The team had been working late for several days chasing a killer. It was on one of those late nights that Ryan and Cooper decided to have their revenge on Horatio and Frank. The two older men had fallen asleep in Horatio's office, after reading through some case files. Frank was asleep on the couch and Horatio in his office chair.

Cooper and Ryan's prank was so much worse than Horatio and Frank's. (Or Rather Horatio's prank on them.) Cooper and Ryan's prank also involved much more than two buckets filled with tomato sauce and itching powder.

Cooper started with doing something he had done in his high school years against the principal at his school. He had tampered with the fax machine. Now he was going to do it to H's fax machine. Then he would fax something to him and just enjoy the sight he would get to see. While Cooper did his thing, Ryan tied Frank's shoe laces together and then the two younger men helped each other to cover the floor beneath the couch and all the way to the door and Horatio's desk, with syrup. When they were done, they left and went to the trace lab just next to Horatio's office. They turned off the lights in the lab to remain unseen.

"So what do we fax to H?" Ryan asked.

"How about, payback's a bitch?" Cooper suggested, "Classical and yet so true."

Ryan smirked and Cooper faxed a document with the writing Payback's a bitch to his boss. He and Ryan then laughed as Horatio's fax machine started to spit out paper after paper, never stopping. Cooper's tampering had been to make it do just that and to disable the on and off button.

Horatio woke up at the sound of the machine and yelped as he fell of his chair in surprise. His fax machine was going crazy!

"Frank!" Horatio yelled as he got up from the floor and tried to grab the papers that were flying around in the room.

His desk and floor were starting to get covered in it and Horatio was hit in the face with a paper when he tried to see what was wrong with the machine.

"Frank! Wake up dammit!" Horatio growled.

Frank stirred, yawned, stretched and then opened his eyes to look at his friend who was desperately trying to turn of the machine.

"Alright, alright." Frank muttered and stood up.

He took one step forward and then slipped and fell headlong down on the floor. He felt something sticky all over his face and groaned. When he tried to stand up he started slipping again and realized that his shoes had been tied together.

Horatio decided to help his friend and grabbed his hand. Frank almost managed to get up when he fell again and this time dragged Horatio down with him.

"Get off me." Horatio growled and pushed Frank off him.

Horatio tried to stand up but slipped and landed on Frank's stomach, the Texan groaned and pushed the red head off him. Soon the two men tried to stand up on the slippery syrup as well as turn off the fax machine.

Ryan and Cooper watched from the lab and laughed.

"This is Ryan and Cooper's prank!" Frank growled as he showed Horatio what was written on the papers.

"RYAN!" Horatio yelled and made his way out of the office.

He slipped on the syrup again just as he was leaving and bumped in to Rick Stetler.

"What the?" Rick asked.

Ryan and Cooper stopped laughing as Calleigh entered the lab and turned on the lights. They looked at Horatio and he looked right back with a glare that could kill. Horatio stood up and soon chased Cooper and Ryan through the lab. The two younger men desperately tried to get away.

"RYAN! COOPER!"

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