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When Horatio meets Calleigh by GunWolf2008
Chapter 1
Horatio had just arrived in New Orleans, he was going to check out if the ballistics expert was as good as they said, because if she was he wanted her on his team. He drove over to the police department and walked inside to ask for his friend Tim. Completely caught up in his own thoughts he run right into a blonde young woman carrying a pile of evidence, causing them both to fall down and for her to lose all the evidence.
"Oh, I'm sorry" he said and helped gathering her things.
"No worries, it was as much my fault, I've never seen you, around are you new here?" she asked curiously while she smiled at him.
"Just visiting a friend of mine Tim Johnson, know where I can find him?" Horatio asked polite.
"Sure do, if you just let me put this aside, I'll get him for you." she said and left.
One moment later Tim came out and greeted Horatio.
"Who was that young lady, I didn't catch her name" said Horatio.
"That was Calleigh Duquesne, the best ballistics expert you'll ever meet" said Tim.
"Really, she seems so young, I expected someone older" said Horatio surprised.
"She may only be 22, but she's still the best," said Tim and added "Want to talk to her?"
"Yes" said Horatio and followed Tim.
They entered a office, there was papers everywhere, a laptop on a desk and pictures of different guns, weapons and postcards on the wall, plus a bookshelf with a lot of books and pictures of Calleigh and her friends, one of the pictures was of Calleigh and an older man Horatio assumed was her father, and one of her and three men Horatio assumed was her brothers.
"Calleigh, you here?" asked Tim.
"Yeah" Calleigh said from behind her desk.
Tim stepped over the papers, and went over to her and asked, "What are you doing back there?"
"Working a case, what else?" she replied with a giggle.
"How can you even work in this mess?" asked Tim.
"It's not a mess, everything is in perfect order, and I never had an unsolved one have I" said Calleigh.
"No, you haven't" said Tim and smiled at her.
"So what can I do you for?" she asked and looked up at him.
"A friend of mine wants to talk to you, have you got a moment?" he asked.
"Not really, but I can make one" she giggled and stood up.
She looked at Horatio who stood in the doorway observing her office. Calleigh and Tim walked towards him.
"Horatio Caine, Calleigh Duquesne" said Tim, they shook hands and Calleigh giggled.
"What is so funny?" Horatio asked.
"Our last names sound almost the same" she said with a smile.
"I guess" he said and smiled back.
"So what can I do for you?" she asked curious about what he wanted.
"Is there a place we can go and talk?" he asked.
"Yeah Jimmy's come on" she said, took his hand and dragged him along to the local police bar while Tim shook his head as he watched them leave.
They sat down by a table and Calleigh asked, "Want something to drink?"
"I don't know" said Horatio.
"I'll just get you something then" she said and went over to the bar.
The bartender smiled at her and said, "Hey BG, so what will it be today a beer?"
"Nah, still on the clock Jim, maybe later, do you have my fav?" she asked.
"Always BG, so who's your friend?" he asked curiously.
"Friend of Tim, wanted to talk to me" she said.
"He seems a little lost" said Jim.
"Yeah, but I find it cute, seen the three musketeers around?" she asked.
"Last night, here you go" he said and handed her two strawberry milkshakes.
"So what's the last gossip then" she said.
"Adam got his heart broken, Nick's moving into a bigger place and Dave's still with his girl, Marie is expecting and Linda wants to call" said Jim.
"Again, got to talk to him later bout that, this place I got to seem nice for her since I know she wanted a little one, I got to call and congratulate her then, I'll call her later then" said Calleigh.
"Do you ever talk to you brothers and your friends?" Jim asked.
"I do, just been a bit crazed right now, but that's why I got you, thanks for the update Jim" she said.
"What do I get in return" Jim said.
"A kiss on the check as always" she said and kissed his left check.
"Thanks you better go back to him, he looks a bit impenitent" said Jim.
"Yeah, yeah, put these on my tab and I'll swing by when I get my paycheck" she said.
"Of course BG, anything else?" he asked.
"Nah, not right now, maybe later, see ya" she said and went over to Horatio.
Jim just smiled and shook his head.
Calleigh looked curiously at Horatio, he was wearing black pants, a white shirt, the two upper buttons were open, his hair were red like fire, his eyes blue as the ocean, she bet he was in his mid thirties and very handsome.
