"H is gone" Ryan said, "Frank just told us."

Eric gave Ryan a look and proceeded to walk inside. Calleigh stopped and shook her head and Alex patted her arm and said "You know were gonna find him Calleigh, now pull yourself together sugar, Horatio needs us!"

"Jeez" Ryan said. As he started his examination of the scene. "H didn't go without a fight!"

Frank stepped aside and Eric and Ryan began looking around, processing the scene. His gun and badge were still there on the nightstand; Eric just held Horatio's gold shield in his hand. "Help us out here H" he said to it. His eyes started examining the room now. Then he saw Horatio's cell phone smashed on the floor. He smiled and gave a silent thank you.

"Here we go." Eric said

"What, you find something?"

"Yep and I'm betting were gonna get prints off this baby!

"Look at this." Ryan held up a syringe, showing it to Eric. Eric's eyes went wide. "We need to process that right away and see what's in it." Eric said with deep concern in his voice.

Ryan shook his head to Eric. "I'm on it. "I'll head back to the lab and get a jump on this." Holding the bag with the syringe, he said "It still looks full" and walked over and showed it to Eric.

"That's good news right, I mean at least she didn't use it on him" Ryan said with hope.

"Yeah, well the sooner we find out what that is, the better." Eric said. "If she has more and I am betting she does, at least we'll know what it is."

"Alright, see you back at the lab Eric" Ryan left and went back to HQ.

Calleigh came in and saw Eric taking swabs of blood from the blankets and pillows.

Eric looked at her, "We have the phone and probably some prints. Ryan just went back to HQ to process a syringe we found, so we have evidence Cal, we have a head start."

Calleigh just stared ahead and shook her head. "Calleigh, hey, Calleigh, you ok?" Eric asked her.

"No" She answered, looking away. Tears in her eyes now, she was worried for Horatio. She spotted a cloth on the floor and picked it up, she could smell it right away and bagged it, it was wet with chloroform, and they knocked him out with this, she thought to herself. Trying to put it all together but it was too soon and they had to get back to HQ to process the rest of the evidence.

Alex was talking to Frank, Eric and Calleigh came out and told Frank about what they found. They were going back to the Lab now to process everything, "It should give us some ideas as to what is going on here and who is involved." Eric said.

"Work the evidence sugar" Alex said, "Remember what Horatio taught you" let the evidence speak for itself."

Eric shook his head to Alex and said "We're going to find him, I'll bet 10 to 1 that H made half this mess for us; he knew we would have to process this place."

Calleigh focused now. "Lets get back to the lab; we have a lot of work to do..."

It was a beautiful sunny day and Horatio was sitting on the beach holding someone in his arms. Her back was to him and he had his arms around her waist holding her close. He nuzzled her neck and she laughed.

"Mmmm" In a low husky voice he said "You smell wonderful." closinghis eyes and taking in a deep breath, as if to lock it away in his thoughts forever. He buried his face in her hair and blew. That gave her chills up and down her body and she shivered in his arms. He loved the way her body would respond to his actions. He did it on purpose, smiling to himself now; he lowered his mouth to her ear.

"Cold?" He asked softly. As she shivered a bit in his arms again.

"Yes." She answered, as she snuggled closer to his body to get warm.

"Want me to warm you up?" He asked, breathing his words, softly into her ear.

She started to talk and said "Well now, I would not need you to….Ummmm…Mmmmm."

He began to give her butterfly kisses on the back of her neck, then the side of her neck, till he reached her earlobe and took it gently between his lips. He picked his head up, and that's when she realized, she had slipped down more and more and was now laying in his lap. She looked up to him now and he just smiled down and wiggled his eyebrows at her.

"Warm yet?" He asked, smiling.

"Horatio Caine." came her reply and he bent down and captured her lips with his, before she could go on.

"You're trying to….Mmmm….. seduce me." She said, giggling, as he softly kissed her.

"Trying?" He answered, with the tilt of his head.

"Well, it looks like it working to me."He grabbed her and rolled her to her side. He laid next to her now, they were face to face, she smiled to him and he began to play with the silk strands of her hair, he took her hand in his and trailed kisses along the inside of it, suddenly it was getting darker, the sun was not so bright anymore and he started to feel pain all over.

She began fading from his view and he was opening and closing his eyes to try and focus, to try and bring her back to him, he had to get her back...

Calleigh, don't….go, come….back!…… He awoke, startled, confused.

His eyes trying to focus, it was dark. Adjusting to the light in the room he tried to look around, his head was spinning. He felt sick, his right side was killing him and his mouth was taped shut.

Suddenly a hand grabbed his hair and pulled his head down. Instantly the taped was ripped from his mouth and his eyes slammed shut from the pain and shock. He took a breath, glad the tape was gone and opened his eyes. Where am I, Horatio thought to himself.

"Hello lieutenant Caine, nice of you to join us again. Were you having a nice dream?" Jay asked.

"It must have been the chloroform, right? What do you think Claudia?" Jay said as they both began laughing.

Horatio had no idea how he got here and where here, exactly was. He kept opening and closing his eyes, trying better to focus on his surroundings.

"He looks a bit confused Jay, maybe we should help him wake up more"

"Sure Claudia, what did you have in mind?"

Claudia picked up a bucket and walked over to the cot Horatio laid on.

"It's- time- to- wake- up- lieutenant." Claudia said in her sing song voice.

Horatio eyes just watched her as she leaned over him and dumped a bucket of ice cold water over his head and chest.

He gasped in shock from the cold. His eyes shot opened wide when the water hit him. He was coughing and choking trying to clear his throat and catch his breath at the same time. He tried to lift up but his body would not comply and his hands were still cuffed behind his back.

He tried to roll over but she held him down, and smiling she said to him,

"You feel better now don't you? Not so sleepy anymore, hmm? Now now, lieutenant, answer my questions! Are you still sleepy?

She began to get another bucket of water when Jay stopped her.

"Wait Claudia; let's have some fun with him." Claudia just stopped and smiled at Jay.

"Now what do you have in mind Jay?" She asked smiling.

Jay whispered, leaning down to Horatio "I would have answered her if I were you, lieutenant."

Horatio's eyes narrowed with anger at Jay now, his jaw clenched.

"Why do you need her to do your dirty work Jay?... I'll tell you why…it's because you're a coward!" It came out in a raspy growl.

"You know, you are just making this harder on yourself Caine Jay said and held up the baton, "I can't wait to try this…On you! Oh and by the way you are nice and wet now, that should add to the lighting effect." He laughed and Claudia pulled Horatio's shirt up and Jay shoved the baton into his rib cage.

Horatio's head slammed back down hard into the bed, his back arched off the bed and he was grinding his teeth with his eyes squeezed shut. He could not hold back anymore……….. "Arrrgggggggggggggg" He yelled in excruciating pain.

Jay let go of the button and laughed, "I told you, you should have listened to her, SEE."

"Claudia. Ask him again." Jay said

"Well lieutenant, are you still sleepy?"

His breathing was ragged and he was just trying to focus on anything but the pain, his body was killing him. He wanted so much to close

his eyes and go to sleep but he knew he had to fight and keep trying. He tried to keep thinking of the dream, he wished it could be true… Calleigh, beach, warm...

"Lieutenant, are you sleepy still?" Claudia yelled at Horatio now.

"No….no…awake, I'm….. am….a wake." He answered her, trying to breathe some air to fill his lungs.

Claudia smiled to Jay and back to Horatio, "I think it's time for his big surprise!" She said and began laughing.

TBC...