Niles gets in the limo. He takes one last look at the building and her window. CC was not there now. The dog knew that something was wrong. He puts his paws and head in Niles' lap.
"There, there Chester." he pets the dog on the head. "Everything is going to be ok. She will be fine. I tell you." Niles' mind: What a about me? Am I going to be all right? He sighs. "Time to get out of here."
Niles wasn't having an easy time of letting go of his guilt. He had nightmares about leaving CC and what she was going to be like when she came back or even if she got to come back. He sat up in his bed for the 3rd time.
"Why am I putting myself threw all of this? Why? I do feel so guilty about it all but it wasn't just me. Was it? What have I done? This is all my fault." He shook his head, "It can't be. "Max and Fran's wedding announcement is what drove her over the edge but what if I did do all the rest. I mean all the years...oh what if I did this to her..." He begins to cry. "I would never be able to forgive myself."
CC had nightmares most of her night about Niles. She couldn't figure out why though. She spent the rest of the night pacing her bedroom floor. There was so much that she was feeling that she just had to let it all out. She was tired from the lack of sleep, and fed up.
She hit her pillows as hard as she could and then threw them across the room.
"I hate you Niles..." she walked to her window and looked out. All she could think about was the last time that she saw him standing there, right outside her window.
The next day a nurse came in and saw the pillows and sheets on the floor. CC was staring out the window.
"Did you sleep well"
"What do you think?" she yelled back.
"I think you did very well."
"What gives you the right to say that?" CC spun around to face the nurse. And was surprise to see Dr. Courtney with her.
"What have you been looking at CC?" asked Dr. Courtney as she walked up to the window where CC was looking out.
"Just looking out the window at the birds"
"Do you like birds"
"No not really just that they are free." CC walks to the bed and sits down. "I don't feel like talking today"
"You don't have too." Dr. Courtney walks past the nurse and whispers. "I'll be keeping my eye on her, something is disturbing her."
A few days pass:
Mansion
"Chester!" Gracie yelled with excitement at seeing him. The dog jumped up on her. She bent down to pick him up. "How long do we get to keep him here"
"Well, till Ms. Babcock comes back from the pla...".Fran quickly recovers, "I mean her vacation."
"And that's how long?" She rolls her eyes. "Say four weeks"
"I heard that she had to be sent away." Joked B. he pats the dog on the head as he walks to the frig.
"Now B, let us be nice about all of this." Fran responded.
"I thought pets were always down when their masters left"
Niles enters the kitchen "Like that." B. points at Niles, who has his head lowered, "Hiya."
"Oh, cheer up Niles." B patted him on the back. "It's not forever. She will be back in no time." He laughs as he goes into the den.
"That was mean B." Both Fran and Gracie stare at Niles. They watch him go up the back stairs. Gracie leans over to Fran and whispers, "Why is he like that"
"Just is. Been like that for days. It's sad"
"Either that or just pathetic." The dog wiggles out of Gracie's arms and runs after Niles.
"Oh how sweet the dog went to cheer him up." Max walks in.
"Honey," Fran stands and walks up to Max. "I think that Niles needs to get away from here for a few days. Why don't we"
"I was thinking the same thing. I need a break from work but do you think that he will go for it?"
"Knowing him he won't."
Niles sits in his room and writes in a notebook. Fran was right. Niles refused the offer from his boss to go with them.
"I don't think so. Why don't you just take the family"
"You know you are part of this family ol' man. Come on. It'll get your mind off things."
Niles' mind: How I wish that it could but it would just make me think more about CC. He shook his head.
"I don't think so. Not this time"
"Very well." Max told Fran that she was right about Niles.
"He said he wanted to be alone"
"He always says that. I'll go and talk to him." Fran suggested she always got though to him better then Max does.
"Well, we can't force him to go with us."
"Why not"
"Fran that would not be right. But look at him. He has been moping around for days now." Fran tries to convince Niles. He still refuses. Fran raised her hands in defeat.