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Once he was done, he headed back out towards the front door where he found Andy waiting for him with two bags, one for her clothes and the other for her schoolbooks. After Andy locked up the two of them headed out into, the frigid night to JD's waiting truck so that they could leave. They had barely made it a block before JD's phone went off, as much as he wanted to ignore it he knew who it was calling and why exactly they were calling.
"Hey Andy, do me a big favour?" JD asked while fishing for his phone
"Yeah sure what?" responded Andy out of concern
"Don't say a word for the next little while," pleaded JD as he started to flip his phone up
"Why? Who's on the phone?" asked Andy out of curiosity
"One of my drunken buddies who probably just woke up confused and on his couch. And I was probably the last person he saw," stated JD as if it was nothing new for him
"Okay," replied Andy. Then it was to the phone where his good friend Sammy was not to happy with him.
'Daniels' 'JD, why the hell am I on the floor?' 'How the heck should I know?' 'You drove me home didn't you?' 'Of course I did, but you got out of my car on your own and I waited till you got inside before driving off. You know Oliver had to be taken home as well' 'yeah I do but, I bet you helped Ollie into his place' 'of course, he just so happens to live on the third floor with no elevator of course I'm going to make sure he gets in to his apartment. But I left him on his couch, with a bottle of water and a few Advil's' 'but not me?' 'Nope, it's not my job to make sure your not hung-over for parade tomorrow. It's not like I forced you to drink as much as you did' 'I hate you' 'no you don't you love me, don't deny it Sammy. Otherwise next time find your own damn ride home from the Penny' 'okay sorry' 'no problem, this time' 'how's the ribs and eye?' 'Manageable, to say the least. Sammy I've got to go I'm on my way home' 'dude you live like ten minutes away from Oliver you should have been home hours ago' 'should have, until I realize I needed a few things from the store to get me through the night. I'll swing by the station before seeing Boyko, need to write up my report' 'alright, see you later' 'yep'. Well at least now, he can focus back on getting himself and his cousin home in one piece.
As soon as they arrived at JD's house they grabbed there stuff, locked up the truck and headed inside the house, to have a quick meal then hit the sack for some much needed, sleep.
"I still can't believe what you said to your friend on the phone," stated Andy in a fit of disgust over certain parts of her cousins phone call
"It was nothing," stated JD in his most simplest of responses to the call
"That didn't seem like nothing, do you normally drive drunken guys home from the bars?" asked Andy thinking this was a regular thing for him to do
"Only Sammy and Ollie and that's just because I've known them since the academy," answered JD with a slight laugh in response
"That's no excuse and you know it, especially since you picked up my dad tonight," supplied Andy in anger
"Just take it easy, baby girl. Those two don't normally drink that much, but tonight was different. Everybody was dealing with a huge thing, my TO and I could have been killed by this perp today. We got lucky he didn't remember he had a knife on him until he came up on me and tried to slash my TO through the vest and instead lunged at me catching my arm, before he ended up in the cruiser," answered JD being a bit more serious in hopes of calming Andy down
"You never told me that a knife was involved," reacted Andy in shock and surprise ton this new piece of information surrounding her cousins' injuries
"I know and I'm sorry. It's just that I still see you as my little cousin and I want to keep you safe just like I want to keep my little brother and my sisters safe," apologized JD for not telling her about the causes of some of his injuries
"Okay, but from now on stop it. I don't want to be treated with kid gloves anymore by you," ordered Andy still angry for being kept in the dark by him
"Fine, you want me to take you back to your dad's? He's worse than my two buddies...are yet if you want to go back home then fine. I'll take you home," JD stated as he turned around and headed back towards his truck
"No I don't want to go home; I just want you to treat me like a teenager. Not like a little kid who needs their parents' permission to go to the movies with their friends" Andy pleaded with her cousin
"Alright have it your way," was JD's response before they headed back towards his front door.
In all fairness that's all Andy ever wants from people is to be treated her age and not like a porcelain doll or a little kid. Ryan usually treats her according to her behaviour but tonight was different he needed to look at her as that little kid that use to follow him around growing up with his little brother.
