Alison Reagan

Can I get a side of murder with that?

I answered my phone and got out of my seat.
"Reagan?" I answered.
'Reagan, there was a murder near you. In Washington Heights. Your new case.'
"New York?" I ask and everyone looks at me.
'Yes. It is about a half hour drive away.' He said.
"Ok. You know my brothers going to fight for jurisdiction." I said walking over to Danny who had picked up my badge again and took it. I hit him on the back of the head.
'I know, all else fails in making him see since. Arrest him.'
"Arrest him for what exactly?" I asked a little shocked and once again everyone looked at me.
'Interfering with a federal investigation.'
"Ok. Wait, hold on a second. He is a respected detective at the NYPD and that is a bogus charge that will never stick." I tried to change his mind.
'It just has to stick long enough to get the killer.'
"Ok." I said and hung up.
"What charges exactly are you placing against me?" Danny asks from across me.
"I won't have to place any charges against you...as long as you don't get in my way." I say looking him.
"Someone was murdered." He said looking mad.
"I know, Danny and me and my team are going to find who's responsible." I said.
"Unless I get him first." He said trying to get information.
"That'll be pretty hard to do from a jail cell." I say and everyone is watching us like a game of tennis.
"On what charges?" There it is. He wants to know what charges so he can go around them. I smirked at him.
"Nice try, Danny. I learned from the best to know when people want something and you, you want to know all the details. Who the vic is, how they killed them, why, where, when, and most importantly...who." I said and got up and went upstairs and changed. I picked up Jake at the lab and we went to the crime scene.
Where I saw I saw no other than my brother at the scene.
I walked up to the tape and flashed my badge and they let us through.
I walked to Danny and he looked up from the body and noticed me.
"Hey, sis." He said.
"Danny. What are you doing here?" I ask.
"Investigating a murder." He said back.
"No your not-" I was cut off my bones.
"Yes. He is. The man is certainly dead and based by the bullet wounds this suggests murder. Which suggest detective Reagan is telling the truth." He said.
"Bones, I know the man was murdered. But, Danny is not investigating because this is the FBIs case." I said looking at Danny.
"I don't think he got the memo." Bones said.
"Clearly I wasn't clear enough. If you don't leave right now I will arrest you." I said.
"Then you're going to have to arrest me." He said. "What's with the jacket?" He asked the cop.
"Don't answer that." I said to the cop.
He pointed over to a kid.
"The only witness. His son." I glared at the cop and he shrank down.
I went to talk to the witness when Danny grabbed my arm.
"You aren't going to arrest me?" He asked.
"No. Not yet at least. Because it's pointless. You have nothing." I said and walked over to the little boy.
Danny followed me and he got there first.
"My name is detective Reagan and this is my partner detective Baez." He said and pointed to Baez.
"Who are they?" He asks looking at me and Jake.
"I'm special agent Reagan with the FBI and this is my partner Dr. Jacob Brennan." I said.
"FBI?" He asked and I nodded.
"We're here to help you." Danny said.
"Are you gonna help get my dad back?" He asks.
"Well, if you can help us out here and tell us what you saw, I give you my word, we are going to find out who did this." Danny said. "Will you talk to us?" He asks.
"We were walking home, through the park, and I saw this guy walking towards us. And I saw he had a gun, and I guess my dad, he must have seen it to, because he pushed me to the ground, then I heard 'bam', 'bam', 'bam'" he said trying not to cry.
I kneeled in front of him and grabbed his hands.
"What did he look like?" I ask.
He looks at our hands then looks up to me.
"Um, Spanish, his 20s, skinny." He said.
"Was he someone you recognized?" I ask.
"No, but he had a big tattoo right here," he said and pointed to his neck. "Of a gun." He said and and grabbed my hand again.
"Can you think of anyone who would want to hurt your dad? Do you have any other relatives?" Danny asks
"Yeah, my mom. But I don't want to go home just yet, I just want to stay with him." He said.
