Remember When

Chapter 6

Jackie is just about to lock her office up so she could go meet Harry and the others for lunch when her phone rings, looking down she sees it's Tonya. Locking her door, she answers her phone as she heads toward her truck.
"Hey Tony, what's up?" Jackie asks.

"Blake got out of jail." Tonya says. "Jack please tell you're safe there."

Jackie feels her heart skip a beat when she hears that name. "Tony, I live on an island you can only get to by boat or ferry, and I live with the towns sheriff."

"Is this town sheriff the same guy you went back for, hoping he still lived there? The childhood best friend?" Tonya asks.

"One and the same." Jackie says. "But if you haven't figured out by now we're slightly more than friends." Jackie says as she jumps from her truck just as Harry walks up. "Look, I'll keep an eye out and I'll tell Harry and the guys what's going on. Trust me Tony, I'm surrounded by law officials here. I'll call you back in a few days." Jackie tells her only other friend.

"Okay, just let me know how your doing, and send me a picture of this Harry guy." Tonya laughs.

"Will do." Jackie says as she hangs up the phone.

"Problems?" Harry asks as he pulls Jackie into a hug, then kisses her.

"Hmm." Jackie hums into the kiss. When they pull apart she let's Harry lead her into the cafe. "Not a problem per sè, the person on the phone is a friend of mine, her name is Tonya. As you could hear I call her Tony, last year right after I passed the bar I was given a case to prosecute." Jackie says as she sits down, making sure everyone knows what's going on. "His name is Blake Daniels."

"Whoa, wait." Liam says with awe. "You put him in jail?"

"I did. But all during court, he kept throwing out these threats. Every night I would be escorted to and from my car, followed home, then picked up each morning. The judge wanted to make sure Blake didn't have someone out there somewhere to make good on his threats." Jackie says.
"Well, Tony just called to let me know he's out, and the last thing he said before the balif took him away was when he gets released he'd find me and kill me."

"No way will that happen." Harry says as he picks Jackie up and places her on his lap. "If I have to put a twenty-four hour guard on you I will."

"Well technically I'd only need a babysitter for eight hours, dear." Jackie smiles. "I already have you the rest of the time."

Harry smiles. "That's true, unless I'm called out on an emergency run." Harry says.

"If that happens then call one of us or the other guys at the station, hell they all know who Jackie is and what she is to you now, most of them can't wait to meet the girl who finally caught the one and only Harry Styles." Niall laughs.

"Bullshit, you guys make it sound like I've never dated." Harry says.

"Oh we're not saying you didn't date." Sam says. "We're just saying you've never even concidered moving someone in that house of yours."

Harry and Jackie look at each other and start laughing. "That's because it's never been just my house." Harry says, he then goes on to explain to everyone about his and Jackie's childhood dream of someday living in that house together. "I guess if Jack never came home and I did find someone I could live with I would have moved, but I would have never moved someone into our home." Harry says as he wraps his arms around Jackie and she lays her head back on his shoulder.

Dani sighs. "Boy you two are so fucking cute, but this honeymoon stage is annoying as hell." She says making everyone laugh.

"Aww, get used to it. It will alway be like this with us." Jackie smiles. Harry grins and kisses her neck. "Our honeymoon is eternal." Jackie says with a chuckle as Anne set their plate and two forks in front of them.

"Well I can tell you this." Anne laughs, not seeing Andra standing behind her. "You other couples need to takes notes, if you all would eat off the same plate like my kids here do, I'd have less work to do at the end of the day."

"Well Momma Anne I don't think I'd be able to eat with Dani in my lap like Harry does Jack, they've been doing that since they were six. They've had plenty of practice." Liam laughs.

"Six?" Andra screeches. "You've known her that long? So I never had a chance?"

Harry sighs. "Andra, I told you the day you moved here you didn't have a chance, I don't know why you didn't believe me then."

"Then where has she been all this time?" Andra snaps.

"Law school." Jackie lies. "I had to move to the city to get my degree, I came back as soon as I passed the bar. Now go away or I'll use that on you with an restraining order siting harassment."

"You two really are a couple, not just good friends." She asks.

"Yes." Harry snaps, losing patients with the woman. "We are a couple, Jack lives with me, sleeps with me. I love her more than anything in this world and have most my life. Now go away, for the love of God."

Jackie sits frozen in Harry's lap after hearing what he said, it's not like she doesn't know how he feels, he shows her in many different ways every day, same as she does with him. They've been living together for over a week now, but they've never said those three words to each other. And to hear them yelled, in a room full of people, at someone who isn't her, well it's shocking.
After watching Andra walk, or rather stomp out the door, Harry realizes what he said. "Fuck." He mutters, pissed at himself for not telling Jackie before now how he feels, and she had to hear it this way. "Excuse us." Harry says as he stands with Jackie in his arms and he walks away.