Laying on the ground Horatio had slipped from his original position of leaning against the pole where many tied off their boats and was sprawled out on the ground sleeping, how he passed out and slept he didn't know all he heard when he came around was his name and someone hovering over him, his gun in hand.

"Horatio… come on wake up"

Blinking his eyes to clear away the fog of sleep his vision focused on a strawberry blond face, but due to the light shining on his face all he could do was squint.

"Calleigh?"

"Nope, someone else considering they all tried to find out about you but you shut off your phone and they had someone watching them in the lab. You know they are worried about you" The light disappeared from his face and his eyes readjusted and they caught side of a pair of lighter blue eyes, he remembered those eyes.

"Come on up you get mister" Catherine reached down and helped Horatio struggle to a stand, once he was standing under Catherine's help he looked down at her face.

"Catherine? What are you doing here?"

"You need to go home and rest, then you and I are talking buddy, march to your hummer I'm driving" Horatio was about to say something when Catherine gathered his things and took the empty pistol from Horatio's grip and pointed to the hummer. After talking to the uniform that was waiting Catherine crawled into the hummer's driver seat and put Horatio's things in his lap minus the gun which she was holding onto.

"I need your address so I can put it into the GPS here"

"I… you don't need to.."

"Shut up and give me the address" Horatio didn't argue just gave her the address and she took off, as she drove towards the man's home she looked at him and took in his appearance, his shirt was un-tucked, dusty and dirty, his black pants where dirty and covered in dirt and his hair and face, she just looked at him and shook her head.

"You look like shit" Horatio cracked his eyes open long enough to stare at Catherine and take in his own appearance before he closed his eyes and slumped into the corner of his seat head against the window. Catherine sighed and looked at him against the window as she pulled up to a stop light and brushed away his stray hair from his face.

"Yup, two weeks that will be interesting" accelerating at the green light Catherine didn't know that there was someone following her again, it was the black Honda again, the driver grinning evilly again.

"Oh your time will come darling, I will have you soon" The Honda followed Catherine to the lab and drove away, pulling into a parking spot Catherine cut power to the engine and looked over to the side to where her sleeping friend was. In ways Horatio reminded her of Grissom always pushing and pushing till they crashed. At least Horatio was more aggressive then Gil. Catherine thought to herself as she got out of the Hummer quietly and closed the doors locking the vehicle up.

Running inside Catherine asked reception to get Calliegh and when she met with the other blond they talked for a few minutes before Catherine signed papers for her stuff and told her that Horatio would be fine in no time.

Getting back to the Hummer Catherine dumped her stuff into the back quietly before getting back into the Hummer, looking at Horatio she found that he was still sound asleep but with a frown on his face.

Starting the Hummer and taking off again Catherine drove to the Lieutenant's place and was surprised that it was a nice condo, once inside the building's parkade Catherine grabbed to her two bags and went to Horatio's side and gently opened the door before she did something that would make Grissom wince.

Banging the top of the hummer with the side of her fist, Horatio jumped and woke up looking around quickly before his eyes settled on Catherine to whom he gave a withering look.

"Bite me big man, I am not carrying you up the stairs" Horatio's scowl turned into a light smile before it was replaced with a grimace of pain.

"Damn…" Horatio took off his seat belt and leaned back in his seat as Catherine looked at him strangely when she went to help Horatio did she notice the blood on his back.

"What the hell happened to you?"

"I… I… don't want to talk about it" Catherine gave Horatio a scathing look before helping to pull the man out of the car and up to the man's apartment. Once they where in there Horatio stumbled towards the bathroom, but Catherine caught him before he passed out and hit his head on the floor.

"Jeez, you are a mess" Catherine gently lowered Horatio to the ground and onto his side, once she locked up the condo she went back to the man on the floor with a medical kit in hand that she found in the bathroom and gently took Horatio's shirt off and sucked in a breath, he was attacked and he didn't mention it to her or anyone, no to mention that the blood had seeped through the bandages he had.

After about an hour of cleaning up the infected cuts and holes Catherine readied him and shook him awake to help her half drag his sore and stiff body to the bed and put him in. Once his head hit the pillow he was out like a light again.

"Horatio what am I going to do with you?"

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Morning came around and Catherine had taken the couch to sleep, she awoke to someone moving around and when she sat up and looked at Horatio clad in his pj pants that she found and his upper body covered in the bandage did she smirk at the site.

"what the hell are you doing out of bed?" Catherine caught a quick glance at her watch and found it was 5 in the morning. Jeez what does this guy do? Work like nothing happen… I should tell Gil he has someone just like him. I wonder if they could be brothers?

Horatio jumped and looked at Catherine his eyes focusing on her and her own slightly less rumpled appearance.

"It wasn't a dream… why are you here?"

"I'm here to help you and jump start your brain again in case you had forgotten that your team/friends are seriously worried about you. What happened to you to get those cuts, holes and bruises buddy?"

"I…I don't want to talk…." Horatio shifted nervously and continued about his morning business, he had to be in the lab soon. Catherine got up and noticed exactly what Horatio was doing, and she was not going to send him to work in the condition he was in, walking over to his side she put a hand to his head and felt a fever.

"You are going to bed…. Now" Horatio turned his head and grabbed Catherine's hand only to sway and have her steady him. "You are going back to bed, you have a fever from laying out on the glades ground, I'm not surprised at you, you know that"

"I…"

"Shut up and go to bed," Catherine pointed to his bedroom door and it was then that Horatio knew better then to fight Catherine, last time she had him in a corner metaphorically speaking, and he cringed at that memory. "And I'll know if you call the lab!" A groan was issued from down the hall before the sounds of someone climbing into the bed.

"Men.."