Chapter 7
Hi! So once again I don't own 21 Jump Street or it's characters. A thanks goes out to Chick on Wheels and Clem for all of their help.
Everyone looked from Crystal to the small girl in front of her, trying to see some sort of resemblance. Crystal stood on the right wearing a cream top with black sleeves and a rounded collar with a string bow tie at her throat with some dark skinny jeans and her black combat boots, her curls were pulled back with a simple bow. She stood tall despite her short stature, her blue eyes blazing. The girl standing in front of Crystal was another story: she stood small as if hiding from something, her muddy brown hair was tied back in a matronly bun, not a hair out of place. She wore a dark grey blouse buttoned completely to her chin paired with a black floor length skirt, as she looked up they saw her eyes were the same blue, but there was something off about them. As they were observing they saw that the girl named Julia yanked Crystal away from Harry and try and drag her away, Crystal stood her ground though as everyone quickly followed behind. Crystal looked at Julia in disbelief as she attempted to drape a jacket over her, Crystal quickly threw the jacket on her desk; "What the hell do you think you're doing?" she all but shouted at her sister, Julia looked at her sister in shock; "I'm covering you up, you're showing way too much skin now the legs I can do nothing about that, but I will cover the top." She said in a clipped voice dripping in disdain. Crystal just looked at her sister, her younger sister in disbelief; "And what makes you think you can do anything?" she laughed bitterly "How did you find out where I was? Captain O'Malley told me that no one would be told of my whereabouts except Jeanne…Come to think of it why are you here? Last I checked, you and your husband wanted nothing to do with me after I left." She said passively as Doug spat out his coffee in disbelief.
"Wait she's married?" he said in shock, this caused the sister to break from the argument as Julia flashed the simple wedding band, "I've been married for about eight months now. Did it on my eighteenth birthday." She said triumphantly as she turned back to her older sister expectantly; "Well? Aren't you going to introduce me to everyone?" she asked in a sweet tone that made everyone want to vomit. Crystal sighed as she introduced everyone to her little sister, Julia silently eyed them as if she were sizing them up Crystal turned to Harry and smiled; "Finally this is my boyfriend Harry Ioki." She gripped his hand tightly as he kissed her temple. Julia's smile faded almost instantly as she cleared her throat; "Boyfriend?" she said hesitantly "And how long have you two been seeing each other." She said as if she was holding something back, the two looked at each other, "Close to a month officially, but we were basically dating for the month that she moved in." Everyone, but Crystal and Harry noticed Julia's eye twitch for a moment before smiling again; "Well as lovely as it was meeting all of you, but I was wondering if I could speak to my sister in private?" She said sweetly, Crystal rolled her eyes; "We can use Sal's office and you can stop acting like you're in thirties instead of eighteen. " she quipped grinning at Julia's strained smile as the pair headed down the stairs.
The moment they disappeared everyone exchanged glances before quietly rushing towards the stairs leaving Harry behind as he rushed after them seeing them standing by the doorway trying to listen in; "Guys, this is private we should leave them be." He said heatedly. Tom simply threw him a glare; "C'mon Harry who says they're not talking about you? I mean did you see the way she was staring at you? Lets just say that if looks could kill, you would be severely maimed." He said to a surprised Harry who was veered in the direction of the door. They were silent as they began to overhear the conversation of the tiny cop and her judgmental sister. Now while the team was crowding around the door, Crystal led her sister down the dark staircase she simply walked towards Sal's workbench and reached for the light switch. As the light flickered on, she turned around and stood expectantly at her sister, Julia strolled over to her and looked up at her; "Crystal, I want you to come back to Burke with me." She said as she placed a hand gently on Crystals shoulder. She looked down at the hand before shrugging it off and backing away; "I'm sorry, what? You want me to leave a job that I love, drop my friends; leave Harry so that I can go back to a backwards town that hates me and hates what I do? I'll pack my bags." She said her tone dripping with sarcasm. Julia looked at her in shock; "You are a sinner! You go around parading in revealing clothing; you work an indecent job that has you working around ruffians, which include your coworkers and don't get me started about your boyfriend." She said, her voice dripping with acid and her eyes narrowed. Crystal moved up close to her sister; "What about him?" she murmured lowly, Julia quickly moved away; "You could to better then him! He's convinced you to participate in obscene scenes of affection, one of which I saw, besides he's not someone we are to be associated with." She said in a clipped voice. Crystal widened her eyes; "Excuse me? First of all who are you to say who I can and cannot be with? You are my little sister, I don't care if you are married you don't get to tell me what to do." She said her voice slowly rising.
