Weeks had passed and Horatio had one late night felt like pulling a prank on Ryan. Since the team had extra keys to each other's homes it was easy for the red head to sneak inside Ryan's beach house. Like he had suspected; Ryan was asleep. The clock in Ryan's bedroom read 00:30 and Horatio had to move quite fast, but that wouldn't be a problem.

First he unscrewed the light bulbs on the nightstand lamp and on the lamp in the roof. Then he grabbed the clock and set the alarm for 02:30. But that wasn't the end of it; Horatio also hid the clock among Ryan's shirts in his closet. However, Horatio still wasn't done; he went out to his car to get some Halloween spider web and put it all over Ryan and the room, then Horatio did the classic practical joke of putting shaving cream in Ryan's hands and last but not least he put up a small video camera by the window so that Ryan's frantic search for the clock would be forever on tape. The video camera was also wireless connected to Horatio's computer.

Horatio was done in less than thirty minutes and he left with a huge smile. He came back to his own beach house and turned the computer on and started recording, then he went to sleep.

Ryan was tossing and turning in his sleep, unaware that he was smearing shaving cream on his sheets or that he the spider web only got twisted around him more and more and that it would restrict his movements once he woke up. He was dreaming about his new girlfriend and he was smiling. He had a great night!

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!

Ryan jerked awake and rubbed his face only to grimace as he noticed he had shaving cream all over his face. He must have slept really heavy because he usually woke up before his alarm was turned on. He reached out to turn off the alarm and…

"What the?" He asked and tried to turn the nightstand lamp on.

Nothing happened! He got out of bed and winced as the alarm now sounded even louder to really wake him up. The spider web around his legs made it difficult for him to move and he stumbled down on the floor before he reached the switch connected to his roof lamp… which didn't turn on either. He fumbled in the dark; with his hands out reached in front of him as he tried to locate the noise.

"ARGH! God dammit, where is it coming from!" He growled as he reached the closet.

He couldn't see anything and he was getting extremely angry. He also started to wonder why it was so dark, his alarm always went off at 7 in the morning and it should be sunny in the room.

"Where is it!" He exclaimed as he started to pull his clothes out in search for the beeping device.

He finally found it and turned the alarm off; he sighed and looked at the time. 02:45.

Ryan gaped and whined as he stood up and yelled at no one in particular. He didn't know who had decided to pull such an evil prank on him, but revenge was sure to come. Ryan unfortunately didn't go back to sleep that night; instead he stayed up to clean the room and put the light bulbs back in the lamps. The sun slowly rose and he went to work (he still hadn't noticed the camera by the bedroom window). When he got to work he was pissed off and tired.

He hoped that he would have an easy day since he was not in the mood for a case. His quiet morning was interrupted, however, by the suspicious crowd in the break room that were laughing at something. He entered the room and everybody stopped laughing. They looked at him and he approached the computer. There he watched a video of himself stumbling around in his bedroom as he searched for his clock.

"What? Who?" He asked.

"Horatio sent this to us. I must say he is quite a genius when it comes to pranks." Eric laughed and the others joined in.

Ryan growled; it was time to plan the revenge.

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