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Chapter Eleven
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The moment he left the café and heading back to the Plaza, Danny had to make sure of himself to don't bump into Martin about this because the experience he saw was so hard to look at since three-fourths of the conversation between Grace and Jon was about his friend.
Once he got inside the building and went over to his desk where he founded a saran-wrapped sandwich on the wooden surface left by Elena who wasn't at the office at that moment because she went out into the field with Sam. Being the only one in the team, who wasn't out somewhere since Viv supposed to come back in the afternoon because she had a doctor's appointment and Martin's still at his lunch date with Grace, Danny unwrapped the clear wrap off his sandwich and seconds later, he took one bite of it and realized that he is having an idea.
Before Grace leaves New York, Danny had to get to Martin's apartment and if he founded her there, he wants to have a talk with her, about what he saw at the café. About Grace and the man she met there before Martin even came to the café. About everything he heard and he wants some answers for all of them now before it hurts anybody, especially Martin Fitzgerald, the man who loves Grace with all of his heart.
"That sounded like a nice plan, Danny Taylor." thought by Danny who likes his idea and ate one bite of the sandwich when he watched Martin walking back to his desk with a big smile on his face and once Martin took his trench coat and then, his suit jacket off his body. The moment he put them on his chair and sat down, Danny turned to him and with a grin on his face, Danny asked him, "Hey, Fitz. How's your date with Grace?"
Hearing that and with the same smirk on his face from a few seconds ago, Martin stared at the Cuban-American agent and answered his friend's question by saying to him, "Good. It was a good date."
"What else? Tell me the details." said Danny who is planning to bug Martin until he get enough details from the blue-eyed man with short brown hair. The moment he saw Martin's look on his face, saying to him, "Crap! Danny is planning to bug me into giving him more details. This is not happening!"
Seeing that look on Martin's face, Danny stared at him from ten feet away and said to him a little louder than usual, "Come on, Martin. I saw your 'crap, Danny is planning to bug me into giving him more details than usual. This is not happening! Tell me what happened at the café!"
Martin gave Danny a weird look when he heard about the café part and asked him, "How do you know that our date was at a café, Danny? I didn't tell you that."
"Shit! My cover had just been blown. What to do? What to do?" thought Danny when Martin asked him that question and right after a second of thinking of a nice little plan, Danny looked at Martin's eyes and quickly said to him, "Nothing, Martin. Just a little theory I had and so, what happened?"
Believing what Danny was telling him but any minute now, Danny is still going to bug him some more if Martin didn't answer his question right away, Martin sighed to himself and staring at Danny's face, he answered Danny's question by saying to him, "Fine, Danny. We ate our meals. We talked. She kissed me a few times and she told me that she saw you at the café earlier."
"Oh, no. She told you." said Danny without any thinking. Martin gave him a confused look on his face the moment he heard the words Danny was saying to him and asked him, "She told me what?"
After seeing that, Danny slurred out to him, "Nothing. That's just nothing and what she said about me?" Staring at him, Martin just told him that Grace told him that she saw Danny there while she was talking to the detective she is working right now on a case and the moment she looked at you, you ran away from them like a little girl." and chuckled by Martin who is seeing the image of that.
Hearing the chucking from his so called friend, Danny looked at him madly and said to him, "Oh, shut up about it! It wasn't true!" "But it looked like it from where Grace was sitting at." said a gleaming Martin. Danny muttered something to himself when he heard that and at the right moment of the day, Danny's desk phone was ringing and the moment he picked it up and starting to ignore Martin right now, Danny starting answering the call and halfway talking to the person from the other line of the call, Danny was happy that Grace didn't told Martin a single thing about the incident at the café but he had to make sure that he had a chance to talk to Grace about it before Grace goes out of town that night.
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At around five o'clock after the girls went home for the night and only him, Martin, Jack were there to do some more work before going home, Danny decided to get out of work and headed over to Martin and Grace's apartment to catch Grace and talk to her about what had happened at the café earlier before she get out of town.
