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Hey,

Here I am with the chapter 2. I'm not gonna excuse myself, because i'm sure you understand that I have a life on my own outside writing, but just know that I took the translation very seriously. I have to rewrite some part because it's not right in english.

I hope you'll like the new chapter.


Street took refuge in the locker room. He didn't want to meet Molly again, so he decided to stay there until she decide to leave.

« Hey ! »

Sitting on the bench, one leg on each side, he raised his head to Chris, who sat in front of him.

« It's a ridiculous question but, are you okay ? » she asked.

« Ask me again in a month or two. » he replied, smiling in the corner. « She reproached me for working too much, and for leaving as soon as I am beeped. I've really been stupid. »

« It's not your fault, Jimmy ! » says Chris. He dodged a smile, and this time, warm. « What ? »

« I think it's the first time you've called me Jimmy. » he says. « I mean, even outside of work you call me by my last name. »

« If you want me to stop... »

« No, I like it, but only if it's you. »

The two friends smiled at each other, not realizing that their hands were getting closer to each other. If only Chris didn't have this rule of not dating cops. Before Molly, she was the only girl for whom he would have been willing to invest entirely in their relationship. Even today, if she would give him a chance, but it would not happen, and he had made up his mind. She was his best friend, and her friendship meant more than anything to him. They came out of their bubble when the locker room door opened to Commander Hicks. Street back away a good meter back on the bench, but the Commander seemed to realize nothing.

« Alonso, would you give us a minute ? » he asked. « I have to talk to Street. »

« Of course, Commander ! »

She stood up and exchanged a glance with Street, silently telling him that she was there when needed. He thanked her with a nod, and then she walked out of the room. As soon as they were alone, Street stood up and began to apologize to his Commander, when the latter cut him off.

« Are you really apologizing for a mistake my daughter made ? »

« It looks like it. » Street said.

« I didn't come here to throw stones at you, or anything you think you deserve. » Hicks reassured him. « You have every right to be angry with my daughter, and I am angry myself. I've never had anything to reproach you for, regarding Molly, and I'm not going to start because you broke up with her for something she did. »

« I'm sorry but I'm unable to give her a second chance. » the young man confessed.

« It's up to you, Street. I just wanted to make sure you were fine. Especially after seeing the surveillance videos that shows you at S.W.A.T. in the middle of the night to let off steam on a sandbag. » Hicks said.

« I... it could also be that I assaulted Molly's lover, this morning. »

« Hondo told me about the altercation, and I contacted the manager of the restaurant who told me all the details. » continued the Commander. « You have nothing to fear from Dustin Shepard, and if he files a complaint against you, he will have to deal with me I guarantee you. »

The young policeman no longer knew what to say.

« Thank you, Commander ! » he simply said. « I... I don'( know what else to tell you. »

« Do me a favor, the next time you want to let off steam on a sandbag, do it with one of your teammates who will prevent you from smashing your hands. » says Hicks, pointing to Street's irritated phalanges.

« I promise ! » he replied.

They exchanged a handshake, much to Street's surprise. The rest of the day passed very quickly. No other case going on, but an intensive workout that did Street a lot of good. At the end of the day, Street remembered that his motorcycle no longer had enough gas to make the trip home, and sighed.

« What ? » asked Deacon, while they were all in the parking lot.

« My bike ! » replied Street. « I drove for hours last night, and I don't have enough gas to get home. »

« We'll fill up tomorrow morning. » Deacon assured him. « You come with me. You're having dinner at mine tonight. »

« Oh uh, that's nice but I'd rather go home. » he politely refused.

« It wasn't just an invitation, it was an order, and it's from Annie. » says Deacon. « Do you really want to offend her when she has prepared lasagna and an apple pie, just for you ? »

« When Annie orders you to go to her house for dinner, you don't argue. » added Luca. « Believe me, you don't want to make her angry. »

« Not to mention the children who will ask me why their uncle Jimmy did not come to dinner as planned. » added Deacon.

« Okay ! »

Thirty minutes later, he found himself surrounded by Deacon's three older children. Matthew, Lila and Samuel.

« Uncle Jimmy ! »

Lila raised her arms towards him, and Street leaned over to lift her in his arms.

« Hey, but you've grown up ! » he said, tickling her side, making her laugh.

Samuel and Matthew also clung to Street, until Annie asked them to go and wash their hands. Street deposed Lila and the three children went to the bathroom.

