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Chapter Five
"How's it going Kid?" Danny asked Jamie when he picked him up from rehab. "You look a little better."
"Yeah, since Sunday she hasn't had a dream and is sleeping peacefully. I think we weathered that storm for the time being."
"Good, that's really good." Danny gingerly got into the car. His leg was hurting and he had a hard time getting it over the inside step.
"Here, let me help you." Jamie bent and swung Danny's leg into the car. He flinched when his older brother groaned. "You want to get something to eat before I take you home? There's something I need you to help me out with."
When Danny agreed Jamie drove them to hot dog place in Staten Island, there was no chance of Eddie seeing them there. He wanted to talk to his brother about what she told him regarding the new transfer. After ordering two strawberry sodas and four chili dogs Jamie pulled out a piece of paper.
"This is the name of a new transfer into the 12th. He's from Westchester originally. I looked up the hire date, it's two weeks ago that he started on the job. That's about when Eddie started to have the dreams. She said he reminds her of an ex-boyfriend so I'm thinking maybe the two are related and if they are I want Eddie far away from this guy unless I'm the one between them."
"So you did decide to dig into it after all," Danny said clearly proud of his younger brother. "So what do you want me to do?"
"Run this guy, you have access to different sets of data than I do. See if he has a brother or something that might have a connection to Eddie. The guys looks wrong, and Eddie's not comfortable with him. I'd really appreciate this favor, Danny."
"You got it," Danny replied. "I'm on a medical but I still have access to my databases."
Jamie thanked his brother as their meal came. They started to talk about other things, Jamie's collars, Danny's therapy schedule, and his projected time to return to the force.
"So, we talked about everything else but you and Eddie," Danny laughed. "How is that going? Did you get THAT going?"
"Yeah, yeah we finally got THAT going and it's going fine," Jamie replied. "I don't kiss and tell, you know that Danny."
"I do, and neither do I. I only asked cause you mentioned it was taking a while."
"Well now it's fine. I wanted to take our time, to be sure Eddie was ready. She let me know it and I…was happy to take care of that for her." Jamie was now as red as his strawberry soda.
"I bet you were. There's nothing like making love to that special woman. I've been with plenty of girls before Linda and it was not even in the same ballpark, hell it wasn't even the same sport."
Jamie smiled, "You said that right. We better get you home and get your leg up. Linda will have my hide if you start to swell up on me. Thanks a lot for agreeing to help out with this thing. I feel like the guy is a threat and if he is I need to be ready for him."
As they drove to Danny's house Jamie asked his older brother another question, "Did you ever feel an urge to protect Linda or the boys? I mean really protect them with your life?"
Danny nodded, "Every day, Kid. That's called being in love. Welcome to the club, little brother."
Jamie smiled, he was in love with Eddie. He knew that very well indeed.
Jamie helped Danny get settled, "I'll see you Sunday, but if anything comes up let me know about it okay?"
Danny agreed, exhausted from his work out and the extended time out. He took a nap on the couch before doing anything else.
Two days later, Jamie was assigned to nights. Eddie was on swing and was leaving the precinct as he was coming in. They snuck a kiss in the locker room before she went home with her usual bid to "Be safe."
That night was rough on Jamie. He and Kara responded to a domestic where the perp was armed. They found the victim stabbed through the gut bleeding out. Kara and Jamie rushed her to the hospital themselves, she'd be dead before a bus could arrive. While they were unloading her, the perp showed up again to make another attempt on her life. Jamie battled with the larger man, ignoring Kara's repeated commands to "Get distance". Finally he dislodged the knife but not before receiving a heavy blow to the head.
Jamie and Kara got the cuffs on as blood ran into Jamie's eyes. Detective Mike Hoffman and his partner rolled up on the call as Jamie was walking the perp to his squad car. After much debate Jamie agreed to get his head looked at and let Hoffman take the arrest back to the 12th.
"I'm fine, Walsh," Jamie snapped even as the nurse was cleaning his head lac and preparing for it to be stitched.
"Yeah, you're dandy. You need stitched in your head, Janko is going to kill me."
"Damn it, tell me you didn't call Eddie."
"No, I didn't call her yet, but I know I should," Kara replied.
"There's no need to call her, I'm going to go home after this and I'll tell her about it. As soon as we process this collar."#
Jamie was good to go a half hour later. His head throbbed and he felt a little light headed however he insisted on going back to the house to process their collar.
When he saw Mike Hoffman's name next to his arrest Jamie nearly went ballistic. It was all Kara could do to keep him from slugging the guy. "Go home, Reagan. We'll go to Renzulli tomorrow and report the collar theft. Go home, get some rest. Take care of your head. I'll see you next tour."
Jamie smiled, he lucked out with Walsh as his partner. If he couldn't have Eddie, he was glad to have Kara at his back.
Eddie had just gotten up when Jamie came in the door. He slammed the door and threw his keys on the table. He was angry, Eddie could see it in his stance and his breathing.
"Hey, what's the matter honey? Did you have a fight with Danny?"
"No, I didn't have a fight with Danny! Why is it that I can't have a bad mood around here without you thinking I had a fight with Danny? I do more than fight with my big brother you know!"
"Okay, I'm sorry but face it, Reagan you are in a foul…" Then she saw his head. "Oh my God, what happened to you?" She hurried over to finger the crease on his brow where the cut was. "Are you okay?
"I smacked into a bus fighting with a perp, got stitches, it's no big deal."
"Why didn't you call me?" Eddie asked. "Why didn't Kara call me?"
"It was not a big deal, it doesn't even hurt that much." Jamie caught her hand and kissed her palm.
"Sit down at least and let me get you something to eat, so you can rest." Eddie hurried to get coffee going and made some toast. "Did the perp rabbit? Is that why you're so angry?"
Jamie sighed, "No, I'm angry because…Back in the Academy I was in class with this jerk, Mike Hoffman. He made detective in three years just like Danny, mostly by poaching other guys' collars, including mine. Last night, I was bleeding and Kara convinced me to get my head checked out and let Hoffman take the perp in. Come to find out he listed himself as the arresting office. So not only does my head get bashed in but I lose an attempted murder collar to boot. At this rate Eddie, I'm going to be a patrolman forever."
"Well, you should talk to your CO and report his guy, that is outrageous." Eddie sat down on the sofa beside Jamie and folded her legs under her.
"Not my style," Jamie replied sipping his coffee.
"Come on Jamie, this guy sounds like he's just the schoolyard bully. A bully pushes you, what do you do? Push him back."
"Yeah, I know," Jamie sighed. He knew Eddie was right. He couldn't let him get away with this.
"So what are you going to do?" Eddie asked.
Jamie looked at her and gave a wry smile, "Push him back."
"That's it, Jamie!" Eddie was proud of her usually by the book boyfriend. "Just tell Renzulli…"
"No, not like that…I'm going to think on this a little bit. When I strike, he's not going to know what hit him."
When they were finished with breakfast Eddie went to lay with Jamie for a little while as he dozed off to sleep. "Jamie, can you promise me something?" she asked very softly.
"If I can," he replied pulling her close to his side.
"Promise no matter what it is, you or Kara will call me if you get hurt again."
Jamie nodded his head. "Say it, Jamie. I need to hear you say it."
"I promise," he whispered against her hair then promptly fell asleep.