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Chapter 2
New York City, NY
Mia smiled as she stepped off the bus and looked around the parking lot across from the Park Hyatt Hotel in New York City. She was finally home. Mia loved living in New York. The sights, sounds, and even the people, it was one of her favorite places to be and by far one of her favorite places to perform wherever she was on tour.
"Hey Sleeping Beauty, come on, we are going to head to your parent's place before rehearsals start." Her bodyguard Logan said as he opened the door of the SUV that was waiting nearby.
"Hey Logan, did she say what she wanted to talk about? All she texted me last night was that she wanted us to come by and then she wanted to take us to lunch before rehearsals." she replied as she got in and he walked around to the driver's side.
"Nope, you know just as much as I do, but do you mind if we stop and pick up some food on the way? I'm starving. " he replied changing the subject.
"You're always hungry Logan, but yeah feel free to stop and get a few breakfast sandwiches, I'm sure Mom, Nate and Jordan will want some too." She laughed as she leaned back and closed her eyes.
"Yeah, whatever you say Boss Lady." Logan said affectionately.
Logan Winters had been Mia's bodyguard ever since she had gotten into the music industry, and at times, he was one of her most trusted friends. While she loved her girlfriends that made up the rest of her inner circle, Logan had become somewhat of a older brother, and Mia knew that he always had her back no matter what.
After a stop at the Brooklyn Heights Deli, a place where Mia would go on Sundays with her dad, for food, they pulled up in front of the house where Mia had grown up in Bay Ridge. Mia looked out the window and smiled as she noticed that her family were outside waiting for her. She stepped out of the car and into her mom's waiting arms.
"Hi Mom!" Mia exclaimed as her mom held her tightly.
"Hey Baby, I am so happy to see you." Sarah said looking at her daughter.
"Sarah honey, Jordan and I want a turn. Hey Sweetie." Nate said as he wrapped his arms around his step-daughter with a smile.
Nate Harris had married her mom when she was twelve and her sister had followed a few years later when Mia was in high school.
"Hey baby sister" Mia said as she hugged her little sister.
"Hey Mia, I am so glad you're home." Jordan said with a smile.
"I am too, let's go inside. We brought breakfast, but we need to hurry before Logan eats it all." Mia teased as she watched her bodyguard stuff another sandwich in his mouth.
"Hey! This is only my third one." Logan said with a mouth full of food.
A short time later, the four of them were finishing up the last of the sandwiches and talking about how the tour was going. Soon it was time for Jordan to catch her ride to school and it was just the adults in the room.
"So have there been any other issues since the other night with the dead rat?" Sarah asked as Mia fixed herself her fourth cup of coffee.
"Nope, not a thing, it was probably someone's idea of a sick joke." Mia replied.
"The label wants to arrange for more private security, but Miss Stubborn over here turned it down." Logan said as he glanced at Mia.
"I know, that is why I went over her head and talked to someone better than the label." Sarah said as she looked pointedly at her daughter.
"Oh Mom! Tell me you didn't!" Mia begged.
"She did. And it was not my idea." Nate said with a smirk.
"I called Frank and he is going to assign someone to work with Logan while you are in New York. I want you safe sweetie." Sarah reasoned as her daughter glared at her.
"I can't believe you called the PC, it's bad enough that he's the PC, but he is also my ex-boyfriend's dad too. Or did that skip your mind?" Mia asked.
"No, I remember the history, but honey, he can make sure that someone is there to keep you safe. I know things ended badly with Jamie and all, but this is something that I think will work better than a whole bunch of private security guards watching your every move. Don't you?" Sarah responded knowing her daughter still thought about the boy who had broke her heart.
Mia thought for a moment. She knew that her mom was right and that Frank would do his job as PC and make sure that she was safe. Mia had grown up around the Reagans and Frank had always been like a second dad or uncle while she was growing up. Even after she and Jamie had broken up, she had kept in touch with Frank and Jamie's brothers, Danny and Joe, and his sister Erin. Then after Joe died and Jamie's engagement, it had hurt too much to really be around them. So she limited herself to only calling Frank a few times a year, on the anniversaries of her Dad's, Frank's late wife Mary, and Joe's deaths, and Jamie was never mentioned in their conversations.
