Thursday March 30th. 17:20
Freyda just looked at Horatio. While she slowly realized what she had just been told. She was amazed that Horatio's team had found Michael. Her half brother, who she had found herself just a few weeks ago, but never approached. The man she was related to, but had never met. The man she was protecting. She was curious as to how the team had found out that they were related.
"How did you find out?" She asked.
Horatio grinned. The team had been right. At first, they had just suspected that Michael Summer was Freyda's half brother. Now they knew for sure.
"We found his name when we were searching for repair-men with the name Michael. Then we understood that he had the same last name as your father, Jordan Summer. You and Dylan have chosen to use your mother's maiden name, Jensen. But that doesn't mean that Jordan Summer can't be traced to the two of you." Horatio smirked.
Freyda glared at Horatio as she realized that he now had all the information he needed to arrest her brother. She launched forward in an attempt to hurt him. However, the table was in the way and of course, the guard was quickly restraining Freyda.
"If I hadn't told you anything you would never have known!" She growled.
"True. We only suspected that Michael was related to you. But thanks to you it has been confirmed."
"It will never hold up in court. I will not admit to telling you who he is." Freyda smirked evilly.
However, her smirk faded when Horatio smirked back at her. He took out a little tape recorder from his inside pocket on his jacket.
"You didn't really think I would just sit here and play chess with you and not be able to prove what was being said in here?" Horatio asked, "Don't worry Freyda. You won't be the only one in your little family to spend the rest of your life in jail. Your two brothers will join you."
With that said Horatio left the room and joined Ryan in the hallway. They walked outside towards the hummer. They had a man to catch.
"Please teach me how to interrogate like that." Ryan said as he climbed into the hummer with his boss.
"I have no idea how to teach you that. I don't even know how I learned it myself." Horatio admitted and started the car.
Ryan showed Horatio the note with Michael Summer's address. Horatio slowed down and sighed.
"What?" Ryan asked.
"That address in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean." Horatio sighed, "I doubt he lives there."
Ryan cursed under his breath. Horatio drove them back to the lab. They had to figure out a plan on how to catch Michael Summer.
-I-
17:40
Cooper had no idea what little Frank had done to him during the time he had been in the men's room. Yes, he had spent along time in there. So what? He was having some gas problems recently. It was because of his mother's food. Anyway, Cooper whistled happily, as he sat down in his comfortable chair and stretched out. The weekend wasn't far away and he was going to spend it with his girlfriend. Unbelievably, Cooper actually had a girlfriend. Smiling Cooper did what he was supposed to do. Find Michael Summer, or his father Jordan Summer. Which was proving not to be such an easy task. But it had to be done, fast. Because Horatio wanted to arrest Summer today. And the shift was supposed to end in twenty minutes. Though this day was a day when everybody would be working over-time. The positive side of working over-time was that Cooper could leave work earlier the following day.
"Alright, my darling. Let's show what we can do." Cooper said to his beloved computer and started typing the name Summer into the computer. He was about to go through a list of names as he noticed that his mouse was stuck.
"What the hell?" He asked, and tried to spin the mouse around.
Now, most people would probably have checked the underside of the mouse. But not Cooper. The mouse was stuck to the mouse-mat, yet Cooper didn't check how it was stuck. If he had, he would have noticed the large piece of tape that was stuck under the mouse. Making it stick to the mat.
"Frank you idiot." Cooper growled and used all his strength to move the damn mouse. It remained stuck.
Suddenly something appeared on the screen and Cooper forgot about the mouse.
I've kidnapped your favorite teddy bear.
Pay me 5000 Dollars and you will get him back.
Love, the teddy bear-napper
Cooper laughed aloud as he read the note. He understood that it was Frank who had written the note. Without even trying to make it seem like a real kidnapper, sorry, teddy bear-napper. Cooper shook his head and looked around in the office. He was missing something though. Something he had gotten from his girlfriend and had fallen in love with. It was a golden teddy bear with a big heart in its arms, saying I Love you. Copper forgot about the mouse and left his lab, looking for Frank. He walked around for almost thirty minutes, without finding the Texan. Therefore, he gave up and returned to his lab. Sighing he sat down and continued to fight with his mouse and mouse-mat.
