DISCLAIMER: CSI Miami belongs to Jerry Bruckheimer, and all of them producers, given for all of us to enjoy. And I'm borrowing them for a while.

PAIRING: Eric/Ryan SLASH

RATING: M

WARNING: language, Slash, a bit of violence

A/N: Did I mention that English is not my native language? So if you notice any weird use of grammar or if my spelling is wrong, please forgive me. XP

Sorry for the late update, been keeping busy the past few days. This chapter was written with help from a friend.

Again and again, thank you to all the readers of this fic! *big hugs*

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CHAPTER FIVE:

"Do you think he's alright?" Maxine Valera asked Natalia as she came by to see if they got a hit from the print Ryan recovered from the scene. She asked that question after explaining what she found on the print.

"What? Who?" Natalia looked at her confused.

"Ryan!" she whispered "He's been staring at that computer for the last, I don't know, 5 minutes? 10?"

Natalia frowned and stared at her fellow CSI. Maxine was right, Ryan was staring at the computer, seemingly lost in thoughts. She wondered what was bothering the young man.

"See?" Valera said "Maybe you could talk to him or something…"

"Yeah…I think I will, thanks Maxine…" she said and proceeded to ryan who didn't even notice her approach him.

"Hey Ryan!" she greeted him with a broad smile.

The brunette almost jumped "H-hey Natalia! Y-You surprised me!"

"I can see that" she replied "You were staring at the monitor for a while now…" she noticed that the monitor was blank. "Hmnn…"

Ryan's face flushed with a gentle rosy color than usual "I…I was just, uh…" he stammered.

Natalia stared at him for a while, then her face brightened as an idea occurred to her as to what could be the reason behind her friend's action . she smiled and stared at the young CSI

"Ooh, I get it…" she said softly.

"W-What?" his eyes widened "W-What do you mean?"

"oh, come on" she grinned cheekily "I know that expression… very well since I'm a girl but you guys go through it too, but you keep it to yourself, just like now…so, what happened?"

His face went steadily redder…what the hell? "I-It's not what you think!" he said. Well, I didn't even know what did happen…which was true, everything that happened inside the hummer occurred so fast he can't remember properly what went down between him and Eric, all he could remember was when Eric told he would wait for his answer, Eric's face coming up so close…he could feel his breathing, his lips…oh God…Eric did kiss him, leaving his mind on a completely blank state. His face steamed up.

"So…so…" Natalia said, "Did that bastard already confess?" she almost caught him off guard.

"B-Bastard?" he repeated.

"Oh" all of a sudden she looked rather crestfallen "I thought Eric already had the guts to tell you—oh!" she clasped a hand to her mouth, suddenly looking furious with herself. "I shouldn't have said that!"

But she already caught his attention. "W-What do you mean?" he asked, trying to sound as innocent as he could.

Natalia hesitated but soon gave in "Don't tell Eric I told you okay? And I'm really not sure of it as well, but I think he likes you, I mean really like you…you know…" she said "I noticed it a while back, when he was always teasing you around…and his eyes were sparkling differently when he was with me or Calleigh so I think he likes you…."

Ryan went rather speechless, not knowing how to react to this revelation…

"I mean, I just thought…oh nevermind!" she exclaimed.

"T-That's alright Natalia" he told her.

She smiled gently "I just you and eric would make a cute couple"

"W-What?"

"Think about it!" she persisted "Sure you guys fight, but that makes you look so sweet and oh what am I saying! I'm sorry…"

He shook his head, smiling gently "Like I said, it's alright…"

Then Natalia cleared her throat "I heard the old lady from last night is recovering greatly at the hospital…" she said, opening anew topic that was less awkward to talk about.

A relief for him too. "Yeah, I heard that too, the doctors are keeping her for the next day or so, just to make sure she's completely fine. She wanted to go home though, but the PD guys are watching her so she should be completely safe." He said softly, remembering that the doctors called him early in the morning about that.

Then he turned to her "No luck finding who her shooter might be?"

