Fading Memories

Chapter 13th

Loreile had picked up a number of food items for everyone to enjoy with their stomachs and most of all for herself. She needed to feed herself along with the unborn child.

Doctor Taft had asked her to get something good. Though she was nice enough to buy something for Doctor Gilbert with saving her husband with the using of the laser. She had heard a great deal about it.

She had help with one of the kitchen workers was nice enough to help her with pushing the cart with the food she had purchase. She was going to be able give him a tip with helping out with bringing the items inside her husband's room.

"What's all this Loreile?" Taft asked with his eyes lighting up.

"How about a party for everyone and including Doctor Gilbert? He was rather surprised for when he was mention.

Doctor Taft and his associate was able to remove all of the items from the bags to find Chinese foods consisting of Shrimp with lobster sauce, egg rolls, chicken wings, Pork fried rice, Salad, rye bread and drinks for everyone. There were plastic essentials in order to serve the items for everyone and including her husband sitting up in bed smiling. Even though he was missing his two boys Shane and Nathan at home with the D.O.D. undercover agent Madeline back from vacation with her husband Alex after spending three weeks in Orlando, Florida.

Everyone was enjoying themselves with the food as Loreile was quite pleased for the most part.

Gibbs needed to asked the most importance of questions. "What is it Jethro?" Taft was munching on a eggroll with using the sauce placing some of it on inside.

"When do you think I can get out of here?" he was concerned with wanting to get out of the hospital.

"Depending on how everything goes the next 24 hours. Doctor Gilbert and myself will be making the decision on whether you're going to be able to go home on medical leave for another week before heading back to work?"

"Fair enough Doctor." Gibbs said...

After the two doctors had their fill with the food. She was glad to be alone finally with her husband. Gibbs had been thinking when Loreile noticed it with asking on what was on his mind.

"Do you know just what was strange with those memories was the fact to see Kelly alive as with Shannon. Though she was happy once again with another man. Kelly was 42 year old at that time. How I was she was still alive for real?"

"Listen I know this may sound to you and myself. There was a woman that I had bump into in the elevator that almost looked like what Kelly will be looking like. I even took a picture of the woman asking on whether it was alright to take and she had agreed. Let me bring it up and to show you." she says with showing the brunette woman with Crystal blue eyes with her height to be around six feet tall.

She had handed him the phone.

"OMG! Loreile it's the same woman that stopped into my room by accident earlier when you had went downstairs for the food. Even Taft and Gilbert was surprised that the woman had made a mistake."

"It could be nothing Jethro. Unless she shows up again?" Loreile needed to say...

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Marriott hotel on the outskirts of Alexandria, Virginia and five miles from Gibbs house...

The woman had reached the sixth floor to head for her mother's room. She was exhausted of hiding during the past 34 years with the Witness Protection program. Her husband James Hawkins working for them in Orlando Florida for the past few years.

She had told her mother and James that she wanted to make contact with her father. Even though he had been thinking that they had been dead in that deadly crash with NIS agent Curt Mitchell having been killed by Pedro Hernandez.

Kelly waited for her mother and husband Joel married for the past 15 years decided to see if Kelly was able to make her wish come true. After hearing about her father having been shot in the arm and than fell to hit his head on the metal plate. She was able to see the operation up in the gallery with the laser posing as a first year resident.

She had found it rather interesting that the laser cutting the tumor and fluid built up to save his life.

Shannon opened the door with a plate of Chinese food in her hand as with her husband James working for the Navy as a recruiter in California for five years. "Did you get a chance to see him Kelly?" Shannon had to say on the subject.

"I did mother. As with his wife Loreile with two young boys Shane and Nathan. Though she is carrying their third?" she replied...

"Do you feel better now that you were able to see him ever though it was for a moment or so?" Shannon said with her hair color having changed to completely silver. Though she had no wrinkles at all under her eyes or face.

"Not really mother! I think it's high tide that he knows the truth after all I have read over the years with daddy battling the different Cartel leaders? I don't think that they even know we are alive with the last names having been changed. I am going to talk with him tomorrow. No doubt he's going to be really surprised?"

"I bet Kelly!" She walked inside to eat what was ordered for her as well into the spacious living room of the hotel.

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THE NEXT DAY...

Bethesda hospital...

Kelly had been waiting for Loreile to finally leave for the day. She was going to be heading home to check on the boys at the house. There was a chance that she was going to be coming back tonight. She is going to find her husband slightly changed.

Walking down to his ICU PRIVATE ROOM...She felt as if her heart was in her throat nervous with meeting her father after 34 years.

She knocked on the door of his room. He had said to whomever it was to come on inside. When she had walked in with her father sitting in bed with the TV down low. He looked over at the same woman that had walked into his room yesterday.

"I am so sorry to be showing up like this Leroy Jethro Gibbs?" she said with coming over to his bed...

"You're the same woman that came into the room yesterday?" he said wanting to know the truth..."Who are you really?" he asked with his voice breaking up...