(Charter Private Airport)
Veena was standing in the hangar with her arms crossed as she watched a black suv pull up. Navarro stepped out of the car. "What?" He asked seeing her deep stare.
"What took you so long?"
"There was traffic." Navarro answered her while pulling bags out of the trunk of the vehicle.
"Yes well I told you we couldn't take forever. I took a risk coming here." She leaned down to grab one of the suitcases.
Suddenly the pilot of the private jet came down the stairs. "Um Mr. Navarro I have some bad news, all flights from this airspace have been grounded until further notice."
Esteban Glared. "Do you think I care if there is a restriction? I am paying you personally to get us out of here, we are not staying, is that understood?!"
"Yes sir." The pilot went back up the stairs going back into the cockpit.
Veena returned her eyes towards Esteban.
"That doesn't mean anything, once we are finished here then we can takeoff." He assured.
Venna shook her head and rolled her eyes lifting one of the bags and carrying onto the plane.
Esteban turned and opened the door of the backseat of the suv seeing Kara laying there motionless. He pulled and lifted her over his shoulder and proceeded towards the stairs leading into the jet.
Once inside he lowered her down onto the couch.
Veena looked down at Kara. "How long will she be out?"
"Long enough. If you could finish getting the luggage, I want to examine her before we leave." He pulled some gloves out of his pocket.
Veena walked down the stairs just about to grab another bag when she heard sirens in the distance. She stood up straight and watched the squad cars and hummers speeding in and coming closer.
One of the hummers stopped, Horatio slid out pointing his weapon.
"I'm surprised to see you back in Miami Veena." Horatio stated.
"I only came to help Esteban, what's the problem now?" She inquired tilting her head.
"Veena you know exactly why we are here, you are helping him with kidnapping. I told you before we wouldn't stop until I put you in a deep hole and intend to keep that promise, now Esteban will join you." Horatio explained.
The rest of the team positioned themselves to surround Veena, she had been holding her hand in a pocket and pulled out a gun directly facing Horatio.
"H I have a shot I can take her!" Eric announced.
Esteban heard the commotion going on outside and realized what was going on, the pilot looked back. "Get rid of them!" Navarro ordered.
The pilot nodded and opened a case with a machine gun and made sure the weapon was loaded before heading towards the door.
"You don't have any proof, right? We were just going on vacation that's all." Veena insisted.
"We have loads of it, now put down the gun."
Shots were suddenly fired from the doorway of the jet, Veena smiled and joined in on the effort.
The team took cover behind the cars and returned fire.
Ryan got up leaning over the hood and fired a few rounds before getting back down for cover.
Veena got distracted shooting toward Ryan, Horatio moved over and took a shot that knocked the gun out of Veena's hands.
"Ryan?" Horatio called out.
"I'm good." He responded.
"H I've got an idea." Eric ran towards the stairs, the pilot leaned out the door. "Eric!" Horatio realized what he was doing. He pointed his weapon upwards and fired hitting the pilot in the shoulder causing him to drop the machine gun and fall down the steps.
Ryan grabbed Veena and cuffed her. "This won't stick in court, none of it will!" she snapped.
"Shut up!" Ryan warned.
It's over Esteban, get away from her!" Horatio demanded seeing him with his hands-on Kara's face.
He slowly stood up and put his hands up. "You can try to put me behind bars again but I'll just get released again."
"Don't count on it." Horatio advised.
Eric came up to check on Horatio, He looked at Navarro and clenched his teeth wanting to tear him apart.
"Eric, get him out of my sight."
Eric walked behind Esteban and roughly grabbed his arms pulling them behind his back. "You're going away, this time forever." He pushed him forward and took him downstairs and handed him over to a waiting officer.
"Ok Kara, hang on sweetheart." He placed 2 fingers on her neck feeling a weak pulse.
He lifted her up into his arms and carried her down the stairs.
The team came running over when they saw Horatio come out with Kara.
"Is she ok?" Ryan asked deeply concerned.
"We need to get her to the hospital Mr. Wolfe."
"Kara you hang in there everything's going to be ok!" Eric encouraged.
Natalia opened the door so Horatio could place her in the hummer. Everyone else quickly loaded back into the vehicles switched on the sirens and were speeding off.
(Dade General Hospital)
Alexx came out of the room Kara was in to update everyone.
"How is she?" Horatio asked.
"She is stable and doing fine. She was slightly dehydrated so we are giving fluids and a dose of caffeine that will flush the Propofol out of her system faster and help her wake up easier."
"That's a relief." Ryan exhaled.
"So what exactly happened?" Alexx looked around at each of the team.
"Believe it or not, Jake made a return and took Kara and the kids from our house a few nights ago, eventually he handed her over to a previous suspect Esteban Navarro, who would horrifically torture his victims. I can't even imagine what he had planned for her if they had gotten away..." Calleigh explained.
"it sounds like you guys found her just in time. I have to go do a few rounds and then I will be back to check on her." Alexx put her hands in her pockets before walking down the hallway.
Horatio's phone rang. "Yes frank…yes she's ok still sleeping. Ok we'll be right there."
"What did he say?" Walter raised his eyebrows.
"He said that they've got Jake ready to have a little chat." Horatio pulled out his sunglasses.
"I'm going with you." Eric stated
"Me too." Ryan echoed.
"You guys can go, Nat and I will stay here and we'll call you when she's awake." Calleigh suggested.
"Thank you Calleigh, let's go gentlemen." He slipped on his sunglasses and Walter, Eric and Ryan followed behind him.
(At the Lab)
Jake sat in the interrogation room waiting for Horatio to say something. Eric and Ryan had their arms crossed glaring at him.
"Why did you do it Jake?" Horatio questioned.
"I needed the money, owed some debts but couldn't have that drain me of everything."
"Besides having Navarro pay big bucks for Kara, what did taking the kids have anything to do with it?" Eric asked.
"Because the state was threatening to stop mailing benefit checks, I had been sending in forged paperwork claiming your kids as mine Delko."
Seeing the anger in Eric's eyes, Horatio slid a picture from the apartment over to Jake.
Jake's eyes went downwards toward the picture of some small bloodspots.
"I want you to explain this."
Jake grimaced and shook his head. "She brought it on herself, all she had to do was behave and do exactly what I told her; she tried to fight back so I smacked her, just a bloody lip, big deal."
"It is a big deal, just like I said, she was harmed and I'm holding you responsible. You've dug yourself deep Berkley and I'm going to make sure the Judge knows that during trial." Horatio explained.
"You're trying to give me a hard time but what about that Navarro character? Who knows what he would've done with her, she got off easy with me." Jake pointed out.
Horatio nodded. "You won't be getting off easy in prison Jake."