C.J. fell asleep on the couch after helping Chris get back into bed after her bath. She was complaining of the headache the doctors told her to expect and C.J. had gotten her an over the counter pain medication with a sleep aid. Chris ate about half the calzone C.J. ordered and had delivered and then drifted, fitfully off to sleep. C.J. told her she was staying up for a while and after her own bath had checked with the security guys again who told her they hadn't seen anyone.
C.J.'s dreams brought Robert Tyler back from the dead. She was back in her house, walking around in the dark, but hearing Robert laughing. The walls seemed to move and as she neared her bedroom doorway, suddenly the floor fell out from under her and she was falling and landed in the alleyway they found Chris in. Chris was there, the way they found her but so was a dark figure towering over her. She tried to run to Chris to stop this figure from getting to her, but ran into something, a glass wall. C.J. screamed and beat on that window to stop the figure who stopped suddenly and seemed to just appear right in front of C.J. on the other side of the glass, staring at her as he slowly raised his hand and pointed to her. A man with no face.
Matt was still rubbing his jaw as he made his way upstairs in the beach house. He got up to the couch and noticed his wife sleeping. He smiled as he knelt down and brushed the hair off her face and then noticed her brow was furrowed and she seemed to be murmuring. So he leaned closer to hear her and heard, "No, oh god, no, no…"
Matt took her arms in his hands and gently shook C.J. to wake her up. "C.J., C.J. honey its me. Wake up." He said softly.
C.J. woke up and gasped for air at the same time. Her eyes focused quickly on Matt who then took her in his arms. Her heart was pounding in her chest as she grabbed on to him tighter than she had in a while. "Matt, Matt" she said as she shook in his arms.
He smoothed her hair back and whispered, "Its ok, C.J., I'm right here, I'm not going anywhere. Another nightmare about Robert?"
C.J. closed her eyes and fought to bring her breathing under control and said, "yea, I don't know why. I haven't had one in a while."
Matt rubbed her back and broke their embrace and told her, "I told you, they will sneak up on you." He then rubbed her arms and told her, "But it's alright, I'm right here and he can never hurt you again."
C.J. nodded and then remembered part of the dream, "It started out the way it always does in my house, but then it changed, suddenly. I fell, I think, into the alley and Chris was there and hurt. There was a figure standing over her and I couldn't get to her and then the figure was right in front of me, pointing to me." She closed her eyes.
Matt nodded, "It's this case and everything that's happened with Chris, it's getting to you." He looked in her eyes, he could see how exhausted she was so he said softly, "Come on, let's go to bed. Let me hold you and help keep those nightmares away, hum." He took her by the hand and noticed she had written something in her palm and stopped. "Honey, what's this?"
C.J. looked at her hand and took a deep breath. "I think someone was watching the beach house this afternoon." Matt's brows shot up immediately and he started to say something, but she continued. "I noticed a sedan parked at the end of the lot and it looked suspicious to me so I called down to security. The car took off and I ran down to get the license plate and only got the first three letters…"
Matt then asked, "How did you only get three? C.J., tell me exactly what happened."
C.J. took another deep breath. She knew Matt wasn't going to be happy. "The car came speeding toward me and I had to jump on a parked car to avoid getting hit." Matt swallowed and ran his hand through his hair. "I was perfectly fine by the way, only a little dirty, but all I could read were these three. Hoyt has patrol officers driving by once an hour and has security parked at the end of the same lot keeping watch, so Chris and I were fine."
He looked her up and down and asked, "You sure you're ok?"
She nodded and squeezed his hand, "Yes, Matt, I'm fine."
He slipped his arm around her waist and walked with her up the remaining stairs, checked on Chris and then told her to get in bed. He went back down just to double check all locks and to make sure the alarm was set. Then he showered and joined her. She waited up for him and he slipped right in, took her in his arms again and watched her go to sleep before he followed her. Both were exhausted after a very long day that started at 4am.
