Chapter 2

He parked his car next to hers in the apartment parking lot. He got out and followed her to the elevator, she pushed the button for her floor and the lift starting moving.

'So handsome, you like red or white wine?', she asked him, turning to face him,

'hmm, white, I think,' he answered looking into her beautiful green eyes,

'Oh good, me too, I have more white then red,' she smiled, looking back into his deep, sea blue eyes. As the elevator stopped and the doors opened, Horatio offered Calleigh his arm again, she took it and they stepped out of the lift and headed down the hall to her apartment. She let go of his arm again as she took out her keys and unlocked the door, she flicked the lights on and tossed her bag onto a nearby side table,

'Make yourself at home, I'll bring the wine through in a sec,' she told Horatio, 'Put the TV on if you like,' she called through from the kitchen.

Horatio removed his jacket and hung it up by the door, he noticed how tidy and organised her apartment was, just like Calleigh to want to be in control and he smiled. He walked over to the sofa, sat down and turned the TV on. He was flicking through when she came in with two glasses and a bottle of white wine which she placed on the table in front of the sofa and sat down.

She then poured two glasses of wine, one for Horatio, the other for herself, and handed him the glass,

'Anything good on?' she asked, nodding towards the TV,

'Not really,' He replied,

'I've got some films over there,' she nodded towards a rack of DVD's, 'Go pick out a good film,' she smiled at him, enjoying asking him to do something,

'Sure, what do you feel like, action, romance, comedy,'

'Hmm, action I think,' she smiled,

'ok, me too,' he smiled and agreed, she smiled back, he placed his glass on the table and walked over to the DVD rack to pick out a film, he chose one that looked like it had a lot of action in it, there were guns and fire all over the front cover. He took it back and put it on,

'What is it?' Calleigh asked,

'I don't know,' he replied sitting back down and picking his glass up, 'It's got guns and fire on the cover, looks like an action film,' he shrugged, Calleigh giggled at his method of choosing what film to put on, then said,

'Ok, guns and fire, sounds good,'

Three hours later the film finished and Calleigh and Horatio were cuddled up on the sofa, turns out it was a soppy film as well as an action, and Calleigh curled up to Horatio, who wrapped her in his arms to make her feel better, smiling at her getting emotional over a film.

When it had finished they realised how late it was an Horatio said he should probably get going,

'Are you sure, How much have you had to drink?' Calleigh asked him,

'I don't know but I'll be fine,' he replied, he couldn't remember how much he'd had to drink, he hadn't been paying attention, he wasn't drunk but he wasn't sure if he was over the limit, neither was Calleigh and she wasn't about to let him walk out of there and get behind the wheel of his car not knowing if he'd had too much to drink or not.

'Horatio, I think you should stay here, It's late, and I don't know how much you've drunk,' she said, concerned

'I'm not drunk,' he replied, trying to reassure her,

'I know, but are you over the legal limit?', she asked, still concerned,

'I don't know,' Horatio tried to remember how much he'd drunk, he looked at the bottle on the table, they were three quarters through the second bottle, then back at Calleigh,

'Probably,', he answered, she followed his gaze to the bottles on the table, and replied,

'Right ok, you're sleeping on the sofa,' before he could answer and say he'd get a taxi she'd disappeared to get blankets and a pillow for him.

He just stood with his hands on his hips, eyes down, smiling at how she was again in control and took it upon her self to take care of him.

She came back with an arm full of blankets, a couple of pillows, and a shirt her brother had left there when he came to stay, she handed him the shirt, and apologised that she had no men's shorts or trousers for him, he said it was ok, and headed for the bathroom.

When he came back she had made a bed on the sofa for him, she'd spread a sheet out, put pillows at one end, and a blanket was folded down at the other end so it could just be pulled up when he got in. She stood up as he came in and noticed he was only in a shirt and boxers, her heart started to race and she blushed slightly, she looked away so that hopefully he wouldn't see her blush, but it was too late he'd already caught her looking.

She finished smoothing down his covers then went to her own room to get ready for bed saying good night as she passed him but trying not to catch his eye.

'Goodnight Calleigh,' he replied, in a tone that made her heart beat faster.