"Why do we have to see him? Can't we just leave and call him later?" Brittany asked.

"No! What a mean thing to say and ask. If you get hurt, would you like it if your friends didn't come and help you or make sure you are okay?"

"No," she told him as she hung her head in embarrassment.

People who were nearby came to check on the silvery haired man. When the Briscoes arrived, they couldn't believe their eyes.

"Jack? Are you all right? I didn't realize that was you," Lennie, with his grandkids beside him, told Jack.

"Yeah, I'm okay, just annoyed that I spilled my drink on my pants,"

"Good thing you aren't wearing grey pants or light colored pants or --," Leonard said but was interrupted.

"Hey, that's enough," the grandfather admonished his grandson.

"Very funny," Jack said.

"It was my idea to show off my model airplane. I didn't know it would blow up but I'm glad you will be okay," he confessed that it was his idea to show off his model airplane.

Jack responded in a very sarcastic manner, "gee, thanks detective for your quick investigation."

They later found out that model airplane had been recalled due to blowing up. Lennie called the company to get his money back and was glad that Jack wasn't seriously hurt.

Later that night in Briscoe's apartment—

Lennie was washing the dishes, Brittany was drying while Leonard picked up the phone since it rang.

"Hello? Oh hi Mom. How are you? We are doing good and having fun."

Brittany turned, shouted, "Liar!" She went back to drying dishes.

"Well, we've been in the precinct since some other detective asked for more time off, stupid jerk,"

Lennie turned towards his grandson then shouted in a stern manner, "Hey! Enough of that!"

"Grandpa is telling me not to say that but it's boring in the precinct. I'm tried of playing my game," he continued in a hushed tone of voice, "um, yeah. Well, nothing happened since everything turned out all right. Well Lt.Van Buren let Grandpa go home early after that though. Okay Mom I will. Here comes Grandpa. Love you, and Brittany loves you too. Bye," he handed him the phone then went to watch TV since the dishes were finished.

"Hi, Dad."

"Hi Julia, how are you?" Lennie asked while he sat down.

"I'm good but what are my children doing at the precinct? They are supposed to be on vacation with you Dad!"

"I know honey, it's just one of the detectives decided he wanted more time in Europe. What do you want me to do? I'm sorry. Look, tomorrow I will tell my Lieutenant that I will take the rest of this week off and be back next Wednesday, okay?"

"You should have told me then we could have just postponed the trip Dad,"

"Oh, I didn't want to do that,"

"Dad, don't ever do this again. You tell me ahead of time, okay?"

"Okay, I will."

"I love you dad,"

"I love you too, bye," Lennie hung up.

August 17, Wednesday 9:00 am—

Lennie had gotten to work late since he let his grandkids sleep in. He saw Ed on the phone at his desk when they got in. The kids took their seats and started playing their game. Lennie left the room to go to the soda machine was and overheard a conversation that made him stop to listen. The detective was talking to an officer who complained about Ed and his priorities from Monday night.

"What's wrong?" the detective asked while Lennie watched them.

"Oh just Green, that's all. I called him to see if he wanted to come over for a round of drinks and he told me he couldn't cause he had a job to do," the officer responded.

"Did you ask him what it was? And what did he say if you did?" the detective responded with a chuckle.

"I asked him what it was, he said it was none of my business so I've been ribbing him because he was probably out with a lady friend."

"Oh man, but I wonder if he had a great time," both men laughed which made Lennie angry. What if his partner had shirked his duty even if it was last minute.

Both men left, Lennie went to the squad room and saw Ed at his desk. Lennie then asked Ed him if he could talk to him in a conference room. Both men went in, Lennie closed the door and put his hands in his pockets.

"I overheard a conversation between Pittman and Owens about you and Monday night. They indicated that they called you and they think you were out with a girl," he told his partner with his eyebrows raised.

"Look, my girl did come by but I didn't go with her even though we talked most of the night. I told her I was given a job by my partner and I was going to follow through. I guess I should have told Pittman that I was watching your grandkids but I just felt like he's nosy. You know?"

"Yeah, well, if he keeps ribbing you, you should tell him that you were uh, don't say babysitting around the kids since they will get insulted. Just say you were hanging out with my grandkids. If he keeps it up, let me know and I'll straighten him out," Lennie said before Ed nodded his head while they walked out.

Ten minutes after Lennie and Ed left for a crime scene, Joe and Carl came in the squad room to put a suspect in the holding cell then Carl made a comment about Ed at a desk to Joe.

"I wonder if Ed would be babysitting his girlfriend tonight just like he did Monday night," Carl sneered.

"Hey!" Leonard stood up, pushed his chair back hard causing it to fall, walked over to where to give them a piece of his mind.

Carl and Joe looked at him, the squad room was very quiet as they watched what Leonard would do and Van Buren stood at her doorframe since hearing the commotion.

"Let me tell you something about Monday night, first off, my grandfather had to do some undercover work and my sister and I were hanging out with Mr. Green," he told him with a little annoyance.

"How do you know he stayed the whole night?" Carl asked.

"I got up in the middle of the night to get a drink from the kitchen, and saw him asleep with the TV on while he was sitting at the couch. Guess I should have taken a picture of him just so you could see it and no, I didn't see no woman either," he told him.

Carl sighed.

"Oh, thanks to Jason, my sister and I are having a wonderful time sitting on our asses when we are supposed to be on vacation with our grandfather. Let Jason know how much we really enjoyed it." Leonard said sarcastically then walked to fix his chair and sat down. Everyone went back to what they were doing.

Twenty minutes after Lennie and Ed came back from the crime scene, a man walked in while the kids played their games.

"Can we help you?" LaMotte asked when Lennie looked up.

"Yeah, I'm looking for Ed Green, I want to pick up my prize."

"Sure, here is your prize," Ed got up, took out his cuffs while Lennie got up to help apprehend the man. Leonard and Brittany stood where Lennie sat and watched.

"You are under arrest," Lennie said while Ed was about to cuff the man.

The man swung his elbow at Ed's stomach that caused him to keel over while LaMotte, another officer and Lennie got the man on the ground. Then Lennie put the cuffs on him then read him his rights as Ed got up while an officer and LaMotte took the man away.