All of the CSIs were at home getting ready for the Christmas party. Calleigh had decided to host this years party and was dressing up as Santa's Lil' Helper. She was wearing a short red dress that came down an inch below the apex of her thighs and had a white belt around her midsection, a red push up bra, with her red 7 inch heels. To top it all off she had a Santa hat on top of her head. So ok she was dressing a little so sexy for a Christmas party but who really cared! She just finished getting dressed and was walking to her car to get to the Hilton, so she could finish getting decorations set up, when the phone rang.

"Duquesne," her voice came through the phone.

"Cal, its Eric. I was wondering if you were going to need help getting set up for tonight?", she could hear that Eric was a little eager for her to say yes.

"I could use a little muscle to help me," she heard a muffled yes on the other end,"just meet me at the Hilton Conference Room in 20 minutes, ok?"

"Ok, Cal I'll see you soon bye." As she heard Eric click his phone off she got a text message.

-Text-

Hey babe, when are we going to tell everyone about us?

She decided to ignore the message for now while she got the party ready. She had just started to hang the garland on the Christmas tree in the corner when she heard someone whistle from behind her. Turning around she saw Eric standing behind her with a large smile on his face. She climbed down the ladder and walked over to give him a hug.

"Don't you look very sexy tonight!" he walked over to the ladder and started to hang the garland for her.

"Thanks, you don't look to bad yourself," she continued to hang decorations until the whole room looked like someone dropped a Christmas bomb on it. She walked over to Eric and gave him a hug, when she looked up at him she saw something in his eyes that she had never seen from him before: love, passion, and caring. She slowly reached up and wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed his lips lightly. At first Eric didn't do anything but stood in shock that Calleigh Duquesne was actually kissing him. Finally, he wrapped his arms tightly around her and kissed her back. Calleigh started to deepen the kiss by trying to push her tongue in Eric 's mouth, and he happily gave her permission. They kept kissing until Calleigh's phone started to ring. She reluctantly pulled away and got her phone off the table.

"Hey you," she walked out of the room so that Eric couldn't listen in.

"Hey baby, where are you tonight?" asked the person on the other end of the phone.

"I have the Christmas party for the lab, I just finished setting up," she watched Eric start taking the covers off of the food, as some of the guest were arriving,"Why?"

"Cause I was gonna ask you to come over later, once you get finished with your party that is."

"Ok, baby I'll see you later." She hung up and walked back in to where the party was just starting.