Meanwhile at Angel's apartment

"What do you think? This one?" she posed in front of the full-mirror with one outfit, "Or this one?" posing with the second outfit, "So what do you think, Cali?" An orange and white spotted cat meowed. Angel gotten her for her 21st birthday by her parents and fell in love with her ever since. She had a difficult time naming her but she decided on Cali because she found out that the cat was abandoned in California. "The first outfit it is," she said as she laid out the outfit on her bed. "I'm wondering why Warrick wants us to dress up tonight… what do you think, Cali, that he's going to propose tonight? I mean he's been acting weird as of late," she said and the cat meowed. "I don't know either. You're not alone. It would be great if he did propose, don't ya think? Then I can become the future Mrs. Warrick Brown," she said dreamily. "Whatever… gotta change my clothes. Warrick's coming in 20 minutes," she responded as she headed towards the bathroom to put on her outfit. "He's going to like this very much, don't you think so, Cali?" Cali meows. "Me, too." She went to the bathroom to put on the final touches for her date tonight. A doorbell rang, "I'll be right there," she responded, then proceeded to put lip gloss on. She walked towards her full-length mirror to give herself one final look-over and was satisfied. She put the lip gloss in her purse and walked to open the door. She smiled once she saw Warrick there, "Hi, Handsome!"

"Damn!" he responded. He leaned down to give her a kiss, which she openly accepted. "You look beautiful, baby," he said softly.

She smiled and responded, "You look fabulous as usual."

"I try," he said, shrugging.

"Want to come in for a bit?" she asked, opening the door wider.

"Sure," he said, walking in. "I brought you some flowers."

"Thanks! Let me go put this in a vase with water," she responded, taking the bouquet. "Wanna tell me where we're going tonight?"

"You'll find out when we get there… don't worry your pretty little head about it," he said, smirking. She walked out and put the flower vase in the middle of the dining room table.

"The flowers are beautiful," she said, admiring them.

"Not as beautiful as you are," he said, he felt that nothing could ever amount to Angel's natural beauty.

"Well, aren't you a charmer," she laughed, walking up to him and hugging him.

"I'm just telling the truth," he replied, kissing back.

"Want to take off now?"

"Yeah, let's head out," he said, walking with his arm wrapped around her waist. They went out the door and Angel made sure that she locked it before turning to Warrick and wrapping her arm around his waist. They headed out to the car making small talk about their day went. As soon as they went outside of the apartment, Angel gasped. "This is just the start, baby," he said as he guided her towards the limo's opened door. She went inside and sat down, waiting for Warrick to come in and sit down beside her.

"Warrick, you didn't have to get a limo for us tonight," she said.

"I know, but I wanted to do it. You deserve this treatment tonight," he said leaning to kiss her. The limo started driving to their destination. Warrick had made sure that the driver knew where he was going. He didn't want anyone to mess up his date with Angel tonight because he was going to propose to her. She was there for him through thick and thin. His colleagues knew of his gambling addiction, especially her. She did everything possible in her power to help and encourage Warrick to not give into the temptation to gamble. It was only through her that he was able to overcome the addiction. They've been through so much crap especially with the way he's been treating her. He broke her heart in so many ways that would cause any girl to not want to be around him. He wondered why she didn't leave him. "Got a question for you."

"What is it?" she said, holding onto his hand.

"Why did you stick around me? I mean I broke your heart so many damn times. Any girl would have just left me but you didn't. Why is that?"

She sighed. She knew that this question was going to come up sooner or later. She replied, "It's quite simple, really…" she started off. He raised his eyebrows. "You know that I was adopted into an African-American family, right?" she asked and went on as soon as he nodded, "My older brother had the same problem as you. He was a gambling addict. He just couldn't stop gambling. I found out one day and I got pissed at him for lying, stealing and gambling. I had to do something about it. I just couldn't sit there and accept what was happening to him. I went into his bedroom while he was sleeping and just started smacking him around, yelling and cursing and hitting him. He kept asking me what I was doing. My parents came rushing in and thought something bad happened. When they saw me smacking around, they were telling me to stop and let go of him. I got so mad at my parents and asked them if they knew if he had a gambling addiction. They didn't know. We sat around the dining table and just talked about it. I was there for him when he was trying to quit. I didn't know what to do at that time, but I did what I could. He's still fighting that temptation now because he hasn't completely gave it up like you. So when I saw the similar pattern in you, I knew that I had to do something. I wasn't going to give up on you."

"Thank you," he replied, kissing her on her head.

"For what?"

"For not giving up on me. I couldn't have done it without you. Grissom and I talked recently and he was telling me how much I've changed since meeting you. I told him that you were the reason why I quit gambling altogether," he said.

"Sir?"

"Yeah?"

"We're here," the driver said.

Angel had looked out of the window and looked back to Warrick with raised eyebrows. "What are we doing here?"

"The place of our dinner plans," he said simply. The driver opened the door and Warrick was the first one out, then holding his hand out to help Angel out of the car. They looked like movie stars coming out of the limo. Everyone around them was envious of them. Warrick patted the guy on the back and said, "I'll see you in a few hours," and walked into the open bar with Angel. They both walked towards to where the host was standing.

