Chapter 2: Owed To Jamie

The following morning she woke first and quickly pulled her clothes on. She looked at him, sound asleep in her bed, her head whirling, she was ready to forgive. In exchange for answers to a couple of her questions. She went into the kitchen a made herself some toast and coffee before sitting down the table to eat. As she sipped her coffee Flack came into the room, his hair sticking up all over the place so that he looked like a scarecrow. "Morning" he said heading in her direction.

"Morning" she replied as he sat down on the opposite side of the table. "I've slept on it… I'm going to forgive you for it. But I want answers"

"Ok fire away" he nodded

"How did you meet Jada?"

"At this police officers ball" he replied "Chris is a lieutenant at 23rd precinct, it was bring your wives, or whatever. I went with my dad because he was a high ranking officer. We got chatting and ended up getting very drunk together. We went upstairs to an empty room and had sex. Then went back downstairs like it hadn't happened. We exchanged numbers and went our separate ways."

"And you didn't see Chris that night?" she asked

"No, she told me she was with her dad and that he was talking to all his friends and ignoring her. I didn't know she was married. She wasn't wearing a ring" he explained

"No she never does when she's out and there's alcohol involved" said Jamie "So it went from there then?"

"Yeah, she texted me a few days later and we exchanged a lot of explicit text messages." He replied "We'd meet up after I'd clocked off and go back to my place to get busy. Then she'd leave and go back home."

"How did it end?" asked Jamie

"She came round one night and after we'd had sex she went to use the bathroom. She'd been planning on staying the night that time. Anyway her phone started ringing and I saw caller id as Chris, in brackets husband. So I answered the call and asked if he was her husband. He said he was and I hung up. Then when she came back I the room I confronted her. She admitted to me she was married and I told her to get out and not comeback. Obviously when she went home Chris knew and they rowed. And she must've told him everything because he turned up at my precinct the next day and decked me. He said she'd told him I'd led her on and hadn't cared she was married. He said he was going to kill me"

"So when did she tell you about Noah?" asked Jamie

"A few weeks after I told her to get lost" said Flack "She texted me and told me to come round in my lunch break as Chris would be out and wouldn't kill me. She showed me the tests. A few weeks later she turns up at the precinct, hands me a scan picture and tells me she doesn't want me involved in his life"

"What happened when Noah was born?" she asked

"She did it alone, Chris was working and he didn't really want to be there because he didn't know if it was his or not. And she told me not to show my face, so I stayed at work." Explained Flack "She called me the next day and told me she'd a boy and that his name was Noah and she still didn't want me involved. So I fought my corner"

"Be honest with me, when I told you her name did you know who she was?" asked Jamie

"No, I swear I didn't know she was Noah's mom, I had no idea" he replied honestly "If I had I would've told you"

"Ok" she nodded, believing him. "I tell you I'm never going to forgive her for trying to use me like that."

"You don't have to" he replied

"She keeps texting me, saying she's sorry and that she wants to explain and asking me to forgive her. I've just been ignoring them. I did text her to tell her to stop and leave me alone" she sighed "Fifteen years, I thought I could trust her. Obviously she doesn't give a crap about me or my feelings. She went out and betrayed me like it was a normal thing to do. I'm never going to forgive her. Ever. I told her I was going make sure you carried on court proceedings"

"Oh don't worry, I will" he replied

Flack looked into her eyes, she was still steaming mad about all of it; him sleeping with her so called best friend before they'd met, for not telling her he had a son with her too and for her so called best-friend trying to use her to blackmail him. And he could tell she was very cut up about it and really hurting. It was a horrible thing for Jada to have done, she'd really her hurt and she deserved to be hurt back. He vowed to go into court and win his case, he knew that would really upset Jada. Get what was so deserved and get a little revenge for Jamie.

