"HOW DO YOU LIKE YOUR EGGS?" Presley glared at Emily as she stepped outside.
"Hello."
"How do I like my eggs?" Jamie laughed.
"Never mind."
"Where are you?"
"I'm at Davis and Emily's new house, helping her move things in."
"You're taking it easy aren't you?"
"Yes, we're just moving in small things. We're saving the big things for the weekend. Did you need something or did you just call to check up on me?"
"Both actually! I want to cook you dinner tonight, come over about seven?"
"Hmm, okay. Sounds good, send me your address."
"See you at seven." She smiled as she ended the call, going back inside the house. Emily was talking to an older gentleman standing in her livingroom.
"Presley, come meet Mr. Reagan!" Presley stopped in her tracks, holy crapballs, did she just say Reagan. She walked into the livingroom, and smiled. "Henry Reagan, this is my sister-in-law Presley Talbert, Presley this is Henry Reagan."
"Nice to meet you Mr. Reagan."
"Call me Henry, please." She shook his hand, feeling nervous.
"Henry was the neighbor I was telling you about. His son might know the officer your dating."
"We've only gone on a couple of dates..." Henry was now looking at her with interest. "He might not like me mentioning that were dating."
Emily looked at her. "Why is Jamie dating someone else?" There it was, her sister-in-law, just outed her, just like that. She saw Henry's eyes get big, and then he smiled at her.
"What's Jamie's last name, I'll have my son the Commissar, check up on him. Make sure he's a stand up guy." She closed her eyes, opening them again, returning Henry's smile.
"Trust me, he's a stand up guy. Like I said we only just met last week and been on a few dates, so it's a little early in the game for us to take one another to meet family members."
"Myles got to meet him!" Emily piped in.
"Only because we were suppose to have a date last night and Myles was on concussion watch when Jamie came to pick me up"
"It was nice to meet you Presley." Henry smiled at her. "I hope to see you again sometime." He left the house.
This wasn't good, this could be bad, she needed to give Jamie a heads up. She quickly said her good byes to Emily and drove home, she sent Jamie a text, once she was locked in her own house.
BTW, Just met your grandfather! He and your dad are my bro and Em's new neighbors.
And he knows were seeing each other.
She tossed the phone on the couch, closing her eyes, waiting for a response. She knew that it might be a while before she hears back from him. She went up stairs, leaving her phone on the couch, she needed a hot bath. She sunk down into the bubbles, letting out a sigh. She stayed into the tub, until the water, turned cold and her skin was puny.
She climbed out of the tub, drying off, and redressing, going back down stairs she was startled to hear someone pounding on the front door. She peeked out. seeing Officer Janko standing on her door step, she pulled her door open.
"Yes?"
Janko didn't say anything to her, she got on her radio and called to Jamie, that she had answered the front door. He came running around the side of her house. Janko smiled. "Someone was worried. When you didn't answer his text or call."
"I was unavailable." The two woman looked at each other, Jamie ran up the steps to her door,
"You okay?" She could see the concern on his face and in his eyes.
"I'm fine, I left my phone down stairs, sorry."
"Can we get back to work now?" Janko asked.
"In a minute!" Jamie stepped inside her door. He kissed her quickly. "Don't worry about Pop, besides I plan on taking you to family dinner soon."
"Wait! What?"
"We'll talk about it tonight! I sent you my address, see you tonight!" She watched him leave, a little speechless.
XXX
She showed up at his place a little before seven, she left her hair curl, she decided to dress up just a little tonight. She wore a black sundress with red polka dots, and red sandals. She rang the door bell, feeling a little nervous, he pulled his door open, and smiled at her. "Come in. You look...incredible."
She smiled at him. "Thank you." He pulled her into his arms, kissing her. She pulled back from him. "You look pretty incredible yourself." She leaned in to kiss him, she wrapped her arms around his neck.
"Go sit down, while I finish dinner." She sit at the breakfast bar, watching him pull out a pain of chicken.
"Wow!"
"What?"
