Part 7

"You mean she has been in front of that apartment for two days stalking my Rosie and we can't even move in on her?"

"Robin, she hasn't broken any laws…"

"Bullshit! How about invasion of privacy and harassment…"

"Robin calm down. I know what you want but I want charges that will stick and send her to jail. We will get her…"

"When!!" Robin yelled into the phone, throwing a vase across the room now in a full rage.

"Soon, just sit tight. Bye," Angie said quickly avoiding having her boss blow out her eardrum for a second time in a few minutes.

The phone soon followed the vase and she kicked the desk screaming in angry frustration. She felt like she was tied to the stake. She just couldn't believe that her people couldn't move in on the bitch. It had been a week since she knew who it was and had restricted both herself and Rosie to the house. She sank into her chair turning it so she could look out the window and calm herself before she cleaned up the mess she had just created. It wasn't a big deal running her company from the house she had set it up just so she could do it that way. She just wanted this torment to be over with though. She wanted to take her precious Little One out to dinner or the mall to shop. All the things she knew that would please her Love.

"Robin?" Said a soft voice from the doorway, Robin turned and saw Rosie bending down to pick up the shards of the broken vase.

"No Love, I'll do that. I broke it…"

"Its no big deal. What's wrong, Darling? Did something happen?"

Robin moved across the room and bent down picking up the remains of the vase after she put her broken phone on an end table. "That's just it nothing at all has happened. We're sitting here confined like criminals while that viper is free out there stalking you. Its maddening…"

"Well she is really stalking an empty apartment, that's good isn't it?"

"It's our edge, so yes that's very good. The problem is sooner or later she is going to suspect that you're not there. We need to get her soon so we can continue to have that edge."

"I know that Angie and Pete will…"

"Sweetheart, I think I need to attend to this myself…"

"No!!!" Rosie yelled dropping the shards of vase and running out of the room crying.

"Shit," Robin said quietly as cleaned up the vase and threw the remains into the trash followed by the phone. She then quietly walked to their room to comfort her upset beloved. When she saw that she wasn't there she went downstairs and found Rosie flung on the couch crying her heart out to Louise's sweet pooch Mario.

"May I take Mario's place please? I'm less soft but I'm just as good a listener." Said Robin sweetly, she had gotten on her knees and was softly rubbing Rosie's back.

Rosie raised her eyes and met loving soft blue just above her. She nodded and Robin gently nudged the sweet dog off of the couch. When Rosie sat up Robin sat next to her and then pulled her onto her lap bringing her head against her shoulder. She started to stroke the soft blonde hair and said very quietly, "The last thing I ever want to do is to make you cry. You know that don't you?" Rosie nodded against her shoulder Robin smiled and kissed the crown of her head. She continued stroking her hair and said, "I only want you to be happy. I have a deep aching need to protect you. I love you so much that I have to do something to…"

"No, please Robin. She will hurt you." Rosie's arms became tighter around Robin's waist and she pushed her head into the nape of her soft neck. "She wants to hurt you through me. If I'm not available then she will switch tactics and hurt you. You're her real target. I'm so scared she will do something, please Robin don't go out there…"

"Shh, I can take care of myself…"

"Yes, I know that. I don't think she's sane and…"

"We don't know that for sure, Love. She may just be a very vengeful person. Blinded by hate caused by my rejection. That is sick but its not madness. I want to go out on a stake out with Angie. Pete will stay here with you for your protection. I won't put myself in any real danger I won't confront her. I just need to do something it goes against my psyche to just sit here and do nothing. I ache to get this viper out of our lives so we can go back to normal. Please my love, please understand," Tears fell from her eyes on to Rosie's neck as she gently ran her fingers through the soft blonde hair. She was so worried she had to do something or this bitch might find out that she and Rosie lived together and that was something she simply couldn't allow. She wasn't going to let her home become a battle zone.

Rosie looked up into red rimmed teary pale blue eyes and with a shaking hand reached up and wiped the tears.

"I understand Robin, you're a woman of action."

"No Rosie, I'm a woman in love."

Angie handed her boss the thermos full of hot coffee and a paper cup. Robin smiled and poured herself a cup.

"This is a bizarre set of circumstances Ang, We're staking out a woman who is staking out a completely empty apartment."

Angie smiled and nodded, "Yep. It's strange she hasn't made a move to enter. Its like she's waiting for Rosie to come out. I wonder what her plan is?"

"So do I. If I could figure that out this would be over now."

Angie nodded, "I know, all she has done is make some cell calls so I'm watching the whole area very carefully."

Robin lowered the mirror on the visor so she could see behind her while Angie continued to watch Planes through her binoculars.

Angie glanced at Robin with a flick of her eye and asked while still watching the car a block ahead of them, "How's Rosie?"

"Mad as hell I'm here. She's fine though." Said Robin with a smirk as she said, "Pete is with her and from what I saw when I left she is taking out her frustration on him by cleaning up at gin rummy. I have a feeling she will have the deed to his house when I get home."

Angie laughed and nodded. "Your girl's innocent little face hides quite a vital mind…Um, Robin can I ask you something that I've been itching too."

"Sure," said Robin as sipped her coffee and looked out of her own binoculars at the car with her target inside.

"You and Rosie are so different. How did it happen? I mean before Rosie you used to change girlfriends as often as you changed your shoes."

Robin laughed and said, "Not quite that often. Yes, I was never monogamous till I fell head over heals in love with my Little One. To answer your first part, I have no idea how it happened. I just saw her in that first meeting fighting to keep her emotions in check and I tumbled. I simply never untumbled and I don't want to. I love her so much…I can't seem to find words to express it …which you know is weird for me. I can't even fully understand it myself so it's impossible to explain it to you." She looked off into the distance sipping her coffee and then when she looked at Angie again she smiled and tilted her head. "And actually we do have a lot in common in answer to your second question. Not that I would care if we didn't but I am very happy we do. We have interests, tastes, expressions, our morals, even the way we choose to relax. I just love her, Ang. Helplessly and completely the really remarkable thing is I like this feeling. I've never been happier in my life."

"Yeah, I'd say that is very remarkable considering how you use to live. Rosie is a very lucky girl."

Robin shook her head and looked her friend right in the eye, "No Ang, I'm the lucky one….Hey Ang, The bitch is out of her car…move!"

"Right!"

Pete and Rosie were in the middle of they're third grand slam game of gin rummy. Rosie had won the first two and Pete was determined to win this one.

"Gin…again," said Rosie with giggle as she started to add up the points.

The experienced detective growled and said, "You sure are an animal at cards, Rosie old girl."

Rosie looked at him and smiled brightly, "That's because you insist on playing logically and I don't."

Pete rolled his eyes he had learned you couldn't rely on her rejected cards to see what was in the little blondes hand she would pick up a card on pure spec and then get rid of it on her next turn. "Your telling me."

His cell phone rang, "Yes? Shit no! Ok Ang were on our way," He hung up the phone with angry hazel eyes he met scared green ones. "Honey get your shoes and your coat, Robin's been shot."

Tears sprang immediately to Rosie's eyes as she ran about the room getting her things, "How bad is she, Pete?"

"I don't know, Sweetheart. She is in the operating room right now. Hurry, Rosie, Hurry!"

To Be Continued...