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Disclaimer:� Do I really need to do this???� Fine.�
I am obviously not Jerry Bruckheimer or Anthony Zuiker�Do not own�Blah,
Blah, Blah�And if you think that I�m getting paid for this, I can recommend a
good psychiatric hospital if needed!!
AN: This is the second in a series of one shots that take place between chapter 50 and 51 of my other
story: A Time to Heal.� This one is full
of angst and will have a direct tie-in with the sequel: D�j� vu.� Hope y�all like it!
Happy Freakin� Birthday
(Wednesday, March 28)
Cory was sitting at her desk when the call came.� The one call that she knew could change her
life.
�Reid?�
�Agent
Reid?� It�s Tim O�Reilly.�
Cory was surprised to hear from him.� The last time she had talked to him was right
after the closing arguments in the Ortiz case.�
�Hey, Tim.� What�s going on?�
Tim cleared his throat.�
�I had an interesting call from
Elizabeth Marquez.�
�What?� Ortiz�s
attorney?� What did she want?� Another chance at an appeal?�
Tim managed a small laugh.�
�Umm�No.� Her client has requested a meeting with
you.� In person, on April first.�
Cory felt like someone had hit her in the head with a
board.� �What?� No way.�
Why in the world would I want to meet with that piece of��
Tim cut her off.� �She said that he had some information that
you might like to hear.� Something about
his suppliers?�
�You have gotta be freakin�
kidding me.� Why now?� Why six months after the trial, does he all
the sudden want to talk to me?� Is he
trying to ruin my life?� Damn it!� I really need that information on his
suppliers.� I�ve been trying to track
them down, but haven�t had any luck.�
�I don�t know.� I�m just passing the message along.� She wants to know by Friday if you are coming
or not.�
Cory sighed.� �Sorry,
Tim.� I didn�t mean to take out my
frustration on you.� Let me think about
it, okay?�
�Sure.� Just let me know.� I�ll talk to you later.�
Cory hung up the phone and immediately called Lydia
into her office.
Lydia
walked in with a look of concern on her face.�
�Cory?� What�s wrong?�
Cory looked at her.�
�Ortiz wants a meeting with me.�
Says that he wants to give up some info on his suppliers.� And he wants to meet on my birthday.�
Lydia
looked at her.� �Oh, wow.� That�s�I can�t think of a word for it.�
Cory smiled.� �It�s crap.� That�s what it is.� He just wants to screw with my life
again.� But do you want to know the bad
thing?� I can�t pass up the
opportunity.� I need that information so
bad, that I am willing to go down there.�
Ahh!!�
Lydia
smiled and put a comforting hand on her shoulder.� �I know.�
And you�re completely right.�
We�ve spent months trying to get more info on who was supplying the
drugs and weapons and right now we are at a dead end.� Whoever the supplier is, they�re very smart.�
Cory got a resigned look on her face.� �I know.�
Danny�s going to explode when he hears this.� He�s going to try to change my mind.� Look.�
I need to go think.� I�ll have my
cell with me if anything comes up, but I think I need to go riding to clear my
head.�
Lydia
nodded.� �No problem.� If something comes up that I can�t handle,
I�ll call you.� When do you have to make
a decision?�
�By Friday.� The first is on Sunday.�� Cory stood up, grabbed her purse and walked
out of the door.
Two hours later, after stopping to change her clothes, she
was pulling up to the stable where Sampson and Delilah were boarded.� She got out of her car and walked to the
stable.� She smiled when she saw the high
school student how worked there after school.�
�Hey, Steve.� What�s going on?�
�Miss Cory! �Not
much.� What are you doing here on a
weekday?�
Cory laughed.� �I
needed to clear my head.� Has Sampson
been exercised today?�
�No, ma�am.� I was just about to get him ready.� Do you want company on your ride?�
Cory grinned.� She
knew that the kid had a crush on her.�
�No.� I need some time to
myself.� I�ll saddle him up myself.�
Cory quickly saddled Sampson and then retrieved the coat she
kept at the stable just for riding.� She
quickly mounted and headed out to a medium difficulty trail.
