Disclaimer for FAKE

Fandom: FAKE

Pairing: Dee/Ryo

Rating: Work safe. There is some language though so be prepared for that. Sorry about that. But something lemony should be coming up in the next chapter.

Spoilers: After Vol. 7

Timing: First year of being together. Just after the end of the last volume for sure. I think somewhere in the middle of May maybe since I want it to be spring. Probably just a couple of months after getting together.

Summary: Poor Ryo has had the unthinkable happen to him and who knows if there's an end to it. The entire precinct will now be getting in on the action of rescuing or beloved detective.

Disclaimer: I do not own the characters of FAKE. They belong to Sanami Matoh. I'm just a poor fan fic writer. I do own the characters of Jerome, Kevin and Eric Gray

A/N: I am so sorry to all of my faithful readers who have been waiting so long for this chapter to come up. Please know that I haven't forgotten this story at all. School has started for my oldest son and things have gotten really hectic lately for me. Plus I have really bad sleeping habits and I'm trying to change them. I finally got this chapter out and I'm going to push myself to get chapter 11 out in record time. Thanks for being so patient with me and please understand that I will finish up this story no matter what happens. Also, here's my first attempt at a flashback. Reviews are so much loved.

Beted by no one totally at the moment. Looked at by Vovo after it's up.

Trouble in Little New York Chapter 10

Dee jolts upright in bed in a cold sweat. He had a dream where he could hear Ryo scream out loud. It was either a word in Japanese or it could have been his name. He wasn't sure which. All he knew was that he couldn't see what was happening in the dream, he could only hear, and it was so wrong with the way Ryo's voice had sounded. Still trembling from the unsettling dream, he glances at the clock on the side table to see it read just after two a.m. He sighs as he gets up from the comfort of Ryo's bed. He recalls the hard day's events as he walks towards the bathroom.

After finding Ryo's phone in the garbage, the whole precinct had to be alerted about the abduction. Dee had gotten sympathetic stares and comments where ever he went in the building for the rest of the time that he was there. The phone was taken to the lab to be dusted for prints and for any other kind of information it might possess, even though no one was really hopeful on the outcome.

Before Dee could leave out of the precinct so that he could return to Ryo's apartment, he was stopped by Commissioner Rose in the hallway.

"Look, Laytner," Rose started as he looked a little to Dee's side, "We might have our differences, but I want you do understand one thing," he finally looked Dee in the eyes, "I will stop at nothing to bring detective McLean back." He then looks to Dee's side again when he asks the next question, "What about his foster son?"

Taken aback by what Berkeley Rose had said, Dee tells Rose the truth. "I was going to stay at Ryo's place for the time being so he has someone there with him. I don't want the social workers to take him away from Ryo."

Rose had nodded in agreement to the idea. "I'll see what I can do from my end to make sure that they never find out anything." He said to Dee.

"Thank you commissioner," Dee responded. He saluted and took his leave of the precinct for the rest of the day.

As Dee was driving back to Ryo's apartment, it took all that he had to keep from crying out in pain. A few tears did manage to trickle down his cheeks though.

Finally at the apartment, Dee sat down at the kitchen table and stares into nothingness. It was after four p.m. and Bikky was in his room listening to music. He turns the music off and enters the kitchen when he heard the door open and close. Dee watched as the boy's face fall slightly when he saw that it wasn't Ryo who was home. He sighed inwardly as he prepares to tell Bikky what was really going on.

"I need you to hear something, Bikky. Come sit down please."

Wordlessly, Bikky sat down at the table across from Dee and waited for the other man to speak.

Dee tells Bikky all of the events of what happened from when he got the phone call earlier that morning. He tells Bikky everything up to the moment that he left the precinct. As he spoke, he watched the boy's blue eyes change several different emotions starting from worried, going to scared, to astonished, and finally ending in a blazing fury.

