The Pain in the Past : A CSI:MIAMI Fanfiction - Chapter 1 Rated M for Mature

Time froze after the shot. Both Eric and Ryan saw Horatio go down, but no one expected what was about to happen. Not a second after the shot rang out, Horatio was screaming, yelling for help.

"Eric! Eri..." the muffled screaming ended and Horatio was gone. A car sped away leaving dust in its path. Eric and Ryan looked around, there was blood, and it was not the victims. Their beloved boss, Horatio Caine, was gone.

"H!" Eric screamed out the nickname they had affectionately given to their red haired, ocean blue eyed, boss, Horatio.

As Ryan ran after a black car that had taken H. his mind faded back to that morning. A morning that had been just like every other morning.

"Hey Ryan!" Natalia's face lit up as she saw her boyfriend and co-worker walk through the door.

"Hey Nat. What's up?" Ryan Wolfe smiled at her.

"Oh, don't play stupid on me." Natalia Boa Vista grabbed his hand and squeezed, "Are we still on for tonight?" She asked smiling at a man almost ten years younger then her, but with much more experience in the CSI career field.

"Ya, of course we are." Ryan kissed her brown and blond highlighted hair. CSI Ryan Wolfe had replaced CSI Tim Speedle after he was killed in the line of duty. It had taken the team a while to trust the spikey brown-haired, youngest member of the team, especially Eric who was incredibly close to Speedle nicknamed "Speed". Ryan also had a gambling problem that had led to him being fired from CSI and all of his previous cases being reopened, but he had reconciled with Horatio who had let him back on the team.

"Good. Now come on, H. says we have a case down in The Gables." Natalia let go of his hand and walked in the opposite direction. She was the newest member of the team, and had, in her early days at the lab, as a cold case DNA analyst, been a mole for the "higher ups". as Horatio had called it. But now she had became a CSI and had the trust of the team.

The crime scene had been as usual as any other crime scene. A women had been found on the top level of parking structure, in Coral Gables, Florida, visibly stabbed. He had arrived first and had began photographing and marking evidence. Alexx, the Medical Examiner or M.E., had arrived next and began to examine the body. Lieutenant Horatio Caine had arrived next, followed by Eric Delko and Calleigh Duquense, then Natalia.

They soon began their normal assigned jobs on the crime scene.

He had continued to take photographs, Natalia documented and collected trace, or fibers and evidence found around the body. Eric and Calleigh collected evidence that pertained to the body, such as the woman's purse, clothing, and other personal items, while Horatio supervised, as he did the majority of the time.

"I've got something here!" Natalia had yelled, motioning for Horatio to come closer, "It's some kind of red powder. It looks like rock, maybe brick."

"Get it back to trace and run it ASAP, Ms. Boa Vista." Horatio said, helping Natalia out of her squatting position.

"I'm on it, and I'll call you with the results." Natalia said, as she grabbed her kit and got into her police issued hummer.

"Alright." Horatio hollered behind him, walking over to Alexx, "Do we have anything, Alexx?" He asked in his loving, questioning voice.

"Not much that isn't obvious, babe." The African-American woman said referring to Horatio in one of her loving pet-names that she had given to all of the team. "She wasn't killed here, not enough blood for her injuries. She's been stabbed and..." she stopped mid sentence, "One second, there is stippling here."

"From gun shot residue?" Horatio had asked, cocking his head.

"Maybe. I'll have to run it at post." She said as she ran her hand over the young women's face, "One second, H. There is white powder on her lips." She took a sample on a que tip and handed it to H who put it into an evidence bag. "I'll know more after post and autopsy." She said getting up from the body.

 "I'm ready for you." She motioned for the coroner's assistants to come and load the body. Horatio bent down, and with his gloved hand picked up the woman's purse.

"Jinnefer Cladwin..." he said flipping through her wallet. A picture caused him to stop. "Memmo Fierro." His mind went back to his wife, Marisol, the man that had killed her with his sniper, Memmo Fierro, and the man that had put the hit on his wife, Antonio Riaz, who he had killed in Brazil. Horatio placed the wallet into an evidence bag and then into a box that held the evidence that had been taken from the scene; he then walked to Eric.

"This isn't the primary." Horatio said quietly as he scanned the crowd as he did at every crime scene.

"So we're looking at a secondary?" Eric asked as Horatio's phone began to ring, and he answered it.

"This is Horatio... What?" H. asked as his relaxed face grew into one of concern, and he once again looked over the crowd, "Yes. Yes, I understand. Keep me updated. Thanks."

"Eric, we have a problem." Horatio knelt down and began to whisper in Eric's ear, "There has been a break out at the detention center. They called to tell me Memmo Fierro and a couple other members of the Mala Noche have escaped, and according to the victims wallet she had a relationship with Memmo."

"What does that mean for us, H.?" Eric asked his posture becoming more rigid. Marisol had been Eric's sister.

"Just watch out for yourself." Horatio said standing up and putting his sunglasses on."While we wait for our case to break loose too."

Ryan thought back to the lab where Natalia analyzed and identified the trace that led the three men to this warehouse that over looked the ocean.

"Hey, Natalia, did you find out what that red powder at the scene was?" Calleigh asked, bringing in even more trace evidence from the parking structure crime scene.

"Yeah, it's brick." Natalia said as she typed furiously into her computer.

"Well. I guess that's not going to do anything for us, but maybe this will." Calleigh sighed as she put the evidence down near Natalia's computer.

"Maybe not. The brick was saturated in Sodium Chloride Hydrogen Dioxide." Natalia read off of her computer screen.

"Can't you just say sea water?" Calleigh laughed, brushing her long, blond hair behind her ears.

"Yea," She chuckled, "but there is only one place where brick buildings are this close to the water." Natalia pulled up a map on her computer.

"The warehouse district, but most of those buildings aren't eroded enough to produce this much of the powder as a transfer." Calleigh said examining the map.

"Yea, but one place is, and I just sent the address to H., Eric, and Ryan." Natalia said, as Ryan was snapped back into reality by Eric's screaming.

"We got an officer down and kidnapped! I repeat, officer down and kidnapped!" Eric screamed into his police radio. "This is CSI Eric Delko, and I repeat, Lieutenant Horatio Caine is down and kidnapped!"

Eric looked at his fellow CSI, Ryan Wolfe, and shook his head.

"What's gonna happen to H.? There's a lot of blood, Eric." Ryan said worriedly.

"We're just gonna have to wait for Calleigh and Nat to get here so they can process, Ryan." Eric said thinking of how close all of the CSIs were as a family, and how Horatio's kidnapping would affect them all. "He's gonna be fine," Eric sighed "It is Horatio after all."

"What are we gonna tell Tripp and Alexx?" Ryan asked, speaking of Detective Francis Tripp and Alexx. They both sat down on the warehouse floor as sirens and hummers quickly approached the scene.