Chapter Four :

Martin came to the office fifteen minutes later. He got to his desk, put the thermo on his desk and sat on his chair. From his chair, Martin looked around for Danny. Martin sighed when he saw no Danny, only Elena and Sam are in the office. Elena was at Sam's desk, talking while drinking their coffee. Usually Katie is with them, doing the same thing the women are doing now. Since Katie is not there, there is no Texan accent at Sam's desk. Only the two voices Martin had heard for years. Right now, Martin is happy that Danny didn't arrived yet. It mean that the talk about last night had to be postponed until later which Martin really wish that this could happen. Martin opened the top of the thermo and drank some of the coffee. After drinking some, Martin put the top back on and looked at his watch to see what time it is. The clock reads twenty minutes after eight. "Ten more minutes until Danny comes. Great, again." thought Martin. Danny came to work a little late sometimes mostly because Danny slept late or that Queens is so far from Manhattan and the morning traffic, Danny had to drive twenty minutes to get to work in time. Those two are the only reasons he gave to Jack or Vivian to tell why he is late for work and they always believed him. One time, Martin was late to work because he and Katie had some good ass sex that lasted all night. None of them don't wanted it to end. So they did some more and by the time they stopped doing it, the time on the alarm clock reads five minutes after seven. Both of them were late for work. To beat the time and getting into the field, they didn't take a shower or eat anything only putting on some of the clothes from the day before, drinking very little coffee, and brushing their teeth. They didn't get to work on time because of the traffic and Jack punished the couple by only putting one of them into the field which is Katie and the other in the office which is Martin. Plus Jack realized that they are having sex together all night. How he realized this? By the smell of Martin's body and the hickie on Katie's neck. At the end of the day, Martin had to go to Jack's office and was told by Jack to continuing being with Katie but not come to work like that ever again. That only happened that time.

Martin looked around for Danny a five minutes later. Danny still there. "Maybe Danny will come around at eight thirty." thought Martin. Martin wasn't seating on his chair to wait for Danny to come around so Martin got up, grabbed his coat, and went to the locker room to put his coat away. That will pass five minutes.

Eight thirty rolls around and Martin is at the table with Sam, Elena, and Vivian, waiting for Jack to tell them what to do. Danny still didn't came yet. "Where is Danny?" asked Sam to the team. Sam turned her glowing head toward Elena to hear the answer. Elena saw Sam staring at her and shrugged no at her and answered to Sam, "I don't know where Danny is at. I wasn't with him last night." After hearing Elena's answer, Sam turned to Vivian. Vivian looked at Sam and said with her normally kind voice, "Danny wasn't at mine either." and looked back to the newspaper to read some more. Danny sometimes had dinner with Vivian and her family. Sam finally turned to Martin and said to him, "Marty." A few seconds later, Sam realized that Martin is not listening to her. She realized this by seeing Martin staring at the empty chair next to him. Martin is probably day dreaming about Katie again. Every morning, Katie sat on the chair that Martin is staring at right now, drinking her coffee, putting some loose hair into her ear and reading the newspaper at the same time. Martin sometimes stared at her, doing her triple morning ritual. Sam reached her arm toward Martin, tapped him on the shoulder and said to him a little loudly, "Martin. Are you listening to me?" Martin felt Sam's hard finger on his shoulder and turned to Sam to make to stop. After Martin had turned to her, Sam asked him what is his answer. Martin almost stared at Sam blankly because he don't know what Samantha is talking about. When Martin was in his own little world, people's voices are so far away which happened since Martin was a child. Martin was in his own world and when people like his father ask him something, Martin got out of his little world and don't know what they are talking about. His father is always angry about it and want Martin to stop day dreaming but Martin can't stop it. Daydreaming is like Martin's own little incurable disease. It cannot be cured.

Martin finally founded Sam's question deep inside his brain and said to Sam, " Danny was at my place last night to give my keys back for only a couple minutes." Sam went toward Martin and asked Martin if Danny told him what he is doing afterward in case Sam had to report a missing person on Danny. Martin told her no. After that, Sam got her pregnant body off the chair and said to the whole team, "I hope that Danny get his ass here so I can't worry what we are going to do today." Then some voice came to the table.

"Sam. I got my ass here!" said the voice which sounded like the voice that Martin heard at his apartment when he and Katie are about to do it. That Hispanic sounding voice that made them stop having it before the good part had even started. Martin turned around and saw Danny, standing behind the end of the cart full of unfinished files. Danny was wearing a black suit with a royal blue dress shirt and a silver tie under the suit. Martin is about to laugh because it looked like that Danny is going to a wedding or something that is semi formal but stopped when Danny is staring right at him with his kind, happy big dark brown eyes that read "do you had a good time?" Martin knew by that eyes, Danny is asking about the hooker on his bed that is really Katie. After Danny was staring at Martin, Elena got up and asked Danny if the full cart is desk work. Danny is about to answer his girlfriend's question when Jack came and answered Elena's question. "Yes, Elena. Those are today's desk work." answered Jack and staring at the two rows of files full boxes on the cart.

Jack stared at the whole team minus Katie which Jack knew by Katie telling Jack that she need the day off for a doctor's appointment last week which Jack allowed her to. When the team is staring at their boss with their eyes, Jack cleared his voice to tell what to do today. "Guys. We are doing a lot of desk work today. Since Katie is having an appointment today, it might last all day." The team knew this is going to happen when one of their team mates is somewhere else, not doing some hard, boring desk work. Jack walked to the end of the cart and pushed it with force like a woman who is about to have her baby but instead of a something pounds something ounces newborn baby, it was a cart full of heavy files that needed to be finished by the end of the day. When Jack finally got it to the end of the table instead of the spot where Danny had stopped it at, Jack stepped away from it and said to the team who is about to get up to get their work, "Come to me if you need some help." After Jack said that, he left to go to his office to work and get some more sleep. After Jack left, everybody got up and grabbed one box off the cart.

When Martin put his box of files on his desk, he turned to Danny who was carrying a box of files for Sam to her desk so she don't lift something heavy since she is pregnant. Martin watched every move that Danny is doing like a stalker. After Danny put his own box of files on his desk and begin to work, Martin said to Danny silently, "Danny Taylor, you are going to ask me later." After that, Martin grabbed some pencils, a few pens, and the first file from the box to opened it up and begin working on it, knowing that he is going to daydream about Katie again and answering Danny's question. Before he knew it, the day is going to be over with.