Once she was away from everyone, she began talking the
problem out to herself.� �Okay.� Let�s see.�
Ortiz is obsessed with me and ruining my life.� This could just be a lot of smoke and mirrors
to get me near him.� On the other hand,
he knows that if he doesn�t give me any information, I�ll never come near him
again.�
Cory thought about that for a little bit.� �So, he�s going to have to give me some kind
of info.� Will it be useful?� What use would he get from getting me crap
info?� He wouldn�t.� He knows that I would never speak to him
again, thus cutting off the one thing that he is obsessed with.�
Cory was distracted out of her thoughts by her phone
vibrating.� �Hey, Danny.� What�s up?�
�I just wanted to see
what you�re up to since you�re not at work.�
�Sorry.� I�m out
riding.� I needed to think about a
case.�� Cory felt a little bad not
telling Danny exactly what she was thinking about.
�Oh. Do you want me to
come over later?�� He sounded a
little hopeful.
Cory sighed.� �I�m
going to be working all night and I need to keep from distractions.� Lord knows you are enough to distract a nun!�
Danny laughed at her sally, but agreed that they would meet
up the next day.
After Cory got off the phone, she felt a little bad.� �It�s not like I�m lying to him.� I just need some time to sort things
out.� Where was I?� Oh, yeah.�
Ortiz not cutting contact with me to try to control me.� Let�s see.�
It�s obvious that he wants me there on my birthday, I wonder if he would
change the date?� Probably not.� He likes to control things.�
Cory let out an exasperated breath.� �Damn.�
I�m going to have to go down there.�
Bright side, I get to see Nicole and the kids.� Now how do I break it to Danny?�
Cory thought about that the rest of her ride.
(The next day, Dinner with Danny)
When Cory got home the next day, she was exhausted.� The first thing that she noticed when she
walked in was the wonderful smell of garlic.�
�Danny?�� She had given him a key
the day after Valentine�s Day.
Danny stuck his head out of the kitchen.� �Ciao, bella.� You sounded like you�ve had a couple of rough
days, so I thought I�d cook you dinner.�
Cory smiled.� �Mon coeur.� You are definitely too good for me.� That sounds perfect.� Thank you.�
Danny came over to give her a kiss.� �That�s why I�m here for you.� Do you want to talk about it?�
Cory grew somber.�
�After dinner.� Okay?�
Danny knew something was going on.� He hadn�t see Cory so down since before Ortiz
was arrested.� �Sure.� Whatever you want.�
After dinner, Cory led Danny to the living room.� �Umm.�
I don�t know how to say this.� It
was so unexpected��
Danny looked at her as she trailed off.� �You�re pregnant, aren�t you?�
Cory lifted her head in shock.� �What?�
�That�s what you want to tell me.� You�re pregnant.� Wow. I�m going to be a dad!�
Cory couldn�t help herself.� She started laughing.� She saw the look on Danny�s face.� �Sorry!�
I don�t mean to laugh.� No, I�m
not pregnant.� The news is not nearly as
good as that.�� She drew in a
breath.� �Ortiz wants me to meet with
him.� On Sunday.�
Danny felt the glee leave his heart.� �What?�
Of course you�re not going.�� Cory
didn�t say anything.� �Right?�� His voice had a definite edge to it.� �Oh my God.�
You�re considering it.� What the
hell are you thinking?� He�s just trying
to yank your chain and get you back under his control.�
Cory put a calming hand on his arm.� �Danny.�
Listen to me.� He says he has
information on his suppliers that he is willing to give up.� You know that I�ve been having trouble trying
to track them down.� This is the break
that I need.� So yeah, I�m considering
it.�
Danny felt the anger rise up to overcome him.� �How stupid are you?!� He�s not going to give you any information.�
Cory got a thunderous look on her face.� �What?��
Her voice was calm, deadly and void of all emotion.
