Title: Trouble in Paradise
Author: NikiMeg
Disclaimer: None of the characters or CSI Miami belong to me.
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Calleigh/Horatio
Author's note: I apologize for my English mistakes. It's not my native language. Hope you enjoy! Please R&R.
Summary: Calleigh and Horatio marriage ended up. How are they going to fix up it? (Horatio/Calleigh)
Trouble in Paradise
Calleigh was standing in the middle of the living room, gazing at the door while Horatio opened it. He was holding a box with his personal things. Before he left, he turned toward her. They looked at each other for awhile. Without saying any word.
Horatio left through the door, closing it behind him while a tear flowed from Calleigh's eyes. He was leaving from her life. She wanted to cry but she didn't get. She had already cried so much other times. Whole nights she had spent crying. And in the worst day of her life, she was not able to spill more than a single tear. How had their marriage ended like that? She didn't understand that. She loved him. And he loved her. She was sure about that. But her marriage got an end. And this was very painful.
She made her way into kitchen, picked a glass and poured some wine. Horatio's favorite wine. She went back to the living room. On the way she put a CD and turned on it. Horatio had given it to her in her birthday. Before falling the last drop of the terrible storm that her marriage had been turned in.
She crossed the living room, stopping next to a box that Horatio had forgotten to take with him. She looked down and pulled out a photo album. How he dared to take it. It was also her memories. She sat down on the ground and started going through pictures. Horatio and her smiling, hugged, having happy moments. She missed these moments. Looking at through the photos seemed the love between them was eternal. Their destiny was being together as a happy family.
Included was her engagement picture. She was wearing a wonderful black dress, which she had bought exclusively for this day. Alexx had gone with her to choose the perfect dress. When they saw this dress both women knew that Calleigh should wear it that night. After all he always thought she looked good in black. It was a great dinner, all their friends gathered there and happy that their boss and their friend had committed living a life full of love and respect. He had kissed her and whispered in her ear he couldn't be happier. She responded with beautiful and sweet smile like only her knew how to smile.
If someone had told her what it'd happen she wouldn't believe. No way. They would never separate. But things changed. They changed and haven't noticed they were looking at opposite directions.
She looked another picture. It was a trip they gone to Hawaii. Horatio looked really good swearing a bathing suit. They spent wonderful days over there. Actually, It rained most of the time but what had happened inside of the room it worth for the whole trip. It was the most incredible vacations than they ever had had. Other fantastic moments together were eternalized in those photos too.
She was seated, wandering the magnify past that they had. She was so concentrated on this she didn't hear the doorbell rang. It sounded over three times before Horatio opened the door. He stood in the doorway, looking at Calleigh. She was so pretty as always. He approached of her, noticing that her fingers touched his face on the picture.
"What hell are you going here?" She lifted quickly from the ground.
"Sorry. I didn't mean to scare you." He felt as an arrow penetrated into his heart. It had been his house and now it was Calleigh's house. He was an intruder in a place that he used to call home.
She closed the photo album and held it against her chest while she waited an answer from his husband.
"I forgot a box." He looked at photo album. She was holding it as if she needed to protect it.
Horatio picked the box and pointed at the photo album. He didn't get to ask for it, not with words. It was so valuable to him as it was to her.
"Who did you make owner of it?" She said in a cold tone.
"I just thought... you know what, you can keep it. It doesn't matter anymore." he answered in the same cold and impersonal tone.
"No. You take it." She extended the arm to give the photo album to Horatio.
He was undecided if he should pick it or not. Even he wasn't sure he moved his hand in direction to the album. Then, he looked into Calleigh's eyes, he had noticed that she hadn't cried. For one second, this made him abhor her. Then he realized she couldn't cry, she was so hurt, feeling guilty that her heart didn't allow her spilled any tear.
"Let with you." He said while he taking his hand over the photo album.
"Keep the past in the past?" She held the photo album again.
"I have." He answered in a melancholic tone.
She looked at down, then at Horatio, "You blame me for this? Our marriage ended up like that."
He didn't blame her; he blamed himself. He had already forgiven her for what had happened. He didn't get to tell her. One day he would say to her but not today. By now, he couldn't let her know.
She stepped back while he walked toward the front door and opened it. He left through the door without looking behind, without looking at her. As soon as the door closed behind Horatio, she threw the photo album over the couch.
To be continued.
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