My Life With The New York Detective
I am parked outside my parents house, exhausted from being woken up at 7:00 in the morning to take care of all of... this. Why my mom had to tell my dad, I will not understand but that's not the point.
Getting out of the car, I head up to the front door and before I can even knock the door flings open and my dad is standing there in a golfing polo like type shirt (he doesn't even golf so I don't know what's up with that) and the khaki pants. I look at my dad's brown eyes that would usually be filled with love, but now is filled with slight anger. He stands aside to let me in, and as soon as I cross the threshold, he shuts the door closed.
"Where is he? Where's the guy that ruined you?" He asks me before I even have my shoes off.
"Nice seeing you too Dad." I mutter under breath, hoping he didn't hear me. "He can't make it at the moment, he had some.. things to take care of." I finally manage to face my father.
"Sure he did. Annabel, how could you be so stupid that you slept with the man before you were married?" That's my dad, he just HAS to be straightforward about everything.
"Dad, relax. It was a heat of the moment sort of thing."
"That got you pregnant, a child out-of-wedlock. The sins you are committing..." Once my father goes on his long Catholic rants, its hard to stop him.
"Remind you, I'm not even Catholic. To me, it doesn't matter. This..." I pointed to my stomach quickly. "Would have happened at one point or later, but it came sooner. I talked to him about it and we both are looking forward to the baby." Without waiting for him to respond, I walk off into the kitchen to find my mother reading the newspaper in one of the chairs by the island. Her hair is clipped back and away from her face.
She hears me walking and turns to face me, her face surprised yet happy. Her eyes shining as she continues to look at me.
"Annabel, your here! You look amazing." She gets up out of her chair and rushes over to me, bringing me in a tight hug. She let's go and looks down, presumably at my stomach.
"I can't believe I'm going to be a grandmother." I look into my mothers eyes and her eyes are watering.
"Mom are you crying?" I ask, putting a hand on her shoulder.
"Yes, because I am just so happy for you, and from what I heard from your 'fiance' when I met him yesterday, he seems like a very respectable man." Ohh shit, she found out that. I open my mouth to defend myself but she beats me to the punch.
"He looks good Annabel, you did well." I then shut my mouth.
"So when your first doctor's appointment for the baby?"
"It's after we get back to New York. I just scheduled it on my way here while I was sitting in traffic." We then heard my father's voice come through the walls.
"Annabel, Joanne we have a visitor." He said, calling us into the living room. When we walk into the living room, both of us see the visitor. Flack is standing on the front porch, looking into the house. What the hell is he doing here? I discreetly looked at the clock that hung on the wall and it said 7:30. I mentally glared at him before returning my mind to the present conversation.
"Don what are you doing here?" I ask, crossing my arms slightly.
"It doesn't matter, he's not coming in. It's here or the father of your child." Is my dad serious, he's asking me to choose between my family and my fiancé. THANKS FOR THE PRESSURE, NOT!
I look between my father and when my eyes land on Flack, I want to cry. The look he gives me is just, so sad. His blue eyes are so light and it's like he's trying to tell me what to do, without saying so. I know my choice.
"Mom, I'll call you when I know more about the baby. I'll see you later Dad." I make my way through my parents then head straight out the front door without looking back. As I'm walking to the car, I hear the front door close then the sound of someone running to catch up to me, which is most likely Flack.
He finally catches up to me and starts walking along side me.
"Annabel, why did you do that back there?" Don asks as we reach the car.
"Do what?" I respond as we both get into the car. As I turn to close the car door shut, Flack's arm reaches across me and shuts it for me.
"Come with me? Why did you chose me over your parents?" Flack puts the key in the ignition but doesn't start it.
"I can live my father beyond insane about all this, I can live without my parents sticking their nose in the relationship and anything to do with the baby." All Don does is give me a sideways glance as he starts the car and pulls out of the driveway.
The ride back to the hotel was relatively quite with only a few words being spoken between us. I figured that I had said something wrong, but every time there was a red light he would look at me.
When we got back, I got out of the car and he's a lot slower at getting out. Without waiting for him, I make my way towards the room and get in a good 5 minutes before he does. As he does come into the room, I have the urge to get sick so I make my way towards the bathroom. In the craziness of it all, I forgot to close the door.
