I ask that you not hate me after you read this chapter... Note that I have chapter 7 written but and I am starting 8. Once I get 8 done I'll post 7. Also note that I'm using Open office to write this and it's spell check SUCKS! big time! I just now remembered that fanfic has this lovely little Edit doc. option where I can now check my spelling so hopefully from now on in there won't be as much... Thanks for all sticking with me and I hope that you all enjoy the re-Write as much as you loved the original
Chapter 6
Bo went of his normal day's work. He cleaned up around the house (though that wasn't much), played with Jessy-Bell a bit and then around 10, Jessy-Bell's eye's stared to drop. Bo picked up his little angel and went up stairs with her. At the top he put her down and she took off for his room.
"Belly baby don't you want to sleep in you're bed?" Bo asked her as he put the gate up to the top of the staris.
Jessy-Bell never answered.
"Jessy?" asked Bo. He went into his room and found that Jessy-Bell had found a way to climp up on his bed and was curled up and fast asleep. Bo smiled. He crawled on to his bed and pushed Jessy-Bell in agest the wall. He then collapse onto the bed and fell fast asleep.
A few hours later Bo fet something picking at his hair. He turned his head away from the critter what was doing it. He then her a muffled laugh. Bo opened his eyes to see a fully awake Jessy-Bell with two hands over her mouth stuffuling her laugh. It amazed Bo sometimes just how smart she was.
"What are you doing Jessy-Bell?" asked Bo
"Ungery! Pleaseeeee." said Jessy-Bell.
Bo laughed and Jessy-Bell shy smiled her face into a pillow which caused Bo to laugh even more. Jessy-Bell jumped up on the bed and stared to bounch around.
"Ungery Daddy! Ungery!"
"All right!" Replied Bo. "Hey! Why don't we going to the diner and get some lunch there? And see Gabby too?"
"Abby!!! Abby!!!!" screamed Jessy-Bell
"Okay. Come one lets go." replied Bo. "Do you need to use the potty first?"
"Peeee!!!!" screamed Jessy-Bell as she climbed down off the bed. She then ran full tuilt into the bathroom.
After all was said and done, Bo got Jessy-Bell ready and the headed down to the diner. It wasn't far from where they lived so they walk. When they got there they where greeted by Jeff, Shaunna and Becky. The minute Becky saw Jessy-Bell she ran from her mother's side.
"Essy!!!" Exclaimed the little girl as she came running, her big brown ringlets bounching in the air.
"Ecky!!!" Screamed Jessy-Bell.
The two girl ran and hugged each other. Bo laughed along with Jeff and Shaunna as he walked over to their table.
"Mind if we join?" he asked
"Not at all." said Shaunna
Bo got the two girl to climb into the set and then he sat down to. They sat there making chit chat with each other. As one of the waitresses came over and took their order Bo notice that he didn't see Gabby anywhere.
"Hey Annie, where's Gab's to?" asked Bo
"Oh. She got a call a hour or two ago and had to take off. Haven't seen her since." replied the Waitress
This made Bo's stomach turn. He felt a little off set today. As if something bad was going to happen. He looked over to Jeff and Shaunna and they both had the same look in their eyes. They too knew something was off but it wasn't until after lunch was eaten that someone finial decided to break the silence about the matter.
"Guy's you don't think anything is wrong do you?" asked Shaunna
"What do you mean Shine?" asked Jeff
"With Gabby. I've known the girl for four years and I've never known her to drop work for anything." replied Shaunna
"Maybe something was wrong at home." answered Bo
"I don't know..." replied Jeff " Mike's a bastard but he needs ever dime she makes. He'd never take her away from work. I'd say that's the only reason he's put up with her never being home night time is cause she makes good money." replied Jeff
"I didn't think I paid her that good."replied Bo.
"When you're a drug addict Bo, every dime counts." replied Jeff.
"Maybe... How about this. I'll take the two girl over to the house for a play date and you to go check up to make sure everything's okay?"
Bo and Jeff looked at each other.
"What do you think?" asked Bo
"I think day off or not I wouldn't be a very good sheriff if I didn't." replied Jeff.
And with that they paid for their meals and Shaunna left with the two girls. Bo and Jeff set off to Gabby's and Mike's. Now that Bo thought about it, he didn't have a clue where Gabby lived. In the two years he's know her he never bother to ask her. She's never needed a ride or wanted to be dropped off. Finialy when they got there Bo understood why.
When they got there it was only a small house and some of the windows where boarded up plus the door wasn't in the best of shape. The garder was over taken by grass and weeds. Bo could see where Gabby had tried to plant flower but from what he could tell her efferts were in vain. The poor plants looked like they where trampled on and some looked like they where pulled from the ground.
Jeff noticed Bo looking at the poor little plants.
