Chapter Nineteen
About five minutes after Katie had poured her drink down on Barney Stinson's suit and told him that he shouldn't had any sex with any woman, Katie was halfway to her next destination where she think that Alanna might be next while at the same time, Martin was about to get out of the cab alone after accidentally left Jack behind at the FBI Building. Hoping that Jack will not be mad at him for leaving without him, Martin paid the cabbie fifteen dollars for the ride. After the cabbie had accepted it, Martin opened the side door next to him and stepped out of the yellow cab to get into the bar to find Katie before anything bad could happen.
The moment he had walked down the stairs and was stuck there for a few seconds because there was too many people who are leaving the bar to somewhere else, Martin finally reached the glass entrance door with a green border trim around the door and once he got there, Martin put one of his hands on the gold door handle while saying to himself, "Katherine Marie Carter, you got to be in there." When the last word had came out of his mouth, Martin pulled the door handle with his hand which had opened and right away, Martin went inside the bar to be away from the late night coldness of the city.
Once Martin got inside the warm and cozy bar, the first thing that Martin had did in the bar was that he walked over to the bar and asked one of the bartenders if one of them had Katie that night? A few minutes after Martin had arrived, one of the bartenders, Carl looked up from pouring beer into a glass pint and saw a man who is about 5'11 with short sandy brown hair and blue eyes who looked like he was looking around for someone while his hands are in the pockets of his taupe wool coat. After staring at the man for a few seconds, Carl had figured out that this guy was looking for someone and having a hard time finding that person. Wanting to see if he can help the man, Carl gave one of the customers their drink and after the customer got their drink and walked away, in a loud voice, Carl asked the man, "Hey, man! You lookin' for someone?"
Martin had heard someone loudly saying out, "Hey, man! You lookin' for someone?" and figuring out that a guy was yelling that from the voice, he looked around to see who was saying that. Seconds later, Martin had founded the person who was saying that. He turned around and founded a bald, white man of medium weight behind the wooden bar staring straight at him. Wanting to see if he is the man that the bartender wanting to help, Martin pointed at himself referring to him to be the guy that the man wanted to help. After pointing at himself, the bartender gave Martin a nod, telling him that he is the guy that the man was asking. To see what the man wanted from him, Martin Fitzgerald walked over to the bar and stood behind one of the bar stools and asked the man if he is the guy?
"Hey. Am I the person you were calling out to?" asked Martin who was staring at the man to see if that was true? Seconds later, the bartender gave him another nod and told him that if he was looking for someone because minutes before, his face looked like that he is having a hard time looking for someone? After hearing that question, Martin answered the bartender's question, "Yeah, I'm looking for someone." While Martin was saying that, he put one of his hands into his pockets to put out a picture of Katie to give to the bartender and asked him if he seen this woman around there that night. Once he had founded a copy of Katie's I.D. photo, Martin pulled it out of the pocket and asked the bartender that question while shoving the photo in front of the man's face.
After putting in front of the man's face, Carl stared at the I.D. photo and quickly recognized the soft, pale blue eyes, that warm, sweet smile, that nose of her, and the soft, light brown, a little below her shoulders waves that framed her face. It was the woman who poured a shot of gin on Barney Stinson's designer suit. The woman of the I.D. photo was Katie Carter.
To see if the I.D. photo was Katie?, Carl asked the man in front of him was her. "Yeah. She's Katie Carter." answered Martin who got the photo back and putted back into his coat pocket afterward. After Martin put it back, Carl had said something quietly. "Are you saying something?" asked Martin who saw the bartender's lips moving. Realizing that the man in front of him had just his lips saying something, Carl looked up and saw the man who was asking him that question, staring straight with the blue eyes of his. To answer Martin's question, Carl asked him something. "Are you Martin Fitzgerald?" referring to the things that Katie had told Carl things about him over the years while hanging out there in McLaren's.
Martin was a little surprised that Katie had been talking about him to other people and now wondering what things that Katie had told people about him. Probably good things about him or maybe that she mostly bad-mouthed things about him like his habits or some other crap. After a minute of thinking about those things, Martin didn't realized that bartender was staring at him, waiting for him to answer his question. "Hey, man. Are you listening to me?" asked the bartender. Martin quickly went back to the real world and to answer the question, Martin stared at the bartender and answered the question, "Yeah. I'm Martin Fitzgerald."