As I am getting sick, I feel Flack pick my hair up off the back of my neck and hold it. He moves one of his hands towards my lower back as Dom slowly moves his hand in slow circles. Once I'm done, his hand let's go of my hair. His hand stays on my lower back as he speaks up.
"You ok?" His voice is soft as he helps me up off the floor.
"Yeah I'm good now, thanks for that in there. You didn't have to do that."
"I know." He drops his hand off my back just as my phone rings. I walk into the other room and answer it.
"Hello?"
"So, it is from my understanding that certain assistant to Mac Taylor is pregnant." Danny's voice rings out with a tone in his voice that is intending me to lead that statement on.
"And you heard this from who?"
"A detective may have let it slip this morning." I look at Flack and he mouths 'sorry'. Yeah, sure he is.
"I can tell you that yes, I am pregnant."
"Flack's going to be father. That's going to be interesting."
"What's that supposed to mean?" I ask him as I try to not laugh.
"Let's face it, the kid is going to learn how to interrogate someone before it learns how to play baseball." The sad thing is, I can actually picture that.
"Congratulations though, I'm sure you two will do just fine. Don't let him talk you into something stupid." Then he hung up. I put down the phone and glanced back at Flack, who was getting his jacket back on.
"Where you going?" I ask him as I walk over towards him.
"I'm just going to get a few things." Vague much?
"And those things are?" He just looks and me and smiles.
"You worry about me too much. You do remember I am a cop right? Besides I'll only be gone 45 minutes tops." He's beating around the bush with the question. Something doesn't feel right here...
I'm still looking at him skeptically when he steps up in front of me. He grabs the edge of my shirt, pulling me even closer to him. Flack let's go of my shirt and slides his hands up to rest on my rib cage.
"I appreciate you worrying about me, but I'll be fine. I'm not going anywhere anytime soon. I love you, and when I get back I want to talk to talk about the baby." His lightly brushes his lips on the tip of my nose before dropping his hands from my rib cage and walking towards the door. It still is not sitting right with me.
"You never told me where you're going!" I call towards him. Don turns around as he opens the door.
"45 minutes!" He answers back before getting out of the room and shutting the door behind him. Well that got me nowhere. I'm sure he'll be just fine.
Shaking my head, I make my way over to a chair that sits by the window and start the wait. I go along with my day, but as I watch the clock the time gets closer to 45 minutes later than soon enough, 45 minutes pass. Then an hour, two hours, even three hours pass. No word from him and no Flack. I start getting worried when 3 and a half hours pass with him no where.
I called him several times but he never answered. I started pacing just as 4 hours have passed. Just as I pick up the phone to call him again, Flack enters the room and immediately takes his jacket off and walks towards me. I put the phone on the table and stand up.
"Where the hell were you?" I ask, the anger in my voice coming through slightly.
"Annabel, I am so sorry. When I went to go get the things I went out for, they weren't there. On my way back I got extremely lost. I tried to call you but my phone was dead and it was just a disaster." He steps forward and brings me in a hug. His arms slid around my back. I breathe in through my nose to get the smell of him, but I don't smell that. I breathe in deeper and smell... alcohol? No, there's no way. I do it again and again I smell alcohol. Maybe he got directions from someone in a bar?
He pulls away to look down at me. He leans down and lightly kisses me. Flack's hands slide up to either side of my face. I began to taste some sort of liquor on his lips.
I pull away to look at him. He let's go of the side of my face and drops his hands back to his sides.
"Hey I was thinking, since your kind of at a sort of stand-off with your parents we should head out before they or you say anything you'll regret later." I heard what he said, but my brain was still going over the fact that he lied to me. I want to call him on it, but I have no real proof that he was out drinking.
"Uhh.. yeah we probably should. I wouldn't want to do anything I would regret to my parents." I look down at the floor as I let a breath out.
"You alright?"
I look at him and put on the best fake smile I can. "Every thing's fine."
-Back in New York-
We got back to the city later that day, and we both went to our workplaces. Apparently Danny told everyone that I was pregnant, so when I got back I was greeted by Stella giving me a huge hug and telling me congratulations. Mac found me later in the day and told me the same thing she had. I have yet to been spotted by Danny, so I have no idea what his reaction will be.
