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Ch. 12

Eric and Calleigh both stared out of the windows of the plane, looking at the tiny figures on the ground. Both just wanted to breathe and relax. Their lives were beginning to feel like an action movie. Eric was trying to figure out what Calleigh had meant when she said, "I sure hope so." Calleigh was humming a random tune, and just imagining what it would be like to have a normal life. A life without an alcoholic father, and people is chasing her across the country. She didn't even know why they were after her, but she really wanted to find out!

"Eric?" she asked quietly.

"Hmm," Eric said when the sound of his lover's voice pulled him out of his thoughts.

"Why are they doing this to us?" Calleigh asked. She knew Eric would know who "they" were.

"Do you remember that gang case that you lead the investigation on?" Eric answered her question with a question.

"Of course,"

"Horatio thinks that the gang is trying to get revenge,"

"Oh, that makes sense, it still doesn't explain why H sent us all over the country," Calleigh said. She hadn't been able to figure that out either.

Eric wasn't sure why H had done that either. He suspected that he wanted to give Eric and Calleigh some "together time," but he wasn't sure so he didn't answer. Instead he said "We haven't talked to H sense we left Miami, we should call him,"

Calleigh agreed and then pulled out her phone, and dialed Horatio's number.

"Hey, H this is Calleigh," She began.

"Is everything OK?" Horatio asked immediately.

"Well…"

"I mean anything new since the incident at the New York airport?"

"You already know about that?" Calleigh asked. It had happened less than an hour ago.

"Of course. That and the incident in Austin caused a media frenzy," Horatio explained.

"Oh, that makes sense, one second," Calleigh said so that she could catch Eric up on the conversation. Once she had given Eric the update she let Horatio know.

"Ms. Duquesne I have a theory as to why the men always know where you are going…" Horatio began. This made Calleigh think, the men always did know where they were going. She had never realized that before…

"We interrogated a member of the gang down here in Miami, and then he got killed. We took his cell phone off of his body, and found that he had been in frequent contact with a certain number. Now I didn't know you were going to go to New York, but they did somehow…" Horatio said.

Calleigh interrupted him then and said," I know and I apologize for that. We were just in so much of a hurry…"

"Don't worry about it Ms. Duquesne, but who did you tell?" Horatio asked.

"Only the plane pilot…"Calleigh said.

"Well then out gang must have a man on that plane. I want you to dial this number, and see which person answers their phone. Who ever picks up is your snick, do what you need. Make sure that you dial the number in a secret place so that our man doesn't catch on. Once you take care of him change your course," Horatio said.

Calleigh gave Eric the number and then told him to wait for her before she dialed it. Calleigh then went off to the bathroom to ask Horatio something else.

When Eric returned he was going to ask her what she told H, but she said, "Ok lets go to the bed," with a wink. She was a genius; nobody would want to follow them up there, or at least nobody that wasn't a pervert.

Once they go up there Eric pulled out his phone, dialed the number Horatio had told him (using *67 to block caller ID,) and then waited. They heard a phone ring on the plane. Eric signaled for Calleigh to stay put, and then he walked outside of the room.

Eric followed the sound of the ringing to the chef's room. Then the ringing stopped and he heard the chef say, "I have the poison in the room, tonight will be there last night of life, so relax…Wait hello? Is anybody there?" The chef had apparently caught on that nobody was on the other line. Before Eric could get caught he slipped back into the room to see Calleigh staring wide-eyed at his phone that sat on the bed next to her.

"It's the chef," Eric said, then he grabbed the phone and put it in his pocket.

"Well…we know to not eat anything," Calleigh said, trying to not show her shock by using humor.

"That is definitely important, but what should we do besides that?" Eric asked.

"I don't know…."

"How about we go down to dinner, ask to speak to the chef, walk in the kitchen…"

"NO Eric, he could use a knife!" Calleigh exclaimed.

"Calleigh it's two against one, we can take him, knife or no knife!"

"I don't want to take the risk…." Calleigh said. This made no sense to Eric, but whatever. He would respect Calleigh's opinion and not do that…

"Ok, how about we go down to dinner, invite the chef to join us, and then pull out a gun and take care of him?" Eric asked.

"No the gun could cause problems for the plane…." Calleigh said.

"Then what do you think we should do?" Eric asked, getting slightly annoyed because she was just rejecting his ideas. But she did have good points though…

"I think we should invite him down to dinner like you said…" Calleigh whispered. Picking up on Eric's frustration, "and then we should accidentally knock his dinner knife off the table just to be safe… then we should knock him out with chloroform, tie him up, and keep him hostage so that we can get information out of him." Calleigh explained.

Eric had to admit, it was the perfect plan, "Calleigh, you are the most amazing per son I have ever met, but I think you've watched to many spy movies…" Eric said.

"I have," Calleigh admitted, "but do you think that my plan will work?" She asked.

"Yes, it should. Now let's get ready. Dinner is in an hour…" Eric said.

Calleigh changed into jeans, a blouse and a vest, to look nice, and not suspicious. Eric wore jeans, and a button down top for the same reason. They walked down to the dinning area of the private jet and saw everyone sitting down eating except for themselves and the chef. The plane was apparently on autopilot.

"Thank you, everyone, so much for all you have done for us," Calleigh said when she took her seat.