"You coward!" Bikky yells out when Dee stops talking. His hands ball up in to fists and tears start to stream down his face, unchecked as he hurls more insults at green eyed man across from him, "You bungling idiot! How dare you come back here without Ryo! You're such a dumb ass!" Once he runs out of insults to say, he finally asked the one important question, "Why didn't you go down sooner to help him when you heard him say those words to you?"

Dee sighs and answers back, "Remember, I was in the process of getting myself together when I heard him say 'quiet'. I just couldn't find my other shoe. I was already racing down the steps when I heard he was taken by surprise. They were just faster and more efficient by the time I got outside. The car was squealing around the corner once I got onto the sidewalk and gone before I could even get a glimpse of it." As he spoke to Bikky, the held back tears were flowing freely down his own face. He didn't realize it until he tried to choke back a sob of grief, but by then it was too late to stop them. He finally gave in and, putting his head in his hand, he cries for the first time ever in front of Bikky.

After a while, both man and boy regain their composure. They look at each other with red, swollen eyes and somber faces for a few minutes when Bikky lets out a hiccup. Dee chuckles at it and Bikky lets out another hiccup. Bikky then gave a shaky giggle and before they knew it, they were laughing together. They quiet down again after another few minutes.

"So, what happens now?" Bikky asked as he scrubs his eyes dry with his arm.

"I'm going to stay here with you for the time being so you won't be alone," Dee begins the explanation of the ideas he had, "Commissioner Rose says that he'll try to pull strings to keep social services from sniffing around here in case it catches on that Ryo is no longer here."

Bikky nods his head in agreement with what was being told to him, "I'll keep quiet about it, too."

"Also," Dee continues, "I want you to go to school as normal. That should also keep things on the down low. Act like everything is normal. At least, as normal as we can try to keep it, knowing what's going on."

"Cool. And I want to let you know something too," Bikky looks Dee in the eyes, "I've decided that it's okay for you to sleep in Ryo's room for the time being until we find him. But once he's home again, it's back on the couch for you." He grins at this last statement.

Dee smiles and puts out his hand. They shake on the agreement and they both got up to get dinner started.

All of these memories float through Dee's head as he uses the toilet, splash some water on his face and head back to the bedroom. He starts as he sees a shape move slightly under the covers but then breathes a sigh of relief when he sees blond hair coming from under the covers. Poor kid, he thinks sadly to himself, He must really miss Ryo to come and sleep in the bed with me. His eyes begin to burn with the threat of new tears and he pushes the urge to cry away. He eases himself back into bed without disturbing his sleeping friend and pulls the covers up to his chest. He falls back to sleep easily, and has no more dreams for the rest of the night.

xxx

At six a.m. the alarm on the bedside table goes off and two very sleepy figures emerge from under the covers on the king size bed. Dee ends up rushing ahead of Bikky to the bathroom to pee and splash some water on his face. He emerges somewhat refreshed and starts to head towards the kitchen. "Bikky!" he calls out behind him, "I'm out of the bathroom. I'm going to start some breakfast now." A sleepy mumble from the back is his answer and the bathroom door closes.

Dee roams about in the kitchen and prepares the coffee pot and pulls out a pan from the cabinet. He places the pan on the stove to starts warming it up as he goes to the fridge to pull out some bacon and eggs and gets the bread from the bread basket. Once he has what he needs, he prepares a nice hot meal for himself and Bikky. Once he's done preparing the meal, he sets the table and pours some orange juice for Bikky. Without having to say a word to the boy, Bikky comes to the table and sits down to his meal. They eat in silence for the whole meal, only glancing at each other for a quick second. It's not an awkward silence but more of a lonely silence for the loss of a friend.

Bikky finishes his breakfast first and gets up from the table to get ready to leave. As he grabs his bag and heads for the door, he stops, takes a look around the kitchen and sighs sadly. "Dee," he says to the still quiet man at the table, "Please hurry and bring Ryo back."

Dee looks at Bikky for a second and nods his head. "I will. And you be careful out there in the street."

