Stay By My Side Chapter 1
Disclaimer: ChaoChao does NOT own Flashpoint, its characters or places.
ChaoChao: I don't even live in Canada, Disclaimer, remember I'm American. This story's plot will not go in episode order, but I will use some of them while making my own hot calls. I haven't even finished watching all of the show...yet. Anyway, this story is a slight AU with a main OC paired with Spike so if you were hoping he was with Winnie this isn't a story for you, but if you're a Jam fan than this story is somewhat for you, but mostly for those who are major fans of Spike. This is my first story for Flashpoint so I hope you like it...
Enjoy!
Spike walked through the barn's door with a duffel bag full of clothes for morning workout over his shoulder.
"Hey Spike!" Winnie greeted as she looked up from her desk.
"Morning, Winnie, the team here yet?"
"Parker, Ed, and Wordy. Jules is getting coffee and Rolie is going to be slightly late." Winnie informed him.
"And Lou?"
"He's with the Boss in the briefing room." Winnie replied.
He nodded, "Okay, thanks for the info." he smiled as he waved over his shoulder and walked into the men's locker room to change.
He came out a few minutes later in the SRU uniform without all of the guns and armor and walked into the workout room where Ed and Wordy were lifting weights.
The two older men heard his footsteps and looked up and greeted him, "Got your lazy butt up." Wordy teased.
"Finally..." Ed joked making the men laugh as Jules and Rolie showed up.
"Coffee's here!" Jules smiled as the rest of the team thanked her and grabbed a cup.
"Nice work, Jules." Greg smiled as he took a cup.
"No problem, boss." she smiled as she took a sip of her double shot coffee and Lou walked up on his phone.
"Who are you texting?" Spike asked winking at Lou, who blushed in embarrassment as their team broke out in laughter.
"A friend unlike you, Spike, who would rather date Babycakes then an actual girl." Lou teased as they one armed hug each other in greeting.
"Enough messing around, workout time." Ed ordered, everyone nodded and went to the machines.
"You left without me this morning." Spike stated to Lou as they sparred.
"I-I had some stuff to take care of."
Spike raised a confused eyebrow, "Like what?"
"Um..." Lou trailed off as Spike knocked him to the ground to Team One's surprise.
"You're off your game, Lou." Ed stated with a concerned eyebrow raise.
"Uh yeah sorry, I was distracted." Lou said as an excuse.
"Give him a break." Greg said as Spike helped his best friend to his feet.
"Fine, but I was totally going to tease him about how a geek kicked his butt." Spike smiled.
"Yeah yeah whatever, I'll give you this one." Lou smiled.
"You don't have a choice." Spike said as the siren went off.
"Team One hot call!" Winnie yelled.
"Gear up!" Greg ordered as Team One quickly ran out, geared up and hopped into their vans to get to their destination.
As soon as Team One got to the plaza, Greg hopped out and went straight to Inspector Stainton to see what the situation is.
"Looks like the calvary has arrived." Stainton said as the rest of Team One walked up.
"What's going on?" Greg asked.
"There's a guy that took a female bystander hostage and he killed another woman earlier, we keep trying to talk to him, but he doesn't understand." Stainton replied, Greg nodded.
"We'll take care of it from here, team, Eddie you're Sierra Two, Jules you're Sierra One, Lou in the truck and get me a translator, Rolie help the officers keep the the Soutnwest contained, Spike and Wordy with me, let's go." Greg ordered.
"Copy that!" Team One confirms.
"It must be Jules Day." Eddie smirked.
"Everyday is Jules Day." Jules smiled as she grabbed a Remmy and headed out, Ed shaking his head with a chuckle as he grabbed his sniper rifle and closed the van and headed out.
"Which building, Lou?" Jules asked as Ed walked up next to her.
"Only two of the buildings are high enough to get you the right vantage point, North and East." Lou said.
"I'll take North, Jules East." Ed ordered.
"Copy that." Jules said as she ran towards the east building as Eddie ran north.
Greg walked up to the subject with Wordy and Spike equipped with assault rifles.
