Chapter 29
TWO DOWN, TWO TO GO
Cassandra was out of the car before it fully came to a stop and was racing for the door with Sam hot on her heels. Sam had kept her word and not asked questions as to why Major Davis' Grandmother would be asking for Cassie and not her Grandson, for which Cassie was eternally thankful. She was stressed out enough. Now all she had to do was find May.
Info Desk!
Locating the reception desk just off to the side of the ER Cassie made a b-line for it and asked the receptionist where she could find May.
"It looks like she has been transferred to the ward, Level 3 Ward 34 Room 6." The lady replied.
"Thanks" Sam answered for Cassie as she was already half way to the elevator.
Catching up Sam barely made it into to the elevator car before the doors began to close. Cassie could feel Sam's eyes on her as she bounced restlessly on the balls of her feet waiting for the elevator to reach the third floor. Finally the doors opened and Cassie was out in a flash and moving down the corridor checking signs as she went.
Finally she found Room 6 and went through the open door into a room with five beds all with patients in them. She scanned the beds looking for May and found her in the last bed watching the TV.
Why isn't she in a private room?
Looking over her appearance she noticed a large cut that had been stitched and there was a large bruise starting to form on the side of her face.
"May! Oh my god! What happened? What are you doing here?" she asked rushing to her bedside.
"Oh Cassie, dear, thank you so much for coming. I'm so sorry to have to trouble you like this. And I've told you to call me Nana" May said as she focused on Cassie.
"Don't be silly it's no trouble at all." Cassie replied taking May's hand in hers. "What happened?" she asked again, critiquing the old woman's injuries up close.
"Oh it's silly really, I slipped in the bathroom at the hotel and knocked myself out on the bathtub's edge." She replied trying to brush it off as a look of horror came over Cassie's face who was again surveying the room May was in.
Knocked herself out!?! Shouldn't she be being more closely monitored?
"What were you doing in a hotel room here in the first place?" Cassie asked.
"Why I was here to see you of course!" May stated promptly then softened her tone "I was so worried about you and how things got so muddled up over the holiday weekend. I could shoot my daughter-in-law right about now for all the trouble she has caused between you and Paul"
Up until this point Cassie had forgotten that Sam was with her but the mention of Paul had Sam alerting them to her presence.
"Uh… What weekend? You were in New York with Nelson weren't you? Why would there be trouble between you and Major Davis, and what the hell does it have to do with his mother and grandmother?" Sam said her voice rising with each question.
Bugger!
Cassie winced before looking back up at May who had an apologetic look on her face realising that she had let the preverbal cat out the bag. Luckily it was then that a Doctor entered the room to check on May.
"Ah, Mrs Davis! We managed to contact someone for you alright then? How's your head feeling?" he asked not actually looking at her but her chart instead. May gave the doctor a nasty look and sniffed in response.
Taking that as her answer he turned to Cassie and looked her up and down before asking "Are you a family member?"
"Yes! Yes she is! She's my Granddaughter!" May proclaimed as if the doctor was accusing her of something.
The look on Sam's face was priceless.
"Ah, could I have a word with you outside please?" The Doctor said turning his back on May.
I don't like this guy one bit…
"Umm… sure" Cassie replied and turning to Sam she added "I'll be right back and I promise I'll explain everything as soon as all this is sorted." Then she moved to follow the doctor out the room but Sam followed her.
"I'm staying with you, besides what ever else has been happening, I don't much like this Doctor, and did you see the look he gave you?" She whispered to which Cassie only nodded in response focusing all her current energy on dealing with said doctor.
Once outside she faced him crossing her arms waiting for him to start. "We are just going to wait a little while to see if she shows any signs of further trauma, no point wasting precious resources on a silly cut." He said condescendingly towards Cassie.
What the hell?.....
Sam's eyes widened in anger at the flippant attitude of the doctor but Cassie beat her to what ever she was about to say.
