One of the few chapters of Martin POV. More are coming up very soon!
Chapter Seven
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~ A month later
Morning of a late September day '09
Martin's apartment~
His phone had kept ringing for about two minutes right now on his bedside table. Martin doesn't want to answer it and knew that someone was calling him and telling him that they got a new case. At the first time it rang, it had woken Martin up and made him groans because it was only six-thirty in the morning which gave him well, not enough time to sleep. The night before, Martin picked up his girlfriend, Grace at JFK around ten o'clock. This wasn't supposed to happen that late.
Promising Danny that he could be the first person to meet Grace, Martin told him that he and Grace will meet him at a restaurant near his apartment at around nine which was only an hour and half after the plane Grace was on arrived. Unfortunately, that didn't happen because there was a delay.
Instead at seven-thirty in the evening, there was a two and a half hours delay because of a large rain storm and the plane had finally arrived at ten. Being very tired and frustrated, Martin was waiting for a long time and he knew that this was going to be long and decided to tell his friend that he had to cancel the greet and meet, Martin got out of his phone, looked for Danny's number, founded it, pressed a button, put it to his ear and mouth, and waited for Danny to answer the phone.
After two calls, Danny finally answered the phone by saying to him with a slightly angry voice, "Hey, Martin. Where you had been? I had been waiting for you for an hour now." Knowing that Danny had been mad at him for making him wait at a restaurant for a whole hour and couldn't wait for him any longer, Martin said back to him in a calm voice and looking over people to see if Grace is coming over any moment now, "Man, I'm so sorry about this but the plane Grace was on didn't came yet because of a very long delay and thinking that Grace might be very cranking and having a bad case of jet-lag because of that, it looked that Grace and I won't be going to meet you at the restaurant. Sorry about that."
The moment he told Danny that, Danny asked him, "That's horrible and how long is the delay?" Calculating the time the plane was supposed to be and the time right now, Martin answered his question by saying to him, "Right now, about two and a half hours." Seconds later, he heard Danny saying something and moments later, he went back to Martin and said to him, "I think that's a good idea because the hostess at the restaurant came over to me and asked me if I will be staying there a little longer or not because she thinks that I'm holding people up for a table and you know what, Martin?"
Martin got confused and asked him back, "Know what, Danny?" Moments later, he can hear Danny's voice being clear and then, Danny said back to him, "I got an idea." Wondering that this will be about because Grace could be here any moment, Martin asked him, "What's your idea?" Seconds later, Danny told him about his idea that will help him with the 'meeting Grace Cahill' situation.
"Martin. How about that tomorrow morning, I will come over to your place, you letting me see your baby, whenever sleeping or not, and if she's awake at the time, introduce her to me before heading off to work. How that sounds?"
At first, Martin thought that was a bad idea because it seems not well-planned and Danny had thought of this in seconds which isn't good because some of it didn't worked that well in the past and wanted to tell him that it will not work out but the moment he had the chance to tell him that, Martin quickly to changed his mind for no reason at the moment and to tell him that he's okay with it, Martin answered to him, "Fine, Danny. I'm fine with that and you will meet her tomorrow at my place but under one condition."
About to be happy about that but not yet to be, Danny asked him, "What's the condition?" Martin was about to tell him the condition but he knew that Grace is nearby by smelling the floral-fruity scent of her perfume that he liked on her from far away. While smelling that floral-fruity scent and hearing Danny's voice asking him if Martin is still here, Martin smiled at the woman who was wearing that scent in front of him while telling Danny that the condition is you know what, and seconds later, Martin had hung up on him, put the phone away in his jacket pocket and let Grace come over to him and gave him a hug that seems like it lasted forever.
While hugging him, Grace kissed him and greeted, "Marty, sorry about the delay. That storm was a killer and I was so afraid that I never get to see you again because of that." Being five inches taller than his girlfriend of three months now, Martin kissed her on the forehead and said to him, "I know. I was thinking about the same thing, Babe." Loving that Martin used one of the many nicknames he used for her, Grace smiled at him, kissed him again for a few seconds, and then, asking him, "How are you dealing with Danny about the delay?"
