Chapter 10.
It was the next day and Horatio, Jake, Isabel and Calleigh were out shopping together. The two men were of course less into it than the two women, which at the moment were looking at guns in a gun store.
"Can you believe that?" said Jake, nodding towards the two women.
"Someone is compeering weapons," said Horatio with a smile, he could even from the distance he was at see Calleigh's enthusiasm.
"Yeah but isn't it weird that they get along, considering Isabel left because of her," said Jake.
"Wrong Jake, she left because you had feelings for her, but it's clear you don't anymore and she is after all the mother of your son's wife and the grandmother of your daughter," said Horatio.
"True I suppose and they are kind of alike I suppose," he said.
"They are, they may be in different fields, but they are still the same," he said, as Isabel presented a gun to Calleigh.
"They are, is that why you fell for Isabel?" Horatio asked, he couldn't help but wondering.
"No, of course not, when I meet her I must admit I may still have liked Calleigh, but Isabel is so much more. She's in a way a bit softer then Calleigh, even if it don't seem that way," said Jake.
The two ladies put the guns aside, and came out to join them and Horatio asked, "You didn't find anything?"
"I did, but I gotto come back for it later as they were out, so shall we check a jeweler?" she asked back.
"Pick anyone you want," said Horatio.
"You sure aren't shy about your money," said Isabel with a giggle.
"When it comes to my sweetheart no, she deserves anything she wishes," said Horatio.
"Does that go for me too?" Isabel asked, looking at Jake with hopeful eyes.
"Of course me love," he said, and gave her a gentle peck on the check before they headed in the direction of the jeweler.
That same night the four of them rang the doorbell at Duquesne residence and Dean opened, he looked annoyed at Isabel and asked, "What are you doing here?"
"Visiting my son and his family," she answered.
"Why now after all these years?" he asked.
"Now is a good time as any," she answered.
"What if I don't want you here," he snapped at her.
"Dean," Jake said shocked and surprised at the same time.
"No, let him talk," said Isabel in a calm tone.
"You think you can just walk back in after leaving us back then and expect it to be like normal… it doesn't work that way," he said.
"I never said it would, I'm just asking you to give me a chance to get to know you and your family," she said honestly as they heard Cassidy yell, "Dean who's at the door?"
"No one," he yelled back, adding, "That is what you are to me and I have no interest in knowing you, you others may step inside, but not you."
"I understand, I'll see you later handsome," she said, and gave Jake a light peck on the check before walking towards the car.
"Dean, you cannot do that, go apologize," Jake demanded.
"No, so are you coming in or not?" he asked.
They others just nodded as they followed him inside.
A moment later a happy Cora came running downstairs by the sound of her grandparent's voice, but once she saw them she could tell something was very wrong. The young girl looked at her grandfather Jake and asked, "Grandpa, what's wrong?"
"Nothing my little angel, so how are you today?" he asked.
"Just great, where's grandma?" she asked, looking around.
"She had to do something, but she told me to say hi," he said and hugged her.
"Daddy…?" the young girl asked, looking for an answer she didn't get.
"So we got you something today," said Calleigh to change the subject.
"You did… what?" asked the little girl almost jumping up and down with excitement.
"Handsome," said Calleigh looking at Horatio, that reached in his pocket little box.
"It's from your grandma Isabel as well, until you are old enough to get a real one," said Jake and smiled as she opened it.
The little girl gasped when she gotten the box open and said, "Really, this is all mine?"
"It is got your name on and everything," said Calleigh.
"What is it little one?" asked Cassidy curiously.
"It's a golden gun and look the grip is in diamonds and it got my name on it," she said excitedly showing her mother.
"Mum, dad, you really shouldn't have…" said Cassidy.
"Actually this wasn't all our doing," said Horatio honest.
"Yeah Isabel came up with the idea," said Calleigh.
"Oh great, now she's trying to buy her way in," said Dean rolling his eyes.
"She's not, we all were in on it as we wanted to give out granddaughter what she wanted," said Jake, defending his sweetheart.
"Yeah, yeah sure," said Dean, but Cassidy gave him a warning look that meant not in front of Cora to shut him up, which he did. This made Calleigh give her a little smile that meant you got him all well trained nice, before they went into the living room to talk while little Cora sat down in the stairway with her new gun happily examining it.
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