Danny didn�t heed the warning in her voice.� �Come on, Cory.� He just wants to control you.� I�m not going to let you go.�
Cory drew back from Danny, the rage evident in her
face.� �You�re not going to let me go?� Who
died and made you God?� I make my own
decisions.� You have no control over what
I can or can�t do!�� By this time she was
yelling.� �By God, I did not let Ortiz
control me and I sure as hell am not going to let you try to control me.� I am not a puppet or a dog.� I don�t obey commands very well!� You got that!�
Danny felt his temper flare.�
�No.� I�m your boyfriend.� I will not let you do this.�
Cory stood up and mentally counted to ten in her head.� �You know what, Danny?� I will not take that from you.� Leave.�
I don�t want to ever talk to you again!�
Danny seemed shocked.�
�What?�
Cory turned to face him and all he saw in her eyes was pure
rage.� �Get the hell out of my
apartment.� This relationship is
over.�� She pointed to the door.� Danny tried to protest a little more, but she
just brushed him off and held the door open.
It took all of her control not to slam the door behind
him.� After she heard him walk away, she
slumped to the floor in tears.� �Dear
God.� What have I done?�
(The next day, FBI headquarter)
Cory walked into work with eyes puffy from crying most of
the night.� Lydia
took one look at her, followed her into her office and closed the door.� �What�s wrong?�
Cory shook her head.�
�I�ve screwed up, Lydia.� I told Danny about Ortiz�s offer.� And that I was going to go.�� As calmly as possible, she recounted the
fight to Lydia.
�Oh, sweetie.� I�m sure Danny will understand that you
didn�t mean it.�
�You don�t understand.�
I said some awful things to him!�
How can he ever forgive me?�
�Cory.� He loves you.� Once both of you calm down, he�ll get
it.� In the meantime, I do have a message
for you.� Your plane ticket arrived.� You leave tomorrow morning and fly back
Sunday night on the red-eye.�
�Thanks.� I�ll go pack
tonight.� Maybe by the time I get home on
Monday, both Danny and I will have calmed down.�
Listen.� I�m going to get
organized and then leave a bit early.
(Crime lab)
Flack saw Danny as he walked in.� He immediately decided to talk to him, since
he looked like he wanted to kill someone.�
He followed him into the locker room.�
�Hey, Messer!� What the hell is
wrong with you?�
�Screw you, Flack.� I
don�t want to talk about it right now.�
Flack looked at him.�
He decided not to let up.� �What
did you do to piss Cory off?�
Danny looked at Flack. ��Man, I�m warning you.� I do not want to have this conversation right
now.�
Flack just didn�t want to back down.� �What did you knock her up?� Did she break up with you because of it?� Or did you let your libido get the better of
you?� She catch you runnin� around on her
or something?�
Danny�s temper snapped and he threw a punch at Flack which
caught him in the left eye.� �Leave me
the hell alone, Flack.� I�m warnin�
ya.�� Danny turned and stalked out of the
locker room.
Flack looked bewildered.�
�What the hell just happened here?�
Damn he has a great right hook.��
Flack gingerly touched his eye and decided to see if Lindsay could pry
some information out of him.
Flack walked out of the locker room, keeping an eye out for
Danny.� He did not want a repeat
performance.� As he rounded a corner, he
saw Lindsay walking towards him.� �Hey,
Linds!� Can you do me a favor?�
�Sure.� What�s up?�
�Danny is in some pissed off mood.� Something to do with Cory.� I tried to get the info out of him, but I got
punched for my trouble.� Can you see if
you can find something out?�
Lindsay looked at him with concern in her eyes.� �Sure.�
What the hell did you say to him?�
Flack had the grace to look sheepish.� �You don�t want to know.�� Let�s just say that I opened my mouth and my
brain disengaged.�
Lindsay rolled her eyes and nodded.� �Okay.�
You�d better go.� If he�s that
pissed off at you then it would help if you weren�t here.�� Lindsay shooed him away quickly.� She walked around the lab and saw Danny in
their office.
She walked in quietly and just sat down to work.
Danny looked up and saw her walk in.� He groaned silently.� I
really don�t need the friggin� third degree from her right now!� He was amazed when she was silent and going
over some paperwork.