« What a welcome ! » he said. « You didn't ask them to jump on me when they arrived, huh ? »

« No ! » smiles Annie. « They're happy to see you, that's all. And I'm glad to see you too, and I'm really sorry about Molly. »

« Don't be. We weren't made to be together, that's all. » he said.

« Maybe, but that doesn't excuse what she did, and I want you to know that you will always be welcome in this house. » Annie tells her, before hug him.

« Thank you, Annie ! »

Five minutes later, they were all seated around the table. The youngest, Victoria, was already sleeping. The meal was delicious, and this family atmosphere did good for Street, who wondered if he, too, would ever have a family. He wasn't sure if he could trust someone again. Not after the disaster that had been his only serious relationship. After dinner, while Deacon put the children to bed, Street helped Annie with the dishes.

« Thank you, for tonight. » he said. « I needed it. »

« You don't have to stand alone and withdrawn. » Annie tells him. « Not in this kind of situation. You have a whole family around you who are just asking to help you and support you in difficult trials. And a heartache is never easy. Especially if it's the first one you're experiencing. »

« I... I really believed it could work, with Molly. » he confessed. « I fell in love with her, and instead of talking to me because I was leaving as soon as my phone rang... »

« You have to stop making yourself suffer by constantly rehashing Molly's mistakes. » Annie tells him. « It's never easy to share a cop's life, but when you get into a relationship, you have to know how to communicate. I know that better than anyone. What Molly has done shows that she is not capable of being a cop's companion, but you will find the right person one day. I promise ! »

Deacon drove him back home. The lights of the house he shared with Luca were still on.

« Thank you again for tonight, Deacon. » he said before getting out of his eldest's car.

« We are a family. » he reminded him. « And you come back to dinner whenever you want. »

Street got out of the car and when he entered his house, he found Luca in front of the TV, fully awakened.

« You didn't need to stay up. » Street says. « It's almost eleven o'clock. »

« Yes, but I was waiting for you to scrape you on the console. » says Luca, turning on the game console and handing a controller to his roommate and friend. « What do you say, buddy ? »

He couldn't refuse, so he put down his bag, took off his jacket and went to sit next to his friend. Controller in hand, the game began and lasted until midnight before they decided to turn off the TV.

« I think it's time to go to bed. » Street says. « Thank you for the game, and for waiting for me to come back, and for everything else. »

« It's going to be okay, mate, you'll see. » Luca said to him.

« Oh, I don't intend to feel sorry for myself too long. » Street says. « I'm going to stay single for a while, and focus on the job. »

He went to his room, and slipped in bed in his underwear after putting the alarm clock on his phone, which he plugged into the charger near his bed. Here he is, single again. As he turned around and turned around in his bed, he wondered if he could have forgiven Molly if she had only cheated on him once ? He thinks about it, over and over again, until he comes to the conclusion that, no. Even then, he would not have forgiven her. He hadn't done anything wrong to deserve that. He was just doing his job. He thought he had found someone to spend his life with. Coming from the daughter of a policeman, he had thought that Molly would understand when he had to get up and leave in the middle of the night when his phone rang.

The next day, he arrived at the S.W.A.T., more relaxed than the day before. It was too early to turn the page completely, but there was no question of him letting his breakup affect his life. He had been betrayed, and taken for a fool, but it would not taint the rest of his life. In a few weeks, if not months, he would stop feeling guilty and resenting him for not seeing anything of Molly's lies. He changed, and Chris entered just as he was hanging his belt around his waist.

« Hi ! »

He returned her smile while saying hello.

« How are you feeling this morning ? » she asked.

« I'm fine. » he said. « As I told Luca last night, I'm not going to feel sorry for myself. It's going to take me a little while to turn the page, but I'm going to focus on the job. »

And that's what he did all day, and the days after. He followed the trainings meticulously, and when they were on the field, he was blameless and followed Hondo's orders without a blink. The following week, Annie and Deacon organized a barbecue in their garden and invited the whole team. It was a sunny sunday, and he suddenly found himself trapped by Bonnie, Tan's girlfriend, who huged him forcefully.

« I'm really sorry for what Molly did. » She moved away and held him at arm's length. « She is uninvited from the wedding. »

« Thank you, but you don't have to do that, you know. » he says.

« Of course I have to. » said the young woman, before smiling. « You will eventually find the right one. If you want I can introduce you to one of my girlfriends. »

Her proposal made Street and the other members of the team laugh.

