A/N: Hey everyone. I really would like to apologize for the delay but real life and major writers block hit me bad on this latest update. I hope to get back more on track after the holiday period. I have many ideas where I wanted to go, but I will have to change things around to fit the time period. Anyway I hope you enjoy the latest update and as always read and please leave reviews. Thank you.

Chapter 3

Major Crimes

54th Precinct

Danny walked into the interrogation room with a file in his hand. "Mr. Sandoval. Interesting file you have here. You know what this file tells me."

"What is that detective?" Mr. Sandoval asked Danny who set the file down in front of him.

"That so much you don't even have a parking ticket, or a complaint against." Danny answered as he sat down in the chair opposite of his suspect. "So what makes a realtively honest hard working man commit murder and attempted murder?"

"Wait murder?" Mr. Sandoval said in surprise as he looked at Danny. "I didn't commit no murder. You got to believe me."

"Really. Then what were you doing with my victim's phone?" Danny asked.

"I found it while I was out jogging last night on Roosevelt Island." Mr. Sandoval answered. He shifted in his seat. "I live on the island and I found it in a trash can. I heard it ring."

"You heard it ring?" Danny said in disbelief. He got up and walked around the table and shook his head. "I think you saw my victim and his friend hanging out, and decided to rob them. What are you into? Drugs, gambling? No, I think you are more of a man who can't get enough of those prostitutes. That's what I think."

"I didn't do it detective." Mr. Sandoval as he got up to face Danny but was only forced back down. "I'm telling you where I found the phone."

"So you were running without headphones." Danny asked getting a nod. He shook his head. "I don't believe it. Then you would have heard the gunshots."

Mr. Sandoval looked at Danny. "What time was it detective when was your victim shot?"

Danny looked at his suspect. "Around 830."

"I stopped by the deli near where I live. Bought a bottle of water for my run." Mr. Sandoval said without turning around. "Ask around."

Yet before Danny could counter, Baez opened up the door to interrogation. "Detective?"

"Yeah." Danny answered without turning around. He shook his head and moved out of the interrogation room. He closed the door behind. "What do you got Baez?"

"He didn't do it." Baez answered as she handed over a security photo to Danny. "I called the guys local precinct to do a canvass. He was where he said he was. Deli owner and the guy's wife confirmed it."

"Great." Danny sighed and opened the door. "Mr. Sandoval, you are free to go. We'll have a officer escort you out."

Danny shut the door before he could hear the reply. He and Baez walked towards their desk. Danny sat down a moment later. "So besides the having the phone we got squat?"

"Well TARU is working on cracking the password on the phone its going to take some time though." Baez stated as she looked at Danny. She shifted in her seat. "What are you thinking?"

Danny looked at his notes. "The friend stated our victim worked from home right?"

Baez nodded. "Yeah and the app he developed was on his phone. Where are you going with this Danny?"

"Well anything he would have on his phone might be on his computer if he linked the two." Danny answered getting up and grabbing his coat. "Come on Baez. Let's go take a look at the vics apartment."

"I have a couple uni's from the local precinct meet us there." Baez responded as she began to follow Danny out of the bullpen.

One Police Plaza

Manhattan, New York

Frank sighed as he looked through another report on the search for the shooter that injured Eddie's partner, and trying to push back concerns about his daughter in law handling of this whole thing. He was engrossed with his thoughts he didn't see Baker come in. "Sir, your daughter and her boyfriend are here."

"Send them in." Frank answered as he stood up and walked around his desk as Erin and Andrew came on in. "Hey you two."

"Hey dad, brought you lunch." Erin said holding up a paper bag. "Straight from Tollivers."

"Italian on rye?" Frank asked as they sat down on the couch as Erin handed her father a bottle of water.

"Of course, but the heart surgeon here just had to get a cheeseburger." Erin replied with a smirk on her face as she handed over the burger and fries to her boyfriend. "I can hear your arties hardening already."

Andrew smirked right back. "I'll work them off in the ring tonight."

Frank smirked as well as he opened his bottle of water. "So what brings you by?"

"What, we can't have lunch with my father, and police commissioner?" Erin asked with a smile on her face as she took a bite of her salad. She laughed as she saw the look on her father's face. "Alright we saw the paper, and we thought we would and come to talk to you about it."

Frank sighed and set down his sandwich. "What about it? I am entitled to a personnel life aren't I?"

"Of course you are, but we were just wondering how we didn't know anything about this relationship." Erin stated as she set her fork down and looked at her dad. "Why did you not tell us about this?"

"Well if memory serves, the last time I went out with a female, you gave a lecture over it." Frank said with a slight smile on his face. "And at the dinner table too."

Andrew chuckled ignoring the look from Erin. "Really Frank, who was this female that Erin had a problem with?"

"No one in particular." Erin answered trying to deflect the question. She shifted in her seat. "But that's not the point.

"Whitney Robshaw, an ACLU lawyer friend of Erin's." Frank answered with a smile on his face. He took a drink from his bottle. "We had drinks and apparently it upset Erin, to the point where she had a slight issue with it."

"The hot blonde with the Australian accent." Andrew stated looking at Erin and Frank. He then smiled at Frank. "Wow."

"Are you kidding me?" Erin asked throwing her hands up in the air. She sighed and leaned forward in her seat. "Ok, one I thought she was way too young for you, and two, it was too soon."

"I am allowed to have a life Erin." Frank replied with a serious look on his face. "And it was 3 years after your mother died. I think I was allowed to move on."

Andrew nodded his understanding as he brought his cheeseburger to his mouth. "He has a point Erin."

