Chapter 3

Calleigh woke up to the bright Miami sun shining in through the window of her bedroom. She stretched, feeling Horatio's arm tighten around her waist. She flipped herself around, and gave him a kiss on the mouth, "Morning, Handsome", she remarked lazily.

Horatio stirred and opened his eyes, "Good morning, Gorgeous," he said, returning her kiss. "What time is it?"

"Umm, about six," Calleigh said, glancing at her alarm clock. "We should really get up." She writhed out of Horatio's grasp, and sat up, wrapping the sheets around herself, and got out of bed. "I'm going to go take a shower now. Unless, that is, you'd care to join me?" she said, walking out of the room.

His only answer was his eager scrambling out of bed and following her to the bathroom.

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Calleigh pulled into the parking lot of the Miami Dade Crime Lab in her Hummer, Horatio right behind her in his identical vehicle. She pulled into a parking space, watching him pull in right beside her, turned off the ignition, and got out of the truck. They silently walked into the building together.

Once in the lobby, Horatio said "I'm going to go up to my office, Calleigh, I'll call you if we get a case."

"Sounds great, I'm just going to go get some paperwork done." Calleigh said heading off in one direction as Horatio walked off in another.

Calleigh walked downstairs to her office, unlocked the door, and slipped inside, shutting it behind her. She walked over to her desk, opened a drawer, took off her gun, and slipped it inside the drawer. She sat down at her desk and picked up the phone, dialing the number for the hotel Jen had given her the day before.

"Hello," Jen said as she picked up the phone in her hotel room.

"Hey, Jen, it's Calleigh." Calleigh said.

"Hey, Cal."

"Anyways, I'm calling about dinner tonight and we can discuss everything there. Come by around six."

"Is that boyfriend of yours going to be there?" Jen asked coyly, "You never mentioned to me that you were seeing someone."

"We only started dating about six months ago-"

"Six months!" Jen exclaimed, "then you should have mentioned it to me, I don't know, six months ago!"

"Well, to answer your question, yes, Horatio's going to be there."

"Great, I'd like to talk with him. He seems interesting." Oh, he is. Calleigh thought. "I bet Daddy would like to met him too," Jen said.

Just then Calleigh heard a beep, signaling someone was trying to call her. "Listen Jen, that's my other line, so come around at about six, you know the address, and if you have any questions, just call my cell."

"Bye."

"Bye."Calleigh pressed the call waiting button and said, "Hello, Calleigh Duquesne."

"Hey, Gorgeous." came the soft, velvety voice.

"Hey, Horatio. I called Jen, and she and her dad are coming over at about six for dinner."

"Great. Listen, the reason I called is we have a case. Should be pretty easy, hit-and-run. There's a witness, but Tripp thinks, and I quote, 'She's a few cards short of a deck', so he wants us to investigate."

"Okay, I'll meet you by the hummers in 15 minutes?" Calleigh asked.

"See you then," Horatio said, then hung up.

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