Taking a little break from my other story. Tell me if you guys like this idea. I love reviews. I want to know what you guys think. I got the idea around 2:00 the morning. Lol
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"This place smells funny." Mackenzie wrinkled her nose and looked at her father. "We aren't staying here long right?" She looked around again. She would only be here on the weekends. It was small, but cozy. The woman up front only had one room left. A one room bed with a kitchenette. It was big enough for her and her dad and that was all she needed.
"No," John replied. "Just until I can find a nice house." He sat down next to her on the couch. "Since your mother took everything, we get to stay in this beautiful shit hole till I can find something." he smiled at her as she laughed.
"It doesn't matter where we live, as long as I'm with you dad, I'm satisfied." John took those words in. He loved when his daughter said things like that. She loved him so much and he the same but his work had gotten between their relationship, and his marriage for that matter.
All he did was work and his now ex wife Caitlyn was tired of it. He couldn't blame her, work all the time. But the thing that hit him most: he cheated on him. He felt it coming. They were seeing less of each other. He came home one day early to surprise her and found her in his bed, their bed, with another man in it. Chuck. The bastard. He was his partner back in the day and were real good friends. And then his life flashed before his eyes and he was sleeping with his wife. How dare he. He heard the door knock, bringing him out of his thoughts.
"Great Up-Chuck is here." Mackenzie said sarcastically.
"He's not supposed to be here for another hour." John looked at his watch. They both got up from the couch and made the way to the door with her stuff.
"So, I have a dance competion tomorrow afternoon. Can you come?" She bit her lip, knowing the answer to her own question.
"Sweetheart I'll try. You know I can't promise anything because of…"
"Work-work. I know, just thought maybe you could this time." She looked down at the ground disappointed. He hated doing this to her. But without work, John McBain was not a complete man.
"Hey, Hey look at me." he raised her chin as they both heard the Chuck-mice-ster banging on the door loudly again. They both ignored it. "I love you, you know that right?" She smiled up at him.
"Of course I know that daddy. I love you too." She hugged him tightly, not wanting to leave.
"You better go, asshole is waiting." John said with displeasure on his face. He opened the door and threw Mackenzie's stuff at the man.
"Hey honey did you have fun? Chuck asked the teenager. She looked at him like he was stupid.
"Don't call me that. Bye daddy." She made her way downstairs. Chuck watched her walk off and then looked back at her father.
"Bye baby. I'll call you…Chuck." John said as he was shutting the door. Chuck's hand stopped it from shutting all the way.
"John, Can we talk?"
"Oh you want to talk? Here let's talk about how you fucked my wife behind my back Chuck. Well um see when I was at work you were fucking my wife. There, we talked now get the hell out of my doorway before I make you." John stood his ground. What an ass. Thinking he could come up here an hour early and think they could talk? The nerve. Chuck sighed and made his way downstairs.
"Oh yeah I expect my daughter an hour early Friday." he yelled and slammed the door shut.
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"It's a party at my friend Shane's house." Mackenzie sighed. She hated when John would third degree her about where she was going.
"Okay and what are you going to be doing?"
"Well first, we're goanna smoke some crack, go run around town naked, and then come back and have sex so we can have a million new babies in Lanview." She said with a smile, but then her smile turned upside-down when she saw that her father wasn't laughing.
"I had plans for us, to go out and eat." He asked his boss if he could have the night off to spend time with his daughter. He needed to make it up to her for missing her competition.
"Yeah, well I had plans that you would be at my dance competition but what we plan never turns out right now does it?" she said coldly. As the words left her mouth she regretted them immediately. But she wasn't one to back down. She knew that there was a possibility that he wouldn't be coming. But she got tired of hearing a maybe, getting her hopes up, only to be let down when she would look behind the certain and never find him.
"I told you that I might not be able to make it." He sighed. Of course she would throw that in his face.
"You always say that!" she screamed. "For once don't you think you could put your family before your work?" The heated argument came to a halt when they heard his phone ring. John looked between his daughter and his phone. It was his boss. Tears brimmed in her eyes as she knew the answer to her question.
"I guess I just found out. I'll call you when I get home if you're not here." she wiped the tears away and walked towards the door.
"Kenzie, wait." She rummaged through her purse and pulled out a DVD, slamming it on the table.
"Since mom records everything, she made you a copy. The dance that I did was in memory of your dad." She looked at him once more and walked out the door. "You better pick up your phone before the big man gets upset."
John listened to the door slam and sighed. She was right…So right. He answered his phone.
