Author: * starmindy *
Disclamier: see chapter one
Summary: Catie
revies the bad news.
In A Heartbeat Notes: Guess what? Jamie's in this
chapter! I'm surprised no one picked up
on that and I promise he will now be a regular appearance in the story.
JAG Notes: Harm
finally makes an appearance in the story. Thanks for hangin' in there.
"How
are you feeling?" Harm asked his daughter, Catie, from his chair next to her
hospital bed.
"Better,"
she said not totally lieing. Her
shouler and knee still hurt and she was groggy from the medication, but she
felt better than yesterday.
"That's
good. Do you want to hear the bad news
or good news first?" he asked.
Catie
thought for a little while and then decided she would rather get the bad news
over first. "Bad news," she replied.
"Okay,
here's the bad news, I'm not sure how to say this, so I'll just say it. Gabby's dead. It was instant, she didn't feel any pain." Harm said as gently as he could. Catie couldn't belive it. The two words together didn't make sense to
her. How could the stepsister she had
just started to really know be dead? It
made no sense to Catie, she couldn't even start to understand, why anyone would
want to kill Gabby. Catie could
understand why someone would want to harm her, she was different from the jocks
and jocketts, but Gabby wasn't, she was the captin of the cross country team,
got second or first in all of her races, and was able to keep her grades at A's
and B's.
"Why did
they want to kill her?" Catie asked.
"I don't
know for sure, but my guess is that Debbie wanted to lessen," her father repiled. Catie understood, she couldn't belive it,
but she understood. Debbie was number
three on the team and Gabby alternated (pardon spelling) with her best friend,
Lauren, between number one and two.
"What's the
good news?" Catie asked, hoping that it was just a bad dream and she would wake
up and everything would be like it was three days ago.
"The good
news," her father said getting up and heading toward the door to the room, "is
right here," he opened up the door to reveal Jamie in the doorway and Harm
smiled at seeing Catie's delighted expression.
"Oh my
gosh!" Catie exclaimed she hadn't seen
him in three days. Her dad had told her
he had been there and had been ordered to go to sleep, but the docters hadn't
let her be seen by anyone, but immetiate family, that was until today.
"I'll be
outside, if you need me," Harm said as he left them alone.
"So how are
geek squad and the rabbit pack?" Catie
asked, refering to the cross-country team and the EMT squad, Jamie had been
made to join both as punishiment.
"Not too
good," Jamie said thinking of the friends he had lost on both, "Tyler was killed,"
that shook Catie, Tyler was her best friend Val's boyfriend and Catie couldn't
even begin to imangine the pain she was going through. Tyler was also Hank's best friend and Hank
was Gabby's boyfriend. "So was Justin
Bain, he was the leader of the rabbit pack," Jamie continued, and Catie could
see a silght smile on his lips when he mentioned the way the boys varsity began
their races. As much as Catie hated to
admit it the team had been good for Jamie, she thought he enjoyed some of the
stunts the boys pulled. "Did your dad
tell you about Gabby?" Jamie asked.
"Just now,"
Catie said, as she let out a small yawn.
"I should
let you rest. Bye!" he said kissing her
on the forehead. Catie watched him
leave and then fell asleep.
A/N: Okay, I
know that was short, but it's 9:35 and I wanted to go bed by 9:30 (yes, I am a
whimpy-whimp, but I'm a live whimpy-whimp). You don't have to rate it (thanks to those of you who did before), but
please review. Thanks!