Sorry for how long it has taken me to update, had some family problems, thank you for all of the reviews they make my day.
Chapter 15
Cath, Chelsea and Evie had got home after a long day, Steve had told them the case was almost over, and he should be home for dinner. They had told Jay to be home for dinner, so they picked up same groceries to make dinner with. They were about to start when Cath's phone rang.
"Danny?" Cath asked, she was really worried, she got along with Danny but he never phoned her unless something was wrong
"Steve has been taken to hospital, he collapsed after he had a fight with a suspect." Danny said.
"How bad is he?" Cath asked, by this point she had left the room so Chelsea and Evie couldn't hear what was going on.
"We don't know, he is on his way to hospital with Chin." Danny replied.
"I'm on my way." Cath said before hanging up the phone.
Cath took a few minutes to compose herself. She wasn't sure if she should tell Evie, she didn't know how bad Steve was and didn't want to worry her by taking her. Chelsea walked into the room before Cath had made her mind up.
"How is he?" Chelsea asked. Chelsea knew when her mom walked into a different room it was something important.
"He has been taken to hospital. I don't know how bad he is. I am going to make sure he is okay, can you stay with Evie?" Cath asked.
"No, she deserves to come. When dad was taken to hospital when he was ill, Nan decided that we shouldn't come and sitting here and knowing something was happening drove us mental." Chelsea said.
"Okay I will go and tell her." Cath wasn't there when their dad was in hospital and had no idea what is was like, she walked into the kitchen and had no idea what to tell Evie, she had only known the girl a couple of days.
When she got into the kitchen Evie was getting the food ready, Cath could see by her face that she knew something was wrong. "Evie, Danny just called, your dad, has just been taken to hospital. I am going to go and see him. You can come with me if you want to. Or you can stay here with Chelsea?" Cath asked, she didn't want to make Evie do anything that she didn't want to.
"Can I come?" Evie asked, she just stood in the kitchen, she looked really young, and vulnerable. Cath walked over to her and bent down in front of her.
"Of course you can, your dad is strong and will be okay." Cath said, she stood up and put her hand out for Evie to take, when she did they walked towards the car closely followed by Chelsea.
"Chelsea call Jay and tell him we are on the way to the hospital." Cath said keeping her eyes on the road, she was driving a little faster than the speed limit trying to get to the hospital faster.
"Jay said he is going to meet us at the hospital." Chelsea said looking at Cath. Cath didn't say anything just nodded, to show she had heard.
When they finally got to the hospital they walked to the family waiting room, to find Danny, Chin and Kono already in there. Cath walked straight over to Danny to find out what was happening.
"How is he?" Cath asked.
Danny stood up from the chair he was sitting on. "They haven't said anything yet. The doctor said he would come in when they had news."
Cath was about to speak but she was stopped when the door opened and the doctor walked in. "Family of Commander McGarrett?" The doctor asked.
"That's us" Cath replied taking a step towards the doctor. As she got closer she looked over at Chelsea who got the message straight away.
"Come on Evie we will go and get a drink and some cake." Chelsea said standing up from the seat she had taken.
"I want to know what's wrong with my dad." Evie said, it was the first time she had spoke like that. Cath wasn't really sure what to do.
"Evie, I know you want to find out what is going on with your dad, but how about you go with Chelsea and after the doctor has spoke to us we will come and find you." Danny said taking control. He knew that Cath didn't know what to do.
Evie did as she was told and followed Chelsea at the door.
"How is he?" Cath asked as soon as the door was closed and Chelsea and Evie were no longer in ear shot.
"Well, he sustained multiple head injuries, which have lead to a serious concussion. He has broken ribs, and some bruises, but is awake now and a little drowsy. With his history of head injuries we want to keep him in for at least 24 hours."
"Thank you doctor can we see him?" Cath asked.
"Only one at a time for now. He is settled in his room, so if one of you would like to go and see him I will show you the way." The doctor replied.
Cath followed the doctor to go and see Steve, she had to go and make sure he was okay before he went to go and speak to Evie.
Meanwhile...
Evie and Chelsea went down to the cafe, they sat down in the cafe with a drink and a piece of cake. Chelsea just sat there eating her cake and waiting for Evie to say something.
"Is he going to be okay?" Evie finally asked.
"I am sure he will be fine." Chelsea said.
"Where is your dad?" Evie asked.
It took Chelsea a while to answer. She didn't really know much about his death. She was young, only 10 when he died. "He died." Was all Chelsea managed to say before thankfully her phone rang and Jay had phoned to say he was at the hospital and wanted to know where they were.
Jay finally came to the cafe and sat down with them, picking at Chelsea's cake. Jay went to ask something with she thought to be at about Steve she just shook her head.
