Flack's day had just ended and they finally caught the perp they were looking for. He was walking out of the interrogation room when he saw Jess with her head down on the desk.

"Hey Jess, you okay?" He asked. She never showed weakness like this.

"Yeah.. just have one of my migraines. You know." She responded, rubbing her temples trying to ease the throbbing pain.

"You take anything?" He asked.

"No, I'm out of medicine till next month. I'll just sleep it off."

"Well why don't you come back to my place tonight. I'll even cook you supper." He flashed one of his charming smiles.

"You're such a gentleman." She bantered. "just let me get my things."

She met him at his car a few minutes later and they drove away from the precinct.

"I have to run by the super market to get some things for tonight. It won't take me long. He said.

"That sounds good. I'll just wait in the car."

He looked at her and saw she had her head in her hands. He knew she must really be hurting.

"I'll see if I can't get you some pain meds while I'm in there." He placed a kiss on her cheek "be back in a few."

He left the car and she let out a sigh. This would probably be an amazing night with her boyfriend if she didn't have this stupid headache.

A movement out of the corner of her eye caught her attention. She looked into the car next to her and saw a pair of brown eyes staring back at her. It was the face of the cutest little girl she had ever seen. The girl quickly moved away from the window when Jess smiled at her. Then, she noticed something that bothered her. The little girl was in the car by herself. She couldn't have been over 3 years old and it was atleast 80 degrees outside. No telling how hot it was inside the car, and the drivers side window was barely rolled down maybe 2 inches. The cop in Jess took over and she got out of the car. She tapped on the glass to get the little girls attention.

"Hey sweetie.. I bet you're hot in there.. You want to open up the door a little bit?" She asked.

The girls eyes got wide and she said nothing.

"Look, I'm a police officer" Jess held her badge up to the window. "It's safe to open the door."

The girl seemed to relax a little and opened up the drivers side door.

"I bet that's better, isn't it?" Jess asked "Where's your parents? huh? You shouldn't be out here alone.."

Before the girl could respond, she shut the door tight and climbed into the back seat. Jess was confused until she heard a booming voice behind her that caused her to jump.

"What the hell do you think you're doing, bitch?!" A man said. He was about twice the size of her and had tattoos running up his arms. "Get the hell away from my daughter!" He yelled again.

"Look, sir. I'm a police officer, and you don't need to leave that little girl in there by herself! Especially not in this heat!!" She stood her ground and didn't even move when he advanced on her.

"I can do whatever the fuck I want with my own damn daughter!"

"And I can arrest you for child endangerment!" this seemed to set him off and he shoved Jess hard against the car. Right then Flack came around the corner and saw what was going on.

"Hey, that's assault on a police officer, buddy." Flack said. He grabbed that man and pushed him hard against his own vehicle, but before he could cuff him, he shoved Flack into Jess and jumped into his vehicle. By the time they recovered from the fall, the man was already gone. He helped Jess to her feet and kept a hand on her upper arm.

"What was all that about, Jess?"

"He left his daughter in that hot car and I was only trying to help her. Then he came out yelling and well.. you saw the rest." She said.

"Did you get a name or plate number?"

"Yeah, that's the first thing I checked. I'm about to call it in." She said as they got in the car. He noticed her hand was bleeding from the fall and reached over and held it in his own.

"We'll have to get that cut cleaned up when we get home." She shrugged it off and punched the number to the police department into her cell phone.

"This is detective Angell, and I need to report possible child endangerment. The license plate number is 927-QBV, it was a silver mini-van with a male driver and they headed south on 5th avenue."

"Alright, we're putting a patrol car out that way. Thank you for the information." The dispatcher said. She hung up her phone and sighed.

"I hope I didn't just put that little girl in even more danger by reporting him." Flack put a hand over hers and said "I have no doubt in my mind that they will catch that bastard. In fact, we'll probably be seeing him at the precint tomorrow."

She grinned for the first time that afternoon and said "When we do get him, I want first crack at that guy."