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By the time Horatio arrived back at the lab it was late. He went straight to his office and started going through the box of items. After searching through everything he was extremely disappointed. There was nothing in the box that resembled a computer disk. He had no other places where he could look for this disk and he needed to come up with a new plan; and quick.

He looked at the clock and saw that it was a little past 2 in the morning. It was really late and he thought a few hours of sleep would help clear his head. He thought about going home, but the couch in his office was used as a second bed more times than he could remember, so it would do for now. He always kept a spare blanket and pillow on hand for just such an occasion.

He had just sat down and taken his shoes off when his cell phone rang. This better be important he thought, it was late and he really needed some sleep. He reached over his desk to retrieve the phone from his jacket that was hanging off the chair.

"This is Horatio".

"Horatio, Sylvia helped me escape and we are driving out in the middle of nowhere. We're going to need your help, can we meet you somewhere".

Ryan's voice was music to Horatio's ears, "Ryan, are you alright? Where are you right now?"

"I'm in a car with Sylvia and we need a place to meet up with you".

Horatio thought for a moment, "Do you know if you're close to the ocean?"

"Yes, Sylvia said we are very close".

"Great, do you remember that warehouse where we found the decapitated couple a few months ago? I think we should meet there".

"I remember it H, we'll meet you there as soon as we shake the car behind us".

As soon as Ryan said that Horatio heard what sounded like a big crash.

He didn't like the sound of that, "Ryan, are you there?" When there was no response he raised his voice, practically shouting "Ryan, answer me".

The line went dead.

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The car carrying Sylvia and Ryan was forced off the road and went sliding down a very deep ravine. It finally stopped at the bottom with a thump against a tree. Sylvia hit the steering wheel hard while Ryan was violently jerked in his seat belt.

The car that caused them to go off the road stopped at the top of the hill. Evan and Edward got out of the car and ran to the side of the road looking down. Edward was straining to see the bottom of the ravine, "do you think they survived?"

Evan was also straining to see the bottom, "We can't take any chances. We have to find a way down there". Evan was prepared to kill both of them if he found them alive. He loved his niece, but he was positive she betrayed him and their family. That was not acceptable.

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Ryan opened his eyes and found that he was still sitting in his seat. His chest was on fire as the seatbelt was resting very tightly across it. He looked over at Sylvia and saw that she was slumped forward against the steering wheel. He slowly undid his seatbelt and carefully turned to Sylvia. He ached all over, but he didn't have time to worry about himself.

He used his left hand to feel Sylvia's neck and was relieved to find a nice steady pulse. He tried to get her to wake up, "Sylvia, can you hear me?" He waited for some kind of response and when he didn't get one he tried again, this time shaking her very lightly, "Sylvia, come one, I need you to wake up. We need to get out of here before they find us".

This time there was a low moan from Sylvia who slowly sat up. There was a large gash on her forehead that her hand instinctively went up to touch, "Ouch, that hurt's. What happened?" She moved her head just enough to see Ryan looking at her. "Ryan, what happened?"

"Sylvia, our car went off the road and you hit your head. Do you think you can move; we really need to get out of here before they find us?" Ryan sounded nervous as he looked around; seeing nothing but darkness.

"I think I can move". She tried, but cried out in pain. She looked down at her leg and felt it with her hand, "I I hurt my leg, I'm not sure I can make it".

Ryan looked down at her leg and used his hands to see if something was pushing into her leg. He didn't feel anything, but he did get more groans of pain from Sylvia as he was checking. "I don't think you're stuck on anything, so we are going to have to try. I'll get out and come over to the other side to help you out".

Ryan got out of the car and cautiously made his way to the driver's side of the car. He had to struggle to get the door opened, but once he did he helped Sylvia get out of the car. It took longer than he would have liked, but eventually she was leaning against the side of the car rubbing her leg.

"Ryan, I don't think I broke anything, but I don't know how far I am going to get". She tried to get a good look at Ryan in the dark and thought he wasn't in any shape to get very far either.

"We just need to get far enough away so they don't find us. Once we find somewhere to hide I can go for help". Ryan didn't know if this was the best plan or not, but it was all he could come up with. He figured he just needed to get Sylvia somewhere safe and then he could go for help.

"What about the phone, can't we just call for help?"

Ryan had forgotten all about the cell phone. He did a quick search of the car and found nothing. He knew the phone had been in his hand when they left the road, but he had no idea of where it had gone. It may just be lying outside of the car, but it was too dark to see. His original plan would have to do, as it was all he could think of.

The two of them started walking away from the car in a direction they hoped was the right way. It was slow going for the both of them since Sylvia was leaning heavily on Ryan and Ryan was doing all he could do to not fall. He had not allowed himself to think about any of his possible injuries after the crash, but now he was having a hard time ignoring the pain he was feeling. He didn't know if the pain was the result of the accident or something Evan had done to him.

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