Carl stared at at for a few seconds and then said, "I knew it. You are exactly the guy that Katie had told me about." Martin had no idea what the man was talking about but he knew right away that Katie had said some really good things about him. To tell him that he understood him and wanted to ask if Katie was doing here, Martin told the bartender yeah and asked the bartender, "Can you tell me what Katie was doing here?"
Seconds later, Carl got closer to Martin and told him what had happened here about twenty minutes ago. "Katie came in and asked me if I seen a woman in this bar earlier." said Carl. To see if the woman the bartender was talking about was the woman who had kidnapped his daughter, Martin reached into his pocket to get the drawing of Alanna out of his pocket and showed it to the bartender while asking him, "You meant this woman?" Carl stared at that drawing for a few seconds before answering Martin's question, "Yeah. That woman."
After he told him that, Carl told Martin the rest of the story including the part with Barney Stinison. "I was telling her what had happened between and that woman in your drawing until a man had interrupted our conversation."said Carl. Martin asked the bartender which guy had interrupted their conversation? Moments later, Carl pointed his finger about twenty feet southeast from where the two men was standing at. Martin turned around to who is the man the bartender was looking and saw a man with short, blonde, curly hair, a boyish grin on his face, and was wearing a dress shirt that looked a little soaked with some type of liquid, sitting with his friends, drinking and chatting.
The moment he saw it, the man he was looking at saw him, mumbled something under his breath, and quickly ducked under the table so Martin can't see him. Martin gave the man a weird face and then turned to Carl and asked him, "What the hell had happened between Katie and that man that had ducked under the table?" To answered Martin's question, Carl told Martin about that.
"Well, that man came over and was happy to see her. Katie turned around to see who was talking to her and right away, she gave a weird face. That guy knew that the girl in front of him wasn't the same girl." said Carl. To see if the girl that he was flirting with earlier was Alanna, Martin asked the bartender if the woman in the drawing was the girl that the man had flirted with? Carl nodded at him and said to him, "Yup. That is the girl that the guy had flirted and after that, Katie got pissed off at him for thinking that the girl he had flirted with before was her and told him that he should not getting into her because Katie knew some things about him."
"What are those things?" asked Martin who is listening closely to every word that Carl had coming out of his mouth. "Well, Agent Fitzgerald. She told him that he is a God-fricking, a piece of shit, man whore! and yelled at him to not fuck it with you like he did to other women over the years." Martin was shocked about this and asked the bartender if all of the things that he is telling are really Katie's own words because from what he knew, Katie really not used those types of words unless a suspect had pissed her off or something. Carl nodded again to that question and told Martin one last thing. "I knew that you was looking at the soaked dress shirt that man was wearing and well, Katie did that."
Knowing that Katie did a lot of trouble in McLaren's that night, Martin turned to Carl again and asked him again, "Why the hell Katie had did that?" The bartender shrugged one of his shoulder and told Martin to tell that man to stay away from her and the rest of the women in New York, out of the blue, Katie grabbed a shot of gin off the table and poured it down that man's suit and after Katie had did that, she told that man why she did that because she is trying to protect the women of NYC from getting into his pants. After she had yelled at him, Katie had thanked me for my help and then, she left.
The moment the bartender had done talking, Martin was still shocked that Katie Carter did all of those things and asked Carl one last question. "Do you know where Katie might be going next?" asked Martin who really wanted to know more so he can find her which might leads to Alanna which also leads to Sara. The bartender shrugged his shoulders again and answered, "I don't know where she is going next but I knew that she got to be in the area since this place is surrounded by bars so I probably think that she might be going to Teddy's , which is another bar about two blocks west from here."
