The New York Detective That Complicated My Life
I look at him and in my mind I'm thinking; why the hell do I seriously have the worst luck in the fucking planet. Can I get away from him?
"I don't need you to pay for my drink." I attempt to move his hand with the money off the counter but its glued there.
"Well to bad. My sisters right you know." He takes his hand off the counter, leaving the money there.
"Yeah she may be, but it's not fair of your sister to come here and do what you should be doing."
"I didn't ask her to come here, I didn't even though she was coming here until I heard her enter." He lifts up my glass and brings it up to his nose, smelling it slightly. He puts the glass back down.
"Whiskey, seriously? Why didn't you just come talk to me about it instead of drinking." He takes my hand and just holds on to it. I try to pull it out of his grasp but he gets the death grip on it.
"Because that was the exact opposite of what I wanted to think, was about you."
"Then why did you come here?" I shut my mouth and look down at the bar. "Exactly my point." He pulls me up from my seat and up in front of him.
"Look, I'm not asking for you to put everything behind us, because I know there's no way in hell I'd be able to do that so why should I expect you to? I also know I'm going to have a lot to make up for, I just want the chance to be able to do so. Besides I made a call, and got you another job." I laugh.
"What, you going to punch that boss in the face too?"
"I don't think it would be smart to punch a former Marine in the face." I look at him.
"What the hell are you talking about?"
"Mac, he's a former marine. He's been talking about needing a personal assistant for file delivery, coffee, other stuff when he doesn't have the time. I told him that you needed the job, and he said if you wanted, just be by this address..." He hands me a piece of paper "tomorrow morning at 9. I also figured it would be an opportunity to see the team more and from an inside source I know you hate having me leave in the morning or leaving you for work, and you'll see me during the day because I'm over there most of the time. Come on, you can't turn this offer down. You'll be getting two of the best things."
"Those would be?" I ask, finally pulling my hand out of his grasp.
"One, as I stated before you would get to see the team more, which we both know attached you are to them. Stella's practically your best friend, and the way you were talking to Danny and what he's said about you, your like his little sister. Then there's me.."
"I know I've been the worst person to you, I've stood you up and or left you, practically with no explanation what so ever, and I know I've acted like my job is more important than you, which it isn't. I've been pretty shitty towards you lately, which you have no idea how sorry I am about. I am actually surprised you've put up with me, then again that's just you being a nice person."
"Never thought you would say what you just did say." I respond as I look up at him.
"Neither did I.." He lifts his hand up to my cheek, his thumb going over my cheek.
"I am so sorry." He whispers then leans down to kiss me. He pulls away only to kiss my forehead. He then moves his hand from my face, down the side of my arm and rests at my elbow.
"There you go again with the charm."
"It is one of my better qualities. Come on, let me take you home." When I look at his eyes, they seem to have gotten incredibly clear, almost like a light blue.
"Ok." He then lightly grabs a hold of my arm and starts leading me towards his car. When we get in, I enjoy the 3 minutes it takes to get in front of my building.
"I guess I'll see you tomorrow morning?" Flack asks, a smile on his face. I lean out of seat slightly to kiss him, he grabs my arm, pressing me into him slightly. I pull away and he let's go of my arm.
"We'll see." I smile as I get out of the car and as I open the door to my building, he speaks up.
"I love you, why will always be a mystery."
"What's not to love?" I then turn around and walk into the building to where I head upstairs and instantly start to fall asleep when my head hits the pillow. As I almost fall asleep, there's a knock on the door. Groaning, I climb out of bed and stumble towards the door. When I unlock the door, Flack's standing on the other side of the door.
"What the hell are you doing?" I rub my eyes as I hold the door open slightly.
"I decided I'd rather spend the night, here with you. If that's ok if you."
"Just get in here." I walk away from the door and towards my bedroom. I walk back towards the bed and immediately get situated. I feel him walk into the room.
"Don't you dare turn the lights on." I mutter as I bury my face into the pillow.