Jamie told him to go into family court and kick Jada's ass. Her words very literally. "Go in there and kick her ass!" she smiled, getting out of his car

"I will" he replied, smiling at her before she closed the door and headed into the precinct. He headed to family court and kicked Jada's butt. Not literally, but he made good progress in his claim. Tomorrow was the last day.

And the following day he kicked her butt again. Finally the judge made his decision. He ruled fifty-fifty access between each parent. When they left court Jada expressed her annoyance at losing. "Got what you wanted" she sneered

"What was fair" he replied "He's my son too. DNA tests proved that"

"You couldn't have just let it go and let me leave New York with him and my husband" she snapped

"No" he shook his head "I want to be in his life"

"You're a cop, you'll-"

"Get killed and it will screw him up?" he cut over her "He'll start doing drugs and god knows what else? Yeah I know about that. Jamie told me that"

"Oh she did, did she?" Jada hissed "What else did she tell you?"

"That you told her to bring me so you could blackmail me into dropping this suit and if it didn't work you were going to get her to sweet talk me into dropping it" he replied "I could've told the judge you were attempting to blackmail me but I let it slide, usually blackmail looks bad and they don't give custody rights to the blackmailer."

"You do have some decency after all" she said coldly

"Yeah and you don't" he shook his head

"Is Jamie ready to forgive me yet?"

"Jamie will never forgive you for what you did" he spat, feeling very protective of his girlfriend and 100% on her side over what Jada had done. "You used her, and you wanted to do it more. You wanted to get her on your side and use her to blackmail me. You hurt her, she was heartbroken. She broke down on me,"

"We hurt her because we didn't tell her we'd shagged each other and you'd fathered my son!" she spat

"You knew who I was the moment she mentioned my name to you!" he retorted

"So what" she shrugged

"Jada I hope you're proud of what you've done. She will never talk to you again" replied Flack before walking away from her, he couldn't look at her after what she'd tried to do Jamie. Sure he'd caused some of heartbreak by keeping the fact he had a son from her, but he hadn't tried to use her to blackmail someone or asked her to do so.

Then a few days later Jada made her frustrations known to Jamie. She'd been texting Jamie non-stop and didn't seem to be getting the message that Jamie just didn't want to know. She hated her guts, she tried to use her to blackmail someone after all. You can't do that someone and expect that person to be fine about it. Jamie simply ignored her texts, she wasn't interested in an apology, it was too late. The damage had been done.

She was in her apartment with Flack and they were in bed together, busy having very passionate sex and eating each other's tonsils when the doorbell rang. "Ignore it" Jamie smirked "They'll get bored and go"

He grinned at her and started kissing her again. But the ringing of the doorbell persisted and eventually Jamie gave up trying to ignore it. She got out of bed, pulled her knickers and a t-shirt on and when to answer the door. Pulling it open she saw Jada standing on the other side. "What do you want?"

"To talk to you" replied Jada

"Not now" Jamie spat "Now piss off and don't come back"

"No, I want to talk to you!" hissed Jada "I've been texting you for the last week and you haven't answered a single one of my texts"

"Maybe that's because I don't want to!" retorted Jamie as Jada shoved her way inside and pushed the door shut. "Maybe it's because you tried to use me to blackmail my boyfriend!"

"I want to apologise for that!" said Jada

"It's too late Jada" seethed Jamie "You shouldn't have done it in the first place!"

"I was trying to do what is best for my son" replied Jada "I don't want him growing up in this bloody city. I wanted to move him somewhere safer"

"No Jada you just wanted an easy life" Jamie spat "No custody agreements that restrict you, nothing that makes Chris hate you."

"I didn't want his father getting killed and it destroying him!" Jada retorted "Cops get killed on the job all the time, I don't want my son being the child of a dead cop. It will probably screw him up"

"Jada that is bullshit, complete and utter bullshit" Jamie shook her head "Chris is a cop, he could just as easily get killed on the job"

"Oh he's a lieutenant, he won't get killed" Jada replied "He's a homicide detective, he arrests murderers for a living. Murderers get handy with weapons and kill. I don't not want to have to take Noah to his funeral and have him receive a flag"

"You are so selfish!" Jamie seethed "This is why I've been ignoring you! Because you're a selfish cow!"

