Chapter: 1
This is what it's all about:
During Going Ballistic: Season Final of Season 6;
Location: Miami Dade: Crime Lab.
Time: 27 minutes after Eric Delko and Horatio Caine arrest Ortega.
Calleigh sighed walking down the hall to her newly burnt down lab, she was hoping to recover some of her files from the case this morning. Not everything had been chard in the fire, if it wasn't for Eric she would have never found the bullet and they would have never been able to really solve the case. She kicked her foot along some of the rubble searching for anything that could have been saved. She jumped at the mere sound of someone clearing their throat, she looked to see a happy smiling Eric standing with his arms crossed leaning against the door frame.
"What are you doing in here Cal?" he asked her walking in stepping over a few things. She smiled at him and looked around then back to meet his gaze, "Just seeing if there was anything that the fire didn't touch. Did you catch Ortega?" she asked him tilting her head to the side. Eric nodded proudly to her; "Yeah, H and I found him in his warehouse." he told her smiling.
"Good. At least that's all solved." She said looking around her once nice and clean lab. She sighed and ran her fingers through her hair and matched her gaze with Eric's again. "What?" she asked him noticing he was staring hard at her, yet his eyes were so dark and alluring Calleigh tried her hardest to not stair so hard. But that was difficult for her, Eric always made her nervous, but it was a good nervous. Sometimes she wanted to murder the butterflies in her stomach because it affected her so much she sometimes found it hard to even speak around him.
Eric let a small smile paint across his face as he chuckled, he looked down at his watch for a second then moved his eyes to look back into hers. "Cal, it's getting late. Shift is changing. Why don't we look through all this tomorrow? It's been a long day." He said to her trying to muster up the courage to ask her out before they both left for the day.
She sighed once more and stepped over some of the ceiling that had fallen to the floor. Eric held his hand out and took her by the arm to steady her as stepped closer to him. She smiled looking up at him, "Your right. Never thought I'd say this, but I'm ready to get out of here." She laughed lightly hearing him chuckle. Eric still had his ever warming hand on her upper arm. He just looked down at her. Calleigh's skin was on fire from his touch; her heart was racing so fast she could hear it in her ears.
She shifted her gaze to his large hand that was wrapped around her tiny upper arm, "Uh, I – Sorry." Eric said slowly and unwillingly letting go of her arm. His cheeks flushed a light red as well as her own. He moved his hand out motioning to the door for her to go ahead of him. It was one of those 'ladies first' moves. She smiled and stepped out into the hall with him as they both walked silently to the locker rooms.