Bikky nods his head in agreement and leaves the apartment. Dee continues to sit at the table with his coffee in front of him in the deep silence that follows Bikky's leaving. Finally the silence gets to be deafening and he finishes his coffee, washes the dishes and prepares to go to work for the day.

xxx

At the precinct, Dee is greeted by everyone with sad and somber faces and a few with a slight distress look to them. He passes the chief in the hallway to the stairs and gets a sympathetic pat on the shoulder by the man and as he climbs the stairs to the floor where his office is, he passes Rose who gives him a nod of acknowledgement. As he passes by Drake and JJ's office, he's also greeted silently by the two as they work on a case. He never saw Ted anywhere in his trek to his office but he wasn't looking for the man anyway.

Once in the comfort and silence of his shared office, Dee closes the door but leaves it unlocked. He goes to the radio that sits on top of a filing cabinet and turns it on for some distraction. For whatever the reason, it's on an R&B station but he doesn't bother changing the tuner on it. It was only playing commercials for the time being anyway.

Dee sits down at his desk and opens a large drawer at the bottom where he pulls out a blank, yellow folder. He begins to write some case information on it about his missing partner when a slow song comes onto the radio. It starts with a music box melody and then violins come in. As the song plays, he realizes that that he's heard the song once before and that it's a song by Alicia Keys called "Like You'll Never See Me Again". He begins to get teary eyed as the chorus plays and he starts to wish that he had treated Ryo like the song's namesake. Now he's not sure if he'll ever see his lover again. The tears begin to roll silently down his face unhindered. He never hears the knock on his office door.

Balancing two cups of coffee in one hand, Ted knocks on Dee's office door. He carefully opens the door when he gets no answer but he knows someone is in there due to the radio being on and the door closed. He peers into the room and sees Dee's form hunched over his desk and his shoulders shaking silently, trying not to cry out loud. Taking a deep breath, he pushes the door open and places, what he hopes, a jovial smile on his face.

"Good morning there, Dee," he says heartily as he places a coffee cup next to Dee and gives him a strong pat on the back. He pretends that he never saw the raven haired officer cry at all as he retrieves a fold down chair from next to the window and places it next to Dee's chair. He listens to the rest of the sad song without saying anything else and then changes the station after it's over. The new pop station blares out a fast upbeat song and the atmosphere seems to lift a little with it. He makes small talk while he waits for Dee to gather himself together and glances quickly a couple of times at Ryo's empty desk. Man it seems more quiet here without him around, he thinks to himself.

Dee takes small sips of his coffee and silently thanks Ted for not making fun of him in his seeming weakness. He finally engages in the small talk while he gathers papers together to form the case file.

About five minutes later Drake wanders into the office followed by JJ, each man carrying their own cup of coffee. Drake grabs a second folding chair and places it in front of Ted while JJ perches on the edge of Dee's desk. No one sits at or places their cups on Ryo's desk. It was as if there was some sort of silent agreement to leave it alone.

Once again, small conversation ensues and everyone tries not to sound down trodden, including Dee. No one even mentions Ryo for the sake of keeping each other sane from his absence. The three men just wanted to keep Dee some company in his lonely office.

After a while, the three colleagues file out of the office to go and get some of their respective work done. Alone again, Dee tries again to get his case file together when another slow song comes onto the radio. Since the radio is still on the pop station, the artist that comes on is Dido with the song "Here with Me". When the chorus comes on, it gives Dee the threat of new tears from these words:

'And I won't go, I won't sleep, I can't breathe, until your resting here with me'

Before the tears could slide down Dee's face, he's startled out of his revere by the harsh ringing from his telephone. He picks up the receiver and places it to his ear. "Hello?"

"Dee, it's me," came Chief Smith's voice from the other end of the phone, "Come down to Commissioner Rose's office. We're having an emergency meeting." And he hangs up before hearing Dee's response.

Dee gets up from his desk and glances at his clock. He's shocked to see that it's later than it seemed to be. It's almost lunch time. He turns his head to the small knock at his door frame and looks into a pair of tentative blue eyes.

"Hey, JJ." He says as he moves towards the door.

JJ's eyes light up when Dee spoke and he give one of his bright smiles. "Would you like some company down to the Commiss's office?" he asks hopefully.