« It's nice, but I prefer to stay alone for now. But thank you. »

He kissed her on the cheek and took her in his arms before being attacked by Deacon's eldest daughter. Street lifted her up in his arms. Lila didn't let him go, which amazed everyone as he was in a corner of the garden watching the boys play.

« Okay ! » said Tan.

« When he came to eat at home last week, she jumped into his arms as soon as he came in. » Deacon told them.

« He'll make a great father, one of these days. » says Annie. « He's just missing the right person. »

« He will find her ! » assured Hondo.

When they passed by the table, Lila insisted on sitting next to Street, which made everyone laugh.

« I think you've found the perfect babysitter, if you ever need to go out without the kids. » Luca tells Deacon and Annie.

« You're jealous because I'm their favorite. » Street replied.

At dessert time, Annie went into the kitchen and bit her lip while taking the plates.

« I know that look. » said Deacon, who came to help her. « What is it ? »

« The perfect woman for Street. » she says. « She's right before his eyes, but they're both too narrow-minded to admit it. Or it is she who is a little too much. »

« Okay, I'm lost. » Deacon confessed.

« I'm talking about Chris. » says Annie. « They were sitting next to each other, and the way they look at each other... »

« I'll stop you right away. » says her husband. « First, they're friends, and second, Chris doesn't date cops. And for those famous looks you're talking about, it's nothing more than friendship. »

« You're so naive. » she smiles. « We bet they will end up together ? »

« Are you serious ? » he asks, amused. Yes, she was. « Okay, but it stays between us. »

« Okay, so I'm betting you a new pair of shoes that they get together by Bonnie and Tan's wedding. » says Annie.

« It's three months away. » Deacon reminded her.

« Yes, I know. » she nodded. « And if I'm wrong, which happens to me very rarely... »

« I would come up with an idea. » he says.

« Get ready to give me a new pair of shoes, my darling. »

She kissed him, and took the pile of dessert plates before leaving the kitchen. Throughout the rest of the day, Deacon tried to detect, in the attitude between Street and Chris, the famous looks that his wife had seen. He was not to be good at reading people emotions, because he saw nothing but what he had in front of him every day at work. Okay, Jim Street had shown interest in Chris when he arrived at S.W.A.T., but it had never gone further, precisely because of the young woman's rule of not dating fellow police officers.

Three weeks later !

« Here 30-David, suspect on the ground ! »

They had been called in the early evening to pursue several gang members, following a shooting in a park. A drug deal had gone wrong, and the S.W.A.T. had been called. It had not taken them long, supported by Rocker's team, to put an end to the shooting, which had turned into a man-made hunt. He handcuffed a latino man, put him back on his feet and found his team. Each member of the two rival gangs was scattered in vehicles and taken into custody. Returning near Black-Betty, the two teams congratulated each other. From the corner of his eye, Deacon saw the two youngest members of the unit talking to each other and exchanging a complicit laugh. He frowned. Maybe Annie was right...

After a visit to HQ to report and clean their weapons, Chris and Street found themselves in the parking lot after the others had returned home. Even Luca had left before his roommate.

« I know it's late, but what do you say about go and eat something ? » proposed Street to her friend. « I admit that I'm not too sleepy, at the moment. »

« Yes, with pleasure. » agreed Chris. « I wouldn't say no to a cheeseburger. »

They got into Street's unmarked car, and a fifteen minutes later they were sitting opposite the other at the table of a dinner which was open twenty-four hours a day. They ordered burger, fries and milkshake, which was served to them very quickly.

« I'm so hungry after this kind of intervention. » said Street, who crunched into his burger.

« Yeah, I see what you mean. » confessed Chris, who had ketchup on the corner of her lip.

« Uh, you've got sauce there. » he said, tapping the corner of his own lip.

His heart missed a beat when Chris tried to remove the sauce with her tongue. He shook his head slightly and harvested the ketchup on his thumb. What he didn't know was that this gesture disturbed Chris who, like him, just smile and did as if nothing had happened.

« And that's it ! » He wiped his finger on a towel. « You should wear a bib. »

« Hey ! » she protested.

But they started laughing. They talked about everything and nothing, ate, poked french fries on each other's plates, when Chris asked :

« Are you still thinking of her ? I'm sorry if I'm indiscreet... »

« You can ask me anything you want, Chris. I have no secret for you, you know that. » he said.

