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Chapter 10: So.. Are You?

As the weeks went by, Calleigh became a little more confident in her role as Eric's teacher. They both helped one another, which helped the other out more, then they would know. They were putting the past behind them, or at least Calleigh was trying to. She was still having pain from the little prank that Eric had pulled, but it was starting to go away- or at least she felt that it was.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you Eric" Tim told the new guy

"Why? You were the one that told me that she was afraid of these things" Eric continued on with the prank that he wanted to pull on Calleigh

"Yeah, but I didn't know that you were going to use them on her"

"Well she played a prank on me, I'm just doing the same thing back at her" replied Eric "What is the harm in that?"

"She played a HARMLESS trick on you" Tim cried out to Eric "You on the other hand are about the play a HARMFUL trick on her"

"They wont kill you, or her"

"You know what, I had nothing to do with this, if something happens to Calleigh its your head, not mine" was the last thing that Tim told Eric before he left Calleighs' Ballistics Lab

"Their nothing but ants, what is the harm in that" Eric asked himself as he finished getting all the little buggers into the container before he left the lab as well.

Later that day, when Calleigh was looking for her calendar in her drawers, but when she didn't find it, she had to look somewhere else. As she closed one of the drawers on her way to the other desk, it hit the desk with too much force that it opened once more.

Looking into the other desk drawer, Calleigh finally found her monthly planner. Opening it up, she looked through the planner trying to find the little red dot. Not finding one for the previous month, she began to get paranoid, but had to calm down when she figured that she was just late because of stress. As she was putting the planner back in the drawer, she saw a container on the desk and wondered what was in it because last time she checked that was not there.

Grabbing the container by sides, she walked back to the other desk-the one with the drawer that was still opened, and sat on the stool. Trying to figure out what was in the container, she started to shake it-nothing- was all she could hear, so she grabbed the lid and opened it.

A Scream

It could be heard throughout the lab and the halls. Horatio was walking through one and heard it, so he ran to where he heard the scream come from and when he got to Calleigh's lab, he saw her on the floor-holding her right side, which was bleeding and moving to the wall that was on her left.

She let out a scream when she saw the ants come out of the container- those little black things that she hated and was scared of. She threw the lid back on the table and ran to her right-towards the door, but something stopped her. It was the drawer that was still partially opened. She hit it with full force that she cut the side of her hip and to make it worse, she fell to the ground because she couldn't get her footing right in time. She had to move from the table, so she did, she slid her body to her left as she held her side with her left hand.

She couldn't breath and she couldn't see because of her tears. All she thinks about was those little things crawling on her hand before she fell-and she could still feel them. Hearing the door to the lab open, she looked to her right and found Horatio entering.

Leaning on his knee, Horatio made sure that he was eye to eye with Calleigh before he spoke to her so that he wouldn't startle her. He moved some of her blond hair from her face and he could clearly see that she was crying.

"Calleigh" he whispered

"My..My side" she cried "It..hurts"

"Can I see?"

As she nodded, Horatio gently pulled the bloodied portion of her tank up to find that she had a long gash from one side of her hip to the other and that it was bleeding—bleeding puss. He looked back at Calleigh as she bit her lip to stop her crying and to stop from crying out in pain from the way her side hurt.

"I need to wrap this up and put pressure on it before we move" Horatio told her "Where is your kit?"

"I..I don't know" Calleigh whimpered

Eric, Tim and Alexx were in the break room when they heard the scream. Tim looked at Eric with a glare of death before walking out of the room and into the hall. Alexx saw this and then looked at Eric with a questionable look.

"What was that all about and did you hear that scream?"

"Yeah, it was about something that I did to Calleigh" Eric told Alexx "It was a joke"

"What did you do to Calleigh"

"I pulled a prank on her since she pulled one on me" Eric told Alexx, "I put some ants into a container and left them in Calleigh's lab"

"Eric!" Alexx screamed, before she rushed out of the room and went in search of Calleigh- knowing that Horatio would be with her.

Horatio was finally able to find her kit, but not before he found all the ants on her worktable. Looking at Calleigh, he opened the kit to find some tape and gauze pads. He placed the gauze pads on her side and taped them up as best he could. Pushing the kit aside, he grabbed Calleigh's hand and placed it back on her side and told her to put pressure on it-, which she did, but also crying out in pain.

Alexx rushed into the lab as Horatio was lifting Calleigh into his arms. She looked at both of them and then the blood that was on both of their hands. Telling Horatio that they needed to get Calleigh to the hospital as fast as they could, because the blood that she saw was too much and they needed to stop it.

Calleigh on the other hand didn't want to go to the hospital so they came to a compromise. Alexx would do the best that she could for her, but she still needed to go to the hospital after she was done. So Horatio took Calleigh down to autopsy where Alexx cleaned the wound and got as much puss she could out of the wound that she could without causing Calleigh too much pain.

Calleigh couldn't help but cry out when Alexx started to extract the puss from her side. It hurt too much that she had to bite her finger to keep from crying out in pain. Horatio was there with her too, he was holding her once bloodied hand in his now clean one, stroking the outside of her hand when she shut her eyes and bit her finger.

"I'm going to stitch you up" Alexx told Calleigh

Calleigh nodded her reply and waited for the needle to pierce her skin. Before she stitched Calleigh's gash up, she made sure that she numbed it so that the pain would be minimal for Calleigh. Once she was done with the stitches, Alexx told Calleigh what she wanted her to do, what she wanted both Horatio and Calleigh to do.

"I want you to go to the hospital tomorrow and make sure that you didn't get an infection" she told them both as she removed her gloves and threw them in the trash "I want to make sure that you also get an antibiotic to fight off any sort of infection, you hear me"

"I hear you fine" Calleigh breathed out "Right now, all I can feel is my hip"

"Horatio, make sure she goes" Alexx pleaded "Please"

"I will drive her there myself Alexx" he told his friend "Thank you for this"

"No problem, now you take car of that hip, and no excessive work" Alexx told Calleigh, "Or the stitches will rip and you will be in more pain"

"My lab?" Calleigh asked Horatio

"Eric is cleaning it for you"

"I hate those things," Calleigh told the duo

"We know" both Alexx and Horatio said together

"Hey Calleigh" Eric questioned

"Yeah" she asked him

"I wanted to say that I am sorry about what happened a few weeks back" he apologized

"Eric, I told you that you are fine, you are forgiven" she smiled back at him, "No harm, No foul"

"Yeah, but I hurt you"

"Yes, you did, but it sorta helped. I don't have that much pain in the side anymore"

"Well, I still wanted to apologize"

"And you are always going to be forgiven" Calleigh replied back to him, "Well, Listen I have to go, Horatio and I are going out"

"I do have a question," Eric asked

"Shoot"

"Are you and Horatio together?"

"I can't answer that question" Calleigh replied back

"Why?"

"It's not my question to answer" Calleigh told him as she turned from him and walked through the doors of the DNA lab and into the hallway.

"What would you say if I were to tell you that we are now dating?"

"I would tell you that it's about damn time"

TBC!! (Ok, so keep that last two sentences, because there comes a surprise!!)