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Despite the fact that Jake hadn't raised his daughter, he and Emily were extremely close, they talked all the time and every holiday Jake went over to the UK to see her. What concerned him was that she hadn't mentioned her step father before or even that her mother was getting married which suggested to him that all of this had happened quickly.

"Mom?" Tinny called when she saw Emily lying asleep on the couch early in the morning.

"Wha?" Kathleen replied walking into the living room, already filled in on yesterdays events so was not at all concerned about the teenager asleep on the couch.

"Why's there a girl on the couch and who is she?" Tinny asked folding her arms across her chest as she walked towards her mother.

"She's your cousin." Kathleen informed, zipping up the jacket of her daughter's police jacket and then pouring each of them a cup of coffee as though the detail wasn't important when Tinny had no idea that her cousin was on the same continent as she was.

"That's Emmy?!"

"Shhh. She flew in yesterday." Kathleen explained, handing Tinny her coffee in a to-go cup. "G'wan off wid ya." she shooed. Tinny huffed and grabbed her bag on the way out just as Jake was coming down the stairs.

"Sister."

"Mornin'. Tinny came down and found Emily on the couch." Kathleen said.

"So how much did you tell her?" Jake sighed.

"Nothin'. How did Leslie take the news?"

"Fine. I tink. Dropped the charges from the RNC. She said that I coulda told her about Emmy and she was right, I coulda." he admitted.

"You didn't tell Nikki so it makes sense that you didn't tell Leslie." Kathleen said.

"I didn't get married to Leslie while drunk."

"True. I wanted to tell Leslie though but..." Jake replied because truthfully he had wanted to tell Leslie about Emily for a while.

"But it's difficult to explain a teenage daughter." Kathleen understood because on more than one occasion she had to explain to guys that she had a daughter.

As Emily slept on the couch she remembered, dreamed of the night that she ran away. When her mum, Caroline, had died she'd been at home, Caroline was supposed to pick Emily up from work when she was on her way home but Emily had finished early so she'd walked instead. That didn't stop Emily imagining what it had been like in the car that day. The stereo had probably been playing the local radio station but they would have talked over it anyways until a song came on that they liked and they would have sang along loudly and off key despite the fact that both of them could sing. It would be during them singing that they would crash. Something cheery, cheesy 80s music or something worse.

"Mum!" Emily screamed, waking herself up with a start. It took less than a second for Jake to be in her sight.

"Emmy, it's okay." Jake said but the tears had already started and Emily wrapped her arms around her knees tightly.

"It's okay little one. C'mere, it was just a dream." he promised, pulling Emily towards him even though she was still curled up in a ball as Kathleen sadly looked on. She knew what it felt like to lose your mother and she was going to do everything she could to help her niece, just like Jake had helped his niece, her daughter, it was time that Kathleen returned the favour.

"It was so real." Emily sobbed.

"It's gone now. You're safe." Jake replied, he just kept repeating it over and over until her crying stopped.

"Emmy, this is your aunt Kathleen, she's goin' to show you upstairs so you can clean yourself up and get dressed while I call your grandfater." Emily nodded as Kathleen guided her upstairs with a warm smile and senseless chit chat about how she hadn't seen her since she was a baby.

"Da. Fancy cutten your getaway short? Your grand daughter's arrived." Jake said into his cell.

"You had a bang on the head again b'y. Tinny lives with us." Malachy reminded.

"Not Tinny. Emmy. I need your help on a case." Jake explained.

"Emily's in St John's? Why's Emily in St John's?" Malachy asked.

"Er, Caroline, she er, she's dead. Car crash couple a weeks ago and Emmy doesn't tink it was an accident."

"Is it really a case though or is it just Emmy not being able to deal with Caroline's death?"

"From what she's told me there's a case but I tink a bit of both." Jake admitted because he knew how hard Emily was taking her mother's death and he would be foolish to automatically dismiss her feelings just because of her accusations. Likewise he would be foolish to dismiss the allegations because of her feelings.

Jake got himself ready for work quickly, throwing on his usual attire of jeans and a shirt, something he was comfortable in running around in which is what most of his job forced him to do. While he waited for Emily, he looked through his other case files that he would be putting on hold until he had investigated Caroline's death and which cases he could pass on to Des, simple enough that he wouldn't screw up.

Rose and Malachy were only at the cabin which wasn't far away so Jake guessed that they would be back by noonish which couldn't come soon enough for Jake, not that he would admit it to the old man's face. He knew that this case was too close to home but they investigated this kind of thing every now and then and they had been in the private investigation business long enough to know that things rarely turned out as you expected, there was always something to undercover and he wasn't sure how much he could keep hidden from his daughter.

