A/N : Hi Everyone, I'm sure you all are tired of reading my authors note's. But I just like to let you all know that I truly am grateful that you all are reading my little fic…And that you all seem to like it…It really does mean the world to me… I just wanted to add, that in the last chapter, on some of it I really went back on forth with how I thought that Lucas Black would have played that, and being a longtime fan of his, I really just tried to picture him saying the words I was writing.. So anyway I really hope it came across that way. Well enough from me, on with chapter 4….
Chris just stood there and looked at the man in front of him, this could not be happening. Why was he even here? What did he want? Chris knew he needed to talk to him, but he wanted to do it alone, away from the others, for now at least. Pride and the rest of them didn't need to hear this conversation; this just needed to be between himself and James.
"Agent Pride, what can you tell me about Mere's condition? All the man at your office knew was that she had been shot and the name of the hospital."
Pride looked at James and then over to Chris. "Well James, Agent LaSalle knows more details then I do, he was the Agent that found her, and got her medical treatment. He is also the one that her Doctor just spoke with." Pride pointed James towards Chris. As James headed toward him, Chris just glared at him, all he really wanted to know, was why he was even here. He had enough on his mind right now, without having to deal with Merri's ex on top of it all.
"Agent LaSalle what can you tell me about Mere?" Chris took a deep breath and started to tell him just the basic information, when a nurse walked into the room.
"I'm looking for Chris LaSalle?"
"That's me ma'am." Chris said as he walked past James to the nurse
"Ok, you can come with me, and I will take you back now." Chris turned to Pride
"King can ya fill James in on what I told ya."
"Sure Christopher, you go with the nurse, make sure ya tell her, we're all here for her."
"Will do King."
Chris followed the nurse out of the door and down the hallway. In the meantime James walked back over to Pride.
"Why do I get the idea that everyone here is trying to keep me in the dark?"
"James, I can assure you, that's not the case at all, in fact I'm sure that when Merri finds out that you're here, she'll be very happy to see you. But for now all we know is that she was shot in lower right side, the Doctor removed the bullet and said she will make a full recovery. She was very lucky that Agent LaSalle found her. (Pride left out the part that she had been found in Christopher's house)
"Yes I'd say she was very lucky that he did, do you have any clue as to why she was shot?"
"There is an ongoing investigation as to the reason behind this, but we believe it has to do with a case she's working on, but that's classified information."
Loretta looked over at Pride as he was talking with James; she knew that he was sugar coating everything he was telling him. She had a hunch that Mere had been targeted due to the Baitfish investigation, but how did Baitfish now that Mere was at Chris's house? That part was a bit of a mystery to her, she did have a hunch but needed to talk to Chris first.
Chris had followed the nurse back to Merri's room; she opened the door for him to enter. Chris walked towards the bed and just looked at his Merri; she was lying on her back hooked up to IV bags and other machines. The nurse walked over to Chris.
"She should be waking up soon, I'm sure she'll be very happy to see you."
Chris looked over and smiled at the kind nurse. "Thank you ma'am." He proceed to sit down next to Merri's bed, he pulled the chair as close as he could and reached for her hand, placing it between both of his. As he held it, he started to rub it than he turned it over and started to kiss her palm. He looked at her sleeping face and he couldn't help it, the tears just started to fall. He felt so guilty for not going straight home, for stopping to check on Cade, then deciding to stop for a bottle of wine. God if he had known that there could be a baby, he would have never stopped for wine.
"God Mere, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry you were there alone, please forgive me. If ya had told me, I'd…I'd been there…I love ya so much…" Chris laid his head down on Merri's abdomen; he knew he had to be gentle due the bullet hole on the other side, but part of him just needed to feel them both. He needed to feel her.
He didn't know how long he had been lying on her, but he looked up when he felt a hand rubbing his head, he turned toward Merri, she had opened her eyes and was looking right at him.
"Chris.." was all she said…
