Authors note: Thanks to Bola for making me come up with an idea for this carwash story :o)
DISCALIMER: I don't own CSI:Miami and i don't make any money from it.
SUMMARY: Horatio told them to have the cars clean by the next morning. A Carwash story.
CarWash
Calleigh was sitting in firearms thinking. Thinking, that was something had been going on a lot with her lately. She had been mostly thinking about love, life and work, but also other aspects of her life. She silently sighed as she noted down a few lines on the paper in front of her before looking at the time.
4.30 PM and way past her hours of work, but she was not in a hurry. Not today, nor the days before it as she looked at the piles and piles of papers on her desk.
Mostly they were old files, but some new, the old she had just taken back up, because. Because she didn't quite know, to have more to do she assumed, to keep her mind busy and see if she could find some new clues.
"Busy," there was a thought, that was what she always did when she was troubling and that was now as her Eric was still in a coma at the hospital.
"Her Eric," she thought, he was hers, yet she shook her head, there was something that was feeling wrong about it, yet she couldn't figure out what as she heard Ryan say, "Disagreeing with your self that is always a good thing."
"Very funny," she said rolling her eyes looking at him.
"Sorry, do you have the results on the Masterson case?" he asked polite.
"A moment," she said, looking through a pile of papers before finding it for him.
"Thank you, so did you hear about the cars?" he asked her.
"The cars," she said confused.
"Yes, the Hummer's, apparently Horatio want them all to be washed," he said.
"Sorry what, why?" she said even more confused as it was regular to just run them through the machine.
"Because of the mud incident the other day, three of them are almost covered and the inside in all cars are according to him too messy," he said with a sigh.
"And who's fault is that?" she asked raising her brows at him.
"Hey, I'm not the only one messing inside the cars, so wanna help me with it after I put this in the case file," he said hopefully.
"Oh no, I'm not washing cars," she said shaking her head violently.
"Please, he said to have it done by tomorrow and it goes way faster if we are two," he argued.
"OK, OK, just let me finish up her and I'll meet you in the garage in twenty," she gave in thinking that even washing cars was better than being home alone.
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It was twenty minutes later and the two CSI's stood looking at the three very dirty cars with a bucket of water and some and some sponges. Neither of them was really dressed for the job, she was wearing a pair of black dress pants and a white blouse and he to a change a grey suit as he had been in court earlier that day, neither of them wanting to do it, but knowing they had no choice as it was after all half their fault and Horatio's order.
"So if we take one car each on the outside and the last one together and the insides," he said.
"Sounds like a plan, she said and headed for the car to the far left while he took the one on the right and started on it.
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It was about little over an hour after this that Ryan where watching Calleigh was instead of doing to much him self as he was almost done with his car.
Her blouse was not as white anymore, in fact neither was her pants, it was a mix of soap water and mud that was starting to cover her as she was finishing up the hood of the car.
In fact her white blouse or what used to be was no a tad see through which he didn't mind at all. He smiled a little by this as she bent to read higher up on the hood which made him see her breasts a little better.
Ryan couldn't help, but starting to feel a little turned on by it, she was after all an attractive woman and he was after all a man.
Calleigh that at this point was done got aware of Ryan looking at her almost drowling, and she couldn't help but smile a little by this, it wasn't the first time a guy did that and usually she would have tell them to go a certain place, but this was after all Ryan so she really didn't mind all to much. Yet she figured she could have a bit of fun with him.
She slowly turned towards him saying, "What do you think you are looking at?"
"Uhm, nothing," he stuttered.
"I do suggest you keep your eyes to your self," she said in an annoyed tone.
"I'm sorry," he said and looked away when she suddenly said, "Ryan," and threw her wet sponge at him so it ended up hitting him in the neck.
Ryan gasped in surprise turning to look at him as the wet sponge fell to the floor as he said, "I'll get you back for that."
She just rolled her eyes lightly giggling happily before getting hit in the face by another wet sponge. And just like that they had started a sponge war.
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It took them quite some time to in fact end the war and get started on the third car, he on one side, she on the other, but pretty soon they were both looking at each other through the door instead and getting into the car, she in front and him in the back throwing out this and that that had been left there.