Right now, I am doing the wonderful task of stapling paper after paper together when Stella bursts into Mac's office.
"I have an idea!" She exclaims as she stands in front of me while I staple papers.
"And that Idea is?"
"I am going to an event tonight, a gala in a way for the mayor. I figured you should come with me, take your mind off the baby for a night." I stopped stapling to look at her.
"I don't have anything to wear..."
"Don't worry, I've got something that will work for you."
"What about Don..."
"He's going out with the guys tonight. Come on! Just say yes already!" Stella has a urgent look on her face as she's silently urging me on.
"All right, I'll go." A smile breaks out on her face.
"Excellent! I'll come get you later today so we can stop off at my place and get ready." She walks out of Mac's office just as Danny comes and enters.
"Hey there, you have a guest on his way up to see you. Says his name is Jack?" Shit, it's Jack.
"Also coincidentally, Flack's on his way up too." Double shit. What THE hell am I going to do now? Danny smiles before exiting the room. As I watch him leave down the hall, I see Flack coming from one end of the hall and Jack coming from the opposite end. I get up from where I was sitting to walk out of the office.
Jack and Don both look at each other, but before anyone can say anything Flack grabs my arm and starts walking me back down the hall and ducks into the first empty room. He pulls me out in front of him and let's go of my arm.
"What the hell is he doing here?" He nearly spits out as he glances through the glass wall and down the hall.
"Beats me, Danny just told me that he was on his way up. Didn't really specify why."
"Let me just make it clear that Jack, is not under any circumstances allowed near you, with you being pregnant. I am not taking the chance of him hurting you or the baby." He's still looking down the hall when I respond.
"I don't think you have to worry about me being around him at all, today will probably never happen again." Flack snaps around to look at me.
"Probably never happen again isn't good enough for me. Annabel, I need you to promise me that you won't let him anywhere near you, unless me or someone else is with you. I can promise you that if I find out he was near you and something happens, someone is going to have to bail me out of jail." He runs a hand over his head before calming down.
"On other news, I'm going out with Danny, Hawkes, and a couple of the guys from the prescient tonight. I won't be home until later."
"It's not like your going to see me until later either. I'm heading out with Stella tonight." When I look at Don, he gives me a worried glance. "What? It's not like I'm going to be doing shots of vodka all night." I step away from him and walk towards the door when he asks "Where do you think you're going?"
I turn back to simply respond "Getting back to work. Something you should be doing Detective." I throw a smile I'm there before I open the door and walk out. I head back to Mac's office and get through the rest of the stapling papers, which surprisingly was a lot easier to get through then when I had started. By the end of the day, Stella had come to Mac's office and she had collected me for the mayor's event.
-Flack's POV-
Instead of going out with the guys tonight like it was originally planned, at the absolute last-minute the chief inspector had 'suggested' (which I know is just a bull shit way of ordering me to do it) that I go to an event the mayor is having. I have no way to get out of it. I even tried the 'I just found out my fiancé is pregnant' route which isn't technically lying. He just looked at me and said 'You, engaged? That's entertaining' then walked away. That explains why I get to be stuck here for the night.
I have been standing across the room with one of the fellow detectives discussing on how we both would rather shoot ourselves with our own guns then go to this event when a girl catches my friends eyes from across the room.
"Hey Flack, see that girl over there?" He points this girl out from across the room, and I do have to admit she looks amazing. The dress she's wearing is navy blue and ends just above the knee. Her legs look fantastic, she's on the shorter side too. I shouldn't be saying this to myself, I'm engaged to Annabel.
"Rodriguez, you know I'm seeing someone."
"Come on Don! You and I both know she looks amazing. Just saying that your missing out." As I got a better look at her, she did look amazing, seriously beautiful. When she turned slightly so we could see her face slightly, I nearly dropped my glass as I realised that the girl was Annabel.
She turns back around before she can look at me. When I got a good look at her face, it was the same as it always is but there was something... more. Annabel looked different from before. She is incredibly breathtaking right now. Also, now that I know that it's Annabel, I'm slightly ticked off at Rodriguez for saying that. After all she is my fiancè.
