Remember When

Chapter 5

Harry sighs as he drops into his chair beside Jackie. She turns and looks at him with concern. "Rough day already?" She asks softly, placing one hand on his thigh.

Harry drapes his arm over the back of Jackie's chair, rubbing his fingers up and down her arm. "Yeah, old man Jamison decided to start his drinking early today." Harry tells her. "He picked a fight with the bartender and his wife when she was called to pick him up."

"Oh wow. He's still doing that?" Jackie asks.

"Yep, but now he's taking his anger out on women." Harry says. "Promise me if you see him stumbling around you'll stay away from him and call me or one of the guys."

"I can do that. I've seen what women look like when men get angry." Jackie says with a shudder. "One of the aspects of my job I hate." She says.

Just then the bell on the door rings and Liam walks in with the others following him. "Boss do us all a favor and next time let Nancy use the rolling pin on Jamison. That man is a bitch to put in a cell when he's drunk off his ass like that." Niall laughs.

Harry chuckles. "Why do you think I left you three jokers to fight him so I could come here. Perks of being the boss." Harry grins, showing off his dimples.

"Now I know we were making a mistake talking you into running against old man Parker for Sherriff." Liam says. "And here we thought he was abusing his power."

"I don't know, guys." Louis says. "I'd much rather work for Styles than Parker. At least we get our days off with Harry, Parker always called us in then refused to pay us due cut backs."

"Wait, what?" Jackie asks. "Did you report him for that?"

"To who?" Harry asks. "He was our boss at the time.

"But Harry, it's against the law not to pay you your overtime wages. You're working for the state. How long ago was this?" Jackie asks.

"Last year." Harry says. "I've been sherriff almost a year now. Why?"

"Statue of limitations hasn't expired yet. If I can prove to the state you guys weren't payed your overtime pay you can still claim it. They still owe it to you." Jackie says.

"No fucking way." Harry grins. "I still have all our time cards. I told the guys then they might come in handy and it might be wise to keep them."

"Give them to me all I'll file a patition as soon as I get back to the office." Jackie says as Anne sets lunch on the table. "I'll also need check stubs for that time, I hope you have those too."

"I do." All four guys say at the same time.

"Great, after we're done eating I'll go by the station, pick that stuff up, then I'll go to my office and get to work on that right away." Jackie says.

"How long before you something about that?" Sam asks Jackie.

"Probably tomorrow, if I have all the paperwork done correctly. Which I will, as long as these guys give me everything I need. But I'll know tonight how much the state owes them. I minored in math in college, I was thinking about teaching at one point, well that was until my parents started up their bullshit again. I then went into law and used it against them." Jackie smiles.

Harry chuckles. "Nice to know you haven't lost your sass."

"Nope, I just use bigger, more complicated words now." Jackie smirks.

Dani is just about to ask Jackie another question when Andra walks in, she's only been living in Paradise for a couple of years, she bought the beauty shop. But every since she moved in she automatically assumed Harry is fair game.
"Well shit, here comes trouble." Dani groans.

Jackie leans forward slightly to see who Dani is talking about, her eyes widen when she sees the tall, leggy and quite underdressed, brunette walking slowly toward their table.

"That bitch is about to get a piece of my mind." Anne snaps right before the woman gets to Harry's side.

Just as Andra is about to put her hand on Harry's shoulder Jackie wraps her arms around his neck, causing her hand to land on Jackie's. When that happened Harry smiles. "Can we help you?" Jackie asks politely.

Andra looks at the beautiful girl sitting practically in Harry's lap, what pisses her off is he does that seem to mind. "No sweety, you can't. Now Harry might be able to. He knows the law."

"Oh, you need someone who knows the law." Jackie sighs. "So I guess having three deputies here just wasn't worth your notice. Well sweety if you need help with a legal issue, I'm your gal. I'm a lawyer otherwise take your hand off my man or I'll break it and your fake nails, and my guy here will have to put his cuffs on me again." Jackie says with a sweet smile causing all the others to laugh, even Harry.

Andra starts to respond to that but Harry raises his hand. "Please don't insult her in front of me. Andra, I've told so many times I'm not interested. Now you know why, and while we're on that subject." Harry turns and looks at the guys. "You guys free to help move Jack into my house tonight, we decided we've been apart to fucking long." Harry grins as he pulls Jackie into his lap.

Anne smiles and kisses Jackie on the cheek. "I'm so glad you're home." She says, pissing Andra off.

"Seriously, I don't even know who she is." Andra snaps. "I've never seen her around this area before."

"You don't have to, we do and that's all that matters." Niall says.

Andra is about to respond to that when she's once again interrupted but this time when Harry's Aunt Martha walks in. "Oh wow. Jackie you're beautiful. Girl get you ass over here and give your Aunt Marty a hug."

"Oh shit, Harry let me go." Jackie cries as she jumps off Harry's lap and runs to the older lady, causing Harry to throw his head back and laugh.