Chapter Twelve
Over a week later
On Monday, there is a new case. This time is involved a well-known lawyer who last seen at his workplace, doing some extra work the day before. Christopher Peterson's wife, Jenna reported the case to the FBI and the whole team assigned to it. During the case, the team had founded out that Christopher is having an affair with his young Secretary. To find the cheater, they had to ask the mistress and both Martin and Katie had to do that.
When they got to the interview room, they founded the mistress of a secretary, Kendra Mitchell sitting on a chair across the table like a feisty, little bitch. The moment Martin sat down, Kendra got closer and told Martin that she wanted her lawyer while twirling her fake blonde hair. Martin knew that Kendra is trying to flirt with him to try to get her lawyer out to protected her big, fake butt and it didn't want to do that especially with another woman around like Katie who is kind of the opposite of Kendra. To do the routine, Martin asked Kendra when the last time that she saw Christopher.
"Yesterday at work, Agent Fitzgerald." answered Kendra who is smiling right now and doing something over the table. When Katie opened the cover of the note pad and about to put the tip of her pen to get all of this down, Katie noticed what Kendra is doing to Martin right now. From she was sitting at, Katie saw Kendra reached over the table to touch Martin's arm. "Step away from him or you will get hurt from the woman you hadn't even noticed yet." angrily thought Katie when she saw that. Hoping that Martin will see it, her wish just came true. Martin saw it and put Kendra's hand away from his arm. Katie smiled to herself and continued writing down things coming out of Kendra and even asked a question to her.
Halfway through the interview, Kendra did it again. After telling the both of them that she and Christopher didn't do anything together for three weeks and think that their relationship had ended, that woman went over the table and started touching Martin's arm in ten minutes. Katie wondered if Martin did the same thing to keep it down a bit but it didn't what she had expected.
When Kendra did it, Katie saw a small, shy smile appearing on Martin's lower face and his blue eyes almost gave their little sparkle. Katie is now furious right now and wanted it to stop right now because she didn't like Kendra one bit from the moment she heard that she was the missing person's little playmate and hate to see her in her own life. She should leave Martin alone and to stop the flirting from going on, Katie did something.
Katie got up from her chair, turned to Martin and Kendra and said to Kendra, "That's all we needed." Katie reached into her pocket to give Kendra her business card in case she had more before Martin can. Once Kendra received it, the two women shook each other's hand. A minute later, Katie turned to Martin and said to him, "Martin. I will go back to the office to tell them what we got. Is that okay with you?" with a smile on her face. Martin saw the smile, did the same thing, and answered Katie's question, "Sure, Katie. I'm fine with that. I am just going to make a call to my sitter to make sure that Sara got out of daycare and tell her that I will see her tonight afterward."
Martin finally founded a sitter for his daughter after almost a few days of searching for one. Martin did that because he didn't had to bring to work and Katie didn't had to watch her all the time anymore. From this decision Martin made, Katie pretty sure that Sara is very sad of this because she liked spending time here with Uncles, Jack and Danny and her Aunties, Sam, Viv, Elena, and Katie and most of all, Martin. She is also pretty sure that Martin will hate this too because Katie will definitely miss the way Martin's face looked while Sara was around during the long, boring afternoon hours of waiting to go home.
Katie smiled at the answer, turned around, and walked over to the door to get out and tell the rest of the team what they got but not right away. Right after she got to the hall, Katie went to the window outside the room to see if anything is all right. Seconds later, Katie felt that her light brown eyebrows just went up. Right in front of her, Martin and Kendra was talking about things and Katie's blue eyes are zooming into Kendra's left hand. Using her hand, Kendra was putting a small card into one of the suit pockets of Martin's navy suit jacket.
"Crap. She gave Martin her number. God, please make sure that she gave him a fake number. I really don't want see her coming out of Martin's place when I goes out for my runs very soon. Pretty please?" thought Katie, asking God to not make this come true. Katie got mad of what she just saw and looked through the window again to see what they are going right now. Right now, Martin and Kendra walked over from the table to the door to finished the interview. To make sure that they didn't see her, Katie walked away quickly and into the Ladies room nearby.
