Disclaimer: I don't own anyone but Karen and Jerry. And Frannie Goren. Maggie and Tommy belong, with her permission, to Infinity Star. (Thank you for letting them come to the BBQ). The rest belong to Dick Wolf, et al.
The BBQ Home for Good.
CHAPTER 11
The weather chose to cooperate with their plans. The rain that had been forecast failed to materialize and Jerry was at Karen's early to help set everything up. She had told him that she didn't need any help, but he knew her well enough by now to know that she did need help, even if she wouldn't admit it. She was nowhere in the house when he entered, but he found the doughnuts she had made fresh and coffee in the pot. Since she didn't drink coffee, he guessed she was expecting him after all.
He munched on a few doughnuts and drank two cups of coffee, waiting for her to show up. She finally did and didn't seem surprised to see him. Her pleasure at his appearance, though, showed on her face. Did she really think that he would leave her all alone to get this entire party together? Evidently that had been her thinking. He was angry with people who had led her to do just that in past times. He would never do that to her and he would make sure that she was never put in that position again.
"I came to help. What needs to be done?" he said simply.
"Are you sure you want to? There is a lot to do."
"I'm here, aren't I? Put me to work."
"Okay, you got the doughnuts?"
"And the coffee. Thank you."
She smiled and crooked a finger at him. "This way, but don't say I didn't warn you."
She did warn him, but he didn't mind. She took one end of some very heavy picnic tables and he the other and they moved them around the backyard. He caught a glimpse of the huge side of beef cooking on her brick BBQ in the back yard. And saw a mountain of food in her fridge. She had one entire cooler filled with all kinds of soda cooling in the back porch and another filled with ice, for the beer that Mike and Carolyn Logan had agreed to bring. There were pitchers of homemade lemonade and juice for the kids and fruit for everyone.
They had a light lunch and then spent a couple of hours setting up canopies over the picnic tables, and one over the lounge chairs on her deck. Jerry knocked together some sawhorses, they then spread planks on them and put vinyl tablecloths on them for the food. They put sand in the new sandbox she had had installed in one corner of the yard near a new swing set and then put a canopy over the sandbox. And Jerrys favorite part, they took a large load of toys out of the packages and spread them around for the kids to play with. Jerry wished for a few moments that he were the one these toys were for.
Karen saw the wistfulness on his face and teased. "I think they might share some of them if you can play nice. Or I can get you your own toys later."
Jerry grinned at her. "Do I get to pick them out?"
"We'll see. You've been a very good boy today. Oh, my, goodness. It's 2:00 already."
"What more do we have to do? It looks perfect."
"There's only two more things we need to do. I want to test the nuts and bolts on the swing set again in case I didn't get them tight enough and I need to check the pool chemicals. The pool company said that it should be checked before heavy use and afterward. Would you check the swing set? You can probably do it without standing on a ladder."
"Your wish is my command, my lady. Where're the tools?"
"In the garage. There's a box of wrenches and screwdrivers on a shelf just inside the walk in door. Then we can rest until they arrive. And Jerry?" He turned halfway out the door. "Thanks. I couldn't have done this all by myself."
Jerry winked at her and went out the door. There were a few loose nuts, not too many. He tightened those and moved the legs out on it so it was level. He vowed that after this party, he'd come back and cement the legs of the set into the ground so it was stable for whoever used it. He returned the tools to the garage and went to find Karen.
She was by the swimming pool using the leaf skimmer to remove some that had blown onto the surface. She looked so relaxed in the sunshine, wearing a sun dress with her hair down her back. She felt safe at home and he had never realized before how tense she always was away from here. She moved down the long side of the pool after another leaf. The gentle wind ruffled her full skirt and she put her head back to feel the wind on her face. She looked so free. His heart swelled with happiness for her.
He walked up beside her wanting to be a part of the moment. "That's all done…."
Startled, Karen jumped away from the unexpected voice right next to her and fell right into the pool. Thankfully it wasn't that deep, but it was a shock. Jerry jumped in to save her and nearly landed on her. There was a great deal of splashing until it got sorted out that Jerry was trying to save her, not drown her.
"What the hell are you doing? You scared the hell out of me."
"I'm sorry. I thought you were in trouble." Jerry told her, contritely.
