DISCALIMER: I don't own CSI Miami and i don't make any money from it.
Summary: How Jake and Calleigh meet in a bar as young and what happened after that. A CaKe story.
The Bar.
Calleigh sighed heavily as she served another customer. This was not the right day for her t work in the bar. The young Duquesne rubbed her temple hardly as she heard a familiar voice say, "Hey princess, aren't you in the wrong place."
It was Jake, one of the guys in her math class smart, but a bad boy that was always had a bunch of girls hanging around him wanting to be his.
"No, work here some nights," she said honest as she did to bring in some extra cash for what she wanted and needed.
"Surly there must be a nice place than this dump for you to work in," he said.
"Perhaps, but the owner is friends with my dad," she answered.
"Oh yes, "drunk" Duquesne," he said, but his voice sounded more sad than anything else.
"I don't like you talking about him like that," she said, even if what he said was true.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean it like that," he apologized.
"I know, but what is it like?" she asked.
"What?" he asked back a tad confused.
"Growing up in a regular family," she answered curiously.
"It's OK, but it mum is way too nosy sometimes," he said.
She smiled and said, "Sounds like my twin brothers."
"How many brothers do you have?" he asked.
"Three older, big Dave and the twins, you got siblings?" she wondered.
"A younger sister that is all about boys, he said and rolled his brown eyes.
"Says you, you seem to be quite a ladies man," she said.
"Perhaps, so are you dating anyone?" he wanted to know.
"Not at the moment, why?" she answered.
"In case I wanted to ask you out sometime, I have to go, so see you later Duquesne," he said and left her shocked behind.
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Calleigh thought for a second, had Jake really amplified that he wanted to date her. The, in her eyes, handsomest guy at school had asked if she was available.
Calleigh's heart was beating faster just by the thought of it. She of course had an eye for him, but she had shaken the thought of dating him pretty fast as she knew her dad wouldn't approve and he seemed like to much of a rebel. And he didn't even look her way.
Not before now that was, as he suddenly out of the blue had come out to talk her. To her, and he knew her name, all the logic seemed to be wiped out of her mind and the only thought that was left was how they would be together as a couple.
And before she could really react she had overfilled the glass of beer she was tapping and heard her coworker say, "Jeez Cal, will you watch what you are doing."
"Sorry Jackson," she said and quietly and gave the customer a new one before cleaning up her mess happily thinking about the handsome Jake.
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"Calleigh Berkley, Calleigh Duquesne Berkley, Mrs. Berkley, Mr. and Mrs. Berkley," Calleigh wrote dreamily in her notebook the next day.
It sounded nice, at least she thought so.
The young blonde suddenly looked over at Jake that looked back with a smile on his face, before he tossed over a note that said," Wanna meet me at the bar tonight?"
Calleigh nodded eagerly, yet subtle and mimed, "At what time?"
"Nine," he mimed back and she nodded again.
He blew her a kiss, which made her blush, but it was so discreet that no one, but them noticed.
Yet he couldn't help but smile a little by this as she was simply too cute, which was why he has asked her out in the first place. She couldn't see it, but on the side of his notebook he had written their names in a heart.
He gave her another smile before both his eyes and hers went back to their books, but if they were focusing on what they were reading is uncertain.
That night the bad boy and the princess meet at the bar and sat up all night talking. When he followed her home in the early morning he gave her the softest peck on the cheek before making plans on when or where to have their next date before she watched how he walked down the street from her bedroom window after blowing her another kiss.
Calleigh and Jake more or less stayed together the next couple of years and their sanctuary became the bar and they more or less knew everyone that came and went there.
She worked there next to her classes until she graduated and he set other the other end of the counter with eyes only for her.
She cried when she had to resign as she loved to work there, but she knew she couldn't do it at the same time as she worked in the force.
She also cried when Jake told her h was going to work for the ATF as she knew that would be the end of them.
He on the other hand cried as he didn't want to leave her behind.
When that day came they both promised that if there in the future would be hard times and the other would be needed they would go to the bar and wait there for three days and the other would show up as he or she would know.
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It was many years later a very upset Calleigh returned to the bar hoping that Jake hadn't forgotten about the promise and that he would show up within three days as she really needed him to do so.
The petite blonde sighed as she ordered a beer knowing the chance her brown haired biker would show up was next to nothing.
The deal in it self was stupid as she knew he as always was undercover and there was no way he could find she was there. Yet he somehow always managed to find her when she needed him the most.
She sighed as she took a sip of the beer and started to read a newspaper that was on the counter.
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Jake wasn't actually working around New Orleans at the time, but he quickly got the word that Calleigh was at the bar from some old contacts down there, so he got on his bike to get there.
When he walked into the bar the same night, he saw her sitting in their old regular spot with grimy cheeks after crying, reading a book. He couldn't help but to smile a little by the sight of her.
He quietly walked up to the table and said, "Hey princess, aren't you at the wrong place?"
"Jake, you came," she exclaimed happily looking up at him with tired, but sparkling eyes.
"Of course I came, a promise is a promise and I couldn't let my girl sit alone in a bar. In the condition you are in you may get drunk and stupid," he said wit a half smile.
"Be nice," she said as he sat down next to her. He let his arm sneak around her as she leaned close to him.
"Ok, so what made you turn up here?" he asked curiously.
"Oh Gosh, so complicated. I mean I was dating Eric and all, but it wasn't……, yet….. Either way he disappeared cause of this whole mess with his dad, I think I may have shoot him and if I may it worries me as I have no idea what his condition is. And Gosh I missed you so much," she said reaching up to kiss him a little.
"Wow, slow down, so are you and Erick over or…. Because I don't want to mess around with another mans girl and I missed you too. I can also see you concern for him," he said pulling her a little closer with the arm holding her and stroking her arm with the other.
"I dunno, I mean since he's gone and all," she said.
"Do you still have feelings for him?" Jake asked her in a serious tone.
"I dunno, I mean I'm not sure if I ever had, I think I was more with him to fill the void when you…. Jake I need you," she said looking up in his brown eyes.
"I know you do and….." he started when they heard someone say, "Told you they were back in town, hey Jake, how's life, I haven't seen you in ages."
"Oh you know, same old, guns, drugs and rock'n roll," he answered a blonde guy known as Jerry.
The two guys had always been best buds and were like brothers and the group used to call them J and J. Other than that the group of friends consisted of Jake's younger sister Judie, her bloke Sam, Sharon the wild one, Han the car man and Laurel the barman's daughter. Their ages were a little spread and so was their current locations, but non of them lived too far apart that they couldn't get there if needed. And now the old group was again gathered around the table ordering drink and talking like no time had passed at all.
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A couple of hours later Calleigh or the princess as the other called her was smiling and making jokes next t her Jake that was called the leader of the pack.
He had gained the title on fair terms ages ago along with her heart. Because there was not a man Calleigh could have loved higher than Jake. That she was now sure of as the thought of Eric was starting to disappear from her mind
As for Jake, he was where he wanted to be with the woman he loved more than anything in the world and wanted to spend the rest of his days with. But they both knew that there was thing that was needed to be fixed before that.
But right now the leader of the pack and his princess didn't care much about that, right now they only cared for each other and being back with their gang in their bar that had a heart
carved with their names on the table.
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