A/N: Wow, okay, so I had no idea this was the first Calleigh x Cooper fic on here. I'm trying to write stories including more random ships and I thought that Cooper and Calleigh wasn't a bad idea. So here it is! (With Altered events for 6.16 ("All In")

Story Notes: "This isn't you." | Set around Season 6, post 6x15.

Pairing: Calleigh/Cooper

DUQUESNEDUQUESNEDUQUESNE

She couldn't hate him. He could put the most hateful things on that website and make her look the fool all he wanted.. she still wouldn't allow herself to. If there was anything she had learnt from her conversation with him beforehand, it had been that he was just so angry and decided to take it out on her as she was the one who made him lose his job. Not purposely. She knew he knew that. But he needed someone to push his emotions towards and unfortunately, he'd done it to Calleigh.

Dan had only been miserable and despondent since he'd been fired. Sure, he had a new job that paid a slight better salary and had better work hours but that wouldn't changed the things had that had already happened. Not only had he lost all his colleagues as friends, he also lost Calleigh. And she was the one that had done her best to fight for him. This returning of the favour was awful. Not even worthy of forgiveness from someone as perfect as her.

That night, he'd taken down everything on the website. He'd blocked all the intimate information he had added to it and discarded of it all. The confrontation had given him an awfully massive change of heart. He couldn't keep blaming everybody else but himself for his mistakes. Dan had to own up to his wrong-doing and make it up to Calleigh. If only he knew how to do that.

Cooper sat at his desk, settling down a bottle of whiskey at his side as he added in Calleigh's email address and began writing an e-mail with the words that were really spoken with his heart, instead of the icy and villainous ones he'd used before.

'Calleigh,

What I did was wrong and I know that now. You were right. That wasn't me at all. My anger had gotten the best of me and I didn't take responsibility for the things I had caused in the first place and I wanted to tell you that I'm truly sorry for everything I've done. I sent you your original memory card with all the photos on via mail to the lab. It's probably too late now but I felt it was only right to make it up to you properly.

I honestly don't expect you to forgive me for it at all and it doesn't bother me. You didn't deserve any of the trouble I gave you. Not in the slightest. I know you've got a thing going on with Delko now and I'm happy for you.

Bye for now - Cooper.'

When Calleigh received the e-mail, she'd been at a loss for words. She checked the link to the website and it said that it had been blocked and deleted. The blonde was somewhat filled with solace knowing that he had listened to what she had told him when she talked to him about it. Calleigh had recognized the unfamiliarity in his behavior and was sure that behind the monstrous attitude he had portrayed was a sense of guilt that had been eating away at him.

Dan was so much more than that. He was a great guy and doing something as vile as that wouldn't make the pain go away, even if he hoped it would. There had been a time where Duquesne had been very into Cooper. They would flirt on occasion and sometimes go out together. Talk about crappy relationships and complain about work. That was the Dan Cooper she had known. And it was the one she wanted back.

If they'd given it a little longer, and he hadn't made the website, maybe they would've had a chance. But when he was fired, Calleigh was yet to really make sense of what would happen to this good thing they had going. Until the things he'd done that had completely broken her heart.

Calleigh always felt like she'd never had the closure she needed from him about their relationship. She had a few moments with Eric, however, there was always something missing there. And she'd taken notice of how close he was to Maxine. A bit too close. They'd cleared up that there was nothing going on between them anymore and the Cuban had gone on to pursue the redhead while she was still wondering about Dan.

So the next day, right after work, Calleigh drove to Cooper's place with one thing on her mind. Clarity. She got out of her car and made her way over to door. This time, she wasn't aggressively storming towards it in outrage or hurt. She was going up to it with hope. Hope she'd hear what she needed to hear from him. Like what he'd said in the e-mail.

The blonde lifted her hand to knock.. but paused. Calleigh's head was disagreeing with her heart on this. Her conscience was telling her that she should give it a bit longer while her heart just wants that conversation with Dan. After a long two minute debate with herself, she went right ahead and knocked on the door.

Duquesne pursed her lips, anxiously waiting to see what would happen. And to her surprise - the door opened to reveal her almost lover, dressed slightly more formally than usual. "Hey Calleigh." "Hey Dan.. can we talk?" Cooper took a deep breathe. He was so set on saying that it wasn't the best time to, and yet his verbal answer was the exact opposite. "Sure."

Calleigh entered his house and Dan closed the door, then following her as she made her way up to elevated floor, staring out of the window at the moonlit night sky. "What caused you to take down the website?" She questioned him quietly. Cooper stepped up to where she was standing, towering over her with his bottle of whiskey. "My feelings for you, Calleigh. I realised just how much I jeopardized what we could've been by letting my emotions get the best of me.." He sounded regretful in his tone of voice. The CSI could tell this was genuinely how he felt.

"..Do you still have feelings for me?"

"There was never a point where I didn't." Cooper responded, taking a long sip of the alcohol in his hand.

It was hard to not forgive him in his sincere apology. It really was. Calleigh had to allow herself to fully trust him again before she could just say that it was ok. He knew that. "I still really like you.. and I want to be able to give you another chance," She took the whiskey from his hand and drank some. "..but it will require a little bit of time, first. Are you willing to wait?"

Cooper wanted to be with her more than anything else. Her giving him another chance was by far the most miraculous thing that had happened to him in a long time. "I'll wait. It's worth it. And I know that for sure now." Calleigh nodded, putting the bottle on the desk and turning to him.

"That's all I wanted to hear." She whispered, planting a soft kiss on his cheek.

She'd gotten that closure she'd been so hopeful for. If he was really willing to give it time, and then end up together.. then she was happy. The taking down of the website and the apology had been the biggest part of it all. In time, they would make their way back to what they had and maybe even a proper relationship. All it took was a change of heart, and the heart would begin to mend itself again.