Date: June 14, 2008
Title: Running from the Past
Author: Soccer-Bitch
Chapter: 7 of ?
Rating: T (for language)
Pairings: Don Flack/Madison Messer
Warnings: Some Strong Language
Feedback: All opinions are welcome!
Disclaimer: I own Madison Messer and any other characters that I make up as this story progresses. Everything else does not belong to me!
Summary: Close to twenty years after leaving the Big Apple, Maddy Messer returns home, running from a past that won't leave her alone. Will her cousin be able to save her or will the past catch up with her?
Chapter 7
Disappointment is something every one faces at some point in their lives. Maddy hated the feeling; she had felt it not a lot but occasionally. She told Aiden that her dad was a bust, but for some reason she wanted to try again, maybe in a few days time. She didn't tell Danny what she was planning because she felt like if she told him that he would try and talk her out of it which wouldn't be too hard.
Maddy was just lazing about her apartment when there was a knock on her apartment door. She got up from sitting on the couch with her laptop and walked up to the door. She looked through the peep hole as a precaution. What surprised her the most was the fact that Flack was standing there.
"Hi," Maddy said after opening the door and coming face to face with the man she hadn't seen since she left the police station after talking about her co-worker Victoria.
"I need to talk to you," Flack said with a serious look on his face.
Maddy didn't say anything she just opened the door wider so that he could come in.
"Did Danny send you?" Maddy asked after she shut the door.
"No, he's working a case. Aiden mentioned to me that you went to find your father," Flack said as he sat on her couch.
"So much for talking in confidence," Maddy said as she closed her laptop so Flack couldn't see what she had been doing.
"Look the only reason she told me was because she wanted me to look him up. Your dad is in jail," Flack told her.
"What? Since when? What for?" Maddy asked genuinely surprised.
"Originally it was resisting arrest, but it was upped to aggravated assault and so he has served about four months of a ten month sentence," Flack said as he looked into her eyes.
"Why did you do this?" Maddy asked curiously as she sat on the other end of the couch.
"Look, we are old enough to know what we did. You might not want to admit to it, but it was fun and you had a good time. I don't know why you are just ignoring me," Flack told her.
"Look I know that I didn't handle that in the best way possible and I am sorry about that, but I am not ready for a relationship and I can't do that casual thing, it just isn't me," Maddy told him
"What happened?" Flack asked.
"What do you mean?" Maddy asked back looking at him.
"Well I figure something major must have happened for you not to wanna be in a relationship," Flack said.
"Let's just say, that my last relationship ended badly and I am not ready to jump back into the boat just yet," Maddy said honestly as she looked into his blue eyes.
"Ok, so friends then?" Flack asked her
"Yeah, friends," Maddy agreed.
"So tell me something," Flack said.
"About what?" Maddy asked looking at him.
"How come Danny doesn't know that your dad is in jail?" Flack inquired.
"My dad and I had a falling out a few years back. It was the reason I stopped coming back to New York. When Danny found out that Dad was making me choose between him and my life in California, he took my side. He thought it was unfair of Dad to make me choose, so when I stopped talked to Dad, so did he. But I believe Danny's parents still talk to my dad, but not Danny," Maddy said.
"What about Louie?" Flack asked
"If Louie heard what happened, I wouldn't know it. I wasn't as close to Louie as I am Danny, but I still love him," Maddy said honestly.
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Maddy walked into her apartment after work. She had called Danny, but he didn't pick up his phone at all. She called Flack about Victoria's murder and he told her that they were about to interview a suspect. Maddy couldn't help but wonder if it was Victoria's brother that they were interviewing. It had been hours since she had called Flack and she had to admit she was tempted to call him again and ask just to see if he would tell her. Not like she could do anything about it anyways. Maddy decided to take her chances and found Flack in her contacts and called him.
"If you call me all the time it could mean several things," Flack said answering his phone once he saw who it was.
"Yeah, that I'm bored," Maddy said with a grin.
"Seriously, if you were bored, ya wouldn't be calling me, would ya?" Flack told her.
Maddy rolled her eyes. "Keep dreaming. I was calling to see if you found the bastard that killed Victoria," she said, the teasing leaving her voice.
Flack sighed, wanting to tell her everything, but knowing that he couldn't. "Maddy," he sighed into the phone, "It's an ongoing investigation. You know I can't talk about it."
"I didn't ask for any details or anything. I just wanted to know if the monster that killed my friend is gonna be someone's bitch in jail or what?" Maddy asked.
"Maddy how about I make you a deal?" Flack suggested
"I'm listening," Maddy said interested.
"As soon as Victoria's killer is behind bars, I will call you and take you out for drinks, as friends only of course," Flack said.
"You're tired of me calling all the time, aren't you?" Maddy asked realizing that she must have been annoying him and maybe even keeping him from finding her friend's killer.
