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She found herself parking her car across from his house and saw that his car was parked on the driveway. She decided to text him just to make sure he was doing ok, because if not she was already there to call for help. It felt weird because even though they weren't together, she still felt the need to make sure he was ok, to be there for him.
" Hi " - Calleigh . She sat there and 15 seconds later her phone beeped.
" Hey, Sorry about just walking out on you at the lab, during interrogation. didn't mean to." - Eric.
" Don't worry about it, Ryan helped me out with the rest of the case. Are you ok, Eric?" - Calleigh.
" Don't worry, I'm alright." - Eric
Eric was sitting down on his couch, watching something on TV and when his phone beeped he was surprised that it was Calleigh who texted him. He got up from the couch and started pacing around, something about talking to her made him nervous. While waiting for her reply he looked outside his window, trying to find something to keep him occupied. That's when he froze in place, he saw a blue car that was very familiar to him. But it couldn't be her. He looked closer and there she was...Calleigh sitting in her blue Chrysler across the street. It made him smile a little, that even though they had taken a break, she still had that protective side of her, always wanting to make sure he was doing ok. The sound of his phone beeping broke his thoughts.
" ok then. hum call me if you need anything. See you tomorrow at work" - calleigh
He read her text and sighed, he needed her. He needed someone to talk at the moment or maybe someone to just be there with him...because if he didn't he was going to either do something stupid or go off at the first situation that goes wrong and that was never a good thing. So he looked outside, and when he saw that she was still siting there, he ran his hand over his head and text her.
" hum you want to come in?" - eric
When he sent it, he looked outside to see her reaction, if she'd realize that he knew she was parked across his house. He laughed a little, when she looked up from her phone towards his house. She had this look on her face which he found it adorable, as if she'd been caught doing something she shouldn't have. When she caught his eyes, she smiled a little and then he disappeared from behind the window.
She thought he was mad that she was there and texted her that to make her feel stupid or something. But when he opened the door and stood there...she realized that he'd never do that, because again, this was Eric. Eric would never make her feel like that on purpose. She thought about just driving away but decided against it. She got out of her car and slowly started walking towards his front door, where he was standing. She was glad he wasn't so close to her when she realized that he knew she was outside, because when she read the text she felt her cheeks turn bright red.
" hey " he said standing at the door.
" Hi, I hum...I just hum dropped by to see if you were ok, horatio told me you weren't feeling to good. " she said trying to make things less awkward then they already were.
" hum yeah, I'm sorry about earlier...I got a really bad headache all of the sudden, went to take my medication but realized I left it here at home, so I asked to leave." he said, trying to give her a explanation for leaving like that.
" oh ok, did you take it? you feeling better?" she asked concerned, she knew brain surgery wasn't something to take easy, so whenever he got those headaches it worried her.
" yeah I did, as soon as I got home, headache is starting to go away." he replied
" good good, you look really tired." she said looking at him, she hasn't seen him like this in a while, well not since he was at the hospital, but then again...she hasn't seen much of him since then.
" hum yeah, haven't gotten much sleep lately." part of it was true, he hadn't been sleeping much lately, but he didn't want to talk about what was really bothering him when she was standing there at his door and then he realized that they were still standing at the door.
" hum I'm sorry Calleigh" he said moving aside, so she'd be able to walk in. "come on in."
She walked in and stood there while he closed the door. She kind of missed being here, at his place, everything looked the same since the last time she'd been there. Before the whole sharova thing.
He asked if she would like anything to drink or if she was hungry. He noticed from the time and the clothes that she was wearing that she drooped by to check on him right after work. She said she was ok, but would like some water. He started walking towards the kitchen, while she sat down on his couch. As he was returning from the kitchen, he stood by the column that divided the kitchen from his living room. He watched her as she sat there looking at one of the many magazines he had laid out on the coffee table.
He missed having her there with him. He missed coming home from working a double and finding her there at his house, waiting for him, or at least trying. Because most of the times he would just walk in to find her sleeping peacefully on his couch, with the TV on mute. Those moments he'd just sit on the chair that was placed across from the couch and he'd watch her. It amazed him that she could look so perfect while doing anything, specially sleeping. He never found himself watching someone sleep. He always thought there was nothing interesting about it. But when it came to Calleigh, everything she did somehow always caught his attention, and she always led him to do and try things he never had before. He was brought back to reality when he noticed his hands were becoming wet from the the cold water bottle he was holding, which was now starting to become warmer. He started walking towards her, and then it hit him again, how perfect she looked right now, just sitting there on his living room, reading a magazine.