"Cooper!" Horatio said, "Have you found a match yet?"
Cooper looked sheepishly at Horatio and shook his head.
"Frank glued my mouse to the mouse-mat or something." He said.
Horatio shook his head and immediately pulled the mouse away from the mouse-mat. He showed Cooper the piece of tape.
"Glue?" Horatio asked, "Next time try not to spend too much time simply trying to move it. Pull it loose instead."
Cooper nodded and gave Horatio two thumbs up. Now that he could move the mouse, he could do his job. Horatio left him alone for a while longer. It was when Cooper tried to move his chair closer to his desk, that he noticed that it too, was stuck to the floor. But this time, Frank had used glue.
"Oh Frank." Cooper sighed.
Frank had glued the chair to the floor when Cooper had run around looking for him. But he didn't only do that. He also put glue on the seat of the chair. Which made Cooper stick to his chair. Cooper tried to stand up, but he couldn't.
"Stuck Cooper?" Frank asked, appearing in the doorway.
"Frank, help me get loose. I have work to do." Cooper said.
"So did I, when you and Ryan decided to steal my desk and chair." Frank smirked.
Cooper sighed and saw a dry mop that someone from the cleaning crew had left behind; somehow, they always managed to forget their things inside Cooper's lab. As He grabbed the mop, he also managed to wheel the chair free from the floor and race after Frank. Frank had to admit that Cooper was fast.
"Get back here Frank!" Cooper growled as Frank ran away from him.
Frank giggled and ran in front of Cooper, making quick turns to avoid being hit by the mop. Cooper wheeled after him, while on the same time, trying to get loose. He realized after a while, that if he wanted to get loose from his chair he would have to rip open his pants. As Cooper chased Frank around in the hallway, they failed to notice Horatio walking towards them, focused on reading the case file. Without thinking or seeing Horatio, Cooper pushed forward towards Frank with full speed. Frank moved out of the way, and Cooper crashed right into Horatio. Knocking him down on the floor, with Cooper over him in a strange position. Horatio glared up and Cooper, who had trouble getting up. Frank was too busy laughing instead of trying to help.
"Horatio, if you want Cooper to join us in our relationship all you have to do is ask." Eric teased as he helped both Cooper and Horatio up.
Horatio brushed himself off and shook his head.
"Cooper, get yourself un-stuck from the chair and get to work. Frank, behave please." Horatio said and left for his office.
Cooper nodded and wheeled back to his lab. Frank and Eric went to do some work of their own as well.
A while later, Cooper had finally found Jordan Summer. The team was gathered in his lab.
"Good job, Cooper." Horatio said, writing down the address on a piece of paper, "Have you gotten un-stuck yet?"
Cooper shook his head. Horatio nodded for the men to help him. Eric and Ryan held on the chair, while Frank and Horatio pulled Cooper's body away from the chair. Calleigh looked at the men as if they were crazy.
"You have underwear with little hearts on them?" Eric chuckled.
Cooper blushed and turned around. Facing the men.
"Yes. They were a gift." Cooper explained, "Now Frank, can I please have my teddy bear back?"
"Do you have 500 dollars?" Frank asked.
"No."
"Then you will have to wait just a little while longer." Frank grinned.
The door opened and the Captain peeked inside.
"Is there a good reason as to why Cooper is standing in the lab with her pants ripped apart and you all laughing?" He asked.
"No, sir." Cooper said.
"I thought I told you to keep your pranks away from work."
"You did, sir." Frank said, "I'm truly sorry."
"Good." The Captain sighed, "Oh and Cooper, little hearts is not your thing. It looks better with big hearts."
The team laughed at the Captain's comment as the Captain left. Cooper sighed and sat down in his chair.
"You know, Copper you could have just crawled out of your pants." Calleigh said.