When Carl was done answering his question, Martin was about to thank him for helping him until he heard someone calling out his name. "Martin!" Thinking that Jack had finally came from hearing his voice, Martin turned around to the door and founded Jack Malone walking toward him, looking a little pissed. The moment Jack got to him, the first thing that he did in the bar was to yell at him for leaving him and instead, Jack ended up waiting in the cold for five minutes to get a cab. "I'm so sorry, Jack. I will swear to God that I won't do that again unless it is an emergency." apologized by Martin who is truly sorry from all of this. Jack heard the apologize that Martin had just gave and told him that he is fine with it. After seeing that Martin had accepted it, Jack asked Martin, "What you got?"
Martin told Jack all of the things he got from one of the bartenders who heard the whole thing. After Martin got to the last part, the only things that both Martin and Jack did is they turned around, founded the man who Katie poured gin on, gave him a face, and again, the man saw them staring at him and right away, he ducked again under the table. From seeing that, without turning around, Jack told Martin that the thing that he just saw was the weirdest thing that he ever saw. Martin agreed with Jack. That man is very weird for a man-whore.
After they both agreed with that, Jack asked Martin if he knew where Katie might be at? "Jack. From what the bartender had told me, Katie might be around the area somewhere plus he told me that he think that Katie might be going to Teddy's, which is another bar about two blocks west from here." The moment Martin had let the last word come out of his mouth, Jack told Martin that they better go there right away before Katie had a chance to do other things that might leads into trouble. Martin agreed with it and right away, the both of them left where they were standing and left the bar to go to Teddy's to find Katie.
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The moment Jack and Martin had left the bar, a voice had came out from under the table. "Are they gone?" asked the voice. "Yeah, Barney. They're gone." answered Robin. "Are you sure because they looked like that they are going to kill me?" asked Barney. "Yeah, Barney. I'm pretty sure that those two men are gone and now, you got to get out from under the table. You are being very ridiculous about this!" answered Robin. Silence had filled the area around them until Barney got out from under the table, still looking very scared about it.
Barney was looking around the room to see if the two men are really gone for good until Lily saw this and told Barney to stop it. "But I had to make sure, Lily." explained by Barney. Lily looked around to mimic him and told him to stopped thinking about them, killing his butt for hitting on that girl. Plus, to stop thinking about it, they had to talk about something else like which one of those guys is her boyfriend?
"Oh, Lilypad. I don't want to play this. I just had a long day at work and really don't to talk about other men right now, especially some hot ones." whined by her husband, Marshall who like the other days this week, he ended up working long hours at his law firm and is very tired right now and needed a drink. Lily turned to her husband and then, to their friend Ted who is about to do the same thing that Marshall was doing and said to them, "But guys, Robin and I really want to do this because it is very interesting. Am I right, Robin?"
Robin didn't listened to a single word Lily has just while drinking her beer and to get her opinion, Lily shouted out her name to get her attention that Robin had just did and right away, Lily gave her the 'are you listening to a word I just say' face. Robin saw the face Lily just gave her and said to the rest of the gang, "Oh yeah. I really wanted to play this game. I bet that the young man with the short, light brown hair and blue eyes is her guy."
"Why you think that, Robin?" asked Ted who is just doing this because he don't want Lily to yell at him. Robin cleared her voice and told them her reason why. "I think that is because I can't see her having sex with the overweight man who looked like a penguin." Lily laughed at that and told Robin that she was thinking about that too. "I got to admit. The man who scared the crap out of Barney before is hotter than the other guy before. Both he and the girl looked like they could be around the same age plus maybe, she is a little younger than him. The other guy could be like he is in his forties and can't keep it up."
After saying that, Lily had one more thing to say to Robin and the guys. "Plus, I think that the younger man is giving her more sugar than the other guy. Crap, I think that she is getting more of the sugar than me and we are probably about the same age." said Lily who was a little disappointed of her because she didn't get any for weeks now. The moment she had said that, Ted had spoken up to say something about that thing Lily was talking about. "Ew! Lily, I do not want to hear that never again!" said Ted who is about to have the image of the two of them having sex stuck into his brain.
Lily saw Ted's face, being very disgusted from all of this and to tell the gang that she is sorry about this, Lily said to her friends, "But sorry, guys. Since Marshall was working at the firm late at night, I didn't get any for weeks now and I needed it bad, guys. I needed it very bad."
