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I didn't have to move to know my legs were sore, never again would I let myself get this out of shape. I rolled over against Patrick and sighed, how did he manage to do everything right dinner last night, dessert, the movie, everything.
"Stop thinking so loud some of us want to sleep in." He teased watching me with one eye still closed.
"If I can move at all I'll kill you." I warned, and he just smirked.
"It was a nice run yesterday don't you think."
"Next time you will regret it." I announced, he smiled his gorgeous smile and disappeared under the blanket. Next thing I knew I felt his hands massaging my calf, and then the other one, and then my thighs, and then I had to pull him back above the covers because we had church in an hour. "I think you missed your calling, you would have made a great masseur."
"Feel better." He kissed me.
"A little."
"I'm happy to hear it."
"We have church." I groaned pulling away from his continued kisses.
"I'm not going." He propped his head up on his elbow.
"Well I still am."
"I can't change your mind."
"I'm not going to give you the opportunity." It took an extra effort to pull myself from bed and it wasn't entirely because my legs felt slightly lighter than lead bricks.
"I'll meet you and the kids at the diner, I'm just going to clean up our dishes from last night. Wouldn't want to explain to Grace why I'm there to pick the kids up with you."
"Do you think we should tell people?"
"That my dear is entirely up to you."
"That sir is entirely unhelpful."
"If I had the power I would declare it from the highest mountain top that I was dating the most amazing women in the world, but that would embarrass you." He sat up in bed while I got dressed.
"This amazing women do I know her, if you're having an affair tell me now." I watched him in the mirror with that stupid smile of his.
"In all my spare time I have managed to find the one person more amazing than Agent Teresa Lisbon." He smirked, "And then I learned that was impossible for two reasons." I turned to face him.
"Oh?"
"Yes, you see I have no spare time and there is no one more amazing than Teresa Lisbon."
"That's good because if you were cheating on me, I would have to shoot you, for real this time." I didn't have to see my reflection in the mirror to know that I was blushing by what he said. How did he do that, he always seemed to know the right words to achieve his goal, whether it be pissing off a suspect at work or making me blush half dressed in our bedroom.
"A relationship is one thing I am not capable of cheating in." He assured jumping out of bed and kissing my neck. "And that is an absolute promise."
"Good because I would hate to have to shoot you." I pulled away to finish getting ready.
"And yet woman you'll be the death of me." He chuckled.
Sitting in church was the first real alone time I had gotten all weekend. It had been less than two months ago that I lived in a near constant state of alone time, now everything had changed and don't think I would ever want to go back. Church always seemed long, but the knowledge that I would be seeing the kids soon made it seem almost insufferable. I had hardly parked the car when the girls came running out of the apartment building with William right behind them, Grace following with Cass in her arms.
"Teresa!" I caught both girls in my arms. "We missed you sooooo much, do you like our makeup Miss. Agent Grace did it!"
"Oh wow you girls look so beautiful." I set them down and lifted William into my arms, "Are you okay, you're sisters said you've been missing someone this weekend."
"He not here." He all but whispered.
"No I promise he'll be at lunch I know he missed you to. You still have that coin don't you." I questioned and he just nodded wrapping his arms around my neck. "I missed you to you know." He nodded again and I turned my attention to Van Pelt. "Were they good for you Grace?"
"They were amazing, they had a hard time getting to sleep last night though." Grace answered, I accepted Cass in my free arm as Grace led the way back to her apartment to get their things.
"Were Rigsby and Ben here the whole time, I would hate for you have had to take care of them all by yourself."
"Rigsby took Ben home last night after dinner." She assured, "They are so well behaved. Did you enjoy your alone time? Did you make it to the spa?"
"I did get a massage and took a bubble bath." I smiled, she didn't need to know who was giving the massage. "But spa's aren't really my thing."
"Well at least you got to relax."
"Teresa are we going home right away?" Emily wondered, packing up her backpack while I sat with Cass on Grace's couch.
"No, we are going to go to lunch at the diner like we normally would after church." I answered.
"Does Miss. Grace want to join us?" Alyssa smiled zipping up her bag.
"Do you want to join us for lunch Grace?" I offered, Patrick was going to be there but lunch was easy enough to explain.
