A/N: The reason why I deleted this story in the first place was I had a very horrible case of the writer's block and I was kind of an idiot for that from I thought about it right now but now, this story is coming back because I had some really good ideas for the upcoming chapters starting with chapter eight, a brand new one and I will promise you this: there is absolutely no way that this story will be delete.
Title: More Fishes in the Sea.
Author: MrsFitzgerald52
Rating: PG-13
Relationship: D/M *not slash*
Genres: Friendship, Romantic, and Drama
POV: Danny and some Martin later on.
Setting: The summer after season 7 to maybe through the impossible season 8.
Summary: Will their friendship get even better when Danny told Martin to forget about his ex and goes on a vacation which brings surprises to the both of them.
Chapter One
Martin Fitzgerald had been quiet. Real quiet.
He's not kidding.
For the last month, Danny Taylor had noticed this in his best friend and it made Danny worried about him. Since Kim had broken up with him, Martin did only four things: work, eat, sleep, and drinks. Sure that Martin did those things since Danny knew him but this time, it was different.
He pulls a couple of all-nighters, came to work late once a week, had a few scotches than usual, and believe it or not, Martin hadn't noticed that Danny had taken half of his food half the time. So, from all of this observing, this had made Danny worried about him and knew that he had to talk to his best friend about it and to see if he can help him out.
Danny really wanted to do this to Martin at their NA/AA meeting at the community center but it didn't worked out. It didn't worked out because Martin was so damn quiet at the time and was so into the meeting that Danny knew that he had to wait until they get to the bar so this will be only between the both of them, not in front of former addicts.
When the meeting had ended fifteen minutes after eight at night, Danny and Martin walked over to Ray's, a bar where the both of them goes to have drinks, talked about things, and watches sport games on the old televisions that the owner, Ray Parker, owns.
On this June night, Game five between the Lakers and the Celtics with a tie of 2 to 2, was on TV and on full volume that their drinks of scotch and a club soda for Danny came right away from a waitress with tan skin, long black hair, and green eyes in her mid-twenties named Maria.
"Thanks, Maria." said Danny who thanked her for giving them their drinks instead of shouting out for them over the loud volume of the old, rotten television. Maria smiled at the both of them while telling them that she had no problem with it and left them to get the other customers their drinks.
Danny smiled when Maria had left but when he turned to Martin, his blue eyes were glued to the screen, watching Kobe Bryant did a slam dunk and scored his team two points. After seeing that, Danny sighed to himself, not because Bryant and the rest of the Lakers are leading, because he had to get Martin to talk to him, no matter what.
About five minutes later, a commercial break had came on and Martin turned to his half-filled glass of brown liquor, stared at it, drank it all, put it down, and was about to order another when Danny turned to him and asked him, "Hey, Fitzy. Are you okay?"
Without turning around to him and answering his question, the only words that Martin had said to him are: "Yeah, I'm okay."
Knowing that he wanted more than that, Danny put his hand on Martin's shoulder and shook it which got Martin's attention and turned to him and gave him a 'what?' face.
Danny saw that and asked him, "Martin, I really got to ask because I am starting to worry about you and I wanted to know if you are with your life right now?"
Martin just stared at Danny for a few seconds and gave him a confused face. Danny saw that face and said back to him, "Come on, Martin. Let me pretend that I am your priest, you had to give me your confession and if you tell me about it right now, I can help you out with it."
Martin continued staring at him but moments later, a smile had appeared on his face and with that smile of his, Martin said back to him, "Sure, Danny. I will do it with you."
Danny grinned at his friend when Martin told him that and later joked to him, "Okay then, Fitzy but now: confess!" Martin laughed to himself when his friend did that, cleared his voice and well, 'confess' to Danny.
"Well, Danny. I think that you had noticed that I had been doing some weird things like pulling all-nighters at work, sleeping in more, drinking more, growing a five o'clock shadow, and letting you eat half of my food without noticing it first." explained by Martin who was looking at him to see if he had got it.
In return, Danny nodded back to him, telling him to go on. Martin saw that, smiled at him, and went back to his confession.
"But I was doing that because I thought that it might helped forget about her, you know, because of her lying to me and such other things and well, it didn't worked."
Danny stared at Martin's blue eyes for a while and asked him, "Why it didn't worked out, Martin?" Martin continued staring at him and said back to him, "It didn't worked out because I thought about Kim more often through I supposed to forget about her. I tried so hard but it was pretty hard for me."
At that moment, Martin looked at Danny's brown eyes with his blue eyes and said to him, "Danny, can you help me out with it. Please?"
Danny looked at Martin for a few seconds before letting a smile appeared on his face and said back to him, "Sure, Martin. I will help you out with this."
Martin looked at Danny and listened to him while Danny was giving advice to him that will helped his friend out with his life. "Martin, you got to forget about Kim. She had betrayed you. She's a horrible woman to you. You had to move on."
"By what, Danny because I had no damn clue about it." interrupted by Martin who was understanding this right now. Danny stared closely at Martin and said back to him, "I don't know. Take some time off or something. Take a vacation. Eye on another woman that you think who's cute. Even ask out for Christ's sakes but I am telling you this because you and I knew that you had to move on before what else will happen to you which is not doing anything."
After saying that, Danny sat back and smiled back at him to see if Martin understood it.
After waiting for a few minutes, with a smile on his face, Martin thanks him for helping him out with it and in return, Danny told him that he had no problem with it and he's always here to help him out. Martin grinned at him and went back to the game. Danny did the same thing.
A few minutes later, Martin looked down at his shot glass and said to it, "I need a vacation." Telling him that he had completely agreed with him, Danny patted his hand on Martin's shoulder while saying to him, "Yeah, Martin. I completely agreed with you."