A/N: This is a perfect example of the keen eye fans have in regards to continuity for as some of you in the comments rightly pointed out, it would be near impossible for Amelia to lose her necklace in The Chevelle as that's the episode in which Jamie's car was stolen and then when recovered he immediately gave it to Joe. Also thanks to the reviewer who caught my chapter title error - it has been fixed! :) and finally the results are in - Jamie bought the necklace as a gift for Eddie. I will however leave chapters 10 and 11 as originally posted for those that want to revisit the Amelia option, it's just from now on any reference to the necklace in this story will be that Jamie bought it for Eddie. (ie: see below lol) Also I haven't made any decisions on love interests or preferences for the Reagan grandchildren. At this point nothing is on or off the table.

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Chapter 12: Happy Valentine's Day

Erin is asleep in bed when a single red rose is placed right under her nose.

"Morning Ms. Reagan." Jack's gentle but sexy voice greets "Happy Valentine's Day."

Slowly as Erin wakes up a happy smile graces her face "I think today you can say Mrs. Boyle."

Jack's smile grows.

…..

Jamie is milling around the kitchen getting things ready for a special Valentine's breakfast for his wife when a grumpy, unhappy and still very unawake Eddie shuffles her way into the kitchen.

"Hey!" Jamie pleasantly greets "Morning! Happy V-"

However Jamie stops talking when Eddie unhappily glowers at him, makes a beeline for the just finished, freshly brewed coffee pot, picks it up, turns and steps towards the sink where she unceremoniously proceeds to dump the contents down the drain.

"Or not." Jamie notes by her actions which causes Eddie to again turn and star daggers at him but then the next second - without saying a word - she turns, places the empty pot back on the burner then shuffles her way back to the bedroom.

A moment later it dawns on Jamie that the smell must be bothering her "SORRY!" he apologetically calls.

The only response he gets is the sound of the bedroom door slamming shut so he cringes and heavily sighs "Happy Valentine's Day." He mutters in defeat as he looks at the breakfast he is preparing wondering if any of it would be agreeable to her at the moment but then he shrugs it off "At least she's wearing my necklace…"

….

Danny is seated at his desk working when Maria walks up to him so he glances up "Morning." He greets but he does a double take when he sees a weird, apprehensive expression on his partner's face "What?"

In response, Maria hesitantly holds an envelope out to him "Here." She a bit awkwardly offers.

Curious, Danny takes the envelope and the second he does Maria turns and heads to sit down behind the safety of her own desk across from him.

Now anxious, she watches him open the envelope and pull out a Valentine's Day card. She watches first a look of shock appear on his face but when he opens the card, his look softens to one of mush "Awwww." He gushes with a huge smile on his face "Did she do this herself?"

Maria visibly relaxes in relief at his reaction allowing her to now scoff a little as they fall back into their comfortable pattern "Can't you tell? All those squiggly lines clearly spell out Elena."

"I see. I see." Danny amusingly agrees before opening the bottom drawer of his desk, reaching inside and pulling out a little Valentine's bear that he unceremoniously tosses across the desks to his partner "Here." He instructs as Maria's hands spring up to catch it "You can give her this in return."

An impressed laugh escapes Maria's mouth as his offering "Why Danny Reagan, you old softy you!"

Danny dismissively shrugs "What can I say, the kid is cute."

"Thank you." Maria sincerely offers touched "She'll love it." She adds before noticing writing on the tag

'To my 2 best gals, Love Danny.' She reads before snapping her head up to look at her partner.

In return, Danny gives a slight awkward little shrug and in return of that, a warm wide smile of acceptance appears on Maria face "Same." She simply offers causing a big smile to appear on Danny's face.

So there the partners are stupidly just smiling at one another across their desks when a voice interrupts the moment.

"Hey Detectives?"

Danny and Maria snap their heads in the direction of the voice to see a uniformed officer standing there with a civilian next to him "This woman says she witnessed a murder."

Immediately, Danny and Maria simultaneously open a drawer and drop their Valentine's gifts inside.

