A Special Day With Grandpa Frank By Heather Pierson
3/20/09 10:30am
Frank had waited for today to come for awhile.
He woke up and called Eric and Calleigh to let him take Miranda out for day at the zoo.
After eating breakfast and packing his bag with the map and book of info Eric gave him the previous day he arrived at their house, "Hey Eric, is Miranda ready?"
Eric came up to him and shook his hand, "hey Frank. She'll be down in a minute. Calleigh's upstairs helping her get ready."
Just then Calleigh comes down and hugs Frank, "hey. Miranda's fixing up her hair. Today is all she's been talking about since you asked to take her."
A few mins later Miranda comes down, sees Frank and runs up to him, "Grandpa Frank."
He picks her up and hugs her tight, "so are you ready to spend a special day with me?"
She hugged him back and kissed his cheek, "I've been waiting for today all week. I've been extra good so I could go with you today."
He puts her down and grabs her hand, "well if we wanna be there in a ½ hr we better leave now."
Eric picks her up and hugs her, "Miranda be good and stay with Grandpa Frank at all times. I'll be very upset if something happens to you."
Miranda puts her arms around his neck, "Daddy you know I'm a good girl when I'm in public."
Eric put her down and Calleigh knelt down and said, "we know sweetie but we just don't want somebody to take you away or something bad to happen to you."
Miranda looks at her and reminds her slightly upset, "mommy when was the last time I ran away from you or daddy?"
Calleigh blushed, "I know you never did that before. I just want you to be careful."
5 mins later Frank and Miranda leave for Miami Metro zoo. He unbuckles her seatbelt and takes her out of the car, "here Miranda. Grab my hand. I don't want anybody taking you from me."
Kylie looks up at him and says, "Grandpa Frank you're wearing your badge today for safety reasons. Nobody will take me from you since your a cop."
He laughed at her and says, "your right Miranda. Nobody messes with my granddaughter. So what do you wanna see first?"
She smiled that Delko smile at him and says, "actually I wanted to get something to eat 1st."
He walks a bit with her and says, "Ok watcha wanna eat?"
She looks at the menu and says, "a burger and cheese fries- my favorite."
He pulls out his wallet and says to the concession stand man, "yea gimme two cheeseburgers, 1 cheese fry, a regular fry and two waters." He grabs there stuff and they walk back to where the trees are and sits down.
Miranda sits down and helps him sort out the food, "Ok grandpa Frank what animals are we gonna see today?"
He opens her water for her and says, "well if we go see the giraffes we need to get food for them first. You can feed them at this zoo. Not all zoos allow their visitors to do that."
She takes a big bite of her burger and says, "that's sounds cool. I heard they have long tongues but what are they for?'
Frank takes out his book and searches it, "well it says here that the tongue helps them reach hard to reach leaves on high branches on tall trees."
They finish their lunches together and throw away their trash, "well Randa let's head off to the giraffe station."
They head over there and buy food for them.
She started to feed them and one of them licks her hand, "eww. Grandpa Frank he licked me."
He takes out the hand sanitizer and squirts some in her hand, "rub your hands together all over."
She does so and they finish feeding the giraffes. They leave the giraffes and head over to the polar bears and watch them swim and interact with each other.
They continue their day together and Frank takes her home.
She walks in the door in front of Frank and yells, "mommy. I'm home."
Cal came out from the kitchen and put the plate of mini brownies on the table, "hey Miranda. How did today go with Grandpa Frank?"
She sat at the table and both her and Frank grabbed a brownie, "great mommy. Grandpa Frank bought me a tiger cub to sleep with at night."
She bite her brownie and says, "he's cute. Can you go put it in your bedroom where he belongs".
She runs up to her room and puts her tiger away.
When she comes out she sees Eric coming out of his bedroom, "Daddy."
She runs up to him and he scoops her up in his arms and spins her around, "hey princess. Did you like today with Grandpa Frank?"
He puts her down and she says, "yea I did daddy. Mommy is downstairs with him talking about what happened today."
They walk downstairs and into the kitchen. He sits at the table and puts Miranda on his lap before she takes a brownie and feeds Eric.
Just then Miranda shuts her eyes in pain and falls out of Eric's arms.
He looks up at Calleigh and looks back down, " Miranda wake up." He taps her cheek and says, "wake up princess."
Calleigh comes by her side and feels the front and back of her head.
Miranda cries out in pain while holding her chest, "mommy make it stop."
Eric kneels down next to her and checks her pulse and breathing, "I think she needs to go to the hospital Cal."
Calleigh looks up at him horrified, "I agree."
So Eric scooped her up in his arms and the four of them beelined it to the hospital while Eric left a message for Horatio to tell the rest of the team to come too.
As they they drove down the causeway Miranda was still complaining about her chest, "Daddy my chest hurts. Make it stop."
He rubs her tummy and says, "don't worry princess. Mommy, Daddy and Grandpa Frank are here."
They arrive and Eric hollers, "hey I need a doctor here."
One comes up with a stretcher and he lays her on it, "what's going on?"
Frank interrupts terrified, "I took her to the zoo and she was Ok there but when I brought her home she was sitting at the kitchen table and she collapsed after eating a brownie."
Frank looks at Calleigh and at the doctor, "let's cut to the chase. Will my granddaughter be Ok?"
The doctor looked up at him and says, "I won't know till I run some tests on her."
The doctors take Miranda to the emergency room while Calleigh, Eric and Frank walk into the waiting room.