13:30

Horatio slowly opened his eyes and looked around. His vision was blurry and he was in pain, but barely awake. He couldn't lift up his arms and his chest hurt as he was breathing. He knew he was on the ground, but he couldn't remember how he had gotten there. He had been in a car, that was the last thing he remembered. He tried shifting his legs, but groaned in pain. Instead he decided not to move at all. He started losing consciousness, and the last thing on his mind was Eric. Horatio didn't see Janet sitting beside him, panting. She too was hurt, just not as badly as Horatio. She hissed as she stood up and looked down at the Lt. His leg was cut badly, as well as both his arms and hands. He had an ugly gash behind his ear, and his nose was bleeding.

"I'm sure you have a lot of internal bleeding." Janet said.

Horatio's left wrist was broken, Janet just sighed and walked away. Not bothering to call an ambulance. After all the Lt. was supposed to die. This may not have been what Janet had planned, but as long as the Lt. died, there was nothing to worry about. Janet had planned on driving to an empty warehouse and then shoot Horatio twice in the head. Her gun, however, was in car, that was slowly sinking to the bottom of the small lake. Janet had been the only one of the two, conscious enough to swim out of the water. The reason she had pulled Horatio with her, was because she wanted someone to see him, dead. She wanted his lover to find him, dead on the ground. She was a cold-hearted bitch, and she was proud of it. Without a car it would take a long time for her to get out of the glades. Not to mention she was limping too.

-I-

Eric sighed and answered his phone. He had expected to hear the voice of someone from the team or one of his sisters. Instead the voice on the other end belonged to Mac Taylor, from New York. Eric could hear that he was worried about something.

"Mac, what can I do for you?" Eric asked.

"Eric, is Horatio there?" Mac asked.

Eric sighed, he knew it would sound stupid to Mac, but he had no idea where Horatio was. Nobody knew.

"I don't know where he is. He hasn't been at the lab, since before lunch." Eric sighed.

"He ain't answering his cell phone."

"Yeah, it's turned off." Eric said.

"Eric, I can't even reach his voicemail."

Eric suddenly got very worried.

"What?" He asked, not sure if he had heard the right words.

"It's like his phone doesn't exist anymore, Eric."

"Um, alright. I'll find him and call you back." Eric said and hung up.

His first thought was that Horatio had left him forever. That he had fled to another state, maybe even another country and then thrown his cell phone into the water. But after some thinking, Eric knew it was stupid. Horatio might have been severely hurt by him, but he wouldn't run away to another state or country. And he certainly wouldn't destroy his phone in any way. His job was too important for that. That was also a thing that was really strange, but no one else seemed to worry about. The fact that Horatio hadn't shown up at the lab yet. Eric almost ran towards the morgue, to see if Alexx had heard anything from Horatio.

"Alexx, do you know where Horatio is?" Eric asked.

The worry in his voice and eyes told Alexx that this was serious, and that something was very wrong.

"No sugar, what's going on?"

"Mac Taylor called me and told me that Horatio's phone is non-existing. He can't even get to his voicemail." Eric said running a hand through his hair.

"Track his hummer." Alexx said.

Eric slapped his head for not thinking of it sooner. Together with Alexx he walked towards the AV-lab. Cooper was about to make a joke, but when he saw the serious look on the CSI and ME's faces he shut his mouth.

"Track down H's hummer." Eric demanded.

Cooper who knew that it could only had happened something serious for Eric to demand that, hurried with typing into his computer and patiently waited for an answer. All of them looked surprised when the computer told them that the hummer was in the Glades, and not only that. It's location was in a lake.

"I guess he's swimming." Copper said.

Eric slapped Cooper's head and left the lab with Alexx. Before they made it into the elevator, they bumped into Ryan.

"Come with us, Wolfe." Eric said, "H is in danger."

Together they left the lab and drove towards the Glades. The problem was that even when they were driving fast, it would take them at least twenty minutes to get there. In the car, Alexx called for an ambulance and told them where to drive.

-I-

Raquel looked at the time and smirked. By now Lt. Caine would be dead with two bullets in his head. Eric would come to her, being angry and sad. She would tell him it was for the best and Eric would except her comfort. She would have her son back, and soon enough Joseph would come back to her too. She also expected Janet would come back too, asking for more money. And if everything had actually worked out perfectly, Raquel wouldn't mind giving her some more money. The guards looked suspiciously at Raquel. Her smirk bothered them and they believed that she had done something she wasn't supposed to do.