"I remember her telling me a while back that she was trying to grow a garden to make her place look more homely. She was all happy about it. All she could talk about for a week. Then all of a sudden she stopped. I guess I know why now..." said Bo
Jeff nodded. He then turned his attention to the door and knocked. No answer. He tried again. Still there was nothing. Finial he tried the door and found that it was open. He pushed it open and poked his head in.
"Gabby?! You in here?" He called out. "Mike. Sheriff Jeffery Parsons. You home?"
Still there was no answer. Jeff stepped in with Bo right behind him. They looked around the tiny room. It was a Ketchen and Living room all in one. Jeff was looking around the room when Bo poked his head in the bed room.
What he saw make him almost lose his lunch. Gabby was lid across the bed, unconscious and beaten to a bloody mess.
"JEFF!!!! CALL AN AMBULANCE!" Yelled Bo
Bo jumped on to the bed next to Gabby as Jeff walked in to the room. As quick as he walked in he ran out to find the phone. Bo checked to make sure she still had a pulse. Thankfully as he was checked she moved. She was waking up.
"Gabby!" cried Bo "Gabby honey can you hear me?"
"Boooooo...." she morned out.
"It's me Gabby. Don't move. Jeff's calling for help okay."
"Mmmmmm... Owww... (*cough cough*). My sid... side's .... They hur..."
"Shhhhhh... It's okay... I'm here with you. Help coming okay. Just hold on."
Gabby let out a sob and started to cry.
"He's gone... He left me..." cried Gabby
"Hey... Listen. Don't you cry over that dead beat. You're better off with out him. You can have a better life without him."
"No... I... (*cough cough*)...Bo... I'm...."
Bo's stomic dropped. He knew what the beginning of that sentence ment, but. No! He wouldn't beat the hell out of the woman carring his child would he?
"Gabby are you telling me you're... You're pregnant?" asked Bo
Another sob from Gabby then all a sudden a heart wrenching scream as she dubbled up grabbing her stomic.
'Oh god!' Thought Bo.
Jeff came running into the room.
"Help is on the way! Is she okay?" he asked
"NO!" replied Bo "I think she's miscarrying."
"Mis..." responded Jeff. "Wait... She's...."
"Yeah. At less I think that's what she was trying to tell me."
"Did he know?" asked Jeff.
Bo just sent Jeff a look.
"That bastard!"
I wasn't long after that the ambulance showed up. They took her right on to the hospital. Bo went with her as Jeff ran back to let Shaunna know what was going on. As soon as they had gotten to the hospital they wheeled her into the ER and Bo had to wait out side in the waiting room. Not long after that Jeff had showed up. After about two hours of waiting the ER doctor came out. Both Bo and Jeff ran up to him.
"She all right doc?" asked Bo
"Not overly. But she will be in the long run. She had two cracked ribs and a concussion. Lost of bruising and a few cuts. Nothing too deep. Only a few stitches. She has a bit of blood lost but that is due to one of her cuts being just above the eye. You see in wrestling a lot. They get alittle cut above the eye and the blood pours out. It's...."
"Doc. Gabby told me she was pregnant." Bo cut him off.
"Yes. She was..." replied the doctor. "I'm sorry but the baby didn't make it though the beating."
Those words seem to hit Bo hard. He'd come to think of Gabby as family over the two years she's been in his life and to think that she's have to go though that kind of pain. No person should have to, less of all Gabby. She was too kind of a person.
"When can we see her?" asked Bo
"Um sure. But only one at a time." replied the doctor.
Bo looked to Jeff and he moved to let Bo go first. When Bo walked into Gabby's room she was turned onto her side crying. Bo went over and placed a hand on her shoulder. As he did she flinched then truned to look at who was there. When she seen it was him she just started crying more. Bo ran around the bed to the side she was facing. He reached down put his arm round her and let her cry into his shoulder.
"What am I going to do." she said. "He's gone, the baby's gone. He house is gone. I have nothing left."
"The house is gone?" asked Bo. He knew that wasn't important but the words just slipped out.
"We were renting... I got a call today at the diner that the owners were kicking us out for unpaid bills. Mike was using the rent money... I couldn't believe it... I was soo... Mad! And then when I told him about the baby... He just flipped. Then he... he...." Gabby couldn't finished. She had broken down into tears again. "Wha... What am I going to do... I have no where... No one..."
"Not true." Said Bo. "Not true at all."
"Wha..."
"You still got me and Jessy-Bell. You know we've come to think of you as one of the famildy plus you're forgetting I have a 3rd bedroom that is never used. You can have that one till you're up on your own again." offered Bo
"Bo I couldn't..." Replied Gabby.
"Gabby... I wouldn't have it any other way. You've been my savour the last two years. I don't know what I would have done without you. It's the very less I can do for you."
At that Gabby started to cry again. But she did manage to cry out a Thank you.