Renee was finally able to move back into her house. The one that she had not seen since she was abducted and tortured. Horatio and his team had been able to rebuild her shot up house once her case was closed.

By sheer accident, the team found the secret entrance to her armory and indoor shooting range. Eric was standing just inside the den when he noticed something out of place.

One of the books in a built-in bookshelf was sticking out a bit. The book was Wyatt Earp (Life Behind the Legend). So he pushed it back to where it is supposed to be. When Eric pushes the book back, Ryan leans against the middle segment of the built-in bookshelf. The built-in was on the other side of the room.

When Ryan leaned up against the shelf, it slid back a little. The team pushes the shelf back further to reveal a hidden spiral staircase.

Curious, the team walked down the stairs to a small hallway with two doors on opposite sides of the hall.

Walking through the left door, Calleigh was floored. The room was an indoor shooting range that was soundproof. Renee's indoor shooting range went from one end of the house to the other.

The door on the right side of the hall led to a room that housed Renee's firearms collection. Her gun collection was impressive enough to make any gun enthusiast envious.

The collection was easily the biggest one that Calleigh had ever seen. It contained Sig's, Winchesters, Colts, Remingtons, a Barrett 50 cal, and Beretta's as well as an M40A sniper rifle.

Those were among a vast variety of common all the way to super rare firearms. Calleigh was beyond impressed when she found out that Renee had an SSK .950 JDJ. That firearm is also known as the world's largest centerfire rifle ever made.

She had .22LR, .357, 38 specials, 40 Smith and Wesson, 45ACP, 45 Magnum, 50AE, 30-.06 Springfield, 50BMG, 50BMG armor-piercing, 50BMG armor-piercing incendiary rounds, and 50BMG armor-piercing incendiary tracer rounds. Not to mention other rarer and less common ammunitions.

She even had .410, 4, 8, 10, 12, 16, 20, and 28 gauge shotguns. The shotguns fired birdshot, buckshot, and one-ounce slugs.

Calleigh thought to herself, "If my lab doesn't have a firearm, Renee certainly would have it."

Secretly Calleigh was jealous of the collection of firearms that Renee had procured.

Renee's house was a large two-story four-bedrooms, five-bathrooms, Mediterranean villa she bought since she was single and always on hazard pay she had saved up a large nest egg.

Her nest egg got bigger when she sold her mother's house and things upon her mother's death. Renee had sold all of her mother's things except her mother's Cherry red 1966 Ford Mustang convertible. That car was still in a storage unit in New Orleans. Renee was stationed there when her mother had died.

The house was large and very beautiful but also very lonely. She was glad that Horatio moved in for a while. He stayed with Renee when his house was being rebuilt from the drive-by shooting.

Her brother did not stay very long, but he encouraged Renee to invite James and Piper over. Renee would have them over often for either a game night or Sunday dinner. She had been seeing quite a bit of James and Piper since she had faked her death.

Renee would have the two of them over at least once a week for dinner and game night. She would often invite her brother to join in the fun. When she did, Horatio would always come.

During one of the many family game nights, Renee paired off with James while Piper had paired with Horatio. Renee had a lot of games to choose from.

Since it was Piper's turn to pick the game, the three adults already knew the game that she would choose. The young girl's favorite game to play was "Worst Case Scenario." According to Piper, that was the funniest game to play with Renee and

her dad.

The two battle seasoned Marines did have an advantage since both of them were survival experts. That fact worked as both an advantage and as a detriment. Some of the things that the game said were the correct answers Renee and James knew would actually kill you.

Since Piper was the one who chose the game, it was Renee and James turn to go first. James pulled a card out and handed it to Renee to read. The two of them needed to get Horatio and Piper to guess the wrong answer.

This question made that a lot easier than other cards. What the card said was the right answer was actually totally the wrong one. Based on the score, though, Horatio and Piper ended up beating the snot out of Renee and James.

Horatio loved teaming up with Piper since he saved the girl after she was shot.

When she was shot, her best friend found her bleeding at the bottom of four cargo containers. The girl was getting ready to take part in paintball wars with a group of her school friends.

One of her friend's father owned the paintball and gun range. James had saved her friend's father when they were both in Afghanistan. When they got back, Piper was given full access to the paintball half of the property.

The owner even put up a caged ladder all the way up to the top of the four cargo containers. That location was her favorite spot on the property.

