Pairing: Ryan & Calleigh
Contain: No Spoilers
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She was a CSI. She was supposed to follow a logical line of thought. But there she was trying to understand why (in heaven's name why) she likes Ryan Wolfe. As she went over and over and over again a list of possible reasons, she still couldn't find the one thing that was making her like him (and that really means love him).
He wasn't even her type to begin with. So there, sitting on the couch, staring at the ceiling, she thought: "Why do I like him!?"
So, like every good girl has done at least once in their life, she finally decided to make things easier by putting together, in an organized way, a good and old list of "things I like about him". Hopefully that'll help. The remaining problem is: where to start?
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His scent. It's strange to start this kind of list with something like that – and she knows it. Actually, a girl's list usually start with "smile", "personality", "romanticism", "skills", but of course, being Calleigh those come after things like "scent", "steps", "eyes", "voice", "OCD" – to be more exact, realizing her priorities in this matter, made her sound terribly like some kind of stalker. But, when closing her eyes, the first thing that comes to mind about him is his scent. Simply because it wasn't just a scent, it was his scent.
Being the OCD freak Ryan is, his scent is a unique mixture of his cologne and aftershave. Yes, it's more complicated than that – as most of anything to do with Ryan Wolfe.
It wasn't a matter of a very rare kind of cologne, or a difficult-to-find aftershave… It was just… His scent. Composed of a exact amount of cologne and a exact amount of aftershave, each put in a exact area of his body, combine with his natural smell. It was such a complicated scheme that - she was sure – no one else could pull it off. Even if that task was to be given to some kind of specialist, still would be impossible to recreate Ryan Wolfe's scent.
It was the chemistry between the liquids put on the skin in a special order, mixing itself with the fading smell of clean clothes and shampoo, and a long study of air chains, weather, local temperature … Yeah, there was no other explanation.
His scent was the result of a study of how to produce a scent that wouldn't be too strong nor too weak, that would please women, would stuck in the right places and be incredibly welcoming in different situations.
Definitely it has been a good choice to start the list with his scent, because it was no one else's but his. And she would never encounter someone with the same scent, it couldn't be mistaken, it couldn't be made by anyone else, it wasn't carefully prepared for anyone else. And no matter how many times she tried, she would never be able to recreate it in her pillow to help her sleep through the nights he wasn't around.
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I was tired of reading fics where Ryan is the one chasing. It was about time Calleigh show some of her love as well. First fanfic ever, please don't kill me (and congratulations for getting this far). Still wondering why I posted at all. ¬¬