Chapter Thirteen
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When Danny walked inside the Becker's Diner around noon and looked around the small diner to see if Grace came in yet, he was wondering about the talk he will be having with her, the woman who sent Martin smiling when Danny saw him in the bullpen that morning and knowing that Martin had just received the best sex the man had in a long time with Grace from seeing that look on Martin Fitzgerald's face.
Thinking of that look on Martin's face, Danny had that feeling in his guts that he will get some bad news very soon from Grace and some of it will contains his friend and partner whose heart and trust will be broken by that news. Whatever it is.
After a minute of looking around the diner, Danny founded Grace Cahill, sitting on a booth a few feet away from him. The moment he saw her, Grace looked up to him and smiled at him while making a gesture of her hand, asking him to sit down with her.
Danny smiled at her the moment she smiled at him. After he did that, Danny walked over to her table and sat across from her while with the same smile on her, he greeted the woman in front of him by saying, "Hey, Grace."
Grace smiled at him for telling her that and in return, she greeted back to him, "Hey, Danny." and thinking about this morning when she called him, she asked him with a slight smile on her face, "And well, I guessed that you heard what Martin told me over the phone, right?"
Danny nodded to her and said to her with his brown eyes staring at her, "Yeah, I heard that." and moments later, Danny smirked at her and told her some more about it.
"And how Martin was feeling when you smacked him with a pillow? Is he pissed off about it?"
Remembering that moment, Grace smiled at him and answered Danny's two questions by saying to him, "Yeah, he did. After I did that to him, Martin recovered quickly and thinking you are making this harder and harder by talking to me, I thought about Martin was about to grab the phone and turn it off and put it away but Martin started kissing the back of my neck and I started giggling and well, I think that you heard that too."
Hearing that amount of information about his two friends' sex lives, Danny felt disgusted about it from learning the details of it but thanking himself for turning off the phone and putting it away before heading back to sleep with Elena because he might get some very weird thoughts about it if he heard that.
"Now, I guessed that the two of you did it, right?" asked Danny. Grace stared at Danny with her blue eyes and was smiling when she said to him, "Yeah and I am guessing that you didn't heard that, Danny."
Thanking himself that he didn't heard that and to tell Grace that, Danny nodded to her and said to her with the same smile on his face, "Nope! I didn't heard a single sound."
A slightly big grin had appeared on her face and the moment she founded out that Danny didn't heard a single thing from her sexual experience with Martin last night, a smiling and a bit blushing Grace said to him with a sweet tone in her voice, "Oh, thank God. If that happens last night and Martin finds out that you heard me and him having some, it will creep him out some more."
Imagining the look on his friend's face if that happens instead, the look on Martin's face will be priceless and that sent Danny laughing at that and once he calmed down his laughter a bit, Danny looked at Grace's subtly glowing face and said back to her with a wide grin on his face, "Yeah that could happen. Thanks for thinking about it, Grace."
Agreeing with him on that, Grace tucked some strays of her hair behind her ears before saying to him with the same smile on her face, "Yeah, it will and no problem with that, Danny."
Thanking the woman in front of him again for keeping it light before heading over to the news he had been waiting for days the moment he saw that moment at the café, Danny just smiled at her and thanked her again for that before a young waitress came over to them to give them some menus to pick out their meals.
About five minutes of picking which burger they want to eat, their side orders, and drinks, the young waitress came back to them to get their orders and once she got their orders and went back to the chef to get Danny and Grace's meals ready, Danny Taylor and Grace Cahill chatted about what is going on with their lives from their love lives, work, friends, families and the whole sham-bang before getting into the horrible stuff.
The moment the food came to them by the waitress and the plates full of their food and the glasses of their drinks sat down on the table surface, Danny and Grace put the dressings that they like on their burgers and side orders before taking a first bite of their first burgers and once they ate the yummiest of the five most important food groups, Grace put her cheeseburger down on her plate in front of her and after taking a sip of her cola, she looked at Danny straight in the eyes and asked him a question.
"Danny, do you think that it's okay for Martin to meet my family right away and let say, a week from now?"
Taking a bite of his turkey burger and once it was in his stomach; Danny stared at Grace and said to her, "It depends. Why?"
