Chapter 8
The next day Mc Gee woke up really early, his night had been really short because of the fact that he was haunted by relieving the explosion at the Congress Center over and over again in his dreams he had been laying wide awake in bed just staring at the ceiling the most time of the night. He yawned as he finally sat up in his bed and as he looked at the landline phone on his nightstand, he now really needed to make that one call that he was so much afraid of and so he grabbed the little note with the Phone Number of the Fielding's.
He finally dialed the number, as he heard dialing tone he just thought to himself: *Please just let this be over very quick.* Brad and Sandra were right now sitting at the breakfast table and surely wondered who was calling them at this early hour of the day as Brad heard the telephone ring first through the half open kitchen door. "I will get it Sandra." Brad sat, taking one last bite from his sandwich before he finally headed for the living room to hear who was on the other end of the line. Brad Fielding finally picked up the phone and was a little surprised to hear Mc Gee's voice through the receiver and finally asked: "Good morning Tim, is everything alright? " He asked being a little bit unsure of this whole situation, really hoping that his daughter's boyfriend didn't have any bad news to considering their lovely daughter Delilah.
Mc Gee really did struggle with finding the right words to say, but then he finally replied: "Good Morning Mister Fielding, I'm afraid I've tell you some bad news considering your daughter."
If he wasn't even a little bit worried before Brad now was really concerned for his Daughter and without much hesitation he said: "What's wrong with Delilah Tim?" Brad now could hear Tim taking one deep breath in and one out, what meant that this kind of situation was clearly not easy for him: "She has been injured during a terror attack on the Gala, which visited yesterday, and right now her medical condition is stable but she's not out of the danger zone yet." Delilah's father really didn't know what to say for quite a while, now his wife also had joined him in the kitchen because she wanted to know why the phone call took so long. Brad let the phone receiver sink down just a little bit away from his ear and Sandra really got worried as she saw that shocked expression on her husband's face, of course now having to ask herself: *What is wrong with Brad?* She softly caressed his right cheek, as she gently asked him: "What is bothering you so much honey?"
It took quite a while but then Brad Fielding had finally regained his composure as he spoke again:
"We will be in Washington as soon as possible and I know how you feel Tim but we will get through this together okay?"
"Yes Mister Fielding and thanks for your support." Tim replied and now was happy that he had finally had got this thing finally off his chest after some more of a little awkward silence between Brad Fielding and Tim, finding it very hard to speak right now Delilah's father finally ended the call with the words: "I just only want to say, that me and Sandra really couldn't have asked for a better son-in Law Tim because of the fact how highly our daughter has always spoken of you , must mean that you two are definitely meant to be together."
Mc Gee really didn't know how to respond to that little speech from his girlfriend's father, because he truly had never ever heard those words out of the mouth of one of his girlfriends from college and that list was very short. It took some minutes before he finally said: "Thank You very much for saying that kind words; I really appreciate it."
Tim then finally hung up the phone, sighed shortly and then he finally went into the kitchen to make some breakfast of course Delilah being that one thing that was on his mind the whole time.
He yawned one more time as he switched on the coffee machine and got his favorite cup out of one of the cupboards in the kitchen as he mused about what the day might have in store for him. That bastard Parsa was probably still out there, probably hiding somewhere from them like the big coward he was.
*I will personally make sure, that he won't get another opportunity to hurt any of the people that I care about!* Of course he would visit Delilah in the hospital later, he anxiously had waited so long for the moment when he could look into her wonderful eyes again. Seeing the picture of her unconscious body lying in the hospital bed, made him a little bit sad again and that one thought was creeping up again on him: *I failed to protect the woman I love.*
Finally he concentrated on eating his breakfast, because he was practically starving right now but he probably would be able to enjoy this breakfast a lot more if Delilah would be here to enjoy it with him. Since their relationship had become serious, they had eaten breakfast together a lot of times and as he finally started eating his bread with marmalade he started to imagine: Delilah sitting right on the other side of the table, not any make up on her face and drinking her tea. That memories made him smile for now, made him forget about this whole bad medical situation she was in right now being totally determined to don't let the negative thoughts get him too much depressed.
He had met her the first time in a café, on an evening when he had spontaneously decided to meet up with Mark Pearson who was an old friend from his time at MIT. The way they met perfectly fitted that cliché: The white knight saving the damsel in the distress, Mc Gee hurrying to rescue as he saw a woman fall on steps dressed in high heels suddenly fall because of the fact that the steps had become very slippery because of the rain and one of the heels of her shoe had suddenly collapsed. Even if his friend was probably already waiting at the restaurant for him, with the umbrella in hand he quickly ran over to her and asked the woman if she needed any help.
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