So, "Crossfire" is going really well and I figured that for that reason I could probably handle making another story! As you should already know, my stories are all EC but this one I am hoping to make more action based maybe? Not so sure yet. But for all the Hiphuggers fans out there, there will be some EC at some point in this story.

Calleigh and Ryan were off to lunch at the same bistro they usually hit up over the past two years. The team had finally closed their case as of 11:32 am and they were exhausted. Calleigh offered to go pick up lunch for the team and Ryan go tied into going because Calleigh "couldn't carry it all by myself". The two finally arrived and parked on the street a few stores down.

"Oh you know what, can we run into the bank real quick?" Calleigh asked Ryan who was busy picking at a fuzzy on his shirt. He looked up and shot her a confused face.

"I don't have cash! Natalia is putting it all on her card and everyone is giving her cash. I, Mr. Wolfe, do not have any cash!" She explained with an unchartable amount of sass in her voice. Ryan rolled his eyes. Guess he deserved it.

"Why yes your highness, we can go to the bank" He said with a mock medieval accent and gestured towards the bank with his hand. The two laughed at the childish banter and walked towards the bank's entrance. There was a considerable line when they got in but it wasn't bad. They were honestly thankful to be inside the air conditioned building. It was a humid, 97 degree day in Miami and any type of heat relief was appreciated. They were finally close to being next when Ryan watched the face of the bank teller change from content to purely horrified in a matter of seconds, as if in slow two of them began to turn around to see what was causing the displeasure on the bank tellers face but couldn't even get a glance before echoing gunfire was heard. Almost simultaneously everyone in the entire bank hit the ground in fear. Ryan threw an arm of Calleigh's shoulders the second the first gunshot was heard and brought her down to the ground with him in protection.

"NOBODY MOVES" A voice boomed as the doors were heard being slammed shut and what sounded like chains moving against metal. They were taking everyone hostage. Calleigh laid on the floor with her cheek against the cool marble of the floor facing Ryan who was in the same position. Ryan still had an arm over Calleigh's shoulders which left his phone that was clipped to his belt fully exposed. Ryan looked at Calleigh with a serious face. "They can't know we're cops" he mouthed. Calleigh nodded in understanding. She reached out the short distance and detached Ryan's phone from his hip as slowly and carefully as she could. Ryan closed his eyes, praying that the unknown amount of men in the building wouldn't see. Calleigh carefully pulled the cell phone close to her chest and held down the home button until the screen read "Sending Out Emergency Message". Calleigh sighed a deep breath silently as she reached out and reattached the phone to Ryan's hip.

"EVERYONE UP WITH YOUR HANDS ON YOUR HEADS" A second man yelled. Calleigh looked to Ryan as the two stood up along with the 12 other people in the bank. They could finally see what they were dealing with. 3 mean stood, covered in padding and all had black masks. The door to the entrance had indeed been chained shut. Calleigh eye balled the weaponry that they were armed with. Two of the men held pistols, one held a machine gun. Looked military issued. The three of them looked over everyone. Ryan had a bad feeling that something was going to go off and that they would be noticed. One of the men looked at Calleigh, who was eyeballing all of the guns still. He began walking towards Calleigh with a sick smile on his face. Calleigh quickly averted her gaze to the man who was getting closer and closer. Ryan heard faint sirens in the background and hoped that the men wouldn't suspect anything.

"You see something you like?" The man slurred off at Calleigh. She looked down at the floor to avoid confrontation. Ryan felt anger boiling up inside of him as he watched this man grow closer and closer to Calleigh. The sirens were getting louder and louder. One of the men was behind the counter at this point breaking open the drawers and taking out the money while the third was looking out of the massive glass windows and seemed to be growing nervous. He also happened to be the one holding the machine gun.

"I want everyone up against the windows" The heavily armed men yelled. The people in the bank all started walking up to the windows facing the outside. Calleigh began heading towards the window with Ryan next to her. Once they all had a spot facing out towards the street another of the men went behind the counter to help out his teammate so to speak. He turned around quickly and looked at the man who had previously been focused on Calleigh. "Search them for valuables and don't let them move" He barked. The man nodded and went to the first person in line and began pulling items out of their pockets and putting them into his own. Calleigh turned her head and looked to Ryan.

"Our guns" she mouthed to him. Ryan just squinted his eyes while still facing the front, knowing that this could not go over well. The man was three people away from Calleigh. Three people away until all hell broke loose. Ryan opened his eyes to see Hummers and police cars pulling up, Screeching tires and flashing lights were overwhelming. Calleigh opened her eyes to see Horatio and Eric directly in front of the building behind the opened doors of the Hummer with guns drawn. Trip and Natalia were in the same position in another Hummer followed by two cop cars.

"Good thing we got this handy human shield to protect us huh Lenny?" One of the men yelled from behind the counter. "Sure is boss" Lenny replied. Calleigh looked straight out at her teammates, hoping they had some type of plan. Lenny continued down the line.

"Release the hostages and we can talk about our options" One of the officers yelled through a speaker on one of the cars. The three man laughed audibly. Lenny was now one person away from Calleigh. She looked out at the many faces and caught that of Eric's. He saw her too, he was focused on her honestly. Ryan looked over to Calleigh and mouthed "sorry". Calleigh looked over to him and Lenny quickly grabbed a handful of her hair and pulled her head back so her ear was right next to his mouth. "I said to face forward" He whispered harshly before slamming her face harshly into the glass of the window.

