A/N: So I have wanted to write this for a while now. Since my love for the West Wing became so, huge, hah, and you know, Emily Procter is in both The West Wing and CSI: Miami, of course I wanted to write a crossover, because I am me. So I am. And it is set after Triple Threat. I just re-watched that one because well, it was the one my sister recorded on the PVR, so yes, it was all about twins, and then well, the triplets, and it reminded me, hm, Calleigh, Ainsley? Twins? Sure. And I know there has been at least one other story in which Calleigh and Ainsley are twins, but I will make sure mine is quite different. Okay. Also, there will be Eric and Calleigh, Sam and Ainsley, and who knows what else? Okay.

The times will not match up, obviously, as Emily Procter was not in both shows at once. Season two of the West Wing and well, season five of Miami.

ALSO, I know that on all the biographies and on the show and that, Calleigh has brothers, and no sister, but for the stories purposes, ignore that.

Disclaimer: I do not own CSI: Miami, I do not own The West Wing, and such, and such.

Long A/N, I apologize.

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"Ainsley!"

"Hey Sam," She drawled in her accent that never failed to remind him exactly how endearing she was.

"I think if we continue to be friends, I'm won't have to go the gym anymore. Could your office be any further away from the West Wing?"

"Well, technically it could," She began, "And I really appreciate you reminding me of that on a daily basis, Sam." It was as if she continued to say his name as many times as possible just so he would never forget how good it sounded when she said it.

"It's no problem, really." He smiled cheekily as she rolled her eyes at him.

"Why did you come all down here anyways?" She asked.

"I just, you know, figured you'd still be here even though I'm pretty sure Donna left about fifteen minutes ago which means Josh is probably gone too and..." Sam would have continued to ramble had Ainsley not cut him off.

"Sam,"

"Sorry. So I figured you'd still be here and I just wanted to see if you'd want to go out for a drink. I was trying to get more work done on the speech but I'm pretty sure if I looked at it any longer the words would start to run together, and then I'd make mistakes and Toby would yell at me and..."

"Yes?"

"Sorry?"

"Yes Sam, I will go out for a drink with you. I was just re-reading these files that I don't have to start going over for a few days, nothing important."

"Great!" Sam smiled. Ainsley picked up her bag and her coat and followed Sam as they trekked back up to the West Wing and out for drinks.

--&

"You have to wonder how he was her husband and he never knew about her sisters, triplets, none the less." Natalia was obviously baffled by the fact the three women were actually able to keep their secret from Dominic.

"They played to win," Ryan shrugged. "But I guess they didn't really win in the end."

"I feel sorry for her son, their son, whosever son it is." Eric pointed out.

"I don't know, at least he'll be raised properly by his father." Calleigh shrugged. They'd all gathered at one of their favourite restaurant/bar's after work as they often did after wrapping up a case, discussing the weirder parts of whatever case they'd finished. Celebrating, some would call it.

"Yeah, I guess so." Ryan nodded in agreement. "But I'm still getting my mind around the triplet thing. I mean, how do you not tell your husband you have two sisters who look exactly the same as you do?"

"I couldn't believe it, when Beth came out..."

"Three of them. I mean, you think as twins as rare, but triplets..." Eric trailed off.

"I have to go to the bathroom," Calleigh sighed as she left the table. She hated this conversation and well, this whole case, really. It was partially because she felt guilty for not telling her friends before about Ainsley, and partially because she felt guilty because she hadn't actually talked to Ainsley in over two months. In fact, the last time she'd talked to her sister had been briefly while she was in the middle of a big case and Ainsley had been preparing to go on Capitol Beat against some important man that worked closely with the President, a President who Calleigh actually liked, especially for a democrat, but her sister, who was far more of a republican than Calleigh herself despised the man simply for being a democrat. It was a little extreme in Calleigh's opinion, but then again, she had no desire to be anywhere near as involved in politics as Ainsley was. By this time, Calleigh decided it was probably a good idea to head back to their table so her friends didn't start to worry about her.

"Are you alright Cal?" Eric asked as she returned. If there was one thing he was good at, besides analyzing evidence and fingerprints and well, being a CSI, it was reading Calleigh Duquesne, a fact of which he was quite proud. It had taken him two years to even begin to figure out how to go about the task and then Tim had died... and they'd opened up to each other in a way that they'd never thought possible. And then of course, they'd grown more distant but after he was shot they seemed to be regaining the connection they'd once shared so easily and effortlessly.

