"Can't I at least work at the lab for a few hours?"

"No!" Eric said, "For the hundred time Horatio. You're on sick leave for a week, and that's shorter than usual."

Horatio had been allowed by Jason to go home. When Jason had come back on Monday Horatio had started to nag him about going home. Now it was Tuesday and Horatio had convinced Jason that he only needed to be home for a week, rather then the two weeks that Jason had wanted.

Now, Horatio was nagging Eric about going to work.

"A few hours, please." Horatio said.

"No, a few hours for you is working from seven to three." Eric said, "You and I are going to be home and just enjoy ourselves."

"You better have planned something good for one week if you want me to stay put." Horatio grinned.

"If you move an inch outside the house, I'll call Alexx." Eric threatened.

"I can't even go out on the porch? Or the beach?"

Eric chuckled.

"No, you can do that. But don't try to sneak away."

"Would I do something like that?" Horatio asked and looked at Eric with puppy dog eyes.

Eric gave him a playful glare.

"You will be punished if you try." He grinned.

"Then I will definitely try."

Eric laughed.

It seemed as if Joseph was going to be discharged tomorrow. Eric and Horatio had offered him to stay with them. However, Joseph had insisted on staying with Miguel, Eric's uncle.

Joseph didn't want Eric to take care of both him and Horatio.

He knew that just trying to keep Horatio inside the house would be hard enough for his son.

"H, are you in pain?" Eric asked. Horatio was shifting a lot in his seat.

"No, I'm fine. I'm just really bored right now."

Eric chuckled.

"I thought you loved driving a car." Eric said.

"Yeah, driving a car Eric, driving, not sitting in the passenger seat." Horatio said, "Can I drive?"

"No my impatient little red head." Eric grinned, "You can't drive until we have to get back to work."

"Can we at least put the sirens on?"

"You sound like a kid." Eric laughed.

"Deep inside of ourselves we are all kids." Horatio smiled, "And when we get bored that childish behavior comes to the surface."

"Really? You've been bored many times H and you've never been like this."

"Okay, I admit it. I'm bored, I want to play with you, and the nurses gave me morphine." Horatio grinned.

Eric chuckled.

After a few minutes, he pulled up on the driveway home.

He helped Horatio get out of the car, because even though Horatio liked to think so, he wasn't twelve years old at the moment. The bullets had caused a lot of damage and he was supposed to take it easy.

Horatio completely forgot about that as he pinned Eric against the wall as soon as they came inside the house.

He kissed him deeply and his body pressed against him.

"H." Eric said as their lips parted, "Remember that Jason told you to take it easy. Especially today."

Horatio grinned.

"I am taking it easy."

"No, this is not taking it easy."

"I thought you wanted to play a little too?" Horatio asked.

"Yes, but Jason said that you shouldn't do anything at all… today." Eric moaned as Horatio kissed his neck.

"Well, Jason isn't here is he?"

Eric moaned.

"Let's take a shower." Horatio grinned and dragged Eric to the shower.

-I-

"Ryan!"

Ryan stirred.

"Ryan! Wake up dammit!" Calleigh growled.

Ryan yawned and sat up in the bed. He saw Calleigh getting dressed.

"Cal, honey, what's going on?" He asked.

"We're late." She said, "Again."

"Late? Isn't it Saturday?" Ryan asked.

"Ryan get your head out of your ass! Wake up dammit! We picked up Jason and Valera from the airport two days ago, that was on a Sunday. We went to work yesterday, which was Monday. So today must be Tuesday!" Calleigh growled and threw pants, trousers and a shirt at him.

"Get dressed and out of bed." She said.

Ryan looked at the clock. It was ten already. He and Calleigh were two hours late for work.

He sighed and got out of bed.

"You're not dressed yet?" Calleigh asked.

"Cal, I just got out of bed." Ryan said.

Calleigh sighed and went into the bathroom.

Ryan started getting dressed.

He tripped as he was putting his trousers on.

Calleigh came out from the bathroom.

"Hurry up Ryan." She said.

"Calleigh, it's not the end of the world you know." He smiled, "Sometimes it's good to be late."

"No, it isn't. Not when it's two hours." She growled.

Ryan sighed.

Once he was fully dressed, Calleigh practically dragged him out their apartment.

Ryan was chuckling the whole time. Until he saw his hummer.