Horatio looked back into her green eyes, there was a spark of life in them, of interest and passion and he said, "I'm the head of the Miami Dade Crime Lab and I'm looking for a ballistics expert, and someone told me you are the best there us so I wanted to find out if it was true."
"It is" she said self confident.
"Oh really" he said.
"Mhm" she replied and added "There's no gun or weapon I don't know how to handle."
"You sure are self confidant" he thought and said "So I take it you own your own guns then."
"Yes I got 23" she said.
"23, but aren't you only 22, when did you get your first?" he asked surprised.
"I am, daddy bought me my first for my eighth birthday, but I could shoot long before that, just like my three brothers" she said. Her daddy always told her a woman could do anything a man could.
"Hmmm, I take it your brothers are cops to" said Horatio.
"Only Dave and Adam, Nick is a fire fighter" she said and smiled.
"And you are the youngest" he said.
"Yes" she replied.
"How long have you been working here?" he asked.
"A little over two years" she said.
"Like it" he said.
"I love it" she said and added, "How bout you then, worked long in Miami?"
"A year, worked in New York before that" he said.
"Big city man" she giggled.
"Mhm" he replied and added, "So what do you do when you don't work?"
"Why do you ask?" she replied.
"Curiosity" he said honestly.
"Nothing, I basically just work" she said.
"You do, pretty girl like you don't even have a boyfriend" he said.
"Not at the moment" she said and looked away.
"Hurt you bad huh" he said and added, "I know how that is."
"He did, but I'll live" she said.
"I can see that" he said with a warm smile.
"Ha, ha, very funny" she said.
"So would it be possible to see how good you are with guns or are you too busy?" he asked polite.
"Sure I can take a minute to show ya" she said and got up, he quickly followed.
They were down at the range and she had just taken a part a gun and put it perfectly together faster than he had ever seen before and was about to shoot when she said, "Take some steps back please, need my space."
He nodded and watched her from behind, she held the gun and aimed his eyes went down her back to her firm but she looked great in the jeans she was wearing. He sighed and his eyes locked on her arms as they tightened and flexed as she shoot.
'Wow, that's HOT' he thought as his hardness grew under his pants since the sight of her aroused him.
'This is not good if she sees I get turned on by firing a gun, specially if we'll be working together pull your self together Horatio' he though a bit annoyed at him self.
Calleigh put the gun down and took out her hearing aids and smiled, perfect shoot as always. Then she turned and looked at Horatio, she knew the look in his eyes and found it funny when it turned guys on so much when she was firing a gun.
She walked over to him and said, "So what do ya think?"
He cleared his throat and said, "Perfect, just what I was looking for, so would you come and work for me?"
"Dunno, since my life is here" she said honestly.
"I see, so how much time do you need to think about it?" he asked.
"When are you going back?" she replied, there was something about him that caught her interest.
"Tomorrow" he said wishing he could stay longer if she didn't come along.
"Ok, I'll give you an answer before then" she said wondering what it would be like to kiss him. 'Only one way to find out' she thought and before he got time to think she had stretched up and let her lips lock with his and her tongue play with his own. Horatio pulled her closer and Calleigh could feel his hardness pressing against her under his pants.
Then he broke free and said, "We shouldn't."
"Why not, I know ya want me" she said.
"But still, it's wrong since I'm older than you and people would think I hired you for the wrong reasons if something happened between us" said Horatio thinking 'I really want you right now'.
"Relax handsome, everyone would know you hired me cause I'm the best or else you wouldn't be here in the first place" said Calleigh.
"But I don't think it's a good idea to go any further, so I'll leave you to your work" he said and left her.
Calleigh shook her head confused and went back to work.
When Horatio came back to his hotel room he felt over aroused and confused. All he wanted to do was to go back and nail her against the wall. He had never before felt desire like this towards anyone else. What was it that separated her from the rest? Was it her blonde silky soft hair, her smile, her green eyes, her giggle, her perfect body, oh how he wanted to be all over that body, the way she looked with a gun, the way she talked and the fact that she kissed him first or maybe all of it. All he wanted to do was to hold her in his arms, kiss her soft lips again, even if he knew it probably wasn't right to do so. He sighed frustrated and opened a book and started to read.