"Yeah, I'm good." She lied. Now was a good time to tell them, with the case like this ending and all... they'd understand. They knew how she was about private life, in fact, she wasn't sure that Natalia and Ryan even knew she had brothers. At least Eric knew that. She didn't talk about her family. It just wasn't something Calleigh was open about. They'd understand that. Plus, it wasn't like she was playing them as the triplets in the case had been... she wasn't trying to get anything from them with the help of Ainsley. Ainsley had just well, never came up. It's not as if she knew anything about their families. Well, yes, she'd met all of Eric's sisters, and his parents and a few of his nieces and nephews, but that was just the Delko family. It was how they were, family was first and foremost and they had family functions. She'd been to more than a few of them. Dinners, birthdays, Eric's birthday, to be specific. And there was love and ease and it just wasn't like that with her family. Plus, Eric's family was just... right here. It wasn't as if she was going to fly him to Louisiana to meet her Mother and brothers who still lived there. Calleigh herself didn't even fly out there more than once a year to see them. As for Ryan and Natalia... well Ryan could be a quadruplet for all she knew about his family.

"Are you sure? You do seem a little distant." Ryan observed in a concerned nature.

"There's nothing wrong with me." Calleigh assured them.

"You just look like you have something you want to talk about." Eric shrugged. Damn him for reading her so well all the time, and being so... gallant in doing so.

"I guess, no, I don't know." Calleigh knew that she'd officially sent up the red flags. She rarely, if ever stuttered or changed her mind once she opened her mouth and she just had multiple times in one sentence .

"Calleigh?" Natalia was concerned now too.

"Okay." Calleigh made up her mind. She figured if she left it alone now then told them in a few months or whenever, it would seem weird that she hadn't told them when this particular opportune time had arisen. "So don't... it just never came up before, but,"

"Just say it Calleigh." They all looked so concerned as if she was about to announce she was dying or something equally as tragic.

"I have a twin sister." Laughter. Laughter?

"It shouldn't be this funny, but it is." Ryan said between laughs.

"I didn't know you could act so well, I mean the whole indecisive thing you had going on to make us concerned and then... twins." Eric smiled. "I can't believe I didn't think of that."

"Eric, we've all met a lot of your family, if you had a twin, we would know about it already." Natalia giggled.

"I'm serious!" This wasn't helping Calleigh in any way.

"She's not... you don't actually have a twin." Eric stated in disbelief.

"Ainsley Hayes." Calleigh nodded.

"Seriously?" Natalia was nearly gaping, now Calleigh wanted to laugh.

"Identical twins." Calleigh nodded.

"Wow." Ryan smiled.

"You have a twin? I thought you only had brothers." Eric tried to hide his mix of emotions, but masking emotion was never his strong suite and he thought he knew Calleigh.

"I didn't even know about the brothers." Ryan shrugged. "But then I guess, no one knows about my family either." He reasoned.

"Well I do have brothers too. I haven't seen Ainsley in over two years." Calleigh remarked with a hint of disappointment.

"That must be hard." Natalia sympathized. She saw her sisters fairly frequently and couldn't imagine not seeing them for such a length of time. Eric also found that hard to fathom. He knew Calleigh's relationship with her parents and brothers were strained, but you'd think being twins they'd be closer.

"It is, but well, I'm always at work, and she's still building her career." Calleigh shrugged.

"Is she in science too?" Ryan wondered.

"Law. Law and politics, I guess." Calleigh explained.

"Something I have very little knowledge or interest in. Except, well, what we do in court." Natalia shrugged as Ryan and Eric nodded in agreement.

"I guess it's a good thing we have little interest in the subject and such little free time to watch the news and such," Calleigh smiled.

"I don't understand?" Ryan asked in confusion.

"Ainsley's on the news a lot. Well not the news, but political talk shows, that sort of thing. I've been meaning to call her, actually. She did an important show a few months ago on Capitol Beat that she was really excited about. She was up against... some guy from the White House." Calleigh explained, making it obvious to her friends how proud she was of her sister.

"Oh!' Eric made a connection with this new information. "So that time when we were shopping and that woman who you didn't know started talking to you..."

"She mistook me for Ainsley." Calleigh nodded. "It happens sometimes."

"So you and Ainsley don't talk much?" Natalia asked. "I mean, you said you hadn't talked in months..." She suddenly felt very intrusive.