Once she got inside, Katie opened the door a little to make sure that Kendra is way behind Martin so Katie can come out and try to jump on the little bitch and tell her to stay from Martin and Sara just like she did for Alanna. At the right time, Katie figured out that it is a good time to do it and went back into the hallway. When she got to the hallway, there is no sign of Kendra or Martin. Only random FBI Agents. "Shit. She might walked very well in those high heels" thought Katie when she saw that Kendra was gone and to do what she wants to do, Katie walked back to the office and tell whatever the person is there what she and Martin knew from Kendra, the little magic act.
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When she got there, only Sam and Elena are in there, doing some works on the phone calls and bank accounts. The moment Sam turned around to get a pen from her desk, Sam saw Katie walking toward them. In front of her, Katie wasn't making that usual warm, sweet face of her. Right now, Katie looked a little pissed off of something. Something that had happened when she and Martin went to interview Kendra Mitchell. With her hormones coming out, Sam stopped what she was doing and walked over to Katie who was sitting on her chair to asked her friend what had happened earlier with Martin and Kendra.
The moment she saw Sam, Katie got out of her chair because she is starting to worry about Sam being at six months pregnant now and didn't wanted her to stand up all the time so Sam didn't had to stay in bed for the next trimester. "No. SIT!!" said Samantha when she saw what Katie is doing. After hearing that, Katie went back to her chair before Sam had more hormones coming out any second now. Sam smiled at what her friend did and sat beside her on her desk. Once she had sat down, Sam turned to Katie and asked her, "Is anything okay?"
After hearing that question, Katie got a little creep out of it. If she tell the first person she met here, what could Sam could do about it with injuring herself? Well, nothing that Katie wanted to do which is to punch the lights out of Kendra. To tell Sam that it was nothing, Katie told her that. Right away, Sam saw the thing Katie does when she was lying. Her eyes looked down to the floor and she had suddenly went quiet. Plus she was playing with her mother's pearl ring. Samantha saw that and tell her friend that she can tell her anything if she will speak up about it. Katie looked up to Sam and saw her hazel eyes smiling at her to tell her that everything is okay. After seeing those, Katie cleared her voice and told her what had happened.
"She just put her card into the pocket of Martin's jacket without he noticing it and that made me so pissed that I wanted to jump on her when she and I get alone." said Katie to Sam and Elena who just came to see if everything is okay. After hearing that, Sam and Elena whispered about it and think of something to tell Katie. "What to do, Elena? She probably don't want to see Martin for the rest of the day but she had to stay here to do the case. Please think of something." whispered Sam. Elena was talking to herself about something and seconds later, out came her idea.
"Sam. Remember the day Martin got mad at someone on the Matt Jameson case almost two years ago and you sent him home to cool down but you founded out that Martin was having an addiction to painkillers and needed help." said Elena. Sam nodded her head at that, remembering that day that Martin told her that he needed help. Elena saw the nod and said to her, "That is the thing that you need to do. Sent her home to calm down." Sam thought of that for a while and told Elena what she thought of it. "Elena. I'm not sure about it. That was about Martin. This is different. Sure that Katie got mad at one of the suspects but I am really sure that Katie didn't had an addiction to anything well expect to certain things? It doesn't seem right. Like us and Danny, Katie knew about it also before it came out to Jack and Viv." said Sam who was looking at Katie who was at her computer and drinking some of her coffee.
Elena looked at Katie also and told Sam that minus the addiction part, just tell her to go home to relax and we will meet her up after we are done for the day and if Sam didn't do that, she will tell Danny that Sam drank regular coffee today and will stare at her for all time. "FINE!! I will be do it. I will tell Katie but for only one thing." said Sam. With a kind voice, Elena asked her what it is? "Can you help me get up?" answered Sam. Elena nodded her head and helped her up to tell Katie.
Katie was looking through to see if she got any e-mails when Sam came over to talk some more. Busily looking at a new e-mail from her teenage niece from Dallas about stuff about boys and other things, Katie felt Sam standing behind her and said to her, "what you want, Sam?" In return, Sam answered back, "Katie. I want to tell you something." Katie logged off and turned to Sam who was leaning over on her desk. After seeing that, Katie asked Sam, "what's it?" Sam looked down at Katie's blue eyes and said to her, "Katie. I think that you better go home to calm down about it."
