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Summary: Spoilers for 'Lost Son'. Calleigh has memories of the time she spent with Speed.
Pairings: Calleigh and Speed.
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After she had left the Ballistics lab, Calleigh had gone to the locker room. This was probably the one place in the whole lab that reminded her the most of Speed, but she didn't care. She just wanted to be close to him. She looked at Speed's locker, which was now Ryan's. It still had his name on it. This made a coat of tears run down, her already red, cheeks. She was tired of this. She was tired of crying every time she thought of her dead boyfriend. Although she wanted to stop thinking about him, she couldn't. She had loved him with all of her heart.
She vividly remembered the day Speed died. It was a memory etched so deeply into her mind that it was impossible to erase. She had tried to be strong through his funeral, but she hadn't realized how hard it had been. She had let a few tears roll down her cheeks, but she hadn't cried for her boyfriend, she had cried for her co-worker. As it was against policy to date a co-worker, she had decided to cry for him as just that, but as soon as she had gotten home, she cried her eyes out.
She looked away from Speed's locker as she heard someone enter the locker room. It was Ryan Wolfe. He had only been on the job two weeks and already Calleigh disliked him. She felt as though Ryan was trying to push his way in and the memory of Speed out.
He timidly walked up to her and sat down. They sat that way for the next few minutes until Calleigh asked, "Is there something you need?"
He hesitated for a minute, but then he was able to find his voice. "Horatio assigned me to work with you on your case."
Calleigh was appalled for a minute, but then she understood. That must have been what Horatio and Eric were talking about earlier she thought to herself. "Okay," she said, as she wiped the remaining tears away and headed for the door. "I'll fill you in on the way to Trace."
Calleigh put her feelings for Ryan at the back of her mind, after all, they'd be working together and it wouldn't be very easy to do that if she hated him. Maybe this would be a good opportunity to get to know Ryan. Horatio obviously trusted him enough to work with her and she trusted Horatio, so she though getting to know Ryan was worth a shot.