"Sir, my name is Sergeant Greg Parker of the Strategic Response Unit, can you tell us what's going on." Greg asked.
The subject yells angrily in another language, the hostage sobs uncontrollably.
"Please calm down and lower the gun."
"Almost to the roof, boss." Ed said.
"Good, Jules?" Greg asks.
"Elevator is out of order, taking the stairs." Jules informed.
"Get there ASAP." Greg ordered.
"Sir, can you lower your weapon and tell us what we can do for you?" Greg asked, the man yelling even more.
"In position." Ed informed.
"Jules?" Greg asked.
"How old are those building plans?" Jules asked.
"Why?" Lou asked.
"There's construction and the stairs that are suppose to be here is a wall." Jules informed the team.
"Boss..." Jules trailed off.
"Eddie, you're Sierra One." Greg ordered.
"Copy that, I have the solution." Eddie informed them.
"That's nice to know..." Spike muttered, making the team chuckle.
"Jules, head back to the Command truck and help Lou." Greg ordered.
"Copy that, heading down." Jules said as she ran back down the stairs.
"Rolie, update?" Greg asked.
"Boss, Southwest is contained, leaving the officer to go to the crime scene of the other woman's murder." Rolie said.
"Copy that, let's find out who this guy is?" Greg said.
Jules opened and went inside the Command truck.
"Do we have a name?" Greg asked.
"I think so, Boss, a Blair Kowalski, he shot and killed his wife earlier it looks like." Jules informed him.
"Confirmed." Rolie said. "I'm here with the first responders."
"Tell us when you find something." Greg ordered.
"Copy that." Rolie said as he turned back to the officer. "Do you know why her husband would kill her and then take a hostage?"
"Sorry Constable, I have no clue why, all I know is that some people saw them fighting and that she was trying to get away from him." the officer said.
"It's fine." Rolie assured the officer before heading back towards York Plaza. "Did you guys hear that?"
"Yeah, but why did he want his wife to come with him?" Greg asked. "What was she afraid of?"
"I think I can answer that, Boss, Kowalski's wife has a restraining order against her husband." Jules informed.
"They were going through a rough divorce too." Lou said.
"Understood, let's try again..." Greg muttered with a frustrated sigh.
"Mr. Kowalski, we know you and your wife were having problems, but that doesn't mean that you can get away with hurting an innocent woman." Greg said slowly with his hands faced up in surrender. "I'm going to holster my weapon and we can talk."
More yelling from Mr. Kowalski, "Boss, he's escalating." Wordy said.
"Sierra One."
"I still have the solution, he's holding her pretty tight but it shouldn't be a problem." Ed informed.
"Be ready, Eddie." Greg said.
"Copy that." Ed said as the gunman pointed and shot at a cement blockade Greg was hiding behind with Spike and Wordy.
"You okay, Boss?" Jules asked in worry.
"We're fine, hold your fire, Sierra One." Greg ordered.
"Sierra One is holding fire." Ed stated.
"Mr. Kowalski, I know you didn't mean to shoot just a lot of pressure is piling up, huh." Greg said.
"Boss, we have a problem, a young man just broke perimeter." Ed informed the team.
"Copy that, Rolie?" Greg asked.
"On my way." Rolie said as he ran up and stopped the young man with an officer.
"Let me go!" the young man yelled. "Tata! Let me talk to my father! Tata!"
"Officer, escort him out of here." Rolie ordered as the officer nodded and lead the angry man away.
"Bystander under control, heading back to the Command truck." Rolie said as he ran back.
"Copy that." Greg said.
"Your son wants to talk to you, but we can't let him see you until you put the gun down, Mr. Kowalski." Greg informed the angry father.
Mr. Kowalski yelled and raised his weapon again as his son broke perimeter from the northeast this time.
"Scorpio." Greg said as Ed fired.
"The son just broke perimeter!" Rolie yelled over the comm.
Ed saw the son come into his sight right after he fired. "Looking for visual." Ed informed, hoping that he didn't shoot the kid by accident.
