Chapter Five:

A/N: Thank you for the reviews! So I just got up, hah like twenty minutes ago, and usually I get up like, half and hour before school starts so I just get there right on time and have zero time to get ready… but today we have a FOG DAY. How cool is it when your school is cancelled because there is fog hahaha? Wow.

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She was asleep before the movie ended, resting peacefully, head against his arm. He thought it was amazing, more so than anything else, to just lay here with her, listening to her breathe. To realize, through all the past months, more vividly than ever that they were alive. After Speed died, Eric was convinced he died too. He had never felt such a sense of loss. He was not one talented at dealing with loss. Like Calleigh, he threw himself into work, and then, when work wasn't enough, when the memories of Speed that echoed through the halls at Miami Dade Crime Lab got to be too suffocating, too overwhelming, he threw himself into the only other thing he could think of. Girls. One-night stands, toothing… it made him feel alive. It made him forget. But no number of nameless, faceless girls could make him feel as alive as he did in this moment. With Calleigh resting against him, radiating heat from her sleeping figure, her perfect sleeping figure, looking so peaceful and innocent… it just reminded him that they still felt. That they still had more to learn, more to loose. Stirring now, he found two green eyes staring up at him. Beautiful, brilliant green eyes.

"Hey." He said quietly.

"Hi," Calleigh smiled lazily, still waking up. "How long was I asleep?"

"You fell asleep sometime during the movie," Eric shrugged. "Probably only a half hour."

"It felt like longer." Calleigh stretched, leaning away from Eric, instantly making him miss her warmth. He wrapped his arms around her middle as she stretched making her slightly shriek and giggle. "Eric!"

"What?" He asked innocently, his arms still around her waist. "I was cold without you." Calleigh just smiled, and shook her head, relaxing into his embrace. Within minutes of relaxing back onto the couch, Calleigh found herself nearly falling asleep again.

"Maybe we should move this to the bedroom." She suggested with a yawn.

""Well, you're suggestive tonight." Eric joked, knowing full well what she actually meant.

"Shut up." Calleigh mumbled, barley staying awake.

"Alright. Let's go to bed." Eric smiled, carefully scooping up her nearly sleeping form, and carried her to the bedroom.

"Eric, you don't have to carry me you know." Calleigh told him sleepily. Of course she would, it made her seem vulnerable.

"Cal, it's no problem. You don't weigh like, anything." Eric reassured her with a chuckle. Calleigh just mumbled incoherently as a reply. Eric set her down gently on her bed, tucking her in. He loved doing this. Just being with her, and having her let him take care of her. He wondered if she ever let anyone else see this side of her. Certainly not at work, he didn't even know how often she talked to her family. She'd told him bits and pieces about her father, whom'd he'd met briefly on occasion, and her brothers, but he didn't know much. Walking around to the other side of the bed, he climbed in beside her.

"Goodnight Eric." She mumbled. He wasn't quite sure if she was more awake, or more asleep.

"Goodnight Cal." He smiled, before turning over and going to sleep.

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Stirring, Calleigh opened her eyes and found she wasn't alone, but rather face to face with Eric.

"Good morning." She smiled. He opened his eyes, and smiled as well.

"Hi." He said groggily.

"I can't remember being this well rested in a very long time." Calleigh sighed, getting up. "Usually I don't want anything more than to go back to bed and sleep for another few hours. But today, I want to get up and do something exciting."

"Is it raining?" Eric asked. Calleigh walked over to the window and peered out.

"Nope." She shook her head. Eric smiled wider.

"Let's go to the beach." He declared.

"The beach?" Calleigh repeated.

"We live in Miami. There are lots of good beaches we could go to." He pointed out. "And how many of them have you really been to?"

"I don't know." Calleigh shrugged. "I'm not the hugest beach person."

"Well, today you are." Eric told her, and she just smiled.

"Fine. But only because you're making me." She told him seriously.

"I know." He smiled. The beach would be fun. Beaches were always fun.
"So the beach?"

"The beach it is." Calleigh nodded. "You'll have to go back to your place and get your bathing suit."

"Yeah, but my condo is right by the water. There's a beach pretty much right across the street." Eric pointed out.

"So I'm going to go put on coffee and gather up some stuff. You can shower while I do that if you want, and then I can shower while you eat or drink your coffee or whatever… and then we can stop at your place and go straight to the beach." Calleigh said, almost all in one breath.

"You're cute when you ramble." Eric smiled. "And it sounds fine."

"I wasn't rambling." Calleigh protested. "Merely explaining. I don't ramble."

"Yes you do." Eric argued playfully.

"No I don't." Calleigh returned. "People only ramble when they're nervous or excited, or anticipating something wonderful. Or something not wonderful, but something completely awful. But I'm not one of those people, because I never expect anything out of anyone…" Calleigh was clearly rambling now. Eric smiled, leaning back against the back of the bed comfortably watching her. She was cute when she rambled. Then suddenly, standing up, he pressed a kiss to her lips, effectively cutting off her ramble.

"So which are you?" He asked after pulling back, breathlessly.

"What?" She was confused, and breathless as well.

"Nervous, excited, anticipating something wonderful?" He asked, still teasing her.

"None of them." She smiled.

"But you were rambling." He pointed out.

"I was anticipating something." She admitted. "But its come and past now. So if you'll excuse me, I'm going to make some breakfast." She smirked as she walked out of the bedroom and towards the kitchen. Eric just shook his head as she left. It was going to be a fabulous day off.

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A/N: Hha. Okay. So the kiss was for Jodie, because she asked for one in her review! Hah. So my fog day has now come to an end. I went out and watched 13 Ghosts and walked aimlessly around town, worked… it was not an exciting day. But I didn't have to go to school so it was a-okay. Hah. Review please!