Chapter 11: Policy Change

An unconscious Eric aroused in the early morning by his radio alarm clock. "Good morning Miami last night's thunder storm has pasted the sun is shining and the temperature is a roaring 75 degrees." As Eric made to turn off the radio he realized that wrapped inside his arms was a beautiful petite blonde. Calleigh somehow was still sleeping so he slowly shifted positions to silence the noise coming out of his clock. Replacing his hand on her bare shoulder, Eric smiled to himself at how right it felt to be with her. Calleigh Duquesne fit in his arms in a way no other woman had, course Eric took the opportunity to remind himself she wasn't like any other woman he'd ever been with. Her scent alone was enough to intoxicate him; vanilla and a faint hint of GSR a combination completely unique much like the woman it belonged to. Calleigh stirred opening her eyes to see Eric. "Hey, you."

"Hey," said Eric tracing a circle on her arm. "Sleep well?"

"Better than I have in a long time." said Calleigh smiling. "What about you?"

"Perfect."

"What time is it?" asked Calleigh through a yawn.

"Around 8:00 but lucky for us we both have the day off." said Eric tucking a stray hair behind Calleigh's ear.

"How'd you manage that?" asked Calleigh smirking. "Use some of your pull with Horatio?"

"Pull and the fact that he's my brother-in-law." said Eric. "He knows the last few weeks haven't been too easy for us."

"So we have a whole day to ourselves. No crime scenes no Stetler trying to cause trouble." said Calleigh picturing a good day. "That sounds nice."

"Well how I fix us some coffee?" said Eric knowing even though Calleigh was a morning person, the southern belle need a jolt of caffeine this early. "You take it black, with two sugars, right?"

"Right, Café Cubano?" asked Calleigh knowing the answer.

"Have you ever known me to have anything else?" asked Eric humoring her.

"Ok, while you do that I'm gonna take a quick shower." Said Calleigh grabbing a small blanket from the floor and wrapped it around herself then leaning back in for a kiss. "I'll see you in a few minutes."

"I'll be waiting with your coffee." said Eric grinning. After a moment he scooped up his boxers and jeans from the floor, and put them on. As the coffee brewed, Eric's every thought revolved around the first night he and Calleigh spent together. The fact that Calleigh had let and even invited him to touch her was completely unbelievable. Now all those stupid flings and one night stands seemed so meaningless compared to what he felt last night. Being with woman after woman, could never have being in love with Calleigh. Eric's day dreams were interrupted by a pair of arms wrapped around his abs.

"Guess who," whispered Calleigh in his ear. "She's sweet, adorable and she's gonna be really mad if you get this wrong."

"Well with that at risk I wouldn't dare." said Eric grinning as. "Morning Calleigh,"

"Morning." said Calleigh allowing him enough room between her arms to turn around. "Hope you don't mind grabbed one of your shirts form the closet."

"I don't mind." said Eric saving the image of Calleigh in his shirt and nothing else in his memory forever. "Gotta say looks good on you."

"You're sweet." said Calleigh blushing. "Thank you"

"I mean it." said Eric as he began to kiss her. "And since at the moment we're a couple off duty cops I don't have to pretend I think anything less."

"You know you're right," said Calleigh. "We can be professional at work and off the clock we can do whatever we want."

"And as of last night does that include a change of personal policy?" asked Eric hesitantly.

"What do you mean?" asked Calleigh confused "What personal policy?"

"That night I crashed at your place, we had a deal." said Eric remembering the slightly awkward conversation. "On the couch…"

"No midnight tip toe." said Calleigh smiling. "Yeah I'm pretty sure that rule is out. I can't believe you remember that."

"there are a lot of things in my life I'll never forget quite a few of them have to do with you." said Eric with the ever present Delko smirk. "Look there's something I need to take care of this morning then I'm free for the rest of the day, and we can do whatever you want."

"What is it?" asked Calleigh curiously.

"I'm meeting with Derek Powell?" said Eric simply.

"Why, if he's threatening you, Eric you need to tell me." said Calleigh concernedly.

"Whoa , you can relax Calleigh. Powell's not threatening me." said Eric thinking she was cute when she's angry. "I'm meeting with him to thank him for what he said in court on my behalf."

"Oh, well why didn't you just say that?" asked Calleigh seeing she over reacted.

"I just did." said Eric chuckling. "Shouldn't take long so let's meet back up around 11:00."

"Sounds like a plan."

Sorry about the wait but the last bit of school was a major pain in the neck, but I'm out now and that little pest known as writers block seems to be on summer vacation, so on with the story. I know I promised Rick stetler but he'll be coming and making trouble near the end of next chapter so that's something to look forward to. Hope ya'll are having a good summerthanks for reading and please review