Don't Run For Your Life

"Ok, baby. You are all set to go see daddy and grandpa at work." AJ smiled as she made sure the blankets were tucked over Blair in her stroller that she had taken half an hour getting her ready and into. She felt like getting some fresh air and wanted to see her father and Punk. She figured it would be a nice surprise.

Punk and AJ had enjoyed a long five hour sleep last night. Yes, five hours was long. Blair went a full five hours without crying and to them it was the most blissful thing in the world. They woke up feeling fresh and ready. It made all the difference in the world. She assumed Bair was just taking her time settling in.

"Ok, now I don't know how I'm going to get this thing down the steps." AJ admitted, swinging her front door over, pushing the stroller out and trying to figure out how she was going to do this when she seen a man walking by and straight thought her gate.

"Need a hand?"

"Oh… yeah." AJ smiled politely, "If you don't mind." AJ smiled as he nodded, lifting the top of the stroller as AJ guided it from the back, carrying it down to level ground as AJ walked back up the steps to lock the door over, "Thank you for that." AJ turned back around as she realised the man was a police officer dressed in uniform.

"Anything for a struggling mom." Cal smiled, "You must be April, am I right?" He asked as AJ looked across at him.

"How do you know my name?" AJ asked.

"I'm Cal." Cal smiled as AJ gulped, "But I'm sure my step-brother has told you all about me? Am I right?" Cal smirked, already knowing the answer from AJ's features.

"You shouldn't be here." AJ shook her head, "Please, go away."

"April, I just want to talk." Cal said calmingly, "I'm not going to hurt you."

"I don't want to talk to you." AJ shook her head, "You harass Phil." She spat, "You harass him for no reason." She played along. She wouldn't snitch on the man she loved. If it meant keeping him here with their daughter, she'd go along with the lies.

"He told you all about the girl who died five years ago?" Cal questioned.

"Yes, and he was proven not guilty and had nothing to do with it." AJ spat, "You need to leave us alone or he'll… he'll file for a restraining order." AJ said as Cal just chuckled.

"I'll still find out what he's hiding." Cal said.

"He isn't hiding anything." AJ said, "You're obsessed." AJ shook her head.

"I'm not obsessed, sweetheart. I'm doing my job." Cal said, "I know Philip is lying about something. Maybe it is something minor, or maybe it's something that will help close this case forever." Cal shrugged, "But I know."

"You don't. Phil would never lie to me. He didn't do anything to that girl and he doesn't know anything either." AJ said adamantly.

"You're so naive." Cal smiled sweetly, "So naive." He shook his head.

"Get out of my way." AJ spat angrily.

"All in good time." Cal smiled, "I'm a police officer, April. If I want to talk to you right now. Then I'll talk to you." He said firmly as AJ looked up at him, "Why did Phil leave you and then come back?" He asked, already knowing the answer through Alfie, but just trying to make sure.

"It's none of your business." AJ said, "You're invading my privacy here. You have no reason to ask me questions." AJ spat, "Get out of my way, now." AJ spat angrily as Cal watched her, eventually stepping to the side and letting her past as AJ walked by him with the stroller.

AJ had gone to the garage once she'd left Cal by the house. She hadn't disturbed Punk's work, he'd only greeted her with a kiss hello for both her and Blair before she disappeared upstairs with her father and the baby. She decided she'd tell him later about her run in with Cal.

"She's a little angel." Jake smiled as he got the chance to feed his granddaughter up above the garage in the apartment whilst AJ watched, her mind on a different planet, "Phil said she gave you a decent night sleep last night." Jake looked up at AJ who wasn't even paying attention to him, "April." Jake said as AJ shook her head and turned to him, "Everything ok, sweetheart?" He asked.

"Yeah, fine." AJ nodded, "Uh… yeah, she did let us sleep a bit." AJ nodded, "Hopefully five hours can turn into eight hours tonight." She sighed tiredly.

"Well, don't be too hopeful for that." Jake laughed, "How are you and Phil? How is he with the baby?" Jake asked curiously. He couldn't help wonder.

"He's amazing with her. She loves him so much. Never ever cries when she's with him. And we're getting on good." AJ smiled positively, "He has… He has a little bit of a past that keeps biting him in the ass every now and then." AJ nodded, "But it's nothing we can't work through." She smiled positively. She knew Cal couldn't put them down. There were two of them and one of him. It seemed like he was obsessively working this case on his own just for the good of his own health. Not to help that girls family, not to serve justice, but to get at Punk. She wouldn't let him win.

