AN: Just thought of something, I'm not really sure what the rating should be on my story, I'm from Sweden; don't really understand what all those ratings mean, but anyway.
Horatio could feel pieces of glass in his wounds on his back, it was stinging and he could see several cuts on his arms.
"How long did he beat me?" He thought to himself.
He was never going get out of here alive, unless of course his team finds him, they must know by now that he´s gone. He was lying on his stomach and he could feel his broken ribs, luckily they hadn´t punctured his lungs or anything else, but if the man was going to beat him some more he was surely going to have internal bleedings.
The tape over his mouth was gone, it hurt to breathe. He thought about his team, what if he would never see them again, "come one Horatio, stop that, you are getting out of here... alive" he said to himself, he tried to stand up, but as soon as he put his foot down he screamed in pain an fell down to the floor, he had a large piece of glass stuck in his right foot, it hadn´t pierced his foot, but the wound was very deep.
He looked at his left foot, small pieces of glass were stuck in the skin, and if only his hands weren´t bound he could pick them out.
"Shit! I'm stuck here, I can't stand up." He thought as he dropped his head against the wall, he could hear the man moving around on the floor under him, he would probably come up soon and beat him up some more.
-I-
"Did you call Frank?" Alexx asked Calleigh.
Calleigh was pacing around in the break room, it was now 9:10 and everybody now understood that Horatio was missing.
"Yes, He´s driving to Horatio´s house with Natalia and Ryan, Eric is checking if we can trace Horatio´s cell phone."
"That's good, honey, don´t worry we´ll find him."
"Alexx, what if we don´t, what if he´s out in the middle of nowhere and is injured?"
"Cal, honey, don´t think like that."
"Then what should I think?" Calleigh asked as tears started to run down her cheeks.
The man she secretly loved was missing and most certainly injured.
Alexx hugged Calleigh, of course Alexx was worried as well, but she always had positive thoughts.
"We... we can't trace his phone, it's off." Eric said as he stood in the doorway to the break room.
"Well, let's hope Nat and Ryan finds something in his house, don´t worry, we´ll find him." Alexx said, still hugging Calleigh.
Eric walked out and sat down on a bench in the hallway.
"Damn it, why didn´t I listen to Calleigh from the beginning, of course it was strange when H didn´t show up, I should have listened to her." He thought as he hit himself in the head.
If he just would have taken Calleigh's worries seriously, then maybe those 40 minutes hadn´t been wasted by drinking coffee, whoever had Horatio could be out of the state by now, of course that depends on when Horatio was kidnapped, but still, he should have taken her worries seriously.
-I-
He must have fallen asleep, because he woke up when felt the freezing water being thrown on him.
"No sleeping here." The man said.
Horatio just looked at him, not sure on what to say.
"I'm not going to tell you my real name, but you can call me Pedro, you and your team put my little brother in jail for murder."
"He was guilty."
"Guilty my ass! He was innocent! Don´t you dare call him guilty, he was just as innocent as a fucking butterfly! Do you understand that you stupid shit!"
Horatio nodded, he didn´t want to piss of Pedro so much that he would beat him, and he was already in such deep pain. Pedro took another bucket and threw more water on him, Horatio gasped, it was so cold.
"I will teach you to not go after innocent men!"
Pedro took out an electric pistol and put on Horatio´s stomach.
"Ever been electrocuted before?" He asked with a big smirk on his face.
Horatio shook his head; he knew this was going to hurt. Pedro pulled the trigger and Horatio groaned and his body was shaking. Pedro laughed and would stop every now and then, wait a few seconds and the pull the trigger again. Horatio had trouble breathing; he could feel his pulse all over his body.
-I-
Ryan searched the entrance, that's were they had found H´s shades, that's were he had been attacked. Nat was inside the house looking for anything that could point them to their kidnapper, so far they had nothing.
Ryan sighed, "first Eric getting shot and now this" he thought, he was so frustrated, he knew that every minute was valuable when someone was missing and what if Horatio was already dead, "stop it Ryan, don´t think like that, of course he´s alive", he thought.
Nat was searching for something in the living room, "the kidnapper were probably never inside Horatio´s house, there is no sign of it at all" she thought, she liked Horatio a lot, she loved him as a friend, he was the one who had never been angry on her for being the mole, he never said anything about it, hell, he even offered her a spot on his team, and she took it, she was happy being a part of the team.
Ryan looked at some pictures on the wall in the hallway, there were pictures of Horatio and Ray together, pictures of Horatio and Ray as kids, he seemed so happy on those pictures, but he always seemed so lonely and unhappy at work, especially around the holidays. What if he was all alone on Christmas Eve for example, because Horatio doesn´t have a family, they´re all dead.
-I-
Horatio could barely keep his eyes open, he was so tired.
He was shocked, he had actually been electrocuted! He could still feel his pulse all over his body, and his ribs were killing him.
"Is this how I'm going to die?" He thought, "Alone with a fucking psychopath in the middle of nowhere!"
He wasn´t going to let himself die here, he wanted to see Calleigh again; he wanted to tell her that he loved her.
He was not going to die here.
TBC...