Chapter 2
Meanwhile back at the lab Ryan and Eric are sitting one of the lab tables racking their brains trying to figure what to get Calleigh and Natalia. With them are their friends Horatio, Walter, and Tom. That are trying to help out.
"I got it Calleigh is always late for stuff what if I get her an alarm clock," Ryan said.
"So you want her to leave you," Walter replied.
"What if I Natalia a cookbook," Eric says looking at his friends, "she cooks almost everyday get her a book to help."
"I got my wife a cookbook when we first got married," Tom said making Eric smile, "she yelled at me and wouldn't cook for me for almost a year."
Eric put his head in his hands and started thinking again. He thought for about 5 minutes before his next idea popped into his head.
"What about for rug for her to stand on in kitchen when she does dishes" Eric said again thinking he had a brilliant idea.
"No, because when you will get the women are not servants speech," Walter said looking as if he was remembering a time that it happened to him.
Ryan looks down at his phone as it starts to ring. He puts the phone back into his pcket letting the answering machine get.
"Who was that," Horatio asked Ryan.
"Calleigh." Ryan replied
"Oh yeah how did the two of you manage to meet up with us without the girls getting suspicious," Walter asked
"We told them they Horatio needed help with a case."
"I wish I knew what Natalia got me for Christmas that would this a whole lot easier," Eric said still drawing a blank in his mind.
"This is funny," Walter said with a laugh, "you two are CSI, you can find a murder with next to nothing but you can't find gifts for your girls."
"Getting inside of a woman's head is much harder than solving a murder," Ryan said.
"Yeah but Walter is right we are CSI we could figure out what the girls got us ,and then we could find something equally as good for them," Eric said with a smile.
This idea made Ryan smile finally they came up with a sure fire way to get the perfect gifts for their girls.
"I like it lets do it."
"We would be happy to help if need any, right fellas," Horatio said looking around at the men.
"Yeah," all men replied with pride.
About 1 hour later Eric arrived at his home. He opened the door dropping his bag by the coat rack. He looked into the den where he Natalia sat on the couch watching TV and in the corner of the room the Christmas tree they decorated a few days earlier. He walked to Natalia kissing her on the forehead before sitting next to her, and that is when he saw it her present to him under the tree.
"Hey, how is the case going," Natalia said kissing Eric on the cheek before looking to the kitchen to get him some food.
"I can honestly say this is one of the hardest cases I have dealt with," Eric said to her still look at the present in the red and green wrapped box under the tree.
