Just a Little Pixie Dust

Sarabelle (Chapter 10.)

Looking up I watched as Izzy came out of Jacob’s office, and made a B-line straight for her chair to sit down. She looked upset like she was trying to figure out where to begin with what she wanted to say. She grabbed her notepad and stared at it and I looked over at Eryx and watched his expression. His eyes never once left her.

Glancing back at her I watched as she gave Eryx a look and then shook her head at him, lifting a brow I began to speak but was cut off by him. “It’s basically impossible.” He started, speaking to her “I was looking over your smaller notes and there was nothing to suggest anyone of anything, how are we going to narrow this down?”

She shrugged in response, giving him a look. “Not sure but right now? We have to try; Jacob is too pissed off not to.”

“And he has all the right in the world to be pissed off.” I said frowning. “Doesn’t change s**t though.”

“Well we’re all lucky to have this damn job still.” Eryx grunted. Izzy looked over at me for a moment I wasn’t even sure what she was thinking; her expression didn’t give away much other than the fact that she was worried. She took a deep breath and then stood up striding towards the door leaving me all but confused.

“Where do you think you’re going?” I asked staring at her wide eyed.

“Interviews, they have to be done.” She said then nodded towards Jacob’s office “He wants answers, and so do I.”

“What about all this though?” I asked motioning towards the stack of papers. She wasn’t really going to leave me alone with all this again was she? I was getting sick of paperwork, part of the job or not I hated it.

“You and Eryx can handle that, I promise you’ll survive.” Jacob said announcing that he’d left his office and making me all but freeze in place.

I glanced over at him for a long moment and he met my eyes holding my gaze for a split second before he turned his attention to Izzy and nodded at her, as soon as she did she took that as her time to leave and took off out of the place, though truthfully I wasn’t at all surprised by it.

Izzy had left and we now had something worse to deal with… Jacob. He was a good man, even I knew it. He did his job here and protected the town, often protecting us from ourselves. But, right now he was angry and I couldn’t blame him I really couldn’t. We’d let someone escape that he’d been working his ass off on trying to find and capture.

Finishing up the paperwork in front of me I sighed and leaned back in my seat, Jacob was pacing and Eryx was eating the food he had. Frowning, I lifted the bag up off my desk and walked over to Jacob holding the bag out to him. He looked at me suspiciously but knew what it was and grabbed food out of it quickly, giving him a small smile.

“Thanks.”

“No problem.” I grinned.

“Hey guys? Gonna head out real fast to find Aryelle, she called in about needing some help… if that’s ok?”

Jacob sighed giving him a once over before nodding his head once and letting him go. Eryx grabbed his jacket and charged out of the office quickly going straight for his cruiser. Rolling my eyes at how eager he was to get out of the station I sighed and looked at Jacob for a moment, grabbing my thermos I held it out to him.

“You look like you could use some.”

He stared at it for a moment before taking it and drinking some of the coffee from it. He was looking stressed, and I couldn’t blame him, but all around he was starting to actually look like s**t right now.

“Can you drive? Not… to sound rude Jake, but you look beyond exhausted.”

“Possibly, I don’t know, but I’m not riding on that damned bike of yours.”

I grinned and shook my head looking up at him. “No bike, I’ll take your car you need to go home at least to shower or something when the other three get here.”

“I shouldn’t leave here after earlier.”

Giving him a stern look I crossed my arms over my chest. “Since when have Hansel and Gretel been incapable of not keeping out the bad here?”

He knew I was right, he was just being stubborn again I hated it when he was like that but I couldn’t exactly do anything about it either. He frowned and stared at me, then took another long drink from my coffee; at the rate he was going I wouldn’t have any left.

“What are you going to do if you drive me home? You can’t walk in this.”

“I’ll call a cab.” I sighed, staring at the paperwork on my desk.

“No, you’re not doing that either…” He thought about it for a moment and stood up right. “You can stay at my place while I get a shower, I’ll get you more coffee too cause this is empty.”

“Jacob, you don’t have to…”

“No, Belle I don’t, but I want to so just let me.”

 Closing my eyes for a moment I walked over to him and set a hand on his chest. “What happened before, it can’t happen again Jake…”

He put his hand over mine and stared at them as he spoke. “I know we run the risk of work and everything else Belle… I know you still love him but you need to move on, you can’t put what could be on hold to hope that one day he’ll come back to you.”

“And what if he does come back Jacob? What if they find that he was wrongly accused and he’s freed?”

He said nothing and just moved away from me slowly and looked up at the door as it opened watching as the trio came in with donuts and chatting loudly about something. Shaking my head I grabbed Jacob’s keys from his pocket and listened as he explained that he needed to go home to try and wake his ass up a bit and that we’d be back soon. Right about now I wished Izzy had taken me with her… or Eryx let me go instead, something.

Walking outside towards his car, I stopped next to the driver side door and opened it up to get inside, waiting for him to come over and get in I started it up and turned on the heat. There was a time when I had been in love with my boss, and it was a silly thought… it changed me too, I used to be like Izzy, but… Sometimes you can’t forget things.

Now here we were, and I couldn’t forgive him still. He was the one who put him in that book… he took him from me. It was years ago now, almost three but I still couldn’t forgive him all the way. And staying the night at his house once had turned out to be a horrid idea especially when he wished it’d become something it never could, not unless I suddenly found a way to forgive and forget.

The door clicked and the car shook for a moment as he threw himself into the passenger side seat, glancing at him I sighed and waited for him to get himself settled, once he had I began to pull out in silence. It only took a few minutes to get to his place, which for me was a good thing because I didn’t want to sit in here any longer than I had to.

Following him inside, I frowned when he’d almost tripped over a rug and went into the nearby wall…I wasn’t leaving. He’d probably wreck his car on the way back to work if I did and I didn’t want to carry the guilt of a dead officer around with me like that. I was going to avoid it if I could and if it meant sucking it up and waiting for him to get ready I was going to do what I had to do.