Chapter 24:
When she reached the living room Bobbie stopped and looked up at her parents and Kaci standing with Han. "Oh my little girl." Susan walked briskly over to her enveloping her in a bone-crushing hug.
"Mom…" Bobbie squeaked. "Mom air." Susan released her pulling away her hands on Bobbie's shoulders holding her at arms length so she could look her over.
"Young lady what were you thinking?" Max asked walking over.
Bobbie looked up at him with her brown eyes like she had done so many times. "I was scared and I wanted to find Han. I'm sorry ok. I didn't mean to make anyone worry, but you don't need to tell me it was wrong cause I already know and I'll even willingly go and see the doctor tomorrow before I go see Jesse."
Max smiled at her and opened his arms. Susan released Bobbie and Bobbie walked the few steps over to him giving him a hug. "We've missed you angel."
"I've been hearing that a lot." Bobbie said softly. Max released her and she stood before both her parents just staring back as they leered at her. "What?" She asked self consciously tucking some loose hairs behind her ear.
"It's just good to see your smile awake face." Susan said smiling at her daughter.
"Daddy…" Everyone looked to the end of the hallway and saw Miley standing there rubbing her eyes.
"Sorry, she's not use to the time difference. She'd be waking up from a nap right about now." Han said and walked over to her. He picked her up. "Did you sleep good baby girl."
Miley nodded resting her head on Han's shoulder while her little finger twirled in her hair. "Where Aiko?" Miley asked.
Han chuckled softly. "Aiko's at home." He told her before turning and looking at everyone else. "Aiko's her baby sitter, she comes after I put Miles down for a nap and is there when she wakes up."
Kaci walked over and smiled at the little girl. "Can I?" She asked Han. Han nodded and Kaci started to take her when Miley wrapped her arms around his neck. Han laughed softly.
"What you don't want to go to your Aunt Kaci?" He asked her teasingly. Miley shook her head against his neck.
Bobbie walked over and held her arms out to take her. "How about momma?" She asked softly. Miley released her father's neck and turned so Bobbie could put her hands under her little arms and lifted her into her embrace.
Kaci pouted slightly. "So she'll go to you but not me."
Bobbie looked up smirking at Kaci. "I'm her mother." She said.
"I'm her aunt." Kaci retorted playfully.
"Momma trumps Aunt any day of the week." Bobbie said proudly.
Han laughed softly. "Miles is just a little nervous around strangers. Cautious, once she gets to know you it'll be fine."
"Fine I can wait." Kaci said huffing sarcastically.
Bobbie turned towards Susan and Max who seemed to have been watching the exchange with interest, more so watching the little girl. "She's different in pictures." Susan commented.
Han stepped up next to Bobbie slipping his arm back around her waist. "I'm sorry I haven't brought her to visit." He said.
"We're psychologists Han we understood your need to get away." Susan said.
Han nodded. "Thanks."
Max and Susan gave light nods. "She's got Bobbie's eyes." Max commented looking at Miley who was looking back while twirling her hair in her finger. "And Bobbie use to twirl her hair."
Bobbie laughed softly. "Nervous habit when I was a girl. Some of the knots mom had to brush out…" She said looking at Susan. "It was horrible."
Susan smiled at her daughter. "But you never allowed us to cut your hair, so it was either brush it or cut it and you would rather complain and let me brush the knots out then get it cut."
Bobbie grinned. "I loved my long hair, still do."
"It's grown." Kaci said. "Sometimes while you were…I would brush it out and put it in french braids."
Bobbie smiled at her. "Thanks. Does anyone happen to know where my sterling silver monogram heart necklace got to? You know the one mom and dad gave me when the adoption papers finalized?" (AN: See my profile page for a link)
Susan opened her purse and pulled out the silver chain with the thin silver heart pendant on it with a toggle closing. "I asked the doctor for it for safe keeping." She said handing it to Bobbie. Bobbie rarely removed that necklace and she had remembered on the flight that she had been wearing it the day of the crash. The necklace had B. A. B. engraved on the back side of the heart pendant and it was important to her because it was a symbol of how much her life changed after the adoption.
"Thank you." Bobbie said holding it in her hand.
"Why don't we get some food?" Kaci said. "I've been at the hospital all day and I'm starving."
