My Life With The New York Detective
I wake up the next morning practically curled in a ball on the bed. I stretch my next to me to see if Flack's still sleeping, but he's not there. Shaking my head, I get out of bed and the memories of last night flash through my head. Last night with him was by far, amazing. I just wish I could have woken up next to him.
I walk to my dresser where I put on a white t-shirt, a hoodie, a pair of jeans, and I go to grab my black converse when I remember that they are where I left them by the front door. Walking out of my bedroom, I see my phone plugged in on the counter. Flack must have done that. I walk by the counter and my phone starts vibrating. I pick it up while it's on the charger and answer.
"Hello?" I ask as I put on my shoes quickly before un plugging the phone.
"I see your up. I thought you'd still be sleeping seeing that I kept you up half the night." Even through the phone, I could see the smirk on Flacks face.
"No, I'm awake, very awake."
"Excellent, by the way last night was amazing." I blush and duck my head, which doesn't really do anything seeing that he can't see me.
"Annabel, I know your blushing." How the hell does he know?
"No I'm not." I respond as there is a knock on the door. I get up and walk towards the door.
"Trust me baby, you are blushing." I look through the peephole of the door and see Jack, my ex that was a jackass to me. How the hell did he find me, I moved shortly after I broke up with him. Why the hell is here.
"Don, I'm going to have to call you back..." I say as I unlock the door.
"Wait, Annabel what's..." I hang up before he can finish what he was going to say. I put my phone in my pocket, then I open the door and My eyes were serious, Jack is standing there.
Jacks appearance hasn't changed since I last saw a few months back. His brown hair is still as unruly as ever and his green eyes still have a devilish gleam in them.
"Jack, before I ask you to get the fuck away from me I must ask what the hell are you doing here?" I rest my left hand against the door.
"Annabel, I just want to talk..." He glances at my left hand and sees the ring. "So, your engaged now? To who? I wasn't good enough for you?" He asks, pushing his way in my place and shoving me aside.
"I left your ass months ago! And yes, I am engaged and you wanna know what the real kicker is? He's a detective." I go to turn around and walk away from him but he grabs my arm, and turns me back towards him. His green eyes have gotten incredibly darker, almost the shade of a forest tree.
"Listen closely Annabel, you do not belong to him, you belong to me, got it?" He snarls in face. I'm slightly scared now but I still have some courage in me.
"You know what Jack, I only use to think you were a complete Jackass that needed a foot shoved up his ass. Now I know the truth. You are a psychotic hot head and I want you to get the fuck out of here." He rips his hand off my arm, raises it back but as he lowers his hand to my face, he sets his hand back down at his side.
"Just watch it Annabel." Jack hisses at me before storming out of my place. I look at where he use to stand before taking my hand and running it through the top of my head, letting out a breath.
I don't do anything but grab my set of keys and head out of my place as my eyes start watering. I just know I need to tell somebody about this now, and it's not Flack.
I get to the floor of the Lab I work at, and The first place I go to is Mac's office. I practically run there and when I finally get there, Mac is sitting at his desk, going through some files. When I come in he looks at me. He puts the files down and looks at me.
"Annabel? Everything ok?" Mac asks as he sits up straighter in his desk chair.
"No it's not, my ex just burst into my home and..." I sit down in a nearby chair.
"Annabel, take a breath and start from the beginning." He asks me to do, and which I do. I tell him everything about Jack, even what happened before today. When I'm finished and I look at Mac, his brow is furrowed.
"Have you told Flack what happened this morning?" Mac asks me.
"No, and I don't want to. Mac, you have to promise me you are not going to say anything to him. I wasn't hurt in any way so there's no need in worrying him." Mac looks at me for a while before sighing.
"I won't tell him. Annabel, I will take care of this, there's nothing to worry about." He stands up from the desk and walks over to me, where he lays his hand on my shoulder momentarily before walking out of the office. I rub my eyes and run a hand through my hair before getting up out of the seat I was in and walking out of the office.
As I walk down the hall, I catch the eyes of several lab assistants through the glass. As I head back towards the elevators, I pass Mac and he pulls me off to the side.
"Yeah?" I ask, running a hand through my hair.
"Flack knows what happened this morning." He told him already?!
"You already told him?" I ask Mac as I back away slightly.
"No, I didn't tell him but he overheard you telling me and when I got down the hall, he stopped me for 5 seconds to ask what the hell then walked away. I expect he's going to be looking for you." Great, just fucking great. I duck out-of-door opening Mac pulled me into and down the hall a little bit before to be greeted by Don at the end of the hall, and boy does he look angry. I come up to in front of him and I can just tell he's barely refraining from punching something.
