Chapter 9

It's been a week now. Antonio was out of the hospital and everything was going good for the whole team. Except for Pollock.

"Janice, what are you talking about?" Pollock asked her. They were talking in his office.

"John, you know what I'm talking about." Janice told him.

"Janice, I don't, ok? I don't. What have we, what have I done wrong?" Pollock asked her.

"John, I'm kept away from most of your life, in a marriage you don't do that, you're open with each other." Janice told him. She was starting to get aggravated with him.

"I don't want you in that part of my life, I'm protecting you from that, it's complicated." Pollock told her.

"Oh, I get it now. You're protecting me from your life. Why are you trying to protect me?" Janice asked frustrated.

"Janice, I don't want to talk about it, ok?" Pollock told her.

"You see, you're doing it now, John. You know what, don't even come home tonight." Janice told him as she opened his office door and left.

Pollock walked out after her. "Janice, what about the kids?" Pollock asked her.

"They won't notice." Janice told him as she got on the elevator.

"Janice, don't do this, Janice." Pollock said, he was trying to stop her. She just looked at him while she left.

"Wow," Jess said as Pollock went storming back to his office. Nicole and Jess had over heard the last part of the conversation between Pollock and Janice. "Did Janice just kick him out?" Jess asked Nicole completely shocked.

"I think so." Nicole said. She was also in disbelief. They were going to go talk to him about the current case but they couldn't bring themselves to do it. So they went and walked back to their desks. Once they got there, they saw Antonio, standing by Nicole's desk.

"Antonio, hey." Nicole said as they gave each other a long hug. They hadn't been able to see each other for 2 days due to the way Nicole had been working. "What are you doing here?"

Antonio stepped back and looked at her and Jess. "Today's my day off."

"Ok, but why are you here?" Jess asked him.

"Two reasons. The first one is to see Nicole, the second one is, I don't know, honestly. There's just something about the FBI that draws me back." Antonio told them. Even though he had only been gone for about 2 and half weeks he was longing to come back. "So anything major happen since I've been gone?"

"Not really." Jess told him. "Besides your replacement."

"Yeah, Nicole told me about that. What about you and Colin?" Antonio asked.

"Everything is going great. The DOJ is just slamming him with work." Jess sighed.

"Oh, did you guys ever finish Jamie's case?" Antonio asked. That was the case that had been keeping Nicole from seeing Antonio.

"Yeah, we did. She was fine." Nicole told him.

"Good, I'm glad. Where's Pollock?" Antonio asked.

"In his office." Jess told him.

"I'm going to go see him for a minute. That's the one thing that I don't miss, is his demanding orders." Antonio told them.

Just as he walked to go to Pollock's office, Nicole stopped him. "I wouldn't go right now."

"Why not?" Antonio asked.

"Just believe me, you don't." Nicole told him.

"Ok," Antonio said. "Hey you want to go get some lunch?" He asked them.

"Sure," Nicole said. So all of three of them got ready to leave and as they were waiting for the elevator, Pollock came up behind them.

"Cortez," Pollock asked. They all turned around.

"Hi, sir." Antonio responded.

"Where are you all going?" Pollock asked. They all looked at each other.

"We were going to get lunch together, is that alright?" Antonio asked.

"Isn't there still an active case?" Pollock asked.

"Yes, sir." Nicole said. "We had gotten a tip about an hour ago, someone told us that they know who took Katie. They also believe that she is dead."

"A homicide how nice. Why didn't you tell me about this?" Pollock asked them. They all remained silent. "Ok then, well why don't you go talk to the person who gave us the phone tip?"

"It was an anonymous phone call, sir." Nicole said.

"Well go talk to the person that they said has her." Pollock ordered them.

"Fine sir," Nicole said. Pollock walked back to his office. "Hey Antonio, how about we all meet up for drinks tonight?"

"Yea, call me?" Antonio asked.

"Sure, I love you. Bye." Nicole said as Antonio got on the elevator.

"I love you too, Nicole." Antonio said. Jess and Nicole went back to work while Pollock tried to sort out what happened between him and Janice.

That Night...

It was 8:30 pm and they all decided it call it a night. So Nicole called Antonio and they all met up for drinks. Once they were there Jess got a nice surprise. Colin had come out to the bar. "Hey, Colin, what are you doing here?" Jess asked him completely shocked.

"I got a phone call saying that you would be coming here." Colin told her. Jess looked over at Antonio, who denied everything.

"I'm just glad to be able to see you, since I haven't seen you in like 5 days." Jess said. They gave each other a quick kiss.

"Well, I'm here now aren't I?" Colin asked jokingly. Jess laughed and then they all stayed at the bar for quite a while.

Pollock and Janice...

Pollock wanted to get things straightened out between him and Janice. He tried to call her over and over, but he could never get a hold of her. So he drove home. At about the same time that he was getting ready to try to unlock the door, Janice opened the door.

"John, you really shouldn't be here tonight." Janice told him.

"Janice what, really what do you want from me?" Pollock asked her.

"You know what it is, and I think just spending time away from one another would be a good thing right now." Janice told Pollock.

"Janice, can't we just talk about this tonight?" Pollock asked her.

"No, John we can't. Good Night." Janice told him, she then shut the door and Pollock was locked out for the night. So he decided to go to a hotel.

Back at the Bar...

Antonio and Nicole had left a few minutes ago and Jess and Colin were getting ready to leave.

"Hey I better get going because I have to go undercover again tomorrow." Colin told her.

"Aren't they making you go undercover a lot?" Jess asked.

"Yea, but it's all good." Colin told her.

"Ok, it's your job." Jess said.

Colin laughed. "Well I'll see you tomorrow?"

"Yep." So they walked out of the bar, and gave each other a quick kiss for the night.

Wow. Long time since I updated this story. Sorry for the long wait for all of my stories. I've just been really busy and have had other problems but I will start updating my stories more I promise! Thanks to all of my reviewers too! Please keep reading and reviewing!