"You have basketball practice." Miranda said as she adjusts her winter hat.
"I do." Heather said.
"I am working late and Miranda is on call over night at her office. Takeout for dinner?" Erin asked the girls.
"Perfect." Nicky said and Heather nods.
"You two got your metro passes and"
"Yes we do, Erin. Why are you two going running in this weather again?" Heather asked.
"Because we can and we're about three months from the wedding and I need to slim down a little." Miranda said and the three of them look at her.
"What?" She asked.
"Nothing. Go before you two are late for school." Erin said.
"Seriously, we could be having a workout in our bed." Miranda said as they are jogging.
"I love you, but I am sore from all the love making we do." Miranda slows down when her police instincts kick in and stops Erin from jogging. Erin looks at her with a concern look on her face.
"What is it?" Erin asked and Miranda grabs her badge and uses it as a necklace.
"I don't know. A bad feeling about something." Miranda said. She sees a van parked and fully turns around.
"Maybe that's a delivery guy, but I will -" Miranda looks to look at Erin and spins around when she doesn't see her fiancée.
"Erin?" Miranda asked. She jogs as she looks around.
"Erin!" She yelled. She stops and feels around for her cell phone and sighs when she remembers that Erin has it. She jogs and comes to the main road again and looks around to see if she can find a patrol officer. She turns around again when she hears something and sprints to the van when Erin gets out of it.
"Are you ok?" Miranda asked and Erin nods.
"Let's just go home." Erin said and they walk home.
"What happened?" Miranda asked after they showered.
"Well that van that you were suspicious of? A suspect's mother wants me to go over his evidence again because she thinks he didn't do the crime that he committed." Erin said as Miranda puts her hair into a tight bun.
"So she planned the kidnapping to freak me out?"
"Pretty much."
"Who's the suspect?"
"Timothy Cooper." Erin said. Miranda walks over to her computer and logs into the NYPD database and looks up the information on her laptop with Erin looking over her shoulder.
"No trial after two and a half years? Why?" Erin asked.
"You know as well as I do that backlogs happen babe." Miranda said then looks up information on the defendants.
"Ah ha. Juvenile record."
"Which means that this case could release him. You are the best." Erin kisses her cheek.
"Am I?" Miranda asked as she looks at Erin, who arches an eyebrow with a smile growing on her face.
"Care to show me?" Miranda slowly opens Erin's robe as they kiss and they head to the bedroom.
"Kids, let this be a lesson to you. Especially you two now that you both have your licenses." Miranda said to Heather and Nicky at Sunday dinner after Frank talked about the footage of the speedster that is speeding around New York City.
"Exactly." Frank said.
"So how many speeding tickets will he get?" Jack asked.
"More than one." Frank said.
"All for speeding?" Sean asked.
"Sean, he's more than speeding. He's putting an entire city's lives at risk. I know that your great-grandfather, your father, uncles and myself had to make those horrible house visits to inform families that their loved ones were killed in car accidents. We don't want to make those visits with a lunatic driving like Dale Earnhardt Junior." Miranda said.
"Those house visits are the hardest ones to go to." Jamie said and Danny nods with Frank and Henry and Miranda.
"Along with informing a loved one of a fellow cop that their loved one is never coming home." Miranda said.
"Why?" Jack asked.
"You never know how the family is going to react, bud. Grief is something that's hard to explain and we all grieve differently." Danny said and Erin looks at Miranda, who swallows a lump in her throat.
"I offered him to stay with us for him to get sleep when he stopped in on his way back from visiting his Mom." Miranda said and everyone looks at her.
"Uncle Barry?" Heather asked and Miranda nods.
"He said no. I told him to be careful because drivers in Boston at night are completely different than in the daytime and he said I know and that I will call you as soon as I get home. That call never came."
"Then what phone call did you get?" Jack asked.
"Aunt Miranda's ex-girlfriend called to inform Miranda that Miranda's former patrol partner, who happened to be Heather's godfather, fell asleep at the wheel, wrapped his car around a telephone pole and died from his injuries on scene." Erin said softly as she holds Miranda's hand.
"I miss Uncle Barry." Heather said and Miranda squeezes her shoulder.
"I do too honey." Miranda said.
"And that is why our city lunatic driver will be stopped. So no more loved ones will be grieving the same way Aunt Miranda and Heather are grieving." Frank said.
"Who got the most speeding tickets?" Nicky asked and Miranda looks at Erin and Frank looks at Erin as well.
"How about you, hon? Speeding tickets? Because I only got one and I was 17." Miranda said, already knowing the answer to the question.
"I plead the fifth." Erin said.
"Mom!" "I knew it!" Nicky and Heather said at the same time.
"Your Mom has a speeding problem." Miranda said.
"I do not." Erin said to her.
"This coming from the woman that blew up the engine to my car when we were driving from New York to Boston the summer between our sophomore and junior year of college."
"You did not." Linda said to Erin.
"I didn't blow up her engine." Erin said.
"Whatever you say, Lead Foot." Miranda said and the girls giggle as Erin narrows her eyes at Miranda.
"Do you want to sleep on the couch?"
"You and I both know that we both would be miserable and you would sneak into the living room and join me. Besides, I have cooperating witnesses that can prove that you do in fact have a speeding problem."
"I can agree to that." Frank said.
"Me too." Henry said.
"I hate you." Erin said to Miranda.
"I love you too." Miranda kisses her cheek.
"Do you know how I know this story?" Miranda asked after Henry told the family about another time Erin was caught speeding.
"How? Erin told you or something?" Heather asked.
"Your mother was in the car." Erin said.
"Your great-grandparents weren't too thrill and neither were your grandparents. I went home to Boston to deal with some personal stuff that was going on a week later and I wasn't punished." Erin squeezes her hand because she knew that a week after they were pulled over, Erin got engaged.
"Wait, so if Heather and I get in trouble with speeding -" Nicky started to say.
"No." "Nice try." Miranda and Erin said at the same time.