Bradley Becket looked at Frank and Eric, they had brought him in for some reason, he didn´t know what reason yet.

"So are you going to tell me why I'm here?" He asked, looking a little angry.

"Yeah, you here because Horatio Caine is missing and you have made threats towards him and stalked him for two weeks." Said Eric.

"Oh come one, I was angry alright." Bradley chuckled a little bit.

"So angry that you have been stalking him for the past two weeks?" Frank asked.

"Well... yeah."

"Look, things doesn´t look good for you, you have made threats against Lt. Caine and you´ve been stalking him for two weeks, that's long enough to learn someone's routines! Did you kidnap Lt. Caine? Or did you see who did?" Eric asked getting angrier for every second that passed.

"I did not kidnap him, and routines? Come one, the guy did something different every day, the only thing I know is that he leaves for work about 07:30 or something like that, but look I stopped stalking him three days ago." Bradley said, knew he was in deep shit.

"Really and why should we believe you?" Frank asked, "So you were not there yesterday, on the 7th May?"

"No! I'm not a kidnapper!"

"Alright, did you see anyone else that seemed as if he or she were stalking Lt. Caine?" Eric asked.

"No, sorry."

"Well, we are going to have to let you go, but don´t go far." Frank said.

Eric and Frank left the room.

"Do you think it's him?" Eric asked.

"No, he doesn´t seem like a kidnapper, he doesn´t seem guilty."

"I agree, somehow I hope that this Ramon guy will be the one, but if he is he´s not exactly going to tell us that."

"No, not exactly."

"We still have to find him right?"

"Yeah, but were getting close."

Eric and Frank parted, Eric took the elevator up to the lab, he was so worried about H, and he meant a lot to him. He was like a father to him, he respected and admired him so much, he didn´t want him to die. Nobody wanted him to die.

-I-

"Finally!" Horatio thought as he heard Pedro leave the building, he had received a phone call and was now about to leave the house for, hopefully, a long, long time.

"This is my chance! All I have to do now is to get out of the room" he thought, and suddenly he thought that he couldn´t remember hearing Pedro use any keys to the door, hopefully the door wasn´t locked.

He stood up and limped towards the door, it hurt to walk, but he had to. He opened the door, and peeked outside, nobody was there, and the floor however was still covered with glass, "I just have to stick it out" he thought and took his first step out in the hallway.

-I-

Ramon Julio Pedro Moreno was a big man with long black hair and a sly smile.

He seemed so self-righteous that it almost made Eric want to throw up right in his face.

"So Mr. Moreno, do you know why you´re here?" Frank asked.

"No, but I´d be happy to know."

"Lt Horatio Caine is missing, you know who that is don´t you?" Frank asked.

"Horatio Caine? no, sorry, don´t think I´ve ever heard of him."

"That's funny, because you tried to stab him in court about a month ago, when your brother was sentenced to jail for murder, it was Lt. Caine and his team that had provided the evidence in you brothers case, you got so mad that you tried to stab Lt. Caine." Eric said.

"Oh him! Yes, well I overreacted."

"Overreacted? You also said you would have your revenge." Said Frank.

"Oh come on, wouldn´t you react that why if your brother or sister were suddenly sent to jail for murder?"

"No, I wouldn´t." Said Eric.

"Yeah right." Pedro said giving Eric an ugly smirk.

"Where were you on the morning between 06:00 and 08:00 the 7th May?" Frank asked.

"Out with my dog."

"Can anyone confirm that?" Eric asked.

"No."

Frank nodded to Eric and they stepped out of the room for a minute.

"We have to let him go." Frank said.

"Yeah, I know." Eric sighed.

"We have no evidence to pin this on him or Becket."

"I know, damn."

Eric sighed; Frank told Pedro that he could leave.

Frank sat down at his desk, Horatio was his best friend, and he could really relax when he was with H, and if he dies he would miss him very much.

But Horatio wasn´t dead until they found dead.

-I-

Horatio found the phone, he had been looking for it a long time, the hallways had started getting weird and it was as if he was in a labyrinth.

But now he had the phone, he dialed a number and waited.

"Come on pick up, pick up, pick up!" he thought.

"Tripp." Said the voice on the other end.

"Frank, it's H!"

"H, oh my god, where are you?"

"I'm uh... I don't know, wait..." Horatio walked towards a small window and Frank started walking towards the lab to trace the call.

"I'm uh... I see a highway far away, and there´s a lot of trees, are you in the lab?"

"On my way, I'm almost there, keep on talking."

"Right, I'm in a stone... stone house."

His ribs were killing him and he had trouble breathing.

"Are you injured?"

"Yes, my ribs are broken and I have... glass... in my back."

