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Summary: The last five years have been hard. She felt like everything was going wrong, but when you have two small children you learn they come first and that your needs should be pushed aside.

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The Transient

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Two figures sat backs to the road looking out towards the skyline of where the hummer they had been riding in had sunk. Both were extremely wet, hair drenched and cloths ruined. "I wish I had something to help you with this." Ben turned looking at her his hand holding the side of her face, his thumb lightly grazing under the large cut that was on her forehead.

Calleigh looked at him, her eyes were either filled with tears or had mucky swamp water on her face still neither of them could tell. "You saved my life Ben…You pulled me out of the water…I just, I wish I could figure out why that happened…running police off. Roads the way it happened…it's not what a group of druggies and drug dealers would be doing." Calleigh smiled at Ben not as vibrant as it usually would be, but none the less beautiful. "Your contacts off your eye. It looks like you have half blue and brown eye." She laughed.

"Huh?" Ben blinked it obvious he finally noticed what she was talking about. "I was wondering why there was a bluefish haze."

She turned her head back to the water and both looked off in silence. Calleigh laid her head against Ben's shoulder. All the two of them could do now was wait for the backup he head called only fifth-teen minutes ago.

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"How is she doing?" asked Horatio as he watched one his close friends and prize ballistics annalist. Calleigh sat in the hummer he pulled up in quiet looking off into space.

"She hasn't spoken a whole lot, but I don't blame her." Ben sighed fettling with his contacts again in one of the side mirrors of a patrol car that had come on scene. "This wasn't an attack by the guys from the drug bust we both know that…it was to well planned out."

Horatio nodded. "Is she ready to be processed?"

"That's not up too me that's up too her." Ben stated.

"Why don't you when we finish the scene because you two cant work it, why don't you take her home? You have something's your going to want to talk to her about I am sure."

"I don't think now is the right time. She will just become angry with me, H." Ben stated in a whisper.

"And, keeping it from her will just make it worse, it has been a while now. You said the two of you were having feelings for one another I think its time for you too tell her the truth before it backfires on you." Horatio stated he placed his sunglasses back on the brim of his nose and walked over too Calleigh with Ben.

"So, how are feeling towards being processed right now?" He stood beside her so that Alexx could come up and get a good look at her. "This is new. Alexx you should be at another crime scene."

"Yes well. My living friends come first when I hear a distress call over the radio." She began to examine Calleigh.

As Alexx began to examine her Calleigh looked over towards Horatio. "I can handle it." She let out a breath for Alexx then continued. "I was driving along talking to Ben when something got the left front tire, so I would have Eric look for anything fishy there. Then because I was trying to keep the car steady I didn't see the truck coming for us till it was too late."

Horatio nodded waiting quietly till Alexx finished making sure their close friend was alight and let Wolfe begin to process her.

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"I have cases here I put off I can't just let them sit here because you want me to go home." Protested Calleigh as Ben helped her exit the hummer she was now finally starting to get dizzy from her mild head trauma.

"Someone else can fill in for you Calleigh. You need your rest, you have had a eventful day." Horatio looked and with the tone in his voice it was useless for her too fight back. "Ben can take you back. He cant work on either case now."

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Calleigh car pulled into her driveway as it always did only this time she was in the passengers seat. The booster seat that sat in the middle and the seat behind the front passenger seat were filled as well. "I'm just saying, maybe a nice family thing is in order for you guys." Ben smiled looking in the back through the rearview mirror. He could see Emma giving Calleigh big grin and he smiles back to himself.

"Your putting me in a corner you know that right." Calleigh whispered through her teeth.

"Oh I know." He smiled again still looking in the mirror. "You were just forced to take a few of your vacation days." Ben turned looking at her. "Meaning you have a four day weekend. Abuse it and take those to beach for the weekend or something." He smiled again knowing he was just backing her more into a corner so she would have to do it.

Calleigh stayed quiet. "I guess we could take a weekend at the beach house." She turned looking at her kids. "But it would be awful lonely there in that big beach house we share you aunt Leigh-Anne and her family."

"Can Ben come with us!" yelled Emma excited from her seat still buckled in.

Calleigh laughed. "I meant one of your friends sweetheart."

"Ben is our friend mom…." Answered Danny looking up at his Mother.

She turned to Ben now shaking her head softly. "Would you like to go to the beach with us this weekend? If you aren't working?"

"I would love too, and no I am not working you were there I cant do anything till the case we are witnesses is over with." He opened the car door along with Calleigh and helped her get Emma out of her seat. "I can call Delko to pick me up. Don't worry about it get in there and be with your kids." He smiled at Danny and Emma.

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