"I was going to buy you white lilies, but these seemed to have more whimsy"

Set pre-series, this is a story of friendship, trust, heartache, and - eventually - love. In other words, it's a take on how Cal Lightman and Gillian Foster came to be "Cal & Gillian." Chapter 83 now posted. Thanks for reading!

What if Cal had never returned from Afghanistan back then? Leaving her on her own, forcing her to go on without him. (AU from 'Secret Santa') Cal/Gillian, drama/angst.

"They're more than the sum of their opening chapters, but he always assumes the ending will break him and so he keeps them middling, keeps them re-reading the same goddamn paragraph over and again." Callian, by way of book writing.

"He can't shake the image of her standing there, pleading, with the tears in her eyes threatening to spill over the way Matheson has been threatening to shoot. They're not empty." Cal and Gillian find comfort and something to hope for. Written as therapy after 2x04.

He likes making bad decisions. Life's more fun that way. Gen, Cal/Gillian, general. My contribution to the Lie To Me #PostSecretChallenge.

"It's the first time Gillian's ever really spoken to her with the rights of a mother publicly chastising her child, patience worn out and control snapping her tone as she reaches for her purse and wears the undeniable colors of 'Mom' in her demanding eyes. It's the first time she's unconsciously worn this expression of infinite love tainted with absolute and utter frustration." Emi

"At the risk of adding 'gambler' to the long list of attributes that most people blamed her dad for, she'd placed a bet with her more jaded self on the day before she'd left." Emily, home for Christmas break... Callian.

"Because he's waiting for her to see whatever it is he's done and he can't help but look like an ashamed child and a smugly proud reprobate at once. Which, really, isn't all that odd a combination when it comes to Lightman." Callian, by way of puzzle pieces.

Tag to 2.04, Honey. My take on the end of the episode and what happened after the door closed. H/C, friendship, UST.

"Sometimes it feels like she's suffocating – like the walls are collapsing on all sides. There's an ache in her chest she isn't brave enough to name, and the sight of that gold band on her fourth finger threatens to make the tears fall again because it's nothing but a perfectly circular lie." One shot, told from Gillian's POV. Cal / Gill, set in season 1.

Seven nights that Cal and Gillian spend together. #LietoMeLives

Emily's coming home for the weekend, and she doesn't tell him til Friday afternoon, so they don't have long to figure this out. Gillian takes her clothes out of the washing pile just in case.

A lifetime's worth of stubbornness can't be changed overnight, but it does have to start somewhere. One shot, set post series. Callian all the way.

The hallways of The Lightman Group are empty. There was no farewell party, no tearful goodbye. The staff simply left and will come back tomorrow. Cal won't.

Sometimes you have to hit the bottom before you can climb back up

Cal Lightman is no saint... but then again, neither is Gillian. Strong T. One-shot.

"I was afraid you were gonna get hurt." - "You were protecting me?" - "Something like that." What if those words meant much more than what we saw on the show? What if there's an untold story that has the potential to change everything between Cal and Gillian?

Gillian and Cal know things about one another. They've been keeping tabs.

There's friendship... there's partnership... and then, there's what Gillian feels for Cal. And sometimes, it scares her. #LieToMeLives (One-shot, Gillian's POV)

One-shot set at the end of 'Exposed'.

Some business trips they took together (her point of view). Cal/Gillian, general/drama/humor.

Short vignettes of events that take place before the start of the series.

Gillian is standing at the precipice of reality and delusion. Can her own senses even be trusted at this point?

"They had to cut him out of the car." She hadn't meant to say it, but the shock she'd felt just moments ago being told the same information hadn't yet converted into any kind of censor.

He finally recognizes that she had been protecting a man she didn't even know. A man who sat in her office and tried to pick her apart, but was looking at all the wrong stitches.

Es war ein frommes Lamm, das er so eifrig beschützte, und er ahnte, dass es irgendwann schiefgehen würde. Weil er nun einmal er war und diese Welt nicht die, die sie sich vielleicht wünschte. Gillian/OC, Cal/Gillian, Drama, keine Spoiler.

AU, just before the end of S1, some S2 influence. This is epic. Their whole lives played out. Together? Apart? Can they overcome the line and make it work? Can Cal learn to switch it off and actually trust someone? Will they last? Chapters Updated 24/2/13

CG. Post Funhouse. It's time to move on...

She searches through her memories of 'childhood experiences' and 'lasting effects' and scans textbooks in her mind. Cal/Gillian, Emily, Zoe, future-fic.

He'd told Torres that he only trusted three people; Two down, one to go.

Just because she was ready to see him, didn’t mean that he was ready to see her. She’d wait." Cal/Gillian AU, post-Honey. Part 2 of 2 up!