ODDS OF LOVE : SEASON ELEVEN

Episode 64

" Hey , slugger ," Nate Jacks called out to Faith as she entered the squad room. He popped a handful of peanuts in his mouth as he leaned over his desk with an exhausted look on his plain jowly face. Faith wanted to roll her eyes at him but she was too busy floating on air since she and Browne had just closed a two vic homicide. It was enough to take her mind off stuff like jury selection starting next week. And the fact that Joy's family wanted to have dinner with her at their house. She didn't feel up to being questioned by her girlfriend's family right now but she didn't want to turn it down and offend anyone. Like Joy herself. So she had suggested them having the dinner at Richard and Nigel's on that night. With the Jones family, her , Joy......and her brother and his family. If she was going to be interrogated she wanted to pad her home court a little for some advantage.

" Loo wants you in the office ," Jacks continued on.

That was enough to pop her floating on air bubble.

It was a far more glum faced Faith that entered the lieutenant's office to find the woman in question oddly enough cooing to a damn cactus on her desk.

Hannah Hensen looked up at her and grinned almost self consciously. " Come in , Lane. Close the door. My doc said my bp is high. Said I needed a hobby. So I got me a damn plant. Figure I can't really kill a cactus, can I?"

Faith nodded and tried not to laugh. " Hobbies are good, ma'am. My brother has high bp. His husband found an article online that garlic is good at lowering it. "

Hannah nodded swiftly.

" Pot helps as well, ma'am. We are a weed legal state. "

" Remind me to have you drug tested, detective. I called you in here because I know about this idiot case that happened in Montgomery. "

Faith knew this would eventually happen. She also knew that there was very little they could actually do to her at this point. She didn't think. Of course she knew that her lieutenant didn't particularly care for her.

" I didn't care about the damn case , Lane. I care about closed cases here and you do that except for drug related ones. You're a pain in the ass but you are my pain in the ass. I just want you to know you have my support and the support of the entire unit. Department likely as well. Now get to work. "

Faith nodded with a slight smile on her lips. " Thank you, ma'am. "

As she turned to leave she heard her lieutenant say," Get me that garlic article your family was reading. And yes weed helps a lot of things. "

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( Texts )

Joy : Faithie , I talked to Ma and she said Daddy is agreeable to having dinner with us and your family on Wednesday night at the restaurant. I'll say a prayer it goes well. Because Lazarus will be there.