Chapter Six
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Late August 2009
This day was one of the few days that will change lives between mostly Martin and eventually, Danny about Martin's new girlfriend, Grace.
For the past eight weeks, the both of them plus the rest of the team was been working hard on the cases on the weekdays but on the weekends, one of the agents wasn't in town that much anymore.
Every time that he thinks that he could hang out with Martin and calls him to see if that could happen, he always get his answering machine or when he tired Martin's cell phone, like the answering machine, most of the calls went to voicemail. Knowing that his friend doesn't wants to be interrupted, at the end, Danny ended up not calling at all and wants to wait on Monday to talk to him.
After about two weekends, Danny had founded out why Martin was out of town on the weekends recently. He was visiting Grace in Washington and every time he came back, it looked like that the relationship was getting bigger and bigger.
Since he and Grace had started seeing each other, Martin was thinking and talking about Grace Cahill a lot. Martin told Danny about a lot of things about Grace with him, her family, her job, and whatever! Also, for the eight weeks of dating each other, Martin Fitzgerald seems like that he is fallen harder and harder in love with her that he doesn't know that there were more women than ever that were checking him out.
Recently on a case, there was a case of a young woman who was last seen at bar one night and never seen again. When Martin and Danny was asking the woman's friend who was the last person the missing person had talked to before disappearing, they did the regular things but when the friend and Martin were talking to each other about something, from where Danny was at, it looked like that the friend was trying so hard to flirt with Martin but he didn't noticed it and was straight-laced professional about it, no flirting with the friends of the missing person.
After they left the friend's apartment, once they got into the car and was ready to go, Danny said to him, "Martin, didn't you know that the friend was trying to flirt with you?" "What? Are you kidding with me?" asked Martin who was shocked that someone was trying to flirt with him even though he had a girlfriend. Sitting on the driver's seat, Danny turned to him and said back to him, "Yeah, Martin. She had really tried to flirt with you. I saw it with my very own eyes."
Moments later, Martin laughed at that and confused, Danny asked him , "Why are you laughing?" In return, Martin turned to him and with a serious face, Martin said to him, "Danny, I'm very sorry about that but I knew that the friend was trying to flirt with me but I was trying really hard not to do that because for eight weeks now, I am still in love with Grace and will like to keep it that way even through that women were throwing themselves at my feet."
Danny had heard that and like always, he knew that Martin still loves Grace and not to hurt anybody, he said to his friend, "I know that and I will try hard to keep women from flirting with you." In return, Martin thanked him for that and knowing what to do, Danny said to him, "I had no problem with that and call me if you got problems with other women that isn't Grace so I can shove them to the other direction where the single guys are at."
Martin smiled at his friend for that and right away, Danny drove back to the FBI building where later that day, another thing was changed in their lives.
Later that day, Martin got a call on his cell phone and when he looked at the screen to see who was calling him; a smile on his face had appeared. Danny knew that the person who was calling him was Grace and to see how it was going this time since Grace had called Martin at work a couple of times before, Danny knew it was wrong but he decided to eavesdrop into their conversation to see how Martin and Grace's relationship is going but like always, he didn't get that much information expect that day.
From where he was sitting at, the words that Martin was saying to Grace were 'hi, baby', something not important, a couple of nodding and 'um-uh' and a bunch of other crap but the most important things of all of those are Martin telling his girlfriend, "You're moving to New York in four weeks. Yeah, okay, you can stay at my place. Yeah, really. Talk to you soon, bye." and disconnected. After getting that phone call, with a boyish smile on his face, Martin got up from his chair and walked past Danny's desk to the coffee maker to get another cup of coffee. Danny saw that and wanting to know about what had happened between Martin and his 'baby' over the phone, Danny decided to ask his friend about it.
When Danny got to the coffee maker, Martin gave him a slight smile and said to him, "You had eavesdropped on my conversation with Grace." Grabbing an empty paper cup, Danny said back to him, "Yeah, I had been eavesdropped on your phone calls to Grace for weeks now. It was getting quite interesting."
Grabbing the creamer and putting a dab into his coffee, Martin said to him, thinking that he had caught in the act," You are lying because I knew that you didn't get that much information because I was saying useless words aloud expect today which was a little surprised to me." In return, Danny grabbed the handle of the pot of coffee, and while pouring some into his cup, he told him that he knew about that and asked him, "Do you know why Grace's moving to New York?"
Putting sugar into his coffee, Martin turned to him and said to him with a smile on his face, "Grace is transferring to the Coroner 's office here in New York in a month because the place where she's working at right now was cutting workers off and to end the trouble, she decided to go up and work here but on the personal level, she told me that she wanted to be near me and her sister who's pregnant so she wanted to help her out also."
"That's it?" asked Danny who was putting his cream and sugar in his. Grabbing the lid and putting it on the rim of the cup, Martin told him yeah and she will be moving in with him and he's very happy about it. Knowing that his friend's getting happier by the moment, Danny patted Martin's back and said to him with a smile on his face, "You do know that I am very proud of you that you finally met a woman, fell in love with her, and now moving in together."
Martin smiled at him when Danny told him that and said to him, "Yeah, I know. You gave me the same speech many times but you used a different ending but I am proud of that and because of this moving, you and the girls will meet Grace and I will tell you that Grace is an amazing person to being with." Finally putting on the lid, Danny said back to him, "Yeah, I know and thanks for telling me the good news."
Taking a sip of the coffee he got, Martin smiled back to him and told him that he had no problem with that and went back to his desk to go back to work but when Danny did the same thing, he got a weird feeling that involved Grace moving to New York and all of the other things long after that but decided not to think about it at all to make his friend happy because this will screw Martin up too.