"The chef should eat with us too," Eric suggested smoothly when he sat next to Calleigh.

"I've already eaten, you should dig in though" said the chef leaning out of a window from the kitchen.

"We will, but will you sit at the table with us? You shouldn't be all alone…" Calleigh said pointing to an empty chair on the other side of Eric.

"I guess so," the chef said somewhat unwillingly. Then he came down and sat down in the seat Calleigh had pointed out.

Eric reached out to shake the chef's hand and his elbow hit the steak knife that sat on the table in front of the chef. "I'm sor-" Eric began.

But the chef said "No problem," and bent down to pick up the knife. Eric took advantage of the chef's position and got him the chef in a headlock before he could reach the knife. Calleigh got up and chloroformed the chef.

They turned to the rest of the flight crew and Eric simply said "He is a traitor, we have proof. I will do anything to protect her," pointing to Calleigh.

"How can we help?" The pilot said surprising Eric.

"Do you have some rope?" Calleigh said. It was the one thing they lacked.

"In the supply closet. You can hold him there," The pilot answered.

"Ok thanks," Eric said. He noticed that the rest of the crew was absolutely speechless.

Calleigh helped Eric drag the unconscious chef to the supply closet. Then she grabbed his cell phone, it could come in handy later. Plus she didn't want him to call his gang friends. Once they had tied him up, and duct taped his mouth, she said "Eric, what you said back there, about me, it means a lot. Thanks,"

"It is true," Eric said. Then he kissed her, and then he locked the chef inside the supply closet.

After the kiss, Eric and Calleigh walked back to the table, and the rest of the crew. They emptied their plates, and explained about the poison. They then excused themselves.

"Well that was very… interesting," Eric finished lamely.

"I'll say," Calleigh said. But she looked deep in though, so Eric didn't try to make conversation.

Calleigh thought about everything that had happened, and everything that would happen soon. "Eric…" She said.

"Yeah Cal?"

"I love you," She said.

"You already know that I love you," Eric said.

"It's nice to hear though..." she said.

"I love you," Eric said again.

Calleigh leaned in to Eric and gently touched her lips against his, "Thank you," she whispered when she pulled away.

"I'm going to go see if the pilot has anything good to drink," Eric said after a few minutes.

"Get one for me too if he does," Calleigh said.

Eric walked to the pilot's quarters and knocked on the door. The pilot opened the door, and Eric asked for drinks. He was given two beers from the pilot's personal stash "so that he didn't have to worry about poison." Eric said thanks when the pilot told him to close the door and sit down to chat with him.

"Sure," Eric said, but he was curious about what the pilot wanted to say to him.

"What you said earlier, about protecting your girlfriend, that was very… touching. There need to be more men in this world like you in this world,"

"Thank you. But it is the truth, not melodramatic crap," Eric said, not sure if the man was teasing him.

"I know, I could see it in your eyes. You really are in love with her…"

"I am," Eric confirmed. He still couldn't figure out where the conversation was going though.

"She loves you, I can tell. You should make the move," the pilot advised wisely.

"Now is not the time, with everything that is going on" Eric said.

"All of that doesn't matter, now enjoy your beer," The pilot said, opening the door.

"Thank you, for everything," Eric said, then he walked back to Calleigh thinking about what the older, wiser man had told him.

When saw Calleigh he saw her whispering to an elderly flight attendant. When he got within hearing distance he heard the flight attendant say "Nice catch that one, never let him go," Then she left.

"Nice catch am I?" Eric teased Calleigh when the flight attendant left.

"A very nice catch," Calleigh teased him back. He hadn't heard the rest of the conversation though, so she thought that he should know that the flight attendant wasn't like stalking him or anything. "She said that I was lucky to have you, and that she was glad that I was in love. Just like she and her husband,"

"I'm luck to have you," Eric said, completely serious.

"We're both lucky…"Calleigh said. Then continued with, "…. But our luck is beginning to fail with all of these gang guys. We need to change where we are going, like H said."

"You're right, let's go tell the pilot" Eric said. But he hoped the pilot wouldn't embarrass him somehow by mentioning their earlier conversation.

Calleigh lead the way to the pilot's quarters, and knocked on the door.

The pilot opened the door, and didn't seem surprised at all by his visitors. "What do I owe this pleasure to?"

"We want to change our destination, because we think that men are going to be waiting for us in LA. The LA police have already been contacted and will take care of them, but just in case…" Calleigh explained.

"No problem at all, but keep it in the continental U.S. please," The pilot said. Then he shot Eric a look that Calleigh couldn't understand. What on earth had gone on between the pilot and Eric???

Eric watched as the pilot mouthed love to him, and then Eric nodded back in response. He hoped that Calleigh hadn't picked up on their little exchange, but when he looked at her his fears were confirmed. Calleigh's eyes were full of curiosity. Eric wondered how he could explain this to Calleigh, and decided that the embarrassing truth would be the only way. He refused to lie to her…

Calleigh kept her curiosity under control, she would ask Eric later. "I was thinking that we should go to…"

Cliffy, sorry.

I am proud that I wrote such a long (for me) chapter.

I plan on ending the "James Bond" like stuff soon.

But if you like it let me know, and I will adjust accordingly.

James Bond = international spy in a movie.

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