Chapter Two - Oh My
Danny and Flack were sitting in a booth in the bar waiting for Lindsay and Jamie to arrive, they were talking about the last Yankee's baseball game when Danny heard a familiar voice call his name, he looked up and stood at the end of the table with drinks in hand was Lindsay and Jamie. Lindsay leaned down and kissed Danny and sat down next to him, leaving Jamie to sit next to Flack.
"Hey, you don't mind me gate crashing do you?"
Jamie focused her question at Flack who shook his head.
"Nah, gives me someone to talk to when those two start making goo goo eyes at each other."
"We don't do goo goo eyes!"
Jamie and Flack both laughed. Jamie placed her hand on Lindsay's which was across the table, and squeezed it gently.
"Trust me darlin' you do. How often do I play gooseberry?"
They all laughed.
Jamie and extended her hand to Flack who accepted it graciously and shook it gently.
"I'm Jamie, you can call me Jay, most people do."
"I would be Don Flack, but you can call me Flack, everyone does."
Jamie smiled and turned to Danny and glared at him playfully.
"So Messer, you haven't gotten yourself locked into anymore rooms then?"
Danny glared back.
"Nope Jay, you gotten hit on by anymore geriatric old men?"
Jamie laughed and so did Danny.
"Fair game Messer."
Flack looked at Lindsay and then back at Jamie and Danny.
"Are you two normally like this?"
Jamie turned to look Flack in the eyes, the instant she did that she knew it was a mistake, she was automatically drawn into his electric blue eye and was becoming increasingly lost in them. It took him saying her name repeatedly for her to snap out of it.
"Jay?"
She shook her head and turned to Lindsay who was staring at them both, and then she turned back to Flack.
"Sorry, got lost in thought then, what did you say?"
Flack laughed and repeated his question.
"Are you and Messer always like that?"
Jamie laughed and nodded.
"Me and Danny go way back, we went to the same high school, we also went to the same College and we also lived together for about 5 years when we left."
"So you and Danny…dated?"
"Oh GOD no, your joking right, I would never go out with Messer, wouldn't be worth the hassle."
"Hey, I am here you know Jay!"
Jamie turned to face Danny.
"Face it Danny, me and you would have never worked, we are to similar."
"Who said we were similar?"
"I did."
Danny turned to Lindsay who was trying not to laugh at the look on his face.
"How could you say something so mean? I'm nothing like Jay!"
Jamie shook her head and turned to face Flack again.
"So do you like being a Detective, Detective?"
Flack laughed, and shifted his body so that he was facing Jamie. He smiled and nodded.
"It has its moments. What do you do?"
Lindsay answered for her.
"Jay works at the DA's office, hence the clothes she's wearing, she came to mine straight from work."
Jamie turned to glare at Lindsay.
"I can speak you know Dorothy!"
Lindsay shuddered and gave Jamie evils.
"I'm not from Kansas am I? And you know I hate that!"
Jamie shrugged off her jacket, and winked at Lindsay.
"I know Linds, just playing with you."
Lindsay shook her head and started a conversation with Danny, Jamie turned her attention back to Flack who was taking a swig of his beer, Jamie picked up her beer and did the same.
"How did you meet Lindsay then? Considering you knew Danny first."
Jamie laughed and took another sip of her beer.
"That is another story, we met at the courthouse, we just seemed to click you know. Been friends ever since. That was at least a year ago, I spend the majority of my nights with her, that's when she's not with Danny. If I don't see her we talk on the phone, she has become a huge part of my life."
Flack nodded. Jamie blushed slightly.
"So come on Don Flack, what can you tell me about yourself?"
Flack laughed, they spent the majority of the night talking about life, family everything really, they only stopped for a few moments when Danny and Lindsay had called it a night and left, but they stayed and chatted more. They laughed and joked until the early hours. But when the bar owner came over to them and asked them to leave as they were closing, they continued their conversation whilst walking through the streets, side by side.
"You know, when I finished work today, all I wanted to do was sit and watch soppy chick flicks with Lindsay whilst eating our weight in ice cream, but now, I have to say I'm glad Danny called and asked us to come for a drink."
Flack smiled and nodded.
"I am to. It was one shitty day that got brighter."
Jamie couldn't help but laugh, Flack was confused.
"What?"
Jamie calmed down and placed her hand on his chest and smiled up at him.
"I'm sorry but that was so cheesy. But I know what you mean, I feel the same."
Flack and Jamie carried on walking through the streets, before they knew it they were at Jamie's apartment building, they stood outside silent, Jamie was screaming inside herself to ask him up, but she knew where that would go.
"I'm not the type of guy to take advantage, so that's why all I'm going to do is walk you to your door."
Jamie smiled and nodded, they walked into the building and into the elevator within minutes they were standing outside Jamie's apartment.
"I had fun tonight Flack. The first time in a long time, thank you."
Flack nodded. He was losing himself in her baby blue eyes, as was she losing herself in his electric blue eyes.
"I was wondering, did you want to go to dinner with me? This Friday night?"
Jamie smiled and reached up and kissed Flack gently on the lips, not crazy passionate, not lustful, but the promise of things to come. It was slow and meaningful, when Jamie pulled away Flack could have fallen over it was that overwhelming.
"Wow. Can I take that as a yes?"
Jamie laughed and nodded.
"I've got a meeting with Mac the day after next, maybe I will get to see you before Friday as well?"
"I'll make sure I am at the lab as often as I can be that day."
Jamie laughed again, and kissed Flack on the cheek.
"Goodnight and thank you for tonight and thank you for walking me to my door."
"My pleasure, see you soon."
With that Flack walked down the hall and Jamie went into her apartment and nearly died when she closed the door, she had known the guy for less than 24 hours and she was falling over herself.
TBC