Flashback again. This one is based on what should've happened after 713: And They're Offed. Remember Eric left her favourite treat in her lab? Here's what happened to it...
Early the next morning Calleigh began her day. She signed in and went to her locker to put away her hand bag and get her on-duty gun. As she stood before her open locker she searched her bag for her cell phone. When she retrieved it she saw '1 missed call' on the front. She opened it in curiosty, because she had her phone with her all the time.
Eric Delko.
Hm, if it was indeed Eric she would've answered, but didn't know why his call was missed. Calleigh just shrugged her shoulders and put away the bag. She would've seen him later on in the day anyway.
On her way into the ballistics lab she walked happily ready to start the day. But as she opened the door she saw it. She froze. It stood there by itself, all black and tiny...and hungry. It was a hungry vicious ant and it placed itself on her clean and shiny desk. Calleigh's eyes suddenly narrowed with a grunt and she headed for it with a fist. BLAM! She got it... but then spotted a trail.
Darn. She soon noticed that they crawled from the dark colored floor and up table hanging like a black rope. They swarmed on the table, crawling and stumbling over each other with their tiny ticklish legs running all about - ugh. Calleigh shrieked and itched at the terrible sight. But she took control and blew on them. They scrambled in a rush away from the food they were attacking: it was a clear box. What was it?
Truffles. For a moment she smiled at the treat already tasting it in her mouth, and was that, her name on the top of the box? She 'awed' that Eric'd do something like that for her. How thought he was... and how ungrateful the ants were. Speaking of which, they were now covering it like a sheet, leaving almost none of the box uncovered. She had to make choice either spray the whole thing with bug spray and waste it in the rubbish bin, or grab it and get rid of the monsters herself. She could shoot them! Calleigh laughed then concentrated on grabbing it.
"C'mon it's only a couple o' ants, Calleigh. You've done this before on an even worse occasion," she prepared herself. She blew on them again and slowly reached her palm forward and grabbed it quickly off the table. "That wasn't so hard," she reassured herself. She completely forgot that all the ants hadn't come of the entire box and when she remembered, she became frantic.
She scratched and shook them off until there were none left. This left her running out the lab and leaning against a wall acting like a fool. Ffew. And she stared at the tightly sealed box, her taste buds raging. Calleigh forgot everything and sunk down to the floor, opening the box and picking up one of the chocolate flavoured delites. She stuffed it in her mouth and savoured it, closing her eyes.
Suddenly footsteps jolted her eyes open to see him standing in front of her. Eric stared and laughed at her. Her hair messed up from trying to get the ants off, her clothes slightly crumpled from sliding down the wall and her mouth puffed up with half of what was in the box before. Eric only shook his head and went inside the lab. Her eyes followed him inside and watched him murder every, single, black ant in there with bug spray and came back out.
"Tshanks... wan' shome?" she held the box up to him.