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Chapter 3.

Kelly woke up by the sound of the phone. She winced slightly due to the loud tone, and she felt a wave of dizziness go through her as she reached for the phone. She managed to get it, and while she answered, she closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

"Hello?"

"Kelly? Did I wake you?"

"Hi Sabrina. And yes, you did."

"I'm so sorry. It's just that… Charlie called…"

Kelly could hear Sabrina crying in the other end of the phone.

"… and I got so worried."

"Bri, I'm okay, I'm just tired and have a headache."

"Sure you're okay? It sounded really bad."

"Don't worry. I'm doing fine." Kelly smiled.

"Okay. I'll see if I can get over to you one day but you know Lucas has been sick and…"

"Bri, you don't have to come here. I'm fine, really. You stay home and take care of the two men in your life."

"Kelly, I really think…"

"Sabrina. I'm not fine enough to argue. Please. I'm okay. You don't have to come. Really."

Kelly could hear Sabrina dry her tears in the other end.

"Okay… Okay. I love you Kell. Take care now."

"I will. Thanks for calling Bri."

"I'll talk to you later."

Kelly hung up the phone and then put her hands over her belly, resting. She was staring up into the roof, thinking about everything that had happened. Kris had been right. Something bad would happen if they didn't get out of this soon, and it had happened. She had not seen the gun coming, and when it fired, it was too late. She had heard screaming, and later realized it came from herself. She remembered feeling sharp, intense, unbearable pain for just a few seconds before everything turned black. She had woken up for seconds at the time before she was taken into surgery, she remembered bright lights, doctors talking, but most of all she remembered Charlie's voice. As he was speaking to the doctors, and to her, she distinctively remembered someone holding her hand, all the time. Even as she was rolled up to surgery and they put her to sleep, the last thing she remembered was the friendly grip around her fingers, and his voice, saying `fight angel, I know you can do it´. As she had gone to sleep, she had been dreaming. A lot. Memories had been replaying themselves in her mind. Specific parts of her past, some of them felt like it was so many years ago, and it was. The first memory she had seen was her first day at the police academy.

Kelly Garrett was leaning against the wall in the hallway. She did have butterflies, no doubt about it, but she was acting like nothing could ever bother her. Every man – everyone – that walked passed looked her way. Some of them smiled at her, some were flirting without hesitation and some of them just looked as they were wondering why she was there. Kelly could almost hear their thoughts – female cops? She has nothing to do here. She's not going to last a week, not even a day. She should go back into her kitchen instead. As Kelly was standing there, someone suddenly stopped besides her. Kelly looked up and met a pair of brown eyes. The woman in front of her was taller, slimmer, and she looked very relieved.

"Hi. I saw you standing here and figured I'd walk up to you, since we seam to be a minority here." The woman smiled, and they shook hands. "I'm Sabrina Duncan."
"Kelly Garrett. And yes, we're definitely a minority here, but that is to be expected."

"Yeah, my husband warned me about it."

"You're married?"

"Yes." Sabrina smiled. She wanted to ask Kelly back, but didn't want to pry into her personal life when they just met ten seconds ago.

"How wonderful." Kelly smiled. "It looks like everyone is getting ready for line-up. Should we join them?"

"Absolutely."

Sabrina and Kelly walked down towards the rest of the gang, and waited for their names to be called. They both turned their heads slightly as they heard the name "Jill Munroe" being called, and as they turned their heads, the blonde woman turned towards them, giving them a smile. Evidently she'd already seen them, probably due to the fact that both their names already had been called.

During the introduction and short tour of the academy, it was time for lunch. For the first time, all the three women were able to gather up together, and they did as they sat down by a table for four.

"Finally food!" Jill smiled, and Kelly and Sabrina shared a smile.

"Hungry?" Kelly giggled, and Jill looked up at her, mouth filled with potatoes.

"Mhm!"

Kelly looked towards the door as it opened, and smiled weakly towards the nurse that entered the room.

"Good morning Ms Garrett, how are you feeling?"

"Quite alright actually." Kelly smiled, and the nurse smiled widely back.

"I'm glad. You remember just to tell me if I can get you anything?"

"Yes, thank you."

"Good. Well, there's a man outside your room, I know it's not visiting hours, but he's been allowed permission to see you by our head of security, if it's alright with you?"

"Did he say what his name was?" Kelly asked, but she already knew the answer.

"Yes, Charlie Townsend."

"Please send him in."

The nurse smiled and left the room. Minutes later, a man was standing in the door. He was tall, well toned, and was dressed in a black, expensive suit.

"Hello Angel." He smiled gently as he walked up to her bed.

Kelly just stared, wondering if she was dreaming. She'd been trying to put a face on the voice for so long, and this was almost like she'd imagined him.

"Hi." Kelly whispered, trying to put her focus on him.

"How are you feeling?"

"I'll be okay." Kelly said, still trying to comprehend what was going on.

"I'm glad."

"Thank you for everything. Kris told me that you got a specialist here, and I know you were with me all the time."

"By all means Angel, it was not a problem. I'm just so very happy that you're alive."

Kelly smiled, blinking a few times. She felt that she was tired, but she could not go to sleep at the moment.

"Charlie. I'm not coming back to the agency. I can't."

"I understand that, and I've almost already knew it. Kris is leaving, Bosley's been talking the last months about retirement and Julie is getting bored by doing the same thing all the time. I figured you're out too. And I do wish to speak with you about work, but Angel, you should try to get some rest, you look very tired."

Kelly was curious about what he wanted to discuss, but she was not in the mood to argue – he was right, she needed to rest right now. So instead Kelly nodded silently, and Charlie took her hand.

"I'll give you a call later. I just wanted to stop by and see how you were doing."

"Thank you." Kelly smiled, and Charlie moved to leave the room.

When he'd disappeared, Kelly looked up into the roof again. Wow. She had not expected that to happen. How many times had she'd been discussing with Sabrina, Jill, Kris, Julie and Tiffany about Charlie's looks? How tall was he? Which hair color did he have, what eye color, did he have a beard, how did he dress? The curiosity had been killing them for years, and suddenly, Kelly knew exactly who was hiding behind the voice. She suddenly realized she'd seen him before. Here and there. As a lonely fisherman whenever they had their picnics on the beach. As a man having lunch by himself when they went out to get something to eat. He'd been everywhere, and Kelly had noticed him before, but she hadn't been able to even guess whom it might be. Kelly smiled for herself as she drifted off to sleep.