They did the same with the other two cars and pretty soon they had a pile of both trash and stuff people had left. They could of course not resist go look through it.
Ryan held up a CD that was burned and asked, "Yours?"
"No idea, put it in the player," she said with a giggle, which he quickly did and tunes of ABBA started to fill the garage as Calleigh excitedly exclaimed, "My gun manual, I have been looking all over for this."
"Ohhh someone left porn," said Ryan holding up an old Playboy magazine.
Calleigh wrinkled her nose and said, "Lab tech or you?"
"Not my taste, maybe Eric," he said.
"He don't read that stuff," she said a bit to quick as she never discovered that at home, before going silent.
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have," he said.
"No, its ok, it's not your fault," she said with a sigh.
"Can I ask you a question?" he asked.
"Sure," she said.
"Are you happy with him?" he asked.
"Why do you ask?" she answered.
"I dunno, it's just you two are kind of different, I would have pictured you more with someone like Jake, he seems a bit more like you in a way than Eric does," he answered.
"He's a good guy and he does really love me," she answered.
"Yes, but do you love him?" he asked.
"I, I, I don't know, I was sure I did, at least until the accident, now I just feel so alone," she said with a sigh.
"I can understand what that is like, and it's really a shame," he said.
"What is?" she asked.
"That a pretty woman like your self should feel alone," he said.
She blushed shyly and said, "Why thank you."
He nodded and before he really knew what he was doing he had bent over to kiss he, but she didn't back away like she should have she pulled him closer and let it go deeper and continued to kiss him softly moaning into his mouth wanting more, needing more, needing closeness.
Ryan lay her down on the cold wet floor of the garage still kissing her before he suddenly stopped just caressing her cheek looking into her green debts while he whispered, "You're just so beautiful."
She was just about to answer when her phone rang, she a bit awkwardly managed to get it out of her pocket to answer, to her it for some reason didn't occur to her to ask him to remove himself from on top of her.
As she talked to whomever it was he could see her facial expressions changed from surprised, to worried to happy before she hung up and said, "It's Eric, he has… woken up."
Ryan nodded and got of her and she said, "I'll be back shortly so we can continue where we left of."
As she got into her car he was a little uncertain if she was talking about them or washing the cars. He just sighed and went to find a vacuum cleaner to vacuum inside the cars.
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When Calleigh parked in the garage a couple of hours later she could see that Ryan had started to polish one of the cars. He had taken of his jacket and shirt, most likely so they could dry of, so now he was standing there half naked.
Calleigh couldn't help but smile a little, now it was her time to drawl, she never before noticed that Ryan was handsome. But now all of a sudden she could see something she hadn't seen before.
She slowly locked the door to her car, by doing so Ryan got aware of her and said, "Surly took you long to…. Calleigh are you OK?"
"I'm fine," she said although that was not so as she had just broken up with Eric and was not feeling good at all, but stubborn woman she was she refused to fall apart in front of him.
"I can see that you are not," he said as he cheeks were grimy and she looked very upset.
"Just leave it be, it's nothing," she said.
"You know it doesn't hurt to share every once in a while," he said, gently laying a hand on her arm.
And for once she let her self fall apart, maybe it was that gesture that did it or maybe it was his words, she didn't know, but she let her fall apart and be vulnerable in front of him and he caught her, letting her fell apart in his arms, both sinking down on the ground on the cold concrete floor.
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What did or did not happen in the garage that night is uncertain, but what is certain is that when Horatio came to work the last morning all three cars were clean on the outside and on the inside and Calleigh and Ryan were sleeping inside one of them very much wrapped up in each other. He simply just smiled and shook his head as he knocked on the door to wake them before heading into the crime lab.
Ryan that had been woken up by that knock slowly opened his eyes and looked at the woman next to him. He gently stroke her naked backside and whispered, "Time to wake up beautiful, its morning."
"Mmmm already," she said slowly opening her eyes not knowing at what time they actually fall a sleep.
"I'm afraid so, so did you sleep well?" he asked her.
"Best slept I had in ages, what about you lover boy?" she answered with a giggle.
"I did, so I guess we better get back up before Horatio starts to yell," he said with a sigh.
"Well at least he can't yell about the dirty cars anymore and I can afford to be a little late," she said kissing him.
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