Everything hurt. She felt as though all of the gravity in the world was pushing down on her head. Like she had ran a million miles and had just woken up and she had no idea where she was. But she saw Eric. The second she met his eyes she went straight back to when she last saw them and the pieces started fitting together. She remembered the crash, and she remembered standing in that lobby at work and feeling dizzy. She remembered looking up and seeing his eyes and then nothing at all. And now he was all she knew in this room of people that were all buzzing around her. There was three of them now, one of them had a bright smiling face and seemed like the calm of it all. He kept looking down at a board and muttering medical terms under his breath. There was a brown haired woman that was shining a light passed her eyes and another one tapping on her knee to check for response. It was overwhelming and everything was happening at once and she had no idea how she even got here and then he grabbed her hand.

Calleigh looked down at her hand and saw another hand holding it. She followed the arm up to his face and it was like a calm in a storm. If Eric was here and he was calm right now then everything must be okay. He smiled at her and roughly wiped a tear out of the corner of his eye before it had the chance to fall. Calleigh just wanted it to be over. For someone to tell her what happened. She squinted her eyes shut for a moment and felt the pain in her head grow.

"Ms. Duquense, we're going to get you some pain medication for your head, we just need to finish up on some quick tests and then we'll let you be for a while. Does that sound alright?" The bright faced doctor asked. Calleigh looked back up at Eric who nodded back to her. She tried to reply but her throat felt dry and pained.

"Your throat is going to be sore for a little while, it's from the breathing apparatus we used with you during surgery" the brunette doctor said calmly while pouring Calleigh some water.

"Surgery?" Calleigh forced out. Her voice so raspy that it was almost not audible. Eric gave her hand a squeeze.

"Could we have a moment?" Eric asked as he gestured towards Calleigh. The doctor nodded and ducked out of the room momentarily with the other doctor and nurse. "Cal, remember the accident?" Eric asked softly, Calleigh nodded with a confused look on her face. "Well, it seems like during the accident, you might have hurt yourself more than you though… more than any of us thought. You collapsed at work, you remember that part right?" Eric prodded. Calleigh made a so-so notion with her hand. Eric nodded, he expected at least some of her memory to be fuzzy. "They brought you here and discovered that there was some bleeding in your brain, they fixed it! You're okay now. But that was the surgery, they said it was minor so recovery shouldn't be that long!" Eric rushed out the last part as he could see that there was worry in her face at the mention of brain surgery.

He watched as she slowly lifted her hand up to her head to feel the small patch on the back that was covered in gauze wrapping. She closed her eyes again to try and get a grip on the situation.

"But you're okay now, the hard part is over!" Eric reassured her as he nodded at the doctor through the window to come back in. Calleigh nodded and tried to keep it together and comply with them while they asked her questions and poked at different parts of her body for a reaction. Eric saw Horatio jogging to approach the room through the window. "Cal, I'm going to be right outside of the room okay? I'll be right back" Eric said.

"Okay" Calleigh mouthed in her attempt to speak. It came out as more of a croak but it was enough to earn a small smile out of her. She needed it too. Eric smiled back at her and quickly left the room.

"She's doing great so far, better than expected. At least that's what I heard them saying when they were evaluating her!" Eric said while looking at the ground. It all honestly seemed too good to be true. Horatio smiled as he looked through the window as she appeared with a scrunched face pushing away the nurses hand with the flashlight. One thing she will never be is cooperative.

"She's a special one, that's for sure" Horatio said while shaking his head out how difficult she was being even after all that she had been through. "Eric, we need to talk about Bryan" Horatio spoke softly. And just like that Eric was yanked from his peaceful place and brought exactly back to where he didn't want to be.

"What's there to talk about?" Eric asked as he turned and shoved his hands deep into his pockets.

"He's got Elisia Vega working his case…" Horatio stated flatly. That was one name that everyone knew. Elisia Vega was one of the best lawyers in Florida and boy did she know it. She only took cases that involved law enforcement and nobody knew how she ever got ahold of the cases as quickly as she did. But there she was. Horatio didn't even need to elaborate. Vega working the case meant Bryan was likely out of their custody.

"So now what do we do?" Eric asked. Horatio turned and looked to Calleigh.

"We get her to testify, and we keep her safe" Horatio said as he smiled at the doctors and nurse as the left her room. Eric tried his hardest to hide the anger he was feelings in his chest and started to head back into her room with Horatio.

"Hey there, how are you feeling?" Horatio said while he leaned over and gently hugged Calleigh. She reached over and drank some water. "Been better" She said. She was trying to keep her sentences small as her throat was still not feeling great. Horatio smiled and they looked over to Eric who looked down at the ground. He didn't want to have this conversation right now but he knew given the circumstances there was no waiting. "We need you to testify against Bryan when you are able to leave the hospital. I know this seems quick and it might be overwhelming but otherwise he will likely get off" Horatio explained calmly. Calleigh stared back at him with a face of pure confusion.

"Who is Bryan?" She said with a completely straight face. She looked back and forth between Eric and Horatio, searching their faces for an answer to her question. Eric rubbed his hands over his face. Horatio didn't know how exactly to respond to this, this wasn't what either of them had expected.

"Do you remember the case?" Horatio tried. Calleigh nodded and smiled.

"The one I worked with Natalia?" Calleigh said with a slight chuckle which sent her into a fit of coughs. Eric got her water and handed it to her to help. Horatio thought for a moment how this was going to work when she didn't remember the case at all.

"You remember the accident right Cal?" Eric tried. Calleigh nodded and looked at him waiting for him to get to the point. She didn't understand anything of this conversation. "Do you remember who was driving?" Eric finally said. Calleigh stopped for a moment. She had never even thought that into detail about it. She remembered getting out of the car and feeling light headed. She squinted her eyes shut for a moment and thought as hard as she could.

"A man? With a gun? I don't know Eric it's all fuzzy" she said. She was growing more and more irritated with herself for not being able to remember everything.

"That's alright Calleigh, that was enough" Horatio said as he got up to leave. They needed to work on a new way of getting Bryan. "I'll be sending and officer up here to watch the room" Horatio said quietly to Eric as he left. "I'll come back with the team tomorrow to check in okay?" He said to Calleigh, she smiled and nodded. Eric pulled the same chair back up to the side of her bed.

"Who was in the car?" She said seriously as she looked at him. Eric sighed.

"Calleigh you should rest" He tried.

"Who was in the car." She said again. This time it sounded more like a demand.

Eric looked down at his hands debating if he should start, but she deserved to know information that she had known before at one point. "Our perp. You went with him as a sort of a hostage. You were trying to protect one of our victims" Eric started. He was careful to leave out certain information like names and descriptions so that he wouldn't influence what she remembered and what she thought she remembered. Before Eric could continue there was suddenly a loud disturbance in the hallway. Medical terms being shouted left and right. Finally a group of EMT's passed Calleigh's room with a man strapped down to a gurney that they were rushing past her room. Calleigh raised a hand to point out at the disturbance.

"Him. He was the one" She said quietly. Eric didn't need her confirmation to know exactly who that was. The real question however, was how and why he got here…

You guys know the drill! Let me know what you think about this chapter! Some pushers to keep you guessing: Why is Bryan in the hospital so soon after his arrest? When is Calleigh going to be released? And most importantly, WHEN ARE ERIC AND CALLEIGH FINALLY GOING TO GET INTERESTING?! All coming next :)