"Maddy, listen to me. I know that you want whoever did this to Victoria to pay, so I will let you know as soon as I can. You can call every so often; just not four times a day, okay?" Flack told her.
"Okay, I get it," Maddy said.
"Did you just get up?" Flack asked as he tried to keep the conversation going for a bit longer in hopes to avoid the paperwork that cluttered his desk.
"It's what? Eight in the morning? Sadly enough, no I didn't just get up. I just got in. My cast mates and I went out for a drink for Victoria and prayed that it would be solved as soon as the great NYPD can solve it," Maddy said with a smile as she entered her bedroom to lie down on her bed.
"You've been out drinking all this time?" Flack asked in shock.
"What are you nuts? You've seen me when I drink, would I be able to have this conversation if I had been out drinking until now?" Maddy asked as she kicked off her tennis shoes before lying on top of the covers of her bed.
Flack smirked, even though she couldn't see him. "You got that right. I've never seen anyone related to Messer that could hold their liquor,"
"Are you suggesting that my cousin can't hold his liquor?" Maddy asked with a grin of her own, knowing how true that statement was.
"I think we both know that Danny can't hold his liquor quite like you can," Flack told her.
"Well one of us has to uphold the Messer name," Maddy said with a laugh.
"Well Danny won't be doing that anytime soon," Flack laughed as his other line beeped. "Maddy, I hate to cut this short since I don't get to talk to you very often, but I got another call. It's about work,"
"Okay, I get it. No more calls about the case, you will let me know," Maddy said with a long yawn.
"And then we will go out and celebrate. Get some sleep, I will talk to ya later," Flack told her before waiting for her to hang up first.
"Bye, Flack," Maddy told him as she hung up the phone, she grabbed the cord to her charger and plugged it in.
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It seemed like she had just dozed off when her cell phone went off. Maddy looked at the caller id and wasn't sure if she wanted to talk to Danny now. She had been calling him for the past week, but he had been ignoring her, so why should she bother now? Before she had the choice to answer it, Maddy's voicemail kicked in.
Maddy just sighed and put her phone back down on the stand, before laying her head on the pillow. After only having her eyes closed for a few seconds, Maddy heard the banging of her front door. She just groaned and looked at what she was wearing, red booty shorts and a white sports bra. So she grabbed her jacket before slipping it on and zipping it up as she slowly made her way towards the door. When she looked in the peep hole, Maddy had to check it twice, because she couldn't believe that Danny was at the door. She was exhausted, but opened the door knowing Danny would go to the super and get let in somehow.
"Danny, what are you doing here?" Maddy asked as she tried to cover a yawn.
"Were you still asleep? It's almost one in the afternoon," Danny said looking down at his watch.
"I didn't get in until about eight and then I was on the phone, so I didn't get to sleep until almost nine. What is so important that you disturbed my sleep?" Maddy asked letting Danny into her apartment before heading to the kitchen to make some coffee.
"I think that we need to talk," Danny told her after she had come back with two steaming mugs of coffee. "Are you alright? You seem off,"
"I recently found out that my dad is in jail," Maddy told him as she set her coffee down.
Danny just sighed as he ran a hand through his hair before he picked up his coffee from where he set it down and took a large sip, "What did he do?" he inquired after a moment.
"From how I understand it, there was a bar fight. He resisted arrest and someone upped the charge to aggravated assault. He's been in for four months and his sentence was ten months," Maddy told him.
"What are you gonna do then?" Danny asked looking at her.
"I have no idea. Maybe I should go and see him. But I don't think that he'll recognize me though," Maddy told him.
"Why? You haven't changed much, besides getting smarter and drinking," Danny said attempting to make her laugh.
"Do you think I should go?" Maddy asked ignoring his last comment.
"No, your dad is an ass, you don't need that in your life," Danny told her.
"But he's family," Maddy said
"No your family is me, and that is all you need, and maybe my parents," Danny told her as he finished off the cup of coffee and went into the kitchen to get another one.
"So you think that it would be a bad idea to go and see my Dad," Maddy stated as he came back and sat on the couch.
"I think that if you go and see him, that you are just setting yourself up to get hurt. I just don't think that you need him in your life right now or ever," Danny told her.
Maddy ran her hands through her hair and just sighed.
Danny looked at her and remembered his vow. "But if you want to go and see him, I will take you, but I won't go in with you. I will wait for you though," Danny told her as her cell phone started ringing from her bedroom.
"You gonna get that?" Danny asked her.
"No, if it's important they will leave a message," Maddy told him.
"So you want to see him," Danny said stating the obvious.
"Yeah, I do," Maddy told him hoping that he wouldn't start a fight with her.
"I'll take you," Danny told her.
"You will? Danny I don't want you to go if you don't want to," Maddy told him.
"I'll take you next week, but you have to go in by yourself. You okay with that?" Danny asked looking at her.
"Yeah," Maddy said before giving her cousin a hug.