"Okay." Danny said.
We got up and as soon as I stood up Michael gave me a hug.
I hugged him back and looked at Danny he was watching with a smile on his face.
"Please find the person who did this. Please. You're the FBI that's what you do." He pleaded. I pulled him away.
"I will do everything in my power to find the person who did this. I promise." I said looking into his eyes.
He hugged me again.
After we left the scene Jake and I went to the FBI building where we could look into the murder.
"Hey did you put that description out?" I asked an agent walking by.
"Nothing yet." He answered.
"What about the gun tattoo." I asked.
"I searched bass nothing popped." He said.
"Ok. Ok, Rykers has there own gang Intel database tap that and see what comes up." I said and he did so.
He got a hit.
"Here we go. Gun tattoo on the right side of his neck, Raul Delgado. 6ft, 170lbs." He said.
"Ok. So far so good." I said looking at the screen.
"In 2009 he was arrested for assault, got convicted, served 2 years, 2011 he was colored for murder." He said.
"Was he acquitted?" I asked.
"He was found guilty. Sentenced 15 to 25." He said reading off the screen.
"He can't be our guy he's in prison." I said running my hand through my hair.
"Uh-supposed to be, but according to these records, he's not." He said and I looked at the screen.
"What are you talking about? Retrial? Out on bail? What?" I ask him.
"None of the above." He said shaking his head. "He literally just disappeared from the system." He said
I looked at the screen with my eyebrows furrowed.
He handed me the file of Raul Delgado and I walked away.
A little while later I got a call from my dad to meet him for a drink.
I walked in and saw my dad I walked towards him and noticed that Danny was here to.
"Dad? What are we doing here?" I ask and sat on his other side.
"Raul Delgado." He said looking between the two of us.
"Yeah. How'd you know?" Danny asks.
"Let me rephrase." I said.
"It's a confidential informant from homeland security." Dad said once again looking between us.
"That would definitely explain how he disappeared from the system." I said looking at Danny.
"How does this guy get a pass on murder?" Danny asks.
"He's been feeding them Intel on a drug organization they think funnels money to an over seas terrorist cell." Dad said.
"They think?" Danny asks.
"It's homeland security their not real big in sharing the particulars." He said.
"So am I supposed to back off this thing?" He asks.
"Are we supposed to back of of this thing?" I ask looking at Danny.
"Do you two like Delgado for this?" He asks us.
"Yes." Me and Danny say at the same time.
"His last known associate was a guy named Juan Lopez they have him in Otisfield for armed robbery." Dad said and me and Danny stood.
"Thanks." We said.
"Figure out how you found that out. And you two need to stop fighting over the case and work together." He said.
"Copy that." Danny said at the same time as I said, "yes, sir." We both walked out of the restaurant and walked out the door.
"Danny, I don't care which one of us arrests Delgado as long as he gets arrested for what he did. So do you think maybe we can work together?" I ask.
He hugged me and took me back to the precinct.
"Great. Thanks for your cooperation." Baez said walking into the room.
"You ready to go, partner, sis?" Danny asks us.
"We're not going." She said.
I looked at her.
"What do you mean we're not going?" Danny asks.
"I just got off the phone with the warden. He transferred Lopez about an hour ago." She said.
"The guy agreed to talk to us. Why the hell would they move him?" Danny asks.
"It's a federal prison. Apparently the Feds can move him around every day of the week if they want." She said and Danny looks at me.
"I didn't do it." I said.
"Alright. Fine, fine. Where'd they move him to." He asks.
"South Dakota." She said and we both look at her.
"South Da-" I start but stop because I'm pissed.
Me and Danny were standing at the homeland security hq waiting while Baez and bones was looking for something helpful.
"Detective, Special Agent." A man greeted us. "I'm agent Keller, what can I do for you?" He asks.
"Raul Delgado. He works for you." Danny says. "You're his handler. Come on we know." He said when Keller didn't say anything.