"Mrs. Delko, please step out of your cell." One of the guards named, Walter said.

Raquel nodded and left her cell. Two guards stood by her side and kept a close eye on her. She was not the most popular convict in the prison. Considering that she had almost killed a cop. All the guards kept an extra eye at her. And they made it quite clear that they didn't like her.

"Let's see if you've planned anymore murders lately, huh." Walter said and started checking Raquel's cell. She lived alone in her cell, because the prison ward believed that if Raquel had a cell mate, the two of them would plan crimes together. What the prison ward really wanted was to put Raquel in an isolation cell, but his boss had thought that it was a bit too harsh. Instead Raquel was all alone in her cell and was barely allowed to walk outside.

"Lucky for you, I didn't find anything." Walter said and stepped out of the cell, which was now a complete mess.

Raquel sighed angrily and was about to walk back into her cell, when something sharp hit her back and she was suddenly out of breath.

"Everybody down!" Walter shouted and the guards crouched down to the floor with Raquel. Raquel couldn't breath. Everything seemed to move in slow motion, and she realized that she was about to die.

"Call and ambulance!" Walter shouted, "Stay with me Mrs. Delko!"

Raquel could see his face, and see his mouth move, but she couldn't hear what he was saying. Then everything went dark for her as she closed her eyes and took one final breath.

Walter started doing chest compressions, but to no use. Raquel Delko was dead. Shot with an arrow in her back.

"Call MDPD, and ask for some CSI's. She's dead." Walter said and looked down at Raquel.

"How in God's name did someone shoot her with an arrow?" A younger guard asked.

"Through the window. It only has bars, no glass or anything." Walter said and pointed at a small window, "Someone knew how to aim."

"Who would want to kill Mrs. Delko?" The young guard asked.

"Are you kidding? Anybody." Walter snorted, "She basically a cop killer. She got what she deserved."

-I-

14:00

Alexx was out of the car before it even stopped. Eric followed quickly and then Ryan. Horatio lay on the ground, in a pool of his own blood.

"Horatio, sweetie, open your eyes." Alexx said and felt for a pulse. Horatio's pulse was weak and irregular.

"Squeeze my hand." Eric said and kissed Horatio's hand.

This couldn't be happening! He couldn't stand loosing Horatio, they still had so much time left with each other. Their time together wasn't supposed to end like this.

"H, come on!" Eric begged.

The paramedics arrived and quickly pushed Eric and Ryan aside. Alexx helped them treat Horatio.

"Be careful with his wrist, it's broken." Alexx said.

"He's losing way too much blood." The paramedic named Charlie said, "Get the gurney."

Ryan was quicker then the other paramedic, Nathan, so he rushed for the gurney. Both Ryan and Eric watched in worry as Horatio was placed on the gurney. Charlie put an IV in his arm and then an oxygen mask over his face.

"He needs blood." Charlie said, "And he needs it quick."

Charlie and Nathan wheeled Horatio towards the ambulance and then carefully, but still quickly, loaded him into the ambulance. Without asking if Eric wanted to join them, Charlie closed the doors. Nathan started the engine and drove away. Leaving Alexx alone with the boys.

"Secure the scene." She told Ryan, who simply nodded and went towards the hummer to get some tape and his kit.

"Sugar, you and I will follow the ambulance." Alexx said softly and pulled Eric towards the other hummer. Eric was in shock. During the ride to the hospital, Alexx called Joseph and told him what happened, then Joseph called Frank. Eric couldn't speak or even move. He just sat in the passenger seat and looked at the road in front of him. He jumped when Alexx touched his arm.

"He will be okay." Alexx said and Eric just nodded.

Inside the ambulance. Charlie worked his ass off trying to keep Horatio's pressure steady and his pulse as strong as possible. After a while Horatio started convulsing and Charlie had a hard time keeping him still.

"Step on it Nathan!" Charlie shouted, "I'm losing him!"

Horatio stopped convulsing as he lost his pulse.

TBC…

AN: Oh my, I am giving the team much to handle don't I? lol! Please review! Oh, and Thank's Goma-Ryu, thanks to you I got the idea with the arrow!