copied and pasted .. Deborah Riley
2009-04-02 . chapter 24 --here it is almost 4 years later and there is no update. What is going on. Please update Thank you.
Deb
omg, I'm really sorry, I completely forgot about this story, heres the updates, i hope u like them, please Enjoy, xx
Chapter 25
The next morning at work he told the guys to come round his and Calleigh's place later for dinner, he explained that it was so Calleigh could meet Adriana and they thought they might as well invite them all round, they all agreed and Horatio phoned Calleigh to let her know. Horatio worked with Adriana on an assignment that day, and Eric with Speed.
Horatio and Adriana are at a crime scene. Eric and Speed are working their case at the lab.
'Lieutenant?', Adriana said,
'Oh, please, call me H, no one calls me Lieutenant unless I'm in trouble', he chuckled, Adriana chuckled too,
'ok, H',
'yeah?'
'Is Speed..um..seeing anyone?', she asked shyly, Horatio smiled,
'I don't think so, why?, you like him?', Adriana didn't know why, but she felt she could trust H and told him truthfully,
'Yeah, he's nice, he's friendly, polite and good looking', she blushed after she said that,
'hey it's ok, Speed's a nice guy, he'll treat you right',
'really?', she smiled, Horatio nodded,
'Speed's a good guy, I'll have Cal sit you next to him tonight if you like?', she looked up from what she was doing, and went all shy,
'I don't know H, what if he doesn't think of me like that?', she asked nervously, doubting that he would want her,
'I'll have him pick you up for tonight', she looked shocked and worried, her eyes went wide,
'wh-what?, n-no, I can't, no, he'll know, H', she pleaded,
'Don't worry, he wont suspect a thing, I promise, you don't know the way to were I live, and you're new to Miami, its perfectly innocent request to ask him to pick you up, and Eric is probably picking up Valera so he couldn't', Horatio winked, 'Trust me', she sighed, but relaxed a little.
After shift Horatio caught up with Speed and asked him to pick Adriana up and bring her,
'Sure H', Speed smiled to himself, he had to go pick up Adriana, he got to spend more time with her without the others, of course he would go pick her up. Horatio also smiled to himself as he walked out towards his hummer to head home, he had told everyone to be there for seven like Calleigh had told him to. Speed caught up with Adriana as she was getting in her car,
'Hey', he called,
'Hey Speed', she replied,
'H asked me to pick you up later and take you to his, we have to be there for seven, so I'll pick you up at six thirty?',
'Sure', Speed smiled and turned to walk away,
'Speed', she called after him,
'yeah?',
'don't you need my address?', she asked grinning,
'uh, yeah', he answered sheepishly, she giggled and he chuckled, she scribbled it down on a notepad, ripped it out and gave it him,
'here, six thirty', she smiled and started her engine, Speed watched as she pulled away and couldn't wait for six thirty.
Horatio arrived home with a big smile on his face, he was greeted by Calleigh with a kiss and then
'What have you done?', she asked, knowing he was up to something,
'Nothing dear', he told her and headed for the kitchen, 'something smells good',
'Don't change the subject, what did you do?', she persisted, Horatio turned around still smiling,
'Adriana told me she likes Speed, so I had him pick her up for tonight',
'you what!', Calleigh exclaimed, 'H',
'and, I said I'd get you to sit her next to him', he kissed her again,
'H',
'Don't worry Calleigh, you should have seen how excited Speed was when I asked him to pick her up, he tried to hide it, but it was written all over his face', Horatio told her, 'now, I'm going to get changed, they'll all be here for seven, ok?',
'yeah, dinner will be ready for about seven thirty',
'great, can't wait I'm starving', Calleigh chuckled as he left the room to go upstairs and change. Twenty minutes later he was down and helping Calleigh while Joseph watched TV.