Two days had passed since Horatio had woken up, there was still no sign of Pedro.

Natalia was on her way towards Frank, the team had discovered that Pedro had a quite violent cousin in Miami, he was probably hiding there, but all they had was three different names that the cousin used and he wasn´t in AFIS or anything else, they had heard of him through some anonymous sources on the streets.

"Hey Frank, have you got anything new on Pedro or the cousin?" Natalia asked.

"I got an address to one of the names that the cousin is using, but some officers has told me that the address doesn´t exist." He said.

"What´s the address?"

"Wilson street 102, but Wilson street ends at 98, so its a fake address."

"Damn, haven´t you gotten anything else?"

"No, sorry, but Im going to talk to H at lunch, I haven´t heard his version of what happend yet."

"I hope you get to hear it before Stetler."

"Yeah I will, Captain Malcome has told Stetler to back off, he knows that Stetler and H don´t exactly like each other and they will only fight."

"Good."

Natalia left, it was very frustrating to have nothing at all, they had the glas from Horatio´s foot with a fingerprint that matches Pedro and Pedro´s shoe prints on the floor and fingerprints on the phone, everything they´ve found either matched Horatio or Pedro, but they had nothing that could tell them were Pedro was, and they coulnd´t trace any phone calls from the phone, even getting fingerprint from it was hard, it had been burned and the only fingerprint came from a small part of the cable.

Natalia hoped that maybe Horatio would be able to tell them something.

-I-

Ryan was listening at music from his ipod, he was waiting for some evidence from a stabbing case to be processed.

Ryan usually started dancing when he was listening to music and everybody laughed at him, he looked so goofy.

As always Ryan was dancing now and singing a little to, Eric stood behind him trying ti hide his laughter.

After a while Ryan turned around and saw Eric.

"Hey, eh... I was just... dancing a little." Ryan said blushing.

"Yeah, I saw that, maybe you should try out for "So you think you can dance"." Eric said giggling.

"Yeah, right."

It was clearly a joke, not that Ryan had ever thought about trying out for "So you think you can dance", he couldn´t dance infront of people, maybe sing, but definetly not dance.

"So what are you doing then?" Eric asked.

"Just testing a piece of clothing, hopefully it will be my victims blood on it." Ryan said.

"Isn´t Valera supposed to be doing that?"

"Yes, but she called in sick today."

"Oh okay."

"Hey guys, I got mail for you Wolfe." The mail guy said walking in, he had been hired two weeks ago.

"Hey, thanks." Ryan said taking his mail.

It was a small envelope and when Ryan opened it he was stunned, it was small piece of paper with some words written on it.

"Ryan, what´s it say?" Eric asked, smiling at Ryans reaction.

"Eric... H has got protection right? Outisde his room at the hospital, right?" Ryan asked.

"Yes, why?"

"Read."

Eric read the note, the words "It isn´t over yet, the red head will have to pay" were written on the note.

"How is he planning on getting revenge? I mean, every cop in Miami knows what Pedro looks like." Ryan said.

"Yeah, but remember his cousin, nobody knows what he looks like, and maybe he isn´t planning on getting revenge when H is in the hospital." Eric said.

"Yeah, I´ll call Tripp."

"And I´ll dust this for prints."

Eric walked to his lab and Ryan called Tripp.

"Dont worry, Ryan, Im almost at the hospital, Im gonna talk to H." Tripp said.

"Good."

"Yeah, I´ll have the officers outside checking every nurse and doctor that are on their way into H´s room."

"Great, thanks Tripp, bye."

Suddenly all the joy everybody had felt when Horatio had woken up was now gone, Ryan called Nat, Alexx and Calleigh and told them as well.

-I-

"Hey H." Frank said as he sat down next to Horatio´s bed

"Hey." Horatio said with a low voice, all the medication made him tired.

"Well, I guess you know why Im here, I need to you to tell me what happend."

Alexx was in the room as well, ready to stop Frank at any moment.

"Yeah, okay. Horatio said, I was on my way to work and was about to get into my car when someone hit me in the head, then I woke up a room in that house."

"Okay, about what time did you leave your house?"

"Around 07:30."

"Okay, what did Pedro do to you?"

"He... he dragged me out in the hallway... it was glas all over the floor, he uh... he hit me with chains and if I tried to crawl away he would... he would drag me across the floor."

