"Is dinner ready yet?" Jamie said as he poked his head into the kitchen.
"We said dinner would be ready in 15 minutes when you asked five minutes ago, so the answer is still no." Erin said sassily back to Jamie.
"What's the rush, kid?" Danny asked. Danny had come into the kitchen for a beer and got roped into making a salad.
"Yeah, you've been antsy since you got here." Linda chimed in. "You got a hot date or something?" Linda continued as she teased Jamie.
Jamie scowled. "No, but I do have plans." Jamie turned and walked away quickly before his family could grill him about his plans.
Truth be told, he sorta did have a hot date. He was getting drinks with Eddie so it wasn't a date technically, but she was hot. Jamie didn't feel like disclosing that information though because he knew Erin and Danny would harass him.
Jamie sat back down on the couch in a huff and turned to Nicki again.
"How's that history class going, Nicki?" Jamie asked.
Nicki chose to ignore the question and ask her own. "Where are you going tonight, Uncle Jamie?"
"I'm just getting drinks with friends." Jamie replied quickly.
"If you say so." Nicki said with a sly smile.
"Don't you need to set the table or something?" Jamie said, trying to get rid of the questions.
Nicki got up and stuck her tongue out at him while she left.
Dinner was finally ready so Jamie took his seat. The family said prayer before digging in.
"You hungry, Jamie?" Henry said, noting how quickly Jamie was eating.
"He has a hot date and is trying to get out of here." Linda teased him again.
Jamie rolled his eyes.
"I do not." he replied, slightly annoyed.
"Then who are you going out with?" Erin said, wanting to get to the bottom of Jamie's weird behavior.
Jamie sighed and decided to give in.
"Ever since they split me and Eddie up, we've always had different shifts. She is finally off tonight so we're getting drinks and catching up."
Erin and Danny exchanged a glance across the table. It was no secret that everyone thought Jamie secretly had a thing for Eddie.
"Well that sounds fun." Erin said casually.
Jamie nodded in acknowledgment and finished his food.
"Dinner was great, I'm heading out." He got up quickly and pushed his chair in.
Everyone said bye while he walked out of the door. After the door shut there was a beat of silence before Frank hesitantly opened his mouth.
"I'm afraid to ask, but are they together?"
Erin shook her head. "Not that I know."
Danny rolled his eyes. "Like he would tell you."
"He always talks to me about stuff like that!" Erin snapped back at Danny.
Suddenly the door opened and Jamie re-entered.
"My car isn't starting up, can I leave it here tonight and come back and fix it tomorrow?" Jamie asked as he re-entered the dining room.
"Sure son. How are you going to get out of here though?" Frank said.
Jamie started typing quickly in his phone. He texted his father's address to Eddie and then called her.
"Hey, you heading over?" Eddie said when she answered.
Jamie turned away from the table and walked into the foyer to talk to her, and to hide his smile upon hearing her voice.
"I was about to, but my car won't start. Can you pick me up? I just texted you the address."
He heard Eddie scoff.
"I know where your apartment is, Jamie. You don't need to send me an address for that."
"I'm not at my apartment, I'm at my dad's house." Jamie replied.
"Oh, right it's Sunday. Um ok, I'll head out now then. I just finished getting ready. Be there in a few."
"Thanks Eddie, I owe you."
"You can buy me churros from that food truck that's down the street from the bar." She said excitedly.
"Something tells me you were already going to make me do that since you thought of that so quickly." Jamie said while laughing softly.
"Probably. Ok bye." She said before hanging up.
Jamie turned and walked back to the table.
"Now you have to do dishes." Danny said while smirking.
Jamie laughed. "I know, I know."
The family started clearing the table while Jamie and Danny made their way to the sink. It was the brothers turn to do dishes this week. Sean and Jack went back to the TV room to finish their video game while Linda, Erin, and Nicki sat down at the table in the kitchen to talk. Frank got down some scotch glasses for an after dinner drink while Henry went to the front room to get the scotch.
Jamie was so busy with the dishes that he didn't hear his phone on the counter buzz.
Eddie had pulled up outside the house. Even though he was Jamie's dad, Eddie didn't really want to see the PC outside work. She also didn't want to fuel any rumors that her and Jamie were together when they were in fact just friends.
"Pick up, Jamie" Eddie murmured as she called his phone again. It went to voicemail and she sighed, she was going to have to go knock on the door and go in.
She took the keys out of her ignition and the overhead light came on. She looked down and immediately realized her top was not appropriate to waltz into the PC's house with. Her perky boobs looked amazing in this top, and she knew it. She wore specifically because she knew she'd be with Jamie. But, the cleavage was defiantly a no go for walking into the Frank Reagan's house. She rooted around in her passenger seat, looking for the sweater she kept there. She found it and wrapped it around herself in an attempt to make her outfit less revealing.
Eddie took a deep breath and walked to the front door. She knocked and waited. A few moments later, an older man answered the door.
"You must be Eddie!" Henry explained.