"I wasn't going to touch them. Someone's touchy."
"Maybe I'll wake you up by knocking on your door at night. See how you feel."
"Fair enough." I feel him climb into bed next to me. He pulls me towards him and rests his hand against my stomach, his fingers barely under the edge of my shirt. The tips of his fingers are just skimming the skin of my stomach. I fall asleep with this happening, and thinking in my head he'll probably won't be there when I wake up.
My eyes open the next morning, and when I stretch upwards to read the clock, an arm is wrapped around my waist and it tightens its grip. I look over at my side to see Flack still sleeping. Holy shit he actually stayed until morning. I manage to read the clock and it says 7:45 am. Guess I should get ready for work.
I manage to remove his arm from waist and I get out of bed, then quickly grab something to wear. I then quietly walk in the bathroom and close the door behind me. I put on what I grabbed which was a white t-shirt, jeans, and gray blazer and brown heels. I then put my clothes in the hamper and I look over at him and he's still sleeping. I walk into the kitchen and prepare a pot of coffee when I get a phone call. I answer as I start the coffee.
"Hello?"
"Yes Annabel, it's Mac Taylor. Are you accepting the job?" He asks.
"Yes I am."
"Good, I can't be there though for your first day because I have to testify. When you get to the lab, Stella will be waiting downstairs for you. She will show you to my office and what I want you to do is there's going to be several large stacks of folders. What I need you to do is put them in alphabetical order, then the folders will either have a blue or green tab, organize them in alphabetical order within those groups. Got it?" He asks as I begin to pour the coffee into a cup.
"Got it."
"Good. Welcome to the team Annabel." He hangs up. I pick up my coffee and look at the clock on the stove and it reads 8:10. I have about 10 minutes. I finish my cup of coffee and I grab an apple from the fridge and when I look back up, Flack's walking out of the bedroom.
"What are you doing up at 8?" He asks, grabbing a cup and pouring his own cup.
"I'm taking the job." I look at him and he smiles as he puts down his cup.
"Honestly, I didn't think you would take it because when I gave you the offer you were still kind of mad..."
"Well, how could I turn the team? I'd miss Stella and the rest of them." I turn towards the coat rack and grab my coat off of it and put it on.
"Now that's just cold.." I turn around and walk up to him.
"You know I love you. I gotta get going, I'll see you later." I kiss his cheek and then walk towards the door.
"You can't bet on that last part." I look at him before I close the door behind me. I then rush outside and catch a cab. The cab drops me off in front of the address. It's a huge building, and Stella is waiting on the front steps for me.
"Annabel, glad to see you start working here." She gives me a hug then walks me into the building and leads me towards an elevator, when we both get in and she presses a button.
"So, How much trouble is Flack still in?" She asks.
"A lot."
"Good, gotta make him work for it."
"What is it?" I look at Stella as the elevator doors open to a floor where every room is surrounded with glass walls.
"Whatever you want 'it' to be." She begins to lead me down one of the halls and stops in front of the offices with countless pictures and plaques on the wall. In the middle of the room is a desk, and next to the desk is 5 piles of folders which either has blue or green tabs.
"There his office you know what to do." Stella gives my shoulder a pat before walking away. I head into Mac's office and put my jacket over the back of one of the chairs. I grab the folders and get to work.
I get so immersed into my work that I don't Flack walk into Mac's office until he speaks up.
"Having fun there?" He asks as he looks down at me. I look at him as I set a stack of files that have just been alphabetized. That finishes off any folders with a blue tab.
"Surprisingly yes, because it's somewhat calming." He laughs as he bends down and kisses the top of my head.
"Only you would find this calming. Anyways, did you eat lunch? It's... 11." Wow, one half took 2 hours. Great time sucker.
"No, I..." I speak too soon as he puts a sack down in front of me.
"What is it?"
"Stella asked me to bring it over, have no clue what's in it. Look, I love you but I have to go. I'll hopefully see you later."He kisses my cheek before walking towards the door. He opens the door, but looks back at me.
