Hey everyone this is my first CSI Miami fic as i've only recently discovered the wonders of CSI and everything it involves :D so i hope you enjoy it!

Disclaimer: Please I wish... I'm just borrowing them and they will be returned to the lab once im finhshed

Warning: Mentions of Rape later in the story and implied in this chapter if you don't like it don't read it!

One last thing before i go Lost Son did not happen in this ficlet's universe i love Speed too much :-D!

Burn Out

Prologue

Horatio Caine had lived in Miami all his life and throughout his career he had been involved in fires, in the Everglades fires were a constant threat especially when rain had been scarce the lightest spark could set it off. But even he had to admit this was one of the worst he had seen.

He was even wondering if it was a good idea to be this far out in the glades with the fire as fierce as it was but there was a scene to process and it couldn't be ignored. Plus he had been in the Everglades before and the fire barriers usually held strong he had to trust that this time it would be no different.

He could see the fire crew were fighting to keep the fire barrier in place so they were safe to process the seen. One of the fire crews had called it in while they had been controlling the fire in that area. The body was of a girl who looked about nineteen. She had died black hair that Horatio once guessed had been brown and entrancing green eyes that held his attention even after death.

"What we got Speed?" Horatio asked Alexx had yet to make it to the scene caught up with a gunshot victim in town that Calleigh and Eric were currently processing. "Looks like violence H." Speed said solemnly picking up the pieces of debris that were around the body. "We don't know anymore until Alexx gets here though."

Horatio straightened up and looked around the scene. "No but there are clues here that can be found without Alexx's or this young lady's help." Speed nodded and looked around. "It needs to be processed quickly H before the fire eats it away."

"Yes it does." Horatio nodded but his instincts were telling him that he was missing something big. "Hey Speed?" He asked. "Yeah?" Speed looked up briefly from what he had been doing?" "Don't blunt force trauma victims usually lay where they fall?" "Usually why?" Speed asked picking up on the redhead's tone of voice.

Horatio had discovered something and he was about to railroad it directly on top of them. "Then if that was true why are their foot prints leading too and from the body?" Speed looked at them they were the same size as the victim's footwear but the soles were different. "Someone moved her." "Yes." Horatio said looking round again. "Someone moved her, the question is who?"

"Her attacker?" Speed asked standing up and surveying the scene. "Possibly." Horatio conceded but I don't think that her attacker would have gone directly into the line of the fire." Speed looked at the prints. They led right into the fire barrier. "There is someone out there?" Speed asked his eyes widening looking at the wall of fire.

"Maybe." Horatio said. He walked the line of the footprints he could see they were small possibly around a five or a six, did that mean they were hunting a minor? Somehow he knew the answer was close by. He was careful to stay away from the roar of the flames and found himself veering into the grass. He heard grass snap as he neared a particularly thick piece of grassland he looked round and pulled out his gun and slowly approached it.

The grass snapped again more urgently this time and he heard the unmistakable sound of a whimper. Horatio lowered the gun slightly and pulled back the grass. What he saw stopped him in his tracks.

A girl around the age of nineteen-stared back at him her eyes wide with fear and her mouth open in a silent scream. As he moved to catch her she scurried back again. "It's okay sweetheart." He said soothingly "I won't hurt you." He went to touch her and she flinched and moved away. "Come on sweetheart you can't stay here."

She looked at him and he stopped dead. Her eyes were unusually bright but it was the colour that stopped him in his tracks shockingly deep emerald green the exact same colour as the dead girls. Their hair colours were different hers was a deep mahogany red/purple but he could see it was dyed. He guessed she had once been a brunette like the victim. Suddenly things had become more complicated.

She had soot all over her face and their were gashes and cuts over one side of her face while bruising marred the other her blouse was ripped and there were several buttons missing meaning her bra was showing. He could see that one of the straps was ripped and from the look of her he guessed she had tried to fight. He glanced at her fingers and realised they were bloodied and broken; maybe she had gotten some of her attacker under there?

He took off his jacket aware that looking at her for too long would only scare her more. God only knew what hell she had been through out here. He kept his hands where she could see them. He wasn't sure this was the case, she could have simply been beaten in the struggle but her clothes and her reaction to him where dead giveaways. "Take this." He offered it to her keeping his distance. She looked at him fear in her eyes but then she eyed the jacket with obvious longing and wrapped an arm around herself.

Horatio was able to see then there were definite marks of restraint making her wrists. She edged forward and touched the coat. He smiled and released it careful not to touch her.

She took the jacket and quickly donned it buttoning it and though it drowned her she offered a weak smile. Horatio smiled back. "What's your name Sweetheart." The girl looked soberly and touched her throat. "You can't talk?" He asked quietly. She shook her head tears leaking out her eyes. "It's all right you can speak without using your voice." He winked and then showed her his badge. "See?"she smiled Him. Tracing the letters out on his badge CSI? She asked. He nodedimpressed. "That's right." He held out his hand. "Come with me now you're safe."

She looked at his hand and gulped and instead reached for his arm and clutched it like it was her lifeline. Horatio didn't so anything to stop her and didn't do anything to trap her. He led her gently back to Speed who looked up. "H where the hell have you been?" He stopped as he looked at the girl. "Whose this?" "This is someone who needs our help."

Speed understanding Horatio's look simply nodded and smiled at the girl who smiled but shied away from him. Speed smiled slightly and held his hands up in surrender.

The girl looked him up and down with her big green eyes and then looked down and her mouth opened in a silent scream and tears fell down her cheeks her shoulders shaking in silent sobs. She kicked the ground violently and when she looked up Horatio saw a fire there that told him she had been determined to survive whatever had befallen the two girls.

Horatio would have usually put his arm around a relative that was in so much distress but he couldn't risk her running back into the glades she had survived once he would not let her take her chance with the fire.

"How long did Alexx say she was going to be?" Horatio asked. "20 minutes but that half an hour ago as far as I can tell today she's backed up but we can't move the body until she clears it."

"Speed," Horatio said dashing for the kit. "That is the least of our problems!" Speed spun round and saw the fire flashing over towards them. "Shit!" He yelled. "H we have to get out of here!" "No time!" Horatio said pulling out the sliver sheet he ushered his young charge to Speed and trapped her between them and threw the cover over them praying it would hold.

Ok so what did you think?

Be nice it's my first attempt at a CSI Miami and yes i'm aware the ending of the chapter is more like Slow Burn from series two but i couldn't resist the fire plays a big part in this story and it seemed like the perfect way to end the chapter.

Cya next time!

Blue Fire xx