"Thanks." Danny states as the partners both stand and dawn their professional faces "We'll take it from here." He instructs the uniformed officer.

Nodding, the officer turns and walks away while Maria gestures at a chair "Please…" She warmly invites the woman "…have a seat."

"Alright." Danny begins as they now focus solely on the woman in front of them "Start at the beginning." he seriously prompts as they get down to work.

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Frank walks in the backdoor of his home to sees Henry in the kitchen and the smell of freshly baked cookies wafting in the air.

"You're baking cookies?"

"I am." Henry confirms.

Frank leans over to look "In the shape of hearts?" He shockingly notes.

"It's Valentine's weekend!" Henry declares "This is dessert for Sunday."

Frank gives his father a challenging look "O…kay… since when do we celebrate Valentine's Day at Sunday Dinner?"

"Since this year." Henry decides "Look you and I aren't getting any younger. Can't I just be grateful for the family I have? Who said Valentine's Day can't be about the love you have for your extended family?"

"The commercial retail Lords?" Frank challenges.

"Poppy Cock!" Henry dismisses "Now roll up you sleeves and help me with the frosting."

Frank gives his father an incredulous look "No." He simply rejects before walking through the kitchen and disappearing into the house.

Amused Henry chuckles then picks up 2 icings "Now Pink or Red? He momentarily wonders in thought "Definitely Red." He then easily decides.

….

The Reagan family all sits around their dinner table "Wow." Danny notes impressed as Henry places a plate of heart shaped cookies down on the table between himself and Jamie "You went all out this year Gramps."

"Aw I think they are adorable!" Eddie gushes as she reaches across her husband for one "I bet they are tasty too!"

Watching her actions Jamie can't help but laugh a little "Sure." He begins to rib her in jest "You like that but not the breakfast I cooked you."

Eddie's eyes go a bit wide as she turns her head to shoot her husband a look "How many times do I have to say I'm sorry for that?" She lowly hisses under her breath.

Clearing picking up on some underlining story there, Danny pipes up with "Say what now? Come on, speak up. Share with the rest of the table."

Knowing he should not have brought it up because Eddie truly is sorry, Jamie winces a bit while dismissively promising "It's nothing. I made Eddie a special Valentine's breakfast as her gift this year but it didn't exactly go as planned." He explains hoping that ends things there.

"Wait." Danny interrupts "That was your Valentine's gift to your wife? Making her breakfast? Then what's with that new necklace around her neck?"

"Oh this?" Eddie happily queries as she fingers the gold heart charm.

"That doesn't count." Jamie quickly jumps in "I bought that as my first Valentine's Day gift to her once we were married."

Danny looks at Eddie and the necklace then glances at Erin to see her face scrunched up in confusion as well.

"Um you gave that to Eddie on your first Valentine's Day as a married couple?" Erin tries to clarify "How come we've never seen it before?"

"Oh I never said I gave it to her." Jamie a bit flippantly corrects "Just that I bought it for her."

Everyone looks around the table at one another thoroughly confused "Why would you not give it to her?" Jack finally inquires.

A wide amused smile plays on Eddie's face "Because he lost it." She delightfully announces while Jamie simply nods his head up and down in agreement.

"Yup I did." He confirms "But apparently it was in The Chevelle this whole time - hidden under the seat - Joe just found it."

Danny looks at his brother "You need to clean your car out more." He advises.

"Funny." Jamie deadpans "You don't think I tore that car apart at the time? I did. I just for the life of me couldn't find it."

Danny shrugs "Should have asked for a second set of eyes to look."

"Why?" Jamie challenges "So you could endlessly rib me about it?"

"Aren't we doing that now anyway?" Danny tosses back.

"There is a reason police officers work in pairs." Frank chimes in "And it's not just to watch each other's back. A second set of eyes can be the difference between solving a case or not."

"See." Danny arrogantly boasts "I bet I could have found that necklace."

Jamie heavily sighs "Of course you would have." He mutters "Can we go back to talking about the breakfasts?"

