Jamie POV
After Emily left I couldn't get back to sleep. I drove back to my place and changed. I cleaned a little, and rearranged some of Emily's things. We mostly spent the nights at her place, but about once a week we would stay here. I emptied out the fridge, and started some laundry. I paid some bills, and I still had time to kill before I had to go pick up Emily's brother. I was going to make Emily go to a family dinner with me for this, and she knew it too. Eventually I just gave up. I could sit at the airport and read a book.
Traffic was light at ten at night so it didn't take me long to get there. I parked easily, and found Sam's terminal easily. Hopefully talking to Sam would be just as easy. Sam's flight seemed to be on time, so I set my alarm for ten minutes before he would arrive. I bought a coffee, and sat to read my book.
My alarm went off ten minutes early as planned. I found a blank paper near me, and wrote "Sam" on it. Hopefully it would get him to smile, and maybe even like me. People started walking out, and a lot of them were looking around for other people. I kept my eyes moving, looking for someone who looks like Emily. I saw him before he could see me. He was about the same height as me, maybe an inch or two taller. He had short brown hair, almost the same color as Emily's. He looked at a man next to him and smiled. I briefly looked at the man, but didn't pay him a second though until I saw him grab hands with Sam. Did Emily forget to tell me something?
I held my sign up further, "Sam!" Well this would explain the photos of Sam and another man. I had just assumed they were family friends because there were a few pictures of him and Emily too.
Sam walked over, "Hey, you must be Jamie."
I nodded, "Yup. Got any bags?"
He shook his head, "Nope. They're getting brought to the apartment tomorrow. This is Darren. He's my husband."
I shook Darren's hand, "Hi, how are you?"
"Good. Tired, but I bet you are too considering you're sleeping with Emily."
He laughed and I just blushed. Sam looked at me, "Don't pay him any attention. He gets really protective of Emily when she's not around."
"You're worse than me. At least she told me she was sleeping with him. She hadn't even told you yet."
This was news to me, "She didn't tell you we were together?"
Sam looked at me, "Oh, that's not a bad thing. She wanted to tell me to my face. That's a good thing. It means you mean enough to her that she's taking you seriously."
We started walking towards the car. This was all still a bit much for me. Darren let Sam walk ahead and stayed by me, "I'm going to take a wild guess and assume Emily didn't tell you Sam was gay."
I shook my head, "I don't care either way, but I would have, I dunno…..like to known."
He chuckled, "I would've liked to know they all live together and that Emily had a kid. They're not really forthcoming with information. It doesn't help their grandfather's the same. He's a pain in the ass. Have you met him yet?"
I shook my head, "But apparently he and my father get on each other's nerves a lot."
"Your father's the commissioner right?" I nodded, "I thought so. There's only so many Reagan's in the police force."
"Should I be worried that I haven't met him yet?"
He laughed, "Dear god no. She's trying to spare you from him. He can be a mean son of a bitch when he wants to. He's overprotective of her, especially considering everything the three of them went through. Can I at least assume she's told you that?"
"Yeah, she made sure to tell me that before we went any further with our relationship."
He nodded, "Good. The only other thing I can think of to tell you before we catch up with Sam is that they're all crazy. They'd do anything for each other, even Katie. She may hate Emily right now, but she'd still do anything for her."
I laughed, "I kind of already figured that out."
We were a few steps away from Sam when he spoke again, "Oh and one last thing. She'll never quit the department for anyone besides Julia. Trust me, we've tried."
I nodded and Sam opened the trunk of my car. The car ride was silent. All of us were too tired to speak.
We got to the apartment, and I helped them bring their carry-on's up. I stood their awkwardly for a few seconds wondering if I should just go sleep in Emily's bed, or if I should leave when Darren spoke up, "Just go ahead. She'll think we kicked you out if you're not here when she gets back. We're too tired to do anything but sleep so you won't have to worry about that."
I blushed, I hadn't even thought of that. "Ok. Do you want me to send Emily in to your room when she gets here?" Apparently what I thought was just a door that led to the next apartment but was locked was the door to their half of the apartment. I peeked in quick and saw that they had an office, a master bedroom, their own bathroom, and a small reading area. Exactly how much money did they all have that they could afford this?
I went to sleep not long after that. About an hour after I fell asleep though my phone rang. "Hello?" My voice was scratchy from sleep.
"Jamie? It's Nick. You need to get Jewls and go to St. Barts hospital."
I flew up at that, "What happened? Is Emily okay?!"
"We don't know. She fell through the floor at a fire. We're still in the process of getting her out of the building. I can't talk anymore. I'll ride with her in the ambulance. But go get Julia. Keep her calm."
"Okay, I got it. Go, I'll get Julia."
I hung up and couldn't think for a moment. Emily fell through a floor. Emily fell through a floor, shit! I got out of bed and started getting dressed. Just as I was about to leave the apartment I remembered Sam and Darren. Would they want me to wake them? Of course they would. They had left the separator door open, so I knocked on their bedroom door.
Darren opened the door, "Yeah?"
I could tell he was still half asleep. In the room I could hear Sam, "What is it? Just come back to bed Dar, everything's okay."
I looked at Darren, "Emily's being taken to the hospital. She fell through the floor. I'm going to go get Jewls and I'll meet you there. She's being taken to St. Barts."
Sam was up and putting his pants on, "I'll go get her, where is she?"
I shook my head, "She's at my dad's spending the night with Nikki. She'll panic if I'm not the one to get her."
Sam started to argue but Darren interrupted him, "Just let him go, he's right. We've been gone for too long, it'll make her think Emily's hurt worse than she is."
Sam nodded and waved for me to go. I grabbed my keys and ran out the door. I've never driven that fast in my life.
