Argh! I hate it when they run! Thought Kevin as he chased after a guy he and his partner had caught breaking into a house. Kevin had been on the job for two years, it was nearly Javier's 22nd birthday; he had gone travelling over the last year so Kevin hadn't seen much of him between Javier being somewhere else and his own tours, the last time Kevin had seen Javier it was his own 21st birthday and that was back in June, it was the beginning of October now. Since his police graduation his eldest sister Rachel had gotten married and now had 1 year old twins, Janice and Liam. Alison had also gotten married and had a kid on the way and it looked like Penny's boyfriend might propose anytime soon.

To Kevin's annoyance the perp was climbing over fences, good thing Parker is cutting him off further up Kevin was still partnered up with his training officer Sergeant Fred Parker. Kevin chuckled to himself he had the image of 40 year old Parker climbing fences, it wasn't that Parker was slow, it was just Kevin being younger meant he was faster. As the perp got onto the main street he didn't see the leg stick out in his way like Kevin did, he saw the perp crash to the floor Kevin took out his cuffs and bent over the perp and thanked the bystander,

"Hey thanks for that I was getting fed up of chasing him!"

"No problem… Kevin!"

Kevin looked up and exclaimed "Javier!" and sure enough it was Javier beaming at Kevin, he was about to say something when,

"Hey Ryan nice to see you got him!"

"Yeah, but thanks to Javier here the chase was a lot shorter"

"Slowing up are we? Not as fit as when you first graduated?"

"Shut your mouth Parker" said Kevin good humouredly, Parker only smirked he took the perp from Kevin knowing it was the young man's best friend that had tripped the perp.

"So I see you've been kept busy Kev"

Kevin nodded and said "my tour ends in three hours how about we meet up at the bar not far from where we grew up?"

"Yeah sure see you in three and a half hours?"

Kevin was about to reply when the radio cut in, Javier didn't hear what was being said he only heard Kevin say "10-4, see you later Javi!" and with that Kevin ran to catch up to Parker, two minutes later Javier saw a squad car pass him with sirens blazing, in the front he saw Kevin driving, easily drifting between the traffic.

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Javier was sat at the bar with a beer, he saw Kevin enter, and looking like the old Kevin. Javier was getting used to him wearing his uniform but like today when Kevin was wearing his ordinary clothes it was like they were still in high school meeting up. Kevin ordered a beer, while Javier pulled out a wrapped gift and handed it to Kevin. He had gotten a photo frame from Paris; it had room for two photos one on top of the other. Kevin laughed, and Javier said "figured it was time for me to get you one, I copied the bottom photo from the one your mom gave me" the top photo was on Kevin's and Javier's first day of high school, Javier's mom had taken it. The bottom photo was on Kevin's police graduation. They spent an hour and a half catching up, when a news report on the TV caught their attention, mainly Kevin's attention. A reporter was saying, "half an hour ago when police officers from the 12th precinct busted a drug ring an officer was shot and is critical condition the person responsible got away, the NYPD are searching now. The family has been informed…"

Javier looked at Kevin who swore under his breath, that's when Javier remembered Kevin was stationed at the 12th Precinct.

"Sorry Javi, gotta go see you later" said Kevin as he stood up, when his cell phone rang "hey Parker… yeah I know I'm leaving now should be at the Precinct in five minutes… Fred… is it anyone we know well?" Javier could hear the worry in Kevin's voice, his heart sank for Kevin when he heard "oh no… is he alright?" that was when Javier guessed that Kevin did know the Officer. That night no cop went home in the search of the person responsible, Javier lay awake that night he had drifted to sleep, but had awoken from a nightmare when it was Kevin who was the Officer that had been shot. The NYPD searched for 32 hours since the shooting and found the perp. It was later told that the officer had died; most of the NYPD had turned out to the funeral that was held outside in the cemetery so any officers off duty could attend. Javier sat next to Kevin at the funeral, his eyes were glazed over and Javier guessed he was remembering Liam's funeral. After the funeral Javier joined Kevin and Fred at a bar to drink to their friend. Javier looked over at Kevin and thought it was such a bad time to bring up what he was going to say. After Fred had gone home Javier turned to Kevin and said "I'll come out and say it, I've joined the Special Forces in the military"

"What!" Kevin was shocked, he knew Javier had mentioned he had decided what he was going to do, finally, but he didn't think it was this! He was about to protest, when Javier raised his hand and said.

"Don't start, I leave in five days for basic training and I know you're gonna say something about it being risky, but remember what you told me back in high school when you said you were gonna be a cop?"

Kevin nodded and patted Javier's shoulder. For the next five days when Kevin wasn't on tour they would meet up to make up for the months they missed and were going to miss. Kevin saw Javier off and knew he wasn't going to stop worrying about his best friend and brother until Javier returned safely home. Little did he know even though Javier was soon going on active duty he was worrying about Kevin especially after the shooting incident. When Javier was away he watched news reports from New York and if anything involved a police officer he would try and contact Kevin to find out if he was ok. This also worked vice versa, if anything happened to a military personnel Javier knew he had to contact Kevin to let him know that he was ok.

A/N I'm gonna be a little mean here and hold the next chapter hostage! (Hehehe!) more reviews the faster the next chapter will be uploaded!