"Don I..."
"We need to talk, now." He demands through gritted teeth as he starts walking off. I follow him to the locker room, where he opens the door and walks in. As I follow him in, he turns towards me with his blue eyes now filled with rage.
"Why the hell did you tell Mac what happened?" Flack asks, his voice shaking with anger.
"I thought he's was someone who should be told what happened."
"And I wasn't? Why was he the first one you told, cause last time I checked your engaged to me, not him!" He runs a hand through his hair.
"I know I'm engaged to you, but I thought.." Flack interrupts me.
"Whatever you thought was wrong Annabel! That doesn't even hurt the most. What does hurt the most is that you told Mac not to even tell me! It's like you don't even trust me, do you trust me?" He asks, locking his eyes onto mine again.
"Of course I do! I didn't tell you what happened because nothing happened, sure he barged into my place and yelling at me but I wasn't hurt." He lets a sarcastic laugh out.
"Nothing happened?! He barged into your place, almost hit you then threatened you as he was leaving! That maybe nothing in your book, but to me that's something! I care about you, I don't want anything to happen to you." Yes, his anger is finally dissipating.
"Obviously though, you don't care about me enough to tell me! When I asked you to marry me, I thought I was going to be able to trust you to tell me anything, but it looks like I was wrong." He takes his eyes off me to start pacing the room slightly. Was wrong about his anger dissipating
"Don I'm sorry, I wasn't..." Flack interrupts me yet again.
"Annabel, I don't want to hear it. You can count on me not coming home to you tonight because right now, I don't want to talk to you." He then storms away from me, slamming the door to the locker room closed behind him. I just stay in the locker room for a minute, going over what just happened. There goes another perfect relationship. Maybe I should just the 6 cats now.
Walking out of the locker room, I run a hand through my hair as I make my to Mac's office because I have a job to do. When I get outside His office there's a note taped to the door.
File drop of day, list of places where they need to be dropped off at.
Taking the note of the door, I walk into his office and see a stack of four files on his desk along with the list of places and which file goes to which place. I scan the places the files need to be dropped off at. Mayors office, DA, and the rest are to be given to Flack. Wonderful. I shake my head as I grab the files and the addresses where they need to go and begin my work day.
Hours later I stand outside the prescient at which Flack works. The earlier files were a piece of cake to deliver but these, no. Ever since our fight this morning, when he told me he didn't want to talk to me I didn't want to do anything to push it. Annabel come on, all you have to do is drop two files off then leave, can't be that hard it's two files!
Lifting my head up slightly, I walk into the prescient this time just walking through instead of letting the smell hit me. I walk to the bullpen, and find Flack sitting at his desk. Without speaking, I walk up to his desk and drop the files in front of me. He knows I'm there because he stops what he was doing and looks, at the files but doesn't say anything.
"Still not talking to me?" I ask him as he just continues to stare at the files. I stand there for a good minute before I respond.
"Take that as a yes." I mutter as I turn around and start walking towards the entrance, but I stop dead in my tracks. Jack walks into the prescient with his head held high. When he sees me, he walks towards me but to get away from him I walk towards the entrance. When I pass Jack he grabs my elbow and turns me back around to look at him, then he drops it.
"Annabel, how's the relationship going?" Jack asks with a sinister smile, as if he knows how everything is.
"What can I say Jack, because of you I may no longer be engaged so thanks a lot for screwing up my life, once again." When I said 'I may no longer be engaged' Flack's head turns towards us, and he's now watching us.
"Glad I could be of assistance. Now your available for me, the original model."
"Why don't you do us all a favor Jack and go burn in hell." I look at Flack in the corner of my eye and he's standing up from his desk and he starts making his way towards us. Flack gets directly behind Jack and taps on his shoulder. Jack turns around slightly, and Flack moves from behind him to stand next to him.
"And you are?" Jack asks Flack as he offers an obviously fake smile.
"I'm Don Flack, the one she's engaged to. You must be Jack, I've heard horrible things about you." Flack's glance turns hard as he looks at Jack. Jack gives me a final look before walking away from the entrance. Once Jack has walked further away, Flack turns towards me.
"Do you have to keep putting yourself in risky situations Annabel?" Flack asks me as he crosses his arms.
"Excuse me?"
"You should know Jack is a dangerous person to be around alone, I just had to come in and save you..." Did he just say what I think he just said.
"Ohh so you don't think I can take care of myself?" His eyes widen slightly as he un crosses his arms.
