Title: Is this how its meant to be??

Rating: PG13

Notes: Calleigh and Horatio are no longer talking to each other like they usually do, but more like arguing, so what happens when Calleigh is forced to quit??

Chapter 1: Uncomfortable

Eric and Alexx are walking down the hall towards Calleighs' lab. They are talking to each other about the arguments that have been going on between Calleigh and Horatio.

"They used to be very good friends" Alexx tells Eric "But I have no idea what happened between the two"

"I was walking up the stairs to Horatio's office and I heard them both arguing. The next thing I heard was Horatio telling Calleigh that she was suspended without pay. I thought that that was harsh" Eric told Alexx, as they both walked down the hall.

"He actually said that to her!" Alexx exclaimed as both her and Eric turned the corner to the hallway where they saw Calleigh and Horatio talking, well more like arguing..again.

"Why are you doing this?!" cried Calleigh "Why are you treating me like a piece of trash?"

"Don't start with me Calleigh!" Horatio snapped "Don't put this blame on me because of something that YOU did!"

Alexx and Eric looked at the scene playing out 10 feet away, the arguing was so loud that the people in their labs where watching the scene playing out from their doors.

"What I did! What WE did Horatio, it wasn't just my fault!" Calleigh argued back "Why are you blaming me for something that wasn't my fault in the first place!?"

"Because you are my second in command! Also because you are not suppose to let something like this happen!"

Calleigh finally gave up and looked at Horatio with tears in her eyes, then at all the techs that were in the doorways of their labs, then back at Horatio. She didn't want to do this, but if he was treating her like this, then what would be the point of her working with a man that no longer respected her and no longer thought of her as a friend and a colleague.

"Then I have no choice but to say that this will be my last day working here Lieutenant Caine" Calleigh softly said to Horatio.

There were gasps coming from all of the techs and also from Alexx and Eric as they all heard what Calleigh said. Alexx walked right up to the two and tried to talk Calleigh from leaving the lab.

"Calleigh, what are you doing? Are you crazy?" Alexx said to Calleigh "And are you just going to let her leave like this?" she said to Horatio

"Its ok Alexx, he doesn't care about me or.. he wanted me gone for weeks now and so he got his wish, he never really wanted me here the last months anyway"

"Calleigh don't think like that, we need you here" Alexx tried to tell her, but she wasn't having any of it

"Its ok, besides I need to go get my things out of my..the ballistics lab and I need to clean out my locker." Calleigh said to Alexx "He was right, it was my fault, all of it"

"Honey, nothing was your fault"

"Sure it was, me saying 'yes' to come work here, me falling in love with my boss and thinking he loved me back…"

At this confession, Horatio couldn't help but look up with a shocked face. He did love Calleigh, but he never thought that she loved him back, so in fear of rejection, he started to push her away and trying to get away from her, and now here he is, hearing that she was leaving CSI, but that she also loved him. What has he done?

"..and yes it is my fault, it is my fault that I am pregnant with his baby, it is my fault that this baby wont have a father and it is also my fault that the father doesn't care about us"

All around there were more gasps and whispers about what they heard. Nobody thought that it would be. Calleigh Duquesne pregnant with Horatio Caines' baby. The ones that were most caught off guard were Alexx and Eric-who now is by Alexx and Calleighs side-because they never would have thought that Calleigh would get pregnant by accident.

"You're pregnant?" Eric asked

"Yes, 12 weeks to be exact." Calleigh replied to Eric, looking once more at Horatio so he will know that. "I found out during my regular doctors appointment about 4 weeks ago"

"Oh my gosh Calleigh.." Alexx whispered

"Yeah that is what I said when I found out, I thought that it was the flu or some bug, but it was confirmed that I was indeed pregnant, and I vowed then and there that I was going to tell the father and that I would do everything in my grasp to be a great mother to this baby"

"What about your birth control pills?" asked Eric "I know that you started taking them after Jake"

"My doctor said that the pill was working fine, but you know that they are only 97 effective, so she said that this baby was a miracle. She has been my doctor since I was 18, she knows everything, about what my body can be put through and what it cant, so when I miscarried at 25, she told me that I couldn't get pregnant again and that I shouldn't try to. Jake was trying to get me pregnant, so I got on the pill. Look where that got me" Calleigh told Eric, Alexx and Horatio, even if she didn't want him to hear this.

Horatio could take it anymore; he had to tell her something, anything at all. He didn't want her to leave, he knew how much this job means to her and he wants to be able to see her grow more and more since she is pregnant with his baby, he doesn't want to miss out on things like this. He always told himself that he would be there for the woman that was carrying his baby. Now it looks like he did nothing but push her away.

"Calleigh.."

Looking back at Horatio, Calleigh wiped her tears away and covered her stomach with her arms, protecting the child inside of her.

"Please Horatio, if you're going to yell at me, can you please not do it now" she softly said "I don't feel like arguing with you anymore, I really don't" she looked at Alexx and Eric "I will miss you guys so much" she said as she gave them both a hug and a kiss on the cheek and started to walk away, then looked back.

"I will miss you too Horatio" then she was gone from the hallway.

Eric looked at Horatio with a 'I want to kill you' look and then left to go help Calleigh with loading her things into a box for her and helping her carry the heavy items since she wont be able to do that now that she is pregnant.

Alexx looked at Horatio and the only thing that could be said was…

"I hope that you are happy about this Horatio, because if something happens to her because of this, then there will be no mercy for you"

"I know Alexx, but she hates me already" Horatio replied back to her

"She doesn't hate you Horatio, she is just really emotional right now because she is after all pregnant, not only pregnant, but pregnant with YOUR baby."

"I know"

"You need to go after her" was the last thing that Alexx said before heading the way the Calleigh and Eric both went.

TBC (need reviews first)