Jack and Angie

Chapter 7


Angie woke up alone and frowned to herself. She had thought, or rather hoped that after last night, Jack would still be there when she woke up. She got out of his bed slowly due to the delicious ache between her legs that Jack had caused last night. As she went to check on Sebastian, she gave herself a stern talking too. The cold hard facts were that while right now, Jack needed her and the comfort of her body, it was not exactly a marriage proposal. She still loved him with every cell in her body, but she told herself that he might not feel the same. He had not mentioned anything about his feelings for her as of the moment or anything about a future together. For all she knew, he was planning to go back to New York or wherever he had been after everything was all over and her life was here.

She saw that Sebastian was still sleeping like an angel and smiled. She couldn’t wait to tell Jack about his son. She quietly gathered her things and went back to the bathroom to hear the shower already running. Hearing voices downstairs, she peeked over the banister and saw Bobby and Angel on the couch and Sofie yelling in Spanish from the direction of the kitchen. That only left one person that could be in the shower.

Quietly opening the door a crack, she could barely make out the outline of someone very tall and thin through the thick white shower curtain. She tip-toed into the bathroom and shut the door with a barely audible click and started to strip.

Jack almost jumped out of his skin when she peeled back the shower curtain and joined him, maneuvering herself between him and the spray. “Oh, sorry. I thought you were done.” She said innocently as she reached around him for the shampoo. He just grinned at her and helped by soaping up a clean washcloth and starting to wash her back.

Before they could do anything else, Bobby knocked on the door and said, “Yo, Ang! What does the little man eat for breakfast?”

She sighed and muttered about interruptions as Jack laughed and said, “Go ahead and finish your shower, I was already done. I’ll make him some pancakes.”

She kissed him on the nose in thanks and luxuriated in the hot water. Thank God Evelyn had had the foresight to put in a monster of a hot water tank or it would have been a cold shower she was taking this morning. She took her time showering and moisturizing her skin before getting dressed, looking forward to eating Jack’s delicious pancakes for the first time in four years. But when she got downstairs, she found Greene talking to Bobby, who sat on the couch with one of Sofie’s bathrobes on while Angel and Jack looked on from the doorway. Sofie stood in the doorway to the kitchen, shielding Sebastian from the conversation while he ate his breakfast.

“Hey Angie.” Greene pulled her into a hug as he said, “I haven’t seen you in a while. How you and your boy doing?”

“Just fine Greene.” Angie answered with a tense smile.

Greene smiled at her while she noticed that his partner eyed her coldly, “You and Jack back together?”

Jack stepped up behind her and slid an arm around her waist as he said, “Yeah man, we’re back together.” She tried to keep her expression from radiating her happiness as Jack staked his claim on her, but she could tell from the twinkle in his eyes that Greene had an idea of her feelings.

Greene just nodded happily and said, “Good, good.” Before turning to Bobby and saying seriously, “Look Bobby, if you got something and its vital, you give it to me and we will run with this. But don’t try to take on Detroit by your damn self. You keep knockin’ on the devil’s door long enough, and sooner or later someone’s gonna answer you.”

Bobby just smirked without saying anything. Greene hustled his partner out the door. Angie checked on Sebastian before turning to the guys and saying, “What the hell did you do last night?”

They explained to her about finding the shooter responsible for shooting Evelyn and the car chase. They also told her something that Jack had found out only that morning. When Angel and Sofie went to her house the night before to pack more stuff for Sebastian, they walked in to find the house had been broken into. They would have normally thought nothing of it except that there was an old picture she had had of her and Jack together, taken during their last Christmas together with his family. It had been pinned to the front door with a switchblade. By the time they were done telling her everything, she was very pale. She went to Jack and wrapped her arms around him as she composed herself.

After eating breakfast, Angie asked Bobby to drive Sebastian over to Jerry’s after calling Jerry on her cell and asking if it was okay if he and Camille took Sebastian for a couple of days and about the break-in. Jerry immediately said okay while Camille yelled in the background that Angie should come too. She told Jerry to tell Camille that she wasn’t leaving Jack. She didn’t need to ask them to take good care of Sebastian, she knew that they would do that regardless, but it was still painful for her to sit Sebastian down and explain to him that he was going to stay with Uncle Jerry and Aunt Camille for a few days.

It was a shock when Sebastian burst out in tears. It took Angie ten minutes to calm him down enough to find out what was wrong. By that time, Jerry had arrived. Her heart almost broke when Sebastian told her that some girl in the neighborhood a couple of years older than him had told him that once his mommy found a boyfriend, she would pack him off to Australia because the new boyfriend wouldn’t want him around.

Bobby muttered something about finding the little girl and cutting her pigtails off as Jack bent down and told Sebastian, “That is NEVER gonna happen little man. EVER. I am always going to want you around. I would never take your mommy from you.” He crooned as he gestured to everyone surrounding them, “We are your family now, and you don’t send your family away.”