"I'm not at liberty to discuss anything with you." He said his eyes landing on me.
I had this feeling that I knew him from somewhere.
"Well. He's wanted for murder. Are you at Liberty to discuss that?" Danny asks.
"And you made sure that his last known associate was transferred out of Otisfield prison before we could speak to him." I said.
"What are you implying?" He asks.
"That you're protecting a stone cold killer." Danny said. "Now what kind of cop does that make you? Huh?"
"I'm the kind that looks at the big picture." He answers.
"Oh." Danny says.
"We're about to take down a large network of terrorists without Delgado that will not happen." He said.
"Look. Delgado killed Hudson in front of his 13 year old son nobody gets a pass from that in this city." I said.
He looks at me.
"I don't need a pass from you. Call Washington if you don't believe me." He said turning around. "And stop interfering in my operation."
He said then walked away.
Me and Danny turned to look at each other.
"Is there anything you can do?" Asks Danny.
"No. But we could ask Erin." I said and smiled.
We found Erin getting ice cream and walked up to her.
"Hey. I'm buying." Danny said paying for her ice cream.
"In exchange for what?" She asks looking at us wary.
"In exchange for you getting us around homeland security." I said and Danny paid the guy.
"Seriously?" She asks laughing.
"Yes." Danny said.
"Well then you need to start with a shadier lawyer then me. Thank you." She said to the ice cream guy.
"Come on. This Delgado guy we like him for a murder and they won't let us get near him." I said and she looked at us.
"You two are working together on this one?" She asks and we nod our head. "You two have taken down many bad guys without the help of homeland security."
"Not ones with their active protection." He says.
"And you can't find Delgado without them?" She asks.
"No." I say. "He's off the grid, they wiped him out of every database. His handler, this gut Keller, he doesn't want to play ball so, I mean, there has to be something you can do to help." I said.
"I can't compel them to cooperate." She said.
"This guy is withholding information in a murder investigation." Danny said.
"Look, what's his name again?" She asks.
"Keller." I say.
"Alright agent Keller of homeland security has firewalls and perimeters around him I can't see or touch." She says.
"Great thank you. Enjoy you're ice cream." Danny says and we start walking away.
"However," she says and we turn back around. "He's also a U.S. citizen, in you're jurisdiction, you believe he has knowledge on the whereabouts on a prime suspect in a murder case you both have been assigned to." She said.
"Right." I said. "And in all likelihood he will cross paths with that prime suspect while in our jurisdiction." I said
"Mm-hmm" Erin hummed in agreement.
"Maybe we don't need a shadier lawyer." Danny said.
"Yeah Erin, you'll do just fine." I said and me and Danny walked away. We followed Keller to where Delgado is and we got ready to swarm the place.
"Apartment 1-F. Let's move." Danny said.
We made it to the apartment and we drew our weapons and surrounded the door.
"Raul Delgado! Police open up!" Danny yelled and banged on the door.
He moved out of the way and had someone knock the door in.
He started running and Danny and I followed him.
He went out the window followed by me and then Danny.
He started running up the stairs until I grabbed his ankle making him fall down the stirs where Danny grabbed him and turned him over to put the cuffs on.
Agent Keller ran out and I stepped in front of my brother who was cuffing Delgado.
"You tailed me?" He asked looking pissed.
"That's not against the law." He said.
"I am a federal agent!" Keller exclaimed.
"Yeah so am I. And I thought we had gotten past the introduction." I so as and Baez ran out and helped Danny get Delgado on his feet.
"What do you think your doing?" He asks.
"Arresting Raul Delgado for the murder of John Hudson." Baez said.
"You can't do that." He said.
"Sure I can. He's in our jurisdiction." Danny said.
"So you my friend can kiss my New York ass." I said walking past him and following my brother.
"Were any guns recovered?" Erin asks as we walk through the precinct.
"No." I say.
"So we still don't have a murder weapon." Erin points out.