She shook her head "Unfortunately, there's no concrete lead that could tell us anything. The bullet's there, but it won't help us much. And there's also your and her statements. But that's all there is to go on…"

Ryan sighed, so much for giving good news to Mrs. Figg. He patted Natalia on the shoulder "That's okay, I know you'll crack this soon, if you need me I'll be coming right over to help…"

She smiled and remembered something "Oh yeah, Valera already finished checking on the print that you found on the flower shop, but she found no match in CODIS it's going to be difficult to get an ID without any leads or suspects…"

Another sigh. Cases are getting tougher and tougher to crack these days, and to add to that, the pain in his head still haven't subsided. Damn it…

"Hey Alexx" Ryan greeted as he entered the morgue where the ME was stationed "Did you finish the autopsy on Gloria?" it felt weird saying the name of Eric's ex considering what happened between him and the cuban earlier.

"yes Baby, the reports are already in" she came out to approach him "Do you need anything?"

"No, Not really…it's just, this case is tougher than it seems, two dead bodies and still no leads" he said, sitting down by her office. Alexx was always there when he needed someone to talk to, and sometimes going on and on about the leads and evidence they collected actually make him realize what was the missing clue to the puzzle.

"Oh baby" Alexx sat down next to him "I've seen you guys crack cases harder than this…it's only a matter of time and…" then she frowned, eyeing him closely "Baby, do I see a lump at the back of your head?"

"Uh…" he said, thinking of what to say "yeah, it's nothing really, just…just hit my head on the desk that's all…"

"Uhuh…" she crossed her arms "baby, you got to do better than that, no desk can do that kind of damage, let me see it." She pulled him so that she can check out his head.

"Really Alexx" he reasoned "it actually doesn't hurt---"

"Ryan" she said, her voice firm "Who's the doctor here?"

He deflated "Y-You are Alexx…"

"Good, now let me check this lump alright?" her voice meant she wasn't going to take no for an answer.

"Yes Alexx" he watched her as she did her thing, after a while she stared at him.

"Ryan, answer me honestly. Did someone hit you on the back of your head?" she looked so serious it was scary.

And lying to Alexx was something he'd rather die than do. "yes.." he answered in a small voice "I didn't get to see who did it though…"

"You didn't report this? What happened?"

He sighed, most part came as a blur to him anyways. "I was watching Mrs. Figg when I thought I heard something at the end of the hall…I went to check it out and then the next thing was pain in the back of my head. I blacked out and the nurses woke me up hours later when they found me as they were doing rounds…they gave me an ice pack, but it didn't really help much as the lump was already there" he laughed dryly.

"You tell me you've just been assaulted and you're laughing about it?"

The brunette shrugged "Maybe it was an accident, maybe a psycho patient… I mean, if they want to do me in why didn't they do so when I was out of it?"

Alexx shook her head "I don't know baby, but you'd better be thankful if that's really what happened"

"Yes, Alexx" he said gratefully. He wondered if he should tell her about…

The ME seemed to read his mind as her smile softened. "So, is there anything else you wanted to tell me?"

He could feel himself blush to his ears again. "I, uh…"

Before any of them could say anything one of the lab guys Travis came up to the morgue "Excuse me, Mr. Wolfe are you here? Ryan?" he called in his usual accent.

"Yeah I'm here, what's up?" Ryan said, coming to view.

"Oh there you are, there's a young boy at the reception asking for you. He said his name was Billy Grant or something…"

Ryan frowned, Billy? What was he doing here? "Uh, right… I'll go meet him, Thanks Travis" he patted the man on the back. Something serious must've happened if Billy had to come up all this way to see him "See you Alexx"

"See you later baby" were the last words Alexx said before he was out of her morgue and was hurrying to reception.

There, Billy Grant waited for him, the boy was the son of his friend mark who got in trouble with the Russian Mob a while back, He remembered the Russians using the boy as hostage when they were trying to get ryan to hide evidence ina case. Luckily Horatio was able to save him before he was hurt and seeing Billy here now made him think of one possible reason…

"Billy!" he gasped, reaching the reception area still out of breath. "What's wrong? What happened?"

"Ryan…" the boy said in small and scared voice "They got him Ryan, they have him…"

"What? I don't understand…Calm down, who's got who? Explain it to me…"

"Dad!" he whispered urgently "They got him Ryan…they're going to kill him!"

"SShh… Calm down" he ushered him to an unused interrogation room so they could speak privately "tell me what happened"

"O-Okay…"Billy forced himself to calm down "Dad came to pick me up from school, when we were supposed to get in the car all of a sudden some guys came to us, they pointed a gun at me and took dad, they pushed me aside and they took off" he said "T-They said if you don't hurry we'll never get to see him alive…so I had to get here! Please Ryan, we have to save him! we have to save Dad!"