"No!" the son sobbed hugging his father's bloodied body as officers moved in to escort the hostage to safety and to detain the kid.
"Good job, team." Greg said over the comm as Ed came down to ground level.
"You killed my father!" the kid yelled, trying to pull away from the officers.
"SIU on scene." Lou informed.
"You know the drill." the SIU officer said, taking Ed's rifle and kit.
"No talking." the officer said as Stainton gave Ed a nod for a job well done.
"Close your ears for a minute so I can ask my friend if he's alright, you alright?" Greg asked.
Ed nodded, "I'm fine." he said as he was escorted away.
"Load her up and let's get back." Greg ordered.
Jules walked to the back of one of the vans to put her rifle away, "Nice weapon, you don't see a woman in the police force that often." a blond male half-smiled, surprising Jules as she turned to see him.
"Yeah, it is." Jules said with a slight smile.
"I have a pistol with pearl grips, you want to see?" he asked.
Jules quickly unholstered her sidearm and aimed at the civilian, "Put your hands up, now!" Jules yelled as the rest of her team ran over at her raised voice.
"What's going on?" Wordy asked Jules as he Spike, Lou, and Rolie raised their pistols at the blond male.
Greg walked up to see what the problem was, "I thought I told you Corporal to wait at Headquarters?" Greg asked with a raised eyebrow.
"You did, but I heard it on the radio and couldn't help myself." the blond shrugged.
Greg shook his head with a small smile, "We'll meet you back at the barn, team, let's go." Greg ordered.
As the team nodded and packed up and hopped into their vehicles to head back. Everyone put their equipment away and met up by Winnie's desk as they heard Greg talking with the new guy.
"What do you think this guy is doing here?" Jules asked.
Spike and Lou shrugged, "I have no idea, but there is only one way to find out." Wordy said as the briefing room door raised.
"What's going on?" Ed asked as he walked up to his teammates.
Everyone shrugged, "Team One, get in here I have someone you guys need to meet." Greg ordered as the team walked in and sat down in their usual seats around the table.
They all looked to see that the blond guy was standing at the head of the table with their boss. "This is Samuel Braddock, he is our newest member of Team One." Greg introduced.
"Newest member?" everyone gasped in shock.
"We don't have any room on the team for a new member, Greg." Ed said with a frown, getting everyone into thinking about who is going to be removed from the team to fit in the new guy.
Greg realized this when he noticed his team's worried looks. "I'm not firing anyone, but our family has to break up since Rolie was promoted to sergeant on Team Four." Greg smiled as Rolie's mouth dropped down in shock and everyone congratulated the new sergeant.
"Wow...I'm honored." Rolie said still in shock.
"You deserve it." Greg smiled. "Braddock here will be Rolie's replacement, everyone."
Everyone nodded in understanding, but Jules wasn't too happy about the newest member of Team One because she was still mad at him for earlier and doesn't trust him as far as she can throw him.
"Welcome to the team, Braddock." Ed frowned making the blond gulp in slight fear.
"Um...you guys can call me Sam." Sam said, everyone nodded in agreement.
"Well, looks like shift is over, head on home." Greg said, everyone stood up and headed for the door.
"Sam, you want to come to the Goose with us to celebrate Rolie's promotion and I guess your recruitment to the team?" Lou asked.
"Sure..." Sam trailed off as Jules frowned and walked away. "What's up with her?"
"I'll go talk to her, we'll meet you there, Greg, go." Ed ordered shooing his team members out of the briefing room.
He walked over to Jules's locker room and knocked. He heard her call out decent and walked in shutting the door behind him.
"What's wrong, Jules?" Ed asked.
She sighed as she slammed shut her locker and turned to face him, "I don't like that guy, there's something about him that bothers me. Plus how can, Boss decide on a new member without us!"
"Jules, he has his reasons. I don't like that he decided this on his own, but we'll just have to deal with it. Maybe you'll find things in common with him." Ed teased as she growled in anger and he quickly ran out of her locker room to the men's before she could beat him to a pulp.
