Chapter 3

She placed her left hand on his chest as she took a pulse with her right.

"He's got a pulse." Zoë shouted as she rolled him over on to his left side towards her. She held his head as he began to cough; she held his jaw open as he coughed up water. Once he had finished coughing up water he rolled over on to his back and looked straight up to the sky, he had regained consciousness.

"Ryan?" Horatio asked.

"Yeah?" Ryan said breathlessly, Zoë then bent over and placed her forehead on his chest.

"Oh thank God." She said breathlessly then sat up kneeling, looking. Horatio stood up and phoned Eric to ask him if he could come down to the marina. The ambulance then turned up, the paramedics rushed over to Ryan. They covered him in a blanket and checked him over.

"Mr Wolfe, we advise you to come to hospital with us, you should be checked over properly."

"I feel fine though." Ryan replied.

"Ryan, go to the hospital, you could suffer from secondary drowning if there's water in your lungs. I'll follow if you want?"

"But I feel fine." Ryan repeated.

"Ryan." Zoë said sternly.

"Fine, okay. I'll go to the hospital."

"Thank you." Zoë said with a smile appearing across her face.

"Mr Wolfe, do you think you can walk, or shall we get the stretcher?" One of the paramedics asked.

"I can walk." He replied. The two paramedics helped Ryan up.

"I'll follow behind in the hummer, okay?" Zoë said as she stood up too and Ryan nodded at her. The paramedics helped walk Ryan over to the ambulance and helped him in. Fire and rescue arrived and put out the fire that was on the boat. Horatio then approached Zoë.

"Are you okay?" Horatio asked tilting his head taking his sunglasses off.

"Yeah, I'm going to follow the ambulance in my hummer." She replied warmly.

"Zoë, you're shaking." Horatio said as he saw her trembling, he placed a hand on her shoulder as his expression grew more concerned.

"It's just a little chilly, that's all." She said with a forced smile as she squinted at him.

"Take your jacket off." He said before he gently helped her get it off.

"Not a good day to wear a white shirt." She said as she covered herself and chuckled with Horatio. Horatio took his jacket off and put it around her and she quickly thanked him.

"Are you sure you can drive?" Horatio asked.

"Yeah, are you going to be okay here?" Zoë said pulling the oversized jacket tighter.

"Yeah, Eric's on his way over now." Horatio said with a smile as they began to walk over to Zoë's stuff that she had thrown off. Horatio still had a hold of Zoë's soaking jacket.

She slipped her shoes on and bent down to pick her gun, phone, badge and ID up.

"I don't even remember taking this stuff off!" She said as she stood up. "It must have been all of that adrenaline." Horatio gently smiled at her.

"Do you want your jacket back?" She asked as she took it off her shoulders.

"No, no, you keep it for now." Horatio said with a smile. Zoë put the jacket on properly and put her arms through the sleeves.

"Thank you." She said sweetly as the ambulance pulled away.

"No problem." He said with a smile.

"I better be off." Zoë said as she turned and walked over to the hummer, she had begun to warm up in the hot Miami sun. Horatio watched her walk away in his jacket which smothered her; he put his sunglasses on and rested his hands on his hips as she got into her Hummer. She drove off behind the ambulance. Eric pulled up in his hummer 2 minutes after. He walked up to Horatio.

"Where did Ryan and Zoë go?" Eric asked as he was walking up to Horatio with his kit in hand.

"They've gone to the hospital." Horatio said lowly.

"Are they okay? What happened?!" Eric asked concerned.

"They're both fine; Ryan is just going to get checked over as a precaution, Zoë's following in the ambulance. Ryan fell off the decking, knocked himself out and very nearly drowned, Zoë then jumped in and pulled him out."

"Well, it's all happening then isn't it! Where's your jacket?" Eric asked studying Horatio.

"Zoë was freezing, so I've given it to her." Horatio said as he held up her small soaking jacket.

"Freezing? It's Miami." Eric said with a small slightly confused smile.

"She dove in deep, down there it's pretty cold without proper gear on, she was also in the water for quite a while." Horatio said looking down at the water.

"Right anyway, there's a crime scene in hand." Eric said looking over at the now burnt boat.

"Well, at least it's not sunken!" Eric said with a small smile.