Fandom:
CSI: Miami
Pairing:
Horatio/Calleigh
Prompt:
Moonlight
Disclaimer:
I
don't own CSI: Miami (pfft, what do I own?) If I did Horatio wouldn't
do any work. He'd sit there looking pretty, hehe.
I like to watch her sleep.
I remember telling Speed that once. He looked at me as if I'd just said I like to torture kittens, and remarked, "H, that's just creepy."
My attempt to redeem myself by saying, "What? She looks so innocent and vulnerable," turned out to be the sort of line to be avoided by anybody who doesn't want to appear to be a sexual predator of some sort. Speed's look of horror told me that pretty clearly.
It's not as perverted as it sounds, honestly. She just looks so peaceful, like none of these horrors she sees affect her. I love that.
The moonlight shines through the curtains, playing softly across her back. I think she looks beautiful, but then I always do. But at night, she takes on an erethral quality, almost like a nymph or something. I smile wryly to myself. It's 3am and I'm thinking about nymphs. Go figure.
I'm still lying there staring (in the most polite way possible, I'm a very gentlemanly watcher) when she stirs slightly. For a second, I panic, somehow managing to forget that I'm her boyfriend. I'm allowed to be here. Unless I imagined that. Wouldn't that be great? Getting arrested for what I'm doing. Nice one Caine.
She turns round, still groggy from sleep. "Morning, Handsome," she murmurs.
And, of course, everything's fine. Because this really was meant to be