"Okay, okay…" he patted his head to keep him calm "Were going to save him, but we need to find him first…"

"No, No! We've got to go now! They'll kill him Ryan! They'll kill Him!" the boy wailed.

Panic was starting to invade his veins as well "We will Billy, but we can't save him if we can't find out where he is…" then he remembered something "Wait, does he have his phone when he was taken?" the phone was a gift from ryan which he personally got for his friend.

"Yes, I think so, will that help?"

"Yes, plenty" wasting no time he went to Natalia "hey Natalia, you think you can find the coordinates of this number for me?" he gave her mark's number.

"Yeah, sure… good thing this phone's got a GPS" she processed it and got a location "Here, the phone's in a house near Elm and Flagler."

"thanks Natalia." He said

"Hey, what's going on?" she asked.

"Mark's been kidnapped, I've got to save him." he said.

"Wait, what about Horatio?"

Ryan shook his head "there's no time, but if you can call Horatio and tell him what happened I'll deeply appreciate it…"

"Okay, I'll call him…" she nodded.

"Great, Thanks" he walked with Billy towards the exit, calling dispatch as he did. Since Horatio, Eric, Calleigh, Frank and other teams were at another scene, he expected that only a few PD and SWAT officers can give assistance, but that was better than nothing.

"Ryan, will we be able to save Dad?" Billy asked as they climbed up the silver Hummer.

"Yes" he answered firmly "We will save him Billy. Let's go" he gave the coordinates of the signal to the others, he expect to meet them on the highway.

They sped along the road, Ryan doing his best to concentrate on getting to their desired location, but something about this kidnapping didn't seem to make sense. Why did they leave Billy behind? Was it just to tell him? He shook his head, it just didn't fit into the picture.

"Ryan, what's wrong?" Billy asked.

"nothing… it's just that…" he stared at the boy "Billy, if something goes wrong I want you to call someone alright?" he said, in a voice so unlike his own.

"What do you mean?" the boy asked, looking confused.

"It's a just-in-case scenario…okay?" he grinned slowly and Billy nodded.

"Okay, let's go then…"

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"Put your hand up! Now!!" Jason Yales found himself surrounded by the entire police department as he was about to drag a young girl out of the apartment… he smiled as he put the hostage down and he held his hands up high…letting the cops close in on him and put on cuffs.

"Easy there…" he grinned. "these hands cost a fortune you know…"

"We don't care about that do we?" Frank replied, locking ht cuffs and restraining him.

"Jason Yales…" a redheaded cop whose name was Horatio Caine came up to him "Well now, I believe you have a rap sheet Mr. Yales…all of which involve second degree crimes…"

"Yeah, so what about it?"

"So I believe Mr. Yales, that this hostage taking incident is no different…is that correct?"

Jason smirked, not bad for a cop. But there was nothing they could do now anyway, he's done with his part. All this time his part was just a diversion. "I ain't taking until I get my lawyer…" he said.

"yeah, you better get a good lawyer too…" a Cuban russian came forward. Jason knew who he was, He wanted to laugh, these guys won't know what hit them. He snickered.

"What is so funny?" Eric asked, but he didn't say anything, the man merely glared but didn't move again.

"Hey mr. cop" he said, with a nasty grin "You might want to start buckling up"

"What the hell are you talking about?" Frank said, holding him against the police car.

"You'll know soon enough" he laughed as the detective pushed him inside and they took off.

"I don't like that guy H" Eric said. "There's something about him…"

Then his phone rang. Eric reached for it and stared at Ryan's number. Without hesitation he answered "Delko" he said, not wanting to sound too excited to hear the younger man's voice.

"H-Hello?" a small voice came from the other end, most definitely not Ryan's.

he frowned "Hello, who is this?" Horatio looked at him as he spoke.

"A-Are you Eric?" a boy's trembling voice came form the other side, the sinking feeling builded up in Eric once more.

"Yes, who are you?" he repeated again, sounding slightly irritated.

"Please, you've gotta help me, something's happened to Ryan…"

-TBC-

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DONE! Lousy update I know. But still its done! Yay, next Chapter should be up soon, but if you want it to be earlier please review me! XD