Eric watched from the outside as she snatched her head back and then roughly slammed her into the window. He tightly gripped onto his gun as he watched the scene unfold. "Steady Eric" Horatio said flatly. Lenny took his wandering hands and tightly gripped her small body in more than one ways, searching for anything he could take for his own. Calleigh felt her heart race. He was inches away from her firearm. He reached down further and felt it. He pulled the gun from her waist quickly as anger spread over his face. Eric felt his heart drop as did all of their teammates on the outside. All they could do was watch at this point.

"Look at what we have here" Lenny began as he started to pull his own firearm up to Calleigh's skull. Ryan instinctively pulled his own firearm out.

"No.." The word fell out of Natalia's mouth instinctively. Ryan had almost had the gun up level with Lenny's face before Calleigh turned and elbowed him in the throat as hard as she could. Lenny dropped his gun and Calleigh's at the same time. Ryan got out one round at Lenny before the "boss" behind the counter lifted his machine gun and opened fire for a quick moment. Parts of the glass shattered while one bullet skimmed Ryan's arm, while another went straight passed Calleigh's face. Close enough to burn her cheek, leaving a bleeding trail down her face. Lenny quickly got up and punched Ryan in the face hard, sending him to the ground before he turned quickly and grabbed Calleigh by the neck and pinning her back against the glass. He looked down and saw her gleaming, golden badge. He snatched it quickly off her waist and held it up.

"Miami Dade" He said with a laugh before tossing it backwards to either of the men behind the counter. "You too huh?" Lenny continued while he kicked Ryan enough for him to roll over in pain revealing his own badge. "Boss" seemed to be agitated at this point. He came back from behind the counter with his gun drawn. He walked up to Lenny and snatched Calleigh from his hands and dragged her himself to the front door where they were in clear view. He ripped the phone off her belt and held it in front of her face.

"Who do I call on here to talk to one of them?" He asked roughly. Calleigh looked at the phone for a moment and looked back to the man. "First contact" she said gently. "Boss" put the phone up to his ear and sandwiched it between his shoulder. Altering Calleigh's position so that she was in front of him. One hand around her throat, another holding a gun to her head.

Eric looked down as his phone buzzed. He looked over to Horatio who told him to pick it up.

"What do you want" Eric answered roughly. "Boss smiled as he realized he was in the perfect position.

"How much would you say blondie here is worth? OR .." he paused for a moment while Lenny dragged Ryan over by his collar. "This one! The both of them are yours right?" "Boss" replied with a sick smile. This was a man who had nothing to lose.

"What do you want?" Eric asked again, fuming at this point.

"Ahh, we do have an understanding don't we?" Boss replied. He let go of his grip on Calleigh's neck and forced her down onto her knees. He placed the gun barrel firmly on the back of her head. "You see, I studied the blueprint of this building. We had a plan. These two, they weren't apart of it! So what I would like, is a deal" Boss began. Eric watched as Calleigh looked worriedly over to Ryan who was now slouched against the wall next to her. He was in bad shape. The blow to the head he took was not good.

"We will give you all of the hostages, so long as we get to leave with your two officers" Boss finished.

"That is not happening" Eric said firmly. Boss shrugged his shoulders while he pulled back Calleigh's head and firmly pushed the gun into her neck.

"Make the deal!" Ryan yelled as well as he could. Boss took the phone and put it near Calleigh's face. "Make the deal Eric" She said through a choked voice. Eric looked at Horatio. Horatio nodded. Eric knew that there had to be some other type of a follow up. Eric looked firmly through the glass door at Boss and picked the phone back up.

"What are the details" Eric said firmly, eyes locked on Ryan and Calleigh. Boss smiled as he turned around and nodded at the man still behind the counter who then picked up his backpack and headed further into the back.

"We leave the hostages here for you to come get, but you may not enter until ten minutes after we leave" Boss began. In the middle of his pause there was an audible explosion of some type heard. "We take your two friends here, and granted that you follow our instructions, they will not be harmed! Ah, the most important part, I'll have a nice FaceTime call set up, so I'll know the second you enter, and if it is a second earlier than what we have agreed on, Princess here will be the first one to get a bullet!" Boss finished. He snatched Calleigh up of the ground easily and handed her off to Lenny. "Dante!" Boss yelled. The third man's name finally learned appeared again and came forward, his back pack missing. Must have been what was holding whatever that explosive. Dante came forward and grabbed Ryan off the ground as well. "Do we have a deal?" Boss asked with a smile. They knew that they couldn't argue.

"We have a deal" Eric said. He had to force the words out of his mouth. He watched as Dante roughly dragged Ryan back far into the bank, followed by Lenny who threw Calleigh over his shoulder and began walking back. Calleigh looked up to Eric with a single tear falling down her face. Her hope was quickly fading. Soon Ryan and Calleigh were completely out of sight. Boss hung up the phone and held his gun out towards the windows while he FaceTimed Calleigh's phone off of his own and placed hers down on the desk to ensure he could see the entire scene. He then walked backwards towards the bank and once out of sight began to run full speed to catch up with his team members.

OKAY GUYS! Cutting this chapter off right here because I don't want to give it away! But how are they escaping?! Where are the thieves going to take them? How and WILL they escape…? Questions to potentially be answered in the next chapter! Let me know what you guys are thinking! Review Review Review so I know if I should continue with this one or not!