The men got quiet. They hadn't thought about that at all.
"Why didn't we think of that?" Ryan asked.
"Because you're men." Calleigh smiled.
"Alright, back to business. Let's go have a chat with Jordan Summer." Horatio said, sing his boss-voice.
-I-
19:15
"I don't see how I can help you Lt." Jordan Summer said as he and the team sat in his living room.
It had taken them almost ten minutes to get Jordan to admit to having a son. A son that had been a mistake, when he has cheated on his wife with another woman. Almost 23 years ago.
"Do you know where Michael is?" Horatio asked.
"No. I don't want to know either. His mother and I made a deal. She didn't tell my wife about Michael and I didn't get involved in his life." Jordan said, "It has been hard to keep out of Michael's life, especially when he has been living only three hours away from all these years."
"But you must have visited them sometime." Calleigh said.
"Yes, during Christmas. But I was always introduced as a friend of his mother. Not as his father. So he grew up without knowing who I really was."
"I think he knows." Horatio said, "He knows and he is probably not happy that you haven't ever tried to tell him who you are."
"I wanted to protect my children and my wife." Jordan defended.
"With all due respect sir, your wife passed away five years ago. And Freyda already knows about Michael. Dylan doesn't, but it's only a matter of time before he finds out." Ryan said.
"Don't you dare tell him. He and Freyda are all I have." Jordan said.
"Freyda will tell him. She won't keep your secret from him. So why don't you be a good man and help us find Michael." Eric said.
Jordan snorted. He wasn't about to loose the only family member he had left. Michael was all he had left. There was no one else.
"If you weren't supposed to be involved in Michael's life. How come your name is on his birth record?" Horatio asked.
"In case he ever wanted to know." Jordan shrugged.
"He probably knows by now." Frank sighed, "Mr. Summer, Michael is a murderer."
"All my children are criminals." Jordan said.
"And you should know that it's not right to protect him." Horatio said.
"If I tell you where he is, I will loose him." Jordan said.
Horatio was about to say something, when the noise of something being dropped was heard on the second floor. Everybody went quiet. Jordan opened his mouth to speak, but Frank put his hand over his mouth.
"Don't you dare warn him that we've heard him." Frank warned.
Horatio, Eric and Ryan upholstered their guns and carefully moved up the stairs to the second floor. Frank and Calleigh stayed with Jordan. Both protecting him and preventing him from running away.
"Michael? MDPD, we just want to talk." Horatio said as he was at the top of the stairs. He saw a shadow of someone in the bedroom and moved towards the door. As he was outside the door, he and the boys heard a window opening. Horatio pushed the door open and aimed his gun at Michael, who was just about to jump out of the window. H, Eric and Ryan towards him to grab his arms as he let go. Eric was the only one who managed to get a hold of him.
"Michael, don't do anything stupid." Eric said.
It wasn't so far down to the ground. But he couldn't let Michael get away. Ryan tried to grab Michael's other hand, but Michael tried to slap his hand away. Horatio yelled for Calleigh to wait for Michael downstairs if he fell. Just as Calleigh moved through the patio doors, Michael bit Eric's hand and fell down.
"Calleigh watch you!" Ryan yelled just as he could see Calleigh being hit by Michael's falling body.
-I-
20:45
Ryan was pacing around in the waiting room of the ER. Calleigh had been knocked unconscious by Michael's falling body. Michael had broken an ankle and one rib. Once Calleigh had been brought to the ER, they had done an ultrasound and seen that the baby, their little girl, wasn't moving. Calleigh had now been gone for over an hour and Ryan was, of course, worried. Eric and Alexx were with him, while Horatio and Frank were questioning Michael in his hospital room.
"Ryan, everything will be fine." Alexx said.
"Have you ever heard about a preterm labor in when the baby is only 21 weeks old?" Ryan asked.
Alexx nodded, "I have actually. And that baby is still alive today."
Ryan sat down sighed. The doctor had warned him, that Calleigh might be forced to give birth if it was the only way to give the baby girl a chance to live. But if the situation was worse, little Riley Sara Joane, was already dead.