"And as for doing better, if anyone could do better it's Harry. He could get any woman he wanted and he's with me, he is ten times the man your husband is." As she ranted Julia stepped forward; "Why don't I set you up? Josh told me the other day that his buddy from the plant, John broke up with his girlfriend. You two would look adorable!" she squealed as Crystal looked at her disbelief; "Did you hear a word I said? I'm seeing Harry! I'm happy with Harry! She yelled , but quickly she took a deep breath; "Why are you here Julia?" Julia looked down; "Crystal, about a week ago…" she trailed off and sniffed slightly "About a week ago Aunt Louise passed away." Crystal looked at her in shock. She looked down at her sister; " So you had to go to Captain O'Malley and get my location so you could tell me." She said slowly as the pieces came together. She took another deep breath; "When's the funeral?" she asked gently Julia looked at her; "We had the ceremony about three days ago, she was cremated." She whispered, Crystal looked at her angrily; " So you went to a police station, the last place anyone in our family would go, just to drive an hour here to tell me that she's dead and that the funeral already happened. Wow don't do anything halfway do you?" she said flatly. Julia sniffled before looking at her again; "There's more," she whispered as Crystal simply glared at her; "Louise wrote a will before she died, like everyone does, now I get the house, but Louise left you this." She whispered as she handed Crystal an envelope.
Crystal looked at it in wariness before opening it, her eyes widened in surprise as she saw a check, she slowly unfolded it and gasped in shock. In her hands she held a check for a hundred fifty thousand dollars, she softly looked at Julia questioningly, She shrugged; "The will said to leave that amount, a hundred thousand for me and a large portion to the church. However she did leave something else…for mom." She said tentatively, Crystal looked up at her shocked. Julia walked over to her; "This is the other reason I came, I need your help finding her." She said practically begging, Crystal shook her head; "Great, when you do, let me know, I'd love to meet her." She said sarcastically as she walked over to the cleaning supplies and began organizing them Julia quickly followed; "But you know where she is! Louise said you were the last person to see her, when you were eighteen because you asked her for moms name, that had to mean-" she said before Crystal cut her off; "It means that I wanted to know the name of the woman who abandoned us," She said bitterly while alphabetizing the products on the self "Honestly Julia, you've always had this romanticized image of who our mom was, y'know who she was? She was the woman who walked out on a man and left him to raise their children alone! Who knows she might be dead! I don't know and you shouldn't care to either." She said bitterly. Julia looked at her older sister in shock, before stomping off; "Fine, I don't need your help, I don't need you period!" she said before walking towards the stairs, before she walked up, she looked back at her sister; "Will you at least tell me her name?" she said pleadingly, Crystal looked at her sadly; "I-I don't remember." She said unconvincingly. Julia huffed and stomped upstairs to see everyone crowded around the entrance, she looked at Harry intently; "You two deserve each other." She snarled as she stomped out of the Chapel.
Everyone began to hear Crystal come up the stairs they quickly dispersed and looked like they were working. She came up the stairs and smiled as she heard them scurry back to their desks she entered to see everyone looking at her sadly, it made her blood boil because if there was one thing she couldn't stand, it was pity. She turned to see Harry and he quickly pulled her into a hug, she was stiff for a minute before returning it. She pulled back and lightly kissed him she quickly pulled back, "I know you guys heard everything," she said. Harry looked down at her apologetically and she smiled; "It's fine, I'm fine." She said as she kissed him again, however she felt a light tap on her shoulder, she turned around to see Fuller looking sadly at her. She held back an angry snort as she looked up at her Captain, he simply stared at her, "I'm sorry for your loss Watson." He said honestly, everyone looked at him confused, he glared at all of them; "Sal wandered into my office to tell me." He said as everyone glared at Sal she smiled softly at him; "Captain, it's fine, I'm fine, you're fine, everything's fine." She said as she walked back to her desk, everyone's eyes boring into the back of her. She sat at her desk only to once again be faced with Fuller, "Watson, go home." She shot her head up at that; "Captain I'm fine, and I have lots of paperwork can I please keep working?" she pleaded, suddenly she felt her chair being spun around to see Judy, Doug, and Harry each of them staring intently at her Harry leaned down so that the two were eye to eye; "Crys," he started before she cut him off; "I'm not leaving Harry and you can't make me." She stated before turning back around. She heard him sigh in frustration; "I didn't want to do this, but Penhall.." Suddenly she felt herself being tossed over Doug's shoulder and carried around her desk so that she was face to face with Fuller; "Go home Watson and that's an order."