"Okay... eh... we found a large piece of glas that matches the wound on you foot, we also found his and your fingerprints on it, did you pull the glas out yourself?"

"Yes, I had to get to the phone so I had to pull it out, but Pedro was the one that pressed it through my foot."

Frank and Alexx winched at the thought of that.

"Did he ever use the phone?" Frank asked.

"Yes, but I couldn´t hear what he was saying."

"Okay, well... uh, today Ryan got a note with the words "It isn´t over yet, the read head will have to pay" and we think that Pedro will send his cousin to kill you, nobdy knows what the cousin looks like, we got three different names that the cousin uses and a fake adress, did it ever come another guy to the house?"

"No, sorry."

"Its okay, anyway the officers outside will be checking everyone who are planning on walking in here."

"Good, thank you." Horatio said yawning.

"Anytime, but you should go back to sleep, so I´ll see you later." Frank said.

"Yeah bye."

Alexx said goobye as well and she and Frank left the room.

"Frank?" Alexx said.

"Yeah?"

"Even if the officers will be checking everyone, they wont know when its the cousin who is here to kill Horatio."

"I know, but I don´t want to worry H, its the last thing he needs, I´ll make sure that one of the officers always follow the doctor or nurse into the room and follow their every move." He said and he and Alexx left the hospital.

-I-

Nurse Bradley Ludlow walked towards Lt. Caine´s room, the two officers outisde stopped him.

"Sir, let us see your identification." One of the officers said.

"Yes, of course."

Bradley showed them his indentification.

"Okay, mr Ludlow, I´ll be wathcing your every move inside the room, okay?" Officer Peters said.

"Yeah, sure, no problem."

Bradley and Peters walked inside the room, Lt. Caine was asleep.

"So what are you going to do?" Officers Peters asked as Ludlow didn´t move.

"Im going to give him some pain killers, but first I have to remove a big problem."

"What sort of problem?"

Bradley didn´t answer, instead he took out a needle and stuck in Officer Peters neck.

"You... you are my problem." Bradley said as Peters slowly closed his eyes, and fell to the floor.

Bradley walked towars Lt. Caines bed.

"So Lt. Caine its time for your medication, you see a smuggled my gun to the locker room a couple of days ago, and today I went to get it, to be able to kill you. Its said isn´t it, that the hospital doesn´t have metal detectors?" Bradley said as he took out his gun and put a silencer on it.

"It is also sad that the officers outside didn´t serach for any guns on me, they never for once, thought about the possibilty that I could have a gun with me, they sure train you people at MDPD well, don´t they."

Horatio was still asleep, so Bradley shaked him, waking him up.

"Hey there sleeping beauty! Nice to see you, Im nurse Ludlow."

Bradley put his hand over Horatio´s mouth and showed him his gun.

"This is a gun with a silencer and this gun will fire away three bullets, right into you body, now with orders from your friend Pedro, Im not going to shoot you in the head, even though that is a faster death, but he want´s you to suffer."

Bradley pointed to the gun close to Horatio´s heart and fired, Horatio jerked up, Bradley´s hand over his mouth muffled Horatio´s scream, Bradley moved the gun down and shot Horatio in his abdomen, Bradley fired the third bullet only a few centimeters away from the first bullet hole.

"That felt good, didn´t it, well have a nice day and I´ll guess you´ll see me in another life, bye bye."

Bradlye quickly walked out of the room as officers Peter started to wake up, the other officer outside was just on his way back from the café and rushed into Horatio´s room, he saw blood gushing out from three bullet holes in Horatio´s body and called for a nurse.

Soon Doctor Stevenson and three nurses were trying to stop the blood flow.

The officers called Tripp and told him what had happend.

"He´s losing to much blood!" One of the nurses said.

"Damnit! I need three bags of blood and get a OR room ready!" Stevenson said.

"He´s in cardiac arrest!" The nurse called.

"Get the paddles charged!" Stevens said and started doing chest compressions.

He charged with 300, but nothing happend, still no pulse.

Stevenson kept on doing chest compressions and charging with 300 four more times, before chargin with 360.

"Come on! Dont die on me now!" Stevenson said.

Horatio still didn´t have a pulse and his vital signs were dropping fast.

Stevenson charged with 360 again. Still no pulse.

TBC...