Cops, Bombs & Firemen - A Blue Bloods story

6: Friends & Family

"Grace, have you seen my keys?" Jamie asked the following day as he got ready to leave for dinner with his family.

"Yeah, there on the counter where you left them." she replied as she finished her makeup.

"I still don't see why you don't just come to dinner with me, I mean you were set to come last month before you had to deal with all of that stuff with work." he said walking over to her and wrapping his arms around her waist.

"I told you, I will come to dinner with your family after you tell your dad that we're a couple. He knows who I am and that I work with the fire department. I don't want to blindside him at dinner. Besides, I promised Kate that we would take Julia to the park and have some girl time." she smiled.

"I would like you to be there when I tell him." Jamie whined.

She laughed and shook her head at his childish behavior.

"You're a big boy Jamie. Tell your dad and I will be there next week okay?"

"Fine." He mumbled and crossed his arms. She kissed him and he held her tight. "Now I definitely don't want to go."

"Go! Now!" She waved him off and he raised his hands.

"Leaving. I love you! Have a good time tonight!"

"I love you too. Bye baby!"

Jamie closed the door behind him and walked down stairs and to his car. He arrived at his dad's house five minutes early and walked inside.

"Hey guys!" He called out.

"Hey Jamie." Erin said as she grabbed the salad bowl. "Help me to the dining room?" She asked nodding to the plate of carved turkey.

"I'm here thirty seconds and you put me to work." He joked before grabbing the plate.

"Always." He followed Erin to the dining room and everyone was sitting at the table waiting.

"It's about time you showed up kid. We're starving here." Danny said as he took a sip of his wine.

"Well in that case I'll start arriving five minutes late instead of five minutes early just for you Danny." Jamie shout back sarcastically, sitting down in his chair.

"Funny, not all of us had the whole weekend off, kid. I barely ate anything with having to deal with the damn arson Investigator. He thinks that there is more to the story than just a simple arson.

"Well that sounds like a you problem, not a me problem." Jamie replied sticking his tongue out.

Danny stuck his tongue back out at him.

"Alright kids knock it off before I ground you both." Frank raised his hands and the family laughed. "Danny since you're in such a rush to eat, how about you say grace?"

Danny nodded and they grabbed hands to say grace. After saying grace they dug in and started eating.

"What is going on with the Arson investigation? I haven't heard much about it." Jamie asked Danny.

"A fire was set in an empty office building, no one has lived there in years and now some investigator with the Arson unit is wanting us to look into it further. I think it's just a case of bad wiring, but this guy thinks it something else. So now he wants to work with us on the case. Never mind that I have a stack of cases on my desk that I need to deal with before I deal with his sorry butt." Danny grumbled.

"Who's this Arson Investigator?" Erin asked Danny.

"Andrew something or other." Danny answered.