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The parents of the boy, and Lennie's grandkids ran to where the accident happened as well as the lifeguards rushed over. Kids got out of the pool and watched with their parents. The boy's dad was in the pool holding his son's waist since he was crying from the pain of the fall while the lifeguard helped Lennie to the side of the pool. A few people helped Lennie sit on the side of the pool while another lifeguard helped the boy's father get his son out of the pool. Two people walked Lennie into the first aid station, they were followed by the boy, followed by his parents, and lastly Brittany and Leonard, who was on the phone.

"Do you want me to call you an ambulance?" the head of the lifeguards asked the parents.

"Cool Dad, I've always wanted to ride in the ambulance with lights and sirens," the 13 year old boy responded.

"No, thanks. We're going to take him to the hospital," the father responded.

"Okay, I need you to fill out these forms to state that you did not request an ambulance. And just keep the icepack on his head."

"Okay," the father said while the mom looked at her son.

Lennie was in the other room with an oxygen mask on his mouth and nose since he coughed a lot while one of the lifeguard personnel used the flashlight to check his eyes and asked him questions when Leonard came in.

"Are you guys going to call an ambulance?" Leonard asked.

"Well, he does need to go to the hospital but unless you have a friend you can call, I will have to," the lifeguard said.

"Come on Leonard, let's call them," Brittany said with excitement that they would call an ambulance.

"Actually, I just called my grandpa's friend and she's on her way,"

"Okay but we will have to have her fill out some paperwork just so we can have it for our records and when we submit it since we had an accident," he told them

"Okay," Leonard said then the lifeguard left to his office.

"Come on Leonard, it would be cool to ride in it,"

"No. Look what happened to Jessica and Ron when they called an ambulance for Mike. They are still in debt and that accident happened a year ago."

Brittany sighed then asked, "Grandpa, are you okay?"

"Ah, I'm great Ed, just tell Van Buren to go home," he said not knowing that Ed and Anita weren't there.

"'Kay, that's not good," Brittany said.

After Anita came, they went to the hospital so Lennie can get checked out. Anita told Lennie something with the nurse and doctor nearby.

"Lennie, I offer to take the kids to my apartment, I do have the keys to your apartment and we will be back tomorrow to see how you are," she said.

"Okay, that's fine. Have fun," Lennie said, oblivious to where he was and what was going on with the kids.

The kids hugged him then Anita and the kids left to get their change of clothes and went to her apartment. Since Anita's kids were in college at home, Stefan moved in with Ric for the night so Brittany and Leonard had the same room.

Sunday August 21st—

Everyone woke up and had breakfast that Anita and her son, Stefan cooked. They chatted while they ate about college and stuff.

"How do you guys like college?" Leonard asked.

"Yeah, it's cool but you gotta make sure you keep up with your studies," Stefan said while Ric nodded.

"So do you get to leave and stuff during class in college?" Brittany asked.

"Well, you can but you shouldn't do it too much or you will miss some stuff and you might annoy the professor," Ric replied.

"What about high school? Could you do things that you can do in college like leaving during class and stuff?"

"No, in college you have more freedom, you can have one class on one day then do homework or goof off but it's best if you studied most of the time cause the professors will get you hard on tests."

"Have you decided what you want to be?" Ric asked.

"I want to be a police detective in Miami, just like my grandpa."

"I don't know what I want to be but I've thought of a newscaster for a local station," Brittany said.

"Cool!" Ric said.

"Just make sure you finish school and work hard," Stefan said.

After dinner, Anita took the grandkids to see Lennie while the Van Buren men did the dishes.

While at the hospital, they found out Lennie was doing much better, he thanked Anita for taking care of the kids and was hoping to go home early. Anita told him that she would take the kids to the Giants pre-season game then bring them back but Brittany told them she wanted to hang out with Ed. Ed just happened to walk in when he heard about what happened to Lennie, he walked up while Brittany gave him a flattering look but Lennie noticed it.

"You okay Lennie?" Ed asked with a concerned look.

"Yeah. I'm fine but I just have a headache."

The kids giggled then everyone looked at them.

"What is so funny?" Lennie asked.

"Nothing," Leonard said after they stopped giggling.

Awhile later the kids and Anita went to the Giants/Panther pre-season football game where the Giants won.

"That was fun, thanks Lieutenant," Brittany said and so did Leonard.

In that afternoon, Lennie was discharged from the hospital and the Briscoes went home.

Later that night after everyone went to bed, they slept fitfully. Or did they?

The kids woke up, started to watch TV as they sat at the edge of the bed then Lennie woke up a while later. The bed was folded up in the couch then Lennie went to take a shower, the kids got dressed and Leonard got a key from the drawer and they both left the apartment. Leonard pulled the car out of the driveway, then drove off to a restaurant where they kids ate then went to Shea Stadium to drive the car around in the parking lot like a race car driver. They felt like they were moving inside the car when it went into a controlled spin even if they had their seatbelts on. Brittany told him she didn't like it anymore so they decided to go for a drive around town.

Meanwhile at the apartment—

Lennie got out of the shower, walked into his room to get dressed then went in the living room to see the room empty.

"Kids?" Lennie yelled to them.

He looked around in the room, then Brittany's then his room but no sign of them.

"Brittany! Leonard! This isn't funny guys!" He started to panic when he tried to find his keys to see if the kids went out of the apartment but couldn't find them; he called his partner Ed to come to the apartment.

"Ed, can you come to the apartment? The kids are gone and I need your help!" Lennie frantically called his partner.

They found out Lennie's car is gone so both of them went in Ed's car and drive around to hoping they see the kids.

In the meantime—

The kids drove around seeing cars pass by them, one gets into the lane in front of them without the turn signal, then they turn on the sirens. They laughed when cars pulled off to the side even if they continued then turned off the siren. Awhile later they see a dark minivan, followed it for a few minutes then turned on the siren to pull the driver over. They stop a few feet behind the driver; the driver opens the door, then steps out of the car and closes the door and walks towards the car.

"Oh shit!" Leonard yelled when he saw who it was.

He puts the gearshift in reverse then slowly backs up then puts the gear in drive while the driver put their hands on their hips and shook their head while the car drives off.