CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Hannah-Belle, Gabby, Luke and Jerry wanted to throw Jazzy and Sam a welcome home party for when they brought home Sammy Jr. So they had Patrick, their foster dad/ uncle, bring them to the baby store to get some things for the party. After they welcome home the new family, they throw a baby shower for her, even though Jazzy didn't want one.
HannahBelle and Gabrielle Calliope Patterson are the youngest siblings to Jazzy; the sister-in-laws to Sam and aunts to their son, Sammy Jr. They are identical twins; they are currently 14 years of age. Along with Jazmyn, Jerry and Lucas are their older siblings as well.
"Hannah-Belle, what about the guests? Did we invite everyone?" Gabby asked her overly excited twin sister.
"I'm pretty sure I invited everyone. I invited Jess and her husband, Katie and her daughter and her boyfriend, Mark, Max and Olivia, Elliot, Joey, Pat, Lilly, and Captain Cragen. We need to grab something for Jessii and label it from the entire family." Hannah answered her sister.
"Yeah, so a gift for Jess. Do we need anything else for the parties?" Gabby asked her.
"No, we are all set, let's get out of here, so we can help our brothers with the heavy items." Hannah said.
"OK, let's go pay for this stuff. We have an hour to get back to Sam and Jazzy's place to set up the parties. We'll have to put the 'Welcome home' on the garage door so they see it as soon as they pull in." They went to the register and paid for the items.
Meanwhile, Jerry and Luke were on the other side of the store buying the big and bulky items. They were picking up stuff from Jazzy's baby registry. They had to pick up the crib and crib accessories, high chair, bouncer, pack n' play with portable changing table, a normal changing table, and a dresser. It was a lot of stuff but they managed to get it all into the pickup truck that their father drives. As they exited the store and was putting the items away in the truck their sisters came out as well. The girls thanked their brothers and father for bringing them even though they knew the boys hated shopping. But because they loved the girls and would do anything for them they agreed to come with them.
"OK, Daddy, let's go, we got a party to set up." Hannah-Belle said to him. He backed out of the parking lot and drove to Jazzy and Sam's apartment to set up for the party. They had called Lilly to make sure that the parents to be wouldn't be home for a while, so they were safe to decorate without a tight deadline.
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"Liv, do you know what Cragen wants?" Max asked his partner of ten years, as they walked down to Cragen's office.
"No idea," Olivia Rowson said to her partner. They walked over to their desk and put their weapons in their desks. Captain Michael Andres Cragen was getting impatient.
"ROWSON, ROQUETTE, get your asses in here right now." Captain Cragen yelled out to his two best detectives.
"Coming, Sir." He heard through his office door.
"And don't sir me." He said as his detectives walked into his office and sat down in the chairs in front of their bosses' desk.
"You wanted to see us, boss." Max asked his boss, and then looked at his partner. She smiled at him and looked back at their boss.
"Yeah, there's a case I need you both to work. It's the Patterson's and Swarek deaths that happened about 10 years ago. Liv, I know you already know Max's family but I need you to familiarize yourself with the three homicides." Cragen said to his two best detectives. "One of the cases was NYPD Detective Cody Patterson, he's Jazmyn's biological father. He was on duty when a suspect pulled a gun on him and fired. He died on scene." Cragen said to the detectives.
"Ok, we'll get right on it but first I need to talk to Liv first." Max said to his boss, then stepped out of the office to go up to the bunks to talk to his partner.
"WHAT IS GOING ON? I never knew Cody was a detective on this squad all these years ago." Liv said.
"Actually, I think you did, that was the first case we worked as detectives ten years ago." Max said to his partner.
"Oh, yeah, now I remember, we also had taken on two other cases that were related to that case. But why are we looking back on a ten year old case?" Liv asked him.
"Heyy, can we talk up in the lounge, please?"
"Yeah, of course." Liv said and walked up to the lounge with Max on her heels. When she got to the top of the stairs, she went over to her locker to get her phone to check her messages. She finished checking her messages from her brother, Elliot and her sister-in-law, Maura. She put her phone back in her locker and turned back around to find Max in her face.
"MAX, oh my god, you just scared the shit out of me!" Liv exclaimed, Max just grinned and leaned toward her. He surprised her by kissing her, they let go when air was needed.
"I love you, Livia." Max blurted out. Liv looked at her best friend and smiled.
"I love you, too, Max, but we can't do this you're in a committed-," Liv began.
"No, I'm not, we broke up on Saturday. I want you, not Jenny. Let's go get something to eat and talk. There's nothing we can do about those cases tonight anyway and plus we have this weekend off. You can get our stuff, I'll deal with Captain." Max said, he pecked her lips and went back downstairs to talk to their boss about leaving early.
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Max and Liv left the police station and headed to his apartment. Before they got to the apartment, they stopped at the local Chinese restaurant and bought their usual. They got to his place and went inside and chatted for a while. It was getting late so Liv decided to stay over, instead of going back to her place, when she knew she would be back in the morning.