In fact, he kept secret the feelings he always had for her, but she didn't need to know.

« And the answer is no, I don't think about her anymore. » he says. « It still happens from time to time but, I don't feel anything for her anymore. I know it's only been a month since we broke up, but I grieved my story with Molly. She would not have cheated on me, if we were made for one another. »

« I want to apologize, I was the one who arranged the shot for you and if I had known ... » Chris said, but Street stopped her.

« No Chris, don't apologize. You couldn't know. No one could have known. »

They finished their meal, and Street insisted on paying. They returned to the car, and he opened the passenger side door for Chris, who did not resist any longer and took Street's face in her hands to kiss him. The kiss lasted no more than two seconds, but it was two seconds enough for Street. When the young woman moved away, he grabbed her waist, placed her against the car, and grabbed her lips for a more passionate kiss. It wasn't like the first time they had kissed. They were neither drunk nor sad. They were themselves. That kiss seemed... obvious, although Chris puts an end to it.

« Wait ! » she said, with a short breath. « Excuse me, it's way too early for you and... »

« Shhhh ! » he said, putting a finger on her lips. « It's no coincidence that I turned the page so quickly, Chris. You're there for me all the time, even though I wasn't there for you when you left Ty and Kira, and I'm really, really sorry for that. You're my best friend, but you've always been more than that. I didn't insist because you were clear with me, and I respect you too much for that. But you kissed me first. »

« I know ! » Chris looked him in the eye. « When Molly asked me if you were single, I knew I was wrong and had feelings for you, but you deserved to have someone good with you and... »

« You're a good person, Chris. » he tells her.

« I was jealous of her. » the young woman confessed. « Even before leaving Ty and Kira and... »

He cut her off with a kiss.

« We're going to take our time, Chris. » he said, extending his right hand over her cheek. « First of all, we're going to keep this kiss to ourselves, and we're going to continue to act as we've always done. We must prove that we are capable of working together, and we must ensure that what we are doing is not prohibited. »

« You're not my superior, and I'm not yours either. » says Chris. « We aren't breaking any rules, Jimmy. »

« Okay, never call me Jimmy at work, it would arouse suspicions. » he joked. She giggled. « Chris, I want to be with you, and I don't want to rush anything, but you have to want it too. »

« We take our time and we don't betray anything in front of anyone, but yes, I want to be with you too. » she replied. « I'm tired of running away from how I feel. »

When he took her home, once parked in front of her uncle and aunt's house, he took her face in one hand and lusted her for another kiss.

« This is the last time I'll kiss you before our next one-on-one. » he tells her.

She wanted to protest, but when she saw a smile floating on his face, she hit him on the shoulder, tearing out a laugh.

« I'm serious, Chris. We may not be able to kiss for a while. » he said.

« I know. » she sighed. « I guess we'll know tomorrow if we're able to team up without thinking about tonight. »

« We are professionals, there will be no problem. » he said.

They shared one last kiss, and then Chris got out of the vehicle. Street started the engine when she was inside the house, and went home.

« Where had you been ? » asked Luca.

« You were worried about me ? » teased him. « That's cute ! »

« You could have sent me a message. I thought you would go straight home. » said Luca.

« I went to eat a burger with Chris. We talked for a while, and I took her home. » said Street, keeping the kisses for himself.

« Why didn't you call me ? I would have joined you, and you know that I never say no to a burger. » said Luca.

« Don't take it badly, but I prefer Chris's company. » annoyed him Street.

He laughs at the outraged air of his roommate.

« It's fine, get over it. I will pay you lunch tomorrow. » he proposed.

« For the whole week. » rectifed Luca.

« No, the next three days, and not one more. » Street says.

« Sold ! » abdicated Luca. « Hey, you did a good job tonight. »

« You too, buddy ! »

They hug each other before going to their own room. Once alone in the comfort of his, Street smiles. He never thought he would turn the page on Molly so fast. Only four weeks had passed since his breakup with Molly, and he no longer felt the slightest pain at her betrayal. He thought it would take him longer. The evening had been full of surprise, and Chris's kiss had been unexpected. He knew, as soon as she put her lips on his, the real reason that made him turn the page in just one month. It was Chris. Could we fall in love with the same person a second time ? His feelings for her never went out, he just buried them without thinking they would resurface, especially not after dating Molly. Street get off from the door, took off his shoes and jacket, and slipped all dressed under his blanket.

He fell asleep thinking of Chris.


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