"Yeah but we have an eye witness." Danny says.
"Erin, Danny, Allie." Jack, Erin's ex-husband greets us.
"Jack." Danny said
"I should kick your ass 5 ways from Friday for hurting my sister." I said glaring at him and he took a step back. Good.
"What are you doing here?" Erin asked.
"I'm here to see my client." He said.
"Who's that?" I ask still glaring at him.
"Raul Delgado." He says and my anger intensifies. I wonder if he can feel me killing him in my head.
"You're joking right." Danny says.
"You're representing Raul Delgado? Are you kidding me?" I say pissed.
"Excuse me." Erin says walking past us. And leads Jack away to talk.
Danny and I walk away.
I walked into a room with Michael in it.
"We are going to bring in 6 men for you to look at see if you recognize any." I say and I look at him. "If I'm being honest, I'm having a pretty hard time trying to figure out why anyone would want to hurt your father."
"My dad didn't do anything." He said automatically.
"I didn't say he did anything, did I?" I ask. "You know I'm trying to help you, right? I can't do that unless you help me to." I tell him.
"My dad, was a dockworker, in red hook. And last week, when I was there, his boss got really pissed at him." He said.
"Why?" I ask. "I said why."
"One of the containers got damaged. So he opened it to try to fix it. And he found drugs inside." He told me.
"What kind of drugs?" I ask him.
"He said it was cocaine." Michael told me.
"Why didn't you tell me this sooner?" I ask after taking a breath.
"My dad told me not to tell anyone what we saw. He said it could get us killed." He told me.
I lead him to the room where Erin, Danny, and Jackass were waiting.
"Ok you are going to stand right here and take a good look at each suspect, take your time. Let me know if you recognize anyone." Danny said lifting the blinds.
We all stood there nervously waiting.
"Number 3." He said after a minute.
"Number 3? Where do you recognize number 3 from?" I ask him.
"That's the guy who shot my father." He said looking at me.
I looked at Danny and he shut the blinds and turned on the light. He lead Michael out of the room.
"How olds your witness?" Jack asked me.
"My witness is old enough to recognize the scum bag that killed his father." I said. "See you in court."
The next morning in court I was on the stand being questioned by Jack.
"Agent, didn't you promise Michael Hudson that you would find his fathers killer?" He asks me.
"Yes I did. And that's why Raul Delgado is sitting right next to you." I said.
"Objection your honor. Relevance." Erin said.
"A 13 year old boy, is susceptible to suggestion your honor, especially when we have a FBI agent making promises she can't keep. Their entire case is an identification made by a minor." He said.
"Your honor, we have proven the non suggestive nature of the line up and age alone can not predetermine the validity of this identification." Erin says.
"Counselor." The judge says.
"No further questions for the agent." Jack says and I get up and take a seat behind Erin.
"I'm sorry. Mr. Boyle, but I must side with the prosecution on this. The child age though as mitigation factor is not enough to discredit the id." Said the judge.
"At this time, I would like to inform the court that we will be filing a request for a known DNA sample, from Mr. Delgado." Erin says.
"Now, the defendant will continue to be remanded without bail." The judge says.
Erin gathers her things and walks out of the courtroom I wait so I can see this bastard be detained.
I turn around when I hear a thud and see that Delgado disarmed one of the guards and locked us in here.
"Don't move!" He shouts.
And everyone freezes.
He points the gun at the guard and looks at me.
"Take out your gun slowly and throw it over to me or he dies." He says and I pull my gun out and unload it then throw him the gun and the magazine.
"Don't anybody move." He yells. We all raise our hands.
"Walk." He said pointing the gun at the guard. "Let's go. Get back against that corner." He said and pushed the guard back. "You think in playing with you? Huh? Get back!" He yelled.
"Very slowly come off of there." He said to the judge. "You move." He said to the girl who takes the court notes.
"Calm down, please." I said and he whipped around to me.
