A/N: I just want to thank you all for sticking with me in this! It means alot! I hope you like this one... there is alot of pain and help i guess? not much on the case or Cal healing so sorry if thts what you really wanted... did you like the last chapter though? I liked when he was in therapy... and that was all in one session... i cant remember who asked but yea... there will be many more to come by the way... ENJOY! ^.^
"So… are you hungry Emily?"Jack asked her, walking around the room.
She nodded and then looked down, examining the pink carpet. She hadn't really paid attention to what the room looked like. There was pink, fluffy carpet. A white couch against the wall farthest from her. The T.V. was on the wall in between her and the couch. There was a door on the other wall and a table in the middle.
"You can't talk. I was just mad earlier." Jack said to her, brining a couple slices of pizza in.
"You didn't treat my father this well…" She mumbled.
He immediately punched her in the face. "I said you could talk, but I didn't say that I wasn't going to hit you." He said with a laugh. He threw the pizza down in front of her and untied her hands. He then tied her feet up then tied them to the pole."Eat your food." He said walking away.
Emily took a deep breath and wiped her eyes. She then ate in silence.
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"So what happened to your leg?" Kelly asked him, taking a bite out of her sandwich.
"Well," He said, "I don't remember much, but I can remember that happening. Plus, I finished watching the video alone before I left the hospital. Anyway, Jack threw bowling balls at my leg and then beat me with a golf club…" He whispered. He could feel it happening. He didn't really notice how bad it was until he said it out loud.
"Oh my gosh… that is horrible." Kelly gasped looking at his leg.
"Yeah… it isn't as bad as it looks…" He mumbled, "Actually it's worse than it looks. Much worse…" He whispered.
"Oh Cal…" She said sadly, "Where does it hurt?" She asked.
"A little above my knee and then down to my foot." He told her looking at his leg. "Then something happened to my arm that I don't remember and that wasn't on tape." He said, "And I have these weird scars on both of my arms. They almost look like claw marks. Five lines down each of my arms, see?" He asked putting his arms out.
"Is that from when… you were… hurting… Gillian?" She said slowly.
"I… I don't know…" He whispered, "That is a possibility." He said looking at the scars. "I sure as hell hope not. That bruise will eventually go away but these never will…" He said with a look of agony on his face.
"Okay… let's stop talking about this." She whispered with a weak smile. She stood up and brought a seat. She took a seat next to him and laid her hand on his arm. He flinched away but then calmed down again, but he kept his arm in his lap, away from her. "I'm… I'm sorry." She whispered, sitting back.
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"He wouldn't let me touch him…" Kelly whispered to Gillian. "I laid my hand on his arm and he snapped away."
"He doesn't trust anyone right now. Would you after going through that?" She asked her. "He just needs some time. He is going to be paranoid and scared all the time." Gillian said quietly.
"He doesn't trust me? What did I do wrong? Why wouldn't he trust me?" She asked getting nervous.
"Calm down! No he doesn't trust you. You didn't do anything wrong. He just needs time. He is in a very vulnerable stage and his daughter has been kidnapped." Foster said, becoming slightly annoyed. "Now if you could excuse me, there is someone here who would like to talk to me." Gillian said standing up and leaving. She walked out into the office hallway and found Zoe, "Hi, what's up?" She asks firmly with a little hate.
"Gillian, I know that you don't like me, but I need your help. Cal won't even talk to me. He isn't answering any calls. I just… I just want to know how he is. I haven't even gotten to see him yet. They wouldn't let me see him in the hospital. They said I would cause him stress or something. I just want to see him Gillian. I want to know that he is okay and I want to find Emily just as much as he does and we haven't even gotten a chance to talk about it…" She whispered.
"Well he is here right now. In his office." Gillian said, taking a deep breath. "We can go talk to him right now."
"Really?" Zoe asked, getting excited.
"Of course." Gillian replied walking to his office.
"Who is it?" Cal asked after the knock.
"Gillian and Zoe." Foster yelled through the thick door.
"What do you need?" He asked, playing with a pen nervously.
"Can we come in or not Cal?" Zoe asked.
Gillian shook her head and said, "May we please come in?" She yelled, "Don't get impatient with him.
She whispered to Zoe.
"Why?" He asked leaning back in his wheel chair, "Ah!" He yelled as it fell backwards and it fell to the ground. "Holy shit… wow that hurts…" He mumbled, holding his leg and trying to get up. He fell back down in defeat and just sat there.
"Cal? What happened? Are you okay?" Gillian asked, trying to open the locked door.
"I… I am fine, I just fell… I-it's okay." He mumbled, trying to get up again. He bit his lip in pain as he started to get up, "Ah crap," He said spitting the blood from his mouth. "Cut my damn lip…" He mumbled.
"Cal, can you make it to the door?" Gillian asked, shaking the handle.
"Well I could…" He mumbled, trying to crawl over to it. "No…" He said stopping, "It hurts too much, I can't move." He said.
Gillian turned to Zoe and said, "Um, go get the master key from Loker, he is probably in the lab."
"Okay." Zoe said running to the lab.
