She is walking up and down the hallway of the emergency waiting room, has been walking for what seemed like hours, but it had only been an hour. Walking to the window she looks into the darkness, watching another ambulance with lights on pull up, knowing another family would be walking the floor with her. She catches sight of the doctor taking care of Jane enter the room and come towards her. It's hard to judge the look the doctor has on his face.
"Mrs. Jane, your husband is doing fine. The bullet shot into his foot, passed through without breaking any bones. He will be on crutches for a couple of weeks until the wounds heal. The bullet in his thigh came close to the femoral artery. He was very lucky otherwise he could have bled out before paramedics arrived. He can only see out of one eye, but it is only swollen and there is no damage to the eye. He has deep bruising on the ribs on his right side, which will be pretty painful when he is able to walk. We are getting ready to take him up to surgery to take the bullet out. If you want to see him I can give you five minutes before he is moved."
"Yes thank you." Feeling her pulse calming down and the stress release its choke hold, she follows the doctor into the room. Two nurses are busy getting the equipment attached to Jane ready for the move to surgery.
The doctor goes to the side of the bed and leans over the safety rail. "Patrick, your wife is here, she's been worried about you." He moves away so Lisbon can go to the bed. Jane moves a bit and moans.
"Sweetheart, I'm here, can you hear me?" She holds his hand.
Jane opens the eye that isn't swollen shut and looks around. He looks confused as he catches Lisbon's gaze.
"Hospital? Why am I here?" he manages to say, with confusion.
"Yes, you're in the hospital again, Jane. I thought we agreed we're not going to meet here again."
"My bad." He closes his eye drifting off from the medication they gave him. Suddenly he tries to sit up, intensely looking at Lisbon, fear in his eyes.
"Casey….Casey, is she hurt?" The nurses manage to ease him back on the bed.
Lisbon quickly says, "She fine, Jane. She went into her rabbit hole like you taught her. When you are out of surgery you can see her."
"Good. Proud of her," he says, almost whispering as he closes his eye and drifts off.
"We need to take to take him now, Mrs. Jane," one nurse says quietly.
Lisbon bends down and kisses Jane's forehead, and stands and starts to leave. She says to the nurse, "Just a warning, my husband is a lousy patient." She smiles and walks out. The nurses wheel the bed out of the room and into an elevator as she watches. She goes back to the waiting room to see Cho holding Casey's hand. Casey runs to her mother as Lisbon kneels to hold her daughter close. She looks up at Cho. "Thank you."
"Mama, I'm glad you're here, Uncle Cho said this is where Daddy is, when I can see him?" the excited child asks all in a rush, looking around.
Lisbon stands, takes Casey's hand and leads her to a chair by Cho. She sits and pulls Casey up onto the seat alongside. "Daddy is asleep right now so the doctor can help him feel better."
"How long will that be? Before I have to go to bed?" Lisbon kisses her daughter on the forehead. "It might be, but I'll make sure you will be here first thing in the morning."
"That bad man won't find him here will he?" Casey asks quietly, uncertain if it's really safe again.
"No, dear. Someone will sit at room door to make sure." Lisbon sees the Rigsby's come down the hall. "Thank you so much for taking care of Casey." Wayne and Grace each lean over to give her a hug which she returns. They hug Casey as well.
"How is Jane?" Grace whispers to Lisbon.
"They just took him into surgery to remove the one of the bullets."
Rigsby and Cho talk, and both join Grace and Lisbon. "Grace and I have two rooms at a hotel near here. Why don't we take Casey with us, and she can sleep in our room tonight? We had an extra bed brought in."
"I packed her a suitcase for tonight and tomorrow." Grace says, looking over at a very sleepy Casey who is watching the adults.
"That would be great, thank you both.
"Was Jane able to say who was at the house?" Cho asks so quietly that Casey can't hear him.
"No, he was very sleepy and in pain. Did Casey say anything while you had her?"
"No, just that a bad man was there, I think she knows more than she is telling us, but I'm not sure why. She is like Jane; she observes everything that happens around her. Maybe we can talk to her in the morning after she's over the shock of what happened?"
Rigsby goes over and picks up Casey, her head on his shoulder, eyes closed in sleep. Lisbon gives her daughter a quick kiss.
Grace hands her a business card. "This is the hotel, and we have connecting rooms 404 and 406. We'll wait up for you."
Gratefully, "What would I do without the three of you." Lisbon gives them each a kiss. She and Cho watch them leave. "Cho, what do you think Casey is keeping from us?"
"When I talked to her earlier I was hoping that she would be more open, answer my questions. She was too concerned about her father. But when I asked what she heard, she wouldn't talk to me at all."
"What could she be hiding? She's only four. I hope it isn't something she thinks I would be angry about."
Leaving the questions for the next day, they both sit down and get as comfortable as they can until the surgery is over.