Chapter Seven - Unbelievable
Flack got up and chased after Jamie and Danny. Danny put himself between Flack and Jamie. An obvious sign he was protecting her. Flack spoke.
"Jamie, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to judge you, its just Danny made me think otherwise."
Jamie looked at Danny with hurt in her eyes.
"Danny?"
Danny turned so that he was facing Jamie.
"Jay…"
Jamie closed her eyes and looked at Danny, she was obviously upset and shook her head.
"Every time Danny…every time!"
Jamie went to walk away when she turned back to Danny and Flack, she looked Flack up and down.
"Sorry Don, I cant be with you. Now or ever, and my decision has nothing to do with what Danny said to you…it has everything to do with what you said."
Jamie looked at Danny.
"You coming?"
Danny nodded and left with Jamie, leaving Flack alone with a deflated ego and possible 1st degree burns on his privates.
Danny walked with Jamie down the streets of New York, nothing was said, just silence between them. They were headed back to Jamie's apartment, she needed to be home, somewhere she wouldn't be judged. Except from the phone calls from her mother.
Danny walked her to her door and stopped. Jamie turned to look at Danny with confusion.
Jamie sighed and smiled at Danny.
"Danny, I know what your thinking. I'm not mad with you, I knew you would do something, you always do."
Danny stared.
"I made him think we had slept together, I didn't do it intentionally, he just took what I said the wrong way and he has walked away before I had chance to explain, Jay, I really didn't mean it…"
Jamie didn't know what to say, she was stood in silence.
"Jay?"
"Danny, I uh really don't know what you want me to say? I've said that I'm not angry with you, but you do this every time. You have Lindsay, why do you have to try and ruin things for me, come to think of it you have never agreed with any of my partners…"
Jamie smiled sweetly and pulled Danny into a hug.
"…if your not careful Danny people will begin to talk."
Danny smiled as Jamie pulled away.
"I don't blame you Danny, you didn't make him say those things to me. I can never stay mad at you and you know it, if I did stay mad at you after all the times you pulled a stunt like this, we wouldn't be stood here together right now would we?...I'll see you tomorrow."
Danny smiled and kissed the top of Jamie's head.
"I really didn't want you and Flack to end this way, for starters it means me and Flack are going to have to fall out…"
Danny was interrupted by a slap on the chest from Jamie.
"Ouch, ok, ok I get it that was a low blow, I will definitely see you tomorrow, and be careful!"
Jamie shook her head and laughed, she pushed Danny away from the apartment door and shooed him down the corridor.
"Be gone with you and your worrying! See you tomorrow, and I will be careful I always am!"
Danny turned back around and waved and watched as Jamie shut the apartment door behind her. Jamie was right he did have Lindsay, he thought Lindsay was the one he wanted, but recently he'd been having doubts, he loved Lindsay don't get him wrong he really did. But there was someone else he found himself loving more.
Danny sighed and left Jamie's apartment building, he thought she would be safe in her home, but how wrong he was about to be…
Danny was now back at the precinct looking for Flack. He bumped into Stella on his search.
"Hey Danny? Whats eating you and Flack?"
Danny turned and bit his lower lip.
"He said some harsh words to Jamie, so I am going to give him a little warning."
Just as Danny was about to walk away, Stella grabbed his arm.
"Danny, I don't think Jamie needs you to give him a warning from the look of his pants, I'd say she had done a good job herself!"
Danny chuckled at the memory of seeing the pain in Flacks face.
"Yeah I know Stell, but I need to do this for myself."
Again just as Danny turned to find Flack he heard Mac call his name, he turned and saw Mac and Lindsay running towards him, he saw the pain in Lindsay's eyes and instantly he felt his heart sink.
"Mac…Lindsay?"
Lindsay looked up and Danny and closed her eyes.
"Danny, its Jamie…"
Danny's eyes widened.
"What about Jamie? I only left her place an hour ago."
Mac took over from explaining.
"Danny, she has been seriously assaulted in her apartment, at first glance it seems it was a take out guy delivering her food who pounced."
Danny closed his eyes and hung his head.
"Is she alive?"
Mac paused.
"IS SHE FUCKING ALIVE? ANSWER ME!"
Mac looked up and nodded.
"Only just Danny. She is being taken to the hospital as we speak."
"I'm going to be with her, and you cant stop me Mac."
Mac just stood aside as Danny brushed past him and Lindsay, then he was gone. Lindsay turned back to Stella and Mac who were both looking confused.
"You didn't go with him?"
Lindsay shook her head.
"I know what Jamie means to Danny, I'm not going to stand in their way."
Stella smiled and hugged Lindsay tight. They both turned to Mac who seemed to look more troubled than anything.
Stella looked at him closely and sighed.
"You lied to him…about who did it."
Mac looked at Stella.
"I couldn't do it to him Stella, I couldn't tell him it had the workings of a DJ Pratt copycat."
Stella sighed and shook her head.
"When he finds out you know what he is going to say."
"I know exactly what he will say, I also know what the emotional trauma will be like for him, after Aiden died Danny found it hard to move on, now he has, I cant throw this in his face, he is where he needs to be now…and that's with Jamie."
Stella and Lindsay both nodded and just prayed that Danny would be ok…and Jamie as well.
Danny was running through the halls of the hospital he had asked for Jamie's room and he was on his way to her. The pain in his heart was something completely new to him, he had felt it before, but nothing like this, he needed Jamie to be ok.
Eventually Danny came across the room number he had been given, he looked through the window on the door and saw Jamie laying unconscious on a bed battered, bruised, bleeding, tubes and wires all attaching her to machines. He took a deep breath and opened up the door to the nightmare.
The scene that once was Jamie's apartment was a mess, tables and chairs overturned, there were obvious signs that she fought back everywhere, blood on the walls, there was even a kitchen knife with blood on the floor…she had fought back hard. Mac and Stella surveyed the scene and looked carefully at the evidence that surrounded them. Stella crouched down and picked up a photo frame, in the frame was a picture of Danny and Jamie from when they were younger, Stella smiled, she didn't think Danny could smile like he was in the photo. Mac photographed a photo album that was situated on the sofa and picked it up and opened it carefully, inside were pages and pages of photos of Danny and Jamie, near the end of the album there were photos of Danny, Jamie and Lindsay. Stella turned to Mac with the frame still in her hand.
"Danny is going to be heartbroken Mac…its obvious there is still so much love between them. All the pictures are of her and Danny."
Mac nodded his head.
"But I think she was learning to let Lindsay in."
He held up the album and showed Stella the pages with Danny, Jamie and Lindsay on.
Stella smiled.
Flack was walking through the halls of the lab when he saw Lindsay was obviously upset, he walked over to her.
"Hey Lindsay, you ok?"
Lindsay shook her head and looked up at Flack and cried into his chest.
"Its bad Flack, its really bad, Jamie was attacked in her apartment, she's barely alive."
Flack said nothing at first.
"Danny's with her?"
Lindsay nodded and cried even more. It was killing Flack knowing that Jamie was attacked but somehow for some reason it was hurting him more seeing Lindsay hurting.
"Lindsay, that's not the only reason your crying."
Lindsay shook her head.
"I think Danny is still in love with Jamie."
TBC…
A/N - I know I have done a complete U-Turn, but as I was re-reading the chapters that I had already written, to me I had unintentionally created some hidden love between Jamie and Danny, and I just thought I have to play on it. Thanks Sammy xxx