Title: Stockholm Syndrome
Author: spiritx33
Disclaimer: If you're that concerned, check my profile.
Genre: Drama
Rating: T for now – rating may go up in future chapters.
Synopsis: When Natalia is kidnapped, the Miami-Dade CSIs vow to rescue her and put her kidnapper behind bars. Things become a little more complicated, though, when the team runs into a problem none of them expected.
Character: Natalia Boa Vista
Warnings: Language. Violence in later chapters. Any extreme violence will be preceded with a warning.
Author's Note: I realize that I have several fics that are still incomplete, and I promise you that they will not stay that way forever. I've been trying to finish them, but this fic keeps popping into my head. Hopefully once this one is over, I'll be able to focus on the others.

Stockholm Syndrome
Prologue

Natalia Boa Vista was exhausted. For the last forty-eight hours, the Miami-Dade CSIs had been living at the crime lab, working on one of the biggest high-priority cases they'd ever had. In fact, it had been so high-priority, so important, that Horatio had refused to let his crime scene investigators go home until they had solved it. The four had taken their two-hour breaks one after the other, often using their free time to take a nap on the couch in the lounge. The naps – and coffee that they had constantly brewed – had done little to help their exhaustion. It was quite a miracle to Natalia that the team had been able solve the case in their physical states, yet somehow, they had.

They had, and now they were all headed home. Just the thought of it made Natalia smile. As soon as she got into the house, she'd be up the stairs, in her pajamas, and in her bed faster than she could blink.

The CSI wasted no time as she pulled into the driveway, turned the car off, and exited the vehicle. Not wanting to wake the neighbors, she quietly shut the door and then started toward her house, hitting the "lock" button on her car key as she went.

Just as Natalia reached the front door of her house, an arm snaked around her waist while the other held a cloth over her nose and mouth. Immediately, Natalia's belongings fell from her hands as she began to fight off whoever it was that had such a firm grip on her. She tried to reach for the firearm attached to her belt, but the chemical-soaked cloth was faster.

Her body went limp.

Everything went black.

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A/N: So that was just a little prologue to get things going. The CSIs will make their appearances in the next chapter, as will Natalia's kidnapper. Stay tuned…