Eddie quickly realized it was Jamie's grandfather and stuck her hand out.
"Hi commissioner, it's so nice to finally meet you."
Henry scoffed and shook her hand. "You can call me Henry. Come in, come in! I think Jamie is in the kitchen."
Eddie followed him inside to the kitchen.
"Jamie! Eddie is here." Henry yelled as they walked in.
Jamie spun around and dried his hands off.
"Hey! Did you call me?" Jamie asked while he put the towel down.
"Yeah, when you didn't answer I figured I would knock." Eddie replied, she was aware that all eyes of the family had turned to her when she walked in. She was thankful found the sweater to wear in. Everyone greeted Eddie before resuming to their conversations.
"We're not off dish duty yet." Danny complained.
"I think you can handle it, Danny." Jamie replied while he walked toward Eddie.
Jamie saw her sweater and immediately thought it was odd that she was wearing one since it was the middle of summer.
Eddie saw Jamie eyeing her sweater, prompting her to tug it closer around her body. Jamie quickly realized she was wearing it to cover up her bar outfit in front of his family
"Nice sweater." Jamie said softly enough that she could only hear.
"And they say you'll never be a detective." She said back quietly. She blushed knowing that Jamie caught on to why she was wearing the sweater and hoped no one else would.
"Ok, we're heading out." Jamie announced.
"Don't you want to stay for dessert? We picked up a pie from that bakery pop's like so much." Linda said.
"No, we're going." Jamie said adamantly.
"Come on, I'm sure Eddie wants to stay for dessert." Danny said.
Eddie gave Jamie a nervous smile. "We're in no rush." She said to him.
"Ok, it won't be long." Jamie assured her. He knew she probably felt on edge being at his dad's house and didn't want to make her too uncomfortable.
"Great." Danny said, smiling.
Jamie shot Danny a look, hoping that Danny didn't make a scene about him and Eddie.
Frank walked in holding the glasses he had been getting.
"Nice to see you again, Eddie." Frank said as he entered and put the glasses down.
"You too, sir." Eddie said while smiling back to him.
"Are you joining us for dessert?" Frank asked.
"I think we are." Eddie replied.
Linda was passing around plates of pie, they were eating it casually in the kitchen.
"So how is your new temporary partner? I'm sure he's better than the IA mole Jamie is riding with." Danny asked Eddie while he shoveled pie in his mouth.
"He's fine. It was a little bumpy at the start considering the circumstances but it's a little better now. Although he appreciates my knowledge for the best places to eat more than Jamie." Eddie said while elbowing him.
"I think I've lost weight since we stopped riding together." Jamie said while laughing.
Eddie rolled her eyes. "So dramatic. You just won't admit that you miss me picking to eat at the tastiest places in town."
"Is that pizza joint near your prescient still open?" Henry asked.
"Oh yeah, they do buy one slice get one slice free on Mondays. I love that place."
"That place has been there since I was a cop!" Henry said
"Jamie told me that first time we went there actually." Eddie said happily while she munched on pie. "Actually, the owner of that deli we go to a lot asked about you the other day." Eddie continued.
Jamie laughed. "Maybe you should change prescient's so you can have a new area to eat in."
"I could continue my food crawl of New York, one borough at a time." Eddie said laughing.
The two continued to laugh and talk solely to each other, entirely too caught up in each other to include anyone else.
Danny, Erin, Linda and Henry all exchanged glances as the two talked. Frank pretended to ignore the obvious connection they had.
Jamie took Eddie's plate and put it in the sink.
"You're on your own for dishes, Danny. We're actually leaving this time."
"Fine." Danny grumbled.
"Thank you so much for letting me hang out!" Eddie said quickly to everyone, eager to leave to spend more time with Jamie out of their gaze.
"Anytime!" Henry said.
The two left the room, the family left in the kitchen listened until they heard the door shut.
"Ok so they totally like each other." Linda said, stating the obvious.
"Do you think they're together secretly?" Nicki asked.
"Nah, Jamie is too much of a rule follower to do that." Danny said dismissively.
"I don't believe that, there is something going on with them." Nicki argued back.
"What do you think, dad?" Danny said addressing Frank.
"I think I'm going to stay out of this conversation." Frank replied with a small smile.
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"You so owe me, Reagan!" Eddie said while she started the car.
"Ah, it wasn't that bad." Jamie said back as he buckled up.
Eddie took her sweater off to reveal her tight top that barely held her chest in.
"Well I would not have worn this if I knew I had to see the PC before I went bar hopping with his son!" She exclaimed.
Jamie tried not to stare at her chest but the pair just started laughing at their luck.
"Sorry about that. But you do look nice." Jamie finally managed to stammer out as she drove away.
"I know." Eddie said dramatically as she threw her hair over her shoulder.
"I feel like I should be driving though, it's weird having you drive." Jamie said trying to change the subject.
Eddie rolled her eyes before replying. "So, what bar should we start at, partner?"
The end! Hope you enjoyed
