Disclaimer: If Rookie Blue was mine, this season would last way longer than 13 episodes.

Rated T, because it has 'damned' in it.

A/N: Yay, a Jerry-drabble! I've been thinking back on old episodes for ideas, and this one jumped at me.

Even though Sam and Andy will always be number one in my heart, Jerry and Traci are pretty dang amazing in my opinion, too.

Just another quickie.

I hope you enjoy!

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Jerry Barber. Set after episode 5, 'Broad Daylight'.

It's not that he doesn't like kids.

He likes them; and he'd say that he's pretty capable of looking after them, to boot.

It's just that he's just never really thought much about having any of his own.

Or, at least, he hadn't; not until now.

But suddenly, watching Traci handle that woman's daughter with the ease and skill that screamed 'meant for motherhood', he couldn't help but think that someday he'd like to see her holding a little bundle of joy with her smile, and his eyes. The thought comes out of nowhere, and shocks him a little bit … but he finds himself completely unable to dismiss the idea. (He likes it too damned much to forget about it.)

He's pretty sure he loves her.

She's down-to-earth, and caring, and passionate, and protective. She's absolutely amazing; and he feels a little lost (yet, at the same time, in no need of being found) every time he stares down into deep, dark, brown eyes.

He's a little shocked, to say the least, when he finds out that she has a six-year-old son. He's not angry with her for keeping it on the down low. He's a little disappointed, perhaps, that she felt the need to keep it from him; but not angry. He can only imagine how hard it must have been to raise a child through (and out of) high school; to become a cop and put her life on the line when there's someone back home depending on her to come back to him … the knowledge of what she did (and continues to do every day) does nothing but increase his respect for her by tenfold.

He can't wait to meet Leo; to take him to the zoo, and to the park, and just … do everything a guy does with his kids.

But he's okay biding his time for that … Just like he's okay biding his time for that little miracle with his eyes, and Traci's smile.

Because – as much as he'd really like to get started on both of those things as soon as possible – he knows that whenever it happens (and it will happen), it will be more than worth the wait.

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Please let me know what you think!