"Hey Annabel.."
"Yeah?" I look up at him.
"I know this may seem random but... you look amazing today." He then walks out the door and closes it behind him. Well that was.. unexpected. I smile as I turn back to the pile of folders with green tabs, which is much MUCH larger than the pile with blue folders. Guess I got my work cut out for me.
Three hours later, every single folder has been sorted and alphabetized and oh my god was it a pain in the ass. There was so many names in the same letter it was just agony. I stand up and walk out of the office looking for Stella, when I bump in to her.
"Annabel, I was just coming to see how the folders are going."
"Were going." I corrected her and she smiles.
"You finished? Nice work. I need you to Take these files down to Flack at the prescient. I would do it but I'm about to head out with Danny to check a lead." She hands me a stack of about 4 folders.
"Yeah sure."
"Thank you so much. When your done with that, you can come back and collect your stuff and your done for the day." I smile before walking off towards the elevator. I make note of what floor I'm on as I get in and begin my short ride to the prescient.
When I get in the prescient, the same old smell hits me and for some reason, it's gets worse every time. I walk up to Flack's desk, but he's not here so I just set them on top of his desk. I tell a nearby detective to let him know that I stopped by, then walked back out of the prescient.
As I hit the street, I try hailing a cab but have no such luck. Well maybe, if I walk a couple of blocks I will have better luck. I start walking to the left so I have better luck catching a cab. I get sidetracked as I get bumped into an Alley by some women walking down the street. I turn around and I sit a man in a black sweat shirt and he starts to come closer to me.
"You've got the wrong guy." He comes forward and pushes me against the wall, pinning me there. "That detective boyfriend you have though, Don Flack is his name? He's got two things going wrong." This guy knows Flack by his name, ok who the fuck is this guy?
"And those are." He takes his hands and somehow rips my shirt, tearing it down the middle so the shirt starts to show my bra and my breasts.
"As I said before he's got the wrong guy in custody. I'm the real guy who grabbed you, and second he's got you." He moves closer when headlights go off on the other end of the Alley, spooking the guy and sending him running the other way. Once the guy leaves I step away from the wall and look down at the front of my shirt and see it's cut to my bra line. Shit, shit. I ran down the alley, holding my shirt. I manage to catch a cab, the man gives me a look in the review mirror but I just give him the address for the lab.
When I get to the floor I was on just an hour ago, I look for Stella and find her in one of the offices towards the right. When I step in she widens her eyes and immediately comes towards me.
"Annabel, what the hell happened?" She asks, grabbing a jacket and covering my shirt with it.
"We have the wrong guy in custody."
"What? You ID'd the guy."
"I know I did, but this guy came up into the alley, telling me we had the wrong guy that attacked me, that he was the one who did what he did." I look up at the hall and see Danny walking down. He casually glances in and continues walking, but soon enough he back tracks to the door of Stella's office area and walks in.
"What the hell happened to Annabel?" He asks, stepping closer to me and her but careful not to get too close.
"Some guy stopped her in an alley, telling her that they had the wrong guy in custody, that he was the attacker. I'm going to guess he got her shirt."
"You wanna calm him or should I?" Danny says as he starts to pull out his phone.
"Why don't you, I have to process her shirt. Annabel, I know this is going to be embarrassing but you have to take of your shirt and give it to me, so I check it out. When your done, Danny will lead you to the locker rooms so you can have a little privacy time." I look at them, then take off the coat and take off my shirt. I hand it to Stella. I then but the coat back on.
"Thank you, I will get on this right away." She walks out the door. Danny helps me stand up as he shows me to the locker rooms. I go towards one of the benches and sit down.
"Annabel, if there's something else that happened you need to tell us."
"There was something else, I just don't feel comfortable talking about it." I mumble.
"Understandable." He responds. He takes out his phone, dials a number than hits the speaker. I recognize the voice instantly.
"Messer, what's going on?" Flack asks.