Everyone agreed and soon they headed out to an open burger joint just down the road. Max and Susan spent a little time getting to know their granddaughter while she sat at the end of the table in a high chair coloring on the kids mat and Kaci was taking pictures left and right with her camera phone, reminding Bobbie about the new things she needed to get.
For everyone at the table that wasn't Bobbie it was great having her back, her smile lit up a room and watching her enjoy being a mother so soon was so great, especially for Max and Susan. They were very glad they hadn't taken Bobbie off life support because Miley seemed to love her so much.
Miley was getting more playful as the night went on opening up a little to Kaci, Max and Susan. It was just nice to be home for Bobbie and be with her family and Han and her little girl. She was just happy and so was everyone else.
Next Day
Hospital:
Bobbie and Han walked into the hospital into the intensive care section and up to the front desk, Bobbie pushing Miley's new stroller along. They had decided to get one that morning so that she wasn't wandering around the hospital while they tried to keep up with the walking little girl.
"How may I help you?" The desk attendant asked.
"Jesse Michaels was brought in a while back, gun shot wounds?" Bobbie asked.
The lady smiled at her. "Right this way." She led to a room opening the door and Bobbie walked in pushing Miley and Han right behind her. The steady beeping of the heart machine and the rise and fall of the oxygen tank was a little unsettling, but Bobbie pushed passed the sounds and over to Jesse's bed.
After standing silent for a few moments a doctor came in. "Oh I'm sorry…" He started to leave.
"Wait!" Bobbie called turning to face him. The doctor stopped and looked up at her. "Is he going to make it?" She asked softly.
"After monitoring him for a few days, we believe he will make a full recovery. His body is responding well to the blood transfusion we had to do, and we're looking to take him off the breathing machine tomorrow. He'll be laid up in the hospital for a bit, but we are sure of his recovery."
Bobbie smiled and gave a slight nod. "Thank you."
"Your welcome." The doctor left the room. Han put his arm around Bobbie's shoulder and her head lulled onto his shoulder.
"Well at least he wont be like I was." Bobbie said softly. "I don't think I could handle that."
"None of us handle it very well." Han said.
Bobbie sighed. "Ready to go see Vince? I hear from Kaci that he's been difficult." She joked to lighten the mood.
Han chuckled. "Well he can't cuss in front of Miley so we'll make sure she's around at all times."
"Kaci hasn't told him I woke up yet. She wanted to see his face when I walked in and made a sarcastic comment about his manhood." She giggled.
"You two are evil. What about Tej and Suki?" He asked randomly as they left the hospital room and headed for another floor where Vince was being kept.
Bobbie smirked looking over at him. "Kaci wants me to call them. Suki didn't take it too well either I guess, and Tej well I know how Tej handled it."
"Mia was a wreck, Letty too but she didn't show it as much." Han commented. "I'm sure the minute they get back Letty will yell at you for sleeping so long and Mia will just burst into tears and hug you till you can't breath."
Bobbie giggled. "That I can't wait for." She commented.
They reached the room Kaci told them to go to and knock. "Go the fuck away I don't need Therapy!"
"Uh oh." Miley said covering her mouth with her hand.
Bobbie looked at Han and grinned. "Care to explain?" She asked teasingly.
"I might've slipped once or twice. I told her they were very bad words and every since that's what she does." Han said ruffling Miley's hair.
Bobbie laughed and opened the door. "Well to bad cause I was going to rub you down with massage oil." Bobbie joked walking in the room. Vince's head snapped up and a small grin appeared on his face. "And could you watch your mouth?" She teased.
"Kaci's been in an awfully good mood lately I wondered why." Vince commented gruffly.
Bobbie smirked at him. "Surprise!" She said sarcastically. "So what's the damage?" She asked sitting down while Han got Miley out of the stroller and stood next to Bobbie. "And where's Kaci?"
"She went to get lunch. And the damage would be my arm and my leg. My shoulders not bad but my arm is pretty tore up." He said gesturing to the large bandage that wrapped around his arm.
"It makes you a one armed marshmallow boy." Bobbie joked.
"I didn't make fun of you while you were in the hospital." Vince glared lightly at her. Somewhere deep in his gut he'd developed a sort of brother like feeling for her. They didn't always get along but they did care.