Piper would be up there any chance that she got. She would often be up there when other groups would have a paintball war.

Piper would just crash other people's wars. When groups would get down to two players, she would go in full sniper mode. Taking both of the other people out with well-timed sniper hits.

That is why the property owner made her have bright fluorescent pink ammo so the others would know that her hits didn't count.

Before she was made to use identifying paintball ammo, the people would come in, and they were so confused as to who had won the battle since they both had clear hits on them.

When Renee went into the kitchen to bring out the homemade cherry pie, James got up to help her. This left Piper and Horatio alone to talk.

Piper motioned to Horatio that she wanted to tell him something, but she didn't want her dad or Renee to hear.

"I'm sure that you didn't pick up on it, but Renee's heart skipped a beat when dad touched her hand. I really think that Renee is falling for my dad," she tells her hero.

Horatio couldn't believe what he was hearing, but he did believe the girl. Piper was, in essence, a mute for a decade since she didn't talk from two and a half years old to just about seven months ago when Horatio was able to solve her mother's murder. She had become very intuitive to other's feelings and emotions.

Renee would call and invite James and Piper over all the time to just hang out or to swim in her pool. Piper loved going over to Renee's house and doing anything. On more than one occasion, she would invite her friends from both school and church over with her to swim at Renee's house.

Renee thought of herself as an unofficial aunt to Piper and would actively encourage Piper to bring her friends over all of the time.

Renee owed her life to James in more than one way, so she helped the single father whenever she could.

Pulling Piper to the side, Renee told the girl about how her daddy had saved her life.

"Your daddy saved my life more than once. The first time that he saved me was when he and the SEALs saved me after the Taliban had kidnapped me. I was only 21 years old, and your dad was only 22 years old. They captured me three months before, and they tortured me for information on the base and its sniper. The sniper was your dad. I never talked, and your daddy saved me. The second time nobody else knows about."

"I only saved you once. The second time you saved yourself," James tells Renee.

Nae gave him the if only you knew look. She goes on, telling the story.

"The second time that I was kidnapped, I fought my way back to base, but when your daddy told me that my canine partner Delta had been killed when he went to look for me, I was devastated. I went straight to the barracks that I had shared with Delta. I had my service pistol loaded and in my hands."

"The gun was to my head, and my finger was on the trigger when your daddy kicks down the door. That caused me to drop the gun. He never realized how close I was to being a statistic. Kicking down that door was my wake up call, and I got help. Meaning that I was sent home. Your daddy is the only reason that I'm here today."

That story was news to both James and Horatio.

James was the Marine sniper who was working with the SEAL's in finding Renee the first time that she was kidnapped back in Afghanistan. James was on base when Renee was kidnapped for the second time too.

The second time that she was taken, Renee thought that James and the SEAL's would come and save her, but she didn't know that James was ordered to stand down. Everyone else on base thought that Renee had left on her own accord.

James knew that Renee would never abandon her post or her canine. However, the base CO believed that Renee still blamed herself for the death of her last partner, Atlas.

When Renee was taken for the second time, she had been taken directly from the base. They had a suicide bomber that distracted everyone. Renee was taken when everyone else was preoccupied with the bomber. The only one on base who was realized that Renee was being taken was her canine partner, Delta. The military working canine was barking like crazy, and nobody was paying any attention.

As the dust settled on base, James realized that Renee was nowhere to be found. Delta was very distraught and looking everywhere for his partner.

James told the base commander his fears but was immediately told to stand down and to give her time. She had probably left on her own due to blaming herself for Atlas getting killed.

After Renee had been gone for a month, James let Delta out after he put a GPS tracker on the dog's collar. Renee had taught Delta to listen to James as an emergency backup, but she really had hoped the training would never actually be needed.

When James let Delta out, he gave the dog a shirt of Renee's with the command, "seek." The canine took off, looking for his partner. James had the other tracker and was keeping an eye on where the canine was at all times.

The dog had gotten very far from the base. When the dog's GPS didn't move for hours, James got a bad feeling. Getting some of there buddies to go with, him they out that found Delta had been shot and killed.

James never told anyone that he was the one who had let Delta out, but he blamed himself on Delta's death. When he saw Renee walking back onto base five months after she had disappeared, he was so happy that she was alive.

