Authors Notes: Well that was an eventful week. Thanksgiving, and then found out I have breast cancer...joy. Anyways. Margo...your question will be answered in this chapter. I just had to find a place to fit the lady in :D.

In a Heartbeat

Chapter 5

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Horatio woke up on the floor of a cell his eyes locking onto the one thing he wanted to see. The child he had just adopted was laying not to far from his fingers. He reached out and touched her bright red cheek. Obviously abused in the attempt to bring her inside without a fuss. But when he had tried to keep hold of her, he was knocked unconscious. She probably fought back as hard as she could. He knew she would have, she was that sort of girl.

He pulled her close to him and lay her in his arms. His eyes wondered over her relaxed face. His finger caressed her cheek, she mouth opened slightly and a soft moan peirced the silence. "Please...wake..." He started to rock her this way and that. His check rested against her forehead. He gasped at the feel of it. Finally all those little fevers burst forth into that of a full blown fever. Probably brought on by the stress of the day. Well he thought it was the day, but when he looked up at the little window not even a hand high all he could see were stars.

"Oh my angel why do you feel you need to be so strong?" He whispered into her ear.

"Happens...when...when your alone." He heard her speak so softly in his ears, ever so very softly. Almost missed by him.

"But your not alone anymore. I'm here...not anymore."

"Its why...I've got to fight...I have something to protect." She said and opened her eyes a crack. She was panting at such an effort it was to speak. "I don't want to loose...you...too." Her head rested against his chest and she exhaled a bit. Her lips were cracked, she needed water. He stood up laying her head down on the ground.

"Hey!" He called out through the bars. "Please water. She needs water!" He called, as if place on emphasis Donny started to cough and rolled onto her side with a soft moan.

"Orders sir...no water or food for either of you." He said and walked off.

"Please!" Horatio yelled only for a gun to be place between the bars pushing him back. He tripped and fell onto the ground. "Donny?" He called and pulled her close again and looked outside the bars of the window. "Only if it would rain for you." He said and continued on hold her. There weren't anything in the cell except them, and only them.

"Oh come on now...is that the best you can do? I figured you'd start pulling off your jacket and shirt letting her use them as blankets by now." The commander from before said from the cell doors.

"Please she needs water...please." He asked pulling the child close to him to keep her from the commanders views.

"You'll get water when we give it to you."

"Yes well your only source of information is about to die. Do you want to explain that to the Captain?" The Professor asked and looked down at the child in his arms. She slowly opened her eyes and breathed in deeply. She could explain it, but she knew this smell...his smell. Must have been something in her mothers labs.

"Its no longer my problem you see. Apparently someone within our ranks seems to know what his notes say." He said and chuckled looking down at the girl. "You two are...expendable." He said and walked off. The girl coughed and sat up.

"We need to find a way out of here Professor." She said and looked at the doors. She then looked outside the doors and at a large button that said release. She walked back into the room and looked at her potential father. "Alright...empty the pockets." She said and threw onto the floor three sticks of bubble gum, a pair of fingernail clippers and comb.

The Professor nodded and pulled a pipe, matches, a small bag of tobacco, papers, pens, a small notebook, and a letter. Donny looked at the letter, it had to have been a year old at least. It had such fancy writing, but it seemed to have had its fair share of wear and tear on it. "A girlfriend?" She asked. He sighed and nodded.

"Yes...I met her here not to long ago...I saved her father from the Nazi's and was nearly caught in the process. We...just didn't see eye to eye afterwards. Lord knows I tried." He said and shook his head.

"So your not married?" She asked him. He shook his head.

"No...was hoping I would be by now, but...I guess I'll settle for being a father." He said and looked up when Donny took the notebook and threw it at the button. It made a soft clicking noise and the cell opened up letting them pass. She ran back over and stuffed all her stuff back into her pockets and waited for the Professor by the door.

"We'll have to fool the guards." Donny said as she looked around at the Professor who nodded taking all the paper and lit it on fire stuffing it into the vents.

Soon enough the smell of fire wafted in and the guards ran in. "Fire!" he yelled only the be swamped by a few other guards trying to find the source of the fire. Within all the chaos Donny and the Professor ran out of the prison.

Near the gate Donny pushed the release all button letting everyone within the prison go. It was utter chaos prisoners where running all around them. The Professor was sure that several ended up getting away.

"Come child...we'll take one of there cars and make our escape." He said and looked back up as the Nazi's flooded the prison like ants to an apple.

Within a Car

They had been inside the car now for several hours now and very close to Austria. He chanced a look to his right where he could see the child sleeping. He stopped just short of the border where there was an inn. He climbed out and walked around to the other side. He was about to open the door to the car only to be grabbed by his collar and thrown to the ground. Winded in this effort he was coughing as loudly as he dared when he was kicked in the ribs. All the air in his lungs left him, and he felt like he was falling.

He woke up not to much later...but within the Inn. The Nazi's were throwing carasine all over the ground, the bar, even the stairs. He was tied to a chair in the middle. "Ah Professor your awake. Would you like to know how we found you yes?" The Captain said. He pulled Donny to him by the hair. "Well you see...she swallowed a transmitter while you were out like a light at the other place. So we've been following you ever since. When we saw where you were going...we just sped up and got there before you did." Donny growled and kicked the Captain in the leg. The growled and threw her to the ground kicking her in the ribs.

"Stop this!" The Professor said looking down at the child who was coughing and wheezing. "Can't you hear her? She's sick!"

"Yes well...sickness is going to be the least of your worries Pimpernel." He said and snapped his fingers. One of the guards took his cigar and threw it onto the carasine and ran out. "It was a pleasant game Professor...to bad it had to come to an end." The Captain walked out of the room and out of the Inn.