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Caution: Pure fluff ahead!
The Hiccup Conspiracy
"Hic! Hic!"
'What on earth?' Eric Delko thought looking around the lab. He stood up from the layout table and went to investigate the source of the strange sound.
"Hic! Hic!"
Eric finally tracked the sound to the ballistics lab where he found a very flustered Calleigh Duquesne. "Cal," he started to ask, "have you...", but he was cut short when she turned to face him and he discovered the source of the noise.
"Have I..Hic!...what?" she asked, a giant hiccup cutting her off.
"Never mind," he said with a smile, stepping further into lab, "Are you alright?"
"No I'm not...Hic!..okay." she said, sounding very irritated, "These blasted hiccups are...Hic!.. making it really hard to fire in a...Hic!...straight line!"
"Have you tried holding your breath?" Eric suggested.
"Yes, and just about every other...Hic!...remedy I can think of." Calleigh said, "It's just no...Hic!..use!"
"Hmmm," said Eric, rubbing his throat as he thought for a moment.
Suddenly Calleigh's hiccups stopped all together. "Wow," Calleigh said, "that was really weird."
"What was weird?" Eric asked, confused.
"You rubbed your throat and my hiccups stopped," Calleigh explained with a smile.
"Maybe I'm magic!" Eric teased with a grin.
"Oh please!" Calleigh said, rolling her eyes, "It was just a coincidence."
"Come on," Eric said, teasing her a little more, "you know it was my charming personality that stopped you hiccups."
"Gag me!" Calleigh smiled, sticking her finger down her throat to enforce the expression. As she did so Eric gagged for real.
"Why did you gag?" Calleigh asked, laughing at her co-worker, "It was just an expression."
"I know," he said, looking confused, "I was fine until you put your finger in your mouth. Maybe you have some sort of hold on me."
"Yeah right," Calleigh said, turning back to her guns, "It was just another weird coincidence."
"No seriously Calleigh," he said, leaning over the counter, "What if you can control my gag reflex, and I can control your hiccups?"
"I think you've been reading one too many of Alexx's medical mysteries books." Calleigh said with a smile.
"Well we're scientists," Eric said with a mischievous look on his face, "what do you say we conduct a little experiment to prove my theory."
Calleigh thought about it for a moment and then said, "Alright you're on, but I'm only doing this to prove that it was just a coincidence."
"Okay then," Eric said, perching himself on a stool opposite Calleigh, "Put your finger down your throat just like you did a minute ago." Calleigh did so and again Eric gagged. "See!" Eric said gleefully, "I told you it's not a coincidence."
"You saw me put my finger down my throat," Calleigh argued, "You could have faked a gag to prove your point."
"Alright then," he said, "This time I'll turn my back to you and prove that I'm not faking it." He turned his back on Calleigh and they repeated the experiment. The exact moment that Calleigh put her finger in her mouth Eric gagged. They repeated the experiment over and over again, from different places in the room, but they got the same results time after time.
"Wow," Calleigh said, after a long while "I think you might be right in this case, but what about my hiccups that you so "miraculously" cured?"
"Well," Eric said crawling out front under the counter where he had been sitting during their latest test, "Let's test it. What was I doing exactly when your hiccups stopped?"
"You were rubbing your adam's apple." Calleigh said looking at Eric like he'd lost his mind.
"Like this?" he asked rubbing his throat. The instant his hand touched his adam's apple, Calleigh's hiccups came back. They both just stood there for a moment looking at each other.
"Make them...Hic!...stop!" Calleigh pleaded. Eric rubbed his throat again and the hiccups ceased instantly.
"That is without a doubt the weirdest thing I've ever seen!" Eric said laughing.
"I'd have to agree," Calleigh said, giggling at the stupidity of it all, "But let's test it some more, just to make sure we aren't totally making it up." A half an hour later both Calleigh and Eric were throughly convinced that they had some sort of connection, bizarre as it was.
A/N: Oddly enough my sister and her guy friend have this exact connection. I got the idea from them.