"I'm not selfish!" Jada retorted

"Yes you are" fumed Jamie "You always have been and you always will be"

"I'm not selfish!" Jada spat

"Get out!" Jamie hissed yanking the door open

"Will you listen to me!" Jada seethed "I'm sorry for what I did, I never meant to hurt you!"

"You still did it!" Jamie spat furiously

"I shouldn't have" said Jada "It was a mistake, I never wanted to hurt you. I just wanted to keep Noah safe"

"Don't you dare use Noah to defend your actions!" Jamie raged

"I'm sorry" replied Jada "But you did over react to it"

"HOW DARE YOU!" Jamie exploded "YOU USED ME TO BLACKMAIL SOMEONE!" she was furious and in blind rage she slapped Jada around the face. "YOU'RE NOT SORRY FOR WHAT YOU DID AT ALL!"

"I did what I had to do to protect my son from harm!" shouted Jada

"YOU'RE SOMETHING ELSE!" Jamie yelled as the Flack came into the room. Though he did not intervene, knowing it was best not to get involved for fear that they would both kill him and that they really did need to have this out between themselves and no one else.

"YOU DON'T HAVE CHILDREN. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HELL YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT!" Jada raged

"YEAH WELL IF I DID I WOULDN'T KEEP THEIR DADS OUT OF THEIR LIVES" Jamie roared

"ARE YOU CALLING ME A BAD MOTHER?" demanded Jada "CAUSE IT FUCKING SOUNDS LIKE IT, CALLING ME SELFISH FOR TRYING TO PROTECT MY SON!"

"BY KEEPING HIS OWN DAD OUT OF HIS LIFE!" Jamie thundered "AND USING BLACKMAIL TO GET IT. HOW THE FUCK DO YOU HE'D FEEL WHEN HE'S OLDER AND HE REALISES CHRIS ISNT HIS REAL DAD AND FINDS OUT YOU LIED TO HIM AND BLACKMAILED HIS DAD RIGHT OUT OF HIS FUCKING LIFE AND USED SOMEONE ELSE TO DO IT?"

"YOU ARE CALLING ME A BAD MOTHER, YOU COW!" Roared Jada

"WELL MAYBE I FUCKING AM. YOU PREFER TO GET WASTED THAN STAY AT HOME WITH HIM, YOU'RE NEVER WITH HIM. I FEEL SORRY FOR HIM. AND FOR CHRIS. I SHOULDVE SEEN THIS COMING. YOU ALWAYS HAVE BEEN A CONNIVING, SNEAKY AND DEVIOUS COW!" Jamie yelled "AND SELFISH AS HELL!"

"I'M SELFISH. LOOK AT YOURSELF. YOU'LL BE SCREWED IF YOU DO HAVE KIDS ANYWAY!" Jada hollered "YOURE A COP YOU'LL GET YOURSELF KILLED AND DENY YOUR KID A MOM. THAT'S SELFISH!"

"YOU BITCH!" Jamie flew at her and slapped her around the face before shoving her against the wall and going for her again. Jada retaliated and slapped her back before grabbing her hair. "CUT IT OUT THE PAIR OF YOU!" Flack roared before trying to pull Jamie away by wrapping his arms around her waist and tugging at her. "Come on Jamie she's not worth it!"

"SHE DESERVES IT!" Yelled Jamie "GET OFF ME!"

"No!" he replied tugging at her waist "Let go of her! Jada let go of her hair!"

"NO SHE CALLED ME A BAD MOTHER!" Yelled Jada tugging at Jamie's hair with one hand and reaching her other hand out. "NO CALLS ME THAT AND GETS AWAY WITH IT!"

