a/n: This is my first story! I hope that it'll be a good one! Just thought I'd try my hand at it. See if I could but I hope you enjoy it anyways! This is what happens after 7x14 between Calleigh and Eric! I'm kind of playing it by ear so I hope it turns out! :]
"Hey," Calleigh said as she sleepily stretched.
"Hey," a smiling Eric said as he walked to Calleigh's side in the hospital bed. Chuckling to himself "I uhh put my watch on you so you'd know I was here in case you woke up while I was out on the investigation."
"I knew you were here." Calleigh smiled at him.
"How'd you know I was in here.. you couldn't.. could you hear me? You heard what I said?" He asked.
"Yeah." She said closing her eyes thinking over the next thing she was going to say. "It was like a dream."
"It was real." That was the only thing he could think to say.
"Will you stay with me?" she hopefully asked.
"No." jokingly looked at her and smiled. Whispering "Yeah. As long as you want me to." Pausing for just a second. "As long as you want me to."
She closed her eyes and he breathed a sigh of relief. She looked at him.
"What's the matter?" she said.
"Oh, it's nothing." He replied.
"Oh come on, Eric. I know with you it's never nothing."
"Well," he started, "it's just when we were in Interrogation and you said you couldn't breathe I was afraid I was gonna loose you."
She was silent.
"I know that's a lot to process right now but I mean, you asked and I needed to tell you," he said a little shakily.
"No, no. I'm glad you told me. I needed to hear it." She sat up. "Eric that really does tell me everything I need to know. About how much you care about me." Smiling at him.
All he could do was smile back. He thought for a second on how to word what he wanted to tell her.
"I really do love you, Calleigh. I do care."