Jules pulled out her hair band, letting her hair fall to her shoulders, smirking to herself on a plan to get back at Ed.
Ed chuckled as he slammed shut the locker room door behind him to everyone's surprise and leaned against it in case Jules did chase after him.
"Do we want to know?" Wordy asked with a raised eyebrow.
Ed just smirked evily, Greg shook his head, Spike and Lou chuckled to themselves as they finished putting on their civilian clothes. Rolie snickered into his hand and Sam just had a very confused look on his face. Ed opened his locker and quickly changed into a gray shirt, jeans, and a black leather jacket.
"I don't think we do..." Greg sighed shaking his head as the whole team left the locker room to see Jules talking with Winnie before noticing that Ed showed up again.
She smirked and walked up to us innocently, "Took you guys forever." Jules stated as she shot Ed a 'you really shouldn't mess with me next time if you want to live' look.
"Usually you are the one that takes forever." Spike whined making everyone laugh, she glared at him but started laughing too.
"Let's go." Lou said as he checked his phone.
"Seriously who are you texting, that's like the twentieth time in the last five minutes that you've checked your phone." Spike accused his friend, trying to look at the screen.
Everyone raised an eyebrow in question, "Just a friend, let's just get going." Lou said, everyone gave in and walked out. Spike still didn't give up on the way to the Goose though.
"Tell me, I beg you!" Spike whined dramatically as they walked into their usual bar and over to their usual seats at the bar counter.
"Can't you just get the information yourself?" Sam asked, stopping Spike's whining instantly as he realized that he could.
"Thanks Sam..." Lou said insincerely as the team laughed.
"Nice to see you guys again, how did shift go?" the barman asked as he poured the usual drinks for everyone.
"Difficult..." Wordy trailed off.
"We're you guys at that York Plaza place?" the barman asked.
Greg nodded solemnly, "Yeah, we had to make a difficult decision today."
"And Rolie got a promotion!" Spike smiled brightly.
"Really?" the guy asked, Rolie nodded.
"The rank of sergeant." Rolie stated.
"Wow, congratulations, man! Did you hear that, Noemi?" he called as the office door closed behind a young woman as she walked into the main area.
"What, Tom?" the girl asked, gaining everyone's attention in the building.
Every man's mouth dropped to the floor in awe at her beauty, Tom didn't even drop a sweat when she walked over and took a tray of drinks some patrons ordered from him.
"These men and woman are apart of the SRU and my friend and loyal fan was just promoted to sergeant." Tom said way too dramatically.
Noemi tilted her head in confusion at her boss before turning to Team One and Rolie. She smiled at Rolie, "Congrats...hey Lou nice to see you!" she smiled brightly.
Spike, Team One and every other single man there stared in jealousy at Lou for knowing her personally.
"Uh...nice to see you again, Noemi..." Lou blushed in embarrassment as Noemi walked over to him and hugged him.
Her hug made his cheeks bright red, she laughed at his expression, "Come on Lou, we've known each other since we were kids." she whined playfully. "I thought you would have gotten over my weirdness years ago." she winked at him before strutting over to a booth to give patrons their drinks which was a group of college age playboys.
Those guys stared at her dressed in a really short black party dress and at her flaming red hair and deep innocent blue eyes.
"You have some explaining to do." Ed glared, every guy on the team nodded in agreement, Jules rolled her eyes and flipped her hair out of her face.
"I told you she's just a friend." Lou said.
"So she's the one you've been texting all day!" Spike realized, Lou nodded in slight embarrassment.
"She's hot." Sam stated, the guys nodded.
"Wow, men these day..." Jules sighed shaking her head.
"Hey beautiful, can I have your number?" one of the playboys asked Noemi.
Lou's head shot up and death glared the guy and was standing up to go over there and cause some major physical damage to the poor soul, luckily Greg and Ed stopped him.
"Yeah, if you want to get murdered by my father and dumped in a ditch where you won't ever be found at." she responded without missing a beat as she walked back over to Tom, every guys' face following her movement.