She glared at everyone "Fine, I'll leave, but I'm not going home, I actually found out that one of my friends from gymnastics is in town and I was hoping to catch up with them." She said as Doug put her down near the phone, she fished out a piece of paper and dialed; "Hey, it's me you busy? Of course the gym would be awesome! Could you give me the address? All right 1345 Yearling dr. Ok I'll be there in twenty minutes, I gotta pick some stuff up. See you then Adam." She hung up the phone and turned to see everyone staring at her questioningly except Harry, who looked expressionless. Doug cleared his throat as Crystal was packing her things in her purse; "So…who's Adam Crys?" Crystal looked up at Doug; "Adams one of my closest friends besides Jeanne and my teammate from college, I ran into him at the grocery store the other day. It turns out he's temporarily coaching at the gym here, so we promised we would catch up." A squeak was heard and everyone turned to see Harry strolling angrily back to his desk, they all turned back to a confused Crystal; "What'd I say?" they looked at her amazed as she began to piece everything together; "I better go talk to him," she quickly grabbed her purse and strolled over to Harry's desk. He irritably shuffled his papers about; "Hey," she said tentatively, he looked up at her; "I thought you went off to meet Adam." He said coldly not looking up from his paperwork, Crystal sighed and pulled up a chair; "I'm sorry, I didn't think that hanging out with Adam would bother you." She said softly, he sighed as he looked up at her; " Look it doesn't bother me that you're hanging out with him, it bothers me that you didn't tell me about him." Crystal looked down at her shoes; "I didn't tell you because It didn't seem like something that was important to know." She then leaned in close to him; "Besides remember what I said about us learning things about each other? Well this counts as one of them." She said kissing him lightly on the cheek "Besides you trust me right?" she asked smiling, Harry looked at her; "Yeah, I do." He said seriously. She kissed him sweetly; "I'll see you at home later." She said as she grabbed her purse and headed towards her car.
As Harry watched her walk away, Doug strolled forward he paused before he spoke quietly; " You really trust her?" he asked. Harry looked at him; " Of course I do…"he trailed off, Doug looked at him; "We're going to follow her aren't we?" he said, already knowing the answer, Harry nodded as he headed towards Fuller's office while Doug began to grab their jackets, Judy and Tom quickly walked over to his desk; "Wait why are you guys following her? I thought Harry said that he trusted her." Judy said confused. Doug looked at her frustration etched on his face; "Of course he trusts her, it's that Adam guy he doesn't trust. I mean think about it Juds, if your boyfriend went to go hang out with a friend of the opposite sex and they were good looking, wouldn't you worry even if you trusted him?' he asked, once again knowing the answer, Judy sighed; "Yeah I probably would, but didn't anyone hear what Watson said in the basement? She's happy with Harry, she's not going to do something stupid, its pointless to follow her." She said as Tom sat on the desk, he looked over at her; "Juds, what Harry's doing is what idiots do when their in love, besides he's probably worried that she's upset that her aunts dead and her little sister wants absolutely nothing to do with her, so she'll do something stupid." He said nonchalantly as Harry rushed out of the office acknowledging only Doug; "We're cleared, lets go." He said as they headed towards Harry's car as Judy and Tom watched, one with a look of shock the other a look of amusement, with a shake of their heads, both of them went back to work.
