Natalia slowly approached Pedro. She had a bullet-proof vest on her, just in case Pedro decided to hurt her.

She sat down next to him. He didn´t look at her and he seemed nervous. He looked around himself as if he was searching for something, and this made Nat worried. What if he knew there were cops surrounding him? She hoped that he didn´t know as she didn´t want anyone to get hurt.

"Hi, Im Jessica." She said and held out her hand for him.

"Hi." He said, still not looking at her and ignoring her hand.

"Why are you here?"

"I´m just talking to my father."

"Oh, I´m sorry, maybe I should leave you alone?"

"No! Stay!"

Natalia nodded. He seemed even more nervous and he looked really pissed off.

"Oh shit, this can not end good" Nat thought and started to get up.

When Pedro saw Natalia getting up, he quickly rose to his feet and grabbed Natalia, holding a knife to her neck.

"What the hell are you doing?" Nat asked.

"Shut up, bitch! I know you´re a cop and I know that Im surrounded by cops, but I will not go to jail." He said, pressing the knife hard against her neck.

Natalia could feel the blade against her skin and felt the blood running down her neck from a small wound. No one had thought about a neck guard and if Pedro refused to give up, she could end up having her throat cut.

Ryan and the officers knew they had to do something. They were waiting for the SWAT team to come, but it could be too late for Natalia.

Ryan decided to approach Pedro and Nat. He aimed his gun at Pedro and walked slowly towards him, stopping not to far away.

"Pedro, put the knife down." Ryan said.

"No way, I want a way out of here first." Pedro said, smirking.

"Well, we could always put you in a car and drive you to jail. That way you´d be out of here." Ryan tried.

"Ryan! This is not the time for jokes!" Nat cried.

"She´s right you know. Either you make sure that I can leave this cemetery without any cops following me or you will have to bury this woman." Pedro said.

Ryan felt panic creeping up on him. He needed someone to help him, and the best person to do that would be H, but he was in a coma at the moment.

Someone was probably gonna die today.

-I-

Eric was at the hospital with Calliegh, she was so worried that she hadn´t eaten for days, so they sat in the cafeteria.

"Don´t worry, Cal, he´ll make it." Eric said.

"But what if he never wakes up?" Calliegh worried.

"He will." Eric reassured her.

The doctors had given Horatio a 15 percent chance to wake up. It was low and they all knew that he might never wake up, but they had to keep their hopes up.

Eric´s phone started ringing, it was Frank.

" This is Eric." Eric said.

"Eric? Its Frank! We have a hostage situation.!" Frank cried.

"Where?"

"ST Peters Church, and he´s Nat as a hostage.!"

"Shit! Okay, I´m on my way."

"What is it? Calliegh asked."

"Nat´s being held hostage by Pedro!" Eric said.

Both Calliegh and Eric left the hospital and drove to ST Peters church.

-I-

Pedro was getting more nervous when he saw all the police cars around him. It was at least fifty cars and they weren´t gonna let him just walk out of here, that´s for sure.

If he killed the cop he was holding as hostage, he would definitely end up in the chair. If he didn´t kill her, he might get away with life without parole.

He wasn´t about to give up. He was gonna fight for his brother and either he or his hostage would die, maybe both of them would die.

"You know you´re in deep trouble right?" Nat said, trying to convince Pedro to give up.

"Yeah I know, if I kill you, I´ll end up in the chair and if I don´t, I´ll be in jail for the rest of my life." He said, tightening his grip around the knife.

"But isn´t life better then the chair or getting shot by cops?" Nat asked.

"No, either you or I will die today, you better hope that colleague of yours knows what he´s doing, he seems kind of lost." Pedro said.

Ryan did look lost. His face was pale and his eyes were fixed on the knife. He had never done something like this before. It would really be better if someone else was in his place, but Nat felt safer with a familiar face around her.

Pedro had told Ryan to go back a little and he couldn´t hear what was being said between Nat and Pedro.

The SWAT team was now about five minutes away.

-I-

Calliegh and Eric arrived at the time as SWAT, and they walked towards Frank.

"Is Ryan there to negotiate?" Eric asked.

"Yeah, but it ain´t working, Pedro told him to go back a little and he can´t hear what they´re saying." Frank said.

"Did Pedro ask for anything?" Calliegh asked.

"Yeah, a way out of here without any cops following him." Frank said, "although I think he realized that it won´t happen."

Three guys from Swat went into three different positions, one of them behind Pedro, one infront of him and the third to Pedros left.

Luckily Pedro didn´t see any of this, all they had to do now was to get Pedro to give up in ten minutes or he would be shot.

