FB, FW Chapter 6

Outside, Julia and Kyle heard the commotion.

"Stay here with the girls, I'll go and see if I can find out what's going on."

Kyle did as he was told as Julia crept to the door window and had a look at what was going on. She saw the men with guns and ran straight back to Kyle.

"Kyle, we need to get out of here. We need to take the girls home and figure out what to do."

"Mom, we can't leave. What about dad, Calleigh and the others?"

"If those men find us out here, they'll drag us inside with the girls. They will be scarred for life if they see what's going on in there."

Kyle could see his mothers reasoning, "where's your car?"

"It's round the front, where the men are."

"We can't risk being seen. Mom, we need to figure out another way out."
Julia looked around, she saw the garden gate at the end of the garden. Kyle picked up Donna and Julia picked up Daisy Jo and held onto Chloe's hand.

"Kyle, where are we going?" Chloe wasn't too sure what was going on.

"We're going to have a sleep over at my house, how would you like that?"

Chloe grinned, "I haven't been to your house before, can we have some hot chocolate and cookies before we go to bed?"

"Yeah sure. Just keep hold of my mom's hand and we'll get there, okay?"
Chloe nodded and was excited at this great new adventure.

When they got to the gate, it was locked. It was a couple of meters high so Julia had to come up with a plan, "Kyle, climb over and I'll pass the girls over to you."

Kyle did as he was told and the girls were passed over the gate, now it was Julia's turn. Her skirt was quite tight round her legs and couldn't get over the gate. Suddenly, they heard the back door opening and men's voices coming into the garden. She pulled her skirt right up round her waist and climbed over. She pulled her skirt down and helped Kyle to get the girls away from the garden. Just as they turned the corner, two of the men looked around the garden and over the garden wall, they saw nothing so went back indoors.

When the two men were back inside, they looked at the leader, "there's no-one out there boss," one of them confirmed.

Horatio and Calleigh breathed a sigh of relief then looked towards Anna and Hugh who seemed just as relieved. One of the men headed towards Hugh sat in his chair.

"Get out of that!"

Hugh froze, suddenly flash backs of the bank robbery that had put him in the wheelchair came flooding back, "w…w…why?"

"We don't want you getting any ideas of using the chair as weapon against us. Get out now or we will throw you out."

Hugh complied and struggled to get out, and pulled himself towards Anna who wrapped her arms round him. She could only imagine what was going through his head. The man pushed the chair to the other side of the room.

"Right, everyone on this side of the room, now!" he gestured to the side that Hugh and Anna was on. Everyone did as they were told.

The leader of the gang stepped forward, "Lieutenant Caine and Dr McBreadle, stand up."

Exchanging confused looks they stood up, Calleigh and Hugh looked worriedly at each other. Alexx went into doctor mode and sat next to Hugh to see if he was okay and Eric and Natalia held onto Calleigh.

"Get into the car that's waiting outside, you will accompany me to your lab where you will prove my boy's innocence."

Horatio and Anna did as they were told and went outside to a black car. Horatio instantly recognised it as the one from outside the church from earlier. With a gun in their backs, they reluctantly got into the car.

"I saw this car outside the church earlier, you've been watching us haven't you?"

The man smiled, "you don't miss a trick do you Lieutenant?"

"Why do you want us at the lab? We've not worked together for years, not since…"

"London?" the man interrupted Anna mid sentence.

"But how did you know that?"

"Well, Doc, you put away my son for a string of armed robberies here in Miami and a

couple in London."

"Clavo Correllia," Anna suddenly clicked that this was Tony Correllia, Clavo's father.

"You are one bright woman, how long did it take you? Some CSI you are."

They drove to the lab as the sun was just about to set.

Kyle got the girls out of the cab as Julia paid the driver the fare. She got her keys out and opened the door. The girls ran into the house and paused.

"Where are the toys, Kyle?" Donna looked up at her big brother.

Julia's house wasn't exactly child friendly and she was very concerned about things getting broken. She knelt down to their level to talk to them, "how about I put some cartoons on the TV and me and Kyle will get you those hot chocolates that we promise you."

All three girls jumped and cheered at this idea. Julia went to the TV and switched it on.

"Kyle, can you go get three of your t-shirts from your drawers please? I don't think it's a good idea giving them hot chocolate in these dresses."

Kyle ran upstairs to get some t-shirts and Julia finally found the cartoon channel.

"Okay girls, I need to get you changed out of those dresses. We don't want you to spill hot chocolate down them, it will ruin them."

Chloe nodded, "I spilt blackcurrant juice down my best party dress once at my friend's birthday party. Mummy couldn't get it clean again."

"Well we don't want that to happen to those pretty princess dresses do we?"

Chloe quickly shook her head and Donna and Daisy Jo copied her. Kyle came down with some t-shirts and handed them to Julia, "I'll let you change them, I'm no good at that sort of thing."

Julia looked at the t-shirts in her hand and then at the girls. She hadn't looked after young children in a long time and wasn't too sure. She got the girls changed as Kyle made the drinks. When Julia had sorted the girls out and laid their dresses on the backs of the dining chairs, she went into the kitchen.

"Are you okay Kyle?"

Kyle shook his head, "I'm scared mom, what if something bad happens over there? I don't like not knowing."

Julia put her arm round Kyle's shoulder, "you're dad will find his way out of it, he always does. And I think that he'd be happy that all of his kids are out of harms way, that includes you. Look, let's get these hot chocolates done and settle them down. Then we can figure out what to do."