Sorry for the delay in posting this chapter! I've been running around like a nutcase trying to get stuff done before I head back to school. As a brief recap, the guy that has been murdering the little girls has broken into Ryan's house and tried to take Kara. He stabbed Ryan and then they took a tumble down the stairs. The last chapter ended with Ryan passing out on the floor. Please review!

I Remember

Horatio sped towards Ryan's house. His mind kept running over the phone call that he had received from a very terrified Kara.

"This is Horatio."

"Uncle H!" Kara's voice called over the phone. She sounded terrified and like she was crying.

"Kara, sweetie, what's wrong?" Horatio asked, already heading towards the door. He just knew something was wrong.

"There's a mean man and he tried to take me and he hurt Daddy!" Kara cried.

"Kara, you stay on the phone, ok? I'm on my way right now!"

Horatio looked down at the open cell phone on his passenger side seat. He had put the phone on speaker so he could hear Kara on the other line. "Kara, are you still there, honey?"

"Yes, Uncle H," Kara's small voice answered.

Horatio flew into Ryan's driveway and cut the engine. He leaped out of the Hummer into the rain. Looking behind him, he noticed more cars and an ambulance pulling in behind him. He rushed to the front door of the house to find that it had been forced open. Must be how he got in. He pulled out his gun and pushed the door open the rest of the way. He stepped inside and looked around, holding his gun firmly in front of him. "Ryan? Are you here?" He turned the corner and nearly dropped his weapon. He was completely stunned to see Ryan unconscious on the floor, the suspect not far from him, also unconscious. "Ryan?" Horatio said, putting away his gun and racing forward to his fallen CSI. He knelt down next to him and felt for a pulse, dread coursing through him when he realized how weak it was. He looked up when other officers flowed into the house. "Get him out of here," Horatio said, pointing at the other man on the floor. "There's a small girl upstairs, go find her."

"Kara? Where's my daughter?" Calleigh yelled from the driveway.

Horatio turned to look over his shoulder. He wasn't expecting Calleigh and Eric to show up. This isn't going to be good. "Calleigh, stay back for now," Horatio said as the woman flew into the room.

"What?" Calleigh called. She stopped short at the scene in front of her. Two police officers were cuffing a semi-conscious man on the floor. Horatio was kneeling in front of someone else who appeared to be unconscious. There blood, a lot of blood. "What's going on?"

"Mommy!" Kara yelled as an officer brought her down the stairs. She flew into Calleigh's arms and sobbed. "The mean man hurt Daddy!"

"Daddy?" Calleigh said. She looked up and over at Horatio. Her eyes widened once she realized whom he was kneeling in front of. "Ryan?" She set Kara on a chair and rushed over to Horatio. "What happened?"

"By the looks of it he fought with our suspect to keep him from taking Kara," Horatio said. He was applying pressure to the wound in Ryan's side.

Calleigh looked down at the blood staining Ryan's shirt and gasped. She slowly reached out and touched his shirt as memories came flooding back to her. "I remember," she said.

Horatio looked at her. "Remember what?"

"Everything," Calleigh said in alarm, looking around her. "Everything, Horatio. The case we worked with the sniper. Ryan got shot and…and he almost died! Then we got married and had Kara, and the car accident! Oh my god, Horatio, I remember all of it!"

Horatio looked at Calleigh in shocked amazement. He hadn't expected an incident like this to bring back Calleigh's memory. "Calleigh, you need to stay calm," he said, noticing that she was getting ready to cry.

"But I should have remembered sooner!" Calleigh cried, bursting into tears. She reached up and gently stroked Ryan's cheek. "I should have been here tonight, I could have helped and he wouldn't-"

"Calleigh, look at me," Horatio said, continuing to look at her. "There is no way that you could have known that something like this would happen, ok?"

Calleigh sniffled and nodded. She reached down and grabbed one of Ryan's hands and held it tightly in her own. She stayed this way until the paramedics came in to put him on the stretcher. "I want to stay with him."

"You go with him, I'll bring Kara along with me," Horatio said, looking at the small girl still sitting in the chair. A female officer was occupying her so she wouldn't see the bloody scene off to her side.

"Thank you," Calleigh said, following the stretcher out to the ambulance. She climbed into the back and sat down as the doors shut. She took hold of Ryan's hand again. "I love you, Ryan. It's going to be ok."

"Ma'am, you're going to have to prepare for the worst," the paramedic said as he began to hook Ryan up to different things. "Things are not looking very good at the moment."

Calleigh nodded and forced back her tears. She clung tightly to Ryan's hand and whispered things to him the entire way to the hospital. "You saved our little girl, sweetie. She's going to be ok because of you. But you have to be ok too, for her, and me ok? I don't want to live without you."

The ambulance finally arrived at the hospital and the stretcher was wheeled inside the ER. Calleigh followed along side as the doctor gave the nurses orders. A doctor finally stopped Calleigh. "Ma'am, I'm sorry but you can't come any further. We're taking your husband into surgery now."

Calleigh nodded and stopped, watching as the stretcher was wheeled down the hall and disappeared into the ER doors. She stood frozen in place until she felt a familiar hand on her shoulder. She turned around to see Horatio standing there, a sleeping Kara in his arms. She took her daughter from Horatio and hugged her tightly to keep herself from crying.

"He's going to pull through, Calleigh," Horatio said. "He did it before, he can do it again."

"I hope so," Calleigh said, looking towards the ER doors again. I really hope so.

TBC

Totally stupid way to end this chapter, I know. I tend to end later chapters in dumb ways, for some reason it happens in all my stories. Anyway, hope you liked this chapter! Review?