A short while later, the pair stood outside what looked like an abandoned warehouse, the only indication that it was a gym was the sign that hung outside the door that said Rocky's gym they walked in to see a large blue floor with a set of beams to their left, a set of bars on their right and finally a vault in front of them, but they didn't see Crystal anywhere. Before Harry could ask if they had the right address they heard laughter coming from what looked like an office, they hid behind what looked like a viewing area as a man came out, he was tall and had red hair with light blue eyes, his body was built well and he had a mischievous air about him as he walked out onto the floor; "C'mon Crystal, you're taking forever!" he whined, Doug and Harry turned as they heard tiny footsteps running down the stairs and Harry's jaw almost dropped at what he saw. Crystal walked towards the man wearing a sparkly dark green leo with a black sunburst, exposing the dark pink scar on her shoulder and the light pink ones scattered across her legs from the accident, Doug and Harry watched as she jogged over; "Geez Adam, I'm coming!" she said as she stood in front of them. Adam laughed as they headed towards the vault, he went first flipping with a double twist, sticking the landing, and he grinned at Crystal; "Beat that." He quipped as Crystal took to the runway; she sprinted towards the vault performing a handspring front salto with a full twist as she stuck the landing she turned around and smiled; "Looks like I did." She said as she strolled over to him, suddenly a loud clang was heard and the pair jumped; "What the hell was that?" she said scanning the area, Adam shrugged; "No idea…wanna do bars?" he asked not mentioning seeing two men hiding out in the viewing area, knowing that one of them was Crystals boyfriend given the description he had gotten. They quickly finished bars and headed over to the beam, ignoring everything around them.
Harry smacked Doug; "Be more careful will you? They could've heard us!" he hissed as Doug crept back up into a crouching position and they peered over to see Crystal flipping on the beam with Adam lying on the mat beside it, suddenly he sat up and looked over at her; "So tell me about this hottie boyfriend of yours." He said teasingly, Crystal looked at him from her peripheral and giggled; "Well what do you want to know? I already told you what he looks like and that I work with him, what else is there?" she said as she dismounted with a round off tuck full. She jumped onto the mat disturbing the lounging red head; he glared at her; "Like how did you guys meet? How did he ask you out? What's the sex like?" Crystal choked on her water while Harry simply sputtered incoherently, Doug smirked at him; "Yeah Harry what's the sex like?" he teased.
Harry glared at him before turning back to watch Crystal and Adam, Crystal looked at Adam uncomfortably before standing up and walking towards the floor, Adam gasped audibly, "Oh my God!" Crystal whirled around silently begging him not to say it, once again though luck wasn't on her side, as Adam shrieked, "YOU HAVEN'T SLEPT WITH HIM YET!" Doug stared at Harry in disbelief; "You've been dating for like what, close to a month and you haven't slept together yet?" he whispered, Harry moved to speak they heard Crystal; "No I haven't Adam, it's not like I don't want to, I-I mean I really care about him, but Adam I'm terrified." She began to stammer as Adam led her to a chair. Doug and Harry listened as Adam tried to calm her down, "Crys, Crys, Crys!" he shouted as she looked at him wide eyed, he sighed; " Look, from what you told me about Harry when we were talking in the grocery store, it seems like you're crazy about this guy, so what's holding you back?" she took a deep breath; "I don't know, I mean what if I'm…" everyone was listening intently, she sighed; " What if I'm bad at it?" she almost whispered. Adam threw his head back and laughed, she glared at him; "This isn't funny!" Adam stopped laughing and wiped his eyes; "I'm sorry, but yes it is! I mean you're 21 years old, you do moves that defy gravity, but you're terrified of having a guy on top of you! I mean this guy seems great, hell if he's held out this long he's incredible. " Crystal glared at him as she stormed onto the floor he looked at her; "Ok well you go and do your routine, I'm gonna go into the viewing area." He yelled after her as he strolled over to the worried Doug and Harry; "What the hell are we going to do now?" Doug said heatedly as he looked around while Harry stayed crouched as Adam walked in and stood near the pair he looked at them with a smirk.