"Jay why don't you go and get you own cake." Chelsea said trying to reclaim that final bit of cake left on her plate. Jay did what he was told and made his way to the till to buy his cake.
"My dad can't die." Evie said quietly, Chelsea was about to respond but Evie got in before her. "My mom has sent me over here and he is all of have left, Mary is going back to LA soon and over here he is the only family I have. My mom doesn't want me anymore and since I have been here my dad has done very little with me but he is all I have." Evie said, with a tear falling down her check. Chelsea moved to sit by Evie and pulled her into a hug.
"Evie, I promise you he will be fine, I know your dad will be fine but, you have me, my mom and Jay." Chelsea said, Jay had just come to sit back down and looked over at Chelsea.
"I am going to the toilet." Evie said, moving away from Chelsea and walking towards the toilet.
"Chelsea why did you promise her that?" Jay asked.
"Because Nan told us that about dad and he died, remember that feeling of thinking he was going to be fine and them him dying." Jay said.
"Well what did you want me to tell her? If things were really bad the people Steve works with would have looked at lot more upset. I think." Chelsea said, once Jay had put that doubt in her mind, it started to tell her that maybe she was wrong, maybe she shouldn't have done that, because she knew the feeling. "I am going to see where she is." Chelsea then said walking towards the toilet.
Meanwhile...
"Steve." Cath said quietly walking into Steve's room.
"Cath, how's Evie?" Steve asked, when he first woke up the first thought he had was about his daughter. He knew that her mother didn't want her and that he was all she had family wise, until he got Cath to marry him.
"She's fine, she went downstairs with Chelsea to get something from the cafe until we knew how you were doing. I came to check on you before I go down and speak to her." Cath said. "Danny spoke to Mary, who has flew to Moliki. He told her that she can stay there until she is due back and Evie can stay with us until you get out."
"Thank you Cath." He said taking his hand in hers. "I don't know what I would do without you." He said.
"I am going to go and speak to Evie, but Danny, Chin and Kono are going to come in before they go and I will go and speak to Evie and bring her up in a bit." Cath said, she leant down to kiss him, and left.
Meanwhile...
Downstairs Chelsea and Evie had come out of the toilet and sat back down when they saw Cath walk out of the lift.
"How is he?" Evie said, almost running over to Cath.
"He is fine Evie, he has got concussion and will need to stay in overnight but is fine. Danny, Chin and Kono are just with him at the moment then we can go and see him. They are going to come down and tell us when they are going, so we can go up. Does anyone want a drink?" Cath asked.
"No we have still got some thanks." Chelsea said. "But I will come with you." Chelsea said following Cath.
"Mom, I know that you are Steve are in love, but Steve and Evie need to spend some time together. I spoke to her, and she says that Steve is all she has left, and they haven't spent much time together. She thought he was going to die. I remember that feeling mom and my feeling coming true, but Steve and Evie still need time together and me, you and Jay still need time together." Chelsea said when they had walked away from the table. She liked Steve and Evie, Steve made her mom happy and that made her happy, but they still needed to spend time just the three of them and Steve and Evie needed time.
"When did you get so wise?" Cath asked. "I am sorry I wasn't here for you when your dad died, and I am going to spend time just the three of us and talk to Steve about Evie."
They walked back the table and made little small take before Danny, Chin and Kono came down. "Hi guys." Cath said looking over at them walking over. "This is Jay and Chelsea, and this is Danny, Chin and Kono." Cath said realising that her kids had never met the people who worked with Steve.
They said there goodbyes and said they would stop by tomorrow before they headed up to Steve's room.
Cath took Evie in first, while Jay and Chelsea sat in the waiting room. "Do you remember dad being here?" Chelsea asked. She waited a few seconds before carrying on. "I do, I remember coming her but it being too late, and he was gone. I miss him Jay, he was a good dad to start with, but then things changed when we got older, I am starting to forget some of the good times we had, but they are fading out. I remember Nan coming in and I could tell by the look on her face that he had died. I remember when Nan died as well. It was in this room, it was just us too this time. We sat here and I waited for mom to come thinking this would be the time she would be allowed home." Chelsea finished.
Cath had stood at the door listening to Chelsea speak. They had never really spoke about this before, but she would start to. Once Steve was out of hospital, she would give Steve and Evie some time and then the three of them would go and talk.
"Hi" Cath said walking in. She wasn't going to tell them she had listened to the conversation, not yet anyway.
"Hey, how is Steve and Evie?" Chelsea asked.
"Steve is fine, getting a little tried, Evie is better now seeing her dad. I am going to go back and speak to Steve in a minute, and then we can go home."
