Fixed [9/9] (Colby/OFC-Callie, G)
Originally posted to mustangcandi and shared 11.21.07 through savecolby...
Title: Fixed, Part IX of IX
Characters/Pairings: Colby/OFC-Callie
Rating: G
Word Count: 916
Summary: There seemed to be just one thing missing...
Spoilers: none
Notes/Warnings: The conclusion of the follow up series to Broken. I wrote all 9 "Fixed" pieces after 3.24 - The Janus List but before 4.01 - Trust Metric to resolve my issues with the situation so I could sleep at night. Any similarities between this and Trust Metric are PURELY coincidental...no credit is meant to have been taken or earned from this fan fic. It was all for my own personal therapy. Beware the schmoop.
Disclaimer: If you recognize it, regrettably - it's not mine.
Five weeks. Five blissful weeks it had been since Callie had given him back his heart, his home…his life. He’d moved back in - not just into her life, but to his home and back to his team. Every thing was different now….different, but better. Now, he was just an FBI agent…with no secret motives, no secret assignments. His sole purpose was to serve the greater good of L.A. and the greater, more delicious needs of one Callasandra Walker. Every thing was out in the open. Every one in his life knew all that was to be known. There was no need to fear attachment. There was no more need to wander. He had found his place here - in this city, on this team, in this house, with Callie.
There seemed to be just one thing missing, he thought with a smile as he wrapped the blanket more tightly around Callie as she sat in front of him. She was wrapped in his arms as they sat together in the sand of the beach that existed behind the house they shared, watching as the setting sun gave way to the darkness of night. Instinctively she relaxed back against him, smiling as she tilted her head just enough that he could gently nibble the skin of her neck before resting his head against her shoulder.
Spring had finally come to southern California. There was a gentle fragrance of fresh blossoms carried on the evening air. The seagulls were crying in the distance. The evening tide was coming to shore, stroking the coast with a steady rhythm that seemed to synchronize with the beating of his own heart. And before them, the sun sunk slowly into the distant horizon - casting a familiar orange brilliance over the world and leaving a trail of beautiful pastels which gently kissed the tips of clouds and filled the sky with magnificence.
The last time he’d asked her this question, they’d been surrounded by her friends and family. He remembered it as a perfect afternoon. He’d been given Lt. Gary Walker’s blessing and before her father and every one else she loved, he had dropped to one knee and spoken those four little words that at that point changed his life forever.
This time, however, he didn’t want all the pomp and circumstance. Given every thing they’d been through…every thing they’d fought to hold on to, there was no need for a big show. It was meant to happen - just the two of them, in a quiet moment just like this. And he could feel his heartbeat accelerate even as he tightened his hold on her once more.
As though she sensed the change in him, she turned so that she could see him…so that she could look into his eyes to know that he was alright. And when she saw the way that he was smiling - his eyes tenderly holding her as though he were memorizing this exact moment, she felt her cheeks slightly fill with color even as she flashed him a brilliant smile…a smile whose radiance nearly drown out the setting sun and a smile that Colby knew was reserved only for him. This was his moment, he thought moving forward to gently kiss her cheek before his lips brushed gently over her ear.
“Marry me, Cal?” he sighed, his voice rasping with the excitement he felt surging through him.
She’d waited to hear him say those words since the day she’d accepted him back into her life and even though she expected them, they still cut through her - filling her with an excitement and a love that only he had ever shown her. The question was simple. And so was her answer.
“Yes,” she breathed, tilting her head once more to look at him.
His eyes held her for a moment as a new warmth stole through him and brought with it a soft slow smile that gradually spread across his face as he accepted her words into his heart. Once more…she’d said yes. And once more…he knew he was the luckiest man alive.
Carefully, his eyes never leaving hers, he moved his hand into his pocket - withdrawing from it the ring he’d kept since that fateful day when she’d given it back. It was her ring - the one that he had made just for her and as he revealed it to her outside the confines of the blanket, the setting sun cast its colors into the trio of diamonds and it seemed for a fleeting moment, he’d captured a star to give just to her.
Callie sighed as she extended her hand for him. And as he slipped the ring back onto her finger, knowing without looking that it was hers…the one she’d longed to wear, she tightened her hand around his and turned to kiss his cheek. “Still perfect for me,” she softly answered. “Just like you…”
He closed his eyes a moment and savored the feel of her lips against him before he once more wrapped both his arms about her waist and pulled her closer to him. “And just like me…it’s finally back where it belongs,” he smiled, giving her a gentle squeeze. He savored the contented way she sighed once more before relaxing back against him as the two continued to watch the setting sun as it disappeared into the distant water and left a blanket of stars in a blackened sky in its wake. [ original post]
<< Fixed, Part 8
Title: Fixed, Part IX of IX
Characters/Pairings: Colby/OFC-Callie
Rating: G
Word Count: 916
Summary: There seemed to be just one thing missing...