"Sorry, Andy. It's just..." apologized JD for his rude behaviour towards her
"I know. Trust me I know," responded Andy in the same apologetic manner
"When'd you ever grow up?" JD asked in all seriousness
"Right around the time my mom took off" Andy shot back at him
"Okay, so how you handling that?" JD asked out of concern for his own well-being
"Pretty good, as long as I have you to talk to I should be alright. It's not like dad is of any use," stated Andy as if it was a given fact
"He took it hard Andy; she just walked out on him and you. It would take lot out of anyone in his position," replied JD
"You don't think I know that. I'm hurting here too you know, it's been six months and still nothing, he loves his bottle more than me" shouted Andy in angry at him for taking the one side she doesn't need him to take
"That's not true, he loves you with all his heart it's just that the bottle is his safety net or something. He was doing a lot better, Andy" JD tried to break down the barrier that was just put up by Andy
"Until today when that thing happened with you JD" shoot back Andy like a knife digging in to him
"You can't blame me for his behaviour Andy, I wasn't the one who told him to go out and get hammered. Just like I didn't tell my friends to get wasted either...if only you could really see what we've been dealing with would you understand what's going on," JD replied pretty angrily at her
"Nothing's ever your fault is it?" replied Andy
"Oh yeah it's my fault, everything that happened today was my fault. I forced two of my good friends to get themselves wasted as well as your dad, while I just looked on. You don't get it, you've never had to experience what they did. I have hell I lived it today. Try having to listen to two cops wrestling with a prep on the ground is harsh but what's worse is hearing the words officer down come out of the mouth of one of those officers do you realize how bad it was. Andy I got lucky, not many other rookies can say that. My own training officer is lying in hospital right now because of what happened today and I'm walking around with minor injuries from that altercation so don't be giving me any kind of attitude" replied JD with a little more force than he expected
"Whatever, I'm going to bed" responded Andy just as annoyed with as she had been at the start of this argument
"Fine, whatever I'll see you later then," stated JD as he tried to calm himself down
"Yeah, like six am later. I need to get ready early for the meet," replied Andy
"Okay, I'll get you up then," responded a slightly calmer JD
"What still don't have an alarm clock in the spare yet?" replied Andy sarcastically
"Nope, not quite an essential item for that room yet," replied JD just as lightly
"When were you planning on getting up?" asked Andy concerned she was forcing her cousin into waking up earlier than he wanted to
"I don't know I'm guessing around six now not really expected in tomorrow. But I told them I'd be in sometime in the afternoon to write my report and other stuff," answered JD while trying to figure out what all he had planned for the early morning
"Okay, night" responded Andy slightly relieved by JD's answer
"Night" responded JD as he too headed off towards his room.
As much as he thought he was okay with what happened during shift today he learned just from talking with his cousin that he was nowhere close to being cool with what happened, all he knew was that both himself and his TO were both alive when the scenario could have been so much worse. Yet that wasn't what bothered him the most it was the fact that two other rookies who weren't even involved in the ordeal took it extremely hard and needed to forget about it with alcohol while his uncle had to do the exact same thing, himself. The whole thing was crazy, he grew-up watching his dad and countless others put their lives endanger everyday to put out fires so why would what he went through be any different from that? Maybe it had something to do with the fact that his dad never has to face people with guns, knives, needles or any other kind of weapons on a daily basis.
The time was about two thirty in the morning he knew that making something for dinner all those hours ago was going to be pointless since he wasn't up for eating and then the phone calls from both Jerry and Noelle seeing how he was doing seemed to have helped him just as much as it had helped them. He knew that he was going to have to try and get some sort of sleep in order to be able to function in some sort of capacity later on in the day. It was like the second that JD managed to fall asleep his alarm was going off to tell him that it was time to wake up and start the day. As much as he didn't want to roll out of bed he knew he was going to have to considering the fact that he has his cousin staying with him and she has a big track meet today that he promised her that he was going to try and make until now when he could actually make it.