August 16th— 7:45 am

Ed dragged himself off the couch he had slept on, and got a pot of coffee started when Leonard came in the living room from one of the bedrooms. The doorbell rang, and Ed went to get it. A tried Lennie was at the door. Feeling sorry for him, Ed let him in. The doorbell woke Brittany up. She came out to the front room to join her brother. Lennie gathered up the kids' belongings from their stay.

"Thanks Ed, I really appreciate it," he told his partner while the kids thanked him for the good time then they all left.

Ed closed the door then took a shower and got ready to go to the precinct while Lennie drove to the restaurant.

"Okay we are going to have some breakfast near the courthouse and I'm going to testify,"

"Okay Grandpa," they told him after they arrived at a restaurant and ate.

8:45am—

The Briscoes arrived at the courthouse where they filed in to take their seats at the back of the courtroom. The jury filed in the jury box, shoe heels echoing since the courtroom was not very full. Jack was up front at the prosecution table with Serena next to him; the defense attorney and his client were at the next table and the judge was seated. Minutes later, Lennie was called, he got up, walked over to the witness stand, took the oath and sat down.

Jack questioned Lennie about the crime scene, with only a few objections from the defense attorney which were quickly overruled, and Lennie was done. The Briscoes headed back to the precinct.

Ed and Lennie were at their desks while the kids were at the sides of the desk talking about the testimony.

"So have you ever had a juror talk to you about the case?" Brittany asked them.

"No. Jurors are not allowed to talk to anyone about the case, not even their family members or friends or even read reports of it on the media or TV. If they do they will get booted out."

Awhile later, the kids found out there was a TV in the waiting room where they watched while Ed and Lennie did their work.

On TV, they saw an interview with the juror who had a crush on Lennie, and they knew by the way she talked about him.

"Grandpa's got a girlfriend?" they asked with a smirk on their face.

"So have you seen him yet?" the reporter asked. He sat on her couch, while she sat next to him with a microphone at to her mouth.

"No, I haven't," she told him with a big nervous smile while the reporter moved the microphone to his mouth.

"I see," the reporter said.

10am—

They turned off the TV, opened the door to the squad room to see Ed and Lennie still at their desks working when they sat at their chairs. Brittany left to go upstairs, Ed talked to Lennie about a suspect they were looking for then by mentioning his name was called to a crime scene. Leonard got a small paper from the desk, a pen and wrote the name while Lennie and Ed walked to then Lennie turned around as soon as Leonard put the paper and pen down.

"Oh, and keep an eye on your sister, okay?" he asked his grandson.

"Okay," they both left after he responded.

Awhile later Leonard left to find a computer to use; Brittany returned to the desk and played her game. A short time after Brittany returned to her chair, Leonard came in, they both decided to leave the precinct. They went to a blacktop playground with a basketball court which was four blocks from the station house.

"So sick and tired of being in there besides LaMotte isn't going to know we are gone for a while," he said once they walked upon the basketball courts and sat on the metal bleachers.

"You can say that again Leonard. But how do we know to get back before they find out we are gone?" she asked her brother as a ball player passed the ball to his teammate then he made a 3 point shot.

"They won't, trust me," he told her when he chuckled.

"That's what I'm afraid of."

After a lot of time passed, they continued to watch when an off duty officer approached them.

"Hi," he said to them when he sat down; they turned towards him.

"Hi," they responded while as they turned back to the game.

"Shouldn't you guys be in school?" he asked them nicely.

"No since we don't live here and why do you ask if you don't mind me asking?" Leonard replied.

"Well, you see I'm an off duty police officer," he told them, waiting to see what they would do.

"If you are, do you have your badge with you so I can see it?" Leonard asked as the players kept playing while the officer took out his badge with ID.

"Here is my badge," he showed them as he puts his hand out in front of them. The badge opened with ID on the wallet while they looked at it.

"Detective Reynaldo Curtis?" Leonard said while he looked at him.

"Yes. Actually, I am off duty but I heard that my friend's grandkids went missing so I wanted to help find them. I just happened to pass by and saw two kids from the street and wanted to check it out," he told them as he got on his cell phone.

"Uh oh. I think they figured out we are not there," she told her brother; she turned to look at him.

He looked at his watch, he stated, "Wow, we've been gone two hours!"

"What do we do?" she asked.

"Nothing, I think he's calling the station, probably just wait."

A few minutes later Lennie and Ed jogged up to where Curtis and the kids were.

"Are you guys okay?" the very worried grandfather hugged and asked them.

"We're fine Grandpa, we just got sick and tired of being stuck in the precinct, we wish you could just leave us at the apartment when you go to work," Leonard told him; while they looked at him.

"What did I and mom tell you? I am not going to leave you at my apartment under any circumstances and neither should anyone else or they will hear from me," he told them with a firm but reassured voice.

Lennie thanked Curtis with a handshake asked how Deborah was and found out she had more bad days than good days but they were hanging in there. Then Lennie introduced Curtis to Ed. After returning to the precinct, they saw Van Buren near Lennie's desk when they walked in; LaMotte was near another desk talking to a detective.

"Okay guys, the DA will have a press conference at 3. Lennie, why don't you take the rest of the day off and LaMotte can go with Ed if he needs to," she told him.

"Cool!" the kids said.

"Oh stop, come on guys. Sorry Lieu." he said.

The kids were in front of him at arms length while they walked towards the door. Van Buren watched them leave with her arms folded and shaking her head while Ed sat down.

2:45 pm—

They arrived at Central Park where there were students reading their books on the grass, people were jogging, others eating on the benches. It was a cloudless day for a model airline flight where Lennie used the hand held controls as the plane started to fly with the noise of a buzzing sound. After a few minutes, Leonard tried it out then Brittany; they enjoyed making the plane make its loops, fly straight up then down then around trees. A few kids watched, a silvery haired man, in a black suit and red tie ate his chicken sandwich on a bench nearby. He paid no attention to the plane heading towards him. The Briscoes walked towards him, being obscured by a tree while the plane made its loops, the silvery haired man noticed the plane and kept an eye on it, wondering if he was being attacked.

He ducked when the plane made the dives then while it flew up, he looked around to see if someone was controlling it but couldn't find anyone. Suddenly without warning the plane dove down, Lennie tried to control it but the remote control stopped working, he as well as the kids got scared then it blew up right near Jack.

"Oh shit! Come on kids!" he told them.

"What happened?" Leonard asked while they ran over to the silvery haired man, who had squeezed the lid off his cup when his hands tightened in fear. The drink spilled out all over him and soaked his pants, and in his effort to clean up, he dropped his sandwich.