"You surprised me, I thought it would be take out. I'm surprised you know how to cook." She smiled at him.
"Hey! I know how to cook! At least three things, after that it's take out, and the charity of others." She let out a laugh, starting at him.
"Tell me, what three things can you cook?"
"Chicken, lasagna, and waffles." She laughed again.
"Nice variety." He smiled at her, he plated their food, carrying over to the table. She followed him over, he poured them each a glass of wine. She took a bite of her dinner. "This is really good."
"Thank you." He reached out, taking her hand. "What are you doing Sunday?"
"Usually, lazy day, family dinner with the Apes."
He laughed. "Can you get out of your family dinner?"
"Possibly? Why?"
"I thought maybe I'd take you to mine. I mean Nikki and Pop already knows about us. You already know Erin."
She was speechless, this was their second date, and he wanted her to meet his family. She was feeling a little unnerved by it all, it was way too soon for this. "I don't know what to say."
"I know we've only been on a few dates, but I know that I don't want to see anyone else but you." There wasn't anyone she wanted to see either, just him. She looked into his eyes.
"I don't want to see anyone but you. But meeting your family..."
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing..." She couldn't tell him she was afraid that they wouldn't like her, that she didn't know Jamie well enough to meet his family. He didn't know her well enough, she didn't think they were to that stage yet. She didn't even know how he liked his eggs.
"Can we wait a while for the family dinner, until we know each other better?" She smiled at him, exhaling slowly. She saw the look of disappointment, but then it was replaced by a look of understanding.
"So let's get to know each other." He smiled at her, pulling her to him kissing her.
XXX
She returned to work on Thursday, she had the exams and essays graded from Monday, she returned them to her students. During her sixth hour class, the door was ripped open and Mr. Anthony was standing in the door. He scanned the room, his eyes settling on his son.
"Peter, get yourself and let's go! NOW!" Peter looked panicked and started putting his things away. Presley stepped in front of Peter, placing her hand on his shoulder.
"Mr. Anthony, you can't be here. You need to go down to the office to check out Peter."
"Get out of my way you bitch! I know you're the one that called the cops on me. I'm taking my son out of here!" She stayed between Peter and his father, the rest of the class had gotten up from their seats and had either left the class, or were sitting against the back wall. He was waving a knife.
XXX
"All units disturbance at All Saints Academy, responding units please reply. Be advised suspect is inside an English class, trying to take son."
Jamie replied to the call, of course he was going, that was Nikki's school, and Presley taught there. He had to make sure they were both safe, he pulled into the parking lot, getting out of his cruiser, he saw Danny had also responded.
Jamie approached Danny. "What do we know?"
"Nikki is out and safe. The suspect is in Ms. Talbert's room, holding her and his son Peter hostage. The suspect's name is Thomas Anthony, there was a report filed last week, you responded?"
Jamie told Danny what happened, trying to remain calm, fighting every instinct he had not to go running inside the school and grab Presley. The front doors of the school opened and Peter came out of the school, the officers grabbed him, searching him. Danny walked over to him. "Where's your teacher?"
"Dad, still has her. He's going to hurt her!" The black SUV pulled up, and Frank got out.
"What do we know?"
"Everyone is out, except one teacher and the suspect." Danny said. "We're getting ready to go in, and get her out."
Frank nodded his head.
XXX
Once Presley knew her students were out, she kicked off her boots, it was time to kick this guys ass. If he thought he could come in and threaten her and her class he had another thing coming. She thrust her palm into his nose, getting satisfaction in hearing it break, he dropped the knife. She kicked it away, she delivered a kick to his knee,smiling when he went down. She dropped an elbow in his back, knocking the wind out of him.
She went to her desk, grabbing a roll of duct tape, she taped his ankles and wrists so he couldn't go anywhere. She pulled on her boots, grabbed her purse, and walked out into the hall. She screamed when she ran into the S.W.A.T. "I'm Detective Reagan, are you okay?"
"I'm fine."
"Where's Anthony?"