"Right." Eddie agrees as she launches back into her story "So Jamie cooked me a lovely Valentine's Day breakfast including a special treat of having a 'little'…" she emphasizes with a scrunch of her fingers "…coffee and what did I do? I storm into the kitchen grumpy and pour the coffee down the sink because SOMEONE…" She declares as she takes both her hands and points at her stomach "…has decided they don't like the smell of coffee."

Everyone at the table except Sean begins to nod their heads up and down in complete and total understanding.

"Ah." Frank accepts.

"Oh boy." Henry chuckles as he pictures in his head how that must have played out.

"Been there." Danny knowingly notes.

"Done that." Jack adds.

"Literally." Erin adds "But for me I absolutely could not stand anything with a strong floral scent."

"See I remembered that!" Jamie quickly pipes up "Which is why I went with the breakfast instead of my usual flowers!" he huffs out in explanation.

Eddie frowns "Sorry."

"With Linda it was spices for Jack." Danny tacks on "We ate the blandest food." He notes with a shake of his head at the memory before looking at his youngest son "But with you, your Mom loved spicy food so go figure."

"So I went with what I thought was middle ground safe food options!" Jamie once again tacks on causing Eddie to take a deep calming breath at his constant need to rationalize things.

Eddie turns her attention to her father in law "What was it for Jamie?" She curiously inquires.

An amused smile creeps up on Frank's face.

"Ugh." Danny grumbles out "I remember that one. We couldn't have pizza the entire time he…" he indicates as he gestures at Jamie "…was being incubated."

"Incubated?" Jamie challenges before leaning slightly towards his wife "Hey Babe did you hear that?" He queries as he tries to turn the tables on his brother "According to Danny you are 'incubating' our child."

"I did hear that." Eddie a bit unhappily confirms as she shoots her brother in law a look.

But Danny shrugs as he looks directly into his sister in laws eyes "No pizza." He warningly reiterates as he flips the conversation back against his brother.

Eddie gulps a bit at the thought "Pizza?" She worriedly ponders hoping against hope hers and Jamie's child growing inside her doesn't do the same "Seriously?"

Erin unhappily nods in confirmation "Yup."

"It was a very unhappy household." Frank admits before smiling at his youngest son "But the moment he was born all was forgiven."

"Because I was adorable." Jamie humorously but also arrogantly boasts.

"No…" Erin deadpans in correction "…it was because we could have pizza again."

Eddie narrows her eyes at her husband thinking about how horrible that must have been for everyone but especially her mother in law "You're lucky I can still have pizza." She seriously tells him "And that better not change."

Feeling like he's getting blamed for something that he really had - and still has no control over, Jamie gets a little defensive with his wife "Why is this my fault?"

"Because it is!" Henry, Frank, Danny, Jack, Erin and even Eddie all reply.

At everyone's unified reiteration of the happy wife equals happy life 'facts', Jamie rolls his eyes in defeated understanding and mutters "Right." while a clueless Sean still pipes up with "I'm with you Uncle Jamie."

Knowing his nephew is just trying to help, Jamie smiles at him "Thank you Sean." He appreciatively notes while Danny scoffs and looks at his son "Yeah you just wait. One day you will understand…" he advises before pausing a second to think "But not for a while yet got it?" he warns "I'm not ready to be a Grandpa."

"Hey being a Grandpa is great." Frank counters.

"Best thing ever!" Henry happily notes as he looks around the table at all his grandchildren.

"Let's get him a girlfriend first okay?" Danny counters causing both Erin and Eddie to snap their heads up but for completely different reasons.

For Erin a look of true concern appears on her face as she looks at her nephew "Get him a girlfriend?" She begins to question in confusion "What happened to the girl from the campus mug…" but when Danny begins to immediately and furiously shake his head back and forth as his way of telling Erin to stop talking, Erin does just that and frowns.

For Eddie, hearing those words causes her to be hit with the memory of saying a very similar thing to a street vendor once about Jamie and she chuckles in pure amusement.

"It's fine." Sean grumbles to Erin "We went out a couple of times but it went nowhere." He explains as Jamie glances at his wife chuckling next to him in confusion "What?" he prompts her.

