Fic: Crossing the Line
Gillian straightens Cal's lapels on his jacket as she stands in front of him while they get ready in the morning.
"I think we should start telling people."
"Telling people what?" Cal playfully smacks Gillian's hands away from his clothes as he sits on the edge of the bed to put his shoes on.
"Oh I don't know, maybe that I'm going to bear your child in six months or so. I thought that would be the good ice breaker before we told them that we were even together." Cal stands back up, towering over Gillian as she stands heel-less on the carpet in front of him.
"You don't do sarcasm well." Gillian smiles and kisses Cal.
"Cal I'm serious."
"Okay okay, you can tell whoever you want, but on one condition."
"What one condition?" Cal kisses Gillian as he heads out of the bedroom.
"Drop Em off at school on your way to the office!" Gillian shakes her head before grabbing her bags and her shoes. She sits down on the couch and puts the heels on before going to the kitchen and smiling at Emily.
"Looks like you're stuck with me." Emily shrugs as she grabs her bagel from the toaster, handing half to Gillian.
"More like you're stuck with me, I have a two hour late start." Gillian clenches her jaw and glares.
"Ohhh he's going to get it." Emily laughs and tugs Gillian out into the snow.
"Come on, I'll just take his car from the office." Gillian shuts and locks the door before running to the car with Emily, unfortunately hitting the only patch of ice Cal seemed to have missed with the ice melt. Gillian lets out yelp as the earth flies out from beneath her and she lands on her tailbone. Her head whips back and she cracks it on the ground with a loud smack before everything goes black.
"Gillian?!" Emily throws her books into the car before running around to Gillian. She shakes her before tapping her face repeatedly with her hand as she mumbles her name. She pulls out her cell phone and calls 911 before calling her dad.
"Em? I just left if you forgot something in the car you're going to ha…"
"Gillian fell on the ice…she's unconscious…"
"Did you call 911?!"
"Yeah they said that they're taking her to Washington Memorial…should I follow them in her car?"
"No ride in the ambulance with them, I'll be there as soon as I can." Emily nods and sighs in relief as she hears the ambulance.
"Okay, I'll call you when we get there." Emily hangs up and flags the red and white van down, thinking of the irony of how this is what the snow now looked like around Gillian's head.
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Cal rushes into the emergency room at Washington Memorial hospital, searching the large crowd for his daughter before heading over to her as he spots her by the vending machine.
"Emily." Emily turns around and hugs her dad immediately.
"Daddy." Cal wraps his arms around his daughter and kisses her head softly as runs a hand over her back.
"Hey love…how's Gillian?" Emily shrugs.
"I don't know they won't tell me…said I had to wait for you to get here…" Cal nods and pulls back from his daughter.
"I'm going to go see if I can find something out, stay here and I'll be right back, yeah?" Emily nods and Cal smiles before heading to the nurse's desk.
"I need some help."
"So do you and the other hundred people here take a number and someone will be with you shortly." Cal shakes his head.
"No I need to know where someone is, they were brought in probably half an hour ago…blonde woman, early forties, cracked her head on the ice?" The nurse looks up at Cal, a perturbed look on her face as she looks away and to her computer.
"She's in exam 12, I'll have a doctor meet you in there." Cal nods and goes over to get Emily before taking her to the room. He opens the door and lets Emily in first before following her and closing the door behind him, smiling at Gillian as she sits on the edge of the bed, a large bandage on her forehead to go with the ankle wrap on her foot.
"Hey love, heard you had a little fall." Gillian rolls her eyes and holds her arms out to Cal. Cal hugs Gillian and kisses her head softly, apologizing when she winces.
"No it's not my head…" Gillian shakes her head as she laughs softly.
"My ass hurts like a bitch." Cal laughs and kisses Gillian's head again.
"Well tell your boss I said you could take the day off." Gillian nods and lays her head against Cal's chest before closing her eyes.
"I wish the stupid doctor would get here and discharge me…" Call nods and rubs Gillian's back, looking up as her doctor comes in. He pulls back from Gillian and speaks with the doctor, watching his face as he asks questions. Once he finishes he looks at Emily.
"Why don't you grab Gillian's stuff and a wheelchair?" Emily nods and the doctor looks at Cal confused after she leaves.
"I just told you she had to stay over night so we could monitor her."
"No, you said that you don't believe a word of that…so I'm taking her home now." Cal helps Gillian up and gives her the sweats from her bag that Emily had brought back.
"Think you can handle it love?" Gillian nods and Cal escorts the doctor out along with Emily.
"Now if you can tell me that with a little more conviction that would be great and I might consider keeping her here, but thanks for trying." The doctor shakes his head and walks away.
"Whackjob." Emily rolls her eyes as she looks at her dad.
"Do you have to alienate everyone?"
"No just the important people." Cal smiles and ruffles Emily's hair.
"Stand guard okay?" Emily nods and Cal goes back into the room, helping Gillian get dressed before putting her in the wheelchair and pushing her out.
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Cal sighs as he sits on the edge of his bed, watching Gillian sleep. Emily comes in with two mugs, handing one to her father.
"How's she doing?"
"Okay…out like a light though." Emily nods as she sips at her hot chocolate.
"Heidi called while I was downstairs, said your cell was off…something about a meeting with the mayor today at noon…"
"Bloody hell." Cal looks at his watch.
"Can you keep an eye on her?" Emily nods and smiles.
"Yeah…when will you be home?"
"Couple hours…I'll bring some pizza." Emily nods again as she watches her dad leave before sighing as she climbs into his bed next to Gillian, intent on taking a nap. Gillian rolls over and opens one eye.
"He gone?" Emily jumps and laughs as she nods.
"Yeah." Gillian smiles.
"I thought he'd never leave."
"Yeah, he's pretty well trained in that whole over bearing, hovery, worrywart stuff." Gillian nods, wincing as she sits up. She grabs the pill bottle off of the table and takes two of the capsules inside before swallowing them with hot chocolate.
"Mmm, this is good…where'd you get it?"
"It's just regular hot chocolate, I just add cinnamon and stuff like that to it…Learned about it when Dad and I went to Mexico when I was little." Gillian smiles and yawns.
"You should sleep." Gillian nods and lays back down all the way as Emily does the same. Both of the women fall asleep after a while, holding the same position until Cal sits on the bed a couple hours later, already changed from work.