He notices me spacing out as I'm looking at her.
"What? She an ex girlfriend?" I glance at my side to smile at him. I put my glass down on a nearby table before responding.
"More like fiancè and the mother of my child. Now if you excuse me..." I then start making my way towards Annabel.
-Annabel's POV-
The night so far has gone pretty well. Stella and I had arrived and everything has gone smoothly. The entire night though I've felt I felt self-conscious. I've never really wore a dress and heels because I grew up in Oklahoma, I didn't have to. Now that I am, I'm wondering if I look all right.
I turn towards Stella as I run my hand over the beautiful navy dress she is letting me borrow for the night.
"Hey Stella..." I start off but she holds up her hand with a smile on her face.
"Don't even start with this again Annabel, you look amazing. Stop worrying about this, tonight is suppose to make you forget everything for an evening." Stella looks off into the distance, as if something has caught her eye.
"Are you sure? I just think that it's..." I hear footsteps come up behind me then a pair of hands land on my bare shoulders.
"Absolutely perfect, just the way you are." The fingers curl over the top of my shoulder. I recognize the voice, I would from anywhere. It's Flack, but he said that he was going out with the guys tonight.
"I'll leave you guys for a few minutes." I shake my head as Stella gives me a knowing look before walking off. Don turns his attention on me as raises his hand toward my face.
"Don, what are you doing here? I thought you were going out with the guys." I ask him, slightly shocked that he was here.
"My boss dragged me here, but now since I saw you here.. my day just got a lot better." Reaching towards me, he grabs my right wrist as he pulls me closer towards him.
"What?" I comment as his sole attention was focused on every single inch of me.
"Nothing it's just... you look incredibly beautiful. Annabel, you have the attention of every single guy in the building."
"Don I doubt that's true..."
"Annabel, my partner was half tempted to hit on you! I thought you were beautiful before I even knew it was you." He leans forward so his mouth is right next to my ear.
"Is there a specific person you're wearing this for, because I'm having very mixed reactions about this dress."
"It depends, what are the mixed reactions?"
"Part of me wants you to put something else on so everyone stops staring at my fiancè and the other part wants to take you back home and personally take this off of you." He takes his ear away from my mouth to kiss my neck slightly before pulling away completely.
"I'll be right back. Don't go anywhere where other guys can even go near you." He gives me one final look before walking across the room. Now I am left by myself, in a room full of strangers.
As I raise my glass of water to my lips, a man is quickly making his way towards me. He has closely cut dark brown and he looks to be of Cuban or Spanish decent. He gets to stand in front of me.
"Excuse me, can I help you?" I ask the man as I set my glass of water down on a nearby table.
"No, but let me help you. Name's Adam Rodriguez." Adam sticks his hand out as he gives me a sly smile.
"Annabel, and how is it you can help me?" I ask as I straighten up my body slightly.
"By giving you the best night of your life." He did NOT just say that, did he? Well holy shit this guy has some balls.
"Thanks for the offer but I'm engaged."
"Ohh I know, Don's a good friend of mine. Carrying his child huh, that's pretty involved."
I held a hand up. "Wait, if you knew I was engaged to a GOOD FRIEND of yours, then why in God's name did you say you could give me the best night of my life?"
"Figured, might as well try." Just as quickly as he had left, Flack comes up to us. His arm casually slides around the back of my waist.
"I see you met my friend Rodriguez." He leans over to kiss my temple as I mutter "In more ways than one."
Don pulls away and gives me a look. "What are you talking about?" To explain the situation, I leaned over and whispered in his ear the entire conversation. When I get done telling him, and I pull away he comments.
"He did that? To you?" I nod my head to confirm so but I regretted it because the last thing I wanted to do was to start a huge confrontation between the two.
I had predicted right because now Flack walks up to Adam, who is now a few feet away leaning against a table. When he reaches Rodriguez, I hear him say "Hey Rodriguez." To get her attention. When he does, Flack very quickly cocks a fist and hits Adam squarely on the nose.
So sorry for the long no updating period but now we're back :) Flack decked Rodriguez in the face, and shits probably going to go down :)