Chapter 2

Calleigh woke up to the wonderful sensation of soft lips on her bare shoulder. "And good morning to you too, Mr. Delko." She said with a smile while turning her head towards Eric to kiss him. Eric readily responded initializing the first stage of their daily morning ritual. Calleigh drew back as the kiss deepened. She has to be at the Lab earlier than her usual time and if she lets this go on then she would definitely be late.

"I'm sorry babe; I have to be at the lab early today. I still need to finish up my reports for the Davis boy's case yesterday. I don't want to be late."

Eric answered her in between kisses, "So you'd prefer to go to work early than this?" His right hand slowly caressing her rib cage and dangerously making its way upward. Calleigh hastily place her hands on Eric's to stop him. "I'll make it up tonight" as she gave him a quick peck."Promise!" As she got out of bed and on her way to the shower Eric said that he'd go prepare breakfast.

"Umm Eric, can you get me a bowl of oatmeal with brown sugar and apple slices please?"

"That's unusual- what happened to coffee and brown toast?"

"I'm just really hungry." as she closed the shower door. Calleigh is kind of feeling guilty keeping this pregnancy thing from Eric but tonight she will definitely tell him.

After finishing up her breakfast, she rushed to get her purse and car keys. "So I'll see you later at the Lab?"

"Yeah, I'll be there at around 9:30." She then gave him a quick kiss when Eric held her hand. "Have I told you how much I love you?" Hearing those three wonderful words from Eric never fails to melt her heart.

"Everyday...I love you too babe." she countered staring into chocolate brown eyes."I am truly happy that we'd be working together again. I'll catch you later...bye!"

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As they rushed to the house, they saw the woman lying on her kitchen floor surrounded by a pool of blood from an obvious hole in her forehead and her little girl clutching the rag doll close to her chest and saying over and over in between sobs, "Mommy fall down." It was heart wrenching. Crime scenes like this still gets to Calleigh every time. They responded to the scene based on a clue from a puzzle the team pieced together. All of them received an anonymous unmarked envelope with the puzzle pieces inside. Unfortunately, they were unable to make it on time.

The smell of blood was making Calleigh nauseous,"Jesse, can you please finish up here- I am going outside to let Horatio know about these checks." She found some checks issued to Janice Potter, the victim, from the Dade University and had a strong hunch that this might be connected to the case.

"Are you okay Calleigh? You look pale."

"I'm fine. I'll wait for you outside."

For the past week, her olfactory senses are in overdrive; lately her nose has been very sensitive to all sorts of smell. She must really be pregnant because she never felt like this before.

Back at MDPD, Eric met up with Horatio. He still could not figure out how to open up on the matter of coming back to CSI. Horatio informed him of the envelopes each of the CSI received that contained the puzzle pieces that led them to the murder victim.

"Why would they target us"? Eric realized that he actually said "us".

Horatio was too keen not to notice it. "I think I heard an "us" in there."

"Yes that's right...while I was gone; I realized this is where I wanna be."

He can see a smile starting on H's face;"Then I'll have you full time."

Eric felt relief hearing those words from H; "I'm back if you'll have me."

"That's good news! First order of business..." H said as he handed Eric the checks Cal found in Janice Potter's purse, "Let's find out who the soccer mom really works for, okay?" and with a smile H said "Good to have you back."

While they were alone in the elevator Horatio asked him, "Does Calleigh know?"

Eric was a bit taken aback by his question. "Yeah, she knows I wanted to come back and she's all for it. I'll call later to tell her the good news."

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Calleigh was just coming out of the AV Lab with Nat when her phone rang. "Calleigh Duquesne."

"Hi Calleigh! I'm Sylvia – from Dr. Diaz's office."

"Hi Sylvia! I believe you got the results already?"Calleigh heart started to beat faster.

"Yes we do and I'm happy to inform you that you are officially 6 weeks along. Congratulations!"

"Really!" Calleigh suddenly felt like crying;"Thanks!"

"Now, Dr. Diaz wants to see you next month for your prenatal."

"Yeah sure, is it okay if I'll call back later to set an appointment. I need to check my calendar."

"Of course! We'll just wait for your call then. Have a nice day!"

"Oh my God," Calleigh muttered to herself;"I am actually doing this!" She dialled Eric's number right away. She was ecstatic!

"Hey Cal, what's up?"

"So how did it go with Horatio?"

"Oh yeah, sorry I was not able to see you when I was there. Well, looks like CSI Delko's back full time; H was pleased to have me back so he wanted me to start right away. I'm on my way to Dade U to investigate on the checks you found in the vic's purse."

"That's awesome and this certainly calls for a celebration, do you want to go to Alejandro's tonight for dinner then?"

"Yeah, that would be great! I'll call them later to reserve a table for two. Okay, I'm here at the U now. I'll talk to you later."

"Okay, ummm Eric"

"Yes babe?"

"Ummm... I'll just talk to you later. I'm just so happy right now... bye!" She desperately wanted to tell him the good news about her pregnancy but she felt that it would be better to tell him in person.

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This was certainly one of the busiest days the Lab ever had! All of them were scrambling to solve the clues in time to save the victims. Eric and Ryan got to the Dade U faculty pool a little too late to save Neal Brusatti but fortunately Stephen Madsen survived being burned to death because of Walter and Natalia. The CSIs were getting frantic as they were going over Bob Starling's stuff – the last of "the would be" victim for clues that might lead them to the murderer. Ryan found a set of stamps that were identical to the stamps on the envelopes they received that morning. They then realized that the person they were protecting was actually the culprit. Calleigh immediately called Frank and Horatio to inform them of their findings.

"Can you smell that?" Calleigh asked her colleagues as they were at Trace cataloguing all of Brusatti's stuff.

"What Cal- Walter's new cologne?" Ryan said with a smirk on his face.

"I can't smell anything." Jesse said.

Calleigh was feeling nauseous again so she excused herself and headed to the Ladies Room. She washed her face as a lame attempt to stop the nausea she was feeling. She needs to finish her report on the gun used this morning so she headed back to Firearms. As she entered the room she suddenly felt tightness in her chest and was about to get her puffer when suddenly everything went black and she fainted.

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Eric called the restaurant to book a table for tonight. "This will be the night" he thought. He just finished questioning Melissa's trainer at the gym to verify her alibi. As he got in the elevator he got a text message from H telling him they just booked Starling and was on their way back to MDPD. When he reached the Lab, the scene that was unfolding stunned Eric. Everyone in the Lab were all down on the floor. He ran towards Walter who was sprawled just outside Trace, he was unconscious but he could he hear that he was still breathing. Suddenly he remembered Calleigh and dashed to find her. He found her unconscious inside Firearms.

"Calleigh! Calleigh!" Eric could feel panic taking hold of him as he scrambled his way towards her.

He held her in his arms desperately trying to wake her up. "Breathe, breathe! Do you hear me?"

He couldn't hear her breathing at all. "Calleigh! Please,please."

He has never been so scared his whole life. "Oh God, please don't let this happen" he thought to himself.

"Somebody, somebody help!"