Title: Swim Fan

Summary: EricCalleigh. Despite the title this isn't a story about a stalker. Eric and Calleigh meet up at a pool every day for a week. Secrets are exposed and contact is guaranteed. P R&R pretty please!

Disclaimer: Don't own Eric or Calleigh or Horatio.

Pairing: EricCalleigh

Chapter: 5. Restart

Eric was doing laps. Again. This time he didn't let anything cloud his mind. Not that anything could cloud his mind. His mind was now like a slate wiped clean. Nothing that could distract him from his swimming. At least not in a bad way. There were, of course, the good distractions. Such as her.

Calleigh was sitting at the shallow end, dangling her feet in the water. Once again dressed in her skimpy bikini. Goosebumps were on her arms and legs. When Eric reached the shallow end he stopped and looked up at her. She smiled down at him and then slid into the water to make him, once again, the taller of the two.

"That's better," He said as he looked down on her, "I'm not really used to looking up to you." He grinned at her and she splashed him with some water. This didn't quite work the way that Calleigh had, perhaps, pictured it. That was because of the fact that he was already wet.

"So you're going to teach me huh?" she walked around Eric in a circle and seemed to study him,

"I think that you might be able to stand it," then she leaned in close to whisper in his ear, "But I wouldn't count on it." She finished her circle and ended up in front of him. He raised an eyebrow and said,

"Really?" To this Calleigh nodded so Eric continued,

"Well, we'll just have to find out then won't we?"

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A while later...

Calleigh returned from her 'lap'. Eric had reduced the lap length to only 5 metres. When she surfaced she smiled at him and he smiled back. This warm feeling enveloped his stomach and made his smile more vibrant than usual. They were so close that their breath mingled in the cool air and made condensation clouds.

Eric leaned down and they looked deeply into each others eyes. He was about to lean in further when...

Both of their pagers went off and they separated hastily and went to check their pagers that were sitting together by the pool. Then they looked at each other and said at the same time,

"Shit." They were already late by half an hour. Quickly they both got out of the pool and Calleigh said,

"You take a shower, I'll call and then you can call while I take a shower. Since there's only one shower in the place and all." Calleigh avoided Eric's gaze while she said this and when she looked back up because he wasn't leaving he grimaced at her and got his stuff and headed for the only shower in the building. (I know it's almost impossible for that to be like that but it's my story. So there!)

As Eric left Calleigh got out her cell and called the office, Horatio answered,

"Hello?"

"Hi, Horatio?"

"Yeah."

"It's Calleigh. Listen I'm really sorry but I'm going to be late by about another half an hour or so." Horatio sighed on the other line,

"When you come in I need to talk to you, I probably won't be there when you get in but as soon as I return I really need to talk with you." Calleigh nodded automatically,

"Sure."

"Okay."

"See you when you get back in."

"Okay then."

"Bye."

"Bye." Eric emerged from the shower room and Calleigh turned to see a towel wrapped around his lower section,

"Forgot my clothes." He hastily explained. Calleigh nodded and didn't think about what she was to see if that towel slipped off accidentally. She got her towel and made sure to include her clothes in the bundle she carried to the shower room.

Eric looked after her retreating figure and sighed. This was pretty close to hell not being able to reach out, touch her, kiss her or do anything that he so desperately wanted to do. In the pool he had just wanted to take her in his arms and kiss her, so passionately, to show her all the feelings that had been building up inside of him for so long.

He picked up his cell and called the office, Horatio answered again,

"Hello?"

"Hey, Horatio. Listen I won't be able to make it into the office yet, I'm really sorry. I'll take about half an hour to get there. Is that okay?"

"Sure Eric."

"Okay then."

"Bye."

"Bye." Eric shut the flap with a small bang that echoed in the pool building. Calleigh came back out of the showers and asked,

"Are you okay Eric?" Eric looked up at her and replied,

"I'm great, just great." Calleigh looked at him and decided not to broach the subject any further.

"We should go." Eric snapped out of whatever he was thinking about and said,

"Yeah." He busied himself with getting his things together and Calleigh watched him as he did. Something wasn't quite right but she just couldn't put her finger on it. When he looked back up at her he stood up fully and said,

"So, I'll see you back at the office?" Calleigh nodded, now she was the one deep in thought about what Eric could've been deep in thought about. There was only one thing that could come to her mind and she didn't want to think about that. It probably wasn't the reason anyway. Probably. Hopefully.

Calleigh sighed as Eric turned his back and headed for the door. This made him pause but then he thought it was just his imagination so he continued outside and to his car. Calleigh slumped, she wasn't in the mood to explain herself to Eric, no matter how much he deserved to know.

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(That was a bit of a let down chapter, too long though. Well, not really but it is pretty long. I think next chapter we'll find out about Horatio's news. And there might be some close moments... Not sure about that, but we'll see. I promise by the end of this story they would've kissed.