the captain's niece [Jake Peralta]

Chapter 4

       Amy smirked at me from across the room, I turned my chair to see Rosa and Gina staring at me.
"What did I do?" I asked.
"You like Jake!" Amy said as I laughed.
"No, I do not. Sam likes Jake, he's just a colleague to me." I said.
"Yeah sure. Whatever you say, liar." Gina said as I groaned.
My phone started to ring as I looked at who was calling.
"Is that Jake?" Rosa asked.
"No, it's Sam's babysitter." I said answering it.
"ELIZABETH!" Jasmine yelled.
"Calm down, what's wrong?" I asked.
"Sam won't come out of his room... He keeps on screaming for someone named Jake." Jasmine said as I sighed.
"I'll be there in 30." I said hanging up.
I got up pulling on my jacket as Uncle Holt came out of his office.
"Detective Conzer, where are you going?"
"At home emergency." I said.
"You know there is a daycare across the street." He said.
"There is?" I went to the window then looked outside.
Angels & Graces Day Care
"Oh... I'll be back in an hour." I said running off.

     "Sammy, please come out!" I plead for the 9th time.
"No!" He said as I sighed.
"Why won't you come out huh?"
"I want Jake." Sam cried.
"Why babies? Why do you want Jake?" I asked him.
"Because, I like him." Sam said as my eyes widened.
"You li-like him? Sam honey, he's just a friend of mine a co-worker." I said as his door opened.
"I know, but I really like him." Sam said as my phone rang.
I picked it up to see it was Jake.
"Sit." I told Sam as I answered it.
"Hey Jake." I said.
"Hey Elizabeth."
"HI ELIZABETH!" Charles yelled from the back.
"So yeah, me and Charles should be back tomorrow." Jake said.
"Okay, what about Scully?"
"Oh right him... How's Sam?" Jake asked as I looked down at Sam.
"You can actually talk to him, he's right here." I said before handing Sam the phone.
"Hi Jake." He said as I sighed.
I went to the kitchen to get a drink of water but after 10 minutes Sam came back.
"He wants to talk to you." Sam said handing me my phone.
"Hey." I said.
"Hey again... So about Sam."
"Yeah. I know he likes you a lot, but I told him we're only co-workers. But he keeps on assisting so I'm sorry." I said.
"Elizabeth, what are you talking about?" Jake asked as my eyes widen.
"O-oh nothing. Have a safe way home." I said before hanging up.
"So." I turned to Sam with a smile on my face.
"What would you like for dinner?" I asked my son as his eyes widened.

I laughed at what Gina said as the elevator doors opened.
"O Canada, you home of crappy cops." Jake said happily.
"Guess who just freed his dad from Canadian prison and slammed six free mimosas on the first-class flight home sans the juice?"
"Spoiler alert, it was Jake." Charles said.
"It was me." Jake said.
"So turns out my dad's sidepiece framed him. She was hella pissed 'cause she found out about his real girlfriend and his other sidepiece. So yeah, turns out my dad is a great guy after all." Jake said happily.
"And in celebration of my freedom, I'm taking everybody out tonight. Drinks are on me." Captain Peralta said.
"Where's Scully?" Uncle Holt asked.
"Scully. Oh, no." Jake said.
"Who?" His dad asked as I could imagine Scully sitting at the airport.

I smiled at Jake and Charles as I got over to them.
"It's okay, Jake." Said Charles.
"You give me the signal, I'll start unscrewing blubs."
"No, my dad just texted. He's not coming."
"To Jake's dad!" Charles said as I rolled my eyes.
"Sorry, Jake... I'm sure your dad has a really good reason for not being here."
"No, don't do that, all right? Don't let him off the hook. That's what I've done my whole life." Jake said as I touched his shoulder.
"You know, when he missed my 11th birthday, I blamed myself for being born on a peak travel day. You were right about him Boyle." Jake told him.
"So what do we do know?" I asked.
"Hug for 10 minutes?" Charles asked as I rolled my eyes.
"No, give me a rain check on that hug. There's something I got to do... You can have my beer." Jake handed Charles his beer before running out.
"Cool." Charles said as I laughed.

Charles and I were talking about pizza restaurants until Jake came back.
I laughed as Charles grabbed another beer from the bartender, then turned back around.
"Superglue your panties to your butts, ladies, because Jake is in the house!" He cheered.
"What?"
"Never mind. I'm a little drunk." Charles said.
"Ah." Jake said as I nodded.
"I'm also worried about you, come here, ten minute hug time." Charles said hugging Jake as I giggled.
"I'd rather not."
"Come on."
"Okay. Boyle, release him." Uncle Holt said.
"Fine, only because you're ordering me too." Charles said sitting back down.
"There's nine minutes left on that hug."
"Great."
"Heh, nice job in Quebec. I bet the cops weren't happy you showed them up." uncle Holt said.
"Yeah, well, maybe not at first. But by the end, they kept calling me a real bastard, which I can only assume mean "hero."." Said Jake.
"It means "bastard," but that's only because they were jealous. You did good work. Here." Uncle Holt handed Jake an envelope.
"Is this an allowance? Are you giving me an allowance?" He asked excitedly.
"No, I'm paying the bartender for more drinks."
"Oh right." Jake said disappointed.
"I'm proud of you." Uncle Holt said walking away.
"Nine minutes start now!" Charles said hugging Jake as I laughed.

     I smiled at my phone as I rested against the alley way wall, as I looked at a picture of Sam that Jasmine sent me.
"Hey." I looked up to see Jake.
"Hey." I said shoving my phone in my back pocket.
"Look about the phone call yesterday."
"Right, sorry. Sam just had me worried that's all."
"Sam told me what was wrong, Elizabeth. I just wanted to tell you that I'm sorry for sticking around so much to make him attached to me." Jake said as I shook my head.
"Don't be sorry, he looks up to you and he hasn't really had a male role model. I mean his father left me when I told him I was pregnant. Sam hasn't had a male figure around expect my father. I guess that I'm just afraid and I wasn't thinking about Sam's feelings." I said sighing.
"My such a bad mother." I said.
"Hey." Jake rested his hands on my cheeks.
"You are not a bad mother, you just didn't want him to get hurt. You are the best mother in the world." Jake said.
I looked at him to see our lips were inches apart.
He gently pushed me up against the wall, pressing his lips on mine.

I gasped melting into his kiss as I ran my hands up his chest, kissing back.
Jake pulled away smiling as I was blushing like crazy.
"I um, don't have to be home for another 2 hours." I said as he smirked.
"Wanna head back to my place."
I nodded.
Jake moved away before throwing me over his shoulders as I laughed.