Horatio slept all day and woke when Joe came in to examine him again. It was 7:30 at night now. Calleigh was fast asleep on the recliner chair this time, he was happy to see her getting some rest.
"That was not a low dose, was it Joe?"
"No, you started to bleed again, remember? Your body is exhausted, and it needs to rest Horatio. I gave you enough to help you sleep the afternoon away; you needed it, trust me."
"Well, it got a whole day of rest now, didn't it." Horatio said, annoyed.
"You have got to be kidding me, your upset?"
"No." Horatio sighed. " I-just didn't get to talk with my team and I don't know exactly where we are right now. I hate being kept in the dark. Which is why I have to get out of here."
"What,...get out of here? Is being here really that bad? "In-case you haven't noticed, we're trying to help you." Joe gave him a look.
"You don't understand, one of them is dead already. I just need to stay.. on top of things right now."
"Well, your team seems to have things under control. So while you're here, why don't you get some rest. You can make all the phone calls you want, just try not to exert yourself too much. Also, take an easy when you're getting up. Do it slowly, and be-careful of that left arm... It goes with the ribs... remember?" He smiled.
"Hmm, Of course, doctor." Horatio ribbed him.
"So, any news on your perp's?" Joe questioned. Horatio grinned and tried not to laugh.
"Hmm, someone... knocked me out, remember, you probably know more than me by now."
Joe began examining his ribs and chest again when a nurse walked in the room. She went to the table on the left of Horatio and put something down. He glanced at her but quickly turned toward Joe and the pain he was causing. He groaned again and moved grabbing hold of his hand now.
"Hold still a moment, will you."
"I'm trying, but you keep poking me..." Joe stood up straight now looking past Horatio.
"You a new nurse on the floor?" She nodded to him. "I haven't seen you around before, could you hand me that pulse ox line?" She smiled at him and handed it to him.
"Thanks! So, got a name?" Joe asked, putting it on Horatio's finger.
Horatio slowly looked over at her and his eyes went wide with shock. It was Claudia. He moved quickly to get up but she shook her head to him, and aimed a gun at Joe. Horatio blinked and his eyes narrowed on the gun, it was his gun she was aiming.
"Claudia." She said, in a low voice to Joe smiling. Joe's eyes went wide with shock.
"Make a sound, and wake up sleeping beauty over there, and your dead." She moved closer to Horatio's bedside now, still pointing the gun at Joe's chest.
"Claudia, he has nothing to do..."
"SHUT UP! Not a sound I said." She glared at him and Joe took a step forward.
"Where are you going doctor?" She chuckled. "Don't Move Again!"
"You, put your arms up." And she now pointed the gun down at Horatio's chest.
"Up, let's go, over your head." Horatio began to lift his right arm and slowly his left but his left was causing him pain.
What happened to Jay, Claudia? You kill him? Horatio asked her.
She smiled at Horatio now.
"Maybe, I should go over there and shoot sleeping beauty in the head; maybe that would give you an incentive, hmm lieutenant? Maybe that would finally, shut-you-UP! "
He gave her a glare that could kill. She took her left hand and grabbed Horatio's arm and pulled it over his head. He groaned in pain and clenched his jaw. She shoved the gun into his chest now.
"I said to be quiet!" He groaned, gritting his teeth together.
"You,.. back up,.. to where she is. Move!" Joe took a couple of steps back and was standing near the recliner chair and Calleigh now.
"Just what do you plan on doing? You're in a hospital and there are cops everywhere." Joe said.
"First, I am going to kill you, if you don't shut up. Then Him and then her!" Does that answer your questions doctor? She said smiling.
She looked back down at Horatio and smiled deviously.
"Make a sound and they both die, you understand lieutenant?" She said to Horatio now. His arms were up above his head and he gave her a questioning look and nodded. She swung the gun butt down and into his ribs.
He groaned in pain and his arms both came down to cradle his ribs. His legs curled up and he thrashed in the bed, groaning, trying to bare the pain now with out yelling in agony.
Joe took a step and Claudia quickly pointed the gun his way. "No, no. NO- doctor- this- time... he gets no help!"
Calleigh stirred and opened her eyes, "Joe?" He was standing in front of her. Her eyes moved to where Joe's were locked.
"Claudia." She gasped in shock.
She looked at Horatio who was facing Claudia now almost on his side, he was groaning in pain. She could only see his back and hear him groaning.
"What did you do to him?"
"Nothing just yet! I just had to get his attention, sunshine." She smiled.
"Don't move, either of you. You do and I'll kill him where he lays!"
She reached over to the table and picked something up. Horatio moved more onto his back now, trying to find comfort. He looked over at Calleigh and his eyes went to her and then to the floor. He did this twice, she got his message. Claudia shoved the gun barrel into Horatio's ribs now. He groaned in pain again and went to bring his arm over but she grabbed it, and pulled it up hard again. He was beginning to breathe heavy now and was really beginning to feel the pain. He just wanted to cradle his ribs and curl up into a ball, but she put the gun to his neck and told him not to move.