"He's in there!" She was escorted from the building, as she was being walked out by an officer, the name the Detective gave her, just registered. She'd just met Jamie's older brother. She was passed off to EMS, she tried to get out of being checked out, but it was protocol. She looked up, Jamie was standing in front of her. She stood up from the back of the ambulance facing him.
He pulled her into his arms, kissing her. "Are you alright?"
"I'm fine, I promise." They pulled apart at the sound of a voice clearing, Danny was looking at Jamie and Presley.
"Ms. Talbert, I have a few questions for you."
"Please call me Presley." Jamie started to walk away, Danny's hand clamped down on his shoulder.
"I think she might feel better if you stayed little brother." He smiled at Jamie. "Can you tell me what happened today."
Presley told him everything that had happened, how she had distracted him, so Peter could get out.
"Did you break his nose, and duct tape him?"
Presley turned red, she felt Jamie looking at her. "Yes. Did you find the knife under my desk?"
"I did, you disarmed him?"
"No, I broke his nose, and he dropped the knife. I kicked it away, then took him down." She looked at Jamie. "I have three older brothers, they taught me to fight, how to take care of myself!"
"You're free to go Presley!" She got up and walked away, Jamie got up to follow her. Danny stopped him, smiling again. "That's her isn't it. The one Nikki saw you with last week?"
"I've got to get back to work Danny." He walked away, heading back to his cruiser. Janko was still managing crowd control, she smiled at her partner.
"She okay Reagan?"
"She's fine. Just remind me not to make her mad."
XXX
She was laying on her couch relaxing, they'd canceled school for tomorrow because of today's incident. It was only three, she had at least three and a half hours before Jamie was at her door. She'd already called all three of her brothers and told them she was okay, she was actually surprised they hadn't showed up at the school.
The peal of her doorbell, startled her, she got up, going to answer the door, peeking out see was Jamie's dad standing at her door. She pulled open the door. "Hello, can I help you?"
"I'm Commissar Reagan."
"I know who you are, please come in." She let him in the house. "Can I offer you something to drink?"
"No thank you Ms. Talbert."
"Please call me Presley."
"Presley, I wanted to come check on you."
"I'm fine. Thank you for asking."
"My son Danny was impressed that you were able to take down a man twice your size."
"I have three older brothers, they taught me to fight and more then once growing up I had to take one if not all three of them down."
She heard him laugh. "My daughter Erin could probably identify with you. I understand Nikki is one of your students."
"She is, she's a good girl, excellent student." There was a knock on her door, she walked towards it, looking through it, she saw a man in a suit standing there. "I think it's for you."
He went to the door pulling it open, going to leave. "It was nice meeting you Presley."
"You too sir." She watched him walk out of the house. Holy crapballs, she had met almost all of Jamie's family now. She might as well go to a family dinner now. She massaged her temples.
XXX
At six-thirty there was a knock on her door, she rolled from the couch, opening the door, Jamie came inside, picking her up he kicked the door shut. He pulled her close for a kiss, carrying her to the couch. His lips never leaving hers, she was breathless when he finally pulled away. "Good to see you too Jamie."
"I was worried about you today. And you attacked a man with a knife? What were you thinking?"
"You're dad stopped by to see me this afternoon. Wanted to check up on me."
"I know, he called and told me. Don't change the subject."
"I was thinking that I was going to beat the guys ass and go home. And what do you mean he called you?"
"He could have killed you! Danny told him, he caught us kissing."
"He wasn't holding the knife right. And I've met almost all members of your family now separately."
"What do you mean he wasn't holding the knife right?"
"He wasn't holding it in attack mode. When I broke his nose, he dropped it." He kissed her again, pulling her into his arms.
"Please promise me, you won't do anything like that again."
"Jamie..."
He caressed her face. "Promise me."
"Fine, I promise not to disarm a knife welding parent again!"
"Now come one, we're expected at my dad's for dinner. He wants to meet the teacher I was making out with at the back of an ambulance." She let out a small groan, letting him pull her off the couch.
AN: I have to work tonight (Monday) my next update will be Tuesday!