"Oh I couldn't boss."
"Don't even worry about it you watched the kids all weekend the least I can do is pay for your lunch. Besides Jane is joining us you wouldn't be intruding."
"Jane is joining you for lunch?"
"Anything I can do to get him out of that motel room of his and into the world again." When had it become acceptable for me to lie to people like this? This was exactly what I had yelled at Jane for doing the half lies and little deceptions. "The kids seem to be the only way to get him to talk to people. Please join us for lunch."
"If you insist." She gave in and locked her apartment behind us. Grace and the kids filled me in on everything that had happened over the weekend, I suppose I had worried about all of it for nothing. "So what did you do this weekend boss?"
"I talked to their teacher, went out to dinner. Then Saturday I was able to get in a work out some shopping, a home cooked meal and then a movie." Damn these half-truths.
"That sounds really nice boss."
"It was." I parked the car and Patrick's Citroen was sitting by the door.
"Patrick!" William cheered as Jane lifted him out of his car seat.
"I missed you. Did you have fun? Did you make a new friend?" William just nodded and wrapped his arms securely around Patrick's neck, and snuggling into his jacket making me just a little bit more jealous. "What about you girls?" He bent down to give them a hug with his free arm.
"We missed you to Patrick!" They took turns hugging him, "Look we brought Miss. Agent Grace to lunch to."
"Yes you did." He smiled standing back up, "Is this Teresa's brilliant trick to associate me with society."
"He's not as dumb as he looks." I shook my head, but Grace hadn't missed the ecstatic reaction of the kids or the fact that William was not letting go of Patrick's neck.
"It's nice to see you somewhere other than work." Grace smiled she was going to over look whatever she thought she might have seen.
"I suppose it's a pleasure even if I am being bribed with small children."
"Yes because that motel room is such a glamorous place to spend your weekend." I rolled my eyes and he smiled he was having too much fun.
"Well thank you I was beginning to wonder what sunlight looked like, but now that I know I think I'll retire safely to the motel room for the next couple weeks." Jane smiled as lunch came to an end and he was helping Grace and I buckle the car seats.
"Jane, go out meet people do something." I sighed, "We'll see you at work tomorrow." He just nodded and got in his car so I proceeded to drive Grace back to her apartment. "Thanks again for watching the kids."
"I'd love to do it again sometime if you ever need me to." She assured, "I think we all had a great time."
"We can talk about that some other time, I'm sure I'll need your help again soon."
"Oh and boss I have a question, the way William reacted to seeing Jane…" She trailed off.
"When we were painting and moving into the house I think William got really attached to Jane. I figure it has more to do with the lack of a man in the house all the time, when he's with me all he has are his sisters and me."
"You think he see's Jane as a father figure?" Grace frowned.
"Honestly yes I think that's exactly how William see's him, which wouldn't be to bad if I could get Jane out if his eternal state of mourning. I think they could be a good influence on each other."
"Well whenever you need my help just call." She assured I nodded and drove off toward the house where Patrick's car was waiting in the garage.
"You ladies have a nice talk about me." He smiled leaning against the doorframe as the girls went running past him in to the house.
"What makes you think every conversation is about you?" I couldn't help but grin, "Come here and help with their bags."
"Yes ma'am."
"Patrick! Teresa!" The girls were calling from somewhere inside the house.
"We're coming just a minute!" I answered lifting Cass and her carrier while Patrick got saddled with the suitcases.
"Are these for us?" Alyssa grinned at a plate of chocolate covered strawberries in the fridge.
"They are." Patrick nodded, "We made extra's just for you."
"Can we have them now!" Emily smiled.
"You just ate. How about we wait until after dinner?" I sighed, "Come on let's throw you're clothes in the laundry and then see if we can't find something to play."
"You still worried about whether or not we should tell people at work?" Patrick rolled on his side to face me, we had been laying in bed in relative silence for a good twenty minutes now.
"A little."
"I've been thinking about it."
"And."
"It's none of their business. I don't see any reason why we have to tell them, but then again there is no real reason why we have to try and hide it either. I say we keep things like they are and let them draw their own conclusions."
"Keep things the way they are, what does that mean?"
"It means my dear that work goes on as normal."