When you’re ready - Shawn Mendes - Part.01
Word count: 2.313
A/n: This is my first here, so hope you like it. Also, it’s a cop!Shawn cause somehow I get so excited about this idea.
Summary: Y/n is a lawyer and someone break into her house at night so she had to calm down his son and call the police.
It was a nice Thursday except for the fact that the job was full of problems. Nothing new for someone who works with it.
Y/n was a lawyer, one of the bests from the city and by being the best means that she’s also the one who got more problems to solve, but somehow managed to never end up in the middle of the mess. That day was the worst cause Y/n got the hardest case, she has to defend someone who was being accused by a crime committed by a drug dealer that always come out unscathed.
When the shift ends she heads to her son’s school. Sean, Y/n’ son, was a smart 5 years boy who adores cars and cartoons. His dark brown hair was just like hers and they were so much alike, it was good since she was a single mother and have to remember her ex-husband every time she looks at the kid would hurt a little.
“..and then we played hide and seek and I almost won!” Sean told about his day when they get home, even tho he talked all the way when she gets him in the school. He sounded extremely agitated, sure would give some trouble to sleep.
At seven o’clock Y/n was reading some court lawsuits while her little boy writes his homework on the same desk. Sean always did that, she guesses he felt like doing some kind of work as important as his mothers, there were days which he pretends to be accusing someone in court; it was pretty funny though.
The silence was they guest till y/n phones start ringing making her jump off the chair. The unknown number was not enough to make her not answer, but as silent as their living room was the call. She nods her head tired and closes the notebook.
“Baby, it’s sleep time. Let’s go?”
Sean groans clearly not wanting to sleep, he was just as energetic as early in the morning.
“Mommy, can I please just play a little?!” He gets off the chair and grabs her legs, he was that kid who had persuasive eyes. Two big green balls hanging in his face, making a perfect match with the brown hair falling in the forehead. “Can you play with me? I just finished my homework and I did not even make noise while you were working tonight.”
Y/n sighs, she knew she was working too much and Sean was not too much the kind of kid who would scream and interrupt her looking for attention, he would do exactly how he was doing: be the most dutiful baby and then ask for her to be with him when it seems that she ended up work.
That’s why sometimes she misses having his dad in the same house although they were always fighting Sean had someone to be with when she was too busy. Henry was not the best, but he loves Sean and it was hard for him to let his son go. Yet, when they were about to break up he seemed very selfish and only worried about company and meetings stuff.
“What do you wanna play?” she surrenders and he jumps in a happy celebration.
“I need help with my Disney cars puzzle.”
She smashed his cheeks between her hands and kissed all free spots in his face while the little boy giggle. She got cookies and a big milk cup and they headed to Sean’s room.
He ran to get the puzzle and set it up in the bed. In the third well-done puzzle, Y/n was almost sleeping between his plushies. Sean concentrated in getting the fourth one done when the break noise come from the living room. She is fast to open her eyes and when she’s about to run for his son she realizes he’s right in the bed.
“what…” she stops, Sean looking confused.
“I did not come out of the room.” He defends himself.
The idea of a thief in her house made her heart panic. It was not only about her but mostly about the little boy.
She looks for her phone but it was nowhere in the room and that scares the shit out of her. Sean just watching silent and confused. Y/n walks out of the room and stops herself once she saw a guy in her kitchen, he’s wearing black clothes and types something in the phone. She made her way back to Sean’s and try to calm down.
“Baby, we are going to mom’s room but you’ll have to be very very very noiseless. Can you do that for me?”
He nods and she takes his hand, stopping in the door and opening it carefully. When she did see no one in the corridor they sneak into her door. She is fast locking it and running to her purse, she starts a 911 call with the cell phone that seconds ago was inside of the bag.
Y/n hugs Sean trying to give him some comfort that was absent in herself while the call is received.
“Police, how can I help you?”
“T-there’s…there’s a man in my house, he doesn’t know I saw him, I’m all alone with my kid and we’re locked in the bedroom.” She gave all the necessary information since she wanted to kill time and made they get as fast as possible.
She shrugged and breath as the woman on the other side ask for her address. She gives it and when the phone call ends she felt the silence eats her control out.
“Mommy, what’s happening?” Sean asks not aware of the events.
“Nothing to worry about, we just need to stay here in silence for a while…”
“Then why are you worried?” Gosh, he was such an intelligent kid.
Just when she was about to answer she hears the door in the side crack open, he was in her son’s room. That means that he would be in her’s as soon as he realizes that it was hers.
She prays for the police be faster and she can almost feel her tears when someone knocks in the door.
“Come.” she murmurs to her son walking to the bathroom door. There was the only place they could run to.
At this time he was getting stressed with the things around, he did not understand and was only a child so the tension hits him like a wrecking ball.
“Is there someone in the house?” He asks when she closes the door.
Y/n headed to her son and take a deep breath.
“My friend told once that a thief came to his house in the night, his father took the man down…” he was a really intelligent kid and nobody could say otherwise.
“I guess there’s someone, but I’m not sure, so we’re just gonna wait here, ok?”