"I guess you're right. I guess we need to talk to the PC then." Mia conceded finally.
"You would be right, we have an appointment with him in an hour, so we should head out soon, Besides, Jamie didn't marry the Ice Queen anyways" Sarah smiled knowing that her daughter would see things her way eventually.
"So not what I needed to hear right now Mom." Mia said as she walked with her mom to the car as Nate and Logan trailed behind them.
"I see Ole Mamma Bear is still the master of getting what she wants huh?" Logan said as he looked at Nate.
"Yep, and now you know where Mia gets it from." Nate said as he shook his head with a smile.
1PP
Jamie walked through the halls of 1 Police Plaza heading towards his dad's office. He smiled at Detective Abigail Baker as he stopped at her desk.
"Good morning Detective, is he in yet?" he asked glancing at the closed door.
"Hi Jamie, yep, you can go on in." she replied smiling.
Jamie walked into his dad's office and sat in the chair across from him.
Frank Reagan looked appraisingly at his youngest son and thought for a moment before he began to speak.
"Thanks for coming down son." he said smiling.
"No problem, what's going on? You sounded like something was wrong over the phone last night." Jamie wondered raising his eyes.
Frank nodded his head and pushed a folder across the desk. He waited for Jamie to open the folder before continuing.
"You're next Bitch." Jamie said as he looked at the pictures in the folder along with the police report.
"I had that sent over shortly after Sara Harris called me the night after it happened. Mia thinks that it was some sort of prank, but her mom is not so sure. She asked for me to assign someone to Mia's detail while she is in town. She asked for me to do whatever I thought was best." Frank explained.
"So you wanted me to know because?" Jamie asked quizzically.
"Jamie, you and Mia have a lot of history. You have known each other for a long time and she needs to have someone there that she can trust. You are one of the best officers that I have on the force and I know that she will be safe when she is with you." Frank answered looking at his son.
"Dad, Mia is my ex, yes we have a history, but that does not mean that I am the right cop to be assigned to this detail, what about Danny? Or another officer? I mean things with us did not end on the best of terms, or have you forgotten that she cut ties with our whole family after Sydney and I got engaged?" Jamie questioned coming to his feet and pacing around the room.
"I'm well aware of how things ended between the two of you, and she didn't cut ties with everyone. We still talk a few times a year." Frank responded as he looked down at the file.
"Come again?" Jamie asked grabbing ahold of the chair in front of him.
"She calls on the anniversaries of your mom and Joe's deaths, and I call her on the anniversary of her dad's. She is still the same girl that used to come to our Sunday dinners, just a little more guarded now." Frank answered.
"Dad..I.. are you asking as my dad or as my boss?" Jamie asked finally taking in what his dad had finally told him, he knew that the anniversaries of the losses of his mom and older brother still weighed heavy on his dad, but he never figured that he still talked to Mia about any of that, as far as he knew no one and his family had had any contact with her either.
"I'm asking as your father, it is not an order. I can ask another cop to take the detail if you don't think that you can set your personal feelings aside to do the job I'm asking you to do. Mia needs someone to keep her safe, and I think you are the right man for the job, but I won't force you to do something that you do not want to do." Frank said.
Jamie stood there for a moment and thought about what his dad said. He knew that the threat to Mia could be real or some joke, but he didn't want to see her hurt if it was real.
Over the years since his engagement had ended, he had thought about reaching out to Mia and trying talk things out with her. He had watched her on tv and listened to her music so many times when his family wasn't there to ask all of their questions about them and why they had broke up, but every time that he did that, he would have to stop himself from remembering how things were when they were a couple. She was the girl who had been there for every major event in his life as far back as he could remember, until he had screwed it up and ended things before he was really ready to. Then he had met Sydney and she had pursued him more because she wanted to marry a Harvard Lawyer and a Reagan than who he was. Mia had loved the person, not the last name. He still remembered when he had realized that his feelings for her were more than just platonic.
2002
"Dude, I don't get what your deal is. Just go up and talk to her, it's not like you haven't known her forever." Ryan Thomas said as he shook his head at his friend,
"What are you talking about?" Jamie wondered as he downed his soda and went to go grab another.
"Oh please, we both know that you have a thing for Mia, just ask her out already." Ryan's girlfriend Gena said as she glanced at him.