"Don, we got a bit of a situation with Annabel."
"Danny, what do you mean a situation? What the hell happened?" I can tell he's getting more and more anxious.
"That's the problem, we don't know. She came in, from what I heard with her shirt ripped and she said that we have the wrong guy in custody, how the guy that attacked her is the one that's still out. Stella's processing the shirt, now she's now in the locker room." I hear the sound of someone hanging up, and Danny shuts his phone.
"I take it he's coming." Sure enough, Danny was right because 10 minutes later or so later there's a knock on the locker room door. Danny walks over and opens it, I hear quiet talking and then I hear the door closing again. I look over and see Flack coming over and sitting next to me on the bench.
"You ok?" He asks as he lightly lays his hand on my knee which I flinch from slightly.
"As ok as I could be." I take the coat off because one I'm starting to get hot and two I trust him. As I feel the coat off, he widens his eyes slightly when he sees what I'm wearing.
"Why don't you tell me what happened?" He's takes his hand off my knee and puts it at his side.
"After I left the prescient to drop folders off, I tried to catch a cab out front with no such luck. So I started walking to the left when I got bumped into the alley. I turn around and I see a guy in a black sweatshirt. He pushed me against the wall telling me we have the wrong guy..." I take a deep breath as I wring my hands together.
"Take your time." He whispers as he lays his hand on my knee again.
"I asked what he meant, he just said that he was the guy that attacked me. He knew you Don, he knew that you were going out with me." I drop my head slightly as he moves his hand from my knee to the back of my head. His hand moves from my head, down the back of my neck and rests at my back.
"I'm sorry. Annabel, look at me." I look up at him.
"As long as I'm here, nothings going to happen to you ever again, we'll get the guy that did this" He leans forward, planting his lips right between my eyes, then pulls back.
"I'll be back, don't go anywhere." He grabs the jacket, and drapes it over my shoulders before kissing the top of my head. I bring the jacket closer towards me as I just sit there.
(Flack's POV)
I all but slam the door closed as I walk out of the locker room. I start walking down the hallway on a mission when Danny pops out of no where.
"Wanna go question a scum bag in jail with me?" I all but practically yell as I walk faster towards the elevator and Danny some how keeps up.
"You know I do, quick question how you doing with all this?" He asks as we hit the elevator.
"Why do you think I want to go talk to this guy?" I respond through gritted teeth as we step into the elevator.
"Flack, you grit your teeth any harder they're going to shatter. I know your beyond angry about this, as is every one else on this team..."
"Danny you don't get it.." I tell him as I change my stance. "I told her I would make sure this didn't happen again, yet I let it happen. Damn it, I was right down the street in interrogation with some punk kid when it happened. I've let her down, again. I can't keep doing this to her, she deserves better." The doors open and Danny puts his arm out from to stop me from walking any further.
"Listen man, she deserves you. You're the right guy for her, deep down I know you know that. Now get your head out of that mindset and let's go talk to the guy." Danny removes his arm and I start walking forward again to the department.
We are now in the interrogation room with the guy that 'supposedly' didn't attack her. I don't believe that shit that someone else attacked her for a minute. I'm standing on one side of the table with my arms crossed with Danny next to me and Kenny across the table.
"Ok, so my friend here is not in the best of moods right now. It would help if you just answered the questions we ask you." Danny starts off as he slowly paces the end of the table.
"What happened to your friend? Rangers didn't win?" Kenny puts a sinister grin on his face.
"More like his girlfriend was attacked in an alley. Now Kenny, we know your covering for someone, because the guy that attacked her ratted ya out, said you weren't the guy." Danny opens his mouth to continue when I do.
"Imagine our surprize when she ID'd you and your DNA was found on her, but yet he's says it's not you."
"Kenny, at this point we believe this guy more than you so just tell us, who are you covering for?" I ask, starting to circle the table.
"I don't know what you guys are talking about, I did what I did to her. Annabel was her name, right? Man was it nice watching her whimper in pain." That's when I lost it. I walk over to one of the table and got right in his face.
