hi everyone. thanks for still reading my story. I've been very busy the last year so i haven't been able to update. shame on me. please keep reading. and i hope you like it. one hint. not everything is what is seems.

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Horatio threw open the door to his appartment and collapsed on the sofa. He couldn't remember ever feeling this lousy. Perhaps he should have taken a week off. He streched out his legs and decided to take a nap. Dinner could wait. He would just sleep for a few hours and maybe he would feel better when he wakes up.

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horatio's pov

he was wrong, so wrong. He did not feel better when he woke up. If he was honest with himself he would have admitted that he felt even worse. but being the stubborn person that he was. He was fine. just fine. After all, he he's had worse days. Some stupid flu wouldn't kill him now would it.

He slowly got off the sofa, and when the room finally stopped spinning, he looked at his watch.

" what the hell. it's 6 am. how did I sleep through for 14 hours and not wake up? "

"and why am i still tired? "

perhaps he should stay home, but luck wasn't on his side this week.

beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep

EEEEEEEERIC!!

in the lab

"hi love how are you doing." calleigh said when she saw horatio bend over one of the microscopes.

"i'm fine calleigh, how are you?"

"thats not important seeing as I'm not the one that fainted yesterday. i thought you were gonna take some time off?"

"Eric paged me. there has been a break in the case. and I need too work. "

Calleigh raised an eyebrow. "do i need to call alexx, or are you gonna go home and sleep"

"Calleigh I'm still your boss, don't interfere with my bussness" Horatio snapped

Calleigh just gave him the evil eye and walked out. There was no need to be snappy, she was just worried about him.

why couldn't the people in this lab just keep out off his bussness. Why couldn't they just leave him alone. He was way too tired to deal with worried women right now. He had a case too solve.

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horatio, horatio. HORATIO

Horatio fell off the chair he had been sleeping on. An angry steltler looking down on him.

"would you care to explain too me why you were sleeping on the evidence."

"what are you doing here Rick? don't you have work to do?"

"of course, but if you can't keep awake during your job someone's got to wake you, don't you think. Look can you just go to a doctor and get checked out. "

"my my Rick, are you going soft. Since when do you care about other human beings. " horatio smirked

"But I'm doing this purely for myself, you're enough of a pain in the ass when your healthy, and I really don't want to deal with you when your sick. " with those words Stetler walked out off the lab.

I think the word is coming to an end. Stelter cares. A shiver ran down horatio's spine.

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Horatio was sitting in his doctors waiting room. Oh how he hated this. He visited enough doctors in his childhood to last him a lifetime. And he really didn;t want to be here. To be honest doctors scared the shit out of him.

"Horatio Caine" a young nurse said, looking around in the waiting room.

Horatio suddenly got an urge to run like hell for the nearest exit. He so wasn't looking forward to having some docter poke and prod him. He took a deep breath and stood up. the nurse smiled at him and he followed her into an exam room.

"the doctor will be right with you, please put on the gown. I will be right back."

Horatio looked at the gown that was lying on the exam table. uhg. Horatio wasn't exacly a small man. and those gown always barely covered his butt. Don't get me wrong he had nothing to complain about when is came too his body. But he didn't like having to sit in a gown that showed of most of his legs. and that didn't really close all that well in the back. Anyone standing behind him could see his boxers.

Damn why did he have too put on those bright yellow ones on today. They where a secret santa gift from calleigh last year. the had big sunglasses all over them. He liked them, and nobody could see them under his suit. Hut he didn't want to parade in them in front of a nurse and doctor. Oh god he completly forgot about that doctor.

When he had put the gown on end had just taken his watch off the nurse came back in. "ah i see you've put the gown on. I like to do some basic tests before the doctor comes, bloodpressure, weight that kind of thing."

The nurse frowned when the ear thermometer beeped, "102 how long have you had that fever?"

"ehm, a couple of days. but it was 101 yesterday."

The nurse took his bloodpressure, and took his pulse, and then asked him too stand on the scale. Horatio got up and stood on the scale. The nurse behind him suddenly chuckled. "nice boxers"she said with a smile. Horatio sat back on the exam table with a red face, he wasn't used too women making coments about his underware when they were still fully clothed ;).

"the doctor will be right with you, she said" and she walked out of the room.

An man with grey hair and glasses walked into the room. "Horatio it's been a while, I haven't seen you in years. you've grown up nicely. Last time a saw you you were just a little boy. And if I remember you were screaming the place down, because I gave you a shot.

Horatio felt his face heat up at the memory. This doctor had been his family doctor when he still lived in new york. Great like he hadn't had enough emberisment this day already.

"Well what can i do for you mister caine" the doctor said.

"haven't been feeling very well this last week. I've been very tired. I have a fever and I'm very light headed."

"hm, any vomiting or any other symtoms". the doctor said whil feeling the glands in his neck and looking in his mouth.

"some vomiting, but other than that, nothing else." Horatio said.

"hm your glandes are swollen, have you had any night sweats in the last week, or pain you couldn't explain." the doctor said.

Horatio suddenly got worried, "this is just the flu right, nothing else. I mean Im not in pain or anything and I definitly not having night sweats. "

"don't worry son, I don't think its something serious. too be honest I think you've got a bad case of mono. I want too do a blood test but if I were you I would start calling everyone you've kissed lately. " The doctor said while chuckling.

Mono, I have mono, oh great lets make this day even embarising. he thought while the doctor was getting some stuff out of a drawer.

"i'm just gonna take some blood " he said while he swabed his arm with an alcohol swab. Horatio looked down at his arm and saw the doctor piecing his arm with the needle.

"I really should not have gotten up this morning he thought", before his eyes rolled up into his head and he fell off the table.

"Nurse " the doctor yelled. The nurse came in and saw horatio lying on the floor.

"Im afraid the poor boy hasn't changed much, he said while getting Horatio off the floor. apperently he still doesn't like needles." The nurse chuckled, "and he thought this day propably couldnt get any more emberrasing, guess he was wrong"