Chapter Eight

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When Danny got to the door of Martin's apartment exactly twenty minutes after calling him on his cell phone, telling him that they got a case and they need to go the missing person's house to ask her family some questions, Danny knocked on the door and after waiting for the door to be unlock and open for about ten seconds, the door was finally opened and in the doorway was Martin, dressed in his dark gray suit pants and a white dress shirt with a lilac silk tie tied on.

Looking at his friend and before Martin can say a word to him, a huge grin had appeared on his face when he walked into the small apartment and asked him, "So, where your beautiful girlfriend at?"

Martin sighed loudly when Danny asked him where Grace's at and thinking that Danny might had forgotten to greet him at the door, Martin looked at the back that belongs to Danny who was looking for Grace everywhere from his living room to the kitchen and asked him, "Danny, didn't you forgot to tell me something?"

After opening the fridge door, looked through for a few seconds and then, closing it hard, Danny suddenly had forgotten about it and to tell his impatient friend about it, Danny turned to Martin who was crossing his arms at the open doorway while standing there and said to him, "Oh yeah. Morning, Martin." And with the same huge grin on the Latino agent's face that made it first appearance a minute ago did it again, he asked him, "And tell me, Fitz. Where did you hide her? I really want to see her!"

The moment he saw that grin of Danny, Martin looked at Danny's face and with a grin on his face, "Unless that you will stop asking me those questions, I will tell you where Gracie's at."

Staring at his friend right now, Danny gave Martin a frown on his face while asking him loudly, "Why, Martin. Why are you making this so hard for yourself? You know that I want to see Grace, the woman who is your love of your life since you met her in Tahoe so badly and this is how you are treating this? Acting like you are….."

Before he can talk some more, Martin interrupted him by shushing him and asking him for the sake of Grace, "Danny, please don't talk loudly about that. Grace's sleeping right now and I think that she doesn't want you to wake her up at six-thirty in the morning!"

Disagreed with him about that, Danny started talking again and asked him while staring at him and pointing his pointer finger at Martin, "Fitz, you don't own her! You don't know about any move she makes!"

Infuriated about what Danny just told him about the love of his life right now, Martin got pissed off at him and staring at Danny's face, he said back to him, "Danny, you don't know that much about her. I know everything about Grace and you only know some of the details that I told you and some of them are very true and you can shut up about i….."

"Marty, can you stop yelling at Danny right now?! It's only six-thirty in the morning and you two are already arguing!"

That came from the only female voice in the apartment and huge grins had appeared on the two men's faces when they turned around and saw Grace there, staring at them with the slight smile that came from the pictures that came from Martin's iPhone.

After looking at the woman, Martin was about to said to her, "But, Gracie……….." at the same moment, Grace turned to him and gave her boyfriend such a horrified look on her face that Martin didn't say a word when he watched Grace walking over to Danny who was still smiling at her in only his navy blue t-shirt that looked over-sized on her frame with no pants on and her brown hair all tousled out.

Once she got over to him and with a nicer smile on her face, she extended her hand to Danny and said to him with that smile and her blue eyes staring at him, "Hi, Danny. I'm Grace Cahill, the woman who just made Martin stopped talking a few seconds ago."

Grinning at her for telling him that while shaking Grace's hand, Danny greeted her, "Hey, Grace. I'm Danny, the man who is glad that you made Martin shut up and speaking of him, Martin told me a lot about you."

Smiling at him for telling her that, Grace told him that Martin told her a lot about him too. " "Really?" asked Danny who was all smiling at her when he founded put that his friend told his girlfriend a lot about him. In return, Grace nodded back at him while smiling at him and at Martin for letting him met the man who told him to go on a vacation to met her and fall in love with her and said to Danny, "Yup!"

After hearing that from his girlfriend's voice, Martin smiled at Grace again since he woke up on his bed and founded him putting his arms around her and sniffing her brown hair and right now, wondering how he got this wonderful girl of his at the moment when Danny Taylor and Grace Cahill were trading stories, mostly about Martin Fitzgerald.

About almost a half-hour of hearing embarrassing stories about him from both New York and Washington, Martin drank the rest of his coffee, finished the last of his chocolate muffin and after he did those, Martin wiped some crumbs away with a paper napkin and threw it into the waste basket and lastly, he put the mug down the kitchen counter to check the time on his watch.

The moment he saw the time which was seven-twenty in the morning, Martin knew that he and Danny better get going before anybody else in the team will found out about their lateness to the MP's home and to do that, Martin turned to Danny who was listening to one of Grace's stories and yelled to him, "Look at the time right now, guys. Danny and I better get going!"

Before Martin can lean over to Grace to give her a kiss, Danny didn't let him do that to his girlfriend and interrupted him by saying to him, "Fitz, not right. Grace was about to finish the story when you got food poisoning at that French restaurant and had to get your stomach pumped at the hospital with Grace by your side who was trying so hard not to laugh in front of you but eventually, she did."

Suddenly remembering that horrible moment of his especially if it came from food, Martin groaned at them and said to his friend, "Danny!"

Before Danny can turn over to him and say to him, "What? It was coming out of Grace's mouth!" and even more arguing comes out of that, Grace stopped it by giving her boyfriend of those 'oh, Marty. Shut up!' looks on her face but when she turned to Danny, she just smiled at him when she put her hand on Danny's arm and while looking at him, she said to him, "Don't worry about it, Danny. I'll tell you the rest soon when Marty isn't around to yell at you!"

Martin just crossed his arms and stared at Grace kissing Danny on the cheek while looking pretty miserable but he ended up being happy when he was staring at her walking over to him, putting her arms around his neck and with a smile on her face and her pale blue eyes staring happily at him, she said to him, "And you." and leaned her face and kissed him on the lips so sweet and passionately that Martin Fitzgerald and Grace Cahill kissed each other for a long time that Danny Taylor got so impatient that he stomped his feet and cleared his voice very loudly that in his girlfriend's arms, Martin turned to him and gave him such a look on his face that actually made Danny stopped stomping his feet and clearing his voice while Martin and Grace continued kissing some more.

After a few more minutes of not letting of each other, saying their byes for the days until they see each other again, and even more kissing, Danny got more impatient by this and quickly yelled to them, "Okay, Lovebirds! You can stop that right now!"

Hearing that, Martin looked at his Gracie again and kissed her one last time while saying to her, "See you later, okay?"

"I'm okay with that, Marty. See you soon." said Grace who kissed the tip of Martin's nose. After seeing that, Danny got disgusted from seeing that and to do the right thing, Danny grabbed Martin's dark gray suit covered arm and dragged him to the door.

Once Martin grabbed his dark trench coat off the coat rack, he waved at Grace and in return, Grace waved back at him while holding her coffee mug. Danny rolled his eyes when he saw that and after opening the door, he and Martin left the apartment.

The moment they were in the hallway and while walking over to the elevator to get downstairs and leave the building to get over to the MP's house right now, Danny told Martin something about the person they left behind.

"Grace is a really great woman, Fitz. A really great one and I'm glad that you met her and let me meet her." Hearing that, Martin just nodded to her and with a smile on his face, he said back to his friend about that, "Yeah, Danny. She is."