"I wasn't until you scared me." Karen said crossly. She flung her long wet hair over her shoulder and glared at him, but the absurdity struck them both funny at the same time. They were giggling when the dogs in the kennel started to bark.
"Oh, no, they're early." Karen gasped. "And look at me."
"You are kind of wet." Jerry gestured to the water soaked dress visible above the water line.
Karen sent him a scalding look. "So are you." She scolded and headed for the edge of the pool.
"If you want to go change, I can go meet them." Jerry suggested helpfully.
"No, thank you. I won't be a bad hostess, just a wet one. Did you bring any other clothes?"
"Just my swim suit."
"Great. Well, I guess we'll meet them when we're both all wet, right?"
"Anything you say."
Detectives learn to follow clues but they also learn when to hold their tongues. None of the newcomers chose to comment on the drenched couple that greeted them in the driveway. They must have been a sight, because the grins weren't as easy to cover up. The grins spread when Mike and Carolyn Logan joined the group and didn't stop when Angie and Jimmy Deakins joined. They were all there.
Children are not so well trained as adults even exceptionally intelligent ones like Maggie and Tommy Goren. Maggies eyes noted the condition of the two adults and asked innocently. "How come you're all wet?" she asked.
"Yeah, Karen, how come you're all wet?" Mike Logan asked grinning. His wife standing beside him with a bowl of food in her arms nudged him.
"Leave them alone." Carolyn said.
"Ar-Are we interrupting anything?" Bobby grinned at them.
"Bobby!" Alex scolded, even though she wanted to know just like the others did. "We are early, but we can leave and come back if there's a problem."
"No, we're fine." Jerry piped up.
Karen shot him a quelling look. She sighed, knowing she was going to have to explain sooner or later. "I was checking the water in the pool, and fell in. Jerry jumped in to help me."
"You have a pool?" Tommy demanded, exchanging an excited look with Maggie.
"It was going to be a surprise, but yes, I do. Please come in. And pardon my splashing as I walk. Do you guys swim?"
"Daddy's teaching us." Maggie said proudly.
"How deep is the pool?" Bobby asked nervously.
"At the shallow end it starts at two feet. Then it slopes gradually to the deep end where it's 9 ft. When I had it installed, I made sure it had as many safety features as possible and it has it's own separate fence so it can only be accessed when an adult is present. You'll see what I mean when we get back there. You brought some food?"
"We brought some wein-weiner, Dad, what was that that we brought?" Maggie demanded.
"Weinerschnitzel, mouse." Bobby said.
"Dog nose." Tommy translated.
"Dog nose?" Jerry asked.
"You know. Weiner schnoze. Dog nose." Tommy clarified.
Alex rolled her eyes and shifted baby Fran to her other arm. The adults laughed.
"Yum, dog nose." Jerry told the boy.
"I think we need to get this stuff inside before it gets too warm." Angie Deakins told the group. "This is getting heavy. We brought a fruit salad." She told Karen.
"By all means, lets get this stuff inside. The beer is getting warm." Mike said with a smirk.
"We also brought milk, cookies and juice." Carolyn offered.
"Milk?" Jimmy Deakins teased. "Does this mean what I think it means?"
"I guess there are all kinds of secrets leaking out today." Carolyn stated softly. She sent an adoring look at her husband.
"Congratulations, you two." The captain said grinning.
"This is no place to celebrate such great news." Karen said.
"I agree. Where's that beer, Mike? We'll put that in the cooler." Jerry said.
While they went to get the beer Karen led the way into her farmhouse. The kitchen was cluttered with bodies, but there was plenty of space in the big country style room. Tommy and Maggie hurried to the sliding glass doors that opened out onto the back yard. "Look at that. A sandbox, a swimming pool, and a swingset." Tommy said.
"Can we go out there? We'll stay away from the pool." Maggie asked her parents, pleading in her eyes.
"Hang on a second, guys. Let me show you something. Over there is the bathroom and down at the end of the hall is a room you can use to change into your swimsuit before you go swimming. Don't go into any door with a red ribbon on them. I haven't remodeled those yet and they could be dangerous for you."
"Okay." The kids agreed, but they probably would've agreed to eat dog food if it meant that they could go outside and explore the backyard.
"Go ahead, then." Alex told them.
They were out the door in a flash, racing for the sandbox. "I hope we brought enough clothes for all day." Bobby said, watching them go.