"Tom, I need an ice tea." she informed him as he quickly made it and handed it to her and she walked over to a girl's table and put it down before coming back and sat down in front of Tom, the girls in the room death glared at her for stealing the guys' attention.
Sam, Spike, and Rolie stared in awe that this whole situation was actually happening. She pulled out her phone and checked her messages when a guy walked up to her from behind and sat down way too close for comfort.
"Hey sweet cheeks, do you want to get out of here with me and go somewhere more private?" the creepy guy asked, Noemi frowned blankly at him when Jules walked over and sat down next to her.
"Sorry, but Mimi is here with me." Jules said hugging Noemi to her chest.
Noemi smiled and kissed Jules's cheek, the guy and every guy got the message that she leans the other way and went back to their conversations, instantly forgetting her which made the girls smile happily. As soon as everyone did the two women pulled away and high-fived each other.
"Thanks for the cock block!" Noemi laughed.
"No problem, I'm Jules." Jules said shaking Noemi's hand.
"Noemi as you know, you must be the amazing, talented and extremely beautiful woman sniper and negotiator of Team One." Noemi smiled brightly, to Jules and Team One's surprise.
"Lou..." Team One trailed off.
"I-I kind of mentioned you guys..." Lou chuckled nervously.
"Kind of is an understatement, but I'm glad I had you to save me from creeper number 1999." Noemi smiled.
Jules and Team One's eyes widen in shock at the high number. Noemi nodded with a sad frown, "Yeah, doesn't really help when you have to dress this way and have in my father's words quote on quote 'royal genes so you should act the part', a royal pain sounds more like it if you ask me." Noemi muttered as another guy walked through the door gaining every girls' attention at his sexyness.
He had dark brown hair, an angular jaw, toffee brown eyes, he was wearing slightly loose jeans, gray and blue tennis shoes, a blue t-shirt and a slightly unzipped black high collar jacket.
He looked around before noticing Noemi and smiled and snuck up behind her and covered her eyes making her jump slightly before giggling.
He kissed her cheek to everyone's surprise, they were all slightly confused because a few seconds ago she was gay and now straight.
"Guess who?" the guy smiled brightly and chuckled as Noemi tapped her chin in thought.
"Hm... Josh?" Noemi guessed, making the guy pout and sigh sadly as she broke out in laughter and pulled his hands away from her eyes. "Derek, I'm kidding, kay."
He chuckled shaking his head. "I hate when you do that." he said as he kissed her lips.
She smacked him playfully away, Lou glared along with the single men of Team One and the single girls and guys in the bar.
"No kissing." she teased with a playful wink as she looked over to a furious Lou. "Oops..."
"Noemi." Lou growled, Derek shot the slightly shorter man a 'who the heck are you and what do you want?' look.
Derek hugged Noemi to his chest almost making her fall backwards out of her seat. "Yo watch it, Derek!" she whined with a glare as she moved forward back into her seat.
Derek frowned and laid an arm around her back, "Noemi is mine so drop your little crush and go home so the big dog can play." Derek grinned, knowing he was making Lou mad as hell.
Lou stood up, "Lou, calm down Derek is just being a jerk like always, I really don't know why I deal with his shit." Noemi muttered, bored.
"This is one interesting team..." Sam trailed off as he took a swig of his beer.
"Come on, don't be like that, Noemi." Derek called as she got up and walked behind the bar to lean against the counter next to Tom, who was chuckling to himself the whole time as he watched.
"If this guy is your boyfriend, Noemi, I really don't approve." Derek and Lou said at the same time earning a glare from the other.
Noemi broke out in laughter, "You two are delusional, for one: neither of you are my type, two: Derek, Lou and I grew up in the same neighborhood before I moved away, and three: Lou, this is my employee and one of my best friends. Now I want to see some hugging and making up!" Noemi ordered.
Ed broke out in full blown laughter at that, almost chocking on his beer. "I really like this girl!"
Greg and Wordy nodded as they took a sip from their drinks, breaking out in smiles.
"Sounds like you, Ed." Spike joked as he aha happily at his phone.