Not sure what to say to him and it seems right to say to Danny since he knows Martin longer than her and this involves her family for crying out loud and in her opinion, her 'crazy but sweet and overprotected of her' parents, her 'cool and awesome but a little bonkers not because of her pregnancy but that's the way she is' older sister, Carrie and Carrie's husband and Grace's brother-in-law, Ryan who Grace feels truly sorry for him for joining this eccentric family that Grace belongs to but Ryan made it through, she thinks and the youngest member of the family for now, Grace's three years old nephew, Andy who is just like his mama.
Needing his help on this, Grace took more sips of her drink and after doing that, she put the straw down and said to Danny who is wondering what this is all about with her soft blue eyes, "Danny, my family is crazy with all the capital letters and if I introduce Marty to my family, I am having no idea what will happen and I am pretty scared of it right now."
Hearing that and needing more details of Grace's family for making it clear, Danny looked at a scared Grace closely and calming her down with a warm smile and brown eyes on his face, he said to Grace, "Grace, don't be scared about it. Give me some more details more than 'my family is crazy, Danny. Help me!', Grace."
Grace laughed when Danny did that and said to him, "Okay, Danny. There are the details." And for the next ten minutes of talking about Grace's family between taking more bites of their food and sipping their drinks some more, Danny got an idea for Grace to handle her family and it's quite simple.
"Grace, just let your family be themselves and from knowing Martin too well, I am pretty sure that he will like them too just like the way he love you even through that he will need some therapy soon because of it just like your brother-in-law. Don't worry about it, Grace. He will like them and your family will probably like him too." said Danny who like helping with this with a smile on his face.
Grace also like this advice from Danny and with a smile on her face, Grace thanked him for this and in return, Danny said to her, "No problem with that, Grace. I am here to help you."
Hearing that, Grace smiled at him for that but seconds later, there is a sad look on her face, a very sad one. Seeing that look on Grace's face, Danny put down his glass of soda and was starting to think to himself, "Oh, no. Here it comes!" but he didn't say it to her aloud yet. Instead of that, Danny holds Grace's hand on the table surface and asked her with a worried look on his face, "Grace, is there something wrong?"
Grace was very quiet for the first few seconds and after those seconds, Grace shook her head and said to Danny, "No, Danny. It was nothing." and went back to her silence.
Hearing that 'no, Danny. It was nothing' from Grace, Danny completely disagreed with that and said to the quiet woman in front of him, "No, Grace. It didn't seem like nothing. Come on, Gracie. Tell me what it is. Is it about Martin?"
"Kinda." quietly said back by Grace. Hearing that, Danny was wondering what this is all about and asked her another question, "Is this about your family and him? Is the advice I just gave you good enough for you?"
Telling him that the advice Danny just gave her is great and it will help her out with her family situation with Martin, Grace looked up to a confused Danny and said to him, "Danny, the advice you just gave me is great but it wasn't that."
"What's it, then?"
"This."
Moments after saying that, Grace put her purse on the table surface, opened it up, looked through it, and once she finally founded what she's looking for, she took the two items out and put them on the table.
Seconds after putting them on the table, Grace flipped the brown colored object opened for Danny to see what is inside of it and right away, Grace pointed to the two items on the table and answered Danny's question by saying, "This is what I am worrying about."
Looking down at the two objects on the table, Danny recognized both of them. One of them is a shield that looks like the FBI shield that he had, well it looks exactly like his and got very confused about it but the item next to the gold shield got Danny even more confused because it was a FBI ID with a picture of Grace on it with a signature under it, "Grace Callahan."
Reading the name slowly to himself, Danny looked up to Grace and with a puzzled look on his face, Danny Taylor asked her, "Grace, what it is?"
Staring at Danny's puzzled looking on her face, Grace sighed to herself and looking at him with her eyes, Grace answered Danny's question by seriously saying to him, "Danny, I am not the person that you thought I am."
Milliseconds after hearing that, Danny just looked to her and with a more puzzled look on his face, he said to the woman in front of him with a serious tone in his voice, "Are you a FBI agent, right?"
In return, Grace looked at him and said seriously to him, "Yes, Danny. You are right with that. I'm an undercover FBI agent from Washington for a very specific reason."
But Danny Taylor didn't listened to that nonsense. The only thing that is his mind is that Grace just lied to him about who she is and he is having a bad feeling about this because this will break Martin Fitzgerald's heart and trust if he finds out about this.