"Don't think about it!"
She saw Calleigh get up, she stood near Joe now. She pointed the gun at her now.
"Whoa, I'm not moving." Calleigh said and put her hands up.
Horatio gave Calleigh another look and yelled, "DOWN, NOW!"
He grabbed Claudia's arm with his right hand and pulled it up and back. The gun went off three times, right near his head.
Calleigh Tackled Joe to the floor when Horatio yelled.
Horatio struggled with one arm to get control of the gun. Claudia elbowed him in the ribs with her left arm now and he grunted in pain. She pulled with the gun hand more now, forcing his arm up more, pulling at his ribs. Suddenly he saw her left hand coming down fast toward his chest; his reflex was quick and he grabbed it, with his weakened, left hand. She pushed hard and down into him and his left arm weakened and gave right out. She plunged a needle deep into his chest; he gasped and looked at her in shock now. She pulled now with her right hand and gained control of the gun.
"BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG" Gunshots rang out.
Calleigh was holding her gun up, aiming still, where Claudia had been. Everything happened so fast, she didn't see her stick Horatio with the needle, she only saw the gun. Claudia's body laid limp on the floor now.
Horatio tried to sit up and looked over to Calleigh. "You... ok?... Joe..?" He asked in a ruff voice, groaning and gasping for air.
Joe was getting off the floor.
"You ok Joe?" Calleigh asked, still aiming her gun, toward Claudia.
"Yeah" He said, looking over his body, in shock now. Feeling it with both his hands, still making sure it was there. "Still in one piece." He said rubbing his shoulder.
Horatio tried to moved again and groaned loudly now in pain. He looked down and to the left where Claudia was laying.
His gun laid next to her hand and her body was twisted on the floor, blood beginning to pool.
Suddenly his eyes coming into focus on another object, the one sticking out of his chest. The needle was still there. He began to feel a burning sensation and reached up with his right hand and groaned in pain now.
Calleigh walked over to Claudia's body, gun still aiming, being very cautious.
"Horatio, you ok?" She asked, still checking out Claudia, kicking the gun away from her hand.
"Horatio?" She questioned again and now looked his way. She saw the needle sticking out of his chest and moved quickly to him now, her eyes going wide with panic.
"Oh my God! Joe, Joe help him,... he has..." Joe went right over to help him.
"Ok, ok. Keep your head back Horatio."
His body was beginning to shake a bit; his left hand came up as Joe pressed on the area. Joe examined the area and it had already began swelling. He did not want to pull it out yet, he didn't know what it was.
"Do we have any idea what this is?" Joe pressed the nurse's button, looking to Calleigh.
"Maybe bee?... he's allergic to bee.." She said unsure, and opened her phone and began dialing...
"Argggg" Horatio groaned now and was getting worse.
"Take...it out..." He groaned, his breathing becoming short, labored now.
Alexx walked in, "Oh my God! WHAT the..."
She saw Claudia on the floor and saw the needle sticking out of Horatio's chest.
"Alexx, Alexx...Please tell me that Ryan figured out what was in that syringe." Calleigh pleaded.
"He said it was venom, BEE! A lot of it. If we call the CDC they could..."
"Do it, now! Right now!" Joe yelled.
"Calleigh called and they said they needed to know what kind of venom, she called Ryan and he told her what the mixture was.
"I found a substance called precipitin. It's extremely rare. Let me know... "
I'll call you back!" she said and cut him off.
She called back the CDC and they told her she would have an antidote delivery by Medivac within minutes. She told Alexx and Joe.
"Maria, I need a couple of doses of Epinephrine, right now. I need to inject it into him intramuscularly."
"Hang on Horatio, I'm gonna take it out, ok."
Alexx came around the other side of the bed.
"Hold his arm for me." She looked at Joe and put light pressure on Horatio's arm.
"It's ok Horatio, he just going to take it out."
Joe pulled back on the plunger a bit and Horatio groaned in pain, blood started to fill it now. He Put his hand on his chest and pulled it out; he gave it to Calleigh, who was standing right next to him. Joe tore open his shirt and put his stethoscope to his chest.
He was wheezing now and could hear his heart palpitating.
"Dam, he's going into anaphylactic shock. Horatio stay with me ok, Horatio?"
His eyes were closing and his body began shaking uncontrollably now. He groaned and Calleigh came around to where Alexx was and leaned over him now.
"Hey, Horatio, c'mon open those eyes...Horatio?" Calleigh said.
"Ummm" He moaned and his right arm made a grab for his chest.
"Hold that arm Alexx, keep him still, the less he moves the better. The venom gets through the body quicker with exertion we need to keep him still." Joe said.
Maria came in with the Epinephrine and Joe gave it to him in the arm.
