After he was helped up Erik stood a bit unsteadily, Catherine and Calliegh where supporting his weight as they stood there. Yelina walked up close showing a file to Erik, having looked the file over and facing the woman he grinned.

"You really need to learn to read the information correctly. It doesn't mention me or anyone else, all it is, is notes on some report. Those are false reports, but one thing is correct. I did end her suffering as we were nowhere near any form of evac, not to mention she was already bleeding out from a wound that we could not have seen or known about till we burned the body in a stack with others.

The entire area was bombed after I gave the young girl a mercy killing. I told her she would find herself in heaven with her parents and family. The actual report of what happened down there is in my car, and seeing as Calliegh drove my car back she would have the file" Calliegh quickly let go of Erik and ran off to the car and a few minutes later was back with a case on top of the case was the file that Erik showed to the people earlier.

Yelina took the file and read it, she saw no false information in it and it looked official right down the signature of the files writer; Helio Keldi.

"Then how is it possible that these files I received are different, Paige said that he pulled these files from your archives..."

"We don't have an archive; we have nothing on base all of it is sent to the higher ups. Even I don't have access to the files; I have these files copied by our man in the higher ups. Again we just have small paperwork on base and believe me it's all stuff that you would find in a home run company; paper orders, food orders, requests for items. Nothing like that is left out in the open for a unit like mine. I don't allow it"

"And what unit is that?"

"Not one that I'm going to tell you about"

"You might as well Erik... we need all the help we can get now, Zach is missing" A soft voice from behind the group made Erik look around till a woman walked up holding up another man, his flame red hair was all that the CSI's needed to start moving around again.

"Horatio!"

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~During the events of Erik in the home with the girl~

Horatio had fallen into a fitful sleep but he was soon awoken to the sound of someone moving around in his home, gritting his teeth he sat up and looked around he let his head clear the adrenaline running through his system like a drug, soon the dulled pain in his back was nothing and he crawled out of bed and went to behind his door, his spare gun was in his dresser, but the old wooden dresser creaked opened every time he used it so he left the weapon were it was.

Who the hell broke into my home?

That short thought was cut short as someone moved to his bedroom door and started turning the knob, Horatio wanting to put his weight into the door moved away quietly to the closet, he would have to rethink his plan to attack whoever was in his home. The door opened slowly and a black clothed figure walked into the room holding a gun with a silencer attached to it. Horatio leaned into the wall and waited till the figure was close, the figure didn't see its target and moved further into the room when out of nowhere Horatio tackled the figure into a wall fighting for the gun. With an elbow to his stomach Horatio groaned and the grip on the figure's gun slackened causing the man to hit Horatio again and the redhead was on his back, groaning he curled up for a second before he shot his legs out and his the hand holding the gun causing to fall and slide along the floor, pushing through the pain Horatio attacked the figure again, as the two scuffled around hitting each other neither noted the other sets of feet that made its way into the house.

Horatio was underneath the masked figure his arms up protecting his head as he felt fists hit his stomach, ribs and any other body part that was visible, he pulled his hands away when he heard some further scuffling and the sound of a gun with a silencer go off.

"Ok you can get up now..."

Horatio moved his hands away and slowly sat up as the adrenaline started to wear off leaving him in a bit of pain. A hand was held out and he looked up to see a black masked figure reach out, taking a chance Horatio took the hand and he was helped up and he soon found himself sitting on his bed.

"You're lucky that we saw what was happening and we got to you in time..." The figure that helped him pulled the black goggles and mask off revealing a young looking woman's face, her partner pulled off his mask showing, a gentle looking Hispanic man.

"Yeah, if we didn't see that punk we wouldn't have been here in time and Erik would have shot us for not being here and your face got pounded in..."

"Mace!" The younger woman smacked her partner's shoulder which ended up with the man named Mace yelping and rubbing his arm.

"Ignore him, I'm Leona Vallen and I'm part of a team that's here to protect you, now let's get you looked at and we'll be on our way, we need to get to Erik we have to give him some news" Horatio's back was bleeding but it wasn't as bad as it was the night before, Leona cleaned it up and rewrapped him up as Mace handed him a shirt and a pair of pants.

"Get dressed..."

"Again, ignore him... he needs to be cuffed again..."

"I do not, besides you're the one that cuffs your boy to the bed..."

"Yeah.. So?" Mace looked at Leona and dropped his jaw, as Leona carried on talking, an amused Horatio watched the bantering between the two, "And.... it's better than that banging I keep hearing from your room with who was it that I caught with you that one night?"