"I set it up so anyone looking out these windows can see everything going on in the back yard." Karen explained.
"You had this all done? Someone did a nice job." Jimmy said.
"Thank you. I can spot the flaws, but paint covered a lot of them."
"You did this? All byyourself?"
"I did have to get the wiring finished by an electrician and the building inspectors were a bit of a pain, but it's all mine. I like to work with my hands."
Jerry and Mike arrived at the back door with two large armloads of beer cases. Bobby opened the door for them and took an equal amount from each man. "Does anyone want some now? We have a cold case here." he called.
"I'm fine." Karen said.
"I'll have one." Alex said.
"I'm going to have a soda if anyone wants one. I also have lemonade and juice and there's your juice and milk, Carolyn. What am I talking about? Help yourself to anything you want." Karen laughed.
The guys paraded back inside. "How soon do we eat? I smell something good." Bobby asked coming over to sit near his wife and sleeping baby.
"It's time for me to baste again. Want to see the feast?" Jerry asked.
"Do you mind?" Bobby asked his partner.
"Go, I'm going to sit here and enjoy the company." She smiled at the big man who was dearer to her than her own life.
Bobby kissed her and the four guys stampeded out to the BBQ. After they left, Angie sighed looking after them. "It's good to see that Jimmy has friends that he can pal around with. He's lost a lot of friends on the force and now that he'll be retiring permanently he'll be lost, I think. He's always had a special place in his heart for Bobby, you know."
Alex nodded. "He's the father Bobby never had in many respects. They understand one another."
"Then you add Mike into the mix and you end up with boys and toys." Carolyn added.
The ladies laughed. "Did the captain give anyone any indications as to where they might be sending Jerry and I?" Karen asked.
"No." Angie shook her head.
Alex watched the by play on Karen's face, the anxiety she was trying to hide and the unusually concentrated attention that Angie was paying to Karen when she wasn't looking and wondered what was going on. Alex would've bet her badge that Angie knew more than she was telling about something.
"So, Alex, how old is Frannie now?" Carolyn asked watching the sleeping angel in Alex's arms.
"Seven weeks now."
"Any problems because she was so premature?"
"We still have her on a apnea monitor at night and the nanny keeps a close eye on her, but she was more mature than they expected her to be, so they think I might have been farther along than they initially thought. So far as anyone can tell, she'll be a perfectly healthy baby in every respect. Thank God."
"So is everything back to…uh. Normal? You know, between you and Bobby?"
Carolyn asked delicately.
"Carolyn!" Angie scolded laughing.
"Well, I'll need to know these things." Carolyn laughed with them, but her face was red.
"The doctor cleared me yesterday. He said as soon as I feel up to it, I could resume….normal activities."
"Does Bobby know?"
"I wanted to tell him last night, but he was so tired from getting up with Fran that he fell asleep on the couch right after dinner and then Maggie and Tommy got up early, so we really haven't had a chance yet."
"I don't think he'll be too tired tonight." Angie predicted.
"I won't either." Alex admitted, sighing with impatience.
The women laughed. The men marched back toward the house. "I see hungry looks on their faces. I'll bet the food is ready." Angie said.
"Mike skipped lunch so he's going to say it's ready even if it's still bleeding." Carolyn commented wryly. "How that man can eat and still not get fat is beyond me."
"It's done." Jerry told Karen.
"Great. As soon as we get the food on the table we can eat. I didn't expect it to be ready this soon, but I guess you guys got here just in time." Karen bounded to her feet.
"Put us to work." Angie told her.
"You're guests." Karen protested.
"Nonsense, we're family." Carolyn argued.
"Okay. Carolyn, let's you and I pass the food to Angie and she can get the stuff ready to take out to the tables. Alex, you can direct traffic. We can put the drinks on the table closest to the big table and the rest further down. Jerry, you and the captain take those big knives and start carving up the beef. Bobby, can you get the cooler with the drinks? Mike, you're in charge of the platters to take the beef for the table. No stealing samples either. When you're done with that, come in here and help carry the food out to the tables."
"Send the kids in to wash up, will you?" Alex asked her husband.
"They can help with the food too. We have things they can carry." Angie suggested. "Where are your plates and silverware, Karen?"
"I bought a whole bunch of plates and silverware in that cupboard next to the door. I also have napkins in the drawer above it."