"Well, try not to faint. Do you know who kidnapped you?"

"He calls himself Pedro and he´s a big man with long black hair, he´s not here right now, but he might be back soon."

"Okay, stay on the phone with me."

"Oh fuck, I don´t think I can."

"Yes, you can. Listen to me, don´t hang up alright? Stay with me."

"Shit! He´s coming back Frank! I have to hang up."

"No, wait Horatio, don´t hang up!"

"What the hell are you doing!"

Frank could hear a voice, it was that fucker Moreno guy, he thought. He heard something that sounded like as if someone were being beaten with something... and the line went dead.

-I-

Pedro was hitting Horatio with the chains and Horatio screamed in pain, Pedro threw water at him and pressed his face down in the pool of water, trying to drown him.

Horatio panicked, only making it worse as water filled his lungs.

"You little shit! I'm going to kill you; you called the fucking police didn´t you!" Pedro was so furious now; he threw some more water and pulled the trigger on the electric pistol.

"Argh!" Horatio screamed and his body was shaking.

Every time his body started shaking Pedro beat him with the chains.

Horatio could feel his ribs aching and blood coming out from his nose, mouth, back and from a big wound in his head.

-I-

Tyler was tracing the last call from Fank's cell phone. Frank was pacing around in the room; Eric and Ryan were watching Tyler work.

"Got it! He´s at Friar´s Copse, in the old paper factory, there is a highway not far from said."

"Great, thanks Tyler!"Frank said as he, Eric and Ryan walked fast out of the room and towards the elevators.

Eric called Calleigh and Alexx and told them were Horatio was.

"Horatio said the guys name was Pedro, sound familiar?" Frank said.

"Yeah, Ramon Julio Pedro Moreno." Said Eric.

"Damn, he was the second guy you questioned right?" Ryan asked.

"Yeah, and damnit he got away." Eric said.

"Don´t worry, every cop in Florida is looking for him right now." Frank said.

They took their cars and drove full speed towards Friar´s Copse, it would take them at least 20 minutes to get there, and Frank had also sent an ambulance there.

Calleigh and Alexx who had been quite close to Friar´s Copse arrived after five minutes. There was no car parked outside the house and when they entered the first room, no one answered to their calls.

Calleigh had her gun in case the kidnapper was there. It was glass all over the floor and as they moved in to the second room they stared in shock at the body in front of them. Horatio was hanging in chains against a wall; his wrists carried all his weight, his whole body was covered with blood, fresh blood. Alexx walked over to Horatio´s body and started checking for a pulse, it took some time, but after a while she found a faint pulse.

"He´s still alive Calleigh, help me get him down." She said.

Calleigh walked quietly over to Alexx, this was going to be hard, one of them had to lift Horatio up and his lifeless body would be heavy and Calleigh and Alexx were quite small.

"Okay, I´ll lift him up and you´ll take away the chains." Calleigh said.

"Okay." Said Alexx and found a small box for her to stand on.

"Ready?" Alexx asked.

Calleigh nodded and took a hold of Horatio´s legs, she lifted him up with all her strength and it didn´t take Alexx long to remove the chains, they had only been wired around his wrist. They carefully lowered him down on the floor, trying to remove as much of the glass as possible.

"He has broken ribs, deep wounds on his back, head and arms." Alexx said, he probably has internal bleedings as well.

"What are these two small burn marks? Is it what I think it is?"

"What?"

"I think it's from an electric gun, I think he´s been electrocuted!"

"Oh my god, that's horrible." Alexx said with disgust in her voice.

Horatio´s breathing was weak and irregular, Alexx and Calleigh looked at him, there wasn´t much else they could do. Soon they herd sirens and two EMT´s walked in, they placed an oxygen mask on Horatio and loaded him in to the ambulance, Calleigh went with them.

Eric and Ryan walked in to the house to find Alexx sitting on the floor.

"Are you okay Alexx?" Eric asked, sitting down next to her.

"Yeah, just shocked." She said and smiled a little.

"How is he?" Ryan asked.

"He has broken ribs and deep wounds on his back, head and arms; he probably has internal bleedings as well." She said and stood up.

"He´ll make it, he´s a fighter." Eric said.

Eric and Ryan knew they had to process the house and they got started quickly, talking everything they could with them. Alexx drove to the hospital.

-I-

A team of doctors met the ambulance with Horatio in it.

They ran with Horatio to one of the ER rooms and Calleigh waited outside, watching.

"He´s got a low pulse, doctor." One of the nurses called out.

They started putting all sorts of tubes in him and tried to get his heart to beat a little more, his pulse was just too low.

Suddenly Calleigh heard a sound that she hated; she looked in horror at Horatio´s heart monitor.

The line was flat...

TBC...