"No, you shut up. Your the reason this is happening." He said.
"Stop what your doing. Use your head, Raul." Jack says.
"I got this punk kid, I.D.ing me. Now I got to give DNA. Not looking to good for me right now." He said and pointed the gun at the note taker when he saw her moving her hand in her purse.
"What are you doing?" He yelled
"Nothing, please." She yelled.
"Move."
"Come on, relax. You need to calm down." I yelled and he pointed the gun at me and shot me in the stomach and the shoulder.
I fell against the table when I felt the blood.
"Jack, Jack." I said, don't get me wrong I don't like him but he was once my brother and right now I was not doing to hot.
He came over and put pressure on my wounds.
Jack helped me walk over to where Delgado wanted us then Jack took off his his dress shirt trying to stop the bleeding.
"You just hang on, we're going o get you out of this." Jack said.
"Just do me a favor, don't be heroic, ok?" I said.
The phone started ringing and Delgado went over to answer it.
"Yeah." He said.
"Who's in charge now, detective?" He asked.
"I'm hurt. Reagan that you think I'm stupid. That you think your going to be able to talk me out of what I have to do." He said into the phone to my brother.
"200,000 wired to my offshore account. And a jet to the Dominican Republic."
"I don't think so."
"One. I'll send out one." He said.
"That's one thing you don't have. You get it here by 3 o'clock."
"3 o'clock. Or I shoot hostages. Starting with your sister." He said taunting Danny.
He hung up the phone and sat down.
"Raul, you're facing more charges now, you know that right?" Jack asks him. "And every minute you keep this up, it makes it worse. Chances are, you aren't going to make it out of here alive." Jack tells him.
We were still trying to stop the bleeding and I had lost a lot of blood already.
"I will. If I bring her with me." He said pointing to me.
A little while later the phone rang again and he answered it.
I was getting dizzy and I was soaked in my own blood.
"I'm taking a hostage with me." He said looking at me. "To make sure there isn't any mistakes. Make sure there isn't an attempt to stop me at any time."
"Your sister. Yeah she's not looking to good. But then again she's the most valuable hostage I have." He said.
"I'll release her when I get to the Dominican Republic."
"No."
He pulled the phone away from his ear and pointed the gun at me.
"Come here." He said. "Right now. Get up."
I started to get up and Jack helped me stand.
"Stay back big guy." He said to Jack.
I used the table to help me stand and walked over to him.
"One false move." He said pointing the gun at me.
Haven't we been there before?
Twice.
"You try to tell him anything, I'll kill him." He said and put the phone to my ear as I was using both my hands to stay on my feet.
'Allie? Are you hurt bad?' He asks me and the room starts spinning a bit.
"Tell dad I'm ok." I said and he pulled the phone away.
He pointed the gun signaling me to move back I did so and Jack caught me when I collapsed.
He set me on the ground and put pressure on my wounds again.
"If I walk out, and I see a cop, a sniper on the roof, anything off I'm putting a bullet in her head." He said and hung up.
"Let's go." He said to me.
"Raul, she's wounded alright? She needs a doctor. So you take me instead." Jack says.
"Move." Delgado said. "Out of the way." He said.
"No, no I'm going to go with you." Jack said moving infringement of me.
"Am I speaking English." Delgado said and knocked Jack out with the gun.
"Jack?" I ask weakly.
Delgado pulls me up and places the gun to my head.
"Let's go now." He said and pushes me towards the door.
I put as much pressure as I can on my wounds as I can.
He pushes me out the door and I sigh in relief when I see Danny.
The world starts spinning again and I blink trying to get it to stop.
Danny gets out of the car and raises his hands.
"Got no weapons." He says to Delgado.
He backs away from the car
"Move it." Delgado says moving forward.
"Alright. I'm going to step out to the front of the vehicle alright?" He said. He did so. "Take it easy. Take my jacket off." He said and took his jacket off revealing no weapons after he turned around for Delgado to see.