"YOU STABBED ME IN THE BACK!" Jamie raged pulling viciously at Jada's hair while Flack tried desperately to disentangle her hands and drag her away. "YOU KNOW WHAT JADA YOU REALLY HURT ME. YOU MIGHT AS WELL STAB ME THROUGH THE HEART. YOU ALREADY STABBED ME IN THE BACK! YOU DESEREVED TO BE CALLED THAT!"

"THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!" Jada hissed in Flacks direction

"My fault?!" he asked, astonished with her trying to blame this on him.

"IF YOU HADNT STARTED THAT CUSTODY SUIT NONE OF THIS WOULDVE HAPPENED. I WOULDN'T HAVE HAD TO TRY TO BLACKMAIL YOU THROUGH JAMIE!" Raged Jada

"YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO DO THAT ALL!" Roared Jamie

"Jada this all your own fault!" replied Flack "If you hadn't started screwing me behind your husband's back I wouldn't have knocked you up. You wouldn't have denied me access meaning I had to take you to court to get access to my own child. It's your own fault!"

"BASTARD!" She roared "GET OFF ME YOU OVER-REACTING, SELFISH COW!"

"I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!" Jamie raged lunging for her even though Flack had his arms wrapped tightly around her waist in his attempt to disentangle and pull her, away from Jada.

"NO!" Shouted Flack "This isn't helping. Let go of each other right now or I'm putting you both under arrest!"

But they didn't let each other go and Jada kicked her leg underneath Jamie and managed to kick Flack right in the nuts causing him to let go of Jamie and double over briefly. In those few moments Jamie and Jada had gone for each other and were wrestling each other across the floor. Hitting and pulling each other's hair, occasionally kneeing each other. Flack straightened up again and saw what they were doing. "ENOUGH ALREADY!" he yelled "YOU'RE BOTH ADULTS. ACT LIKE IT!"

But they didn't listen to him and carried on trying to beat the crap out of each other. So he went over to them and grabbed Jamie's hands and pulled them away from Jada. Once they were away from Jada he pulled her across the room. Before turning back to Jada "Get up and get out because if you come back I will arrest you"

Jada pulled herself to her feet but she didn't leave, instead she stood glaring at Jamie, who was currently being restrained by Flack as she had attempted to go for Jada again. "GO!" Jamie yelled "GET OUT AND NEVER EVER COME BACK. DON'T CALL OR TEXT ME EVER AGAIN. BECAUSE I'LL NEVER FORGIVE YOU. EVER. NOW GET OUT!"

Jada sneered in their direction before walking over to the door and pulled it open. "See you never" she spat "Oh yeah and I just remembered, you're never ever seeing Noah again. Ever" then she left, slamming the door behind her.

"Will you let go off me now!" Jamie hissed before Flack let her go and she moved across the room. "She has some nerve coming round here!"

"Yeah, she's got balls I'll give her that" replied Flack

"I'm done with her" Jamie spat "I don't know how or why we ever became friends, she's always been a bit of a nasty cow. I want her out of my life for good."

"Good for you" nodded Flack, a little annoyed that he'd literally and physically had to pull them apart before they killed each other in front of him,

"You won't tell anyone about what happened will you?" she asked "That I tried to kill her and that we were beating each other up"

"No" he shook his head. That was just going to cause problems if he did.

Jamie had a drink and some ice cream to calm herself down before she went to bed at two o'clock in the morning. But she was still really mad.

Over the next few days she deleted Jada from her contacts, removed her as a friend on Facebook and Twitter and scribbled out her address and phone number from her address book. She cut pictures of them up and dumped the halves with Jada in, in the bin. She completely cut her from her life. And it felt so good. Once she'd cut Jada from her life she looked to the future, wanting to move on from this and have a future with Flack.

A week later they attended Mac and Christine's wedding together, along with Noah as it was Flack's week to have him. He played with Lucy Messer who spent ages tickling him and chasing him around. Things were back on track between Flack and Jamie and it looked things may work out after all.