"Goodness, girl, you have enough here to invite the entire NYPD!" Angie said.
"I wanted to have enough." Karen said and turned away from the group.
"Hey, Karen, it's alright." Alex was quick to catch the youngest womans arm. "We weren't criticizing."
Angie whirled around to stare at the woman. She had forgotten how quickly a new persons feelings could be hurt. It seemed like the young woman had been part of the group for years. "Oh, Karen, I didn't mean it like that, honey. I was just surprised at how well stocked you are. These are great."
"I just wanted everything to be perfect is all." Karen said in a small voice.
"It is. Is this the first time you've had a group over for a BBQ?" Karen nodded.
"Then you have a long career in this sort of thing and you have a great start at it."
"Thank you."
Bobby passed them with the cooler and called to the kids. They pelted past him toward the house. Alex held up a hand and the two slowed down as they entered the room. "Is it time to eat?" Maggie asked.
"As soon as you wash up you can help get the food on the table." Alex said. "With soap and water." She called after the energetic duo as they dashed down the hall toward the bathroom.
"I envy you, Alex. You're a natural mother." Carolyn said looking for a hole to put another bowl on the table.
"I guess you could say it grows on you." Alex teased her friend. "Don't forget, I had a lot of brothers and sisters and now nieces and nephews. And when they're yours from the beginning it's easier. You'll be a great mother, Carolyn."
"This reminds me of my original chapter of the WOGS." Karen said.
"What is WOGS?"
"When I was at the academy, we had an instructor who used to rag on the female police candidates unmercifully about their gun handling skills and their level of accuracy. So a bunch of us got together and decided that we were going to help each other. We bought time at a local shooting range for the practice, but to get a group rate we had to come up with a name. We settled on Women Officers Gun Society. We thought of Female and decided we didn't want to be FOGS or Ladies but didn't want to be called…."
"LOGS." Alex laughed. "Good decision."
"So what happened to the women from that chapter?"
"Last I heard, it's still going. It's an invitation only club. If someone has trouble with something like the weapons training, everyone helps them. It's sort of branched out now to other women involved with the service. Dispatchers, traffic cops, meter maids, we have even had women who are just married into the "family" that join for the support and camaraderie. As long as someone in the club is willing to vouch for you and it's really easy to join. We don't charge anything like dues or anything like that. It's mostly just a support group. We do on occasion have a bake sale or something to help a charity or one of the group who has a real need, but it's all voluntary."
"That sounds like a good idea. Maybe we should consider opening a chapter here." Carolyn said.
"Opening one of what?" Bobby asked as he and Mike came in looking for more to do.
"Opening a chapter of WOGS." Alex explained.
"What're WOGS?" Mike asked.
"Let's talk about it over dinner." Angie suggested. "You can start taking this stuff out. Carolyn, do you want to go out and set it up in the yard?"
"Sure."
"I'll go put this little lady down for awhile." Bobby took his tiny daughter from his wife. His gaze softened tenderly at the angel sleeping in his arms.
"Bobby, there's a crib in the bedroom I set aside to change in and a baby monitor if you want to put her there." Karen offered.
"That would be great."
Maggie and Tommy came charging back down the hallway. They were splattered with water all over their fronts and their knees were still dirty from the sand box. "Walk. You know better than to run in the house." Bobby scolded.
"What can we carry?" Tommy asked his mother.
"Take the plates out to the table and put out 10 plates and a glass at every place there's a plate. Maggie, make sure there is a fork, a knife, a spoon and a napkin at every place."
The kids carefully balanced their burdens headed out to the tables. Mike had taken out food to Carolyn and was staying beside her to talk. She was apparently not falling for whatever he was trying to talk her into. She kept smiling and pushing him away. Jerry and Jimmy appeared out from behind the grill with two huge platters of meat and carried them to the table. Bobby came back out to see all the food still sitting on the table. He saw Mike and Carolyn. "Come on, Mike, let the woman work. She knows not to fall for your bull by now. Let's get this food on the table." He called to the couple.
Mike said something to Carolyn and come toward the house. "They are so cute." Angie said. "Yeah, she sure can keep him in line." Bobby said with a mischievious smile to Alex.
Jerry hurried in. "Where's the rest of the food? The meat's all ready."
"Grab something. Where's Jimmy?"
