CHAPTER THREE: THE NOTE
Calleigh ran her fingers softly over Horatio's chest. She kept on thinking about the explosion, it was a real miracle that he had managed to walk out from there, without a single scratch on him. Not even the smallest scratch.
"Honey, are you alright?" Horatio asked quietly.
Calleigh nodded and sighed.
"Just thinking about today. It was really scary Horatio." Calleigh said.
"I know Calleigh." Horatio said.
Calleigh sat up in the middle of the bed and took Horatio's hand, she places it on her belly.
"She's kicking." Calleigh smiled.
Horatio smiled and ran his hand over Calleigh's belly.
"He's a tiger." Horatio said.
"A female tiger." Calleigh teased.
Horatio kissed Calleigh softly.
"I'm sorry for scaring you today Calleigh." He said.
"It's okay, it's not like you planned it, like Eric said to me." Calleigh smiled and kissed Horatio.
"But it's still a miracle that you are fine." Calleigh said, "It really is Horatio."
"I know, I haven't been hurt many times or close of getting hurt." Horatio said.
"Yes you have, every time a criminal points a gun at you." Calleigh said.
"Yeah, but I mean in a situation like today. I mean as you said, it's a miracle that I survived without any injuries." Horatio said.
"You're my read headed miracle." Calleigh smiled and kissed Horatio once again.
"Calleigh, you still owe for this morning." Horatio smiled.
"Oh you remember that do you?" She teased, "Well, maybe we could take a shower together?"
Horatio smiled, "Yeah that would be nice."
He grabbed Calleigh's hand and pulled her out of the bed. They kissed on their way to the bathroom and undressed each other quickly.
In the shower, they softly caressed each other and gently made love.
-I-
Horatio woke up early and found himself tightly wrapped up in Calleigh's arms.
He gently kissed her soft lips and ran his fingers over the curve of her butt.
Calleigh stirred and woke up too.
"Good morning handsome." She said her voice still thick of sleep.
"Good morning gorgeous." He said to her and ran his hand up her side and softly over her breast.
"Looks like somebody want to start the day the same way he ended it yesterday." Calleigh smiled softly.
"Yeah and don't even try to mention work right now, we still have time." Horatio said and kissed Calleigh breasts, on the same time his hand found its way down to her core. He softly caressed her and Calleigh felt herself getting more awake and alert.
She moaned as Horatio sucked on her breasts and let his fingers to the magic.
He soon places his mouth where his hand was.
"Horatio… Please don't stop." Calleigh moaned and ran her fingers through Horatio's red hair.
"Mmm, I want more." Calleigh said.
Horatio sat up a little and placed himself between her legs, he gently pushed inside and started rocking slowly.
Calleigh moaned and used her legs to push Horatio in further.
"Oh god Horatio!" Calleigh moaned, "Is… Is that a phone?" She asked breathlessly.
Horatio moaned, "Let it ring, I don't want to stop know."
Horatio pushed harder and deeper into Calleigh and soon they both climaxed.
"Sorry honey, but it had to be a quick one this time." Horatio said.
Calleigh chuckled, "No problems handsome."
Horatio kissed Calleigh and answered the phone.
"Horatio." He said out of breath.
"Have you been running?" The voice of Frank Tripp asked from the other end.
"No… I mean yes." Horatio said.
"Really? Or maybe you got a morning exercise of another kind." Frank chuckled.
"Frank." Horatio warned.
"Yeah, I know. No talking about your sex life huh? Anyway I just called to tell you that firemen have cleared the explosion scene now, so you and Ryan can process it." Frank said.
"Why did they call you? Berkley is on that case." Horatio asked.
"I know, but he didn't answer his phone for four hours so they called me." Frank said.
"Okay, I'll meet Ryan at the scene later, bye Frank." Horatio.
"Bye." Frank said and hung up.
"And what was the call bout?" Calleigh asked.
"The explosion scene has been cleared by the fireman, so know we can process it." Horatio said.
"What was it about Jake?" Calleigh asked.
"Well the firemen had tried to call him for four hours to tell him that the scene was clear, but he didn't answer. So they called Frank." Horatio said.
Calleigh sighed.
"What?" Horatio asked.
"Jake has been acting really strange lately." Calleigh said, "It's like he has lost interest in doing his job." She sighed.
"I hope not, he's good at his job." Horatio said, "Calleigh don't worry. I'm sure nothings wrong." He said and kissed her.
-I-
Horatio and Ryan had been working on the crime scene all day long and found the bomb, or what was left of it. At around noon they were on their way back to the lab.
Horatio was about to open the driver door on his hummer when he saw a note on the windshield.
The note said: How many days in your life have you been sick?
Horatio frowned, why would somebody ask him that?
He shrugged to himself and drove back to the lab.
When he got to the lab, he could not resist actually asking the receptionist Jane if she could find out how many sick days he's actually had since he came to Miami.
"Hey Jane, could you do me a favor?" Horatio asked.
"Sure Lt." Jane said.
"Could you ask the chief if he knows how many sick days I've taken since I started working for the MDPD?" Horatio asked.
"I don't think that is going to be a hard task." Jane said.
"Why?" Horatio asked.
"Well as far as I know you haven't been sick for the last five years." Jane said.
Horatio nodded, "Okay thank you."
-I-
"I get it, you want a raise." The chief said as he stepped into Horatio's office. It had been five hours since Horatio had asked Jane to ask the captain how many sick days Horatio had taken.
"Excuse me sir?" Horatio asked.
"You haven't taken one sick day since you started working for MDPD, so I get it, you want a raise." The chief said.
"Actually no sir, I'm asking for a raise." Horatio said.
"Not directly, but it was a nice way of showing it. You get a raise of 30 dollars." The chief said.
The chief left and Horatio sat stunned in his chair.
"How knew it would be that simple to get a raise, I might try the same thing." Eric said from the door.
"Eric, I didn't want a raise." Horatio said.
"Well you got, and don't deny that it doesn't feel good." Eric smiled.
"Sure, but I just wanted to know how many sick days I've takes. It's that simple." Horatio said.
"Why do you want to know that?" Eric asked, "Are you sure you didn't get something from yesterday?"
"Yes, I'm sure. I found a note on my windshield a few hours ago." Horatio said and gave Eric the note.
"Okay, so know you know that you haven't taken any sick days for the last eleven years or so." Eric said.
"Check it for prints, would you?" Horatio asked.
"H, what's going on? Why this sudden interest in this note, I mean, just ignore it." Eric said.
"No just please do what I asked you to do." Horatio said and Eric nodded and left.
Horatio was confused, how would somebody know to ask him a question like that?
Then it hit him, the news.
If he remembered correctly he had heard the news talk about the explosion and they had mentioned him. He had seen it while he had been in the hospital.
"Ready to go home?" Calleigh asked from the door.
Horatio nodded, "Yeah, sure honey."
He stood up and left the lab with Calleigh.
TBC…
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