Once he got to the apartment, walked through the lobby, got into an elevator, went up to the fourth floor, got out of the elevator, and the moment he got to '4C', Danny sighed to himself and knocked on the door.
After knocking on the door a few times, the door was finally by Grace whose brown hair was cleaned and blow-dried while was wearing a different outfit of a long v-neck white shirt with a long gray sweater over it, another pair of blue jeans, and flats on her feet, looking very surprised of who she saw and asked him, "Hi, Danny. Why are you doing here?"
Staring at Grace's blue eyes, Danny looked at her and said to her, "Hey, Grace. I had to ask you something." "About what, Danny?" asked Grace. Danny took a few moments to think about this before looking at Grace' s face and answered her question by saying to her, "About earlier today, at the café when I saw you with uh, him."
Knowing what Danny was talking about, Grace stared at the man in front of her and said to him, "Yeah, I know about that. Come in, Danny." while stepping aside to let Danny inside the apartment. Danny smiled at Grace for doing that and walked inside before Grace put her hand on the door knob and closed the door.
After Grace closed the door, Danny stared at the small suitcase next to the wooden rectangular table where it held a small plate of a half- eaten sandwich with a can of cola next to it. Behind the table was a chair with the same coat that Grace wore earlier that day draped over it. Seeing that, Danny asked Grace, "Where are you going, Grace?"
Walking over to Danny and stopped a few feet away from him, Grace looked at him with a smile on her face and answered his question by saying to him, "Going to Boston for a few days for work."
With a smile on his face, Danny asked her, "What's in Boston?" With the same smile on her face, Grace told him that a man's skeleton founded this morning used to be last seen in Boston a few years ago and with a detective, she is heading up there to talk to the skeleton man's family and friends to see if they knew everything about their loss loved one.
Thinking about what had happened at the café and wondering if the detective Grace is going to Boston with is Jon, Danny was about to ask her that when the both of them heard a person's voice asking Danny, "Danny, what are you doing here?"
Wanting to know who is the person who was asking Danny that, Danny and Grace turned to the door and saw Martin there, standing there with his trench coat on and staring at his girlfriend and his best friend with his blue eyes and confused look on his face.
Staring at his friend's confused looking face, Danny just straight at him and answered Martin's question by saying to him, "Martin, I just…." But got interrupted by Grace who walked next to Danny and said to her boyfriend, "He was just telling me that he wishes me luck on my trip to Boston. Isn't that right, Danny?" and plastered a smile on her face to tell Danny to tell either one of them something.
Thinking nothing else but 'yeah, that's right, Grace.' and wanting to leave right now, Danny told her that and said to Grace, "I'll ask you when you get back, okay?" Grace nodded her head to that while saying to him, "Yeah, we'll do that." and smiled at him.
Danny smiled back at her when she did that and before leaving the apartment to go back to Elena and Sofie's home for the night; Danny looked at his confused friend and said to him, "See you tomorrow, Martin."
In return, Martin gave him a slight smile on his face while saying to him, "Yeah, see you tomorrow, Danny." The moment he saw that, Danny gave him a quick smirk and then, left.
After seeing his friend leaving his apartment, Martin turned around to his girlfriend who is very quiet right now and staring at her with the same confused look on his face, Martin asked her, "What was going on with Danny lately? I never had seen him acting like this before."
In return, Grace just shrugged her shoulders and said to him, "I don't know about that, Marty but I am pretty sure that Danny will get back to his old self soon. Plus, why are you home so early? I thought that you are going to work late tonight."
Putting his arms around Grace's waist, Martin just stared at Grace's blue eyes and said to her with a slight grin on his face, "I just want to bring you to the airport, Gracie if that is fine with you?"
Telling her boyfriend since the second week at Tahoe back in June the truth, Grace put her arms around Martin's neck and after kissing him on the lips, she said to him, "Yeah, I'm fine."
Martin Fitzgerald smiled at her when Grace Cahill told him that and kissed her again, telling her that he likes that answer she gave him very much.