"I knew you guys were here since that whole thing earlier and now I get to meet the famous Harry Ioki and his friend." He said batting his eyelashes at Doug. Harry saw Doug looking down at his shoes and resisted the urge to laugh, Adam looked down at them," I'm glad you guys are here, she's probably going to be pissed, but she'll get over it. She's been a little off since she told me about Louise," The pair looked up at him questioningly "She came in kind of solemn, She sat down and told me about her aunt then she shut down about it and told me a little more about you and her Celiacs, then she changed into her leo and we started to train." He said worriedly as the song Eleanor Rigby began to play over the speaker. They watched as Crystal wiped at her face before going into a two and a half punch front she sniffed as she transitioned into a forward salto with a half twist straight into a backward double salto with a full twist, they saw the tears trail down her face
as she went to finish with a double Arabian before collapsing onto the floor in tears. She curled up on the floor, her body shaking with sobs, suddenly she felt a pair of warm arms wrap around her; "Go away Adam." She choked out, a voice she knew well whispered in her ear; "Last I checked my name wasn't Adam." She slowly turned around and came face to face with Harry, she threw her arms around him and sobbed; "How did everything become so different?" she managed to whisper. Harry looked from the sobbing woman in his arms to Doug and Adam who stood off to the side, so they could be alone, before he could ask her anything she spoke up again; " I mean one minute I'm in college studying to be a criminal psychologist, the next I'm a cop lying to my sisters face! " she sobbed out.
Adam slowly walked towards the couple; " You know I never understood how you decided to be a cop. I mean you wanted to be a criminal psychologist, but you never really showed interest in it like the fieldwork like Jeanne did, you wanted to analyze the criminals, not cuff them and read them their rights. Then one weekend you two go off without me," he tried to glare at her, but one look at her sad face he couldn't do it; "Then you come back all dedicated to be a cop. It never made sense." They all looked at her puzzled as she wiped her face off and looked at them; "Well honestly it started because of Julia's fifteenth birthday, I wasn't going to be able to go because of a meet. I felt bad, so I wanted to get her a great present, but there was really one thing she wanted. She wanted to meet our mom." She looked up at them as they looked at her shock on their faces. She took a deep breath and continue; "So I swallowed my pride and called Louise. After a lot of begging she gave me a name: Dorothy Lee Watson, so Jeanne had our friends help us track her down. We found out she was living in the city near the school, so one weekend Jeanne and I hopped in her car and went to meet her," she looked at them, her voice cracking; " The address we had led to a dingy apartment building. I was about to go in when I saw her, she was leaning on a wall shooting up heroin. She saw me and told me that for twenty bucks she could "take me around the world," she shuddered at the memory, " I ran back to the car and told Jeanne to drive, I don't know if she saw anything, but if she has she's never said anything. On the drive home though, I decided that I wanted to not only analyze people like that, I wanted to put them away. We came back and a few years later we joined the academy." She looked up to see both men's shocked expressions before turning to Harry; "That's why I got so angry at Julia today, she's always pictured our mom as this saint. If I told her about Dorothy, it would've destroyed her." She said, as she tried to make her tearstains go away.
Harry stood up with her in his arms, she stumbled slightly, but Harry held on tightly to her. She looked at him, puzzled; "So… what are you guys doing here?" Harry looked at her, guiltily before he mumbled something. Crystal leaned in; "What was that?" he looked at her, and sighed knowing he had to be honest, "We came to spy on Adam… make sure he didn't try anything." He said as he looked around at anything but her. Crystal looked at Harry, then Adam before she and Adam began to laugh. Harry and Doug exchanged confused glances, as Adam wiped tears from his eyes; " Trust me guys, I feel only brotherly feelings towards Crys," he chuckled as he walked towards the couple placing a hand on Crystal's shoulder, "Besides, not that it wasn't obvious, but I'm gay." He said to a shocked Doug and Harry. Crystal smiled shyly as Harry hesitantly looked back down at her, "So…does this mean you're not mad?" he asked tentatively she looked up at him with a mixture of anger and amusement; "No, I'm pissed, but the idea of Adam and I being together is so funny, its making me not think about all the shit that's happened today." She leaned up towards his ear, her breath making him shiver, "But I assure you Harry Ioki, That we will deal with this when we get home." She whispered heatedly as he shivered for a completely different reason. She pulled away and with a curt "See you soon." To Adam she grabbed her bag and with a string of curses being muttered under her breath. The moment they heard her car pull out Adam and Doug turned to a dumbfounded Harry who was still standing in the middle of the floor, he shook his head, puzzled; "What the hell just happened?" he asked the men in front of him. Doug and Adam looked at each other before looking at Harry and laughing at him. Adam walked over and clapped Harry on the back; "You my friend have just pissed off your girlfriend." He said as Doug came up from the other side, draping his arm across; "Basically Iokage that means you're screwed." He laughed out as he dragged them back to the car and back to work.