-1Title. Better Angels.
Author: Samantha.
With great thanks to: Sammie (not me you twat the other one) Ruth, Cath and the other Ruth (oh my god two Samanthas and two Ruths...jesus)
Part: Five of about fifteen.
Pairing: H/C baby!
Spoilers: 3.01 - Lost Son
Disclaimer: Unfortunately I do not own CSI:Miami the people who own them do. Trust me when I say this (along with ruth aka quarryquest) we would treat them so much more better than you arsewipes. (DONT SUE!)
Summary: Sometimes we all need to open up...but will Horatio learn his lesson before he loses his daughter and wife

Chapter Five.

"What the hell is going on?" Asked a groggy Heather as she struggled to sit up.

"I have the major munchies!" Lisa snapped as she hit her head for the umpteenth time that night.

"I have a headache." Stated Millie as she looked around the dark room. "Guys where are we?" she asked them flatly.

"I have no idea all I know is I have the munchies and I am developing a hangover!" Lisa whined.

"Yeah well…were tied up…some serious shit is going down." Millie said to her two friends and they came round and began to sober up very fast. Heather looked around the room slowly taking in every detail. There was no window, it was dark but the walls where white.

"Dude…this place is made of Limestone." Heather informed them. As she bushed the wall, a white powder appearing on her shirt sleeve.

"How do you know that?" Lisa asked raising an eyebrow.

"I wrote my Geography paper on it. Means were in a basement somewhere in the costal ridge. it's the only place you find limestone now, Miami's below sea means so basements any further down would be flooded."

"you know Heather….I apologise for every time I ever called you a swot!" Lisa said placing her head on Heathers shoulder.

"Well we have to figure something out before we end up dead." Millie said focusing on the wall. "How are we going to get a message out."

"I don't know." Heather said sighing.

"Well in that case were just going to have to wait." Millie said voicing everyone's thoughts.

Horatio stood at the scene taking it in. He knew he was going to have to tell Calleigh. He thought deeply about how he was going to break it to her. He stood outside or several moments before opening the door. He watched Calleigh sprint in to the kitchen and the look of disappointment in her face when she realised it wasn't Millie.

"Please tell me you found her Horatio." she said her voice broken and laced with panic.

"No. Calleigh we think Millie and her friends have been kidnapped." Horatio told her his voice calm and void of any emotion.

"What!" Calleigh cried as she dropped on to her knees. "How?" she cried as Horatio bent down to comfort her.

"We don't know." He said simply again with no hint of emotion in his voice.

"How the fuck can you act so calm when our baby has been taken!" Yelled Calleigh at the top of her voice while pushing Horatio away from her. "You act as if you don't fucking care!"

"You know that's not true."

"Well you act as if she's just another victim Horatio she's your daughter!"

"And right now she is a victim and we have to find her."

"God these ropes are like cutting off the blood circulation to my hands." Lisa moaned while trying to wriggle out them.

"Don't. You'll only make it tighter Lisa." Millie warned her. Lisa automatically stopped.

"Why do you think were here?" Heather asked.

"Its obvious." Millie stated. "Some one wants to get back at my Dad."

"You think so?" Heather asked as her breathing hitched. "Oh my god." Millie quickly assessed the situation as Heather began to have a panic attack. She began to think. What would her Dad do?

"Heather." She said firmly, catching her attention. "You need to stay calm okay." she used the same tone of voice her father did. Heather nodded. "Just trust me on this. We all need to stay calm."

"You think there going to kill us?" Lisa asked as she began to cry.

"No. Were worth more to them alive than dead." the room dead panned. "Act calm and natural. I know were all scared but don't show it. It's what they want." They all nodded and fell silent.

'C'mon Dad…where the hell are you?"

It was a long hard wait for Horatio as hardly anything was found a few hairs, prints the cell phone but nothing more. Horatio stood in the lab feeling helpless the unknowing feeling of what was happening to his daughter.

"H!" Called Eric though the lab. Horatio turned around to see Eric standing there catching his breath. "You have to see this." He told him. Horatio nodded and followed him through to the AV lab. "Just got this in. Fed Ex just delivered it." Eric hit the play button, and the three girls appeared on the screen. The Lisa lay on the floor wriggling and cursing under her breath her blonde hair sprawled behind her and there sat his daughter calmly looking at her feet.

"Lisa what the hell are you doing?" Heather asked.

"God these ropes are like cutting off the blood circulation to my hands." Lisa's frustrated voice echoed round the lab.

"Don't move. You'll only make it tighter Lisa." the calm voice of Millie hit Horatio like a base ball bat. He was shocked to see her acting so calm. He watched her face, void of any emotion.

"Why do you think were here?"

"Horatio…" A stammer from the doorway pulled Horatio from this thoughts.

"Calleigh…"

"Its obvious. Some one wants to get back at my Dad."

"You think so? Oh my god." Horatio watched Heather begin to panic, her breath quicken.

"Heather." Millie's calm voice filled the room once more. "You need to stay calm okay." Horatio watched his daughter intensely. "Just trust me on this. We all need to stay calm."

He smiled.

"That's my girl. You hang in there." He said to the screen smiling as Calleigh exhaled a sigh of relief. "Cal she's going to be okay. She's going to be okay."

Horatio kept his eyes on the screen.

"Freeze that!" He snapped, Eric rewound the tape frame by frame. The camera was pulled out and whoever it was stumbled round, and there was a window. "That's the sea, looks like its high up."

"Yeah and judging from the colour of the walls they look like limestone." Eric said turning to look at Horatio.

"Their on the costal ridge."

The lab was a hub of activity as people pulled maps and information was pulled. A list of suspect house were drawn up. Photographs lay across the table, all from different sources. He picked up the still of the film and one of the Estate Agent photographs that they had managed to find. as Horatio examined them. Picking two up and comparing them. He stared at them, as one thing in particular stood out.

"H you got anything?" Eric asked him. He could hear the concern in his voice.

"That is the same Tree. We have our house."

The door to the basement opened as a man entered. Millie felt herself hulled up as Heather and Lisa stayed silent. Noticing the gun he was holding. Millie walked calmly up the stairs. She felt the temperature rise as she was dumped on her knees. She felt the cool metal of the gun on her neck. That bitter taste rose up from inside her as she hid her fear from her captors. She held her head up high and locked eye contact with the man in front of her.

"Now Millie. I'm sure your Daddy's missing you so the soon we get this over the soon you'll see him. Do as I say and this will all get wrapped up so much nicer." he growled. Millie simply snorted.

"Not a snowballs chance in hell." she spat. He grabbed her by her hair pulling her head back.

"Now your going to look at that camera and say what I tell you okay." Millie looked at the camera noticing the recording light was flashing. and simply blinked. She stared down the lens and then turned back to the man.

"Like I said. Not a snowballs chance in hell." Millie stated calmly. She felt the gun press against her skin. She smirked kicking backwards, hitting him right where it hurt. Before she could breath she felt herself tackled to the floor. Millie fought back with all her might until she felt something sharp and cold pierce the skin on her arm, she cried out as her arm stung, trying to wriggle away. Within seconds she began to feel dizzy, her world spun out of control as her body seemed unable to move. Panic rose faster as she fought to keep it subdued.

"Dad…" she whispered as her world turned to black.