Chapter 14: Changing The Mood
Don wakes up, his bed was cold, and in the night table of the other side was his cal tee of the NYPD folded. That was the shirt that Emily wears to sleep when she spends the night in his place.
He stands up and walks around the apartment, but everything is calm and quiet. Emily was gone a few hours early.
He checks the hour in his new watch – "Dam it… I'm a little late" – he says, and rushes his steps for the shower.
A the same time, Emily looks for the last time the room when she spend her time that last six months; she checks the drawers… all of them are empty, like the closet… everything is in her baggage's. Many memories come in to her mind… she breaths and close the door.
Don is at the crime lab, he is sitting waiting for some papers from Mac, so he pick his phone and review the pictures… many pictures with Emily, and he can't avoid simile.
Jo and Mac walk to him: "Don… this is what we…" – says Jo, but she looks him and similes.
"Nice watch"- she says.
Don similes with a grimace: "Emily gives to me yesterday…"
"How is she?" – asks Mac
"She is leaving today… she back to LA" – says Don serious.
"And why are you here and not with she in this moment?" – asks Mac.
Don keeps silence. Jo asks him: "Don… do you share good times with her?"
"Yes."
"Do you proud of her?"
"Yes… she is a great woman"
"Do you introduce her to your family?"
"Yeah…"
Jo smiles: "Do you love her?"
For the first time Don think in that phrase… and murmur his answer: "Yes."
Mac smiles: "And what are you waiting for… go with her and tell her… I almost loose Christine for my pride… don't make that mistake"
"But she will be gone… at the other side of the country…" – exclaims Don.
"Don… you have a cell phone, a computer, Skype… we aren't in the 19th century…" says Jo.
"Go for her, she is a good woman… the distance, you will fix it, but you deserve a girl like her."- says Mac and gives to him a punch in his shoulder.
Don smiles, he stands up and run to the elevator.
Emily was leaving his baggage in the counter of the airport. She calls home because her flight is delay, so she walks to the coffee shop, and sits. She reviews her pictures in her phone… Don is in the most of them. She smiles.
Don drives to the airport… the traffic was like hell, but in a moment, he could drive faster… He parks the car and walk so fast. He runs to the counter, and that moment he knows that the flight was with delay, he picks his phone and dials the number.
Emily was reading a magazine in the newsstand her phone rings, she looks the screen: "Donnie"
"Hey… what's' up?" – She says.
"Where are you?... I'm in the airport"
"I'm in the newsstand… ", and in that moment she looks that Don runs in towards her and hugs her.
"Hey…" – he says. She hugs back – "what a surprise".
"Doll… what happen with your flight?"
"Delayed… I'll have to wait one hour more."
They sit. Don holds Emily's hand: "I have to see you again…" – he looks nervous.
"Sweetie… "
"Emily…"- Don breathes – "I will miss you… and I have to tell you something."
"I will miss you too Don… "– she put her head over his shoulder. That gesture gives to Don the strength to make his confession.
"Em… I love you… " – he whispers in her ear.
She kisses him, and put her forehead over his forehead: "Man… you rock my world… I love you too."
Don smiles: "I don't have any idea that how we can make it, but… I want you in my life… no matter the distance, I want to hear your voice all the days, talk with you for Skype… I don't know how, but I want to be with you"
She smiles and kisses him again: "we will make it… a lot of calls, we will travel… it means… we figure out."
They stay sit, holding each other hands, waiting until the time to aboard.
Outside the gate they are hugging: "You could go to LA for New Year…" – she says.
"I will be with my grandma on Christmas and I have to work in New Year… I will be in time square."
" Well… we could see us in January."
"I will call you every day…" – Don breaths.
"Anytime… I keep my cell phone on even if I wasn't in a shift."
"Dr. Emily Davenport… I love you so much… please be safe… I'm missing you right now".
"Dtve. Donald Flack… I love you too so much… be careful and I'm missing you a lot."
On the speakers sound the call for the flight of Emily… they kiss.
"Call me when you arrive."
"I'll do."
Emily walks in for the gate… Don looks her until she lost in the crowd. He is happy, he fall in love again, and he is loved.