The silence dragged on and Danny�s curiosity got the better
of him.� �Aren�t ya gonna ask?�
Lindsay looked up.�
�Ask what?�
Danny just looked at her.�
This wasn�t going as he expected.�
�Why I hit Flack?�
Lindsay looked at him.�
She took a breath and felt like she was reeling in a fish on a
line.� �Nope.� I figure if you want to tell me then you
will.� If not�I don�t want to get hit.�
Danny sat back in shock.�
�Wow, Montana.� I didn�t expect that from you.�
Lindsay smiled.� �I�m
just full of surprises.� Look, Danny.� I�m here if you need to talk.� Or need a woman�s perspective.� I�m not going to push you.�
Danny nodded.�
�Thanks.�� Just then his pager
went off.� �I gotta go.� I have a case.�
Lindsay watched him leave.�
As soon as she was sure he had left the building she went to find
Hawkes.
She found him down in the morgue.� �Hey Hawkes!�
I gotta question for you.�
Hawkes looked at her.�
�Shoot.�
�What the hell happened between Danny and Cory?�
Hawkes tried to look nonchalant.� �What?�
�Come on!� Spill!� Danny punched Flack this morning.�
Hawkes took a quick look around to make sure no one else was
around.� �Okay.� This is confidential though.� Ortiz wants to meet with Cory.� On Sunday.�
Something about giving her some info on his suppliers.� Cory agreed to go.� She told Danny and he told her that he
wouldn�t let her go and she threw him out of her apartment.� Told him she didn�t ever want to speak with
him again.�
Lindsay drew in a breath.�
�Ouch.� That explains a lot.� So he thinks that the love of his life hates
him.� He hasn�t calmed down enough to
realize why she reacted that way!� Didn�t
he learn the last time he made a comment like that?� Stupid men!�
Hawkes nodded his head.�
�Yup.� Listen.� You didn�t hear this from me.� Lydia
swore me to secrecy.�
Lindsay laughed.� �I
just have my sources.� I�ll try to talk
some sense into him when he decides to talk to me.�
(Meanwhile, out in the field)
Danny was quiet during his time recovering evidence.� He kept replaying the fight with Cory in his
mind.� Damn it!� I was just trying to
protect her.� Can�t she see that?� Was her independence worth breaking up?� I just don�t understand her.
Danny bent over when he saw a hair on the corner of a
chair.� He smiled and quickly bagged
it.� Soon his mind was occupied with
work, the thoughts of the fight pushed back to his subconscious.
When he got back to the lab, he worked quickly to solve the
case.� It looked like the main help was
going to come from the hair sample, so he sent that to DNA to see if they could
get a profile.�
With all of the evidence logged and processed, he walked to
his office to do some paperwork.� Lindsay
was still sitting in there, finishing her paperwork.� He sat down across from her and cleared his
throat.
Lindsay looked up at Danny. �You alright?�
Danny just nodded.� �Montana?� You said that I could talk to you if I
wanted.� I think I�ll take you up on that
offer.� Somehow I screwed up with Cory
and I have no idea what I did wrong.�
Lindsay looked at him, concern in her eyes.� �Of course.�
What happened?�
Danny looked at her.�
�Ortiz wants to meet with her.� On
Sunday.� Her birthday.� I told her that I didn�t want her to go.�
Huh.� From what Hawkes told me, Danny did more than
that.� He flat out told her that she
couldn�t go.� Time to call him on it.� Lindsay took a breath.� �Did you say that you didn�t want her to go
or that she couldn�t go?�
Danny looked at Lindsay in surprise.� �What?�
What�s the difference?�
Lindsay rolled her eyes.�
�Danny?� It�s a huge
difference.� What did you say to her
exactly?�
Danny thought back to the previous night.� �Umm�I guess that I told her that I wouldn�t
let her go.�� All the sudden the light
went on in his brain.� �Shit.� I am such a dumb SOB.�
Lindsay laughed.�
�Nope.� You�re not dumb.� If you were dumb, you wouldn�t have figured
out what you did wrong.� Remember, Ortiz
tried to control her for six years.�
She�s not going to allow that again.�
If you had approached her differently then you wouldn�t be so miserable
right now.�
Danny shook his head in the disgust that he felt towards
himself.� �How do I fix this?�
Lindsay thought for a moment.� �I suggest that you give her some time.� She needs to cool down as much as you needed
to.� Once she thinks it through, she�ll
know that you just care about her.�
Danny nodded.�
�Thanks, Lindsay.� Tell Flack that
I�m sorry.� I shouldn�t have sucker
punched him, but he did deserve it.�
That piqued Lindsay�s interest.� �What exactly did he say?� He wouldn�t tell me.�
Payback is a
bitch.� Danny grinned.� �First he asked if I knocked her up.� Then he asked if I was runnin� around on
her.�
�Why that insensitive arrogant�.�� Lindsay trailed off in her anger.� �I hope he has a black eye!�
Danny just nodded and wisely kept his mouth shut.
