The Doctor took the paddles and charged with 300, Horatio's body jerked up, but there was still no pulse.
"Come on, Horatio, don't do this to me, please don't die... fight!" Calleigh thought as tears were streaming down her cheeks.
"Charging 300... Clear!" The Doctor said.
Horatio's body jerked up again, stills no pulse.
"His vitals are dropping doctor." One of the nurses said.
"Okay, charging 360... Clear!"
Still no pulse, Calleigh started getting really freaked out, Horatio was dying, and he was dying without knowing how she felt, without knowing that she loved him.
"Charging 360 again... clear!" The doctor said once again.
"He´s got a pulse!" The nurse said and everybody sighed.
Calleigh, who had been looking down at the floor practically the whole time, now looked up as she heard the beeping sound from the heart monitor, Horatio wasn´t going to die.
Just then Alexx ran up to Calleigh and hugged her.
"He almost died." Calleigh said.
"Its okay sweetie, he wouldn´t do that to you." Alexx said.
Calleigh and Alexx walked to the waiting room and after a while the doctor walked in.
"Hello, I'm Doctor Stevenson and I'm in charge of Lt. Caine, he got us a little scared when his heart stopped beating, but he´s got a good pulse now." He said.
"How is he?" Calleigh asked.
"Well, he has four broken ribs, many internal bleedings, especially in his head, he´s broken three fingers and has a lot of deep wounds on his back and arms, those wounds are filled with glass, he also had something pierced through his foot and that wound is slightly infected, but he´s going to be fine, he is responding well to the medication and we will operate on him in about fifteen minutes."
"Can we see him?" Calleigh asked.
"No, you can however look through the window, ICU room seven."
Calleigh and Alexx walked to ICU room seven, Horatio had all sorts of tubes attached to his body, and he had a tube down his throat.
"He´s in a coma right now, but hopefully he´ll wake up in only a couple of days." Doctor Stevenson said.
Calleigh and Alexx smiled, he was going to be okay.
-I-
Frank hung up his phone, he had just got a call from Alexx, and Alexx had told him everything about Horatio´s condition.
He walked into one the rooms were Horatio had been held in before he escaped to find the phone. Eric was taking photos of some blood on the floor and Ryan placed a big piece of glass with blood on it in a plastic bag.
"Hey, I just got a call from Alexx, when they first got to the ER his heart stopped beating, but they got him back." Frank said.
"That's great!" Eric said.
"Yeah, he has four broken ribs, three broken fingers and internal bleedings, especially in his head, deep wound with glass in them on his back and arms, something has also pierced his foot, but what it is I don't know." He said.
"It could be this." Ryan said, showing them the big piece of glass.
"Yeah, looks like it." Eric said.
"Well, the surgery will take at least five hours." Frank said.
"Well, were soon finished here and after that we´ll drive to the hospital." Eric said and Ryan nodded in agreement.
"I´ll do the same."
"By the way, can you call Natalia and see if she found anything on that Pedro guy?" Eric asked as Frank was about to leave.
"Yeah, sure."
Frank walked out of the house, he needed some fresh air, that house made him feel sick and he hated being in it.
He called Natalia.
"Yeah, he has long rap sheet than what-ever-file you guys were looking in showed, he´s been in jail for eight years for beating his wife and her brother, he got out two years ago, this guy is violent as hell, he has also made threats against a large number of people." Natalia said.
"How many people?" Frank asked.
"Well 85 people. Alexx called me about Horatio, how are you guys doing?"
"Good, we found some good evidence, how is the search on Pedro going?"
"Some people say that they´ve seen his car near Calle Ocho, some uniforms are looking for him there."
"Good, you should take some rest, you sound tired."
"Yeah, well, I'm about to go to the hospital, I guess I´ll see you there?"
"Yeah, bye."
"Bye."
Natalia hung up, she was in the locker room, and she was so glad that Horatio was still alive, of course everybody was.
As soon as everybody found out he was missing, they started going crazy and running around, the lab had been a mess until they all heard that he had been found.
Now it was so silent in the lab, most people had gone home.
She took her jacket and left.
-I-
Calleigh and Alexx were sitting in the café, when Natalia walked in, they all hugged.
"So, how are you doing?" Natalia asked as she sat down at the table with them.
"Good and you?" Alexx asked.
"Good, I found out that this Pedro guy has made threats towards 85 people and he´s been in jail for eight years." Natalia said.
"What did he do?" Calleigh asked.
"He beat his wife, now ex-wife and her brother; he got out of jail about two years ago." She said.
"Wow, violent guy." Said Alexx, good job.
"Thanks, so any new news on Horatio yet?" She asked.
"No, not yet." Calleigh said.
Suddenly Alexx started laughing.
"I'm sorry, I just started thinking about old memories, Calleigh do you remember that time Horatio fell into a bathtub filled with cow excrement?" Alexx said laughing.
"Oh yeah, I remember!" Calleigh said and burst out in laughter.
"Tell me about it." Natalia said.
"We were at a house investigating a murder and Horatio and Frank were walking around following some blood trail." Alexx said.
"And what nobody knew was that Frank, Alexx and Speed had set this whole thing up, it was Horatio's birthday and they decided to do something fun, so they made sure to leave a big pool of blood on the floor, just at the spot where the floor was very weak, and when Horatio stepped on it, he fell down in a bathtub full of cow shit!" Calleigh said and now all three women were laughing out loud.
"Now, the cow shit wasn´t supposed to be there, but when we had ordered syrup, some jerk messed it up and we got cow shit, and we didn´t know that until Horatio fell into it!" Alexx said.
"Oh my god, haha, what did he say?" Natalia asked.
"Well, he spent the rest of the day chasing Frank and Speed, he got revenge of course." Alexx said.
"What did he do?" Natalia asked.
"He took some of that shit and placed in a bucket over the door to Speed´s lab, and then you understand what happened to Speed, Frank had seven needles stuck to his butt after sitting down on his chair." Alexx said.
They all laughed, they laughed so hard that tears started rolling down their cheeks.
"Okay, somebody better tell me what's so funny?" Eric asked, suddenly standing in the café.
"Oh, just old memories." Calleigh said and giggled.
Eric smiled and sat down with them, after a few seconds Ryan and Frank sat down as well.
Now of course there was one person missing at that moment, but he was ok and that made them feel ok.
TBC...
AN:
When I started writing this chapter I remembered that I had practically forgotten Natalia, so I had to put her in this chapter and figure out something that she could have been doing when all the others were at the crime scene and at the hospital, Haha, wow, I think that maybe I should make her appear more often.