Spoilers: none
Notes/Warnings: The conclusion of the follow up series to Broken. I wrote all 9 "Fixed" pieces after 3.24 - The Janus List but before 4.01 - Trust Metric to resolve my issues with the situation so I could sleep at night. Any similarities between this and Trust Metric are PURELY coincidental...no credit is meant to have been taken or earned from this fan fic. It was all for my own personal therapy. Beware the schmoop.
Disclaimer: If you recognize it, regrettably - it's not mine.
Five weeks. Five blissful weeks it had been since Callie had given him back his heart, his home…his life. He’d moved back in - not just into her life, but to his home and back to his team. Every thing was different now….different, but better. Now, he was just an FBI agent…with no secret motives, no secret assignments. His sole purpose was to serve the greater good of L.A. and the greater, more delicious needs of one Callasandra Walker. Every thing was out in the open. Every one in his life knew all that was to be known. There was no need to fear attachment. There was no more need to wander. He had found his place here - in this city, on this team, in this house, with Callie.
There seemed to be just one thing missing, he thought with a smile as he wrapped the blanket more tightly around Callie as she sat in front of him. She was wrapped in his arms as they sat together in the sand of the beach that existed behind the house they shared, watching as the setting sun gave way to the darkness of night. Instinctively she relaxed back against him, smiling as she tilted her head just enough that he could gently nibble the skin of her neck before resting his head against her shoulder.
Spring had finally come to southern California. There was a gentle fragrance of fresh blossoms carried on the evening air. The seagulls were crying in the distance. The evening tide was coming to shore, stroking the coast with a steady rhythm that seemed to synchronize with the beating of his own heart. And before them, the sun sunk slowly into the distant horizon - casting a familiar orange brilliance over the world and leaving a trail of beautiful pastels which gently kissed the tips of clouds and filled the sky with magnificence.
The last time he’d asked her this question, they’d been surrounded by her friends and family. He remembered it as a perfect afternoon. He’d been given Lt. Gary Walker’s blessing and before her father and every one else she loved, he had dropped to one knee and spoken those four little words that at that point changed his life forever.
This time, however, he didn’t want all the pomp and circumstance. Given every thing they’d been through…every thing they’d fought to hold on to, there was no need for a big show. It was meant to happen - just the two of them, in a quiet moment just like this. And he could feel his heartbeat accelerate even as he tightened his hold on her once more.
As though she sensed the change in him, she turned so that she could see him…so that she could look into his eyes to know that he was alright. And when she saw the way that he was smiling - his eyes tenderly holding her as though he were memorizing this exact moment, she felt her cheeks slightly fill with color even as she flashed him a brilliant smile…a smile whose radiance nearly drown out the setting sun and a smile that Colby knew was reserved only for him. This was his moment, he thought moving forward to gently kiss her cheek before his lips brushed gently over her ear.
“Marry me, Cal?” he sighed, his voice rasping with the excitement he felt surging through him.
She’d waited to hear him say those words since the day she’d accepted him back into her life and even though she expected them, they still cut through her - filling her with an excitement and a love that only he had ever shown her. The question was simple. And so was her answer.
“Yes,” she breathed, tilting her head once more to look at him.
His eyes held her for a moment as a new warmth stole through him and brought with it a soft slow smile that gradually spread across his face as he accepted her words into his heart. Once more…she’d said yes. And once more…he knew he was the luckiest man alive.
Carefully, his eyes never leaving hers, he moved his hand into his pocket - withdrawing from it the ring he’d kept since that fateful day when she’d given it back. It was her ring - the one that he had made just for her and as he revealed it to her outside the confines of the blanket, the setting sun cast its colors into the trio of diamonds and it seemed for a fleeting moment, he’d captured a star to give just to her.
Callie sighed as she extended her hand for him. And as he slipped the ring back onto her finger, knowing without looking that it was hers…the one she’d longed to wear, she tightened her hand around his and turned to kiss his cheek. “Still perfect for me,” she softly answered. “Just like you…”
He closed his eyes a moment and savored the feel of her lips against him before he once more wrapped both his arms about her waist and pulled her closer to him. “And just like me…it’s finally back where it belongs,” he smiled, giving her a gentle squeeze. He savored the contented way she sighed once more before relaxing back against him as the two continued to watch the setting sun as it disappeared into the distant water and left a blanket of stars in a blackened sky in its wake. [ original post]
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