"You don't remember do you?" Eddie queries to her husband.

"Remember what?" Jamie asks.

"That I said a similar thing about you once." Eddie explains.

Jamie thinks back but doesn't remember "You did?"

"What was her name?" Eddie ponders "Misha? Mila? MYA!" She suddenly remembers.

Jamie continues to give his wife a confused look.

"She was that bike courier with the fake $50s!" Eddie prompts which twigs Jamie's memory.

"Oh right. I remember now." He admits before an amused, smug smile grace's his face "Wait wasn't she the one you called the future Mrs. Jamie Reagan?"

Eddie groans at the irony "Sure THAT you remember." She grumbles causing Jamie to laugh in pure amusement "Hey you gotta admit, you did better than just finding me a girlfriend!" he can't help but rib "I wonder if Stavros still sells on that corner, we should swing by so I can introduce you now as my wife."

"Shut up!" Eddie laughs as she reaches out and pinches his arm in payback.

"Hey!" Jamie protests while squirming away from her but still laughing.

"What are you two talking about?" Jack interrupts as everyone at the table just curiously looks at them.

"Nothing." Jamie and Eddie deflect in unison.

"Groundhog day was last week." Danny jumps in at them again trying to deflect from sharing with the table "Stop repeating yourself."

"It's one of those you had to be there things." Jamie explains.

"Yup." Eddie quickly agrees "Now what we're we talking about before getting side tracked?" she questions as she looks around then down at her plate "Oh right." She remembers as she picks up Henry's heart shaped cookie and takes a bite "Hmmm, Henry these cookies are delicious." She praises "Here." She prompts as she quickly puts her cookie down before again reaching across her husband to pick up the entire plate and start passing it around "Everyone have one." She recommends before she just starts to ramble "They are really good! Is that hints of cinnamon? I love the flavor…"

"I can give you the recipe." Henry happily offers.

"Great!" Eddie happily accepts as she takes another bite herself.

"Actually." Sean suddenly pipes up as he reaches under the table for something "Before everyone gets their fingers dirty, I have a gift for Grandpa." He announces as he pulls out a flatish rectangular shaped gift box.

"Oh?" Frank notes in complete surprise as he watches the box get passed down towards him "What's this for?"

Sean shrugs "Just a little something all your grandchildren put together. We were going to give this to you for your birthday but it didn't work out so Valentine's it is!"

Raising an eyebrow in curiosity, Frank takes the box when it reaches him. He takes the lid off, flips open the layer of tissue paper and immediately a smile graces his face.

"What is it?" Eddie prompts as she leans over trying to see.

Smiling wider, Frank reaches in, pulls out an 8x10 framed photo and turns it around to show the table. When he does everyone sees a photo of all of Frank's current grandchildren posed in a row – Joe, Nicky, Jack and Sean - all dressed in the clothing they wore the day of Officer Luis Badillo's funeral and in a nod to his future grandchild, in the photo positioned dead center just slightly in front of Nicky and Jack is Eddie's highchair with a handwritten sign in big black marker attached to the chair that says 'Plus Baby Reagan ETA June 13, 2025'.

At the sight, Eddie's mouth drops open and Jamie looks on in shock.

"Wait." Eddie breathes out stunned "How did you?..." She begins to question but she can't even finish that sentence. She is too overwhelmed at the reminder of the day but also truly touched at the symbolic inclusion of hers and Jamie's unborn child into the photo.

Now with his phone up recording everyone's reactions, Sean shrugs before quickly adding "And before anyone complains I have my phone out, I only do so I can record your reactions for those that could not be here to see your reactions live and in person."

"Alright I'll give you this one." Frank accepts before shaking his head in awe "But I have to agree with Eddie though." He adds impressed "How did you all manage to do this without me…"

"Or I'm guessing any of us…" Danny quickly tacks on as he looks around the table to see everyone else is just as equally surprised "…knowing."

A big proud smile appears on Sean face "Oh it's a good story…"

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A/N: Up next, a flashback to that story and as requested, all the grandchildren interacting.