Chapter 7 The Morning
The next morning Tony woke up to an empty bed and panicked until he smelled the coffee downstairs and realized it was 10:30. He pulled himself out of bed and started down the stairs. When he got downstairs he glanced in the living room. Lauren was asleep, Tony rolled his eyes and walked toward the kitchen he saw a little note on the counter and went over and read it….
"Tony,
Went out to get breakfast cause I can't cook, but you probably read that in my file.
Love Always,
Michelle
PS-I wouldn't disturb Lauren if I were you she is very cranky in the morning. "
He smiled and re-read it. "Love Always, Michelle" he was having a great day already. All of a sudden the doorbell rang. In his boxer shorts and a white T-shirt he went to the door opened it only to see a woman and a cute little girl outside the door "Hello"
"Uh hi. I'm uh looking for Michelle Dessler?" she said suddenly Tony realized what he was wearing "Uh one sec." He ran upstairs and got sweatpants on then ran back to the door "Uh sorry about that I…"
"Who are you?" she asked
"Tony Almeida" he said and a smile spread across her face as Lauren came up behind Tony.
"Hey Deb" she said rubbing her eyes
"Hey Lauren" she said still smiling and looking Tony over. "Michelle wasn't kidding," she muttered as she and Jillian walked past Tony into the house. "So if you are all in her house where is she?"
"I uh" Tony started, but then Michelle walked in with many bags of food in her hands.
"It's your house too," she whispered in his ear as she walked by him and put the bags on the table. "So hey Jill you hungry?" she said as the little girl ran up and jumped into her arms. "Hey Debbie. Good morning Lauren, sleep well?"
"Yeah except a certain someone ran up the stairs really fast like an elephant" she said pouting.
"Told you," she said to Tony.
"Well I have to go before I'm late. Bye Jill be good!" she said leaving "Oh and nice to finally meet you Tony" she giggled and left. The phone rang. Michelle ran over to answer it. "Hello?"
"We need you at CTU to make an ID on someone from an old case, someone you may have seen while undercover." Ryan Chappelle said
"I'm sorry but I..." she started
"No this is important. We need you now this is hot and we need to deal with it now." He said in a very insensitive tone.
"Ok" she agreed "I'll be there in ten" she hung up and looked up and pouted. "Ryan claims I need to be at CTU now. I don't know what to do with Jill"
"I can watch her" he said
"You sure?" she asked
"Yeah" he said
"Thank you so much" she hugged him. "Hey Jill," she said and the little girl looked up
"Yes Aunt Michelle?" she said
"Wanna hang out here while I go to work for a little while" she asked squatting down to the little girl's height.
"Ok" she said Michelle gave them both a kiss and was out the door.
She drove down the road reflecting on the day and their conversation, but she was rudely interrupted by some guy in a white car cutting her off, she screeched to a halt avoiding an accident. When she arrived at CTU she was to ID a man named Roger Frieger. She got there and was shocked to see it was in fact him. "That's him" she told Chappelle.
"Ok then I guess you can go now" he said
"Wait that's it there's no one else?" she asked
"Yeah why should there be?" he asked impatiently
"I just, well I seem to remember him having a twin brother named Timothy" she said
"Oh well uh we'll follow that up"
Michelle left CTU thinking the rest of the day would be a breeze. She was wrong.