He nodded, his nose distend for his hard attempt to keep the tears for falling down. It just hurts so bad see her son like that. He was such a brave boy.
“Mommy, I’m afraid…can you hug me?”
She takes him in her arms just when they hear the noise in the door handle from the room, like someone trying to break in.
Y/n tights her hold when she felt that the person finally got in. The bathroom light is off just like the bedroom so maybe he could think that there’s nobody home. Sean snuffle and she made a silent sign so they were not discovered.
The footsteps could almost be heard, the slamming door from her closet too and the drawers as well.
“I know you two are there!” he says out loud and she could swear she never felt that afraid.
The door handle from the bathroom where y/n and her son were hiding just starts to shake. He was trying to reach them, but somehow everything stops. The police sirens hit her ear. The footsteps get loud indicating that he was running out of cops reach.
Y/n breathe in and out as Sean holds to her neck like his life depends on that. Two knocks hit the door. “Polices here, madam. You can open the door.”
But she took some time, even tho the sirens were heard she still afraid that maybe it was wrong and he still there waiting for them to come out. It was time enough to the cop realize what was happening.
“It’s officer Mendes, can you open the door, Mrs”
She turns on the lights and finally unlocks the door, the first thing noticed was his height, he was a really tall guy you could tell. Their eyes met, that could be a warm moment if not the present situation and the afraid that still running in her veins. The officer dropped his gaze to the little boy in her arms, the question coming right before he realizes he had lost himself for some seconds.
“Is everything alright with you and the kid?”
She nods and he gave her two some space to pass. She enters the bedroom and put Sean sited in the edge of the bed so she could take her robe once the only thing covering her body was a silk camisole. Some papers were on the floor and two drawers hanging open.
She couldn’t stop from thinking about what he was looking for.
Y/n then takes Sean in her arms one more time and headed to the living room with the Mendes guy.
In her room, two other cops standing.
“We tried to catch him, but he escapes.” a very beautiful black cop said just when she sits in the sofa. “I’m officer Mccal by the way”
“Hey boy, did you saw the new police car?! Wanna go in the street see it!?” Taylor, she read in the uniform, leans closer to Sean. Y/n knew that it was question time and it would be better if he did not get to hear that.
As much as she wanted him to be prepared to live and aware of everything, he was just a child and has passed for enough stress for just one day.
Sean doesn’t even look at the officer, he hugs his mother tight and murmurs something that nobody was able to understand.
“Baby, it’s a police car, you sure you don’t wanna see it?! Mommy will let you.”
“But you’re scared, I wanna protect you.”
She smiles at her little boy.
“We’re going to be here to protect her, you can go with Taylor, Sean.” The tall one smiles and so does Y/n. Sean bites his bottom lip and then look at Taylor.
“I’ll go.”
He kissed her cheek and she pressed one in his forehead. Taylor offers his hand and Sean took it. Y/n glance at him with a look that said something like -take care of my kid or else I’ll kill you’.
Officer Mendes points at the sofa she was in and Y/n nodded letting him sit, just like Mccal does too.
“I’m Y/n.”
“I heard a lot about you…” Mccall says sympathy. “Your court cases.” He explains and you nod.
“So you think it’s something about the fact that you’re a lawyer?” Shawn asks and Y/n sighs.
“I guess no…”
“He reached you and the little boy?”
“No, he did not, you guys got here in time. I could think it was only a thief, but when he breaks in the room and tried to reach the bathroom I felt like he was looking for us actually…”
“He was not looking for money.” Officer Mendes says convinced. Y/n glances at him not wanting to spend much time looking, that could get a bit embarrassed since he had pretty brown eyes and it was easy to just stare at it. “I see that the places where he open and look were not money places, he look on the study desk of the living room and in the bedroom, there are places specifics for put jewelry and value things, but he was straight in the paper places.”
She thought to herself how he was so watcher in so little time.
“Is your husband out of town?” Mccall asks and she sighs.
“I’m divorced…”
“Is there a family house near so we can drop you, just to make sure you’re safe?” Shawn asks and she finally stops taking her time to look at him. He looks fine as hell in those uniform, they left a part of his strong arms to see and a guitar tattoo popped out.
“Actually no.”
He nods dropping his gaze to the table in the middle of the living room. Her hands shaking nervously in her lap till he puts his big one above.
“You should get some water…”
“I will”
Sean and Taylor enter the apartment and Y/n stoop up even tho she wanted to hold the officer’s hand, somehow it felt warm and safe.
“Mommy, it’s a really nice black car, just like the one in the movie!!!”
Y/n smiles.
“Sean, why don’t you took your mom to drink water?” Shawn asks with a smile on his lips, y/n felt her heart race. He had such a pretty face and it falls perfectly with the white smile. “I have another call, but Taylor will be here to make sure everything’s alright, I’m gonna send another cop as well, but drink some water and try to take some sleep.” he smiles one more time.
Y/n nod and Sean made grabby hands as they headed to the kitchen, the boy in her hip calmer than before and talking with no stop about the police car.
She drank the water and tried to tell herself that everything was going to be alright. Cops were there, they were going to solve everything and by the end discover that it was only a thief. That’s what she was praying for.
Part 02 coming soon!