"Kenny, unless you want to be thrown in jail for the rest of your life with 2 assault charges and whatever the hell I can throw at you, I suggest you open that mouth of yours and tell us some USEFUL information." I raise my voice, and clearing showing how pissed I am, he gets scared.
"So what's it going to be? Life in jail or freedom?" Danny asks getting in his face as well.
"Ok! I didn't do it! My twin brother Luke, put me up to this, told me to cover for him." Danny get's out of his face, and regrettably I do too.
"Officer." I motion through a window for a detective to come through. He opens the door and looks at me.
"Take this man back to his cell, and call for a transfer." The other detective helps the guy out of his seat.
"Woah, you said I was going free if I came clean. What'd I do?" Kenny asks as he fights the detective slightly.
"It's called Obstruction of Justice, look it up while you're in jail." I glare at the guy as the detective takes him out and shuts the door behind him. Danny turns towards me.
"Explains why she ID'd the guy, there probably Identical twins. DNA would be the same too, but here's the thing, how is the real guy not in the system?" He asks as he leans up against the wall.
"I have no clue.." I mutter as I run a hand through my hair.
"Don, what's going on? Is this what we talked about earlier?"
"Yeah it is. Danny i can't shake the feeling that I somehow caused all this to happen to her, I mean look what's happened to he since she started going out with me. She got attacked twice! I can't keep putting her in danger like this." I let out a breath as I leave the interrogation room with Danny behind me.
"Woah Flack, are you seriously saying that right now? Did you get thrown around at work today, what the hell ya thinking?" He takes his hand and hits me upside the head.
"What do you think you're doing Messer?" I ask him slightly agitated.
"Trying to knock some sense into you." I laugh as I start walking back to my car, and to the lab.
(Annabel's POV)
I finally get the courage to walk back out, after Stella gave me an extra shirt she had in her locker to wear, which I put on almost immediately after she gave it to me. I walk out of the locker room, straightening the shirt and I have a bit of confidence in my walk because I decided that, I'm not going to let this guy get to me, I'm not letting him change who I am because he attacked me.
As I walk out of the locker room with Her coat drapped over my arm, I bump into Flack coming towards the direction I was coming from.
"Hey there, what's with the bounce in your step there? He asks as I continue walking the other direction. He of course changes his course and starts following me.
"Figured, why let this guy get to me? He's the one that's going to be in jail." He grabs my arm to stop and he turns me around to look at him.
"That's great that your letting this get to you. I told you, you are a strong person." His hand stays at my elbow but he pulls me towards him and he kisses me slowly, and softly. I hate to make this sound cliché but when he kissed me it was like sparks flew. He pulls away, but keeps his hand on my elbow.
"Listen, I'm working tonight so I can get the guy that did this to you. I wanted to let you know so you didn't wait up for me like you did last time." He gives me a look of amusement before he continues. "I'll have somebody drive you home because after today I don't want you in a cab or any public transportation unless I'm with you." I give him a look as I try to pull my elbow out of his grasp.
"Don't you give me that look, I don't want you getting hurt. Just be careful ok?" He asks, letting go of my elbow.
"I'll be careful."
"Good, I gotta go. I'll see you in the morning." He kisses my forehead real quickly. "I love you Annabel." He looks back at me before walking the other direction. Guess I get ready to go home then, huh?
Ok, so I have some news; good and bad. Bad news, there's only going to be a few chapters more of The New York Detective That Complicated My Life :'( Good news, I have decided to write a sequel, don't know what I'm going to call it, but there's a sequel :) yay for you guys!
Other news, I'm going to have two more major events happen before this ends and hopefully you'll enjoy them. Last news, PRE SPOILER THE LAST CHAPTER OF THIS FANFIC WILL BE A CLIFFHANGER, LEADING OFF INTO THE BEGINNING OF THE SEQUEL! :) hope you guys are excited as I am :D