CHAPTER 8
On the drive back to HQ Frank pulled the car over, parked and took off his headset, as did Elaina. "What are you up to now, Agent Donovan?"
"We need to talk without anyone else hearing us." Frank leaned over and kissed her.
"That isn't talking, if that's what you had in mind, you can just get the car moving again," Elaina told him.
"That was because I forgot to do it when I dropped you off at Sonny's."
"Oh ok, so what is it you wanted to talk to me about?"
"I think Jake needs to go in the bar tonight to see if he gets picked up," Frank suggested.
"No. I want you and Jake to go in together. I have something else planned for tonight myself. I want to be outside."
"I'm not going in there." Frank resisted the idea.
"Jake doesn't want to do it either. So you both can go in, be miserable together and they'll just think the two of you are having a little lover's spat. That way your being uneasy being there will be explained."
"You have all this figured out don't you?" Frank half smiled at her.
"I'm good at my job. I don't care what that pain in the ass, McMurphy thinks. I get results from every agent that's in my command…." Elaina was interrupted mid sentence by Frank kissing her to shut her up. "Why do you keep doing that?"
"You were ranting again. I don't want to hear it. You're good at your job, but you're forgetting one thing. You're not in charge. I am."
"Dream on, Love. You're going to do this my way tonight or your ass is mine," Elaina told him.
"I thought we had a deal that we were to make decisions…." Elaina kissing him interrupted Frank this time.
"That does work to get a person to be quite." Elaina smiled at him and kissed him again. "Damn! I wish we didn't have to go back to work. You started this, you're a major distraction to me. You know that, and you try to take advantage every chance you get."
"Yes I do, aren't you glad?" Frank laughed and started the car and drove back to HQ.
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"Ok people did anyone have any luck while we were gone? Umm where are Cody and Sabrina?" Elaina asked noticing they were gone.
"They just walked back that way together right before you walked in." Travis pointed to the back of the building.
"Thank you Travis." Elaina walked back to find them. She looked into one of the storage rooms and found them together. "What the hell do you two think you're doing?"
"We're on our lunch hour, we aren't working," Sab stated.
"When the food arrives that's when the lunch hour starts, not when you want to fool around."
"Listen, if we want to fool around for our lunch hour that's none of your damn business."
"Well, you listen to me. I've had enough of you and your attitude. If you want to keep your job you had better get you ass back in the main area. I'm going to redesign the operations board where we have two separate areas for the two of you. That is, if I decide to keep you here and not transfer you to another unit."
"You've got to be the meanest bitch, I have ever come in contact with," Sab said but signed that this was part of a plan she had.
Elaina signed she understood. "You have a lot of nerve calling me a bitch when you're the one acting like a dog in heat chasing Cody all the time."
"How dare you say that to her," Cody yelled.
"Stay out of this, Cody. This is all out war now!" Sab yelled.
"Oh, really? You're declaring war on me. Bring it on, Babe. I think I can handle anything you have," Elaina taunted her.
"Well, lets see how you handle this." Sab walked toward Frank and the others. "Frank! I have something to tell you. I've been keeping a secret from you for Elaina."
"Sabrina, I told you that in confidence between two friends. If you tell him, our friendship is over," Elaina said, pulling her arm to stop her.
"Let her go, Elaina! Tell me. What secret have you been keeping for her?" Frank demanded.
"Ever since she was drugged a few months ago she has been taking these." Sab threw him an empty prescription bottle for painkillers.
"I'll get you for this, you damn traitor." Elaina glared at her. "I'll never talk to you as a friend again."
"Get up to my office. Now!" Frank told her as he pushed her away from the team.
"Don't push me," Elaina protested.
"Cody, turn some music on loud. I don't want anyone to hear what I have to say to her. Consider this free time," Frank told them.
"Wow! So that's why she has been so moody lately," Monica said.
"Sabrina, are you ok, you're awfully quite?" Travis asked.
"I'm fine, I'm glad I got it out in the open. Maybe now Frank can get her the help she needs. She wouldn't listen to me."
Annie walked over to Sab. "You look pretty shook up over all this, you better sit down for a while." Annie walked her to the kitchen area and got her a glass of water.
"Thanks I didn't realize I'd feel this way. I thought it would make me feel good but I guess its because I did consider her a good friend."
"With friends like her you don't need enemies, if you ask me. She has treated you like dirt ever since I got here. I think you did the right thing in telling Frank," Annie said to her.
"I hope so. I guess I need to find another friend since I just lost one," Sab said, sadly.
"I'll be your friend, and I promise I won't treat you the way she did," Annie smiled.
"I'd like that, thank you." Sab smiled back at her. 'Thank you, very much.' Sab thought to herself.