(The next day, Saturday, Danny�s POV)
When Danny got up the next day, he knew that he had to talk
to Cory before she left.� He called both
her cell and her home phone, but no answer.�
He left a short message on her cell phone to have her call him, as soon
as possible.
When he hadn�t heard from her by noon, he started to get worried.� He called Hawkes, to see if Lydia
knew when he had left.
�Hawkes.�
�Hey, Hawkes.� It�s Danny.�
Do you know when Cory was leaving for Texas?�
�Yeah.� She
left at ten this morning.� Why?�
�I need to apologize to her.�
Thanks for giving Lindsay a head ups, by the way.�
�What are you talking
about?�
�Don�t try to lie to me.�
I know Lydia
told you what happened and you told Lindsay.�
I�m just trying to thank you.�
�Sure, man.� Anytime.�
Listen, I�ve got to go.� I have a
scene to process.�
Danny hung up the phone and decided to text message
Cory.� He kept his message simple.� I�m
sorry.� Amor vincit omnia.� Call me ASAP.
(Cory�s POV)
Cory got off the plane and greeted Nicole.� �Hey girl.�
Thanks for picking me up.�
Nicole looked at her best friend.� She knew something was wrong.� �Not a problem.� What�s wrong?�
Cory smiled.� �I never
could hide anything from you.� Danny and
I had a huge fight.� I told him that our
relationship was over.� Damn my temper.�
Nicole hugged her.�
�Y�all will get through it.� Once
you calm down, just tell him that you didn�t mean it.� Are you sure you�re up to going to see
Ortiz?�
Cory walked beside Nicole, on the way to her car.� �Yeah.�
He doesn�t have any effect on me now.�
I just want to get the information and get back to New
York.� I really
want to close this case forever.�
Nicole nodded and moved the topic of the conversation to
lighter subjects.� When she pulled up in
front of her house, she looked at Cory.�
�I feel I must warn you that the kids are really excited to see
you.� Expect to be watching movies with
them tonight.�
Cory turned to her.�
�Nic?� Thanks.� For everything.� Especially for going with me tomorrow.�
Anything else she had to say was going to have to wait since
three children barreled out of the house screaming, �Aunt Cory!� Aunt Cory!��
Cory turned to the kids and was immediately being hugged by the kids.
She spent a couple of hours playing with them and then
remembered that she had not turned her cell phone back on.� When it came back on, she saw that she had
four new messages.� One of them was a
text, the other three were voicemail.
Curious, she called her voicemail first.� All three messages were from Danny.� The last just said, �Please just call
me.� No matter what time.�
She smiled as she hung up the phone and checked her text
messages.� She was floored when she read
Danny�s text message.� She called him
immediately.
�Messer.�
�Danny, it�s me.�
What�s up?�
�Cory?� I thought you were ignoring me.�� The confusion was evident in his voice.
