Eames finished buckling Tommy into his carseat, looking toward Maggie in her carseat behind the passenger seat. "How are you doing over there, honey?"
"I'm good, Mommy. Where's Daddy?"
"We're going to go and get him now."
"We're goin' home now?"
"Yes. Are you ready to go home?"
"Yes. I miss Grampa."
"He misses you, too." Her father had been out of the hospital for almost two weeks. She talked to him every day and was glad her sister was there to help him while he recovered. Still, she felt guilty that she was in Massachusetts and unable to see him. After all, it had been her children he had been injured defending...and it was their fault Nicole Wallace had been a threat in the first place. More specifically, she knew it was Bobby she was after, but she had stopped blaming him when Wallace's bullets nearly took his life. It was all Wallace...and she would deal with that when they went to confront her. Carver was still setting it up. Knowing Goren's history with her he had initially been reluctant, but she had called him and talked him into it. A little sweet talk did wonders for a man's ego, even a self-assured, reserved man like Ron Carver. Within the week, he assured her, he would get them in to see Nicole Wallace.
She climbed into the driver's seat and turned out of the parking lot toward the hospital. Logan and Barek had spent the week sightseeing with the kids while she spent much-needed time with her husband. She was trying to assuage his guilt over bringing Wallace into the lives of his father-in-law and his children. He never gave his own injuries a second thought, but he let himself dwell on the harm she had done to his wife and her father and to Logan. Even more, he spent a great deal of time trying to assess the psychological damage she had done to his little girl. Eames tried to convince him that she was back to being her normal happy self, but he was seeing something different. What he saw, though, he refused to discuss. The more she tried to draw him out, the deeper into himself he turned. Her normal methods of threatening and cajoling to get her way with him met with deep resistance. No matter what she did, she could not convince him to discuss it and it was deeply frustrating to her to see him withdraw again. For once she had no idea how to reach him. If she couldn't get to him, there was only one person on the planet who could. She would have to team up with Maggie to get him to open up. He had always called them his biggest weakness. Now they would see just how big a weakness they were to him.
The trip from Boston to New York was uncomfortable. He was still in pain but even more than that he hated being at odds with his wife. She was trying to help, to draw him out and force him to deal with what troubled him, but for the first time in a long time, he wouldn't let her in. He knew she was frustrated with him. He knew she thought everything was okay now. Wallace was in custody for good. Her father was well on his way to recovery, she was feeling well and Maggie seemed no worse for the wear from her ordeal. But he saw something she did not. He saw a degree of reservation in his daughter that had never been there before and it was only there with him. He didn't see it when she played with her mother or with Logan. With them she was normal. But he still saw a haunted look in her eyes when she looked at him. Wallace had planted seeds of doubt about him in her mind, and his talk with her had not entirely dispelled them. Now he was trying to figure out a way to regain his little girl's faith and love. He knew exactly what Eames would tell him-that he was being stupid and that Maggie adored him as much as she ever did. But he saw the truth. He saw the doubt, the hesitation. And he had no idea how to make it right.