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There's A Place Where Lost Things Go

Chapter 17-Family Dinner

THE FINAL CHAPTER-After trouble and strife and all that comes with for the first time in nearly two years the Reagan family sit down for dinner.

Danny was reading the paper and scoffing every so often at the news. It was as common thing now and Jamie stood on the stairs watching for a second would have thought it funny if not for the fact that he was in the process of—

"Don't bother sneaking Eddie out of your room Jamie I know she's in there"

Eddie popped up next to him her blonde hair looped in a knot on top of her head and for a second the two of them stared at each other but getting one past Danny was easy. Jamie should have known that. The issue was always going to be getting one past Linda.

Eddie stared at him for a second and then she shrugged descending down the stairs with all the confidence that Jamie would pay good money for. He followed her seeing Harrison in his chair. Harrison smashed his spoon against the high chair when he saw Eddie who pulled a face and dropped a kiss to his nose causing his son to go an odd crossed eyed look and then giggle.

"For what it's worth" she said taking the coffee cup from Linda. "We just fell asleep."

"I don't want to know" Danny said not looking up from his paper. The scene was so reminiscent of his father that it caused Jamie to blink for a second. He sat down pulling a bagel towards him as Danny scowled.

"What?"

"Some corrupt cop got bail"

"Who?"

"Sonny Malevesky. God I know that prick as well. Right fucking little brass cocksucker—"

"DANIEL"

"Linda he can't speak"

"He's trying" Jamie said scowling. "And I'd rather his first words not be fucking cocksucker if it's all the same to you"

"JAMIE"

Eddie giggled chewing on her bagel. Danny shot her a look that Eddie ignored. Eddie was mostly impervious to Danny and it tended to drive him mad. Jamie thought it was nothing short of hilarious and so did Joe.

Danny shot Eddie another look and then turned back to his paper.

"Isn't that the case Joe was working on?"

"Supposed to be. He never actually got called up to it. And how the hell he got away with not getting that phone call over the weekend I don't know. Phone ran out of charge my ass. I don't know who this Paula Hill is but she has ensnared our little brother in a highly dangerous way"

"Yes" Linda said leaning against the kitchen door with a smile that could only be described as borderline frightening. "It would be a terrible thing if all three of the Reagan boys managed to end up with highly competent, good looking, career driven blondes wouldn't it?"

Eddie snorted into her bagel. Danny shot his soon to be wife a very sweet smile that Jamie thought wouldn't have confused a rookie straight out of the academy.

"So…you spent the night then" Danny said in a voice of controlled calm.

Jamie rolled his eyes.

"She's done it before you know. I sleep on the floor and she sleeps on the bed. I have a year and a half of school to catch up on. Believe me once my brain is done with algebra I'm too tired to do anything else"

Danny sniffed but didn't say anything. His brother knew that was true. Eddie had been a great help in getting him to a place where he could go to a school and be confident. He didn't go to his old one rather than to her school and within moments the rumour mill had started. Being the Police Commissioner's son who had been missing, returned and had a kid was one thing, when word got around that he had been thrown out because he had chosen to stand by his girls side and that he had raised his son on the street it had given him a cult celebrity status with most teenage girls. Even the boys had been mostly okay and Jamie had proven that he knew how to fight on the streets. The ones that gave him a problem got a few good jabs in and were mostly subdued. Eddie would say that there was something tragic about him that made him both a conundrum and a crush but Jamie didn't get what that meant then and he didn't get what it meant now.

Harrison banged his spoon again and Jamie turned to make sure that he was eating and not throwing the food around as he had taken to doing. He was crashing somewhere towards the terrible twos and he didn't know if he was going to stand it. He had a son, a brother, court mandated therapy, a family he was working on improving the relationship with and a year and a half of school to catch up on. Even if his brother had asked—and believe him Danny had asked—when Eddie came round they were genuinely too tired to do anything other than kiss each other goodnight.

It was nice in a way to have that domestication. Eddie understood that he was nowhere near ready to be with another girl the same way he had been with Olivia. Danny understood it too and so that made it a lot easier. One of the things the therapist had done was insist that he and Danny have one to ones and so that made their living arrangements easier. They had both learnt the hard and bitter way to trust the other.

And slowly it was working.

Harrison gurgled down his milk. Already he was a big boy, a big healthy boy and Jamie was sure that soon he was going to walk on his own. He was already taking tottering steps when someone in the family was holding his hands and soon he would walk on his own he was sure of it. Nikki at three had taken to making it her personal mission.

"So what's on the agenda today?"