James had been right the entire time, and when Renee came back alive, the base commander had a lot to answer for. The base CO was eventually relieved from duty as the bases commanding officer. Based on James' testimony and his own admissions, the CO was court-martialed on the charge of dereliction of duty.

After a while in captivity, Renee knew that nobody was coming to save her. If she was going to survive, she would have to save herself.

Renee was going to need to figure a way to fight her way out since nobody was coming to her rescue. She would have to bide her time and first figure out where the hell she was.

After her captors were finished torturing, her they threw her on the ground of a dark tunnel deep into the underground network. As she lay on the ground with her hands tied behind her and feet tied, Renee noticed a large glass shard that she managed to conceal in her hands.

After her captors had left her alone, she cut herself free, using the glass shard as a knife. Once freed, she just needed to wait until her captors came back to torture her again.

When they came in, she grabbed the first person that came through the door. Renee needed a shield to protect herself. Once the person was in her arms, she ended up having a firearm at her disposal.

Holding the shard of glass at her hostage's throat, she started to press down almost cutting the person's throat. Renee's hostage was the group's leader so, she did have some leverage, just not a lot. Having some leverage, she had to tread carefully.

Her hostage told his subordinates to stand down temporarily, and this bought her some valuable time. Renee's gun that she now had was an AK-47, which had a lot of ammo.

Having near perfect aim, she didn't need that much ammo but was glad that she did. She knew that she was going to need to really fight her way out so, she was going to need to start to kill her captors in order to escape.

Renee thrust the glass shard deep into her captor's stomach and left it in there. Pulling the gun out of his hands before she pushed him towards the other captors.

With their attention diverted by their boss being stabbed, Renee started to shoot her way out. Firing her way through the long and massively underground labyrinth-like tunnel network.

Renee didn't know if she was going further and further into the network or if she was actually heading outside where she wanted to go. Every time that she heard sounds heading towards her, she would go all sniper mode and dive for cover.

With her nearly perfect aim, she shot and killed everyone that came around until she heard no more movement in the tunnel.

By some miracle, she had shot all of her captors. Leaving everyone either bleeding or outright dead. Renee was eventually able to find her way out of the tunnel network.

Once out of the network, Renee needed to get to higher ground. She needed to figure out where the hell she was being held. Getting to the top of the nearby mountains, she was able to determine that she was about forty kilometers or kliks away from her base. If she was going to make it home, she would need more ammo.

With all of her captors dead or dying, she went back to grab five more gun magazines. While she was at it, she also grabbed a pair of night vision goggles that she had seen one of her captors wearing. Knowing it would take her a while to get back to base, she also grabbed two canteens for water.

Considering that the sun was just rising, she had time to make a run for it. Grabbing a local map, it was now or never. Renee could read and speak both Dari and Pashto nearly fluently, so she was able to read the local map.

She had learned the local languages during her previous four tours of duty. Having a mind for languages, it was easy for her to learn them. By that time in her life, Renee had learned four languages before she became a Marine.

Renee was already fluent in French, Spanish, Farsi, and Russian. She was a linguistic genius since she just needed to spend a little time immersed in a language to learn it. Her mother was a French teacher at the local university and only spoke French at home. Renee's first language that she learned to speak besides English was French.

Living in South East, Texas Renee learned Spanish from classmates and the community. Farsi and Russian she learned in high school. By the time she was fifteen years old, she already spoke four languages besides English.

Using the map for guidance, she was able to make her way back to base just as the sun was setting the next day. Renee had managed to walk the 24.85 miles with armed terrorists on her six. Walking onto the base, only one person ran out to help her.

James was not only the first person to help a beaten and tortured Renee, but he was also the only one who wanted to look for her. James knew that there was no way that Renee would just abandon her post or her canine Delta.

James confessed to Renee that he let Delta out to go look for her. Renee trusted James when he told her that the canine stopped eating and was actually doing self-harm. James had developed a close bond with Renee through the years of being deployed together in a war zone. Knowing each other since she was 18 years old and he was 19 years old.

Renee was there when James's wife was raped and killed years before. He was even there both times that Renee had been kidnapped.

She understood why James did what he did and kept his secret. She never told anyone what he had told her. James was at the time the closest thing to a brother Renee had known. She was even there for him when his wife had been killed. At the time, it would have been six years before.

From the time that they first met in the states to getting sent to Afghanistan, the pair had been through hell and back. They trusted each other with their lives.