"Zoe is getting the master key; just… just stay still Cal. If you try to move you could hurt yourself." She told him through the door.
He fell back and just laid there, beginning to fall asleep.
"Here, Gillian." Zoe said giving her the key.
"Awesome." She whispered, unlocking the door. She barged in but suddenly stopped when she saw him asleep, "Shh.." She whispered, bringing her finger to her mouth. She let out a small giggle and walked over to him. The each crouched down beside him.
"Wow… I haven't seen him sleeping in years…" Zoe mumbled, laying her hand on his arm. She slowly rubbed it with a small smile.
Gillian placed her hand under his other arm and attempted to pick him up but failed. "We need Loker and Ben." She said standing up.
"Um, alright… do you want me to stay with him?" She asked.
"Well I don't want him to be alone so yes." Gillian said with a fake smile, leaving. "Hey, Zoe and I need some help, Cal fell and had his door locked and once we made it in he had fallen asleep but we don't want to wake him, so we need your help getting him back in his wheel chair." Gillian said to Loker and Ben quickly.
"Well alright." Ben said putting his file down and running to Cal's office.
"Is Kelly in there?" Loker asked nervously.
"No." Gillian said with hatred in her voice, "She went home." She mumbled.
"Oh, ok." He said looking at his feet.
"What are you getting at Loker?" She asked him.
"Um, nothing, I just thought that if Kelly was there that…" He whispered.
'What about Kelly, Loker?" She wanted the dirt on Kelly.
"Nothing, never mind…" He spit out, "Let's go." He said walking past her and to Cal's office.
"Ok, be careful with his leg, it is very fragile and if it is moved too much the bones won't heal right. We don't want that." Ben said, taking one of Cal's arms. "Why aren't we waking him up?" He asked.
"Because he hasn't been able to sleep peacefully lately so we thought we would give him the chance now." Zoe whispered grabbing his other arm. Loker grabbed his other leg and Gillian took his bad one.
"No!" Cal screamed, "Get away from me!" He yelled, squirming away in pain.
"Cal," Gillian said calmly, "Calm down." She laid her hand on his back, but he flinched away. "Like I said earlier... He is scared and vulnerable. We need to just back away and let him cool off." She said to the others, taking a step back and sitting on the couch.
Cal curled up and held himself nervously. He panted and quickly looked around the room. "I... I'm sorry... I'm fine... I'm okay..." He mumbled quietly. "I was having a nightmare and then when you touched my leg, it just hurt so much, I thought someone was trying to take me." He said nervously, continuing to look around.
"No... I am sorry, I should have been more careful... I should have woken you up, but it's alright..." Gillian said, walking up behind him, setting her hand on his back, rubbing it. "I am right here... We all are." She whispered. Cal sqirmed a little bit more, trying to get comfortable on the ground.
"Alright... let's get him up now." Ben said grabbing his arm. Loker took his other arm and the girls held his legs from bumping into things.
"Thanks..." He mumbled, trying to keep the pain out of his voice. "I know that i will be stubborn and a jerk this week... so i will apologize now." He said looking at his feet. "I just... don't feel very safe, but i will try to be more careful..."
"Yes you will." Foster said to him with a small smile. "And no more locking you door." She told him.
"I am still going to lock it, but you can have a key." He said to her running his hand through hair nervously.
"None of us are going to hurt you Cal..." She told reassured him.
He clenched his jaw and looked at all of them, "How do I know that?" He asked them.
"Why would we?" Torres asked him, concerned.
"I don't know..." He muttered, staring at Loker. He knew there was a problem. Cal knew that he was hiding something.
"We won't..." Loker said, looking down, defeated by Cal's stare.
"Yeah..." Cal whispered, doubting.
"Cal. We are not going to do anything to you that you don't want done." Gillian insisted.
"Yeah? What about therapy? I don't want that... I want to find Emily." He said madly.
"You need therapy." She said to him.
"No actually I don't." He said to her madly.
"Yes actaully, you do." She insisted.
"Wow... why are you even arguing with him? He is a stubborn ass and he is never going to give up." Loker almost yelled at Foster.
"Excuse me?" Cal asked, rolling himself over to Loker.
"I... I wasn't talking about you." He said biting his lip.
"Yeah, that's what I thought." Cal said continuing to stare at him.
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"Why are you cheating on him?" Loker asked Kelly.
"I just... I wasn't happy with him, but I can't break his heart... not now... not with all the pain he is in." She said to Loker.
"That would make me want to tell him even more..." Loker mumbled.
"You know what?" Kelly asked.
"What? Are you going to get mad at me too?" He asked boredly.
"No..." She said to him with a smile, "You just need to calm down. All i have heard you talk about so far is how mad you are at Cal. Just kiss me you fool." She said to him, grabbing him by the shoulders and pulling him in.
"Well alright." He said with a smile, kissing her.
"What is going on here?" Loker broke away from the kiss and stared at them with a look of terror.
A/N: OH MY GOSH! Who walked in? Foster? Torres? Zoe? Ben? Lightman? Leave your guesses in reviews!
