Summary: Horatio and Calleigh are forced to wander in the snowy landscape of Canada after a plane crash. It doesn't help that the two of them are angry with each other either.

Rating: M (for sexual content)

Inspired by the movie "The Edge"

AN: Eric and Calleigh have never been in a relationship. Certain events in the show will come up, but not necessarily in the same way as on the show and some people will appear, but things will be changed about them too.

-I-

If you didn't know Calleigh and Horatio you wouldn't be able to see the fake civil and nice façade they had towards each other. Everyone on the team knew that something had happened between the two of them when they had gone out three weeks earlier. Neither Calleigh nor Horatio had told them what it was. They glared and snapped at each other, avoided working together and it was driving their friends crazy. They all hoped that the "trip" to Canada would force them to work things out.

They had been asked by the Chief to escort a convict back to Canada and even though they didn't want to spend hours together on the same plane, they had agreed. The only people on the plane were the red head, the blonde, the convict and the two pilots. The convict slept most of the trip and Calleigh read a book, while Horatio glanced at her from time to time or out the window.

The reason they were fighting with each other was because Calleigh accused Horatio of being jealous and he refused to admit it. It had started when the team had gone out to a club and Calleigh had been asked to dance by a guy. Horatio's eyes had immidiately darkened and he had become quite annoyed after watching Calleigh and the guy dance; and they danced for a long time. In the end only Calleigh and her boss were left of the team and he left her in the club without saying goodbye. This had caused Calleigh to question his actions the following day and his snappy reply that she had been "all over that guy" had made her blood boil.

Horatio didn't want to fight with his bullet girl and secret love, but he knew that because he was such a coward and didn't tell her how he felt; he could lose her any day and any time. He was jealous because the young guy had been able to be close to Calleigh in a way that Horatio could only dream of being.

Calleigh on the other hand had long ago given up hope that Horatio was in love with her as she was with him. So she tried to make him jealous sometimes in hopes that Alexx (who had told her that Horatio was in fact crazy about her) would be right and Horatio would confess; since she herself didn't have the guts to do it.

However, it seemed as if Horatio was too stubborn to admit his feelings and she was now angry about him becoming jealous of some random guy in a club. It was after all just a dance.. or seven dances, but still they had just danced..

"Dude, are we there soon?" The convict named Jason asked.

He was getting tired of waiting. The small plane was making a lot of noises too and he already had a headache.

"Shut up." Calleigh sighed.

"Fierce chic." Jason smirked, "How about I calm you down? You come sit on my lap and I'll show you how good I am among the ladies."

"All talk and no show." Horatio snorted.

"And how do you know that?" Calleigh asked.

"Guys like him are always like that." Horatio shrugged.

"At least he talks to me." Calleigh mumbled loud enough for the red head to hear.

"Dude, you two got some issues." Jason commented.

"Thank you, Dr. Phil." Horatio snapped.

Before Jason could retort one of the pilots announced that they were landing soon; everyone sighed in relief.

-I-

Calleigh and Horatio went to their separate places to eat lunch after Jason had been handed over to the Canadian police. They avoided each other at all costs. Horatio was beginning to feel scared; scared that if he didn't fix things between himself and Calleigh they would never be able to get back to the way things were; which in the end he didn't want. He wanted more than just being friends with her, but she was young and he was old; well, older than her anyway. He didn't want to hurt her and he believed that if she was with him, she would get hurt. His enemies would surely use her to hurt him and he couldn't stand the thought of losing his beautiful blonde ballistic expert. He'd rather be friends and keep her safe than put her in harms way.

Calleigh was trying to be as tough on the inside as she was on the outside. Many people who knew her thought she would have no problem admitting her feelings for her boss, but she did. He was her boss, her friend and although he was always there for her, he was also just as friendly towards Natalia or Alexx as he was with her. He didn't seem to try to show her that he was interested in her, so why had Alexx told her that? Alexx always saw things that others missed, but she could also be wrong. Until Horatio apologized to her first, she wouldn't apologize to him for being snappy. She hadn't done anything wrong until after he had become angry. She sighed as she looked across the street and saw Horatio smiling to the waitress; he was always kind and friendly to everyone so she shouldn't worry that he was flirting; but she did. She wanted to be the one he smiled like that at.

Later that evening they glared at each other before entering their hotel rooms that were next to each other. Calleigh could hear Horatio watching TV and sighed. She wished she could be with him, but she felt that she had nothing to apologize for. He was the one being stupid, not her.

Horatio cursed at himself for being jealous and stubborn; he couldn't admit that he was madly in love with the beautiful blonde in the next room because he was too afraid of being hurt, too stubborn to admit that he was jealous of the guy that she had danced with, actually jealous of every guy that she had ever been in a relationship with. He fell asleep that night being angry at himself for being such a coward.

-I-

Flashback

Calleigh wrapped her arms around the young man's shoulder and smiled; it was just a dance. So why did her boss look like he was ready to kill the guy? She glanced at the red head and flashed him a smile. He didn't smile back.

She decided to ignore him and continued to dance with the young guy named Orlando; he had asked her to dance one dance, but they were already on the fourth one. She liked him; he moved like an experienced dancer and he was charming. Not as charming as Horatio, but close. She swayed her hips and Orlando grabbed them, spun her around and caught her before she had a chance to fall. She laughed; a laugh that caused Horatio to get extremely jealous.

By the end of their seventh dance together the team had left; everyone except her boss. Calleigh got back to the table and sat down. She smiled at the red head and he stood up. Without saying a word he left and Calleigh gaped after his retreating back. She had apparently done something she shouldn't have; she just couldn't figure out what it was.

The next day she caught him in the hallway and asked him what was wrong.

"I only danced with him." She said, "Then you leave as soon as I get back."

"Dance? You call that dancing? You were all over that guy." Horatio snapped, "You might as well just have had sex with him on the dance floor."

Calleigh watched her friend and boss leave; he had stepped over the line. If he thought she had done more than dance then he could just go to hell! In the back of her mind she wondered why the kind red head had so suddenly become so jealous…

End of flashback

-I-

The next day Horatio and Calleigh waited for the pilots to start the engines on the plane so they could fly home. Calleigh glanced at Horatio and then sighed. They said nothing to each other as the plane lifted and they got on their way home. Calleigh soon fell asleep and Horatio looked out the window. They flew over mountains and the woods surrounding it. He glanced over at Calleigh and then back outside again.

Suddenly the plane started going down and Calleigh jerked awake.

"What's going on?" She asked.

"I don't know." Horatio said, "Guys? Something wrong?"

They heard the pilots arguing and the plane continued dropping down. Horatio looked out the window at the engines and saw that they weren't working.

"The engines stopped working." He said.

Calleigh took a few deep breaths to calm herself and Horatio asked the pilots again what was going on.

"We have no fuel. We're going to have to land." One of them said, "Oh my god!"

The sound of glass breaking caused Horatio and Calleigh to stand up. Horatio opened the cockpit door; the front glass was broken and the pilots were unconscious, blood was everywhere and feathers. Birds must have crashed into the plane. He looked out the window as the plane went down and saw a lake beneath.

He closed the door and dragged Calleigh with him to the seats in the back.

"We're going to crash!" He said; fear evident in his voice.

"What?" Calleigh exclaimed, "This was not how I imagined my own death!"

"We might make it; we're going to crash down in a lake." Horatio said.

Calleigh didn't have time to say anything as the plane went down in the lake with loud crash as it hit the surface of the water; knocking both Horatio and Calleigh forward and crashing into the seats.

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