Hey guys! Look i'm trying to update every other day, but next week might be hard for me because I have finals. For this chapter to really be understandable I sorta expaect you to know the basic story line of "Leaving the Station" and what happened with the little girl Grace (my name!) and her mother. This chapter isn't gonna have to much casey/dawson lovin' because its mostly lead up into the other chapters.
Dawson hopped out of the passenger seat of Casey's truck, feeling especially proud of herself. She had made it through the whole day without throwing herself at him, as much as she wanted to. Casey glanced down at her satisfied with himself. They walked together side by side into the station, getting looks from the rescue team who where all settled down at their regular table. They whistled at Dawson and Casey when they walked by, who exchanged irritated glances. When they walked in, Shay was leaning against the counter, a cup of coffee in her hand. When she saw the two she raised her eye brows, glancing up and down Dawson's attire. Right before she opened her mouth to ask what had happened last night, the Alarm went off.
"Ambulance 61 respiratory distress, 26 orchard street." Dawson looked at Shay, they reconised that address. Grace. Chief strolled into the room,
"Hit it, but Dawson, don't do anything stupid." She nodded in understanding, smiled at Casey and bolted out the door with Shay at her side.
They arrived on scene, the maid ushering them inside. Dawson had a pit in her stomach, she really didn't want this to turn out the same as her last abuse case.
"Grace? You ok?" now she was damn right confused.
"In here! In here!" The maid said, motioning to the kitchen. Shay looked at Dawson, hoping that what she thought might be in their wouldn't be.
Grace's mother was slumped against a chair in the kitchen, an empty bottle of Doxepin 150 milligrams scattered across the floor next to her.
"Oh god." Dawson said under her breath, a million things where running through her head. Was this her fault?
"Come on Dawson, lets get her to lakeshore." Shay said softly.
They wheeled her out of the room, passing a scared Grace.
"its going to be ok Grace." Dawson said reassuringly.
Fifteen minutes later Shay and Dawson found themselves pacing up and down the pristine halls of lakeshore hospital, with chief glaring at them from a creaky chair against the wall. Grace's mother, Nina, was on a ventilator and dialysis, the doctors where trying to clear out the Doxepin,
"We just have to wait and see." Chief said in a ruff tone.
From across the hall came a guy in a suit, who as he strode forward briskly locked eye contact with Dawson. He was wearing suit, and his face seemed familiar, he was in one of he pictures in Nina and Grace's home. He walked up to Dawson and with a firm grip grabbed her shoulder, shaking her slightly as he spoke,
"Are you Gabriela Dawson? Your the one who accused nina of poisoning our daughter?"
"Sir your wife-" Chief said, trying to intervene.
"You did this. You did this to her!" His voice lowered, and he pointed a boney finger at Dawson's face, inches away. "And I swear to god, I'm about to make your life hell." Dawson felt a shiver run down her spine. She swallowed hard. His fingers where digging into her shoulders hard, and
Chief moved forward to grab the husbands shoulders, but he moved away from Dawson, shoving her into the wall and pushed between chief and Shay, running up to Grace and grabbing her off the chair angrily. Gabriela pushed her self off the wall and into an upright position. Chief glanced at her in concern before saying,
"Gabriela, notify the unions just in case the cops want to talk to you. You need to be ready." Gabriela nodded, and shoved her hands in her pockets, hoping no one would notice the way that they where shaking.
Dawson was sitting in the locker room. She was perfectly still and quiet. She was milling over the events of the last couple of days, and Nina's husbands words where playing over and over again in her head. She was so deep in thought that she didn't even notice Casey come in and say something to her.
"Hey I heard what happened at the hospital. You alright?" No response. "Dawson?" Casey walked up to her and put his hand on her shoulder, and she must have jumped 2 feet in the air.
"God you scared me Casey!" she reached up and began rubbing her shoulder, looking at Casey nervously.