"I am going to watch the game"

"You're not—"

"Danny do we have to do this every Sunday? I've said it until I am blue in the face I am not going to church. I don't want it, don't need it, I'm done"

Danny shot him a very unimpressed look.

"Seriously what is that? A song lyric?"

Jamie rolled his eyes.

"So your going to watch the game?"

"Yeah"

Danny sighed opening his paper back up again. "My kingdom to join you" he said forlornly.

"Why don't—"

"Because they won't marry us in a Catholic Church if we don't attend the Catholic mass idiot"

Jamie shook his head and turned back to his son.

Religion. Like politics he thought it was too much hassle for it's own good.

"Did he say he was coming over?"

"He did yeah" Danny said hooking Nikki into her seat.

"How is he coming?"

"I left him some money for a cab Dad relax, you know sooner or later though he's going to learn how to drive. Or Eddie is"

"Don't say thinks like that" his Pops said coming back in with the roast. "I don't want to imagine that girl behind the wheel of any car that doesn't have flashing lights and the city's insurance."

Danny rolled his eyes. Frank however thought his Dad might be onto something.

"So all's good?" his Dad asked casually.

"So far" Danny said just as casually and just as quietly. "She spent the night again but to be fair when I stuck my head round the door they were just sleeping. I think sometimes he needs the company more than anything else"

His Dad raised an eyebrow but said nothing more to that. Indeed there was not much else to say.

Things were getting better to be fair, they were getting easier with to talk to Jamie, they could talk collectively as a family. And things between his son and himself were getting better. Just the other week he was over here with Harrison and the two of them spent time going over a history project.

That might be a small thing for a parent…for Frank and the year and a half that he had, had prior to this kicking off it was another thing entirely.

"Have you spoken to Joe recently?"

"Not since this Templar thing he was supposed to be a part of went down. Why?"

"Because he still can't give me an answer as to where he was when the raid went down. Apparently he was out with a friend and didn't pick up his phone but I don't know what that means. I asked his as Commissioner and then as his old man—"

"Way to blur the lines Dad"

"But" his Dad said talking over him. "But I don't know what happened. He just keeps saying he has to sort some stuff out."

"It's Joe" Danny said taking the beer of Erin. "He's annoying ethical. He'll be fine"

Frank didn't say anything. He still wasn't used to not walking around eggshells.

"Did Eddie say she was joining us for dinner?"

"No" Danny said to his grandfather. "I think she was going home to see her Mom"

Frank didn't know the half of what was going on between Lena Jenko and her daughter only that the two of them fought like cats and dogs in a basket. Lena was not what one would call pleased with his son he knew and she was even less impressed with his wife but a sense of common decency and the fact that she had a husband in prison for a Ponzi scheme was more than enough for her to take the glass of wine Frank had offered her with good grace.

Lena did not mind that much when Eddie stayed the night simply because she had confessed to Frank that at least she knew when she was with Jamie she was alight.

"That being said Commissioner if your boy goes for two kids before he turns twenty I will lop of both of his balls, spray paint em gold and flog em to your widows and orphans Christmas donations fund you feel me?"

Frank had to concede he liked the woman.

The door opened then and Jamie came in Harrison on his hip and he smiled.

"Joe is right behind me" he said as he pulled Harrison's coat off. "He's got someone with him"

"A girl?"

"No Erin a Venus Fly Trap"

Erin opened her mouth to retort but then Joe came in looking very much as if he was walking to the Gallows. Frank had a sudden urge to sit down. Jamie was looking almost smug.

This was not going to be good.

"Dad. Everyone. So I…I gotta tell you something"

Oh God. Here we go.

Again.

Behind him was a blonde woman with a five year old on her hip who was the carbon copy…

OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE.

"This is Paula. And this is Joe, my son"

There was a pause as that sunk in and Frank sat down taking of his glasses and wondering if it was possible for a human being to actually be able to drown themselves in a glass of wine.

"Bet this is making me look good right about now" Jamie said beaming his cheeks full and pink, the fat back on his body and his son on his hip, alive, wonderfully, wonderfully, alive.

Frank stared at him, to Erin, to Danny to Joe and knew what it was like to love something more than you love your own life.

Well…boring was supposed to be overrated.

And they had never had a boring family dinner yet.

Frank found himself oddly looking forwards to the time when they would.

"Not quite son" he said placing his hand on Jamie's and considering it a step forwards when Jamie twisted their fingers together.

He looked up at Joe smiling at him and the kid on Paula's hip and he sighed even though he was smiling. Kids he thought. You can't live with them and as Frank Reagan knew from personal experience you really couldn't live with out them.

Roll on the next problem free generation.

"But it's coming close"

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