"I was in a coma. Had I been awake you probably would've said 'It would've been smarter not to flip the car Beckley.'" She joked playfully mimicking a rough male voice.
Vince chuckled gruffly. "Good point. So how's the rug rat?" He asked gesturing to Miley with his good hand.
Miley having been looking at him turned her face away and buried it against Han's neck. "Good. So the police come by?" Han asked.
Vince scoffed. "Yeah. But they ain't got nothing. I s'pose I owe that to the busta."
"The busta?" Bobbie asked.
"Brian Earl Spilner, sorry officer Brian O'Connor." Vince said like it was a bad taste in his mouth. "He saved my life and he helped Dom get away. It might not make up for his being an undercover cop, but it's something." Vince said growling a bit on his words.
"And what exactly does Mr. Toretto have to run from?" A guy, African American a little on the big boned side came into the room.
Bobbie and Han glanced over their shoulder. "Haven't you bothered him enough. He's a healing man leave him alone." Kaci walked in behind him and over to the other chair on the opposite side of the bed where Bobbie was seated.
"I know Toretto was behind the hijackings and Mr. Vincent Dunn here was in on it, that I know."
Bobbie stood and turned towards the man. "If your just trying to scare someone into confession about their evil deeds you might as well just go. No one did anything wrong here."
"Than how do you explain Mr. Dunn's gunshot wounds and the wound on his arm." Bobbie shrugged and smirked at him. "I'll get the full story when Mr. Michael's wakes up. And than Toretto and the others on his team that seem to have just up and left will be on the wanted list."
"Look I don't care who you think you are or what agency you work for you leave Jesse alone. Besides he wouldn't talk to a cop like you." Bobbie said angrily.
"FBI and the names Bilkin's. Brian O'Connor might've disappeared taking any eye witness evidence with him, but we will get Toretto and the others for this."
Bobbie smirked. "Doubtful, but have fun trying. And you might as well stop trying to intimidate me into backing down from this argument because both my parents are…"
"Psychologist's? Yes I know. I've read the file on you Bobbie Michaels."
"Beckley." Bobbie growled at him.
Bilkin's smirked at her. "I'd have half a mind to considering charging you with this crime as well had you not been in a coma the entire time."
Bobbie glared at him. "If you don't leave now I'll give you something to charge me with." She said sweetly through gritted teeth.
"Back off killer." Vince laughed. "He ain't got nothing, he's just fishing for an arrest."
Bobbie took a step back and smirked at Bilkin's. "I'll be seeing you Mr. Dunn." And then he left.
"Glad he didn't get under your skin or anything." Vince mocked.
Bobbie turned at glared at him. "That was a low blow and you know it." She commented. "Besides the feds put Uncle J away why would Jesse ever cooperate with them?" She asked rhetorically. "I have half a mind to find him and tell him what he can do with that shiny FBI badge of his." She snarled. Everyone had a good laugh at that and they soon changed the subject.
After spending a few hours with Kaci and Vince at the hospital Bobbie and Han headed back to the house. "Power!" Bobbie said happily as she flipped the light switch on the side table next to the front door.
Han laughed lightly. "I called before you woke up and they said they'd get it back on as soon as they could. The water should be back too."
Bobbie smiled. "Why don't you start setting up the things in Miley's room and I'll go shower?"
"K." Han kissed her and she left him and Miley to go shower in her bathroom. The hot water felt great on her tender skin. She had taken a shower at Han's apartment in Tokyo, but the water had been cool. This was the first time she had actually taken time to look at the new marks on her flesh. She had some minimal scars from cuts on her arms and legs from the accident, but the one that stood out was the one on her abdomen, from the c-section.
If I had just woken up sooner. She thought silently, but she knew she couldn't have changed things if she wanted to. It wasn't like she had any control over the coma. Bobbie soon finished shower and got out putting on her dark purple robe that still hung in her closet and smell of Han's musky cologne and headed out of her room towel drying her hair. Looking in on Han and Miley he saw Han laying on the guest bed Miley snuggled against his side and he was reading her a book Kaci had given to her that afternoon.
Bobbie smiled leaning on the doorframe and just listening to Han read the story to Miley. It was good to have them in her life, it was nice having something to look forward to going home too.
AN: Still not the end…