"Yeah. We used to talk all the time, after we got over our childhood differences. But people just get busy." Calleigh shrugged. "Now that we're talking about it, I'll probably go home and call her tonight." She laughed.

"When was the last time you saw her?" Eric asked. He and Calleigh had been friends for well, nearly seven years now. Seven years was a long time. She never once mentioned Ainsley that he remembered, nor made any reference to a sister or mentioned having her visit or visiting her.

"It's been a long time. Neither of us are ever really willing to take any time off, I guess. The last time I visited her she was living in California. That was... four or five years ago now I guess. It doesn't seem that far off until I say it out loud. Four or five years." Calleigh shook her head in disbelief.

"Obviously you share the same stubborn traits." Ryan laughed.

"Yeah, we used to get so annoyed with each other because though we tried to be as different as we could, we were so much alike." Calleigh found herself missing Ainsley more than she had in a long time as she talked about her so openly. It was almost as if she was dead when in reality, she was just a phone call or a plane ride away. "Now I miss her more."

"You should call her." Natalia encouraged, sensing there might be more to Calleigh and Ainsley's not seeing each other than busy work schedules.

"You should invite her out here!" Ryan suggested, excited at the prospects of seeing two Calleigh's.

"For your birthday!" Eric added, smiling smugly at Calleigh. He wasn't mad at her, he didn't think it was in his parameter of emotion to get angry or upset at Calleigh, but he was looking for a little, innocent revenge for her not telling him all these years that she had a sister, and a twin, nonetheless. He knew that , other than Horatio who had her personal file, after Speed had died he was the only one who really knew about Calleigh's birthday. She was always the first one to celebrate the day for others, but never really for herself. Eric had always taken her out to dinner, or they'd hung out or done something quiet. Maybe, he finally realized, this was why she didn't celebrate. Calleigh was shooting him daggers now for reminding her, and everyone else, that her birthday was so quickly approaching. "It's kind of last minute, but I'm sure she could get a flight out here!"

"Last minute? When's your birthday?" Ryan asked, realizing that was one occasion they had never really celebrated around the lab.

"August 19." Calleigh sighed, still glaring at Eric. She wasn't really mad at him... just, well, she probably deserved him divulging the secret that was her birthday after keeping this from him after so many years of friendship.

"That's in eleven days!" Ryan exclaimed.

"I am now officially confident in your ability to perform mathematical skills." Calleigh joked, and Ryan sulked at the sarcasm for a moment before resuming his surprise.

"Call her Cal. It's been four or five years. I bet she misses you just as much." Natalia reasoned.

"Yeah Calleigh, we want to meet your sister!" Eric encouraged, knowing that she'd do it. He was, after all, a talented Calleigh reader.

"I don't know." She sighed, already pulling out her phone.

--&

"So that is my tragic story." Sam sighed, taking another sip of his beer. Soon after situating themselves in a bar frequented by the White House staff and quickly killing off all easy conversational topics, Sam was compelled to tell Ainsley the story of his father's infidelity.

"Sam, I'm sorry." She rested a hand on his arm in comfort. "I really... I can't imagine how that would feel."

"Years and years of deception. We're working through it, though." Sam sighed. "Working slowly. I don't think I'll be ready to meet her for a few years yet though." He smiled weakly. Ainsley was baffled by this. Sam's father had another woman in an apartment, hiding another life from Sam and his Mother and sister, and Sam was still making it work. Joking about meeting the other woman. This man never ceased to continue to amaze her.

"You amaze me sometimes, Sam Seaborne."

"And what about you, Ainsley Hayes? Have any comparable family stories that you'd like to share?"

"I have two parents," Ainsley began.

"That's a shock." Sam laughed.

"I have brothers, three of them, all younger by a few years."

"All as Republican as you?" Sam joked.

"Would you expect anything less?" She asked sweetly, causing Sam to laugh and shake his head.

"And I have a sister, Calleigh." Ainsley continued.

"Big, Southern family. I would have expected nothing less." Sam laughed. Ainsley nodded in agreement as she took a drink. "Wow Ainsley, I was expecting to get chastised for, I don't know, stereotyping the South, or any number of things." Ainsley shrugged. "I have never known you as one to back away from the prospect of starting a debate with me. Wait. Calleigh... didn't you mention having a friend named Calleigh once?"

"Yes. But, well, when I said friend I may have been exaggerating. I meant more, by friend, to say sister, or rather, twin, as that is what Calleigh is, my twin as you could tell by looking at us or..."