"YOU SAID YOU DIDN'T HEAR OR SEE ANYTHING!|

"Oh please... drunken sex is one thing, but drunken Rock Band sex.... gives a whole new meaning..." Leona helped Horatio change and button up his shirt, once the trio was ready to go they left Horatio's home and had gotten into a black SUV and drove off following Horatio's instructions onto how to get to the lab.

After 20 minutes of driving the trio walked into the Miami-DADE crime lab and the secretary saw Horatio told the man that there was someone taking over his spot because of Horatio's injuries. Horatio looked to the two as they asked were Erik and the CSI's were, the secretary told the three that Eric Delko and a few others just headed down to the Morgue, nodding and thanking the woman Horatio led Leona to the morgue as Mace said he was going to stay upstairs, the two hadjust walked into the last bit were Leona saw her friend and leader get up from whatever beating just happened to him. After hearing Erik talk, Leona spoke up while holding Horatio up with his arm over her shoulder.

"Might as well Erik... We need all the help we can get now, Zach is missing..." Erik looked towards the doors and saw Leona and a red head.

~Morgue Present~

"What?"

"Zach is missing, he left the base and took off, no one can find him we just told Cameron to start tracking him when she gets back from her flight..."

"Can someone tell me what is going on here?"

"Leona handed Horatio off to Alexx who sat the red head down and got some ice for the bruises that were starting to develop on Horatio's face; she also got some ice packs for Erik who's right eye was starting to swell shut. Once everyone was settled down, Leona taking care of Erik and Alexx taking care of Horatio did the explanations go around to Horatio who was the one out of the loop. Erik briefly went over what had been happening for the last while, he went over the explanation of the true Mala Noche, the Shark, the bodies so far and who Erik and Leona were.

"We are always around and we fit into any life we choose"

"So because I didn't leave the problems alone, I created a larger problem?" Horatio asked quietly, Leona looked to Erik, the swelling had gone down and he was able to see out of both eyes again.

"In a way yes, but you were doing what you believed to be the right thing, I don't blame you, I would do the same if it had been my wife..."

"No you wouldn't have Erik, Vince wouldn't have let you..."

"Vince isn't here, and you're not his..."

"I know..." Everyone looked at Erik and Leona as the two shared a tender moment, it was the ring on Leona's hand that everything clicked into place for Natalia.

"You're married to Erik?" Everyone thought about it quickly before catching on to what was being said. Leona smiled and looked at Erik ruffling the man's hair.

"Not quite yet... engaged is more like it..."

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After several hours of getting to know each other, Horatio was issuing out commands, but he was quickly stopped by Erik who raised an eyebrow and had a half smile, both men looked like they had a few rounds into the blender but it didn't stop them from doing their work.

"Horatio, I should remind you that you are on leave and can't work this case in your condition, I know this is your team, but I was put into this position for a reason,just remember that.... but that aside, I do need you to reconstruct a bomb for me, last body was... uh... blown apart..."

"I thought I wasn't allowed to work this case..."

"I should have said you can't work this case as the head of the unit and the crime lab right now... doesn't mean that I'm not going to keep you on the side lines and watch the others do the work... but right now, because of your back, I would like you out of sight and either Mace or Leona with you... I will deal with Sgt. Stetler if he sees you.

With Horatio in one of the labs working with Mace watch him, Horatio was slowly putting back the bomb together, this was first actual human bomb that he ever put back together, whomever put the bombs together was trained in explosives, but there was something about the bombs and how it was put together that made Horatio call over Mace.

"Are all of you trained in putting messages into your activities?"

"No, well... officially under our own military basic training and any subsequent training we're told to follow order and procedure, but some of use like to leave something behind knowing that no one will ever know who we are... or that's the case for some of us... however if you're a member of our unit, Erik's team.... we don't leave anything behind in fact it's cost us a couple of times and Erik had to clean up our messes... thankfully it was only during training that he tore our heads off. After that we became what Erik named us... Ghosts"

"Well who ever made this bomb left you and your people a message... and I mean literally..."

Oh so you have the great Caine working for you now Erik, what's next you going to blow him apart like the last guy?

"What the hell?" Mace read the message and then pulled his phone getting Erik to come up and look at the bomb. Erik was changed into his usual cloths but instead of the army green shirt he was wearing a dark blue button down, the injuries to his face cleaned up and taken care of.

"This is sloppy, and yet it looks familiar..." Leaning over to read it Erik noted Horatio watching him, sighing Erik set down the flash light he was using and looked at Horatio. The red head wasn't that much different then Erik and after looking to Mace who left Erik pulled a chair out and sat down motioning for the man to do the same too.

"Guess we should have a talk..."

A/N come one people let me know how you feel about this story.. I know it's a little off but it's about to get better and rehash some of the episodes information.. but even if you don't review.. it's still going to keep coming along.