"He's keeping the meat safe from hungry children. And showing them how to put the plates at the places. Apparently there was some diagreement over how the plates were supposed to go."
"Well, here take these, Bobby get those, Alex, get those and Karen, you can take that big bowl and we're ready to eat." Angie said. "I have the rolls. Let's go, people, I'm starved."
The tables were heavy with food and they formed a line for everything but the meat. By popular opinion, Jimmy Deakins was pushed to the head of the table to eat. He had been instrumental in bringing them all together. He was humbled at their insistence and rose from his seat to propose a toast. "This meal is a special one today. We've all been through so much together that we're more like a family than co workers. Karen, you've opened your lovely home to us and put together this feast and we all appreciate it. Everyone, a toast to friends, and family and a lot more of both."
"Here, here." Everyone raised a glass of whatever they were drinking to celebrate the moment.
"Let's eat." Angie said. She knew what her husband had to say after the meal and didn't want to spoil the meal. Her eyes wandered from Karen sitting next to Jerry, to Alex sitting next to Tommy, then Bobby and Maggie sitting across the table from Mike and Carolyn. They were a part of her extended family. She only hoped that in the years to come, they could all be this close.
"So tell me what's with this MOGS?" Bobby asked.
"WOGS." Alex corrected. "And it's Karen story to tell. Go ahead, Karen."
"WOGS? As in pollywogs?" Mike said.
"No." Carolyn scolded him. "Listen because you're going to be married to one."
"This I gotta hear." Jimmy said.
"I'm considering it too, so listen closely." Angie told him firmly.
He did a double take at his long time partner. Then he turned his attention to his youngest detective.
Karen blushed at being the center of attention, but she warmed to her topic. She was quite poetic about some of the things her former chapter had done. In the end she apologized for talking too much.
"I think it's a good idea." Mike said. "I know how hard women have to work to get a promotion in the service. Are you serious about opening a chapter?" he asked Karen and Alex.
"I am, but Karen would be the one running it. What do you say, Karen?"
Karen nearly choked on her food. Jerry helpfully swatted her between the shoulderblades, nearly knocking her off the bench. "Me?"
"You're the one with the experience in it." Jimmy said. "Why not? I think it's a great idea. How about you, honey?"
"Oh, well, I…of course, I'm interested, but I'm just your wife and you'll be retiring soon and…."
"We want you in." Karen told her.
"I'll sponsor you." Carolyn said.
"So will I." Alex said.
"Me, too." Maggie piped up. "I can be in it too, can't I, Mom?"
"Uh, I don't know. Karen, what do you think?"
"Absolutely. Maggie, you are our first official junior member."
"I want to join, too." Tommy announced.
"You and I have to form a club of our own, buddy. Just you and me and Uncle Mike."
"And Uncle Jimmy." Tommy added decisively.
This was all too much for Jimmy Deakins. He had tears in his eyes when he gripped his wifes hand. "Okay, as long as were doing this I have a couple of announcements. We might as well get this all done at once." He stood up and raised his hands for attention. "I was going to announce this later, but there are somethings I need to tell you all."
He paused for dramatic effect. "I have in my office the official placing for Karen and Jerry. I had a request in for them to stay where they are, but it was denied. I'm sorry." Karens face had gone pale. He wanted so badly to give her the news that she would stay there, but he hoped she would be equally as happy with the rest of his news.
"But don't worry, you won't be going far. They have decided to open a Major Case West Division. There is just too much for one precinct to handle so they're splitting the office into two. It'll be interactive. I don't have all the details, because I'm not officially there any more, but I understand that detectives are allowed to move to one office or the other after a year. You should have the official word on Monday."
There was silence except for Tommy who had a small car that he was running around the table. Even Maggie was attentively watching Jimmy Deakins.
"Tell them the rest, Jimmy." Angie prompted.
"What rest?" Jerry asked, seriously.
"It's not grim, I assure you. Angie and I have been talking about what I'm going to do now that I'm retired. I don't feel old and I'm told I'm a bit difficult to be around if I'm not busy, so I'm going to open my own private investigations firm."
Bobby and Mike grinned at each other. "You owe me a fifty." Mike grinned at his friend.
"You were betting on me?" Jimmy demanded, shocked.
"No. We were betting that Angie would kick you out to do something before you were even home a week. I won. Pay up."