"McBain,"
"John, its Bo. Can you come down to the station? I know this is your day off but I have an assignment for you."
"Yeah boss, on my way." He grabbed his coat and on the way out he grabbed the DVD.
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"Can I get another one?" John asked the waitress. She smiled politely.
"Sure McBain." as she walked away he pulled out the files on the new case he was working on. Christian Vega. 31 years old. Murdered in cold blood. The suspect was his girlfriend and little brother. Natalie and Rex Balsam. Apparently she shot him and took off with her brother. Afraid of being caught, they came back to their hometown Lanview. The boss man told him to take a couple of guys with him and find where they are. Lanview was a small town so they couldn't be far. He would figure it out tomorrow, the storm was getting worse out there and he didn't want to risk anything. The waitress quietly sat the beer down on the table.
"Thanks sugar." he chugged the rest of his beer down as he was filling in the paper work on the laptop. He stopped for a moment and pulled out the DVD of his daughter's dance. He put it into the laptop and began to watch.
She was so graceful. The way she moved was delicate, like she was on air. As he looked closely there was something that she would pick up from time to time, and then set it down. He squinted a little, and then realized, it was a picture of his father. He felt like crying then and there. He couldn't believe he did that to her, missing her dance. A tribute, it his own father and he was fucking working. He remembered the birthday where she learned that his promises were never for real.
FLASHBACK
Mackenzie looked around, all the gifts were open, the cake was eaten and the people were gone. She licked the 9 candles that were in the cake. He promised. He promised this time that he would make it. She could hear them fighting in the kitchen as she sat their in the living room looking at her new stuffed animal.
"I said that she doesn't want to talk to you. You missed her fucking birthday John and on top of that you swore to her that you would be here. Why don't you just rip her heart out huh?"
"I told you I had a lead in the case! What was I suppose to do? Just let the guy go so he could go raping more girls? No! I took the lead and ran with it and I found him. So sorry for helping out the fucking community." he yelled back.
"And you couldn't get somebody else on the force to get him? You broke your daughters heart John, does that mean anything to you?" she walked away to the bedroom and shut the door. John ran a hand through his hair. He felt hands wrap around his waste. He looked down to see Mackenzie hugging him. He bent down to her level as she rewrapped her arms around his neck.
"Hey baby girl." he whispered and picked her up, waiting for her to readjust herself in his arms. "I'm sorry I'm late."
"It's okay daddy. I understand. Why were you and mommy fighting?" She asked as she laid her head in the crook of his neck.
"Mommy is mad at me because I missed your birthday because…"
"Of work, I know daddy…I know."
END OF FLASHBACK
John swigged the rest of his beer down and left money on the table, leaving the bar quietly. When he got to the hotel he noticed Mackenzie's car in the parking lot, letting him know that she was home. He checked his phone and noticed the missed call and voicemail.
"Dad, I'm home. Love you bye" He listened to the message as he entered the room and saw her laying down on the bed with the T.V on, book in her lifeless hands and Charlie the Great Dane on the bed. He started the growl but then realizing it was John he got up and wagged his tail.
"Hey buddy," John said patting his head. He saw Mackenzie stir and watched her slowly open her eyes.
"Dad?" she questioned, and rubbed her eyes. He sat on the side of the bed and pulled the covers up on her, taking the book she and, folding her place and sat it down on the nightstand.
"Yeah it's me. Go back to sleep baby." giving her a kiss on the forehead he started to move to the couch. Mackenzie undid the fold tuck and sat up some.
"Wait…wait dad?" She said half asleep. Her words started smashing together. "…love you….you smell like beer." He let out a scoff and walked back over to her.
"Yeah, I had a couple." He smiled at her. She looked all like him, and the only thing she got from her mother was her strawberry blonde hair. He pushed it out of her face as she slowly slinked down back into the sheets.
"Take an Advil, before you sleep…" she let out a big yawn. "Do you want your bed?" John let out a small laugh.
"No, you and Charlie wouldn't fit on the couch, I'll sleep there." He re-tucked her in the sheets. "I watched you're dance, it was beautiful, just like you."
"Thanks daddy. Night night." She said snuggling deep into the sheets.
"Night kido. Sleep tight."
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"Thanks, mom. I…I didn't know who to turn to I…I'm Sorry." Natalie let out a small cry. Rex was already asleep on the couch in the hotel room.
"Don't worry baby, mamma Roxy has got you're back. You let me worry about the coppers okay? Get your rest; I'll wake you up in the morning." Roxy shut the door quietly. Natalie sat down on the bed and cried herself to sleep, ready for the morning to bring hope.