"Excuse me! A silly little cut? SHE KNOCKED HERSELF OUT! She lost consciousness! Who knows how long she was on that bathroom floor before she came too" She exclaimed angrily "why is she not in a private room being monitored more closely? She is 94 years old for crying out loud!" she could not believe the attitude of this doctor.
While she raged at the doctor, Sam had stepped back and was on her mobile phone talking to someone.
Backing away from Cassie's tirade the doctor focused on Sam and said "No mobile phone use on the Ward."
"Go to hell!" Cassie bit out between clenched teeth.
"You are upset about your Grandmother so I shall not take that personally, I will leave you to calm down." He said patronisingly and walked away.
JERK!
Calming down as much as she could she turned to face Sam who was getting off the phone. "Sam, I know it's a lot to ask but is there any chance…"
"Already done, there is a transport on its way to pick her up and take her to the SGC. We can have her properly checked out and observed there" She said.
"Thank you!" Cassie replied with relief.
"You can get her settled in there and then we are going to have a chat about what has been going on, and this time you will tell me the truth." Sam said sternly.
Cassie only nodded and went back into the room to get May ready to leave.
"May..." Cassie started as she reached the bed.
"Nana" May interrupted.
"Nana… this is Sam Carter, she is for all intents and purposes my Aunt..." Cassie replied giving Sam a small smile at the title. "She has arranged to get you transferred to the Base where Paul and I work. We are going to get you properly checked out and monitored to make sure you are okay."
"Nice to meet you Sam but there really is no need for that." May replied trying to brush it off.
"No, that idiot of a doctor couldn't sew a wound if his life depended on it, you need to be checked out properly." Cassie said firmly. "Come on lets get you down stairs." She said helping May up off the bed, into her coat and they left.
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Cassie had delivered May to the SGC infirmary and had been told by the doctor that they would need an hour or two to attend to the wound and conduct the proper tests. Then she had practically been thrown out and told to eat something and rest. Sam had disappeared as soon as they had reached the infirmary saying that she had to deal with something and would meet her in the Mess. So this was where she now was, sitting at a table with her head resting in her arms waiting for the inevitable.
She heard two people enter the room but didn't have the energy to look up and see who it was. She was pretty sure one of them was Sam anyway. The two people sat down at the table without a word and seemed to wait.
Sighing, Cassie lifted her head off her arms to find Sam staring at her and… Daniel.
Daniel? Not who I expected…
Not really knowing what to say Cassie settled for a whispered "Hi"
"Hi" said Daniel before continuing "Sam told me what happened today, are you okay?"
Ha! Am I okay? Not a clue!
"I have no idea how I feel at the moment… certainly wasn't expecting this." she said, not for the first time in the last week or so feeling completely exhausted. Taking in Cassie's appearance Sam reached out and grabbed hold of Cassie's hand and squeezed it in comfort.
"Daniel told me what has been going on." Sam said. Cassie went wide eyed and shifted her gaze to Daniel with a look of betrayal plastered to her face.
He WHAT!
Seeing the look Sam jumped back in quickly "Wait a sec Cassie, to be fair I pretty much bullied it out of him."
To which Daniel whispered a small, uncomfortable "Sorry" in Cassie's direction. She sighed heavily deflating a little more.
"It's okay Daniel. It was bound to come out eventually. To tell you the truth I don't think I was going to last much longer myself."
She rubbed her face to try and wake herself up a little. "So…"
Now what?
"Why didn't you tell me? …I could kill him" Sam said, the last part almost under her breath but Cassie caught it nether the less.
Cassie paused a moment gathering her thoughts "Well to begin with it wasn't exactly something that I could define as anything. It was all so tentative at the beginning. I had no idea how to explain it to you without you all freaking out. Let's face it you guys haven't reacted well to my boyfriends in the past." She said knowing by the expression on both Sam and Daniel's faces that they knew exactly what she was talking about.