"Tell me everything you know about Mark." Jake asked standing by the cork board in the office of Doyle and Doyle.

"His name is Mark Jackson and he married mom a few months ago. The only family of his that came to the wedding was his sister Anna, she was always around for no reason." Jake wrote everything she said down, trying to treat this as much like a normal case as possible.

"What happened with the attempted overdose?" Jake asked.

"I, er, I was watching TV, the doctor had given me some pills to help me sleep but I didn't take them, Mark came in and put a rag over my mouth, like antiseptic or something."

"Chloroform. So did he knock you out or what?" Jake asked, becoming increasingly difficult to stay detached as Emily described her attack. Emily shook her head.

"Anna tried to jab me in the arm with something but I got away. Ran home, got a bag and came here." Emily described.

"I wanna take you to the hospital to getcha checked out. Just to make sure that they didn't do any lasting damage." Jake said, grabbing his jacket, there could be no way to misinterpret what had happened to Emily so he'd rather be safe than sorry.

"Dad, I'm fine." Emily argued.

"Emmy, humour me. We need to go down to the RNC anyways?" Jake replied, handing Emily her jacket.

"Why?"

"Well, two reasons, one being that you're on the run from your step father so I'm calling in a favour to see if he's in town, two, there's someone I, er, I want you to meet." Jake said nervously because honestly he did want to tell Leslie about Emily before she had shown up the day before but he didn't exactly want their first meeting to be his girlfriend questioning his daughter on criminal charges. A little voice in the back of his mind mused something about 'like father like daughter'.

"Someone you want me to meet?" Emily asked suspiciously.

"Yes b'y. If you're going to be staying in town then you need to know the right people to call when you get into trouble because let's face it, you're a Doyle." Jake said with a smile.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Emily asked almost hurt.

"That you are your fater's daughter now kid."

Line break.

"Hood." Jake greeted. Hood didn't look pleased by the arrival of the Doyles.

"Whatcha want Doyle?" Hood asked.

"I'm looken for Leslie." Jake replied with a smile because he knew how much Hood disapproved of his and Leslie's relationship and took every opportunity to annoy the sergeant.

"What for?" Hood asked, immediately wishing that he hadn't.

"Well that's her business." Jake smirked and Emily rolled her eyes, she knew exactly what her father was like, not that it really bothered her, her parents broke up when she was still a baby; Jake made the effort to not introduce his girlfriends to Emily unless it was extremely serious, which was why she hadn't met any of them; she hadn't even met Jake's ex wife Nikki but they weren't married long and their marriage came about because they were both drunk.

"You're dating a cop?" Emily asked.

"Yes b'y."

"Wasn't she the cop who was questioning me?"

"Emmy, shut up."

"Hell of a first impression for your daughter, to make on your cop girlfriend. So I'm guessing that you didn't tell her either." Emily taunted.

"What's with all the questions?" Jake asked, not realising that she was taking him for a ride.

"Are you ashamed of me daddy?" Emily asked sarcastically because she knew how much her father adored her.

"Wash your mouth out." he threatened but Emily just laughed.

"How comes I'm meeting this girlfriend when I didn't even get to meet your ex wife?" she enquired.

"Because I love the both of ya and if you're staying in St John's then I'm gonna be livin' with the both of ya so it's important that you get along. So play nice or you're grounded." Jake explained because these were the two most important women in his life so if they didn't get on then his life would be a living hell.

"You can't ground me I'm an adult." Emily argued and Jake just rolled his eyes and opened the door to the office.

"Wait here." he ordered. "And don't get arrested."

This could go on for hours, their constant meaningless arguing, nobody would ever know it but Jake was actually the peace maker parent, whenever Emily and her mum had fallen out it was always Jake who patched things up between them and got them to talk again because Caroline was in herself stubborn but Emily had inherited her stubbornness from both parents so she would stand her ground right or wrong until her father talked her down.

"You busy 'cause I've got someone I'd like you to meet." Jake asked as he approached Leslie's desk.

"Sure." Leslie agreed, putting her paperwork to one side while Jake ushered Emily inside.

"Emmy this is my girlfriend Leslie, Leslie this is my daughter Emily." Jake introduced, clenching his fists in the pockets of his leather jacket to try and relieve some of the tension.

"It's really nice to meet you Emily." Leslie said with a smile shaking the

"It's nice to meet you too and it's just Emmy."

"Your dad, he told me about your mom, I'm sorry and we're gonna do everything we can." Leslie promised.

Well there was chapter 2, leave a review and tell me what you think!