Horatio sighed as he climbed out of the tan H2. It had been a hard day's work. He had driven all over Miami just trying to find his younger sister. Of course, she wasn't his biological sister, but they considered themselves siblings. Horatio had received a call from Lena's sister saying that she couldn't find Lena, but didn't want to call the police just yet, and asked Horatio if he could help her. He didn't have a murder case to be working on, so he went out to help find Lena. When he found her, she had been raped and was hiding in a dark corner of an alley crying. Horatio now had a case that he had to work on.
Horatio walked into the lab at six o'clock in the morning the next day to find Calleigh sleeping on the sidewalk next to the lab. "Calleigh? Wake up. What are you doing sleeping out here?" Calleigh jumped when she heard Horatio's voice. "Oh! I'm sorry! I came here late last night and I couldn't find my keys to get inside, and I was so tired, so I thought that I'd just sit down for a second and I guess that I fell asleep. I'll try not to do it again."
"It's okay, Calleigh. Just be extra careful. I don't want anything to happen to you."
"What does that mean, handsome?"
"Last night, my surrogate sister was beaten and raped, and after finding you here this morning, I was worried that something may have happened to you."
"Oh. Sorry, H. I wont do it again." Horatio helped Calleigh stand up. When she was standing, Calleigh found herself very close to Horatio, but instead of the moment being awkward and embarrassing, she found that she liked the feeling of being close to him. She looked up at Horatio, and when he finally noticed how close they were, he took a sudden step back, and turned a deep shade of purple. "Umm… let's go inside and start working on my sisters' case." Calleigh let out a small chuckle. "Okay, handsome. Let's go." Horatio once again turned purple. He had never before let on that he liked Calleigh as more than a friend and co-worker, in fact he had never even noticed these feelings before. Now that he recognized them, he felt like a teenager again, and after that, he became somewhat shy around Calleigh. By the end of the week, Horatio finally stopped blushing. Two weeks later, Horatio had found his sister's rapist, and came to the lab once again at six o'clock, to find Calleigh… asleep.
"Cal. Wake up. Didn't you promise that you weren't going to sleep outside again?"
"Oh, god… I'm sorry, Horatio. I had a, uhh… umm… bad night at home last night, so I came up here. I'm sorry for breaking the promise, but I had to leave. I couldn't stay in my house; I had to get out." Horatio looked worriedly at Calleigh. What had happened that was so bad that she broke her promise to him and came and slept in front of the lab again?