His hummer was still green.

"Ryan, I know that you're still sad about your hummer. But please just forget about it now." Calleigh growled.

Ryan got into the hummer and drove to work.

"I love my hummer." He said.

"I know, Ryan."

"I want the green paint to go away."

"Go to a car wash." Calleigh said.

"That's all I need to do?"

"Yeah, hasn't anybody told you that?" Calleigh asked.

Ryan shook his head.

"Oh, well, that's all you need to do."

Ryan sighed. So he had been driving around in his green hummer for days thinking that the color would never vanish? And all he had needed to do was to drive to a car wash.

Then he came up with a brilliant idea on how get back at Frank and clean his car at the same time.

As soon as Ryan parked the car at the PD, Calleigh ran towards the elevator. Ryan followed slowly behind her.

"Late again?" Frank asked Calleigh and Ryan when they arrived at the reception.

Calleigh nodded.

"We were sleeping." Ryan said.

"Ryan, I told you I don't need to hear things like that. It's a bit too much information." Frank said.

"I don't mean it like that Frank. We were just sleeping that's all." Ryan said.

"Yeah, and I told you that it's too much information." Frank said.

"Too much information?"

"Yeah, not all of us want to know that shit." Frank said.

Calleigh sighed.

"Frank! I don't mean sleeping as in having sex, I mean sleeping as in that we overslept." Ryan said.

"And you overslept because you had sex." Frank said, "Which is something I don't want to know."

"I never said that!" Ryan said, "Now you just assumed."

"Well, why else would you oversleep?" Frank asked.

Calleigh chuckled and left the two men alone.

"Frank, have you ever heard of just forgetting to turn the alarm on, or sleeping through it?" Ryan asked.

"Yeah, but you and Calleigh don't do stuff like that." Frank said.

"Yes we do." Ryan said.

"Ryan… I'm messing with you." Frank grinned.

"I know." Ryan said, "Oh and by the way, I want you to wash my car."

Frank chuckled.

"So somebody told you how to get rid of the paint huh?"

"Yeah, and I want you to take care of it." Ryan grinned.

"Why would I?" Frank asked, "It's you car."

"Yeah, but seeing my hummer green almost broke my heart."

"What would happen if I painted Calleigh green?" Frank asked, "How would you react then?"

"Very funny Frank." Ryan said, "Just wash my car during lunch."

"Alright, alright." Frank grinned.

-I-

Valera was sitting in one of the booths in the ladies room. She was holding a certain stick. And she couldn't stop staring at it.

This can't be right. Do I want it to be right? She thought.

"Valera, are you in here?" She heard Calleigh ask.

Valera sighed.

"Valera?"

"Yes, Calleigh I'm here." She said.

"I've been looking for you." Cal said.

Valera put the stick away and opened the booth door.

"Are you okay?" Cal asked.

Valera nodded.

"Why are you looking for me?" She asked.

"I wanted to know if you got a match on the DNA in the rape case." Calleigh asked.

"Oh right, sorry Cal. I've been here for a while." Valera said.

"Are you sick?"

"No, I'm fine." Valera smiled, "I'll see if I can find a match on the DNA."

Valera quickly left the ladies room.

Calleigh stood behind; she knew something was up with Valera.

Valera hurried through the hallways back to her lab.

She started working with all the DNA evidence that she had, but she couldn't quite focus. Her mind was somewhere else.

Do I want this? What do I say to Jason? And everybody else? She thought.

She was so lost in her thoughts that she didn't hear or see Alexx enter her lab.

I have to do another test. But I've done three already. Oh my god! What do I do now?

"Valera honey." Alexx said.

Valera snapped out of her thoughts and stared at Alexx.

Did I talk out loud?

"What's going on?" Alexx asked.

"What… what do you mean Alexx?"

"Honey, you can't fool me. I know something is wrong." Alexx said.

Valera sighed.

"What did Calleigh say to you?" She asked.

"Just that you looked sick. And she was right." Alexx said, "You look sick Valera."

"I'm not sick."

"But something has happened." Alexx said.

Valera nodded.

"Do you want to talk about it?" Alexx asked.

"I don't know what to say." Valera said.

"Just tell me the truth. Tell me what's going on."

Valera sighed.

"Alexx… I'm pregnant."

TBC…

AN: Please review!