Gil drove for about a half an hour before he came to the strip. He pulled into the Tangiers hotel; parking lot and sat in his vehicle for another ten minutes before jumping out and looking cautiously around him. He then walked into the lobby and into an elevator.
Gil took the elevator to the fifth floor and waked down a long hallway. Stopping about halfway down at room number 224 he pulled out a key and walked inside.
Gil walked toward the bed and sat down. The little girl on the floor watching TV in front of him turned and smiled. "Hi Daddy" she whispered " What took you so long, we were waiting for you to come back"
Gil smiled back at the little girl and bent down to hug her. " Hey Lindsey, I came back as fast as I could"
"Mommy is still sleeping, she was crying before in her sleep but she is okay now. Mommy's doctor came here and checked mommy out to make sure she was okay. Did you see mommy's stitches?" She made a face " They're yucky" she hugged him sat back in front of the television.
Gil looked behind him on the bed rapped in the covers lay Catherine. Gil lay slowly back on the bed and whispered in her ear.
"Catherine, you have to wake up now"
Catherine's body shivered and jolted her out of her sleep. "Gil" she yawned and slowly sat up in the bed. " Did you do it? Did you tell them?"
Gil kissed Catherine on the forehead and sat up beside her. "Yeah, I did. I put Warrick in charge of your case."
" Gil I know that I am lucky to be alive but I don't understand why we had to tell them that" she paused and lowered her voice not wanting Lindsey to hear. " That I died. When they find out that I am not they are going to hate me and Gil I have lots so much today and I went through hell I don't wan t to lose my friends because of it."
Gil took her bruised hand in his being careful not to hurt her. " Catherine I know you want to forget everything and act like what happened today didn't happen, but you were raped, and you were shot and I think it is safer for you to be dead until we find Marcus Chrenshaw. He wanted you dead, he wants me to pay for him being fired and going to jail. If he knows that he failed again it will only make him worse and he will come back for you or me and at this point I cant bear to see you hurt I'd rather him only be ably to find me. He's done enough and if he thinks he won. So until we find him you and Lindsey need to stay here".
"Okay Gil I understand but try explaining that to her" she pointed at Lindsey " She will get bored her you know; What are we supposed to do in this hotel room all day" she paused " And what if you never…" Catherine stopped talking when she got a sharp pain in her head.
Gil ran to the bathroom and grabbed a bottle of pills and a glass of water " Here" he said handing her two capsules and the water.
Gil sat back down " Look at me " he softly touch her face and guided it toward himself. "Very good no more concussion " he smiled at Catherine trying not tot how his fear and pain he felt for her. When tears began falling from his eyes. "I'm so sorry I was not there, I should have been there If I was there maybe he would not have, you would not have been."
Catherine cut him off " Marcus obviously planned his attack, Gil if you would have been there then we both might be really dead and where would Lindsey be"
Gil hugged Catherine " I just hope you understand why I had to tell them you died, otherwise, I" he paused " I just don't want Marcus to find out and come back to finish the job I let him hurt you once, never again. No one is going to hurt you or Lindsey"
"Daddy, Mommy what are you whispering bout?" Lindsey stood up and jumped on the bed
"Lindsey baby stop jumping it is hurting mommy's head" Gil smiled at the small child a she bounced once more on he bed. " Sorry" she made a sad face " Mommy what happened to you? How did you get hurt? Did you fall down the stairs again?" Lindsey smiled at her mother and moved up on the bed between her parents. "Sometime you are so silly"
When Catherine did not answer she got a serious look on her face " Mommy did someone hurt you? Are they going to come back, mommy why aren't we at home? " Lindsey barely took a breath before asking the next question.
Gil was first to speak up " Lindsey I thinks it is time we had a grown up discussion with you"