Sorry about this chapter. It's very short! My muses have ran away!


A few weeks later, things were still slightly uneasy between Calleigh and Eric. They had been avoiding each other, but no one had noticed that anything was wrong. Well, that's what they thought. Alexx, Speed and Horatio had all noticed that they were acting strangely.

Calleigh had made sure that she and Eric were working different cases, which was very odd.

Normally they always wanted to work together.

One of them would leave the room when the other entered.

They didn't see eye to eye.

Nearly a month after Eric and Calleigh's drunken night, they had to work a case together.

They were driving to the crime scene, making small talk, when Eric suddenly sprang the question on Calleigh.

"Calleigh? Are you going to be OK working with me?"

Calleigh didn't look away from the road ahead of her.

"Sure. Why wouldn't I be?"

"It's just you seem to have been avoiding me and…" Eric trailed off.

"I've not been avoiding you. I just have a lot on my mind OK?"

They sat in silence for a few more moments.

Calleigh hated the silence. It forced her to dwell on what had happened that morning.

----- FLASHBACK -----

Calleigh washed her hands and sat down on the side of the bath and started counting the seconds.

1…2…3…4…5…

The pregnancy test was on the shelf above the sink.

Calleigh was waiting for the results.

13…14…15…16…17…

"Please be negative. Please say I've just had a stomach infection or something…"

36…37…38…39…40…

The ninety seconds it took for the test to show results were becoming the longest ninety seconds of Calleigh's life.

61…62…63…64…65…

She swayed gently on the side of the bath. She was nervous.

72…73…74…75…76

Only ten more seconds….

86…87…88…89…90.

Calleigh stood up and picked up the test without looking at it.

She held it in her palm and sat down on the bath again.

She had spent the last minute and a half waiting impatiently for the results, but now that it was finished, she couldn't bring herself to look at it.

Calleigh took a deep breath and opened her palm.

"Oh my god…" she whispered.

----- END FLASHBACK -----

"Calleigh? Calleigh!" Eric was almost shouting to get her attention.

"Sorry, what?"

"You missed the turn." Eric frowned. Calleigh didn't normally switch off.

"Oh yeah. Sorry."

She made a quick u-turn and took the right road.

"Are you sure you're OK?"

"Yes, I'm fine."

Calleigh had almost blurted out what was really wrong with her, but stopped herself just in time.

She wasn't ready to tell Eric that she was carrying his child.