"Annabel that's not what I meant, you know what I said I didn't want to talk to you, why am I even speaking?"
"You really going to take that route Flack?" I take a deep breath before speaking again.
"You know what, Flack your right. We shouldn't be talking right now, we just need some space." I bite my lip as I take the ring off my finger and put it in my right hand. His hand is open slightly so with my opportunity I stick the ring in his hand then back away slightly. He looks down at his hand and sees the ring there.
"Annabel, this isn't what I meant by not talking to you."
"Well it's what I mean. Call me when your ready to talk." I walk away from him and towards the entrance, when he runs and veers in front of me.
"I know I was harsh this morning, and I am sorry about that. I should have heard what you said before I flipped out. The things I said were because I was angry, I had nothing against you. Just, don't do this. I only did what I did because I love you." His eyes lock onto mine as I look up at him. I don't say anything, I just walk around him and out of the entrance of the prescient.
Immediately after I walked out of the prescient did I hail a cab and get back to my place. My mind was racing as I finally took the full effect of it in; I was no longer engaged and I had a hot head ex wanting to get back together, everything was going PERFECTLY!
I walk into my place, nearly slamming the door behind me. As I go towards my bedroom, my goes off. I check the caller ID and it says Danny, so I answer.
"Yeah Danny?"
"A little birdy told me you broke of the engagement with Flack." He starts off.
"Did this little bird happen to have black feathers and blue eyes?" I ask Danny, all he responds with is a chuckle.
"Possibly. All I called to make sure was that you are 100% sure on this? Because one you go back..."
"Danny for the time being, I'm absolutely sure. Who the fuck knows, maybe I'll change my mind in a few hours. Right now, I'm sure as hell not wanting to talk to him." Not wanting to say anything further, I hung up then grabbed my shoes that I took off and slipped them back on. I then hurried out the door to go to where I had memories that were good.
(Flack's POV)
Where I'm at is pretty simple; I am sitting on a bar stool going over how my life has been extremely fucked up since this morning. This morning, was the morning after I finally had slept with Annabel, and let me tell you it was well worth the wait. I had a feeling this morning that I should have stayed in bed with her instead of going to work; there goes the first mistake of the day.
Second one which is the biggest of them all, I screamed at her when I wasn't the first one she told. I also shouldn't have said some of the things I said. I should have been glad that she at least told somebody about it instead of just keeping it to herself. I am glad that she did, but there's still a nagging feeling in my stomach that she should have told me. I didn't even hear her off.
Then the cherry on the top, telling her I didn't want to talk to her then later in the day talking to her; then asking why I even bothered talking to her. I knew she would be pissed; hell I'm surprised she didn't hit me but instead she gave me back the ring which literally broke my heart because to me, that meant I hurt her so much, to the point of where she didn't love me anymore. That right there, just about killed me. I know I should have tried harder to get her stay and to put the ring back on, but I didn't and I'm hating myself every moment for it.
That was my story on why I am here currently, drinking to hopefully block everything out for at least the time being. I brought the bottle to my lips as my eyes bore into the same wall I've stared at for a good 30 minutes. As I put the bottle down, I see Danny take a seat next to me.
"What? Here to make sure I don't make a mistake while drinking?" I mutter under my breath.
"Don, I'm going to give you a little more credit being that your Irish. That's not why I'm here though."
"Then what is it?"
"Is this it? Are you done fighting?" Danny asks me as start peeling the wet label off the bottle.
"I can't fight for something she doesn't want." I nearly slam the bottle back down on the counter.
"Well then damn it Flack you gotta make her want it! You'll never know what could happen if you don't try! Get off your ass and propose to her again! Don't take no for an answer." Danny keeps looking at me, and at this point, I finally look at him.
"Danny, I can't... there's just no way I can just go up to her, and demand that she take me back."
"There's no way in knowing if you don't try. Flack, go fight for her, the girl you love." I sit there sitting at the bar, still picking the label off the bottle.
"How am I going to even know where to find her? Knowing Annabel, she probably ran off to some other part of New York city." I give Danny a look out of the corner of my eye.
"I figured that you would fight for her so I had Adam Triangulate her cell phone and got a location in Queens. I'll call you if the location changes." Danny takes the address out of his pocket and hands it to me.
"What would I do without you Messer?" I ask as I set money down on the bar and get up off the stool.
"For starters you wouldn't be getting your ass to where Annabel's at, and Flack you might want to try to get rid of the smell of beer from you." I just look at Danny as I make my way out of the bar, and towards my car. Hopefully, I can come up with a plan before I get there.
Flack's gotta plan, then again doesn't he always?