“Pwomise?” Sebastian asked hopefully.

“Promise.” Jack said with a comforting smile. Sebastian seemed satisfied with Jack’s acceptance of him and after giving him a hug, he took Jerry’s hand and pulled him out the door and everyone heard him telling Jerry that Danielle and Amelia had better not try to make him play with their dolls again or he was going to cut off the dolls hair.

Jack wrapped his arms around Angie’s waist as she watched her son leave. She leaned back against him and sighed, “Jack. I really need to tell you that—.”

“Jack!” Bobby bellowed from the living room.

“I promise baby. As soon as all this shit with Ma is cleared up, we will have that talk.” Jack whispered in her hair, “Even if we have to jump on Bobby in his sleep and tie him up with duct tape over his mouth.” He turned her around his embrace to tell her more seriously, “I just don’t think I can handle talking about it along with all the shit that’s going on. Right now, I can only deal with one thing at a time. Alright?”

She felt unsure. He should know the truth, but he was right. The timing was bad. Once they found out who took out a hit on Evelyn and why, then she would make Jack talk to her so she could tell him that Sebastian was his son. She nodded and gave him a weak smile as they went back inside.

After getting a cup of coffee, she went back into the living room to see Angel standing in front of Sofie, who was blocking the door. Jack came over to her and kissed her as he whispered that they were going to go check out the shooter’s place. She nodded and rolled her eyes as Bobby taunted first Sofie and then Angel after Sofie stormed off into the kitchen.

“She’s getting real comfortable here man. What are you doing? I thought you was a macho man, a tough guy. You know it’s a real shame that little Jackie’s the only one down to ride.” Bobby said as Angel clenched his jaw trying to brush off the insult to his manhood.

“Be careful baby.” Angie said giving Jack one last kiss. She poked her head around the corner and called, “Bobby!”

“What?” he yelled back from the porch.

“You let anything happen to him and I swear to all that is Holy you better sleep with one eye open for the rest of your life, ‘cause one day I will be there and I will cut your dick off and stuff it up your ass while you’re sleeping!” Angie said warningly as Jack shook with laughter.

Bobby winced and checked to make sure his balls were still in his pants before saying sweetly, “Aww, Ang. Don’t you trust me?” when she snorted without cracking a smile, he added, “Don’t worry. I’ll make sure the fairy comes home in one piece.” He motioned at Jack. “Let’s go. Say goodbye to your little sister Jackie.” He smacked Angel lightly on the chest.

Angel gave Jack a dirty look as he passed him in the doorway, “You’re gonna leave me too?”

As Jack went out the door, he taunted Angel in a sing-song voice, “She’s addicted to what Angel’s dick did.”

Angel glared as he yelled, “And like Angie’s not addicted to yours?”

“To fucking right I am!” Angie called over her shoulder as she went back up the stairs to take a nap in Jack’s room. “And it better be back soon before I decide I need my fix! I’ll get mighty cranky!”

The big, tough, mean Mercer boy’s helpless giggles were cut off by the door closing.

By the time she woke up, the boy’s were back and checking out the guns they found at the shooter’s place. Jerry walked in the back door and asked what was going on. Bobby made some smart ass comment about getting started on next years taxes as Jack took her by the hand and pulled her into his lap as he flipped through the photos on a digital camera he found. As one picture faded into another, Angie gasped, “Look Jack, that’s your mom!”

Angel and Bobby crowded around them as Jack continued to flip through the various photos of Evelyn walking out the front door and while she was shopping. “They were tracking her.” Bobby said with murder in his eyes.

When a picture of her with an older man showed up, Angie felt Jack stiffen under her as he pointed at the picture and said, “That’s that guy, the lawyer! That shithead said he only met her once Bobby!”

Angie thought that he didn’t look like a lawyer now as the picture changed to show one where Evelyn was kissing the guy on her porch, but she didn’t think they saw that one.

Bobby looked up at Angel as he walked in from outside and asked, “Where the hell you been? I been tryin’ to call you all day.” Angie hadn’t realized that he was even gone, been then she had been busy catching up on the sleep she had missed last night.

“Following up on some new leads.” He said without taking his eyes off of Jerry.

Bobby wasn’t paying attention to the tension that seemed to surround Angel as he grabbed his jacket and said, “Let’s go. Jerry, you comin’ with us?” When Jerry looked as though he wanted to refuse, Bobby asked, “Don’t you wanna find out who hired them?”

“Yeah,” Angel said with his eyes glued to his brother, “Don’t you wanna find out who killed mom?”

Jack stood up and kissed her goodbye as Jerry answered, “Of course I do man.”

“Let’s go. Stop bullshittin’. Come on.” Bobby said halfway out the door with Jack trailing behind him.

Angie watched through the front window as they pulled away from the curb. Sofie was pissed from the sound of the pots and pans rattling around in the kitchen. When she started yelling at herself in Spanish, Angie sighed and went to calm her down.