hehe you really thought I would leave you with that? here's the next part!

Gil walked past Nick, Sarah, Emma and Greg without a word. He walked straight out of the hospital and found himself at a park a half an hour later. It was filled with children running around in the hot Los Angeles sun. He sat on a bench and scrubbed his hand over his face. 'Stupid. How could I have been so stupid' he thought He looked up and his eye caught a couple sitting on a blanket. He laughed, it almost looked like Catherine and himself. The redheaded woman was laying down, her head in the older man's lap. He softly stroked her hair while she talked. Tears came to his eyes and he had to look away. He would never know what that would be like for him and Catherine. He was just about to stand when Lindsey Willows walked up.

"We need to talk" She said quite sternly

"Linds, really now is not the time-"

"What did you say to my mother?"

Gil looked at her "Why?"

"Why? Because she is laying in her hospital bed sobbing her heart out like she did when Dad died! What the hell did you tell her?"

Gil sighed, looking away from the young woman he thought of as a daughter "I told her I loved her."

Lindsey looked at him, confusion written all over her face. "Then why are you here and she is there crying her eyes out?"

"Because she doesn't love me" Gil blurted out.

Gil got confused and looked at Lindsey when he heard her begin to laugh

"What's so funny?"

"You! You are! I can't believe what you just said…it has to be a joke!"

"No joke Lindsey, your Mother doesn't love me"

"Then why does she keep a photo of you and her on her bed table? Why does she always say 'I wish Gil was here to see this' when something awesome happens? Why did she once tell me that her heart belonged to you when we were playing truth or dare late one night? And why the hell is she crying like she lost the best thing that ever happened to her?"

Gil looked at her "She really said that?"

Lindsey nodded "She loves you, and so do I"

Gil cracked a smile and pulled his surrogate daughter to him, hugging her tightly "Thanks baby girl"

Lindsey smiled, hugging him back "Anytime…daddy" she chuckled

He chuckled and pulled back. "Come on, I have some proposing to do but first I have to go get a ring"

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