"Listen Pedro, why don´t you let your hostage go? If you don´t, you will be shot. You would like to live wouldn´t you?" Ryan asked, moving closer to Pedro and Nat.

"Listen you idiot! Either you get the cops out of here, including yourself or this little beauty will die!" Pedro sacreamed, slightly cutting Nat on the side of her neck.

Before Ryan could answer back, a shot ran through the air and the bullet went right into Pedro´s skull, and as he fell, he cut Natalia, missing her carotid artery with only a few millimeters.

The cut was deep enough to cover the left side of Natalias neck with blood, Ryan rushed to her side and pressed his hand against her wound.

"Ryan its okay, its only superficial." She said.

"Yeah, well you need to get to a hospital." Ryan said, walking with her towards the waiting ambulance.

The paramedics drove Nat to the hospital.

Calliegh followed closely behind in her hummer, Eric, Ryan and Frank stayed at the cemetery.

"Finally." Ryan sighed.

"Yeah, if he would have given up I would happily put him in the chair." Frank said.

"Me too, by they way, did anyone call Alex and told her about this?" Eric asked.

"No, I don´t think so." Frank said.

"She going to be pissed at you Frank. Eric said´ giggling, as he and Ryan started walking towards their cars, laughing at Frank terrified face.

He had never seen Alex really pissed off, and she didn´t like to be held back when someone in the team was in danger.

"What do you mean? She can´t be that mad can she?" Frank asked running after Ryan and Eric.

"No, no, she just might try to kill you with a scalpel or cut you so much that no one will recognize you. Eric said.

!I have a gun! I could just shoot her." Frank tried.

"Well, she might not get back at you today. She might wait a few weeks, so just be alert."

Eric said, making Ryan laugh so much that tears started coming from his eyes.

-I-

Nat sat at on a bed with a bandage around her neck, and a nurse was on her way to get the discharge papers, Calliegh sat on a chair next to the bed.

"You know, you were very good at keeping your calm at the cemetery." Calliegh said.

"Thanks, I just tried to remember everything that I´ve been taught."

"Good... Alex is on her way over, she will probably kill Frank for not telling her that you were in danger."

"Well, its not only Franks fault, Eric could have called."

"Oh don´t worry, she will kill him too, she´s just gonna make them believe that they´re safe and when they don´t expect anything, she´ll have her revenge."

Nat laughed, both she and Calliegh knew that Alex always looked out for them and she just didn´t want to be kept outside the team, Horatio was exactly the same way.

Horatio, neither Nat nor Calliegh had thought about him for a while.

"How´s Horatio doing?" Nat asked.

"Just fine, though we cant visit him until tomorrow, we can only stand outside the room and watch." Calliegh said.

"Its amazing that he survived being shot. " Natalia said.

Calliegh nodded.

It was amazing, she hoped she was one of the reasons to why he kept fighting for his life.

Pretty soon Calliegh and Natalia were joined by Frank, Alex, Eric and Ryan. They all sat in the cafeteria, drinking coffee, and talking about all sorts of things.

-I-

Calliegh sat next to Horatios bed, it had been five days since Pedro had been shot, Nat was doing fine, and she just wanted to take the bandage off of her neck. She had to wear it for at least another two weeks.

Horatio had an oxygen mask on his face. The doctors had told Calliegh that he had opened his eyes for just four seconds that morning. She was talking to him, hoping that he would open his eyes again.

"Handsome, the most beautiful thing I have ever seen is your eyes. They´re magic, and I wonder if you could just do me a little favor by open them just for a second. It would make me so happy."

Calliegh sighed. She had been saying similar stuff for about ten minutes now and it didn´t seem to work.

"Everyone in the lab misses you. We´re all doing fine now that the case is closed, but we miss seeing you walking in the hallway... I miss you coming in to ballistics and I miss your voice, I..."

Calliegh stopped when she felt Horatio squeeze her hand. It was a light squeeze but it gave Calliegh a smile that could split her face.

Slowly Horatio opened his eyes a little and looked at Calliegh. He gave her a weak smile.

"Hi, handsome. I know you´re tired, and I just wanted to tell you that I love you and that you better get well soon or I´ll start crawling on the walls." Calliegh said.

Horatio´s smile grew wider and he nodded slightly. Calliegh kissed him on his forehead. Now that she had seen his beautiful blue eyes, she knew everything was going to be okay.

The End

AN: I had alot of trouble to write this chapter, I didn´t know how to write the whole hostage situation in a good way. From now on I have a beta, Queen Sunstar!D thank you very much for wanting to be my beta!DD