csi_sanders1129 | Fic: Love For A Child (Reply)

Title: Love For A Child
Chapters: Part 4: Chapter 2/3
Author:

csi_sanders1129
Genre: AU. Romance. Drama.
Ratings: T
Word Count: ~1,200
Pairings/Characters: Jason/Spinelli.
Synopsis: Spinelli gets a call concerning his past and it leads to a significant alternation of his and Jason’s future.
Comments: Okay, I have been working on this fic since December and it is NOW OFFICIALLY DONE. And, I mean, really, my chapters had to be divided into chapters. This is that epic fic of epicness I’ve been mentioning sporadically over the months. It’s set in 2011/2012, but it takes certain liberties (Maxie and Spinelli were never really together, Jason turned Sonny in during the FBI stuff in early 2009, various other little stuff, too. Any questions, just ask, kay?) This part and the next are both kinda short, just a heads up. All in all, characters you recognize are not mine, but the new characters are mine. Enjoy!

June 18, 2012

As it turns out, Raynor has gone incommunicado again, and try as they might, Jason and Spinelli can’t seem to get in contact with him over the next few days. Without being able to contact Raynor, their mission to clear their names is stalled. So, Spinelli sets it up so that it looks like they’ve decided to run – a move which will undoubtedly get Raynor and likely the rest of the FBI’s undivided attention - and they turn their attention to the other matter at hand: securing their future with Sadie.

They’ve had countless conversations dance around the topic of Diana signing the necessary paperwork in the past, but with the bomb they dropped on her about their police involved history, both men are hesitant to bring up the topic with her again. Now that she knows what she knows about them, there’s a chance she could outright refuse to allow Sadie anywhere near them.

What they don’t know is that Diana is watching them when they put Sadie to sleep the night Raynor does make his return.

Sadie is already falling asleep on Jason’s chest as the three of them talk in the living room. Despite numerous attempts to keep the sleepy baby entertained until her actual bedtime, it proves to be a losing battle.

“Looks like someone is getting pretty sleepy over there.” Diana comments, even as Jason attempts to recapture Sadie’s attention with her new stuffed moose.

Sadie’s hands swat the toy away and then she starts getting fussy, squirming and crying since she isn’t being allowed to sleep.

“Alright, alright.” Jason laughs, shifting her in his arms before he stands up. She clings to his shirt and her eyes droop closed again. “Spin, you coming?”

Spinelli nods and follows after him, heading upstairs to the pink room. Diana follows quietly after them, hoping to be involved in her daughter’s bedtime rituals.

“You’re up.” Jason reminds him, as if Spinelli would have forgotten.

Spinelli nods, and spends a brief moment trying to think of a song. It won’t have to be a very long one, given Sadie’s current state of near unconsciousness. But, he’ll pick a normal length one, anyway, because this is as much for Jason as it is for Sadie. “There are places I’ll remember all my life, though some have changed. Some forever, not for better. Some have gone and some remain. All these places have their moments…” Spinelli continues the Beatles song through its first verse and into its chorus, and Diana watches quietly from the doorway.

Glad she didn’t impose on their apparent rituals, she listens to her brother sing and watches Jason watch Spinelli and Sadie as if they’re, well, as if they’re everything. Which, she supposes in her stunning moment of clarity, they are.

“I know I’ll often stop and think about them. In my life, I’ll love you more…” Spinelli continues, turning to grin at Jason. “In my life, I’ll love you more.”

Diana continues her stealthily carried out research from her spot by the door. She watches Jason throw an arm over her brother’s shoulders, Sadie now soundly asleep, as if she hadn’t been before. Jason offers a quick kiss and the two talk quietly for a moment in hushed tones that she can’t quite make out.

She’s just about ready to step into the room and blow her cover when there’s a pounding knock at the door.

“Raynor.” Jason guesses, and starts toward the door, Spinelli just behind him.

Diana ducks downstairs just in time.

Jason’s close. It’s Raynor. With two other Agents tagging along who seem to have the intention of arresting himself and Spinelli on the spot. Presumably they’re not happy about their prime suspects pretending to flee town. The second the door is opened, the duo of Agents accompanying Raynor barge past and attempt to wrangle their proposed captives into handcuffs. “Wait.” Jason demands, putting himself, as always, between the FBI and Spinelli. He holds his hands up in surrender. “Raynor. We weren’t actually running. We just needed to get you here. We know who killed Sonny.”

“Uh huh, I’m sure.” Raynor glares, but he waves his underlings back. “That was a nice trick you pulled there. I was in the middle of figuring that out for myself. We found a syringe with Sonny’s DNA and some as of yet unidentified fingerprints on it at the scene. I’m willing to bet that it’s going to link back to you two.” He folds his arms over his chest and watches his targets with a self-satisfied smirk. “Isn’t that right?”

“Well, I suppose that could be said.” Spinelli answers, because it’s true. Casey is certainly linkable with them, but not quite in the way that Raynor intends.

That certainly gets Raynor’s attention. “That a confession, Mr. Spinelli?” He seems more than prepared to take that statement as is and extrapolate all he wants and needs from there.

“No,” Jason answers on his behalf. “It isn’t. Casey Spinelli, run her prints against the ones on the syringe you found. You’ll get a match.”

“Casey Spinelli?” Raynor laughs. “You’re kidding me, right? You don’t know who did it, so you’re pinning it on your boyfriend’s mother?”

Jason practically growls at him. “The woman who not only kidnapped Sadie from us, but had the whole thing funded by Sonny, while dating him? Yeah, I think I’m willing to believe that.” He retorts, laying out a large portion of their evidence.

That seems to throw Raynor for a loop. Clearly he’d been unaware that Casey and Sonny had been involved. “How do you know this?”

Jason motions to Diana, who has remained silent where she stands by the sofa.

“And how does she know this?” Raynor amends, recognizing the girl as Damian Spinelli’s younger sister from the history they ran on him when he was under FBI investigation. “Does hacking run in the family now?”

Diana shifts nervously, unsure as to how much she is supposed to tell the Agent. She is clearly not as well versed in dealing with law enforcement as Jason and her brother seem to be. “I, ugh. No. My mom would bring him by our house sometimes. He said his name was Miguel Conlon, but Mom called him Sonny a few times.” She begins, relating the information she knows – about Casey’s behavior and the fact that she had gone to see him before taking off to see the kidnapping through, and by the time she finishes her explanation, Raynor looks almost something like partially convinced.

“Ugh, the Jackal must point out that there is quite a simple way in which to verify the theory that has been proposed here.” Spinelli starts, before the FBI Agent can shoot them down. “Casey is currently a prisoner in PCPD custody. Simply have her fingerprints run against those discovered on the syringe. It will yield a much faster result than would be expected in a widespread database search, would it not?”

Raynor motions his two subordinates over, and whispers to them quietly for a moment before the duo takes their leave, no doubt to carry out the fingerprint comparison that Spinelli suggested. “We’ll know soon enough if this isn’t just some ruse you two are trying to pull.”