Gina had been in rare form, even for her, Commissioner Holt told Jake and Amy that she had recently started screaming at visitors if the they wore green. He thought it was just a terrifying new quirk, until he passed by her desk and saw her Facebook page, her now ex boyfriend's name was Dalton Green, and then it clicked. The commissioner had come to their house to hand deliver thank you cards for their one hundred percent completion rate of assigned cases. The captain wasn't going to mention Gina's personal life until Jake asked about his childhood friend.

"I think she would benefit from a night out with you."

Jake, blinked, "well, sure, commissioner, I can do that, she gets mean when she's depressed and drinking."

"No offense, detective, but I was actually addressing the captain. Captain Peralta, I know you have a complicated relationship with Gina, she is a bit of a bully with you, but I also know she respects you. It might not be easy, but I know she has helped you in times of need."

Amy sighed, but nodded. "I will do it, sir, I know that she can be terrifying, but if she's hurting, I owe it to her. She came by the house and supported me when Jake was missing."

"Thank you, captain, as always, I know I can count on you."

Amy had to promise to buy a lot of drinks and possibly a stripper to convince Gina to go out with her that night, but it was worth it if would help Gina, and the commissioner, but mostly Gina. She was nervous to be have it be just her and Gina for the night.

"Relax, Ames, Gina is the same as she was when she was thirteen and the only time I remember her being devastated by a guy, Ronnie Hester, she actually cried. When Gina is depressed, which is rare, she doesn't look at herself as much, she stops talking about how amazing she is, and she stops being as insulting. Just feed the ego, feed the ego, remind her she is pretty, flatter her, luckily you'll be drinking because you'll be loud when you lie."

Jake's advice didn't help her to feel any better, but she was ready to try whatever it took, within reason. Amy entered a bar near Gina's house, Gina was already in the corner drinking, yelling at every man that walked by.

"Gina, hi, you've gotten an early start on me."

"Ames! Not really, I started drinking at work today, because who cares."

Amy ordered herself a drink and sat down with Gina, she tried to think of everything Jake had told her, "Gina, you look great tonight, your hair is on point girl."

"Amy, Amy, Amy. You haven't even had four drinks and you're already on me, keep it in your pants, you're married to my oldest friend. I shouldn't feel like this, Amy, I've only been hung up on one other guy."

Amy, now into her second drink, nodded, "Ronnie!"

"That's right, Amy, great job, Jake has taught you about me well, I approve."

"You are too amazing for common men, Gina, the right one will come along."

Gina actually shed a tear, Amy had never seen that, Jake had seen it twice, but once was after a dentist appointment where she bit the dentist and was poked in the forehead by the saringe. Gina now laughed and looked at Amy, "Amy, I never cared about this crap before, but I liked this guy, it was the only time I thought long term, even with my baby daddy, it was a fling, it was fun, but it was fling. You're boring, you've had a lot of boring relationships."

"I'm not sure if that is an insult or a question, but besides Jake, my longest relationship was with Teddy, and part of that was because I didn't know how to end it."

"That's a horror story, that guy makes you look like Ray Jay, and that takes some doin Amy, that takes some doin. I don't want to turn into a Jake, I've got to move on."

Amy nodded, and then realized she wasn't sure what Gina meant, "What do you mean you don't want to be a Jake?"

"Sweet Amy Ray, you are married to him, you dated him for way too long, for him, but whatever. Jake was hung up on you forever."

"I know he liked me, I liked him too, it just took us a little while to figure it out."

"Wrong. He loved you, I never got it, but it's true. Amy, you should have seen his dumb ass, he couldn't focus on much else, but work, boring."

Amy wasn't sure why it made her uncomfortable to hear this, she loved Jake, they had a family, but to think of him pining for her, that didn't sound like him. "C'mon, Gina, he liked me, but he was still Jake."

Gina shook her head, a lot, "Amy, oh sweet Amy, he was miserable. One time he…oh, well, I can't tell you, he made me nana promise."

"Nana promise?"

"Yeah, his nana raised us, so when it's a serious secret, we make it a nana secret because she was the best."

Amy nodded her head in agreement, she wanted to respect the secret, but she wanted to know what he could have done that was so sad or pathetic. Jake had dated a few girls in those days, he couldn't have been that bad, but then she hadn't known he let her win the Jimmy Jab games because he liked her so much. She felt confused, did she really didn't know how bad her husband had it for her in those days.

Amy came up with a plan, she smiled at Gina, "I've got a deal for you, you tell me what Jake did, and I'll tell you Rosa's real first name."

Gina stood up and danced and yelled, "It's a deal, but if you don't tell me after I dish on my boy, I'll have to cut you, bad." She then smiled and smacked the table while Amy looked worried, "Your husband, he had just broken up with Sophia, and he got drunk. He got so drunk, he came to his old apartment, the dummy. I let him crash, it was Nana's old place, so we drank a forty, for old times sake, and then he starts to cry."

"Jake cried, while drunk, I haven't seen that."

"Girl, no one has, no one. I've known him since we were tinies, and nothing like that ever happened. But he was drunk off his sad ass, so he's crying, and I talk to him, and tell him that Sophia was hot, but he'd find another woman, just not as hot. He ignored me, for a while, and when I told him to just get over Sophia, he yelled at me, that bitch never does that, but do you know what he said Mrs. Jake's wife?"