With a disappointing face, Katie asked her why? Sam told her the reasons why Katie shouldn't stay here for the rest of the day including the one about Martin. "Sam. I am not mad at Martin. I am MAD at the flirty mistress for what she did to him earlier." answered Katie who just got up. Sam shrugged her shoulders and told Katie that this whole thing is Elena's idea. Katie turned to Elena and gave her a 'what?' face. Elena also shrugged her shoulders and told them that she didn't said to Katie so don't blame her. Katie thought about it for a while and then turned to Sam and Elena to ask her if she goes back home, what will happened to her part of the case?
Samantha and Elena talked to each other about it quietly and then turned to Katie to tell her about it. "Well. You can tell us what Kendra told you and Martin about so we can tell the rest of the guys about it under your name. If anybody asked where you are, we can tell them that you went back to your place because you got tired." said Sam to Katie. After hearing that, Katie thought about it for a minute and then told her friends that she is going home right now. Sam and Elena smiled at her and told her that they will meet her at home tonight to see how she is doing. Katie smiled at Sam and Elena, grabbed her purse, went to the locker room to grabbed her coat, and then went home.
After Katie had left, Sam asked Elena something. "What is it?" asked Elena. "If this didn't worked out, please tell Danny that I just drank a huge cup of regular coffee and go ahead to slap me in the face." answered Sam. Elena laughed to herself and told Sam that she got to be kidding herself. Samantha Spade just gave her the face.
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After Sam told her to go home, Katie looked down at her watch to see what time it is? It was only 3pm. She was only a block away from her apartment building and it means only one thing: It is time to see Sara.
When Katie got into the building and got on the elevator, guess who is also in the same one? "Auntie Katie!!" Katie looked around to see who is calling out her name. "Auntie. Down here!!" said the voice. Katie looked around and founded the little girl she cared about, staring straight at her. With that cute smile of her, Sara raised her arms up and Katie went back to give her hug. "Hi, Pumpkin. How's daycare?"asked Katie. With another cute smile, and her big dark brown eyes, she told her Auntie that it was great because she just won a prize at a game. "What prize you won? Sara." asked Katie. Before Sara had told her a single word, another voice came above Sara's head. "Sara. We're here." said the voice. Katie looked up and saw a petite, woman with dark brown hair and green eyes who looked a little younger than her. With them, Katie walked out of the elevator and into the floor she didn't lived in.
Once the three of them got out, Katie took her hand and said to the young woman who is carrying Sara's little hand, "Hi. You must be DeAnna, right? The person that Martin hired to watch Sara." With a smile on her, DeAnna shook Katie's hand and answered back, "Yeah. I'm her, DeAnna. You must be Katie, the woman that Martin told me about?" Katie nodded yes at the question, gladly that Martin told DeAnna about her. DeAnna smiled at that again and went back to Sara that they better hurry back to the apartment to put their things away before they go to the playground. "Okay, DeAnna." said Sara.
A few seconds later, Sara went over to Auntie Katie, gave her another hug, and waved 'bye' at her. Katie waved back and in return, Sara smiled back while holding DeAnna's hand. After seeing, Katie had something to tell DeAnna. "Hey, DeAnna." yelled Katie. DeAnna got to Martin's door when she heard the yelling and turned around to Katie. "What's it?" asked DeAnna. "If you need anything and you don't want to tell Martin about it, just call me and I will try to help you out. Okay?" answered Katie. DeAnna smiled back and told Katie that it is okay and then got inside Martin's apartment. Once DeAnna and Sara got inside, Katie walked to the stairs up to the sixth floor to her apartment to 'relax' for the rest of the day.
