A/N: *God Loves You*

Gillian looked at his scared face and grabbed his arm, helping him back onto the couch, "What happened?" She asked, sitting down next to him.

Cal had a frustrated look and sighed, "She just got shot... Emily did..."

"It was just a dream..." Gillian assured him, "It's okay... she is perfectly safe and with Zoe."

Cal stared at her and then took a deep breath, nodding his head. "L-Let's go talk to...that... Alex kid."

"Ok." Gillian said, standing up and helping him up as well.

.:.

"Of course I was mad to see him with another woman... but then when she dumped him... I just... I couldn't stand to see him hurt... but I would never kill somebody because of that." Alex said, nervously playing with her hands.

Cal nodded and stood up, "You're coming with us."

"What? Why?" She asked, looking at Gillian.

"I am a little distracted right now and you are just going to come back to the office where my other people can check you out." He gestured her to follow him.

She nervously stood up and followed him out.

.:.

Cal stared at Alex who was nervously glancing around the cube. "I'm not ready to go in there."

"You don't have to." Gillian said, handing Loker some paperwork that she had just finished.

Loker leaned back in his chair and looked up at Cal. "Um... can i ask those questions now?" He asked, spinning a pen between his fingers.

Cal stared at him and nodded.

"Well... I just-"

"Oh shit... I have to go." Cal said, looking at his watch.

"Why?" Loker and Gillian asked simultaneously.

"I have lunch..." He picked up his jacket and saw there confused faces, "With Marcus."

"Oh... well... I am going to go see Emliy while you are gone."

He nodded and they both walked out.

.:.

(It's two weeks later and there has only been two more court sessions because Zoe had to go out of town. Emily is staying with Gillian and she still hasn't seen Cal yet. Uh... and there hasn't been any progress with Alex.)

Cal stared at the wall and threw the bouncy ball again. The little red ball came flying back into Cal's hand and he did it again.

He heard the door lightly creak open and Gillian stood in the doorway, smiling at him.

He stared at her and sighed, "Mornin'."

She leaned against the dorrframe and sighed, "What have you been doing?"

"Playin' catch with myself." He threw the bouncy ball again and weakly smiled.

"Sounds exciting."

"It is." He said, quickly spinning in his chair and throwing the ball right next to her head.

She screamed and backed away, making him laugh. "You jerk..." She mumbled walking over to his desk.

He chuckled and caught the ball. He watched as she sat down on the edge of the desk and threw up his legs, his feet falling right beside her. "You're just paranoid."

She pushed his feet from the desk and whispered, "You're going to get it dirty."

"Do I look like I care?" He asked, throwing his feet back up.

"When does Zoe get back?"

"Don't want to give Emily up?" He asked.

As fine and happy he was pretending to be... she could see the way it stung to talk about Emily. She could see the pain in his eyes. He might be able to hide it with his body language, but he just didn't have the strength to harden his eyes. They were still soft and hazel, but filled with agony, like something was missing. And something was missing... the sight of his daughter. His eyes just didn't have the same beauty that they usually did.

He could feel her staring at him. Although he wasn't looking at her he knew that had that look of sympathy that he had seen too many times in the past two weeks. He knew that she was just sitting there... trying to feel what he was feeling. But she couldn't! She had just seen Emily about 20 minutes ago! She lost Sophie... yes, but she only had her for like 57 days! Cal had Emily for 16 years! She had no clue what this was like. What if he never saw her again? What if he lost... and he could never see her again? What if he could never give her a proper goodbye?

"Emily wanted me to give this to you." Gillian said, breaking Cal's train of thought.

He looked up at Gillian and saw a necklace dangling in her hand.

He took it and stared at the little silver circle that was hanging from the necklace. He flipped it open to find a picture of he and Emily. He remembered this necklace so well. He remembered when Emily would crawl into bed with he and Zoe. Zoe would always sleep while Emily curled up with Cal. Together they would look at the picture in his necklace, but one time when he took it off to go swimming he couldn't find it. He remebered when he and Zoe had frantically looked for it, digging in the sand, but they never found it. He guessed that Emily had and had decided to keep it for herself. He shut the small locket and put the necklace on, "Thank you." He whispered.

"Cal..." She said, standing up.

"What?"

"It's okay to be sad. Everyone is at times..."

He stared at her and nodded, "I don't need a therapist right now. I need a friend." He said, standing up.

She nodded and sighed, "Do you want anything?"

"Nothing that I can have." He said, throwing the ball extremely hard.

They both watched as it quickly bounced from wall to wall. Cal ducked as it zoomed over his head. It eventually hit a picture frame, causing it to fall and break. The ball slowly slowed down and lightly bounced next to the picture.

A/N: So I don't want to give too much away about the next chapter, but Cal and Emily with both finally break down. AND Leo does something very naughty that could be disastrous for everyone.

*God Loves You*