Thank you for all of your reviews. The last chapter was fun to write and the last resemblance to the movie 'Return to Me.'

Chapter 4

Halfway through a Friday swing tour, Jamie sat in the driver's seat of the RMP filling out a report after he and Vinny had provided back up to a call of shots fired at the scene of a robbery.

Vinny sat next to him, doing the same thing when he paused and glanced over at his partner. "Hey, so about last night," Vinny started as he tapped his pen against his memo book.

"Yeah? What about it?" Jamie asked as he kept scribbling away on his form.

Vinny sighed. "First off, sorry about Julia. Carli said she had a friend so...I guess I just figured she'd be more down to earth like Carli. I may have to question her choice of friends," he explained. He had high hopes for the evening, but wasn't surprised at how it ended and didn't blame his partner for it. The woman had been a bit much to take even after Jamie had left the bar. He just hoped it wouldn't keep him from trying to get back out there.

"She's dating you, isn't she?" Jamie snarked and turned to smirk at Vinny.

Vinny chuckled. "You got a point there, partner."

Jamie went back to his paperwork, but a smile remained on his face. "Don't worry about it."

Vinny turned in his seat and ignored his work. "Alright, so now that that's out of the way...Your brother's car didn't really break down, did it?"

Jamie focused extra hard on the report he was completing and said nothing.

"I knew it!" Vinny proclaimed while shaking his head. "But I don't blame you, man."

Jamie chuckled but didn't offer anything else about the evening, so Vinny forged on.

"The waitress, though..."

Jamie's head snapped up. "You mean Eddie? She said she was a cadet," he corrected.

"Yeah, her. I don't know, man. She seemed to be into you. And call me crazy, but vice versa, partner." Vinny grinned at him.

"What? I think you're starting to see things, man," Jamie asked with a hint of doubt.

"Yeah, man," Vinny said. "Come on, Reagan. You two had a little back and forth going there before drink orders went in. There was a vibe. And I caught you talking to her when you were leaving," he explained.

Jamie dropped his pen and turned in his seat. "That was nothing," Jamie tried assuring him.

"She was cute," Vinny stated.

Jamie said nothing but pursed his lips and looked away when a smile threatened to grow on his face.

"Ahh, see, you think so, too!" Vinny accused and pointed a finger in his partner's direction. He couldn't hold back the laugh that burst out of his mouth right after.

Jamie shrugged. "She was nice looking," he whispered.

"What was that? I didn't quite hear you?" Vinny asked as he cupped a hand around his ear, leaning towards Jamie.

Jamie sighed heavily. "Yes, she was cute," he agreed.

Vinny laughed. "See!"

Jamie frowned. "See what, man? I met her once. I'll probably never see her again."

Vinny slapped Jamie in the chest with the back of his hand. "What do you mean? We know where she spends her days and she all but said she's a regular at Rick's," he pointed out.

Jamie had not forgotten those facts, he just didn't know what to do with them and chose to play dumb. Jumping back into this dating scene was making him a little crazy. Putting aside his emotions about moving past Sydney, dating made him feel like a stupid teenager all over again - he was unsure about how to act or what to say to a woman. It was one of the things he'd gladly thought he'd never have to deal with again when he got married. And now? Here he was sitting in the RMP arguing with his partner on whether he liked the cute girl at the bar. "So?" he shrugged.

"So? You going to ask her out?" Vinny asked, expecting to hear a 'yes' from his partner.

"I'd have to run into her again to do that," Jamie stated.

"Don't be so dense, Reagan," Vinny huffed.

Jamie sighed and picked his pen back up. "We'll see."

"Just give it a shot, that's all I ask."

Jamie raised a brow at Vinny. "Really? That's all?" he responded knowing full well that Vinny Cruz would not back down so easily.

The dining room was quiet except for the repeated clinking of cutlery hitting plates. The Reagans were enjoying their dinner in a rare, but comfortable silence.

Until Danny Reagan decided to fill the void. He looked across the table at his brother, swallowing his food before addressing him. "So what was the deal the other night, kid?" he asked.

Jamie's head snapped up from his dinner. "What?" he asked around a mouthful of potatoes.

"The call," Danny clarified as he went back to stabbing a green bean on his plate.

Linda looked from her husband to her brother-in-law. "What call?" she asked.

Danny aimed his knife at Jamie. "Harvard over here texts me to call him in ten minutes and when I do he's having this whole different conversation about coming to pick me up," he explained to the rest of the family. "What were you trying to get out of?" he asked curiously. "It was noisy, wherever you were too."

Jamie shook his head and went back to his food. "Nothing," he said.

"That was not nothing, kid," Danny argued.

Jamie sighed and dropped his fork. He might as well come clean or the third degree would continue with the whole family joining in. "Vinny set me up," he confessed.

"Set you up?" Henry asked, not quite understanding.

Erin's eyes lit up. "Like on a date?"

Jamie nodded and fiddled with his fork.

"Oh, yeah?" Frank asked and sat back in his chair, pleased to hear that Jamie was venturing out. "With whom?"

Jamie shook his head and kept eating. "No one worth mentioning," he mumbled.

"That bad?" Nicky asked with a grimace.

Jamie eyed his niece. "It was bad," he confirmed.

Erin wiped her mouth and leaned forward to get her little brother's attention. "Well, there's this new attorney at -"

Jamie dropped his utensils with a clatter. "No! No set ups!" he ordered.

"Why not?" Erin asked, feeling a little hurt that he wouldn't give her a chance to set him up, but had allowed his partner to do it.

Jamie leaned forward to meet her eyes. "Why not? 'Cause of the other night, that's why not," he pointed out.

Danny smirked. "Sounds like you're exaggerating, kid."

"I'm sure it wasn't that bad," Linda added.

"Oh, yeah? Maybe that's why Vin apologized the next day. You all want me to meet someone, fine, but no set ups," he instructed, eyeing each and every one of them to stress his point.

"So then how are you going to meet someone?" Henry inquired next to him.

"Here we go," Jamie sighed. "Do we really have to talk about this?" he asked and looked at the other end of the table for some help from the one person he thought could provide assistance. "Dad?"

"What?" Frank replied innocently.

"A little help?" Jamie begged.

Frank smirked. He was glad Jamie was opening himself up to dating again and was equally curious about the answer to his father's question. "Answer the question and they'll leave you alone," Frank suggested, thinking that a little push off the ledge was just what his youngest needed.

Jamie rolled his eyes. "I haven't figured that part out yet," Jamie sighed in annoyance.

"Then you'll love Janie," Erin assured him. "She's a third year lawyer, Penn Law graduate, really cute and friendly," she gushed.

Jamie hid his face in his hands and groaned.

"Only one way to get her off your back, son," Frank said as he traded smiles with his daughter.

"Great. Thanks. Lotta help you are," Jamie grumbled sending his father the evil eye.

You know that if Vinny got a chance to set him up, someone in the family would jump at the chance also. :)

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