Eddie was getting Emmalyn dressed for her first day of preschool and couldn't stop replaying in her head what could've happened last night if he would've gotten to Emmalyn's room. She didn't want to think about it but it's what she did.
"Okay all done wanna see?!" Eddie exclaimed as she tightened her pigtails one last time and brushed her hand down the jean overall dress she wore.
"Yes!" Emmalyn couldn't wait for school, Eddie held the mirror in front of her to see her hair. She was so happy with it.
"Pretty mommy!" She told her pointing at herself in the mirror.
"Your gorgeous sweetie! Are you ready to go!?" Eddie said taking her hand and grabbing her little backpack.
They left there apartment and got there in 15 minutes. They had a guard with them following her vehicle.
She was there from 9-12 Monday, Wednesday, Thursday. Eddie would get to take and get her Monday and Wednesdays. Jaime would have to do Thursday's as it works with there schedule perfectly.
Eddie held her hand as they walked up to the doors. Eddie started to get a little emotional. After what happened just last night in there own home she was just still a little shook. She looked to observe her guard waiting outside.
They got inside and one of the secretary ladies escorted them to her classroom. It was room 8. Close to the back playground doors. "Well good if anyone comes in the front she's in the back" she thought to herself. Being a cop really opens your eyes to the world. Which was a blessing and a curse.
"Alright here we are! There's your teacher!" The women said and waved as she left to go back to her desk. The teacher came over with a huge smile. Acting just like a preschool teacher should. Like the world never stops spinning. She came right over and bent down to greet Emmalyn.
"Hello! You look so pretty in this dress and your hair done up! What's your name?" She asked her, she had a little bit of a British accent. Emmalyn was shy a little.
"Emmal~" she started to say but then shied away and turned into eddies leg. Eddie knelt down to her level and the teachers now. The teacher looked at eddie to get her full name.
"Emmalyn" she told her smiling and wanting her to not be so shy to the nice lady. She was pretty, proper, young, brown hair, hazel eyes. There wasn't anything off with her.
"You have such a pretty name sweetie. Can you guess what my name is?" She asked her. Emmalyn looked up at her a little, curious to hear her name.
"My name is Miss.Davenport. But if that's too hard to say you can call me Miss.D okay?" She said and that made Emmalyn smile and take her backpack off her back.
"Ooo here should we go hang this up on your own hook!?" She asked her excitingly. Eddie admired how good this women was with kids. They both stood up and Emmalyn started to go with her.
"Let's say goodbye to mom first and then we can go play okay?" Miss.Davenport told her. She turned as Eddie knelt down again and gave Eddie a big hug, she teared up a little and then Emmalyn let go. Eddie held her hand so she wouldn't run just yet.
"You be a good girl okay? Mommy's gonna pick you up at lunch time okay?" She said holding back the gush of water works she felt coming. Emmalyn shook her head yes, Eddie kissed her cheek and let her go.
Her heart hurt a little but she knew she'd have fun and this would be so great for her. She stood back up next to Miss.Davenport.
"Um so sometimes she has accidents so there's spare clothes in there, a snack, a cup, and her favorite little figurine cop toy, oh and the rest of the paperwork." Eddie told her.
"Excellent. She'll be great but we will call if there's any problems!" Miss.Davenport said and started to get back to her class.
"Oh wait also, she has random temper tantrums throughout the day we usually just do timeout but they can be completely uncalled for at times." Eddie said as she was worrying like every first time mom.
"Not a problem we deal with a few of those here don't worry, we will see you later!" Miss.Davenport said.
"Thank you, have a great day." Eddie said. She got back out to the car and cried on her way to the grocery store. She sat in the parking lot. Staring at the long grocery list that she couldn't even see due to the cloudy eyes filled with tears. She couldn't go in just yet. So she drove to her work, the 2-9 precinct.
She got to the front desk and asked if Jaime was here or on a call. They said he was here and she asked to see him. The women didn't question anything because she was crying, and not to mention you just don't question the sergeants wife/commissioners daughter in law.
She headed right on back beings it was also her precinct she worked. She didn't need permission. She walked quickly to his office trying to hide from her co workers she was upset. She got in his office, he was busy doing paperwork she shut the door quickly, he about got whiplash turning around and taking a double take that it was Eddie. He shot up out of his chair.
"Eddie!? What's wrong!?" He got worried and hugged her.
"Are you okay? Are you hurt? Where's Emmalyn? Is she at school?!" He asked quickly As he pushed out of the hug, holding her biceps out in-front of him to look at her face.
"Yeah she's at school it was so hard jaime. She just went off to play. She hardly cared I was leaving." Eddie said crying, Jaime realizing it wasn't anything serious was relieved. But still wanted to be sensitive to her feelings.
"Aww honey. Hey that's good though. Either way I think you would've cried though right?" He said. She pulled away and collected herself.
"Yeah probably" she started to smile again. Jaime smiled at her and patted her back initiating she'd be okay.
"I'm sorry for coming here I just needed to see you, I was at the grocery store but I couldn't get myself to go inside" she told him. He grinned and gave her a side hug.
"I'm sorry but you'll be okay and you'll see her in 3 hours" he reassured her and kissed her head.
"Hey so they figured out who our visitor was last night." Jaime said changing the subject.
"Oh well who was it!?" Eddie asked with anticipation.
"His name was Martin Watkins. It was Emmalyn's uncle, so toms brother. Also a known member of the same gang Tom was involved in." Jaime told her.
"Wow. So why'd he have it out for us? We didn't kill anyone." Eddie said.
"Well Danny's on the case there gonna take them all down as soon as they can. Maybe he thought we were the reason his brother got killed. Cause we got involved. I don't know eddie. Good news is were safe and Emmalyn is safe."
"Yeah Thats true." She replied.
Now that she was calm she left and went back to the grocery store. It was nice to be alone, something about it was peaceful and relaxing to her.
It was 11am when she got back to the apartment with all of the groceries. She got them all away while she watched frank give a press conference on their home invasion from last night.
At 11:30 she left to go get Emmalyn and she couldn't wait to hear about her day over lunch.
She got there and walked to her classroom.
"Emmalyn guess who's here!?" Miss.Davenport said excitingly as she saw Eddie at the door waiting. Emmalyn ran right over to her. Eddies heart felt better. The teacher said she was great. She got her backpack and they headed for lunch with Jaime.
She was so talkative, she talked about what she did, who she talked to, what she learned and what snacks everyone had. She was beaming with happiness and it made them so happy. They were hopeful this would help minimize her tantrums