Disclaimer: I don't own any characters or events from the actual show CSI:Miami, though, yes, I do wish. Lots. Anyways, I do however own this story (I hope…) and the characters of Alyssa and Cruz are from me…

Summary: A case from Tim's past comes back, and this time its his family who face the consequences…

Chapter Three

Two hours later, Horatio was standing outside the Miami-Dade crime lab with the Bomb Squad

"This kid…how she get in the car?" Horatio looked at David King, then back at the car before answering.

"This kid is my god daughter and daughter of one of my team. She was kidnapped and placed in the car"

"H, we've been over that S.U.V. three times…there's no power switch"

"So that…that means it's in the car doesn't it?"

"Uhhhh….Horatio, are you willing to risk opening that car door?"

"This guy really knew what he was doing, huh?" Horatio asked out loud to no one in particular

Tim stepped out of the lab and into the vicinity of the parking lot. His eyes roamed over the scene and finally fell on the parked S.U.V. that was surrounded by the yellow crime scene tape. He saw Alyssa standing right out side of it. He made his way over to her.

"They're keeping me on this side of the tape…it's killing me Tim"

"I know baby, I know…but if you were on the other side, there's a chance you could set it off"

"It's our daughter Tim! How could he do it! She's innocent! Why her!"

"Ally, he did this to get to me…I'm sorry…."

"Tim…NO! This isn't your fault….I don't want you thinkin' am blamin' you!" She cradled his head and turned his face to look at her.

"I know…but…."

"But what?...bottom line is he got to Cruz…and I want her back…!"

"Baby I know…I know…."

Speed pulled her to him and she wrapped her arms around him. He closed his eyes before looking back to the car. Cruz was lying in a car-seat, pacifier in place, asleep and totally oblivious to the danger she was in.

At least she's too young to understand what's happenin' Tim thought to himself

Calleigh crossed the car park to where Tim and Ally were standing. She hated to interrupt them, seeing them in pain was bad enough and Calleigh hated that it was them who were going through this.

"Tim…Horatio needs to talk to you"

"Be right there, Cal"

"'Kay"

Calleigh turned and walked away, wanting to give them the privacy she felt they deserved.

Tim pulled back from his fiancée and started to walk up the parking lot when Alyssa called out his name.

"Tim!"

He turned back at the urgency in her voice

"We get her back…..I want us to get married…"

"We already are babe…"

"No…Tomorrow…Friday…I don't care…we do it"

"Am already there babe" he threw at her and smiled. Ally smiled as he turned his back and headed to Horatio

Horatio was looking at the car when Speed stepped up beside him

"What's goin on, H?"

"Speed, I need to know how much you trust me"

"Where you goin' with this?"

"There's no power switch on the outside of the car…"

Speed looked confused before the realisation hit him

"You mean…"

"Cruz's car-seat" H stated

"You need to open the door" It wasn't a question and Horatio knew it from the tone of Tim's voice.

"You understand what I'm tellin' you?"

"Yea…"

"How much do you trust me?"

"With my daughter's life"

Horatio turned to Speed. Speed looked him straight in the eye

"Speed…this is pure instinct…I have no proof on this…"

"Your not 100...I get it, H…I also get that you wouldn't be askin' me to do this if your instinct wasn't screamin' real loud"

Speed looked at Horatio again and Horatio nodded before he crossed the parking lot, Tim right behind him.

Horatio ducked under the crime scene tape and Calleigh, Eric and the bomb squad turned in anticipation of what the Lt was about to do.

Speed came up behind Alyssa and put his left arm around her waist, a simple act to prevent her from following Horatio to the S.U.V.

Horatio put his hand on the door handle and Ally turned to Tim

"What…Tim what the hell….!" She sounded panicked

"Shhhh babe, he knows what he's doin'…trust him"

Horatio opened the door and everyone held their breath. Tim shut his eyes and prayed that the scene that was playing in his head wasn't about to play out real life. Alyssa gripped Tim's hand and turned slightly to bury her head in Tim's chest. Calleigh held her breath and looked at the sky. Delko turned back to the trunk of the Hummer and shut his eyes. The rest of the squad's waited on edge, refusing to believe what Horatio was doing, but unable to question the Lt. The door opened without anything happening.

Tim let out a breath he didn't realise he'd been holding and Alyssa gripped his right hand behind her back.

Horatio got into the passenger side without shutting the door

"Hey beautiful…" He said to the infant, who was very fortunately was still asleep. It was then that Horatio saw it. The power switch was on the safety harness of the car-seat

"Dammnit!" Horatio said out loud, but more to himself. He got back out of the car and went to Tim. He could read the questioning look in his eyes and the paranoid look on Alyssa's was more than he could stand. He hated the fact that it was them going through this and was desperately waiting on Simon Lynch being caught simply to have to five minutes alone in a room with him. Ten minutes the guy wouldn't be conscious and Fifteen minutes Horatio was sure the guy would be dead. His heart broke with every word he told Speed.

"Power switch is on her Tim…"

Tim's heart stopped beating and he found breathing left him at that exact moment. He knew what Horatio wasn't telling him. Power switch on her meant that the explosives weren't on the car; they were on the car-seat. The S.U.V had all been part of the plan. A decoy that was there solely to throw them off and Tim was seething that they hadn't noticed it, and that the guy could be so cruel as to wire explosives around a four month old. Around his daughter. Around Cruz.

"What…What does that mean!" Alyssa asked

"It means Cruz is in more danger than we thought" Horatio told her, deciding that honesty was the best way to go since Alyssa was not going to take any hidden truths. Tim looked at Horatio and he knew the look. Tim's entire world was falling apart and Horatio had no idea how to make it stop.