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That weekend seemed a perfect weekend to have their party for the two sets of new parents. Jessii and Brandon just had their daughter, Julianna Abbigail Hale. Sam and Jazzy just had their son, Samuel Maxwell Swarek, Jr. Both babies were named after either their parents or another family member. Sammy Jr., is named after his father, Sam Chase and after Jazzy's uncle, Maxwell James. That Friday, both sets of parents were released from the hospital and spent the night at Jessii's house. The night before Jazzy got a call to her cell phone telling her and Sammy SR. to stay at Jess's house; that their apartment was off limits until further notice. She told Jessii what was going on and she happily agreed to let the growing family stay with Jessii's family.
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The next day, when Sam and Jazzy pulled into their driveway, they were surprised to see all of their family and friends standing at the top of it, waiting anxiously for the new parents to arrive home.
The two families got out of the car and went up to their family and gave them a thank you hug. Just then, Sam heard a screeching noise, and turned around just in time to see a car coming at the family and coming to a complete stop. The person in the car was Lieutenant Elliot Rowson, but everyone knew Elliot as Olivia's twin. Elliot and Olivia Rowson are fraternal twins, were born hours apart, on January 23rd, 1979 and have been partners in crime for as long as they could remember. At the age of 34, Elliot Rowson had married Dr. Maura White, the Medical Examiner of the NYPD. Maura handled ALL the crimes scenes and sometimes, not all the time, but sometimes would be rewarded the ability to work with her husband, Elliot and her sister-in-law, Olivia. Maura thought of Olivia as her own sister, when they weren't working a crime scene or doing autopsies, Liv and Maura were at her apartment with Elliot, or at a local bar chatting about life and family.
"Max, isn't that your ex-partner and soon-to-be brother-in-law?" Sam asked Max, who was standing next to Jazzy, holding his godson. Max looked over at the car that Elliot got out of and handed Sammy Jr. back over to Jazzy and said, "Yep, that's him, I'll be right back." He went over to his girlfriend and gave her a quick kiss, then went over to where Elliot was standing.
"Rowson, what the HELL are you doing here?" Max asked Elliot.
"I'd like to know the same thing, Roquette?" Elliot said to his ex-partner, walking up to him.
"I asked you first. What the hell are you doing here?"
"I'm here because YOUR captain requested my help on a case. Can I talk to you somewhere more private? Liv can come too, she'll want to know what is going on." Elliot asked Max. He shifted uncomfortably, he knew Max and Liv wouldn't walk away from their family.
"No, we can't talk privately, I'm here for my niece. If you want to tell Liv and myself something, then say it because she and I aren't going anywhere. So if you're going to talk then talk." Max said, looking at his family, knowing that if he didn't start to get along with this guy, before he married Liv, Olivia was going to kill Max. He knew how close the two of them were.
"Okay, well I was just at a crime scene. Over at the Reilly's house-," Elliot began to say, but was interrupted by Lillian Roquette.
"Did you just say the Reilly's?"
"Yes. Anyway, when we arrived on scene, we found a girl around ten years old. According to neighbors, that little girl is Alissa Megan Swarek. When I asked her name, she told me that her name was Alissa Megan, but her last name isn't Swarek, it was Reilly. Max, we just found Jessii and Sam's little sister." Elliot finished saying. Olivia looked at her brother and then looked back at her family.
"Wait, that can't be possible, Alissa Megan's dead. Are you sure it was our Alissa?" Sam asked Elliot, who was beyond shocked to hear that Alissa was alive.
"What do you mean, dead? I saw her with my own two eyes." Elliot said. "She is at St. Mary's Hospital."
"Thank you, El. We'll get everyone to go meet her and I'll send a detective to get her statement." Olivia said to her brother. She looked at Jessii and asked, "Do you mind if we come and meet her with you and Sam?"
"Of course, Livia. You're always welcome at the family gatherings. And if you send a detective I think that it should be you, she would be more likely to be safe with a female detective. No offense to any of the male detective/ officers." Jessii answered.
"No offense taken." All the male officers said in unison.
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At St. Mary's hospital, where Alissa Megan Swarek sleep in her hospital room, the doctors surrounded her. Alissa felt people staring at her, she tried opening her eyes but shut them again because the light was too bright. She tried once again and opened her eyes to find her doctor standing on one side and her "parents" handcuffed with a police officer holding both of them, on the other side of her bed.
"What's going on, why are they here?" Alissa said to the doctor who was checking her over.
"We are here because we wanted to make sure you were okay before we went to jail. We both love you, sweetie."
"You don't love me, I am fine, you saw, now get the hell out of my room."
"Come on, sir, ma'am. Lets get you out of here." The officer said to Addison and Jake.
"Alissa, can you look at me, please," the doctor said.
"WHAT?" Alissa said, she sulked back knowing she shouldn't of done that. "I'm sorry, i shouldn't of snapped at you, what do you need me to do?"
"You, young lady, need to get some rest. i got a phone call from a Maxwell Roquette asking for visiting hours. I told him that you need to get some rest, before he has someone take your statement. are you up for some visitors?" The doctor asked alissa.
She nodded her head, and said, "Who is this Maxwell Roquette?"
"Some detective for NYPD Special Victims and Homicide. Why do you know him?"
"I may know him, I just need to see him. and then figure out where I've heard that name before."