"And there is the lively conversationalist I know and love." Sam smiled. "So you have a twin?"

"As I just said, yes, I have a twin." Ainsley nodded.

"Identical?" Sam asked.

"No one could ever tell us apart, which was very useful on occasion. Like, when I needed to pass a Science or Math exam. At first we complained about not being in the same classes which never failed to make the teachers remind us how confusing that would be for them. Eventually, we figured out that it was a gift in disguise." Sam was laughing now.

"You cheated in school?"

"Only when it was very necessary." Ainsley defended. "Plus, it's not like Calleigh didn't enjoy writing more than one Science exam."

"She's really into Science, then?" Sam asked.

"It's like you and writing." Ainsley smiled. "She's a CSI. Firearms specialist, actually."

"So I shouldn't have one of our debates about gun control laws with her then." Sam smiled, remembering fondly the debate on that particular subject he, Josh and Ainsley had the night she accepted Leo's job offer.

"I actually don't know where she stands on that." Ainsley shrugged. "But I could always switch places with her for that."

"There's no way I wouldn't recognize the Ainsley Hayes style of talking and debating. Plus, I'm sure I've heard every single argument you could possibly have on the gun issue."

"Do you want to bet on that, Sam?"

"No, no I'm good." Sam replied quickly. The evening was going well, and getting into a debate over gun control laws with Ainsley wasn't likely a good strategy to use if he wanted to keep it that way. If anyone around them wanted some quality dinner theatre, however... "So are you two close?"

"Sorry?" Ainsley had been caught up in thought and not paying attention to what Sam had been saying.

"You and Calleigh. Are you close?"

"We were, used to be. I haven't seen her since, well, the last time I saw her I lived in California and I moved from there four years ago. I called her before Capitol Beat, but we haven't talked since then. We're both so busy, I guess." Ainsley shrugged.

"You're telling me for the entire time you've known me, you haven't talked to your sister? You didn't call her after you creamed me on Capitol Beat? I think everyone I know called me to congratulate me. Ridicule was more like it." Sam shuddered at the memory. "I kept wishing that whole night never happened, but then we became friends."

"And the fact that I humiliated you on National television became irrelevant." Ainsley smiled sweetly.

"It stung a little less, anyways." Sam rolled his eyes at her. It was then that Ainsley's phone rang.

"Hello?" She answered.

"Ains?" She hadn't heard that voice in a while. Well, if she ignored the similarity it bore to her own.

"Calleigh, it's certainly been a while." Ainsley smiled.

"That's awfully coincidental." Sam remarked, more to himself than to Ainsley. He watched curiously as the woman who was becoming less and less of an enigma to him everyday caught up with her twin sister who she hadn't talked to in months. After minutes of conversation Ainsley snapped her phone shut, dropping it back into her bag.

"Sam," She drawled extra sweetly.

"Yes," He answered quickly and almost defensively. He was glad he was savvier when it came to understanding women than say, Josh, because it enabled him to put up his defences when he knew Ainsley, who he had very few defences around to begin with, was about to ask him a favour.

"How would you feel about a trip to Miami?" Sam wasn't sure whether to smile in celebration or fear for his life. He knew he wanted to go, as he was always looking for new excuses to spend time with Ainsley, and he knew the President and Leo would go for it as he'd just worked so well, and with excellent results, on the State of the Union, but two Ainsley's? Could he even handle that?

"What's the occasion?"

"My birthday. Or our birthday rather. Calleigh and I. She just called and invited me there for the week. I'd, or we'd, if you agree to come, fly out on the fifteenth so that we'd be there in plenty of time for our birthday, and then leave on the twenty second. Tribbey will give me the time off, won't he?"

"Tribbey will still be on vacation himself." Sam laughed. "And I know I could get the time off, so we'll have to go shopping."

"You're coming?" The bright smile on Ainsley's face upon hearing the news made Sam's heart soar making him feel not much unlike a sixteen year old boy.

"I'll come." Sam nodded. Ainsley was back on the phone again making plans with Calleigh. Sam wondered exactly when Ainsley had started to become the center of his world.

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So there is more to come, ahha I'm having a lot of fun writing this. It's very AU and OOC, but yeah. Hopefully someone else loves both shows, or is enjoying it anyways. I'll add more EC soon, soon, soon! Hah . Of course. I'm pretty sure this sets my record for the longest chapter I have ever written!

Hahha review, please!