Chapter 7

Jamie woke up the next morning and looked over at Eddie who was sleeping next to him. He had been thinking about how hard it was going to be not being able to have Eddie as a partner. But when he thought about spending every morning like this with her, not riding with her anymore seemed trivial.

Eddie woke up while Jamie was in the shower so she decided to make breakfast. They didn't have tour until midnight but they were going to talk to Renzulli before roll call. Jamie came out in a pair of sweatpants and glanced at Eddie, wearing one of his old Harvard shirts and a pair of shorts and making breakfast. Yeah..he could used to this sight.

After breakfast Eddie went to take a shower and Jamie was watching ESPN when he heard a knock at the door. It was his Danny and Henry. They invited themselves in and Danny headed straight for the kitchen. "Hey kid we were thinking about grabbing breakfast if you wanna join us?"

Danny glanced at the dirty dishes on the counter and looked over at his kid brother… " Unless you already ate and wanna take a raincheck?" Jamie noticed the matching smirks on both his grandfather and brother and before he could say anything Eddie called out from his bedroom "Hey Jamie where's my phone? I can't find it anywhere." "I don't know where do you think you put it?"

Henry took this as a cue that maybe quality time with both his grandsons could wait. "Cmon Danny lets leave him to his little lady." Danny couldn't help but laugh and yelled out as he was leaving "Bye Eddie!"

Eddie came out of the bedroom phone in hand "Who was that? It sounded like your brother." Jamie looked at her with a grimace "It was and he's probably calling everyone in the family telling them all about our escapades from last night." Eddie couldn't help but chuckle and shake her head.

"Your family means well. Does this mean your whole family knows?" " Yep and my grandpa is already asking when you'll coming to family dinner." Eddie looked over at Jamie when he said this, "Jamie you know I love you but this is all going really fast I mean we haven't even told Renzulli yet and I want to get comfortable with having a new partner before I meet the rest of your family, especially your Dad."

"I understand we can wait until everything at work is squared away besides my Dad is great you have nothing to worry about." "That's easy for you to say Jamie he's your dad! He also happens to be the police commissioner and my boss so yeah it's a little nerve wracking. Besides we still have to tell Renzulli so we should get going. We should tell him so he can rearrange assignments for tonight's patrol."

Jamie and Eddie made their way to the 12th precinct hoping to catch the Sarge when he wasn't busy. Jamie insisted on talking to Renzulli and asked Eddie to wait out in the hall. She was confused by this but guessed since he rode with Renzulli before that it might go over better if it was just him.

Renzulli looked up when someone knocked on his door. 'Come in." It was Jamie, but his tour doesn't start until midnight what is he doing here before noon? "Whatcha doin here kid? Your tour doesn't start until midnight!" Jamie looked pale and almost nervous and for a moment Renzulli thought he was gunna be sick. "There something you need kid? Somethin you wanna talk about?" He decided to just say it without beating around the bush

"Sarge I need a new partner. I'm in love with Eddie and I may have already told her."

Renzulli just looked at Jamie and remembered when people said to him that he had that look of being in love when he first met his wife… he saw on Jamie's face now. " Alright kid I'll switch partners but you aren't getting away that easily! I told you kid if this would be a problem and you said no. I made a bet with myself that if you came in here and asked for a new partner before you were promoted that I would make you take the sergeant's exam well guess I'll just sign ya up then. Better start studying kid and congratulations I knew it would happen sooner or later. Now go get out of here spend the day with your girl but you two better not be late for role call!"

Jamie couldn't even answer Renzulli he just smiled and left to find Eddie. This was the happiest he had felt in a long time. Eddie was waiting nervously on the steps of the precinct. She Jamie with a huge smile on his face. "Jamie what happened? What did he say?" "He said he would switch us partners but he said he made a bet with himself that if I asked for a change of partners because of this before I got promoted that he would force me to take the sergeant's exam. So he signed me up."

"Jamie that's great! You would make a great sergeant. Now it's almost 1pm Reagan and I don't know about you but lunch sounds great right about now."

Jamie rolled his eyes and chuckled as he put his arm around Eddie and they headed to their favorite pizza place near the precinct for lunch.

Neither did they know that they both were thinking the same thing. "I could get used to this."