After she got inside her apartment, Katie changed out of her gray sweater and black pants into some comfortable clothes containing of a grey hoodie and dark red sweatpants since Katie didn't had to go anywhere for the rest of the day. When she got out of her bedroom and tied her light brown hair into a ponytail, Katie went to the kitchen to make some popcorn and then picked out a movie out of her DVD collection. After picking between Ocean's 11 and Top Gun for five minutes, Katie finally had chosen Ocean's 11 since she was in George Clooney and Matt Damon mood and didn't want to see Tom Cruise right moment she grabbed the bowl of popcorn, Katie went over to her big, comfy couch, pop the DVD in, let Colby nap under her legs when she got her bare feet on the coffee table, eat the salty treat, and watch George telling her parole officer that he had no plans leaving New Jersey but he really is.
Halfway through the movie when Don Cheadle came in, covering in poop and everybody was covering their nose from the smell, there was a knock on the other side of the door. Thinking that could be Sam and Elena, Katie paused the movie and went to the door to open it and see her friends. When she got to the door and opened the doorknob, there wasn't not two women but only one. In front of her was Sam.
With a smile on her face, Katie greeted Sam by saying, "Hi, Sam. Where's Elena? Come right in." and offered her pregnant friend's coat. Sam smiled at her, took off her coat, gave it to Katie to hang it up on the coat rack, and said to her friend, " Elena's mom called and told her that she can't watched Sofie tonight because of something and Elena went home around five." Sam told her something else a minute later. "After that, Martin knew that I am going to your place and offered me to share a cab ride home." "I knew that I can't get a cab at rush hour so I took it and here I am with the help of Martin E. Fitzgerald and the most fastest cab ride that I ever been on." said Sam who got over to Colby and starched behind the ears of the Yellow Lab who seem to enjoyed it.
Katie smiled at Sam and told her that was great, knowing that Martin is one of the nicest, sweetest guys in New York. No wonder that Katie like him. A minute later, after Sam had settled down on the couch without any help, Katie asked Sam if she wanted a diet coke. "Sure" answered Sam and right away, Katie went into the kitchen to get two cokes from her fridge and went back to chat with her friend.
When Katie went back into the living room, she saw Sam staring at a picture frame. "Hey, Sam. What had you got there?" asked Katie, knowing that she kept pictures all over her apartment. Katie offered Sam her can of soda to exchange for the picture frame. Sam took the can and opened it while Katie took the picture frame. Sam smiled at her again and asked Katie, "Is that Sara and Jim at the Sears Tower?" Katie stared closely at the picture. Yes, it was. The small green marble frame contained a picture of Jim holding nine months old Sara in his arms.
She turned around and told her that it was Jim and Sara in that photo. With a smile on her face, Sam turned to Katie and said to her, "That is a good photo. Jim seem even more handsomer than I thought and Sara still looked cute even when she was a baby." Katie smiled at that and told Sam, "thanks, Sam." "No problem but I had one more question." said Sam. "What's it?" asked Katie. Sam turned to Katie and asked her, "Who took the photo?"
Katie wanted to tell Sam but she wanted to wait later. Actually, Katie went with Jim and Sara and took that photo. But she was only there for the first two days because she wanted to spend her first Christmas with Nick but wanted to spend her first Christmas with Sara. After thinking about it for a couple weeks, Katie had an idea. She could spend the weekend with Jim and Sara in Chicago and then spend the rest with Nick in Dallas. From the look of it, it seem like a good plan but it actually worked.
With Sam looking at her waiting for an answer, Katie told Sam that some stranger took the picture and Jim gave it to her as a gift. "Oh. Did you show Martin the picture yet since he really wanted to see it for months now?" asked Sam who is drinking some of her soda. Katie shook her head 'no'. Sam saw that and went back to talking about other things with Katie, petting Colby, and watching the rest of the movie.
Around 8pm, the movie had ended and Katie helped Sam get a taxi to get her friend home. After seeing the taxi driving away, Katie went back to her place to get ready for bed. Once she was done taking a shower, brushing her teeth, using the toilet, locking the door, and putting Colby to his dog bed, Katie hopped into bed and fell asleep. A few hours later, Katie had woken up in the middle of the night from having a dream. Well it was more like a nightmare. "Crap" said Katie when she opened her blue eyes and got up. The nightmare is about Sara being gone.