�Not intentionally.� I
forgot to turn my phone back on when I got off the plane.� Listen.�
I wanted to tell you something.�
�Wait.� Before you say anything.� I�m sorry.�
I didn�t mean to try to control your life.� I�m just worried about how being there with
Ortiz will affect you.� I have terrible
foot in mouth disease.� Can you forgive
me?�
Cory smiled.� �Only if
you�ll forgive me.� I sprung the news on
you and then let my temper get the better of me.� I know that you were just trying to protect
me, but��
Danny cut her off.� �But I was an ass.� I just approached you wrong.� I still think that he is just trying to yank
your chain, but it�s your decision to make.�
I shouldn�t have tried to interfere with your job.�
Cory felt tears come to her eyes.� �Thanks.�
Don�t worry about Ortiz.� He is in
my past.� He has no control over me now.� If he is just blowing smoke, I�ll never see
him again.� I promise.� Je
t�aime.�
�Ti amo.� I
really am sorry.� I�ll let you go back to
visiting with Nicole.�
They said good night and hung up the phone.� Both went to sleep that night feeling
relieved.
(Sunday, April 1^st-Huntsville,
Texas)
Cory and Nicole made the drive to Huntsville
in three hours.� Neither of them spoke a lot.� Nicole was worried about the toll that seeing
Ortiz would take on Cory.� Cory was
worried about what Ortiz had to tell her.
When they got to the prison, Nicole opted to stay in the
car.� Cory walked in and signed all the
paperwork to visit Ortiz.
When she sat down in front of him, she reluctantly picked up
the phone received to allow him to talk.
Ortiz looked at her.�
�You look good Cory.� Been working
out?�
Cory glared at him.�
�Screw you.� What do you want?�
Ortiz didn�t even flinch.�
�Happy birthday.�
Cory grimaced.� �Is
that the only reason that I�m here instead of celebrating my birthday with the
man I love?�
Ortiz felt the blow that she had just dealt him.� �I love you, Cory.� I�m going to wish you a happy birthday for as
long as I�m alive.�
�Look, Ortiz��
�Carlos.� Please call
me Carlos.�
Cory rolled her eyes.�
�Look, Carlos.� If you don�t have any info for me, I�m
leaving and never coming back.� What did
you want to tell me about your suppliers?�
And why did you wait six months to tell me?�
Ortiz looked nervous.�
�I waited six months to try to extract all of the Suerte from the
situation.�
Cory looked puzzled.�
�What do you mean?�
Ortiz took a breath.�
�Look.� Most of what I have are
rumors.� Our suppliers have cut off
contact with the Suerte.� They�ve
found�other buyers for their merchandise.�
Buyers that are not nice people.�
�Who are your suppliers?�
�I don�t know.� I only
know the contact that we had.� From a
reliable source I�ve been told that the new buyers are possibly domestic
terrorists.� Some extremist group.� But that�s just a rumor.�
�Why do you care who the buyers are?�
Ortiz gripped the phone tighter and looked down at the table
in front of him.� �I was in New
York on 9/11.�
Suerte�s lost family members in the attack.� I may hate the government, but I do
appreciate the freedoms that I have or had here.� No one threatens my country.�
Cory drew her eyebrows together.� �Okay.�
So the buyers might be planning an attack.�
Ortiz looked back up.�
�Not might.� They are.� I want you to stop them.�
�Why me?�
�As much as I think you�re misguided, I love you.� You�re a great agent.� If anyone can stop them, you can.�
Cory was speechless after that comment.� It took her a moment to replay the
conversation in her head.� �You said you
don�t know who the supplier or the buyers are.�
You had a middle man.� Who is it?�
Ortiz swallowed.� �The
Martinez brothers.� They were our contact.� That�s all I know.� I�ll send word if I get any more info.� It�s too dangerous for the Suerte to try to
contact you directly.� I can be your liaison
to them.�
�Why are you doing this?�
Ortiz looked directly at her.� �Like I said, nobody messes with my
country.� I don�t regret any actions I
took in getting here, but I am still an American at heart.� Do you believe me?�
Cory bit her lip and nodded.�
�I�ll be in touch.� If this info
pans out, you have my gratitude.�
Cory put the phone down and got up to leave the room.� Her heart was very heavy and she had a sense
of foreboding about the coming months. �Shit.�
I hope I can trust this info.�
This could be very bad if he�s telling the truth.
With heavy thoughts, she walked back out into the harsh
Texas sun, its warmth not touching her.
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Six Months