Nick had somehow talked the warden into letting Cal leave for a couple hours on good behavior.
The first place Cal went was the office where he cornered Gillian in the lab, "Were you just never going to tell me?" He asked her madly, "Were you just going to leave me in the dark where I could never find out? Were you just going to say, 'oh yeah... I didn't have it' when I asked about the baby when I got out of jail. Did you think that you could just NOT tell me?" He yelled at her, "You left ME for a month without knowing and them for two weeks!" He pointed to Torres, Ben, and Loker who were all standing, spread out in the lab.
"Cal." She said, staring at him, "I don't want to talk to you right now."
"Well that too damn bad." Cal said, "You can't just avoid the things that are hard in life." He hissed.
'You don't get it!" She yelled at him.
"I don't? Ok... let's see. So I got to Vegas and loose two days and it turns out that I got poisoned... and the only way to get the antidote is to get some ten million dollars. But then, while I'm getting the money, I get caught, being a scientist and all, and I get several broken ribs and a broken kneecap. AND I get like five million dollars added to my growing fee. So, I finally go to the hospital with Ben, because I didn't want to wake you up. And while in surgery someone messes up! And I'm in a coma for three fuckin' days!" His voice slowly got louder and she could hear the rage growing, "Then when I wake the hell up... you aren't even there! You are enjoying yourself on some bloody date! Then when I open up and tell you that I need you and that you should have been there for me... you have the nerve to blame the whole fuckin' ordeal on me!"
"Cal." She warned.
"No! I'm not done!" He yelled at her. "THEN after you screw everything up with having sex with that bastard... and he threatens you... I go and try to save your bloody ass because you can't take care of yourself! So then I go to jail, right? Oh wait... and I ALSO loose custody of Emily! No, first I go to the little prison place where they keep people overnight and I got beat up there. Then I go to the big jail and the first night I get beat up a little bit AND almost raped by my room mate. But you didn't know that, right? Because I didn't want to burden you with my problems." Cal hissed.
"Cal." She said again.
"Just shut up for a minute! Everyone seems to listen to you!" He yelled at her again. "So then... after you visit and BECAUSE you had sex with Matt, JJ thought he could get a little something out of you... so he threatens me. Luckily you didn't do it. But then that night I get shit beat out of me, along with a fuckin' piece of the fuckin' mirror jabbed into my arm! So I get out and I come to you and we have a night of passion and then in the morning, when... ONCE AGAIN I'm saving your fuckin' ass, you kick me in my bad knee! Thanks... that's really a great way to thank me." He spat at her. "Oh, but there's more. So then I go back to jail and you don't visit me for a week because your mad at me for thinking fast and saving YOU from going to jail. Then you tell me that you're pregnant. Which is great, and I was exstatic for you. Then Matt comes to the jail and he and JJ and Max all form a little alliance and all beat the living shit outta me and I have to pretend like it doesn't hurt the least bit! So I end up have several broken ribs and it hurts to just sit and to breathe and to talk and to walk and to do any little fuckin' thing. Then when you come to visit... you have to get all up in my business and PUSH my broken ribs and cause me a bunch of pain that I was ALREADY enduring, thank you very much."
"Stop." She said, on the edge of tears.
"No." He said, ignoring the pain on her face, "Once Nick finds out I am hurt, he throws me into the infirmary where they 'patch me up' which is really them throwing a wimpy bandage around my waist and calling it 'fixed' and then throwing me into isolation where I can heal all by myself. ALSO, me going into that put me BACK into the doghouse with JJ and his goons and so I'm pretty much screwed for when I go back. THEN... when I am all alone in isolation... I just randomly STOP breathing. So I have to sit there and pound on the door, trying my best to breathe while I wait for Nick to hear me. Do you know what it's like to just NOT be able to breathe? No." He said coldly. "So then I'm in the hospital where ONCE AGAIN I save your ass and kick Daniel out of the hospital room, because I don't want you to have someone being mean to you.
She took a deep breath and he shook his head.
"No, this is the best part. Then... after all my shit... you have a miscarriage. So... we decide that we should just drop everything and be there for you. You decide that you should just ditch me because... 'you can't take it anymore'." He brought up his hands and made quotations. "But you thought it would just be for the better if I didn't know that you weren't going to have a baby. If I didn't know that my soon-to-be daughter or son wasn't really coming. Because keeping me in the dark about something like that would always be better right? Well you know what Gill. I am fuckin' sick of you! You have a miscarriage, yeah it's hard and yeah you had your bloody hopes up, but it's not like you haven't been let down about that before and it's not like we can't TRY AGAIN once I get out! Over the past three months... I have been in a living fuckin' hell and you were only worried about your own pain and your own happiness." He hissed, "Well I'm done. I hope you have a nice life, but I don't want anymore visits from you. And... I'm not trying to sound sad for myself because I don't give a fuck! I'll be perfectly fine, but now I see why we never tried before. Because you only care about yourself." Cal said.
He took a deep breath and turned around and walked out of the lab before she could contradict anything he said. And the thing was... she couldn't because he was right.
Loker watched as he walked out and then cleared his throat, "Well that was..."
Torres shot him a look that said 'shut up'.
He bit his mouth and swallowed his words, looking down at the ground.
Gillian let the single tear fall. The one that had been wanting to fall for the longest time. She had truly just lost Cal. He wasn't dead. He wasn't even leaving anywhere to far away. But she knew that he was gone... too far for her to chase him. She looked at the ground and looked at Torres, Loker, and Ben who were all standing there, awkwardly wondering what to do next. She opened her mouth to say something, but just shook her head, deciding against it.
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"No, Lightman did like this long synopsis of everything that has happened to him, including the things in jail that we didn't know about and just spat it all at Foster and left before she could even say anything to make things better. But the thing is, is that I totally agree with everything he said. Even if those things didn't happen to me... it still happened and she still decided that she was going to leave him in the dark." Loker whispered, playing with his hands.
"I thought Dr. Foster and Dr. Lightman were like... meant for eachother." Heidi whispered.
Loker bit his lip and said, "This is just weird."
"What?"
"This whole... me caring thing."
"Well why do you care?" Heidi asked.
"Well... I feel bad for him." Loker said truthfully, "He's been through a lot and Foster didn't even stop to think that maybe he needed a little help, that maybe things were hard for him. That MAYBE she should tell the father if she had a miscarriage." Loker hissed.
Hiedi nodded and said, "Well I guess it's all over now."
A/N: Nawwww it ain't all over... don't you worry, but that was pretty epic... thanks for reading and thanks for the reviews, don't forget to continue!