"I need ice Maria... A lot of it! Bring a bunch of ice packs, make it quick. We have to slow this down."
"I'll help you." Alexx offered and went with Maria.
"Calleigh keep him awake, talk to him and tell him to keep still." Joe said.
"Hey, can you open your eyes for me Horatio?... Horatio open your eyes for me, ok? Horatio?"
Joe leaned down and spoke to him loudly now. "Horatio, open those eyes, c'mon!"
He opened his eyes but did not seem to focus. He gritted his teeth and groaned in pain, both his arms trying to move now. His legs began thrashing in the bed.
"NO, hold still, don't move Horatio! You need to stay still." He groaned and still tried to move, groaning louder now. Joe held him.
Maria and Alexx came back and Joe told them to hold him now. He started to put the packs on him, Horatio groaned and began shaking even more now. His arms pulling to be free.
"Don't! gun, ...Ahh...cold... No..." He began to mumble incoherent things.
"Horatio its ok, look, it's me, Calleigh." She tried to get him to focus on her.
He gritted his teeth again and now began to thrash around even more. They were all trying to hold him down and keep him still.
"Calleigh! Talk to him, get his attention on you!" Joe yelled now.
"Horatio look at me!" She raised her voice to him. He opened his eyes again and this time found hers.
"You have to stay still, ok, Horatio?" Her eyes holding his gaze and her voice going soft, reaching him now.
"Cal... ...body.. feels...burning...cold" His eyes closed again and his jaw set, he was in pain. "Bod, bod..dy feelsss..." He began moving again.
"Where the hell are they?" Joe yelled now. "Put more ice on him."
His body began to convulse now and his hands were clenched into fists, he groaned loudly and pressed his head more into the pillow.
"You're alright Horatio; you're going to get through this. Remember last time? You are going to be fine. Now stay with us ok, can you keep those eyes open for us honey?" Alexx said.
"Horatio? Horatio? C'mon Horatio, talk to us." Calleigh kept calling out to him.
"His pressure falling Dr. Gannon." Maria shouted out.
The door burst open and in came a nurse with the antitoxin injection, she handed it to Joe and he stuck Horatio right in the arm with it.
"How long did they say, before we ..."
Immediately his breathing began getting better and his pressure was rising now.
His body was still shaking and they began removing the ice packs. All but one, they left the one right over the wound. They covered him and he groaned. Calleigh put her hand to his head and ran it through his hair now.
"You're going to be ok, can you hear me...Horatio?" He was out cold.
"He should be ok now, we're going to keep a real close eye on him, ok." Joe reassured them.
Alexx looked at Calleigh and asked her what had happened. Calleigh just stared at her. Joe started to fill them both in and explained to them, what had happened. He told them how Claudia was dressed up as a nurse and got in his room.
"Did she say anything Joe, like who was involved in this?" Calleigh asked now."
"No, she didn't. Horatio asked her and she just smiled at him. She never said a word about it. She did not seem... sane, Calleigh." Joe said, unsure.
"You're right, she was declared INSANE! She was in a mental facility."
Joe's beeper went off again and he told them he would be back in a while to check on Horatio. He said, Horatio would be out for a while now.
Horatio sleep for hours before waking again, he groaned and began shaking holding onto the blanket with his right hand.
"Hey, good to have you back. Calleigh smiled at him. "You ok, Horatio?"
"Col..d...very...col..lld." He was trembling now."
"Ok, here you go." And she took more blankets and covered him high up to his neck.
"Better now?"
"M..mmm." His whole body was shivering now even his hand that held the blanket.
She put her hand on his and he quickly felt her warmth, she rubbed it and then put her hand on his face and forehead. His shaking subsiding now, his eyes closed and his breathing slowed. He drifted off to sleep again. Alexx smiled at her.
"It could persist two to three days Joe said, that Precipitin is bad stuff. Lucky we called the CDC right away." Calleigh said.
"What I want to know is how they found out he was allergic to bee venom?" Alexx answered.
"Eric and Frank found files with all Horatio's personal information in it. I think it was probably in there. I didn't get a chance to go through them yet."
"How would someone get police personal files Calleigh?" Alexx questioned.
"Well, we're not sure yet but we think it may be the Judge, remember Horatio had a problem with the Donna Scott case? The Judge would not give himself up and he threatened Horatio. Well his case was due the end of the month. Coincidence you think, I don't. Earlier today Judge Greenhill came to talk with him and admitted that Judge Ratner was behind all of this. Horatio put Judge Greenhill in protective custody today, so far he's our only witness.
"A criminal judge behind this, it's hard to believe." Alexx stated.
"Yeah, and it's gonna be even harder to prove."
There was a knock at the door and two police officers came in followed by Sergeant, Rick Stetler.
He slowly eyed Calleigh up and down, and looked over at Alexx.
"CSI Duquesne, you're gonna have to come with me now."