Calleigh watched C.J. head to his room to grab his school things as she speaks again. "Yeah I guess it does help that I already have the boss in my corner." Then she smiled bigger and continued. "And speaking of boss's personal requests, how are dealing with your feelings for your boss?"
Sara had met the night shift supervisor a year earlier at a seminar and she had called Calleigh telling her all about him. At the end of that conversation Calleigh had told her that she was in love, Sara was adamant that it was just a crush, but Calleigh still thinks it was more than that for her friend because she didn't even hesitate to move when he asked her if she would consider staying in Vegas.
There was a pause before Sara tried saying. "Well...I..." Then she trails off.
Calleigh chuckled and replied. "I understand, so do you still think it's just a crush?"
Calleigh could hear voices in the background, so when Sara started saying. "Cal I..."
She cuts her off. "Saved by the work, I see."
She chuckled and replied. "You could say that, call me later and tell me what happens, I don't care about the time."
"Alright, be safe and I'll talk to you later."
"You too, bye."
"Bye."
Calleigh hangs up the phone, closes the blinds and walks to her room to finish getting ready for the day.
When Calleigh was ready to go, she made sure she had her keys and purse, then stood by the front door and shouted. "You ready, buddy?"
C.J. came running up to her with his coat and backpack on with smiled and a nod. "Yeah."
Calleigh smiled back at him. "Alright, let's go." She opened the door and he stepped outside, she looks back to make sure no lights were left on before she walks outside, and shuts and locks the door behind her.
When they stepped off the front porch they walked on the pathway to the right and continued to the drive way.
Once they were in the vehicle she puts the key in the ignition, starts it, and fixes the review mirror before pulling out of the driveway from her rented house.
5 minutes later she stops in front of the big school building, looks back at C.J. and smiles, he smiles back and said. "Thank you Aunt Calleigh, have a good day."
"You're welcome and you too. I'll see you later." He nodded as he opened the back door on the driver's side, then got out, shuts it behind him, and ran up to the entrance where his friends were waiting.
After Calleigh saw the small group go into the building, she took a breath and headed to the lab, wondering how she will fit in and how her first day will be.
AN: I know it's a little different, but I hoped you like it anyways. Want more? Please review.
Next Chapter: Calleigh meets Horatio and the team, how will it go?