Jamie and Mia had gone out with some of their friends to a local pool hall to hang out. It was summer, which meant that both Jamie and Mia had later curfews. Both were still in High School, Jamie had just finished his Junior and Mia her Freshman year, but both had always been responsible so their parents trusted them to stay out late as long as they were together.
"Guys, Mia is just a friend. Nothing else." Jamie shot back.
"Yeah right Man, while you are sitting here thinking about it, someone else is about to make a move." Ryan said as he looked across the room and nodded his head.
Jamie looked in the direction his friend had pointed to and noticed that Jake Kowalski, one of the guys on the Football team, was showing Mia how to make a shot at pool and he had his hand moving down toward the hem of her skirt. Mia was smiling and laughing at whatever Jake was saying to her and Jamie felt his blood boiling at the sight.
"Well someone looks jealous, what do you think Babe?" Ryan asked as he kissed his girlfriend on the nose.
"Yep seems that way to me." Gena agreed giggling.
Later that night Jamie was giving Mia a ride home when he decided to say something to her about it.
"So you and Jake were getting pretty friendly tonight." Jamie said.
"Yeah, he asked if I wanted to go see a movie or something on Friday and I said sure. I mean it's not like either one of us is seeing anyone." Mia replied shrugging her shoulders.
"Mia, the guy is a jerk, he only goes out with girls that he thinks will hook up with him on the first date. You're better than that." Jamie reasoned.
"You know what Jamie, I can go out with anyone that I choose, you don't get to tell me what to do. I don't need a big brother." She shot back as he stopped at a red light.
"Mia, I care about you, I don't want to see you get hurt because some guy wants to feel you up." He said.
"Well guess what Jamie, not your call, you can let me out here." She said glaring at him.
"We are twenty minutes from home Mia, I can't let you walk from here." He argued.
"You're not, Gena's house is five minutes from here I will stay at her house tonight. You can let me know when you get your head out of your ass and stop pulling the whole big brother thing. I expect that from Danny, or Joe, but not from you." She said as he stopped the car.
She slammed the door so hard Jamie could feel the vibration from his seat. She was really mad at him, and he was only trying to protect her. Jamie had to admit that he had no right to tell her who to date, but he refused to admit that he wanted her date him, not the jerk on the Football team.
When Friday night rolled around, Jamie chose to say home, so he wouldn't run the risk of running into Mia and Jake, especially since she had been avoiding him since their fight.
It was around ten when he heard a tapping on his bedroom window. He shook his head when he saw that it was Mia. He went and unlocked the latch, and she climbed into the room.
"What are you doing here Mia? I thought you had a date." He wondered.
"I did, Jake thought that when I said yes to the movie, I meant yes to him getting to first base. He got hands-y and he now has a broken nose." She replied.
"Are you okay?" He asked as he looked her over, taking in her blue sundress and heels.
"I'm fine, it's just my ego that's bruised. You were right Jamie, he was a real jerk. I'm sorry for what I said the other night." She said taking off her heels and sitting down on the bed.
"I don't like being right. I'm sorry too Mia, I had no right to tell you who to date. You were wrong about one thing though." He said looking down at her.
"Oh really what?" She asked raising an eyebrow.
"I don't want to be your big brother, I want to be your boyfriend" He said as he pulled her to her feet and kissed her soundly on the lips.
A few moments later there was a knock on his bedroom door. It was his mom telling him that it was time for Mia to go home and that they would see her at Sunday dinner. That was the beginning of what would be what Jamie considered to be the best relationship of his life and letting her go had been one of his biggest regrets.
Jamie looked up as his dad cleared his throat.
"'ll do it. I'll be on her detail." He said finally.
"Good, I thought you would." Frank replied as Detective Baker opened the door.
"Sir, they're here." She said as she glanced between the two men.
"Let's have em." Frank said stepping back into the role of PC.
Jamie watched as the woman who had been center stage in his thoughts for the last 24 hours walked into the room and hugged his dad with a smile. Time seemed to slow down as he stared at her. Gone was the blonde girl next door he had known and in her place was a raven haired woman with a smile that didn't quite meet her eyes.
"Jamie, what are you doing here?" she asked softly hoping that the answer wasn't what she thought it was.