"We all have our past." Jake nodded whilst continuing to feed Blair, both of them quickly lifting their heads as they began to hear commotion from downstairs.

"Stay with her." AJ told her father who watched her walk out of the apartment and rush downstairs to see what all the noise was about, walking out of the stairwell and into the garage as she seen Cal standing at the front of the garage whilst Punk and Dean stood amongst the cars looking across at him.

"April, go back upstairs." Punk said.

"No… no, he came to me today." AJ said, "He barely let me leave the house." AJ told Punk.

"What do you want?" Dean shook his head.

"I want the truth, Phil." Cal looked at Punk, "I want the truth, and I want it now."

"I have nothing to tell you." Punk said.

"What the fuck is going on here?" Dean turned to Punk, "Who is this guy?"

"Both of you just go." Punk turned to Dean and AJ, but both of them never budged.

"Phil, you can't deny it anymore. I know that you left here with a guilty conscience. You didn't want to bring April down with you into your lies. So you left only to come back for a child you never even wanted."

"Shut your mouth." Punk spat, "I have no lies. You can leave the easy way by walking out of here. Or I can remove you by myself." Punk said.

"You put your hands on a police officer and I will have you arrested." Cal threatened, "Alfie told me that you wouldn't tell him why Punk left." Cal turned back to AJ.

"Alfie?" AJ shook her head, "What are you talking about?"

"Oh, yeah. I forgot." Cal nodded, "Alfie is with the FBI. He doesn't… publish book covers or whatever it is you do." Cal waved his hand, "He's been undercover all this time and he's been reporting back everything he knows." Cal said as AJ just shook her head.

"N-No. He's my friend." AJ shook her head, "He wouldn't do that." She said with disbelief, "He wouldn't do that." AJ said.

"Well he did." Cal said firmly, "He told me that you said that Phil left for justifiable reasons." Cal said as Punk turned to AJ, "So go on, what is the justifiable reason? I'm waiting." Cal said as Dean turned to Punk with raised eyebrows.

"The justifiable reason was that I didn't want to tell her about that girl dying because I knew I'd have to then tell her about you." Punk spat, "And how obsessed and deluded you are with me. How you try and put me down at any opportunity you have." Punk said, "So I left to keep her from that. But then I came back and told her about everything." Punk explained whilst Dean watched him and listened to him.

"Everything?" Cal asked.

"Everything. Everything that I know." Punk said, "Which is nothing you don't know either." Punk told him, "You have to move on from this. You have to let me live my life, Cal." Punk pleaded as Cal just looked across at him as Dean began to back away to the back of the garage.

"I won't move on. I will never move on. I know you're guilty of something." Cal said, "And I will find out what it is, and I'll make sure you get what you deserve." He spat harshly as suddenly there was loud commotion from the back door of the garage, Dean knocking things over as he fled out of the back entrance of the garage.

"Surely not." Cal turned to Punk, "Surely fucking not." Cal laughed, backing away out of the garage to get in his car whilst Punk opened up the door to one of the cars in the garage.

"Phil, what is going on?" AJ asked him.

"Just stay here with your dad." Punk told her.

"Where is Dean-"

"April just go back upstairs and stay there until I get back." Punk told her, slamming the car door shut and starting the engine as he sped out of the garage, leaving AJ standing so confused.

Punk followed Cal in the car all the way until they caught up with Dean. Punk got out of the car as it was practically still rolling, running faster than Cal to catch up with Dean, pulling him by the arm and into a side alley on the street.

"Listen to me." Punk began as Dean reversed, pushing Punk against the wall.

"No, you listen to me." Dean spat, "You never knew a thing, ok? You didn't know anything. You act surprised. You didn't help me that night, ok?" Dean said as Punk looked at him, "Ok?!" Dean said loudly as Punk just gulped and nodded whilst Cal was calling for back up outside.

"You're just gonna hand yourself over?" Punk asked him.

"I never knew this guy was still on your case." Dean spat, "I'm not about to let my sister lose you again. I have nothing to lose here." Dean said.

"We can find a way out of this." Punk nodded, "What you done was an accident-"

"I still done it." Dean said, "I'm not taking anyone else down with me, ok? Just… let them do what they gotta do."

"What about AJ-"

"She has you now." Dean said as Punk ran his hands through his hair, "Are you gonna let me do this?"

"It's still just Cal's word." Punk said.

"And now it's mine." Dean nodded, walking out of the alley as Punk watched him, the blue flashing lights flickering over the side-walk as Punk ran his hands over his face.

A/N: Dun dun dun… All will be explained in the next chapter. REVIEW and let me know what you think.