A/N Here's the fluff I promised. Calleigh16, FanFiction has been playing up for me too, sometimes when I go to check reviews or visit someone's profile it won't let me and I have to wait a few minutes before it will work again, if it comes up again I'll see if I can e-mail them or something. Anyway thank you for reading, I hope you like this chapter. X

Chapter 21

Calleigh's little panic earlier worried me, why did she think that I needed to have sex with her to be happy? Because I don't, not that I'm saying I don't want to, but we don't need to. Do we? Was it because she was remembering what all my past relationships were like? Hopefully not, Calleigh herself once said `It's best not to dwell on the past, think about the here and now and aim for the future' So what was it? Oh that's right. Jake. The asshole Jake. He obviously made her believe that the key part to any relationship is sex, and if she doesn't give it she's not giving enough to the relationship. God I hate that man so much. But here I am dwelling on the past, I should be focusing on the here and now, because the here and now is on the way to surprise Calleigh.

"Mi Amor, why are you fidgeting so much?" I asked because she kept knocking the gear stick

"Will you please tell me where we're going?"

"No, it's supposed to be a surprise."

"Can I at least look in the trunk."

"That's part of the surprise."

"Please!"

"When you look at me like that, almost. But we're nearly there now."

"But we're in the middle of nowhere."

"Well I just happen to know a certain nowhere that is quite nice."

"Oh fine! You win, but will you please put your foot on it."

"For you, I'll risk a few points on my license."

"Thank you, I'm getting all excited over here and I might just burst if we don't get there soon."

"Lucky for you we don't have long to wait."

After another five minutes of Calleigh fidgeting and begging me to tell her where we were going, we pulled up. From where the car was parked it looked like a hedge in the middle of nowhere. But behind the hedge, that was a whole new matter. I'd found it when I was working with auto recovery, it had been my little secret for years, I never told a sole about it because it was my spot, it felt wrong letting anyone else in. But not letting Calleigh know, felt just as wrong, like the place was so special that the most special thing in my world should know. It sounded ridiculous but it just felt like I had no choice, once I'd thought of Calleigh and my little spot in the same trail of thought it just had to be done, there was no way I couldn't.

I could tell by the look on her face she was wondering why I'd brought her here, although she'd never say it.

"You'll see why we're here in a minute." I reassured her.

"Ok, I believe you."

"Now I want you to trust me here, just for a second."

"You know I trust you."

"Good."

I reached into the trunk, pulled out a scarf, and started to tie it around her head.

"Eric, what are you doing?"

"Just trust me, I won't let anything hurt you."

"Alright, just don't leave me like this too long."

"I'm just getting the stuff out the trunk then I'll lead you to your destination."

I grabbed out our stuff from the trunk, and the held her hand to gently lead her around the hedge. I quickly placed the blanket and basket on the floor before I went behind her and took of the blindfold.

"Oh... Eric... Wow." She stuttered

"You like it?"

"Love it. It's so beautiful. How did you find it?"

"When I was working auto recovery."

"Wow, how come there's no one here, I thought it'd be busy, it's so beautiful."

"Well I don't think anyone else knows."

"What do you mean no one else knows, surely your Mom, your sisters, your girlfriends."

"Nope."

She turned around to look at me.

"Why?"

"Because this is my special place, it's too special for just anyone to know about."

"Really?"

"Really Cal. I took you here because finally there is someone worthy of sharing this with. I always knew I'd know when I was in love because nobody ever seemed good enough for this place. And when someone was, they would be the one."

"When you say that it makes me so happy, no one has ever really loved me before, and you have loved me more in this week that I ever thought possible. When I was little, I told my best friend I would never fall in love, because love is just a thing of the movies. But you made me realise it's not. Eric I love you, I'm in love with you and I always will be because something this good only ever comes around once."

"And we're going to make the best of once. I will stop at nothing to make sure you're happy."

"Well you've done well so far. I'm more than happy."

"Good."

I picked her up and pressed her lips to mine lightly, but she was having none of it and pushed us both onto the blanket. We rolled around for a while, getting sandy when we went off the side of the blanket. Everything else was long but forgotten, we could be on the middle of a football stadium and we would be none the wiser, because when we were like this the world disappeared, it was Calleigh and I, and that was all that mattered, and that's the way I'd like it to stay.

We stayed, curled up on the blanket for hours. The sun had almost set and the beauty of the place really came alive. The sea was so blue it was like it had been coloured in, the sun reflected off of it and it glistened, the sun made the sand white and gave everything a strange orange shade that just seemed to fit perfectly. Behind us the hedge was emerald green and the berries were ruby red. But nothing about this place was even close to how beautiful Calleigh looked right at this moment.

Her hair almost shone, it was a perfect shade of blonde and you could see the last of the sun's rays bounce of each individual strand. Her eyes were greener than I'd ever seen them before, and they glistened with the reflection of the sight in front of her. Her skin was a beautiful cream colour and it was if her dress was designed purposely to match her skin tone.

"Did I tell you that you look beautiful tonight?"

"You may have said it once or twice before we left." She giggled

"Well I'm going to tell you again. Calleigh, you look so beautiful tonight it's hard to concentrate on anything but you."

"Thank you. You're looking incredibly handsome yourself, you need to wear that shirt more often."

"I might put it in the wash tonight and wear it to work tomorrow."

"Oh gosh no, I do need to be able to concentrate at work."

"Well then you better wear a bin liner to work, no actually you'd still look amazing in that."

Calleigh blushed and I laughed.

We stayed until the sun had completely gone down and it was dark. I would have stayed until the stars were out but we had work tomorrow and we still had to drive home.

"Your little place is amazing you know." She said when we got back in the car

"Our place is amazing." I corrected

"Ok then our place is beautiful."

"Hmm, it doesn't quite hold the same beauty as it did before."

"What do you mean? It's been your special place for years."

"You came along and knocked it off it's high horse. Nothing will ever be as beautiful as you Calleigh."

"I can't even put into words how much I love you Eric Delko."

"And I love you ten times more than that."

"Now that is physically impossible"...