EDDIE chapter 10
summary: Catherine leaves Eddie, but he won't let her go. As the
cycle of abuse continues, Lindsey's safety is threatened and
Catherine is faced with a tough decision, when her best friend
threatens to take her daughter away...
Gil walked back into the living room after cleaning up and decided it was time to wake her up.
"Catherine?" he whispered "Catherine wake up." he gently placed his hand on her cheek and pushed the hair in her face aside. Catherine began to stir and she opened her eyes. "Gil?" she whispered, "What time is it?" Catherine sat up "Where is Lindsey?" Gil sat down beside her " It's about ten clock and Lindsey is still sleeping."
Gil smiled " You hungry, can I get you anything?"
Catherine shook her head and yawned, " no, I am okay"
Gil smiled " You have to eat something, and Lindsey requested waffles for breakfast." Gil got up and went into the kitchen and came back with a plate and a glass of water. "Here, eat up"
Catherine took the plate and was about to take a bite when Gil heard a car pull up out front of his house.
Gil got up and looked out his window " Eddie" he whispered " Catherine get up and go in the back bedroom with Lindsey and lock the door."
Catherine got up and limped to the back room, closing the door behind her she woke Lindsey out of bed, " Lindsey get up!" Lindsey opened her eyes " Mommy what's wrong?"
"Shh we have to be very quite" she pulled Lindsey out of bed.
Eddie raced up to Gil's front door and started banging and yelling " You son-of -a bitch let me in there" he cursed. "Bitch! I know you are in there you bitch, you thing you can leave me?"
Gil opened his door " Eddie what the hell is your problem who are you yelling at." Eddie burst in past Gil " Where are they?"
Gil made a face " Who is they?" he replied.
Eddie was not pleased " My kid and my wife, where are they I know they are here now where." Eddie ran through his kitchen.
" Eddie" Gil calmly spoke "I can assure you they are not here. I thought Lindsey was apprehended?" Gil looked around the room and noticed Lindsey's school bag was beside the couch, he quickly grabbed it and rested a blanket on top of it.
Eddie came form the kitchen "I called the office for social services they didn't know what the hell I was talking about. You tell me where they are and you tell me now!" Eddie got in his face " I'll bet she is in your bed, would not be the first time would it Mr. Grissom?" he snapped and turned to head for Gil's room. After searching his room and making somewhat of a mess he came out and peered across at the guest room.
Catherine and Lindsey could see his shadow through the bottom of the door and could hear that he was raging, being caught would be fatal for Catherine and they both knew it. "Mommy" Lindsey whispered and pointed toward the window.
Eddie burst into the guest room and rummaged around in the closet and under the bed.
"Damn it!" he cursed when he found nothing indicating that his wife was there but still he did not change his mind. He walked out of the room and got back in Gil's face " I will find her, and if I find her or find out she was with you or is with you hiding, I will personally see to it that you and that whore suffer for what you have done to this family."
Gil stepped closer to Eddie " I did nothing to ruin your family, it was all you."
Eddie pushed Gil " What?" Gil yelled "You going to hit me? Go ahead Eddie but I am not Catherine I'm not afraid of you and I will hit you back."
Eddie snickered "You just remember what I said, cause I meant it."
Eddie turned and walked out of the house.
Gil waited to make sure he was gone before he went to the guest room to check on Lindsey and Catherine, when he walked into the room he was shocked to see that they were nowhere in sight. Gil made a face and walked backed to the living room when he heard his front door open. Gil was worried that Eddie was coming back but he was relieved to see Lindsey and Catherine walk into his house.
Gil and Catherine sat on the couch and discussed their plans and how they were doing to deal with next encounter that was soon to come.
"I hope he didn't hit you" Catherine looked at Gil " I don't want you getting hurt because I can't deal with him."
Gil smiled at her and pulled her into his arms. " Eddie can't do anything to me, he is just a big bully. He knows that if him and me were to fight a fair fight he would lose, he only hits you and smacks you around because he wants to control you and I am not going to let him do it anymore. You are my best friend and when you are hurting, I am hurting."
Catherine rested her head on his chest " So what do we do now? I can't stay here and hide forever, even though I could get used to lying here in the arms of my best friend, Eddie never really just held me, you know, he always wanted something in return."
Gil did sighed " Well you are not going to be that girl anymore, it's your body and you need to start taking care of you and Lindsey and stop worrying about Eddie." he sighed and laid back on the couch taking her with him.
"As for a plan I can shorten my shifts so I can be here with you two. You are definitely in no shape to go to work, plus Eddie will be watching me for a while so it is best you stay out of sight, we are safe for a few days, and we have the weekend to talk more about it but Lindsey should not be going to school this week, maybe have the teacher send work in the mail for her so she is still learning.It may be a good idea to get a hotel room."
"Gil" she whispered " I don't want to turn your life upside down because of a few bruises, I don't want you getting to deep in this, it's only a matter of time before Eddie finds us and then he will be livid, I don't think you should be putting yourself in that position."
Gil sat up quickly, "Cath I am doing this no matter what you say, and I will not let him do this to you." Gil gently took her face in his hands " You are far to important to me, and to see you like this is killing me and it's killing Lindsey, you deserve better and Lindsey deserves better. So please let me do this."
Catherine sighed and rested her forehead against his. "Oh Gil, thank you for caring so much about us." she paused " Just promise me you will be careful, if anything happens to you I won't be able to forgive myself."
Gil smiled and gazed into her eyes " I don't know why Eddie would ever want to hurt you." Gil kept his eyes locked with her's and pushed her hair aside " you're beautiful you know, inside and out, you are an amazing women and he should be more then thrilled to get the chance to love someone like you, to be with someone like you." Gil was about to pull away when Catherine leaned in and kissed him taking him by surprise, but he kissed her back.
Catherine pulled away " I'm so sorry, I don't know what I was thinking, I was just,..I thought maybe I could... I trust you but it's..." she stumbled with her words
"I understand" Gil replied
Catherine smiled at him and got up to check back on Lindsey "I think I might go lay down for a little bit longer." she whispered " The pills are wearing off, and I don't want to over do anything, climbing out of the window was enough."
Gil nodded " I'm here if you need me."
After Catherine had disappeared in to Lindsey's room Gil went to his bedroom and pulled a box from under his bed.
He grabbed a small key out of his top drawer and opened the box. Inside of the box was his gun, he pulled it out and checked to make sure it was loaded.
"If Eddie, won't let go, then I guess this is the only way." he whispered to himself
Catherine watched Lindsey as she rested in bed. She then got up and rummaged through the bag she had retrieved after Eddie had left.At the bottom of the bag was a brand new package of bullets, different from the ones given to her at work.
Catherine sighed as she took two from the package and out them in her pocket. " I'll wait until dark and then I'll go back, If Eddie won't let me go then this is the only way."