The doctor in charge of Calleigh, Dr David Block appeared in the doorway. He waved Ryan over, but Alexx and Eric followed him.
"They are family." Ryan explained to the doctor.
"Okay then." Dr. Block said, "Calleigh is quite fine. She has a concussion and a broken wrist."
"Good. And the baby?" Ryan asked.
"We can't find anything wrong. I think the baby was simply stunned. But I'd like to keep Calleigh here over the night, to observe both her and the little girl."
Ryan sighed and relief and nodded. Everything was fine for now. He just hoped it would keep on being fine.
"You may visit her in room 14." Dr. Block smiled.
Ryan thanked the doctor and then ran towards Calleigh's room. He opened the door and embraced his wife. Calleigh had tears streaming down her face as she hugged Ryan.
"I was so scared." Calleigh sobbed, "But Block says everything looks fine."
"And I'm sure he's right. They want to keep you here over the night." Ryan smiled, "I love you."
"I love you too." Calleigh smiled and kissed Ryan hard.
The was a knock on the door as Alexx and Eric entered the room, just to say hi. Calleigh hugged them both and then watched them leave.
"There is one more thing Ryan." Calleigh said, once they were alone.
"What?"
"Dr. Block thinks little Riley will be a small baby." Calleigh said, "It's nothing serious, it's just that he doesn't expect her to be average. Just slightly under what would be considered normal."
"Well, she might be small but she is strong." Ryan grinned and kissed his wife again.
In the mean time, Frank and Horatio were trying to get Michael to talk. They had found out that Michael had kidnapped another jury member named, Steven Reed.
"Michael, tell us where Steven is." Frank said firmly.
He was too tired to play games, but unlike Horatio, he was bad at hiding his bad mood. Michael grinned and looked out the window. Horatio quickly closed the curtains and sat down right in front of Michael's view.
"Michael, Tripp and I are getting tired of this. If you don't tell us where Steven is, we will make sure that you will be put in the chair." Horatio warned.
Michael visibly flinched and looked scared at Horatio.
"And we can also make sure that Freyda's life in prison is hell." Frank smirked.
"Freyda?" Michael asked, "You caught here."
"Yes we did." Horatio said, "She knew what you were doing. She even tried to take the blame for your crimes. But we were able to prove that she wouldn't have been able to commit all these murders."
"She thinks of me as an artist." Michael smiled, "And she is so wrong."
"Really?" Frank asked, "I expected you to agree with her."
"I'm only doing this because I like to see the tortured look in my dad's eyes. He looks so sad whenever you mention the word kids, and that's because he can't exactly be proud over his kids can be?"
"Michael, enough! Where is Steve?" Horatio asked.
"At the place where God gets to watch people beg him for help." Michael smirked.
Horatio nodded and left the room with Frank. He walked quickly towards the hummer. Frank followed him, but he had no idea where they were going. Horatio drove like a maniac through Miami, and then stopped outside a church.
"A church?" Frank asked.
"This is were people pray to God, or as Michael put it, beg for his help." Horatio said.
As they moved towards the entrance, they saw people running out, fearing for their lives. Frank managed to stop one of them.
"What's going on?" He asked.
"There is a man in there with a bomb to his chest!" The man yelled and then ran away.
Frank was about to call for backup and the bomb squad, when he noticed that Horatio was gone. Sighing, he ran inside the church and found Horatio standing by a bruised man, who had a bomb attached to his chest.
"Please, turn it off." The man cried.
"Horatio, you got less then one thirty minutes." Frank warned.
"I know what I'm doing." Horatio said, "Frank leave."
"Horatio."
"Frank, leave." Horatio said.
Frank reluctantly left and waited for either Horatio to walk out with the man, who was obviously Steven, or a bomb to blow up.
TBC…
AN: Please review!
BTW! I'm going to Japan, between the 4th and the 25th April, so I won't be able to update during that time. But I will try to update once before I leave.
