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A Wonderful Life ~ 3
When CJ and Toby got to the room, they could here Derek screaming for them. They barged in and ran over to him.
"Mom! Dad!" Derek jumped into their arms. "I didn't know." He cried.
"It's ok, you're ok." Toby rubbed his head to calm him down.
"I remember all of it now. The fight. It was Aaron." Derek cried some more.
"Derek, you're fine now. You are with us now. You are getting better each and every day."
"But I still can't talk very well." Derek started to calm down.
"The doctors say that you will get better with the speech therepy." CJ kissed his cheek.
"But what if it happens again?"
"It won't Derek." The teacher smiled. "Aaron is gone. You are never going to see him again. They moved back to LA. He's gone."
"Really?" Derek wiped away his tears and looked at the three people in the room.
"Yeah." Toby smiled and picked Derek up and hugged him. "Everything is fine now." Toby smiled and looked at Derek.
"If you say it, I'll believe it." Derek smiled back.
"Then believe it." Toby smiled a little.
"I do," he said, looking from Toby to CJ. "I want to go home."
Toby looked at CJ. "I can have Sam cover for me."
"I have to brief at noon," she said.
"I want you both there," he said, the tears starting to reform in his eyes.
"Maybe take him with us to work?" CJ suggested.
"Again?"
"Toby, I think it's one of our only choices."
He nodded. "Okay."
"I can come with you guys to work?"
CJ nodded, "Yeah, why not?"
He smiled. "Okay."
They thanked Ms. Harmon and walked out to the car and drove back to the White House.
"So, mom's going to brief soon. Want to watch?" Toby asked as he watched Derek throw one of his rubber balls against the wall.
"Okay."
CJ's office....
"Carol, I need the file for the new employment rate."
"Okay." Carol was about to go get it when she saw CJ sit down as if she was in pain. "Are you alright, CJ?"
"Yeah, I think I just have indigestion or something." CJ said as she tried to stand up, only to find that it was rather hard to.
"CJ?" Carol rushed over to her. "CJ, what's wrong?"
"The pain...it hurts." There were tears in her eyes. "Oh G-d Carol...I think I'm going into labor."
"What? You're four months pregnant."
CJ looked up. "Get Toby for me."
Carol ran out of the office to find Toby.
Toby's office....
"I told no one to come in," Toby said when he heard a knock at the door. Carol opened the door.
"I thought I said...Carol? What's the matter?"
"It's CJ. Something's wrong. I don't know what. She just said to come and get you."
Toby ran out of his office and into CJ's. "CJ?" He ran to her side "Honey, what's wrong? Where does it hurt?"
"Just take me to the ER." She said quietly.
He complied. "Carol, please tell Sam to watch Derek. Tell Derek that I
had to take CJ to get a check up or something."
"Okay."
The hospital....
"Well?" Toby asked when the doctor came out of the room.
"It's okay, Mr. Ziegler. Your wife is experiencing what we call
braxton-hicks contractions. For some reason, she is contracting. We have put her on some medication. She's going to be fine. She just needs to take it easy."
"But she's ok?" Toby asked.
"Yes, but I want her to cut down her hours at work. I know in your jobs, it's hard too. But it would be better for the baby." The doctor said.
"I think we can do that." Toby looked over at CJ.
"Right?"
"Who's going to do the briefings?" CJ asked while sitting up.
"Simon." Toby said. "That is why you have a deputy CJ."
"Yeah, but his in California on vacation."
"Well, I'll get his ass back here." Toby snapped.
"Don't snap Ziegler." CJ hit him.
"Sorry, come on." Toby helped CJ get dressed.
"Here are some pills for her to take. Just take three a day with food."
"Thank you again doctor." Toby smiled.
"I seem to be seeing you guys more then anyone who lives in DC."
"I can now say you won't see us for a long time." CJ said while getting up.
"I'm sick of hospitals."
"Take it easy." The doctor laughed and walked out.
As Toby was taking CJ out, his cell phone starting ringing. He grabbed it.
"What?" Toby snapped in the phone.
"It's Sam, we have a bit of a problem."
"Not now Sam..."
"It's about the briefing."
"What?"
"Well, with Simon in California, and Leo in a meeting. Then I was watching Derek..."
"Sam!"
"Josh did it."
"Oh G*d." Toby put his head down. "What happened?"
"Well, let's just say it was a lot worse the his secret plan to fight inflation." Sam laughed.
"I'll be down soon. I'm taking CJ home then I'll be in." Toby hung up the phone and got in the car.
"What happened?" CJ asked.
"Don't worry about it. I'm just going to kill Josh." Toby said while driving away.
"Are you sure everything's okay," CJ asked as Toby pulled up in front of the house.
"Yes, everything's fine, I promise."
"Okay. If I need anything I'll just go out and get it--Oh wait, I can't," she said as she put a sly grin on her face. "Your car seems to be in non-working condition."
"Shut up."
"Is that any way to treat your wife?"
"CJ..."
"I know, I know. I'll be fine. I'll call if I need anything." She Kissed him and opened the car door. "I love you."
"I love you too." He watched her go into the house. He then drove away, ready to kill Josh.
White House....
"When's my dad coming back?" Derek asked Sam.
"Soon, I'm sure." Sam smiled and sat next to him.
"So how are you feeling?"
"Better, I guess."
"You guess?"
"I think I made mom and dad mad at me today." He looked down at the floor.
"What do you mean?" Sam looked at him.
"When that thing happened in school. I probably made them mad that they had to leave work."
"Hey. You are their number one priority." Sam said firmly. "Derek, Look at me." He looked at Sam. "They love you more than anything in the world."
"Then why does it feel like they're mad at me?" He started to cry a little.
Sam put his arms around him.
Just then, Toby burst into the bullpen. "Where is he? I am going to Kill him!"
Derek looked up. "See? I told you," he said to Sam as he hid in Sam's embrace.
"What did I say?" Toby asked confused.
"Derek thinks you're mad at him." Sam snapped. "Derek, he wasn't talking about you." Sam said softly.
"Yes he was."
"He was talking about Josh."
"Really?" Derek wiped his tears away.
"Yes really." Toby hugged Derek. "I'm never mad at you."
"I keep forgetting I live in a very strange family now."
"Where is he?" Toby asked Sam.
"Well, he found out that you were coming, so he's hiding."
"Hiding?"
"Yeah, Leo's after him too."
"What did he say?" Toby snapped.
"Well, it's not really bad, but it's not true." Sam smiled.
"Sam, I don't understand what you just said, just tell me now!"
"Well, he said that..."
"That what?"
"A reporter asked him about the book."
"Oh no."
"Oh yes."
"He is dead meat!" Toby stomped off in the direction of Joshıs office.
"Hello Toby," Donna said.
"Where is he?"
"Who?"
"Donna, if you donıt tell me now, I will--"
"In his office." She ran back to her desk.
Toby opened Joshıs door.
"Do you knock?"
"What the hell was that all about?!"
"You mean the question?" He asked like a scared child.
"Yes, I mean the question," Toby said, imitating him.
"Well, you can be prickly..."
Toby glared at Josh.
TBC...