Miami

Everyone saw it.

It wasn't anything special, or even out of place. No one would have seen it, unless they had known what had transpired between them. Maybe they knew all along. Maybe they were just figuring it out. Maybe it was nothing, but it looked like more.

The entire shift had been called to testify on the stand for the Flannerty case. Each of them sat outside the courtroom, waiting patiently to be called to testify on their part of the evidence in the rape-murder of the Senator's daughter. No one else saw the tension building in Ryan's shoulders. His mind was working quickly, cataloguing and organizing the bits of information, and he frowned, trying to pull a reasonable chronology out of the fractured sequences of events. He bent forward only slightly, focusing his energy on picking out the dirt under his nail.

He didn't even notice he had started to jiggle his leg.

Calleigh sat back in her seat, going over the context of the projectiles of the bullets she and Ryan had collected from the bathroom walls beside him. She felt the tension in Ryan's shoulders migrating to the rest of his body, and his leg, inches from hers, was moving rhythmically with nervous energy. She reached over without thinking, and placed her hand gently on his thigh, stilling his leg instantly, neither of them saying a word.

The rest of the team watched out of the corner of their eyes as Ryan visibly relaxed, slumping back against the back of the bench. Calleigh turned to him, catching his gaze, and he shrugged, causing her to frown in concern, and, after a few moments, pull her hand away.

It wasn't the first time she had touched him; that much was clear. The ease in the contact between the two was evidence enough to something more. In a hallway full of trained investigators, the two CSIs had inadvertently gone public, without saying a word.

One by one, each member of the team was called in to give their testimony, and slowly, the bench emptied, leaving Calleigh and Ryan alone in the hallway, still waiting their turn. Only then did she rest her weary head on his shoulder, smiling distractedly as he pressed a kiss to her hair.