Disclaimer: I do not own or make any money from Blue Bloods or the use of their characters. I am still feeling like I am struggling with this story. Please send along any prompts or ideas you might have for the characters and I will fit it into the basic structure I have for this piece.

Chapter Seven

The happy dreams were short lived. Eddie woke at four to use the bathroom then laid awake the rest of the night listening to Jamie's snoring and the thoughts in her own head.

His touch had felt foreign to her, it had terrified her to have her own boyfriend, the man she loves, touching her. She had spooked him so badly when she fought him off she had no choice but to let him have what he wanted. If she didn't, he might leave her and she'd be alone again.

She rolled over and curled up into herself. She was terribly scared about what was happening to her. It took everything in her not to wake up Jamie and ask him to help her. She had been far too needy with him lately. She was going to push him away if she wasn't able to wake herself up and shake this off.

The alarm went off at six thirty and Jamie reached out to give Eddie a good morning hug. He felt cold sheets and got up to search for her. He saw only a note, "Went to pack some more clothes. Back before tour. Love you. E."

Jamie decided to go for a run and pick up some pastries for breakfast. He ran for a half hour before rounding the corner near his building. Jamie got home sweaty and headed for the shower after putting two cinnamon rolls on the counter. Eddie should be home by the time he came out. He was right. When he came out she was there setting up their breakfast. She has three boxes of her things with her.

"So I guess you're really serious about wanting to move in together huh?" Jamie asked as he started eating.

"Yeah, totally sure that I want to do this." Eddie sat on the kitchen stool. "So I was up last night thinking and I worked it out that it's either 820 or 775."

Jamie's eyebrows quirked, "No, square feet. Your place is 45 square feet larger so I think it's better if we move in here. It's a great place, just needs that woman's touch. That's in the boxes. Couple of throw pillows, a few dust collectors, and a valance for the windows."

"Anything you want, honey," Jamie replied. "I'm just glad you didn't change your mind." He sipped is coffee. "So you want to talk about what happened last night?"

Eddie knew he was going to push this, "I don't know. I felt smothered when we were on the couch, with you on top of me like that. I think it reminded me of Jake."

Jamie knew that was bull, "Or something else. Something bigger. Eddie there is something going on inside of you, something you locked up so deep and so tight even you don't know what it is." Jamie slid off his stool and went to stand next to her. "And whatever it is, it's going to keep eating at you and eating at you until eventually it eats you alive. I don't want that for you. I don't want to watch you suffer like this."

"Then don't," Eddie replied. "I can just take my stuff back…"

"Stop it!" Jamie said exasperated. "Eddie, I'm not leaving you. I love you. What do I have to do to prove that?"

"Let it alone, Jamie. I will work through it eventually, I promise I will. Then I'll be my happy, fun-loving, over eating self. I'm sorry I'm worrying you, but I will be okay, I promise."

Jamie let it go for now. Later that day he was meeting Danny, he hoped his older brother had some information for him.

"I'm having a beer with Danny when I get finished with my tour," Jamie told Eddie as he cleaned up breakfast. "He's really feeling down that his range of motion is still so crappy."

Eddie gave him a sad smile, "Give him my best and tell him that we might need him to get this place in shape. It needs a coat of paint and there's some chips in the cabinets…"

"Whoa, whoa…" Jamie laughed. "What's wrong with the paint?"

That question was still spinning in Jamie's mind when he got off tour that day. It was an odd one to say the very least. He and Kara had taken in a homeless man for nearly wiping out a window with a trash can. They took him to the ER and waited over two hours before Kara pushed him to flirt with the female resident.

"Kara, I'm with Eddie, it's not right," Jamie replied.

"I'm not saying to go out with her, I'm say flash you cute little smile and get us the heck out of here. I want to make my kid's day care carpet time."

Jamie gave a wry smile and agreed. He came away with Dr. Jen's number and got their perp admitted for a 72 hour psych hold. All in all a productive day.

When Jamie got to Danny's house he has to wait about five minutes for Danny to make it to the door. "You hurting?" he asked his older brother and Danny nodded.

"Well, if I can't go back to the job maybe I have a career as a PI," Danny replied.

"What did you find out?" Jamie asked helping Danny to get to the couch. "Do you need a pill or something before we hit this six pack?"

Danny shook his head, "Bring on the brew…you're going to need it."

Danny pulled out a folder from the night table drawer. "Meet one Thomas Casey…transferred in from Westchester but before that he did a stint in Bridgehampton, his home town, ironically enough, it is also Eddie's home town. He went to Hampton High, same school as Eddie. He graduated the same year and was in four of the same clubs as Eddie and one other guy, Jordan Miller. The look pretty alike so I dug deeper, those two are cousins, inseparable."

"So Eddie knows this guy," Jamie sighed. "She's lying to me. She's telling me he scares her but she didn't tell me she knew him."

"Whoa, down boy. I don't think she's lying, I don't think she remembers. This Jordan Miller is doing 25 to life for aggravated rape and murder. My guess, he did something similar to Eddie and in order to cope she shut down."

Jamie sat back and though about it, "Yeah. Danny something happened last night between me and Eddie. We were on the couch and she was talking silly about us being better as partners, because I told her I worried about her. So I went for it, I pulled her in tight and kissed her." Jamie took a slug of his beer. "It got heated really fast, and I am all over her, I should have been more sensitive to what she says in her dreams. She pushed me off and fought me like I was about to hurt her. I swear Danny for a few seconds she didn't know who I was."

"Jamie you have got to do something," Danny warned. "One day she's going to have to ride with this Casey guy and if she's got all this garbage going on in her head she's not going to have her head on the job. Next thing we'll be digging a hole to bury that girl because she went into a hot scene distracted and thinking she has to fight for herself."

"What am I going to do? I asked her if she wanted to get some help. That we'd ask Dad for help and do it on the quiet but she said no. We don't even know if they did anything to her, we don't know Danny."

Danny sighed, "Her old man is still incarcerated isn't he?"

"Danny, she will kill me if I do that. It'll be invading her privacy and betraying her trust!" Jamie stood up and paced. He wanted to help Eddie so much but her trust was a gift, she didn't give it easily.

"You'll be helping her out and saving her life," Danny countered. "We'll ride out together, tell him what's going on, and if there is something that happened he can tell us so we can help her."

"I have to think about it Danny but if she doesn't open up to me soon, I think you are probably right."

Jamie finished his beer. "So you said you wanted me to do some extra workouts with you. What do you need me to do?"

Danny explained how he wanted Jamie to help him start to force his knee to move. It was perpetually frozen and Linda didn't have the heart to push him. Jamie agreed, it was a brother thing, as long as Danny felt he could do it, he would back him up.

Jamie took Danny's brace off and they did ten reps with his bad leg. Danny was soaked by the time it was over but said he knee felt much looser. When Jamie left, Danny was on the sofa with Jack and Sean watching TV. Jamie made sure everyone was fed so Linda could relax when she got home.

Eddie was already at the apartment when Jamie got there. She was in his sweats lying on the sofa. "Hey, pretty girl,' she said kneeling beside her. "Danny says hi."

Eddie smiled, "How is he after some bromance?"

"He's okay, I am going over three times a week to help him with his knee. He has to have a set range of motion even try to get back on the job and I promised I'd help him."

Eddie caressed Jamie's face, "I know you will. You helped me already so much."

"I don't think I helped you enough, not yet," Jamie replied. He reached over to brush her hair off her face. That's when she saw it…Jen 212-555-7772. Suddenly Eddie sat up and pulled away.

"Who the hell is Jen?"