With a smile on his face, Martin told her about the call he made to Danny, telling him that the both of them can't meet him at the restaurant, and Danny telling him about his idea to meet her. After hearing that, Grace gave him a slight smile that ended up on her face most of the time and said to Martin, "Tell Danny that I am fine with that and make sure that Danny don't see me sleeping because I will not like that." Knowing that Grace's very insecure of people hearing her loud snoring, to make her happy, Martin put his hands on her shoulders and said to her with his blue eyes and a smile on his face, "Hey! Don't worry about it, baby. I had been sleeping with you for three months now and I had survived during it so it doesn't even matters. I will and always love you no matter what and I am pretty sure that Danny will like you too."
Grace smiled at him and leaning over to kiss him again, she said to him, "Thanks for that, Marty. I always know that you care about me and I love you for that." Martin gave her a flash of a smile and to do it again, he put his arms around her shoulders and gave her a long and passionate kiss which made Grace blushed and her blue eyes had sparkled. After kissing her, Martin grabbed the handle of Grace's suitcase with one hand and with the other hand, he grabbed Grace's hand and together, they walked out of the airport and into the parking lot to get into Martin's car. During the walk, Martin asked Grace about what place she wanted to go next?
Still holding Martin's hand, Grace thought about it for a few seconds before with a smile on her face, Grace said to him when they got to his car, "I was not that sure about it. We could go back to your place, go to a bar, or maybe go to the restaurant to trick Danny that we are actually coming. That could hurt him!" Martin laughed at when Grace told him the last part and said back to her, "That could works but I am pretty sure that Danny might have already left the restaurant. Sorry about that, Baby."
When they got to the car, Martin walked over to the back, opened it up, and put the suitcase in while Grace was watching him from the right side of the car and said to him, "Don't worry about, Martin. I had thought about the same thing but now, I had no clue about where to go right now and I think that you can choose it right now." Martin looked up from the back, gave her a weird face, and asked her, "Really?" In return, Grace nodded to him, telling him that the answer was yes.
It didn't take that long because Martin smiled a boyish one at her and told her that he wanted to go home. Grace saw that, knew about what's in his mind, smiled at him, and joked to him, "Oh my Lord, Marty. You horny son of a bitch! Unbelievable!" In return, still with that boyish grin and shrugging his arms, Martin said and joked to her , "Don't call me that and plus, I didn't seen you for two weeks after all." Grace knew why Martin told her that and right away, Grace gave him a slight smile and told him that she's okay with it. In other words, she told him that yes, she'll have it with him.
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At around six in the morning, the phone had kept ringing and with Grace sleeping in his arms, Martin groaned at his phone again and knowing that this is the last straw, Martin grabbed the phone, looked at the screen to see who was calling him, groaned again, put it to the left side of his face, and answered the phone by saying to it with a sleepy voice, "Fitzgerald."
At the other end of the line, Danny was calling Martin, telling him that they got a new case! "Where?" asked Martin. In return, Danny told him as much information that Viv had given him and that before they go to the MP's house to talk to the family, Danny said to him, "And yeah, I'm coming to your place to meet Grace." When Martin heard that, he said to him with a loud voice, "What?" Seconds later, after hearing that, Danny reminded him that he told him about last night, about meeting Grace for the first time. Martin got a little confused when Danny explained the whole thing to him but a minute later, it all came back to him and said back to his friend, "Yeah, I remembered that. Fine, come over here to meet Grace."
In return, Danny told him that he's okay with that, told him that he's coming in twenty minutes, and hanged up on him. After receiving that, Martin put the phone away, sighed to himself, and was wondering if the conversation he and Danny had ended up being in the back of his brain while him and Grace were having sex. That he didn't know about that. Moments later, Grace opened her eyes and said to her boyfriend with a smile, "Morning, Marty. That's Danny who was calling you?"
Looking at the ceiling and then, to Grace, "Yup!" Seconds later, Grace asked him, "When?" "In twenty minutes." After hearing that, Grace put herself in Martin's arms and said to him, "So, I will be meeting your best friend in twenty minutes and counting down, right?" Martin knew the tone in Grace's voice when she told him that and that she was nervous about it and to calm her down, with a smile on his face, he said to her, "Baby, don't worry about it, okay? I am pretty sure that Danny will love you just like I did. There is nothing to worry about." In return, Grace smiled at him when Martin told her that and kissed him again while wondering how fast it was in three months that she had kept falling in love with Martin Fitzgerald.