Erin tossed a look to her boyfriend before turning back to Frank. She picked at her salad. "Alright maybe I over reacted then but not now dad. So why have you been so secretive about this?"

"Well my personnel life is that personnel." Frank stated as he took a bite of his sandwich and washed it down with some water. "And also we are still trying to figure out where to take this."

"Well its been 3 months dad since you started to see each other. What is stopping you from having us meeting her?" Erin asked as she took another bite of her salad.

"Well I want to make sure I am ok with it." Frank answered.

Andrew chuckled. "You been going out for 3 months. What is holding you up?"

Frank shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know, and she is wondering that. A little while ago she called and asked where do we think we are going?"

Erin looked shocked at her dad. "What did you say dad?"

"Well I said I see us.." Frank started to say. He saw his daughter shake her head. "What?"

"Dad a women doesn't want the standard answer." Erin replied setting her fork back in her salad. "They want to know how you really feel about them. Andrew said how he felt about me when we saw Jamie meeting Eddie's mom for the first time."

Frank looked at Andrew who nodded as he set down his burger and pointed to Erin. "When we talked about his, I spoke from my heart where I really wanted this to go. Look at us now."

Erin nodded her agreement as well. "It's true dad. So the question really is, what do you want, because if it's not her, despite how you still feel for mom, then you need to let her go."

Frank just looked at them as they continue to eat their lunch.

St. Victors Hospital

Manhattan, New York

Jamie walked off the elevator onto the ICU floor where his wife's and his former partner was currently located. He was worried about his wife, and since she wasn't answering calls or texts, he was playing a hunch where she might be. Rodriguez was recovering but was still touch and go according to her husband Manny who had called Jamie back. As he approached the room he sighed and lightly knocked on the door. "Hey Manny how is she?"

Manny Rodriguez got up and hugged Jamie. "Doing a little better but still out of it. The doctors are keeping her sedated with the hope that the rest will aid in the recovery.

Jamie nodded his understanding. "We're all pull for you and her."

"Thanks man, we appreciate it." Manny replied touching Jamie on the shoulder. He looked around. "Eddie's not with you?"

Jamie shook his head. "No she isn't. She snapped at the interview with the detectives taking the blame for what happen. She stormed out, and hasn't returned my call or texts. Have you seen her?"

Manny shook her head. "No, and I know that isn't like Eddie. She would be here. I know she would. She's taking this to hard. I'm not mad because it's the risk I knew when I began dating Taylor and married her."

"I know, and she knows, but we are wondering if this all stems from when I was shot." Jamie replied. He sighed and walked over to the bed. "Maybe if Taylor was awake she could tell Eddie that."

Manny nodded. "I know she would, and I pray to god that Taylor will be able to recover fully, but I will stand by her side no matter what happens, because god will look out for us."

Jamie looked up and stared at Manny. Jamie shook his head. "I know where she is. Thanks Manny."

"You're welcome." Manny answered with a courious look on his face. "How do you know where she is?"

"I just do." Jamie answered as he started towards the door. "She went to go talk to my brother."

"Danny?" Manny asked now more curious

"Not that one. I'll bring her by after I find out if I am right. See you later." Jamie answered shaking his head and waving bye. As he walked out of the elevator, he pulled out his phone and dialed a number. "Dad I know where she is."

Manhattan Ave and Freeman St

Brooklyn, New York

Danny and Baez walked towards the victim's apartment. Danny pulled out the keys from the evidence bag. "With any luck the victim's computer should be able to shed some light on this case."

Baez nodded her agreement. "And find out what his friend meant by a hectic life."

But as they approached the door, they noticed it ajar. Danny and Baez pulled their weapons and took up opposite sides of the door. They heard russelling inside the apartment. Danny counted down and barged throught the door. He noticed a couple men inside the apartment packing up the computer. "NYPD, let me see your hands."

"It's ok, we are…" One the men started to say.

Baez pointed her weapon towards the man. "Stay there and show me your hands."

"Lower your weapon detective we are just recovering our property." A man said coming out of the bedroom and producing a piece of paper. "Nathan Jefferies of Big Apple software. We have a court order for the computer."

Danny took the paper as he lowered his weapon. He sighed and turned it over to Baez who did the same. "Mr. Jefferies, how did you know Mr. Garland?"

"He was a program developer for us." Mr. Jefferies answered as he got the paper back from Baez. "Sad to hear of his murder."

"Yeah, how did you hear about it?" Baez asked as she holstered her weapon.

"On the news." Mr. Jefferies replied as he looked over his shoulder at his colleagues continuing to pack up the computer. "Have you found his phone?"

"We did but its evidence in the investigation just like that computer there." Danny answered pointing to the computer now going into a box.

"Sorry that computer is the intellectual property of my computer, just like the phone which we need back." Mr. Jefferies answered.

"Well you can have it back once the case is solved." Danny said placing his hands on his hips. He took a moment. "Lets make a deal. You have us look at the computer, and we'll work to get you the phone back as quickly as possible. I am sure your company would like to know what happen to your employee."

"Sorry detective, can't help." Mr. Jefferies answered as he saw his colleagues close up the box. "Expect a court order from our lawyers demanding you turn over the phone. Let's go."

As Mr. Jefferies and his colleagues left, Baez looked at Danny. "Danny we lose that phone, we lose any chance of closing this case."

"Ain't happening Baez. I'm calling in the big guns." Danny answered as he pulled out his phone and dialed a number. "Erin, I know I promise I wouldn't bug you about my cases, but I need your help."

Additional note: Erin goes to bat for Danny to get the laptop back, Jamie finds Eddie, and Frank and Michelle Ortega talk.