"How may I help you?"

"I got a table for two reserved under the name of Warrick Brown," he said. The host looked down on his chart and smiled. He pulled out a couple of menus from the side shelf.

"Right this way," he said, leading them to their table. After allowing them to sit, he placed the menus in front of them explained what the House Specials were and left. A waiter came shortly after and took their drink orders.

"I can't believe you're doing this, Warrick," she said, glancing up from her menu.

"I just thought that it would be nice if we had a romantic night out. Is that wrong?"

"No, it's not wrong… just can't help but wonder what brought this on," she said.

"Just felt like it, that's all," he said. Inwardly, he was nervous as hell because he didn't want this night to go wrong.

The waiter came back with their drinks, "Ready to order?"

"Baby, you ready?" Warrick asked.

"Yeah, I'll have Chicken Stir-Fry, Teriyaki style," she said.

"Give me Filet Mignon, medium with house salad and Italian dressing, please," he said. The waiter left as soon as he took their orders. They made small talk as they waited for their food to arrive. That was something that Angel loved doing with Warrick. She would grab every free time to talk with Warrick about everything and anything. It was stimulating to her especially since they both work with people on their worst day of their lives. She felt fortunate enough to get the same night off with Warrick. It was rare that they'll both get the same night off. She valued those times with him.

flashback

"Now that everyone's here, I'd like to introduce a new member of the team," announced Grissom. Everyone was gathered around in the break room. The newest member was only 5'2" and felt extremely short among CSI giants. She stood left of Grissom with Catherine on the right, then Greg, Sara, Nick and Warrick. Sara and Catherine felt a bit overprotective of the guys but were somewhat thrilled that there was a new female on the team. "This is CSI Angel Rose Williams." Everyone raised their eyebrows, not because she was a new CSI but because her name didn't match what she looked like.

"I'm sure that you're wondering why my last name is different…" she started off "it's because I was adopted into an African-American family since I was 11 years old."

"How did you get adopted into a family at that age?" Catherine asked.

"My biological family abused my during my childhood and I couldn't handle it anymore, my neighbor saw what happened and took them to court to get custody of me," she explained with no emotionWhen she looked at Warrick, they both got a sense that something was going to happen but couldn't figure out what it was What they didn't know was that the other CSIs had sense that they'll be married one day.

"What makes you think that you're qualified to be on our team?" Sara asked snidely.

"Sara, that was inappropriate!" Grissom warned.

"No, its okay," she responded gently. "I suspected that someone would react that way towards me." She thought about how to respond to this situation for a minute. "Sara, I am aware that you may have some issues about adding a new member on the team," she started off.

"I don't have any issues," she said, trying to defend herself

"Then why the outburst?" The group tried to hide their grins with her confident remark; when no response came, she continued. "Look, I didn't choose to be here, but that I met all of you, I'm thinking that it may have been the best decision that I ever made. LVPC and CSI recruited me because one of my professors has connections here and recommended me. He knew that LAPD wouldn't want someone like me. When I said someone like me, I mean by a Korean-American female adopted by an African-American family doesn't bode well at LA. LA still has issues against African-American people. That's why I'm here. I knew that there would be discrimination regardless of where I live because I'm already experiencing it now by you," she explained confidently and looking squarely at Sara. Warrick, Nick, Greg, Catherine and Grissom smiled and knew that Angel was going to be around for a long time to come.

end flashback

"Hey, baby," Warrick asked.

"Hmm?"

"What were you thinking about?"

"The first time that Grissom introduced me to the team," she smiled ruefully.

"I still couldn't believe that a little bit and a Level 1CSI like you put a CSI 3 like Sara into her place," Warrick said, smiling at the memory, "I mean, after Grissom put you on your first case with me, from what I hear from Nick that she was ranting and raving about how she thought that you were all righteous and all that. Then Catherine, Nick and Greg just told her off because we needed more people like you on the team."

"What do you mean, "people like me?""

"Determined, strong-willed and full of spunk," he said and she smiled "But I got to admit Nick and I were appreciative that you were there at that time because you brought some innocence around the lab at that time and still do. That was something that we haven't seen for quite some time especially in this field of work," he said, holding her hands in his. The waiter brought food and they were eating and having an animated conversation through dinner. After eating dinner, Warrick paid the bill and they both headed towards the Mist just to sit around and dance to the music. Once they both got into the hang of things… about an hour and a half later, they've noticed that the crowd was starting to get rowdy.

Angel leaned towards Warrick's ear to talk to him, "Could we leave? I don't like the rowdiness." Warrick leaned back and saw the look in her eyes and he nodded his head. He knew that she didn't like this type of environment. Angel held onto his arm as they tried to weave through the crowd. Somehow Warrick and Angel were walking through the crowd easily but didn't realize that 4 men were surrounding them and walking with them. As soon as they were outside, one of them grabbed Angel forcefully and two of them grabbed Warrick. "Warrick!!!" Angel screamed.

