Chapter Four

Martin was late for work. Martin was late because of Sara. When he brought Sara to her first day of daycare, he didn't know one thing about Sara. Sara is very shy and afraid of strangers. When Martin dropped Sara to the room where she will be learning, Sara can't let go of him. Sara was attached to Martin's leg. "Oh my god, Sara." thought Martin.

The teacher saw it and went over to them. "What is the matter?" asked the teacher. While looking at Sara and talking to the teacher, Martin said to her "I think that Sara is afraid to go to daycare today." The teacher went down to Sara's level and spoke to her in a kind voice, "What is your name? Sweetie." "Sara Fitzgerald" said the still attached Sara. The teacher put her hand on Sara's shoulder and Sara turned her head to the teacher. "Sara, don't worry about your daddy leaving you. He is going to work today and while he is at work, you be right here in this room having fun with me and the rest of the kids here." said the teacher. Sara stared at Martin and then at the teacher. "Sara, when the school day was over, your daddy is going to pick you up right away. Got that?" said the teacher. Sara smiled at the teacher and begins moving slowly away from Martin's leg.

While Sara was moving, the teacher called out a child's name. "Emily" called out the teacher. A little blond headed girl came out of the playhouse and walked over to them. When Emily came, the teacher got between them and said "Emily, this is Sara." "Hi" said Emily. Sara waved her hand to Emily. The teacher and Martin smiled at them. The teacher turned toward Emily and said to her, "Emily. This is Sara's first day here. Can you show her around?" "Sure" said Emily and held her arm out to Sara so she can show Sara around. Sara about to put her hand toward Emily but she stopped. "Wait." said Sara. "Why you said wait?" asked Emily. "I want to say goodbye to my daddy first." said Sara. "We can wait when you say goodbye to your dad." said the teacher. The teacher turned to Emily and said to her, "step aside." She and Emily stepped aside so Sara can say goodbye to Martin.

Martin was near the door when Sara went to say goodbye to him. Martin got down to Sara's level and put his arms out so Sara can hug him. When Sara got into Martin's arms, Martin holds her closely and said to her, "have a good first day. I am going to miss you so much." "I am going to miss you too." said Sara. Martin let go of Sara and said to her "I see you later when I picked you up. Okay?" "Okay. I see you later." said Sara. Martin kissed her on the forehead. After that, Sara got away from him and went toward the teacher and Emily who was waiting for her at the teacher's desk. While Sara walked to them, Martin opened the door and got out. When he got out, Martin looked at Sara through the door window to see what Sara is doing right now. Through the window, Sara was with Emily, playing at the playhouse. She was having fun. Martin smiled at her and then looked at his watch to see what time it is. His watch said fifteen minutes after eight. "Man. It is eight fifteen. I better go to work before Jack realized that I was late." thought Martin. Martin walked quickly to the door to open it and ran off to the office which is three long blocks from the daycare.

It was eight twenty five when Martin got to his desk. Before he got to the desk, he was the first person who got in the elevator, put his coat in the locker room, and grabbed a cup of coffee in less than five minutes. Martin looked around at his team mates. Vivian, Sam, Danny, Elena, and Katie were all there in their desks. They are all catching about their weekend and drinking their cups of coffee, regular or decaf. Martin figured out from this that Jack didn't arrive yet. "Thank god that Jack isn't here yet or I am in big trouble." thought Martin. Martin drank some of his coffee and begins to pull a desk drawer to get something. Martin founded what he wanted and got it out. Martin got something out of his pocket and put it on his desk. It was photo of Martin and Sara. With the tape he got out of the drawer, he put the photo on the glass wall and put the tape on the corners of the photo so it can stay. After he done that, Martin was glad that he put the photo where he always see it, next to the computer.

Martin stared at the photo when Danny came to Martin's desk. Danny tapped Martin on the shoulder that make Martin turned around to Danny. "Hey, Danny." said Martin. "How fatherhood is doing?" asked Danny. With a big smile, Martin said to him, "great." Danny put his hand on Martin's shoulder again and said to him, "I knew that you are a good father." Martin smiled at him again and stared at the photo again. Danny stared at the same photo and said to Martin, "Wow Marty, Sara had a beautiful smile. It looked exactly like yours."

Danny had helped him a lot over the months. He had helped him picked Sara and even went with him to hang out with Sara even through Danny had made other plans. Also, Danny is the only FBI agent who knew about it and sometimes Martin thinks that his other team mates especially Katie Carter knew about it also.

After Danny was staring at it, he turned to Martin and asked if it is a recent photo. "It is recent. I took it last Saturday." said Martin. Danny put his hand on Martin's back and lightly slapped it. Danny asked Martin that makes sure that he makes Danny a copy of it. Martin agreed to do it. Danny turned around and saw Jack walking toward them. "Hurry up, Fitzy. Jack is coming." said Danny and walked to where the rest of the team is at. Martin stared at the photo for the last time, got off of his seat, and walked with Danny where Jack and the rest of the team are at.

When the team all sat down, Jack had arrived. The team looked up to see what Jack had with him today. When they saw it, their faces had turned disappointed. They are disappointed because of what they are doing today.

When Jack coming to them, he was carrying a cart of flies. To do the math, Jack + a cart of files equals desk work, which everybody hates.

When Jack had cleared his voice, he said to his team, "sorry, guys. I guess that they had assigned us desk work today." while looking at the cart. After looking at the cart, Jack turned to his team again and said to them, "You know what to do since we did this many times. Come to me if you need some help." When he had said the last word, Jack walked back to his office to do the shit they, the people above him, had asked him to do.

When Jack had left, one by one, an agent went to the cart to get a box of desk work for themselves. When Martin grabbed his, he went to his desk to put the box on it. After it was on his desk, Martin grabbed the first file, opened it up, and took out the papers. With a pen in his hand, Martin started looking at it and begins to work on it.

When Katie grabbed hers a couple minutes after Martin, she went to her desk and the second she got there, Katie stared at Martin, Sara's father.

In front of her, Martin was busy doing his work while Katie is not doing any work at all, just staring at the sweet man, still shocked of what he did. During the staring, some part of Katie's brain was telling her to ask Martin about it right away while the other part was telling her to wait, wanting to do this privately not in front of everybody. It will be too freaking embarrassing. Oh this will make Katie blush like hell.

After a minute of thinking, Katie decided to do what the 'good part' of her brain which is the part waits. To says 'thanks' to that part, Katie stopped looking at Martin, and went back to the desk work which was collecting dust bunnies on the box for waiting too long.

When Katie sat on her chair, she smoothed the top of the box to get rid of the small, dust bunnies. After she had smoothed it, Katie opened the top flaps of the box and grabbed the first file of the many files out of there.

With a pen in her hand, Katie opened up the file and begins to work on it, not thinking about Sara or Martin right now, just this hard desk work. Then later that day, get Martin to be alone with her and asked him about it. Katie right now is hoping that is a good plan. She wished.