"Sure, whatever." Dee replies as he goes out the door with JJ next to him.

The two men head to the elevator and are joined once again by Ted and Drake and the four make their way to the first floor of the precinct.

Inside the commissioner's office, Dee is surprised to see how many people have squeezed themselves into the normally spacious area. Today, one would be lucky to find a wall to lean on. Berkeley Rose is sitting at his desk with Chief Smith next to him whispering together. Finally the chief's gravelly voice breaks over the buzz of noise in the room. "All right folks. It's obvious that there's not enough space here to accommodate us comfortably. Let's take this to the conference room where there's more space. We didn't expect so many people to show up."

One by one, everyone files out of Rose's office and all meet up in the conference room where they begin to sit down and make themselves more comfortable and begin the low buzz of voices again.

Dee finds a chair in the front and he's once again surrounded by Ted, Drake, and JJ. He looks around the room in amazement once more at the number of people who came to this surprise meeting. It seemed as if everyone from every division had come here, though it wasn't so. He saw a couple of people from the crime lab, some uniform officers who had a beat to walk or drive, and he even saw Janet and Melinda from the front desk, along with some other detectives with their partners and some other people he didn't have time to identify.

Finally Commissioner Rose and Chief Smith enter the room and everyone grows quiet, without having to be told to do so, waiting to hear what was to be said. All eyes follow the two figure heads as they make their way to the front of the room. Everyone knew that this was a highly important meeting, since there was someone from almost every division here together.

Chief Smith clears his throat to make sure that each and every person had his or her attention on the front of the room. "I'm pleased to see that all of you could make it here on such short notice. You will take the information that I, and Commissioner Rose are about to give you, back to your departments to share amongst your colleagues so that we can get this case done as fast as possible. I'll give the floor to Commissioner Rose now," and he steps back to let Rose have all of the attention.

"Thank you, Chief Smith," Rose nods as he takes the center floor. He looks at the audience in front of him and begins, "I'll make this as quick as possible, because we have to get this case finished as soon as possible before something unthinkable happens. As you all know, one of our own has been kidnapped." As he says this last word, most eyes fall towards Dee who is looking straight ahead at the commissioner. The atmosphere becomes more grave and silent, if that's even possible. "I understand," Rose continues, "that you all have other work that needs to get done and I don't expect you completely ignore your duties. I do want you to, however, put them to the side as you work on this case in the forefront. I want all of you to do what you can to help get Randy McLean back to this precinct before it's too late." He watches as there's a murmured chorus of agreements and nodding heads from what he's said. "Thank you all for your cooperation. I'll return the floor to Chief Smith now." He goes to sit down as Chief Smith takes the floor again.

Smith first looks down at Dee and then finally speaks. "Dee, at first I wasn't going to put you on this case, seeing as how personal it is to you. Now wait a minute," he hushes the raven haired man from protesting, "But now I've decided that you should lead the investigation along with Ted, Drake, and JJ." He gives one of his rare smiles when he sees Dee calm down and not argue about the decision. "All right. Now that that's settled, Dee, you go on ahead and get started. Ted, Drake, and JJ, stay here a moment. I need to tell you something important." Once the door closes behind Dee, Chief Smith looks at the other three men with a very serious look on his face. The kind of look that says you had better not joke with me. "I want you three to keep a close eye on Dee. You know how hot headed he can be. I don't want him to do anything stupid that could get Randy hurt or killed. If you have to take round the clock shifts in front of his apartment to make sure he doesn't go off on his own, then so be it. Anything to keep him, Randy, and the kid safe. Also keep an eye on the kid. Who knows if these sickos would want to get their hands on him as well." The three salute and leave the conference room where the rest of the precinct awaits their orders.

More A/N: Well that's a chapter. I hope it was good to you guys. I'm not good with police lingo so I probably messed something up here and there. If anyone feels like correcting me, please do so. Thanks to all who read my story and have stayed with me until now. I really appreciate it. Chapter 11 is in the making so look forward to it.