"Angel! Let her go!!! Angel!" he was screaming at the man who was holding her. He tried to reach her but the 2 guys held him back.

"Warrick!! Help me!!!!" she screamed, fighting the guy with all her strength but he was stronger than her.

Warrick was fighting the other two guys but they both held his arms and forced him to move. The fourth guy was leading them to a private area where the car was parked. "Put them in the car now!" he barked. It was a big van and they both pushed Angel and Warrick into the car. Angel immediately cuddled herself into Warrick's arms as he was taking in their surroundings. They both took in their surroundings to make sure that they knew what to tell the team when they were being questioned.

"Where you taking us?" he asked.

"You'll find out soon enough," one of them said. It seems that three of them were in the van and the leader was in the other car. The guy started the car and waited for the leader to start driving.

"What's happening?" Angel asked softly, only loud enough for Warrick to hear.

"Seems like we're being abducted and I don't know why," he replied softly, rubbing her back. After driving around for 10 minutes they pulled into a parking lot of Hilton Hotel on the Strip. It made Warrick think about why here of all places and not some seedy hotel. As soon as they parked, the three guys went behind the van and pulled both of them out.

"Warrick!" Angel called out again. She wanted to be in his arms. She felt safe in his arms. But the guy who held her kept their distance from Warrick.

"Leave her out of this! We didn't do shit to any of you!"

"Ah, that's where you're wrong! Both of you brought shit in my life," the leader said. "Let's go," he said and led the way to the hotel room. He opened the door and everyone came into the room. "Tie her up on the bed," he said, "Hold onto him… I want to make him suffer." Everyone knew what to do except for Warrick and Angel.

Angel was screaming and sobbing to be let go. She didn't think that this night would turn out this way, "Please let us go," she begged.

"I can't," he said. As soon as the so-called hired hit men finished tying her up, the leader went up to Warrick, "I want you to watch what I'm going to do to her. It's a price that you pay for what you did to me before."

"And what was it that I did to you before?" Warrick tried to go at him but the 2 guys held onto him.

"Took her away from me before I actually proposed!" The voice sounded so familiar but Warrick couldn't place it.

Angel calmed down enough to recognize the voice, "Michael? Is that you?" Michael turned his face sharply to Angel.

"I see that you acknowledge me now. He took you away from me," he said, then slapped Warrick.

"NO! Don't you slap him! He didn't do anything to you!" she said, straining against the ropes around her wrists.

"Yes, he did! He took you away from me!" Warrick now remembered that Michael was an abusive ex-boyfriend of hers, in which she had to get a restraining order against him. Warrick attempted again to Michael but the two goons held him back. Michael didn't want to argue with either one of them. Instead he walked towards the bed and started to hike up her dress and pull down her underwear while she was screaming at him to stop. Because of the restraints, she couldn't fight back to get him off her. The guys who were holding Warrick back were shocked at this new information that just developed. They hadn't realized that she was innocent and didn't do anything to him. Michael looked at the guys and warned. "Don't even think about letting him go! You all haven't earned your pay yet!" he barked and proceeded to take his pants down and rape her.

"No, Michael! Please… I'll do whatever you want… just don't rape me!" she begged.

"Too fucking late! I loved you then and I love you now. I told you before that you weren't allowed to love any other men in your life. Remember that promise you made me?"

"What promise?" she asked, sobbing, hoping that the small talk would delay in him raping her.

"The promise you made to me, remember? You said 'I promise to love no other man except you. If you can't have me, then no one can,'" he said.

"I never made that promise to you," she said. He slapped her hard and she could feel blood coming out of her mouth. She was couldn't stop her crying. "Please let us go. Don't do this to Warrick and me, please!" Warrick was looking hotly at Michael, totally disgusted that he was doing this to her, to his angel. He knew that these two guys were stronger than him, but he had to fight somehow.

"Don't even think about raping her!!! She doesn't deserve you!!!" Warrick sneered at him.

"But she does deserve me… if she doesn't deserve anyone, it's you," he said, looking at Warrick. He turned back to Angel, "You broke that promise to me and now you'll pay!" he said as he was ready to rape her. During that whole time, he wasn't paying attention to the three guys. He didn't realize that they had let Warrick go and that he was behind him. Right when Michael was ready to rape her, he felt a force of a punch.

"No rapes her and lives to tell the tale, especially from the likes of you!" Warrick sneered. All the while he was hitting him; the other three guys fled the scene.

"Warrick," he heard her say softly, momentarily stopping him. "I need you!" he turned towards her and the look of her broke his heart. He punched him in the face one more time to make sure that he wasn't going anywhere. He went to tend to Angel… helped her free from the restraints. While he was comforting Angel, he didn't realize that Michael had come to and grabbed the opportunity to escape. Warrick let him go, knowing that one day he'll get him somehow.

"Sshhhh, it's okay, I'm here. No one's going to hurt you, sweetheart," he said, rubbing her back. She shivered and that's when he noticed that she was partially naked. He took off his shirt and wrapped it around her. Warrick then called Dispatch from the hotel room's phone and called it in.