"Open your shirt." He said thinking Danny was wearing a wire.
Danny untucked his shirt and there was no wire.
He started backing up again.
"The money's transferred Raul." Danny told him.
"I know I confirmed it." He said looking at Danny.
I looked at one of the three Danny's I saw questioningly.
What was his plan.
"Ok. Get in the car with me, alright. I'll drive you to the airport. Jets fueled up and ready to go at Kennedy. Just release her first, alright?" He said pointing at me.
"No way man." He said and held me tighter. "I can't release her, she's my insurance that I won't be killed. That you won't pull anything."
"I've given you my word." I interrupted him by coughing up blood.
"Your word is crap man. And if I were you. I would let us go. Cause the longer she's here the less time she has." He said. "I'll release her when I get to the Dominican Republic."
Danny backed up a few steps and looked at me.
"I'm promising you safe passage to the D.R. okay?" Danny said. "Okay. But you can't take her with you. Just leave her here. Cmon you and me."
"No way man." Delgado said again.
"Raul, cmon. I've given you everything you've asked for. Everything you asked for I got it for you." He said looking like he was about to cry. "I'm only asking you one thing in return please. Please. One thing. One thing cmon look at me. Hey, hey. Look at me." Danny got on his knees and put his hands together.
He looked at me.
"Please, don't hurt my family." He said and I dropped to the ground.
Danny shot him and walked up to me.
"Are you ok?" He asks and kisses my head.
I nodded and he lifts me up and takes me to a paremedic where they take me to the hospital.
I woke up in a hospital room and there was a nurse.
"You're awake." She said.
"My baby?" I ask.
"Is fine. The doctor checked up on it and it is completely fine." The nurse said and I sighed with relief.
"Can I get my discharge papers?" I ask her.
"I don't think that's a good idea. The doctor wants to keep you for a few days before you go home." She tells me.
"Discharge papers." I say sitting up. She went to go get them.
I ripped out my IV and pulled the wires off of me and stood.
The nurse came back and handed me the papers and a pen.
"Where's my stuff." I ask after I sign the papers.
"Over there. But the clothes are all bloody so I will get you a pair of scrubs." She said leaving the room again.
She came back with a pair of scrubs and helped me change.
Once I was done I walked out of the hospital and hailed a cab and told them my address.
I didn't know what day it was but I did know I would rather be home then I'm some hospital any day.
He pulled in front of the house and stopped.
Everyone was here.
Which meant- damn it.
It was Sunday and this was Sunday dinner.
And Danny was going to kill me for leaving the hospital.
I paid the cabbie and walked into the house.
Danny came to see who walked in and when he saw me he walked up to me.
"What are you doing out of the hospital?" He asks me.
"You know I don't do hospitals." I told him.
"You do when you get shot twice by a crazy person." He said and I silently added while you're pregnant.
"No I don't." I said walking past him. I walked into the dining room and as soon as Jack and Sean saw me they both hugged me.
Which hurt like a bitch but I didn't want to hurt their feeling so I hugged them back.
Danny made a plate for me and I looked at him.
"How's your wing?" Dad asked.
"Good." I said.
'Thank you.' I mouthed to him and he nodded.
I was finally released and I sat down and silently said grace as others continued their conversation. I started to try to cut the meat with a fork seeing as I couldn't hold a knife with one arm in a sling.
Dad was watching me struggle for a few minutes.
"How your wing?" He asked.
"Same as it was the last time you asked. Five minutes ago." I said smiling at dad.
"Aunt Allie, do you need help with anything?" Jack asks
"No that's ok, thank you Jack." I say and smile at him.
Dad takes my plate and cuts the meat for me.
"Allie dodging bullets, Jamie telling off his bosses. It's a banner week for the family business." Pops says.
"Who'd you tell off?" I ask.
"I didn't tell anyone off." He said looking back at me.
"Oh, and here you thought I was the trouble maker dad." Danny says and I scoffed.
