FB, FW Chapter 10

Horatio and Anna were laying out the evidence on the table. Tony was still sat on the chair but he had fallen asleep.

"Horatio, I'm sorry about earlier in lock-up. You know what I'm like when I get confronted," Anna's voice was a whisper so not to disturb their captor.

"Anna, no need to apologize. We're both a bit stressed, we just handle it in different ways."

"What are we going to do? We can't let him get his hands on this evidence."

"We won't. We just have to keep stalling until Hal gets us out of here."

"How do you know he will?"

"He's a smart man, he'll probably be coming up with a plan to help us. In the mean time, we just need keep Tony busy so he doesn't figure us out. You do trust me, don't you?"

"Of course I do."

"I promise you, we will get out of this."

Anna wasn't too sure but trusted Horatio's judgment. She just hoped that he was right.

There was a groan coming from Tony's direction. He was stirring. He sat up and looked over at the table.

"How far have you got?"

"We've just finished laying it out. Just need you to tell us what you want us to do," Anna was a bit calmer after her conversation with Horatio.

"I want you to change the evidence so that Clavo isn't implied in any of this."

Horatio looked towards Anna then back at Tony, "how do you suggest we do that? There are surveillance footage stills with Clavo is quite obviously holding the bank at gun point. I can't change them."

Tony grabbed the photos and ripped them up into pieces, "that solves that problem. What's your next stupid question?"

Outside the hotel, Suze jumped out of the cab and paid the driver. She ran towards the front door then stopped. There seemed to be something wrong. It was silent inside, she couldn't hear any noise, not even any music. Surely there should be music playing. She cautiously walked further forward. Suddenly someone grabbed her arm and was pulled away from the door and round the corner of the building.

"Kyle! You scared the living shi…"

"You don't want to go in there."

"Why the hell not? What is going on?"

Kyle explained what was going on, Suze found it difficult to take it all in.

"Why are you here then? Surely you should have stayed with your mom and sisters."
Kyle shuffled his feet slightly, "I couldn't stay there whilst this was all going on. I'm worried about what's going on in there. Anyway, if I hadn't have come here, then you would have ended up right in the middle of it all."

Suze shook her head, "that's beside the point. Horatio will be worried if he knew that you were just outside the hotel."

"I can take care of myself."

"And so can your dad. From what Eric has told me he has got out of worse situations than this. I think we should go back to your moms and stay there until it is safe to do otherwise."

Kyle knew Suze was right but he wanted to be there for when his dad came out.

"Come on Kyle, lets go back to your moms," Suze gestured for Kyle to lead the way.

"No! I'm staying put. Dad needs me," Kyle got angry.

"Your dad needs you to me safe. Your mom will be worried sick."

"You can go to moms but I'm staying put and there's nothing you can say or do that will change my mind."

"In that case, I'm staying with you to make sure you don't do anything stupid."

Kyle snorted at the suggestion, "I won't do 'anything stupid', I'll just wait here."
They both waited at the side of the building for any progress.

In the lab, Horatio led Tony and Anna up the stairs towards his office. Tony pulled Horatio back suddenly and hid round the corner.

Anna stood behind Tony, "now what?"

"Shut up woman, there's something not right."
Tony poked his head round the corner.

The SWAT arrived outside the hotel. Hal pulled up just after them, got out of his car and ran to the SWAT team.

"We have a slight problem, Horatio's son, Kyle, is possibly roaming around here somewhere. We don't know of his whereabouts."
Kyle heard his name being mentioned and ran towards the gathering.

"I'm here, I'm Kyle," Suze ran after him.

Hal grabbed both Kyle and Suze and took them both to his car to explain what was going on.

"You're telling me that my dad isn't even in there?"

"No son, he's not. He's at the lab with Anna being held hostage by Tony, the leader of these gunmen. We already have his chauffeur in custody."

Kyle leant against the car, Suze put her arm round him, "at least you know he's safe."

"Speaking of safe, your mom has phoned us up. She is worried about you. Give her a ring on this," Hal handed Kyle his phone.

"She's going to kill me," Kyle gingerly took the phone.
Hal laughed, "if she does, then at least we'll know where to look first."

Tony moved back round the corner and looked at Horatio, "how did they know about him?"

"Who?" Horatio looked confused.

"Joe! He's sat in that room over there. This violates our agreement," Tony took out his phone and pushed some buttons, "Alan, Calleigh first."

Horatio gulped and Anna held her hand over her mouth in shock. Tony held his phone up towards Horatio.

There was silence at first, then a shuffling noise then there was a shot that rang out. Screaming filled the air on the other side and the phone went dead. Horatio grabbed Tony by the throat and pinned him against the wall. Tony pushed Horatio off him to the floor causing him to hit his head against a table on the way down. Anna saw Tony's gun exposed so she grabbed it from his waistband and pointed it towards him. Tony put his hands up, "I won't let a woman hold me up, besides you probably don't know how to use the d*mn thing," Tony lunged forward to grab the gun and there was another gun shot.