AN: The prank in this chapter is from LilDevyl. Thank you!
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As everyone knew Horatio was afraid of snakes. Ryan was afraid of something else. Something most people were afraid of actually. And even though Cooper had been the one to put the snake in Horatio's office, Horatio wouldn't have his revenge on him because of the pranks two weeks ago. Ryan would become the victim this time.
This prank however, involved some loud noises, like clapping. You see; the object that would make Ryan scream his famous girl-scream, would only work if someone made a loud noise. Therefore, Ryan had been given the task of informing the team about his case. This seemed weird to everyone because it was not something that had happened before. Ryan had worked on a case alone and usually he would only inform Horatio on the progress and give him his reports, but Horatio had told him that this case was important and the whole team would need to hear it.
"But H, it's a case with a burglar who accidentally fell a flight of stairs and died when he broke in to a house." Ryan said, "I don't understand why…"
"Well, it's a perfect example of how things are not always as they seem. You first suspected the father of the family for having pushed him down the stairs, right?" Horatio asked.
"Yeah, but…"
"And you turned out to be wrong." Horatio said, "Look Ryan, this request is really from the higher ups, they want us to start… well, sharing our cases with each other every Friday. Even the single cases that are as simple as this one. They want the rest of the team to listen."
"Why?" Ryan asked.
"Something about building up a team-spirit." Horatio shrugged, "We already have it, but they still want us to do this."
"Oh okay. No problem." Ryan said.
Horatio smirked as the young man left. It was almost too easy. The whole meeting with team had been scheduled by Horatio at three, so just before that Frank and he set up their prank. It was a black and red, quite large, creature that would descend from the roof when somebody made a loud noise. Of course Horatio and Frank would be responsible for making the loud noise that would make the creature descend and which in turn would scare the shit out of Ryan.
Once the creature came in to contact with something it would "crawl". Horatio and Frank would most likely receive a tongue-lashing from Alexx for being so mean to Ryan, but it would be worth it. Then again, Ryan and Cooper had received a tongue-lashing from Alexx for being so mean to Horatio and Frank.
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Funny enough Ryan was the one who was late to the meeting. He rushed in fifteen minutes late with the case file in his hand and Horatio instructed him to stand under one of the lamps. Ryan didn't think it was strange at all.
"Okay so um, this case is about a burglar who broke in to the Livingston's house on a late Saturday evening." Ryan began.
Poor boy talked about the whole case and all the evidence he had collected and Horatio actually found it quite interesting. Frank on the other hand was almost falling asleep, but he had never been a good listener when someone was holding a speech or a presentation. Horatio nudged him awake when Ryan was coming to the end.
"End well; it turned out that the burglar simply fell down some stairs when he was going down to the cellar to see if the Livingston's had anything of value there." Ryan said.
Horatio and Frank clapped loudly and the team looked at them with confused looks. Ryan blushed and didn't see the creature descend from the roof. He froze when he felt something on his head. Something was touching his head. Crawling down his spine… Ryan turned around to face it as it started crawling back up the line it was attached to.
It was a spider!
"AAAHH!" Ryan screamed and jumped three feet back.
It was a black widow too and Ryan hated black widows. He bolted out of the room screaming something about taking a shower.
"It actually worked!" Horatio laughed.
"And he screamed like a girl as usual!" Frank smirked.
Ryan swore to pay back dearly as he showered to get rid of the crawling sensation on his skin.
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