Lou looked over his best friend's shoulder to see his phone records. "Spike, why do you have my phone records?"
Everyone laughed loudly as Spike just smiled innocently and scrolled through them. Lou tried to take it away, "Hey, those are private!"
"Not anymore..." Sam stated as he drank some of his beer.
"This is all your fault for giving him the idea!" Lou accused with a glare.
Sam shrugged as Jules broke out in laughter and the rest of Team One chuckled into their hands. Sam smiled that he finally got Jules to make a different expression than anger.
"You can get phone records?" Noemi asked as she leaned in front of Spike.
Spike blushed, "Y-Yeah..."
"Can you teach me?" Noemi asked with a tilt of her head.
Greg, Wordy, and Ed shook their head when Spike glanced over, "I-I would if I could, but it's against the law..." he trailed off.
"That's too bad...it would be so cool to know how to do that, you're lucky you are the law." Noemi smiled.
Spike smiled brightly with a slight blush, "Um...y-yeah... It is pretty cool to be a geek."
"Geek?" Noemi asked, Spike nodded with a confused frown. "You shouldn't be putting yourself down like that when you're a police officer, you save lives. I wish I could be as awesome as you guys." Noemi sighed with a pout.
Sam frowned, "Why can't you?"
Derek chuckled to himself, Noemi glared at him. "I'm not really into the law and stuff.
"That's an understatement." Derek laughed as another guy smacked the back of his head, the members of Team One were very confused.
Noemi smiled brightly, "Josh, whatcha doing here?" she asked.
"Well, Noelle..." the guy sighed with a smirk as the team frowned even more confused.
"Stop it Josh, it's Noemi, you known I hate that nickname." Noemi pouted.
"You have too many nicknames, Noey, can't you be normal and go by your actual name like everyone else." Josh complained.
Noemi shook her head, "You know I can't so if you got a problem with it, deal with it on your own time or I can get a new business partner...that goes for either of you." Noemi stated crossing her arms in front of her as Derek punched Josh's shoulder with a glare.
"Fine... You both are no fun." Josh whined as he ran a hand through his platinum blond hair.
"Nicknames?" Lou asked.
Noemi sighed, "I never really liked my real name so I usually go by my middle name or a nickname of it or a nickname from my real name. Confusing I know, but that's the way I am." she shrugged.
"Don't worry we all have nicknames!" Spike smiled brightly. "My real name is Michelangelo and my nickname is Spike!"
"How do you get Spike from that?" Noemi asked with a confused tilt of her head.
"You don't. Spike's hair use to be spikey in the Police Academy and the rest is history as they say." Lou smiled with a laugh.
"I see... Well, that's nice to know, I wish I could have seen your hair back then." Noemi said.
"Noemi, we have work to be doing." Derek said giving her a 'we don't have time to be wasting' look.
Josh pouted, "Right... Well, thanks Tom for letting me cover for Faith, I'll see you around. It was nice meeting you guys. See yah around, LouLou." she teased with a wave as she walked out with Derek on her right and Josh on her left.
"LouLou?!" Spike gasped before laughing uncontrollably.
The team laughed at the new nickname, "Shut up, it's not funny!" everyone kept laughing. "Seriously it isn't funny! I hate you guys so much." he pouted as he nursed his beer.
They laughed and bantered with each other late into the night before heading home to bed.
The light turned on as soon as the three business partners walked into their boss's office. "I thought you said you don't like getting personal." Derek stated with a raised eyebrow as Noemi sat down behind the cherry wood oak desk.
"I don't and I have my reasons for getting 'personal' as you say." she air quoted as she leaned back in her office chair.
"Those are cops, Noemi!" Josh stated in fear as he and Derek both took off their black high collared jackets and sat them down on hooks on the coat rack by the door.
"I know, that's the point."
"I don't get it..." they trailed off.
Noemi shook her head, "There is a method to my madness." she stated as she opened up a folder laying on her desk.
They pouted, "There's always a reason to your craziness, but I want some real action now." Josh whined boxing the air.
Noemi smirked evilly, "All in due time...all in due time..."