Linda was chopping some vegetables when she heard Danny's phone buzz for the tenth time in a row. She walked to the back door and stuck her head out. Before she yelled to him about his phone, she smiled at the sight. Danny was playing football with the boys who were enjoying the fact that he took a few days off.
"Danny, your phone is ringing off the hook." Linda hollered
Danny waved his hand dismissively. "I'll look later."
Linda glanced at the caller ID and saw Jamie had called 10 times now.
"It's Jamie, he's called ten times so you may want to call him back." She replied
Danny's head snapped up and he jogged to the porch to take the phone from Linda.
He hit redial and Jamie picked up on first ring.
"Woah, woah, slow down kid. What's going on? You what? Ok where are you. Ok sit tight, I'll be right there." Danny hung up.
"What's wrong?" Linda said. Worry crossed her face.
Danny pulled Linda aside so the boys wouldn't hear.
"He got in an accident at work. He's fine but for some reason he had mom's wedding ring on him and now he can't find it."
Linda gasped. "Are you serious? He's proposing to Eddie already?"
"Really, that's what you think of? That's not the issue at the moment. The issue is that it's lost. I'm running down there to help him, I'll be back for dinner." Danny kissed Linda quickly and ran out the door.
Danny turned around and ran back in. "Where is that crappy metal detector we got the boys when we went to the beach last summer?"
"Garage, good idea Danny!" Linda followed him to the garage to help him look for it.
A little bit later, Danny pulled up the intersection Jamie told him and saw the tipped car. There was a small crowd because it's not every day you see a wrecked police car.
He got closer and saw what the crowd was actually looking at. Jamie was in a screaming match with the tow truck driver.
"Aw shit." Danny murmured under his breath.
He parked and ran up to the scene. He flashed his badge so no one would question him.
Grabbing Jamie by the arm, he pulled him from the tow truck driver. "What's going on?"
"We haven't found it yet and he wants to tow the car." Jamie said in hysteria.
"Listen man, I'm just trying to do my job. I have to get this out of here." The driver replied.
"Give me 15 minutes? Then you can tow it." Danny said quickly to him.
The driver threw his hands up in frustration. "Fine, but you're calling my boss after to explain."
Danny forced a smile and replied, "Thanks."
Jamie yanked Danny to the car.
"I've checked everywhere."
"Kid, calm down. We'll find it."
Danny turned on the cheap metal detector and showed Jamie. Jamie's eyes lit up.
"Let's check the grates!"
Before Danny could say anything, Jamie grabbed the detector from him and was on his belly on the side of the road. Danny grabbed the flashlight on the ground that Jamie abandoned and shined it in to the grate while Jamie prodded the detector around.
"There's a cell phone…." Jamie said
"Oh grab that, I bet that could be a burner phone tied to a case." Danny said half kidding, but also half serious.
Jamie cut his eyes at Danny and ignored him. He pushed the metal rod further and said a silent prayer.
"Kid, go to the right, I see something square like."
Jamie gently moved the rod until Danny told him to stop. The beep went off.
"Do you see it?!" Jamie nudged the object and it felt solid.
"Looks like a small box, let's see if we can get something to grab it with. Don't take your eye off it, I'll be right back."
Danny jogged to the tow truck driver.
"I think we found it in the grate, do you have anything we could grab it with."
The driver nodded. He disappeared and came back with rod with a small grabber attached to it.
"Thank you so much, you can start moving the car."
The driver huffed and walked away while Danny ran back to Jamie. He laid down next to him and stuck the rod in. Jamie shined the light on the small box while Danny carefully retrieved it.
Danny pulled it out and both Reagan brothers stood up and yelled out of happiness.
Once they stopped celebrating, Danny shoved Jamie.
"What was that for?" Jamie yelled at him
"For being a dumbass! What is your problem, going on patrol with that in your pocket. And when were you going to tell us you were proposing to Eddie?"
"I'm not. Dad gave it to me this morning and I didn't get a chance to go home and put it away yet." Jamie said, clearly irritated that Danny was getting in his face about this.
Danny rolled his eyes at Jamie.
"You're killing me kid. You better hope she doesn't find out that you were looking for this."
Jamie reached out and snatched the box from Danny.
"Thanks for the help, I'll handle it from here." Jamie said.
"I'll take you back to the 12th." Danny said as they walked to his car.
"Ok, then I need to head to the hospital to check on Sarge."
Danny nodded while he checked his phone. He swiped a text from Linda open.
Eddie just called me in a frantic and asked to come here to talk to me, what do I do?
Danny groaned and rubbed his temple.
"Hey kid, why don't you come to my place and have dinner right now?"
"I just told you, I need to go to the hospital and see what is going on with Sarge."
"I really think you should come back to my house." Danny said through gritted teeth.
"If you're not taking me back to the 12th, I'll just walk, Danny."
"Alright, alright, I'll drive you back. Let me send a text real quick."
Jamie won't come back with me, I guess just tell her he's not actually proposing and that she needs to talk to him.
Danny sent the text to Linda and started the car.
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So excited that there is FINALLY a new episode this week! Thank you to those who review for the feed back, you are the best! I love hearing from you. I'm thinking about wrapping this story soon but I'm not sure, I'll let you know before I end it though!