"Let alone me dating someone a little older than me and him being in the Air Force. Going by your earlier response I wasn't wrong" She said more to her self than Sam.
The reference to age seemed to spike Sam's earlier thoughts once again. "Did he, in any way, force you…" she didn't get the rest of her sentence out because Cassie had forcefully pushed herself away from the table and stood up.
He would never….
"NO!" she shouted. Both Sam and Daniel were taken back by her outburst and sat there stunned. Calming down Cassie continued "He never forced me to do anything, quite the opposite in fact." She pulled her seat back and sat down again.
"Sorry about that" she whispered a little embarrassed at her out burst.
"It's okay. But I had to ask…" Sam trailed off seeming to be picking her next words very carefully. She was watching Cassie very carefully and thinking about her demeanour over the past week or so, apart from when Janet had died, she had never seen her so cut up before. Thinking back to the break ups Cassie had had in the past none measured up to how broken Cassie seemed to be now, not even Dominic and that one had been bad.
It then dawned on Sam what was so obvious she couldn't believe she hadn't seen it weeks ago.
"Do you love him?" She asked.
Cassie who, had been staring at her hands, shot up to look at Sam.
I…
A million things were spinning around in her head. Everything that had taken place from that first day when she had first bumped in to Paul, to when he left her standing in that bedroom a week ago. But in front of that was the one burning question that she had refused to ask her self because she didn't think she could survive the answer.
Yes
Her eyes welled up with tears and she nodded her head not able to speak. A sob escaped her and Sam was out of her chair and embracing her with in a second. Daniel also got up but was feeling a little spare now that Sam was in the know. He settled for placing a warm hand on Cassie's back and gently rubbing small circles on it.
They sat there in silence allowing Cassie to get control of her self once again before continuing.
Daniel was the first to break the silence. "So why exactly is Paul's Grandmother here?"
Goodness, I forgot all about her
"Good question, I have yet to get to the bottom of that. Once the Doctor will let me back into the infirmary I'll find out." Cassie said wiping the rest of her tears away. At the same time the mention of Paul's name sparked another thought.
What about Paul? He needs to be told
"Uh, Daniel, could you do me a huge favour? I don't think that Pa… he has been told about his Grandmother. Could you ring him please? The family is probably worried sick. I got the impression from what she said in the car on the way over here that she didn't announce her little trip down here." Cassie said.
"Oh um ok… You sure you don't want to…." Daniel asked hesitantly
"Uh, No. I can't… not right now. Not until I know why May is here." Cassie interrupted.
"Okay, I'll go do that now." he said, then as an after thought added "I still think that everything is going to be ok. You just have to give him time." Then he disappeared out the door not seeing the dirty look that Sam threw at his back.
Sam and Cassie stared at the spot that he had been standing in.
Cassie's mind reeled with all sorts of things as she played over the events of the day and suddenly asked Sam "How did you get clearance to bring May here?"
"I told Jack that Mrs Davis had called the Base and that they had patched her through to me as he wasn't available. I told him that she was trying to get hold of Major Davis but couldn't so she tried the one place that she knew he worked. But I think that we need to tell him the truth." Sam said.
Tell Jack!?!
"NO! Please don't tell Jack, there really isn't anything he can do and he'll just get all protective and lose his cool and do something that he'll regret and none of us need to have to deal with that…" Cassie blurted out.
Sam eyed up Cassie for a moment before replying "Ok, for the time being I'll leave it." But Cassie could tell that Sam was not comfortable with it.
"Thanks" Cassie said with a weak smile.
Why do I get the feeling that this conversation is not over?
End of Chapter 29
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Hello faithful readers! Here is Chapter 29. Initially I had Paul in this chapter, he was going to appear during Cassie's explosion at the doctor, but I just couldn't get it to work so he'll be back next chapter. I Promise!!!!
Hope you enjoyed!
Mya