Amy shook her head, "I'll tell you Amy, I'll tell you, he said that it wasn't Sophia he was sad about, that it was you. I of course couldn't believe my home boy was so sad over a scoop of vanilla like you, but then he starts to talk about how he couldn't get you out of his mind. He mumbled for a while, he even slept a little, but then later, during the middle of Xanadu with Olivia Newton John, he like sits up and he looks at me, and he tells me that he was mad at himself, that he couldn't bring himself to ask you out, because if you rejected him he didn't know how he would handle it. I was floored little Amy, floored, so then I ask him what makes you so great."

Amy tried to smile, she would never get used to Gina's casual insults, even when she was being nice. "That's great Gina, I mean him being sad, he was drunk, so it's not that bad, everybody gets sad."

Gina held up her finger and wagged it at Amy, "C'mon Saltago, when have you known the man you regularly get it on with to stay that sad and be like that? But that wasn't the worst part, after I asked him what made you so great, he asked me for a pen, and gets up and stumbles around a little, thinking, and then walks into one of the closets and wrote a list of what made you so great on the wall."

"Oh, that's sweet, I guess, it's not terrible."

"It was needy, he wrote a list of 387 things that made you great, he thought it was four hundred, but being so drunk he skipped some numbers. It's still there in my closet, Jake doesn't know it, because he never remembered it, or had the cajones to mention it. He might not have any recollection of the that, but I kept it in case I needed a big favor, black mail is always a good bet to make. Now what's Rosa's first name? Even drunk, my mind is straight up amazing."

Gina laughed for seven and a half minutes at Rosa's real name, Eugenia, and then hugged Amy. "Thanks Ames, talking about how pathetic Jake was made me feel better about myself, normal people have so many issues, getting hung up over people is gross, they need to be hung up with me. Now take me home, I might be a wee bit impaired, and my baby is with my mom for the night, so let's go, and you can tell Holt you cheered me up."

"How did you know?"

"I assumed, Amy, he's my boss, he has been for a long time, and again, this brain is amazing."

Amy nodded, trying to get Gina to the car, "right, straight up amazing."

Gina smiled, "you're learning little scoop of vanilla, you're learning."

Amy drove Gina home and walked her up to her apartment, Gina was singing pop songs in Romanian, she insisted she was huge in Romania, and pulled Amy into her apartment. "C'mon Amy, come see the list."

Amy didn't know why she was nervous, she loved Jake, they were married, they had two daughters, but to think of Jake being hung up on her made her feel like he was a little pathetic, and she felt guilty for that. When Gina opened the closet, which was filled with faux fur jackets, she turned on the lights, which was odd because the close had seven lights, but it was Gina, but then she saw the list.

The handwriting was actually neater than normal Jake handwriting, but his drunk writing was always better, because he had to concentrate harder. To see the list was strange, she almost felt that she was invading his personal space and his privacy, but she read it anyway.

Some of them were normal, pretty, kind, and some other normal sounding reasons, but then she got to numbers thirty seven through fifty six, which he had also labeled as the best reasons, these included: she makes me a better person, I would never be with anyone else, she is the best detective I've met, she would be an incredible mother, and she sees me for who I want to be. Amy teared up, the list now seemed less pathetic and much more sweet.

Amy said goodnight to Gina and drove home, she'd only had two drinks, which was odd for a night with Gina. As she walked inside their house, Amy saw Jake cradling a crying Reina trying to get her to sleep. She kissed him and told him she was going to change, when she came out, Jake was on the couch and proudly announced Reina was back asleep. Amy sat down next to him and couldn't stop smiling.

"Amy, you look like a crazy person, what's up? I hope you didn't drive super drunk."

"I saw something very interesting tonight."

"Gina's butt tattoo, that's a terrifying sight."

"No, gross, I won't even ask why you've seen it, but no, she showed me something you wrote when you were really drunk."

"My script for Die Hard on a boat? It's not that good."

"No, I'm referring to something you might not remember. You got drunk and went to Gina's, forgetting you didn't live there anymore."

Jake looked lost for a second and then his face reflected that it had just hit him, "Oh crap, she told you that, I think I went on about how I liked you. I'd just broken up with Sophia and realized in my depressed state, that the real issue was that I liked you."

Amy put his hand on his knee and smile even bigger, which Jake didn't think was possible. "A lot. You like me a lot."

Jake squinted his eyes and wondered why his wife was acting so strange, and then another blurry memory started to emerge. He could recall trying to hold back the urge to throw up all over Gina's closet while writing, a list, and then his eyes got big as he remembered what list that was. He obviously couldn't remember everything he wrote, but the fact he had done that, before he and Amy were he and Amy, it must have been pretty embarrassing.

"Ames, I's sorry you had to see that, I was very drunk, and obviously crazy in love with you, and I tried to hide it, because that always comes off creepy more than cute."

"Honestly, Jake, that's what I sort of thought at first, it was weird to picture you, confident, crazy you, being so hung up on anyone. Then I read the list, and it didn't seem sad, it just reminded me that I liked you too, even if I repressed it, a lot."

"I can't believe you got Gina to tell you, she's pretty good with my secrets."

"Especially your nana secrets."

"A nana secret! What did you do to get her to give up a nana secret?"

"Let's just say Eugenia won't be happy."

"It was nice knowing you, I don't' know that it was worth it."

Amy held his face in her hands, "It was worth it, it was totally worth it, I may be a dead woman, but when you have two children, a full time job, and life is…well life, it's nice to know, how much I'm loved, how much you've always loved me."

"Wow, that was cheesy and you don't even seem four drink drunk."

"I know, but it's bringing out four drink me. Let's go, time for a little four drink Amy action."

Jake followed while shaking his head, he might have to thank Gina for spilling what he had thought were embarrassing secrets.