So I know I said ALL my CSI; Miami stories would have Eric && Calleigh together. But I couldnt resist! Tomorrow nights eppy looks SO good and I cant wait so this is my version of what I think might/should happen. This contains; SPOILERS! So if you dont want to know what the jist of the episode is, then dont read this!! I plan to build on the EC relationship a lot in this fanfic, so It's going to be a lot of chapers. I'm sort of starting over with the two of them. So the other fanfics I wrote wont go along with this one like the others have in the past. ;) It's always good to start new and see how their relationship could build. Anyhow, the upcoming chapters will have SPOILERS in them as well. I want to go along with the way the show is going, so from the spoilers that I have read so far, I will be going off of those. I'm sure this will not happen this way in the episode tomorrow night, but again, this is MY take on it. XD Enjoy. xoxox.

Smoke Gets in your CSI's;

Chapter: 1

Officer down;

"So tell me why we're here again?" Ryan asked as he opened the door to one of the soon to be many homes of the daily crimes scenes they had.

Calleigh walked ahead of him and looked around the place, outside the home was beautiful and she could tell that at one time the inside was too. Now it was trashed, the couch flipped over, pictures on the wall distorted and lamps broke. "The neighbors called 911 and said they smelled something rotting." She took her flashlight out and walked a little more into the living room looking around on the floor for evidence of anything. "But that could be anything," she said softly standing to look around.

Ryan sighed and walked further into the house, the kitchen was a mess. "Either someone was angry or this place was robbed. Did the neighbors say anything, that maybe they though the place was broken into?" he said walking back into the living room seeing Calleigh looking up at the ceiling. "What is it?" he asked looking up with her. There was a door, obviously an attic, but there was a print of blood by the handle.

"You see that?" she said softly while putting her flashlight back in her kit and pulled out her gloves. Ryan did the same he pulled his gloves out and pulled a chair over to stand on it. Calleigh stood back as Ryan opened the attic door, as it came down Calleigh grabbed it and put it in place. She examined the print and bit her bottom lip; it was too smudged to be able to get anything from it.

"Is it clear enough?" Ryan asked.

She shook her head and took a cotton swab out as she swabbed the blood from it, "No, but it's a good amount of blood. It'll give us something," she said putting the swab back in the tub and into her kit. She followed behind Ryan as he climbed up the steps; Calleigh looked around the room once more before actually heading up the steps with him. "This place gives me the creeps," she said looking around the attic.

The rotting smell that had been reported was now stronger then ever. It was evident it was coming from up there somewhere. She stood and grabbed her flashlight again looking around the room. "You see anything?" she asked ducking her head under a few of the wood beams that held the house up.

"Calleigh over here!" Ryan shouted getting down on the ground next to a man that was laying face down. He put his fingers to his neck to check his pulse, "call the paramedics."

Calleigh rushed over to Ryan and took her phone out and dialed 911. "This is CSI Duquesne, we need an ambulance at 1947 Grove Ave, please hurry!" she said looking around the room and then back at Ryan as he checked over the guys face.

"He was shot." He pointed to the front of the mans skull and stood looking around the room again for any sign of evidence. Calleigh got down on her knees and looked at the bullet wound in the guys head, telling just from the size of the entrance wound it was a 22.

Calleigh stood on her feet and looked around the area of the attic for any more blood markings or bullets. Anything to help them get closer to finding the killer. "Shit!" She turned her head to see Ryan holding his hand and shaking it some. "Scraped my hand against a nail," he said trying to put pressure on the wound to make the sting go away.

She watched him and chuckled lightly, "you gotta be careful in -," she paused when she heard a noise come from downstairs, "what was that?" she asked softly a little startled.

"Probably back up?"

She stood there for a moment and listened for any further noise before shaking her head a little, "they would have ID'd themselves." She looked over at Ryan then jumped slightly at the sound of a heavy door closing. The attic door they came through closed quickly and locked and not a moment later a gun shot was fired through the ceiling. Both Ryan and Calleigh pulled out their guns and pointed them in the direction the fire was shot. They both shot a few rounds seeing the shot holes in the ceiling coming closer to the corner where they were.

Then silent's.

"You think we got them?" Calleigh asked her breathing becoming heavier now.

Beep, Beep, Beep.

"What is that?" Ryan asked holding his gun still firmly in his hand.

"I don't know? But I don't like it," Calleigh said with her gun still pointed ahead of her to the ground.

Boom!

The whole attic was rattled the moment the explosion sound was made, dust flying everywhere, both Ryan and Calleigh were sent back on their asses. The roof rumbled and the walls shook. Calleigh held onto one of the wooden beams to keep herself steady. "What was that?" Ryan shouted trying to get himself to his feet.

Calleigh looked around the beam and saw a cloud of smoke and red flames ignite from downstairs and up through the ceiling. "Fire!" she shouted back.

Ryan stood finally and got to a tiny ventilation window, "the heats coming from the kitchen!" he shouted back pounding his fist through the small window to try and get some air and a possible escape.

Calleigh could feel her lungs burn, it felt like hot venom was poured into her body at that moment. She coughed hard trying to cover her mouth so no more smoke would get into her system. She crawled a little ways and saw some single weights. She grabbed one of the weight bars and started to pound it into the ceiling, "I'm going through the floor!" she shouted through her many coughs.

"I cant get this window open!" Ryan shouted as he pounded his fists hard through it breaking some of the wood apart.

Calleigh used every bit of strength she had in her body to move her arms quickly to break through the floor. She didn't feel right; she felt instantly weak but knew if she wanted to survive she would have to keep herself going. She coughed harder that time feeling her chest burn and ache, "I got it!"

Ryan rushed over next to her and grabbed some of the wood she was pounding at and pulled some of it up. Calleigh continued to pound through the wood floor with the bar weight. She could see the flames rising higher every second. The heat was almost too much to bear. Ryan stood taking one of the metal poles from the floor and pounded it harder into the ground. They finally busted the plaster from the ceiling. "We have to jump!" Ryan shouted taking in a few deep breath's feeling his chest hurting as well.

Calleigh put her hand up to her mouth and coughed hard again watching Ryan jump through the hole they made. She looked around panicked for a moment then looked to see Ryan pulling himself up off the ground, "Come on!" he shouted up to her as she jumped down through the hole herself. In that moment sirens were going off and the front door was being busted down, three firemen rushed in, "there's a man dead up in the attic!" Ryan continued as he stumbled out of the house.

Calleigh was right after him and fell into the grass. Horatio and Eric were rushing up towards the house, "Where's Calleigh?" Eric asked hysterically while looking around the area. He spotted her slender body on the grass laying face down, her back rising and falling as she coughed. "Calleigh!" he shouted rushing over to her side. "We've got an officer down here!" Eric shouted out hearing commotion behind him as he turned her around seeing tears running from her eyes.

"I cant breathe," she whimpered out with a hard cough.

"Its ok, Cal, you're gonna be ok," Eric said pushing some hair from her face and moving back as the EMT's put a breathing mask on her face and lifted her up onto a gurney. Eric held her hand and ran with them to the ambulance as they put her in he could feel his chest tighten. Tears welled up in his eyes, burning and threatening to fall. But they didn't. He had to be strong now. He had to be strong for Calleigh.

I've already started on Chapter; 2. Comments depend on how fast I post it. XD I hope my EC lovers aren't disapointed in me for taking so long to write a new CSI: Miami/EC Fanfic! But I hope you all enjoy Ch. 1 so far. MUCH MORE TO COME!