It has been a long time since Jake and I have had a date night. From what I have heard that is completely normal when you have kids.
Also it is not like we went out a lot before she was born. We are cops after all we work all the time look at this past week I had one day off and then I slept at the precinct three nights. I mean Jake has had the same thing happen to him a few months ago but really he is a super dad. I have not heard of many dads that did what Jake did this week.
"Hey babe," said Jake as he tried to get into the bathroom.
"What I am almost ready."
"I can see that my mom is here and I need to get ready and you also need to call Rosa something about the press conference that you missed earlier. She sounded mad."
I finished my makeup and let him have the bathroom heavens knows he needs it. The man does not shower nearly enough.
I went back into our bedroom to give Rosa a call. She is probably pissed at me.
Even before I dialed her number I had three missed calls from her along with ten text.
"Hey whats going on?"
"I had to do a press conference from hell by myself."
"What was so bad about it? It should have been cut and dry these were the people who did it and we caught them."
"One of them was killed while the press conference was going on."
"What do you mean?"
"They were being moved and the guy was killed midway through."
"By whom?"
"A cop."
"Why is that our issue? It seems like an issue for IAB."
"I was bombarded with questions about it because of when it happened. I had to answer a bunch of questions about police brutality before I was rushed off the stage and PR too over."
"Rosa i'm sorry. I should have been there. Even though I do not know how much better it would have been with me."
"You are more calm cool and collected. I may have gone off on a tangent and am being investigated and on administrative leave because of things I may have said."
"Rosa. I."
"If you were there you would have been the one on stage and I would not be in this mess."
"Amy next time just answer your fucking phone."
She hung up.
I know where she is coming from but I don't feel like it is exactly my fault. If she did not have temper issues she would not have had a problem.
Now I am worried. I really hope that she does not do anything stupid.
I went back into the bathroom to talk to Jake.
"Almost done."
"I doubt it you have only been in here five minutes you need at least ten more."
"Jeez thanks."
"Quick question did Rosa say anything else to you when she called you earlier."
"No she just said that she wanted to talk to you. Why?"
"Because we may need to go do damage control tonight. She is on administrative leave."
"For what the only thing that she had to do was talk at a press conference."
"She did that but while that was going on one of the suspects we caught was killed mid transfer by a cop. They started asking her questions about police brutality in the city and she said some things that I guess were out of line that caused suspicion that she may have done things in the past that need to be investigated."
"Rosa. She is a tough cop but would never intentionally hurt anyone. I have known her forever."
"I know that you know that and everyone in the squad knows that but the upper brass does not I just hope me not being there is going to get Rosa fired." I broke down.
He turned off the shower and got out. He gave me a hug. He was still soaking wet.
"Ames. Everything is going to be fine. Look at me how many times have I been put on administrative leave or fired and I have come back every time."
"Its just that this is my fault."
"It is not. It is the fault of who ever killed the guy cop or not and the asshole reporters who changed what the press conference was supposed to be about. Rosa will be fine."
I stopped crying.
"Ames you may also want to get changed your soaked."
"I love you but your an ass."
"But I am your ass. We can go check on Rosa and then we will try to have a good night to take our minds off of everything."
At this point I just hope we can find her.
I am sorry that it took a bit longer than normal to get a chapter out. I have just had some major family things going on and have been sick on top of it. I plan to make up for it this next weekend.