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Chapter 13.

Next morning

The very next morning at 7 am, Grace and Jack showed up as Grace had promised.
"How is she Will?" Jack asked.
Will just shook his head.
"Not good, Jack. I don't know what to do anymore. This is the last attempt at making her come back to us. If this doesn't work, I don't know what to do."
"I'm sure she'll come through this time Will" Grace said. "You two have the strongest bond I've ever seen and I do not want to see it down the drain. You have to make her come back to us. I miss her and I miss you."
"I miss you too Gracie" Will said and gave her a big hug.

Jack joined them and made it into a grouphug. Finally after a minute or so, they broke apart and Will led them to Lucas's nursery. He had a bag packed with the stuff that Lucas could need and if he needed something, they could just swing by the mansion any day and pick it up. The little darkhaired, hazeleyed boy was standing in his crib, waiting for someone to come and pick him up. When he saw his father enter the room, he stretched his arms up and out towards him. Will hurried up to the crib and picked him up.
"Hi Lucas" he greeted his son with a soft voice.
"Dada" the little boy said and wrapped his tiny, chubby arms around his fathers neck and hugged him.
Will got tears in his eyes. It felt so good to be hugged like this by his son.
"Lucas, you're gonna spend some time with auntie Grace and uncle Jack, OK?" Will said as Lucas had loosened his grip around Will's neck.
"Why?"
"Well, mommy and I are going away for awhile and work out some grown-up stuff, OK?"
"OK." The little boy nodded.
Jack took the little boy from Will and held him securily in his arms, balancing him on his hip.
"So, Lucas, why don't we go home now, maybe uncle Mark will let you ride on his back, how about that?" Jack said.
The little boy shone up and clapped his hands excitedly.
"Yeah, let's go home" Gracie said and grabbed the bag that Will handed her. "Tell Karen that we miss and love her, OK?"
"I will, thanks again for doing this Gracie" Will said.
"No need to thank us Will" Jack said, "you're family to us. This is what family does."
"Thanks Jack. I just hope this time away will help her back." Will sighed.
"Yeah we do too, well we better get going" Grace said.
"Yeah, I will call you when we get up there and get settled in" Will promised.
"Yeah, and let us know how she's doing every once in a while too, won't you?" Jack said.
"Of course I will" Will answered.
Grace and Jack went home with Lucas and Will got back to Karen's bedroom. She was still asleep so he started packing as quiet as he could, both for himself and for her.

Later that day

Will and Karen arrived at the cabin early afternoon. Driver had been having some troubles to get there, slippery roads had almost caused them to drive off the road a couple of times but he had managed to steady the car. They arrived safe and sound to the Walker cabin where he had been a couple of times before, the first time he had trying to overcome the anniversay of his relationship with Michael, his ex-boyfriend. That time it had been Grace that had helped him overcome it. Jack and Karen had come along to help take his mind off of it, but they hadn't succeeded but it had and still did warm his heart that they had tried.

This time it was his turn to help someone overcome something, and this someone was none other than his wife. He hoped he could help her, because if he couldn't then he didn't know what to do. She had become apathic and she never showed any emotions anymore. She had once again built up that wall he had had such trouble breaking down in the first place.
He put down their suitcases in the bedroom as Karen just barely stood inside the door. It was a total blizzard out now. Will had told Driver to go home before it got worse. They were now stranded in that cabin, and Will wanted it to be that way. He had gotten word up there that someone would fill their fridge and freezer with food and to clean up the worst mess.
He took off his jacket and boots and made a fire in the fireplace. Karen had still not moved a muscle from her spot just inside the door. He sighed when he saw her. Once the fire was going he walked up to her, undid her jacket and took it off of her before making her sit down and taking off her boots. He then made her stand up and led her to the couch in front of the fire. She sat down, still not speaking. She hadn't spoken once since she got home from the hospital. The only times she spoke was when she had a session with dr Martin, but she barely spoke then. He wanted her to speak, he missed hearing her voice, that highpitched voice that he had come to love. He wanted her to scream, cry, shout, hit him, hit anything, break down the walls, anything as long as she came back to him. In order for her to do so, he realized that he sometimes had to be really mean and hard to her. He wouldn't like it, but he knew no other way to make her overcome this giant bump.

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A/N I know I know .. this isn't good at all, but I hope you R&R anyway