Danny looked at me.
"He never thought you were as much as a trouble maker as I was." I said and Danny debated it.
"Your right." He said and everyone laughed.
"Who's you tell off?" Nikki asks Jamie.
"No one." He said. "God there is no privacy in this family."
"Personally, I say you're not doing your job if you're not getting complaints or getting suspended." Danny says
"I'll drink to that." I said raising my glass.
"So you got to break the rules in order to be a good cop?" Dad asks.
"No, we're just saying that if you're an active cop and you're passionate about what you do, you're bound to piss somebody off in your career at least once." I say.
Danny nods in agreement.
"And nobody knows that better than you two." Linda says.
"Well the apple don't fall far from the tree." Me and Danny say at the same time looking at dad.
"Hmm? Really?" She says when she sees us looking at dad.
"Two weeks without pay for telling the chief to stick it...where the sun don't shine." He said and Linda chuckles.
"Two day suspension for kicking a rapist in the nuts." Pops says.
Aw what the hell.
"A one week suspension for punching my Commanding Officer and cussing him out in every language I know." I said raising my hand and everyone looked shocked.
"Suspended for calling out a corrupt judge in open court." Danny adds in.
"Does that mean if I get suspended from school..." Sean drawled out.
"No." Danny said.
"No that's not what we're saying sweety. We're not saying that getting suspended is a badge of honor." Linda said.
"But sometimes you have to follow you're heart. Even if you do break the rules." Dad said.
"Is that what aunt Allie was doing when she was suspended from school? Following her heart." Jack asked and I choked on my water.
I looked at Danny who was glaring at me.
"Why are you glaring at me? I didn't tell them." I said.
"That might have been me." Pops said.
"When I was suspended from school you want to know what happened?" I asked and they both nodded their heads.
"I had to do all chores, you don't really think there's that much until you have to do them all. And on top of that I got my ass spanked everyday until the end of my suspension." I said making up the spanking on the fly hoping that will make them not want to do it.
"Really?" They ask.
"Yep. Getting suspended from school is much worse than actually going to school." I said.
"I think we should make a new rule about keeping secrets about family members being in danger and make them wait until the next morning to hear about it." Nikki said and I smiled at her.
"We didn't want you to worry Nikki." Danny said.
"Yeah. I agree with Danny. You needed to focus on you're school work, not on me." I told her.
"Or and I quote 'dying of boredom' as you put it." Nikki says smirking at me.
"How is it that you three can remember all the bad things I say but none of the good." I say looking at Nikki, Jack, and Sean.
"I remember something pretty good that you told me." Nikki said looking subtly at my stomach.
"No you don't." I said quickly trying to make her be quiet because I haven't told anyone but her, my boss, and the army.
"But I am grateful to you uncle Danny." Nikki changed the topic.
"For saving aunt Allie." She said and looked at me and I know that she silently added the and cousin on the end.
Danny smiled at her and then me.
"Actually we have your grandfather to thank to." I said looking at Nikki. "I mean uncle Danny for being there but your grandfather for preparing us when we were little." I said and looked at my dad.
"That's right. If I say, 'please don't hurt my family' what are you guys going to do?" Danny asks Nikki Jack and Sean.
"Hit the ground." They say at the same time and I smile at them.
"Because?" Danny asks.
"Because that means dads going to shoot the bad guy." Jack says.
"There you go." Danny says.
"Is that how you saved aunt Allie?" Jack asks.
"Mm-hmm," Danny hummed.
"Yep." I say.
"Really? Wow." Jacks said in awe.
"Who invented that?" Nikki asked Erin.
"Your grandfather." She answered.
"He used to drill that into us every time we went into the city." I said.
"Every time we got in the subway." Jamie said.
"Actually, pops invented it. He used to do the same thing to me." Dad said.
"Well we, never had to actually use it." Pops said.
"And please god we never will again." Dad said.
"Amen." I said.