"Shut up." Bobby growled at him.
"One more, Jimmy, then you can sit down." Angie prompted again.
"This ought to be good." Alex said quietly.
"This is all about you, Karen." Deakins informed the woman. She moved marginally back against her partner.
Jerry put an arm around her shoulders. "I don't want another partner. Wherever you go, I go." He told her quietly.
Jimmy glanced at him. "This has nothing to do with assignments. Do you remember that request you put in to find your mother or her family?"
Karen nodded. "You found her?"
"Well, we found out about her. She's dead, I'm afraid, and no information is available about your father."
"It was a long shot anyway. Thanks for trying."
"Why would they give you that information? Isn't that just to be shared with the client only?" Bobby asked.
"Generally, yes, but there were special circumstances in this case. You see, Karen, when you put in that request it triggered a flag that had been in place for years. Someone else was looking for the woman who gave birth to you. And they asked to be notified if anything ever came out of a search."
"Who would do that? Who would care enough to do that? You said that there was no evidence of the father."
"There isn't. I'm the one who asked for the flag on the file. Your mother was my sister. She was murdered when you were just days old. Someone was after me and killed her to get to me. They chose to hurt me by stealing you and putting you where I couldn't find you. Angie and I looked for years for you, but we finally had to accept that you were gone. We never gave up hope that we'd find you, but we were completely out of leads. Until you showed up and reopened the file."
Karen just sat completely still and said nothing. Jerry squeezed her shoulder. "Say something." He urged.
"I don't know what this means." She squeaked out.
"It means, Karen, that you're home. You came home to us and we are so excited. You can't know how long we had hoped to find you and now here you are. You have a whole family that wants to meet you and our girls are ecstatic about it. It was so hard not to tell you until tonight. Jimmy has been a bear until we could tell you." Angie told the shocked woman.
"I think she needs a drink. I know if I was told I was related to the Captain, I'd need a lot of liquor." Mike Logan said and took a sip of his beer for an example.
"Shut up, Mike." Alex, Bobby and Carolyn all told him at the same time.
Jerry squeezed her shoulders again. "It's an awful lot to take in right now." He told everyone. "Let's go for a walk."
He helped Karen to her feet and led her away from the crowd. They went out of the backyard and over to the fence to watch the horses in the pasture. At least Karen did. Jerry watched Karen. "You're scaring everyone, you know." He told her calmly.
Karen turned to look at him with the widest eyes and the whitest face he'd ever seen. He remembered the spitfire he'd first met in the captains office. Her uncles office. "You know this disproves that claim, don't you?"
"What claim?" Karen asked absently.
"The one where you said that you're related to Annie Oakley. I don't think Captain Deakins ever lived in the old west."
Jerry figured he had a better than even chance at making her faint dead away or making her so mad at him that she took a swing at him. Either was preferable to her being in this stupor. "He could look good in a cowboy hat and chaps…. Oh, my God, that's my uncle I was just talking about."
Jerry chuckled to keep her from resuming her silence. "Given what you were saying about him, I doubt if he'd mind."
Karen did punch him lightly in the ribs. "Be nice. He's my uncle for Heavens sake."
"So what're you going to do about it?"
"I have no idea."
"How about a suggestion?"
"Alright."
"Just go with the flow. Take it one day at a time and see how it goes. You know now that you have a family. How close you are to them is totally up to you. No one can make you do anything you want or don't want to do. Give them and yourself time. I'll be there for you and I know Alex and Bobby, and Carolyn and Mike will too. You have a family already, we're your family. And now you can add blood relatives, to it."
"Wow. You sure pack an elegant speech there, sir. We need to go back. There's a question I have to ask."
Karen turned and headed full speed for the backyard. Jerry hurriedly caught up to her. "What question?" he asked.
Karen waved a hand at him and kept going. She slowed down when they all looked at her but she lifted her chin and resumed her walk right up to Jimmy and Angie Deakins. "I just have one question."
Angie put her hand on her husbands arm. "What's that?" she asked.
"Was I wanted? By my mother, I mean."
"Honey, you were very wanted. By her then and by us now."
When Karen began to cry, Angie caught her up in a hug and Jimmy hugged them both. There wasn't a dry eye in the yard. Even baby Fran chose then to cry. Bobby and Alex could only hug each other and laugh.
Complete.