They spent the next 20 minutes sitting in silence, Cath was flicking through a magazine left on the table.
Meanwhile...
"Dad." Evie said, he looked really bad. Evie saw Cath leaving from behind her, she took a few steps towards her dad. Cath told her, that she had only 20 minutes with her dad before visiting time was over for the day.
"It looks worse than it is." Steve said, turning over to face his daughter. "You can come over." Steve said patting the space on the bed next to him. Evie slowly moved over to the bad and sat on the corner, as her dad pushed himself up, so he could see her.
"How are you feeling?" Evie asked, not looking at him. She was willing herself not to cry, her mom had told her never to cry in front of anyone. But she had already done it downstairs with Chelsea and Jay.
" A little sore but nothing pain meds won't take care of." He looked over at his daughter and saw that a tear had fell down her check. "Hey, there is no need to cry baby, I am going to be fine."
"I know but what if you weren't alright?" Evie asked. "Mom has left me, and I know that Mary is going back to the main land soon, Chelsea said I would have them, but they are not family, they are not you." Evie said letting her tears flow freely.
"Come here, there is no need to cry." He said moving closer to his daughter, he held her and let her cry freely. When she had finished crying and Steve felt her body relax, they lay down in bed, with Evie's head over Steve's heartbeat. They just lay in silence for a while, it must have been about 10mintues until Steve realised that Evie had fell asleep. He left her knowing he would have to wake her to go home. But he thought he would leave her a little longer, content with her just being there with him and him running his hand through her hair.
Cath came into the room and saw the sight. It was really sweet, Steve lying with his daughter asleep on his chest. She didn't want to go in, and just leave them asleep. But the nurse had been clear that she had let them stay a little longer than she should have.
"Hey" She whispered slowly walking into the room. Steve started to move, in a manor to try and wake Evie up. "Don't, I will get Jay to carry her to the car." Cath said. "But before we go, I spoke to Chelsea before, she said Evie, thinks she only has you left and that you don't spend enough time together just the two of you." Steve gave her a questioning look. "I will explain more later but I think that when you get out of here we need to spend some time with our own kids, and then carry on going camping this weekend." Cath was going to carry on but the nurse walked in and gave them the look, without saying anything. Jay and Chelsea followed her into the room ready to go.
"Jay can you carry Evie to the car?" Cath asked.
"Yeah sure." Jay made his way over to Evie who lay next to Steve. Steve gave her a kiss on the forehead and helped Jay to lift her. This didn't work well for Steve, his ribs were already hurting from Evie lying on them, but moving as well made the pain worse, but it was worth it.
"Goodnight." Cath said as she walked over to give him a kiss. It was only a short as the kids were in the room.
"Goodnight." Steve said as they made there way out of his room.
Getting in the car Jay placed Evie gently in the back of the car so not to wake her. When they got home Evie slowly started to wake up. She managed to get out of the car without being carried and went to sit on the sofa. Cath came in and went straight to bed, slowly followed by Jay.
"Come on, you can have my bed, I will take the sofa in my room." Chelsea said heading to the stairs. Evie followed and they made their way into Chelsea's room.
"If you want to get changed and get into bed I am just going to see my mom, be back in a bit." Chelsea said heading for the door.
"Mom" Chelsea said walking over to the bed. When she walked over, she saw her mom on her side facing away from her. Chelsea got into bed next to her mom and curled up next to her. "I have missed this." Chelsea said.
"Missed what?" Cath asked, trying to steady her voice out, so Chelsea would not know she was crying.
"This, when you used to come home, I remember you would put me to bed, but I would sneak out in the night and cuddle up to you, and fall asleep like this. I remember when I was upset or missed you, I would get into bed with Nan but it was never the same."
"I am sorry I was away for all that time. I missed a lot of your life and for that I am really sorry, but I am here now, and I am not going anywhere." Cath replied, she rolled over so she was hugging her daughter back. She missed this on ship, she missed the time when she was with Jay and Chelsea doing nothing, but when she was alone in her little bed cold bed, she missed Chelsea coming to lie next to her.
"It's okay, your back now, I am sorry for the way I was when you first came back. But back to why I came in here. Steve is going to be alright, the doctors said that, he will be out of hospital soon." Chelsea said.
"I know, but he almost wasn't, but now he is, I just have to move on, and wait for him to come home. This is his job and there is nothing I can do to change that." Cath said.
Chelsea didn't reply she just carried on lying there next to Cath. She was going to go back to her room with Evie but before she knew it both her and Cath were asleep.
Sorry, I have changed the age of Cath's ex husband's death, I thought it would match better to this chapter. Please review, I have some ideas for the next chapter hope you are enjoying and let me know what you think about the story so far.