Emma had just gotten ready for bed as she usually did, but this time it was different. Maybe it was the feeling of being alone; Will had just left for Washington that day. This had been the first time Will and Emma had been apart since they moved in with each other last year. Emma had been dreading this day since she found out that Will was going to leave for a few months. Like any other day, she got in bed and tried to fall asleep, trying not to think of what happened that day or who wasn't there. She stared at the ceiling all night, feeling restless.

Morning fell all to soon as the long night had passed, and Emma had gotten no sleep whatsoever. She called Will in the morning as she promised she would do when she woke up before leaving to head to school.

"Hello" Will said as he answered the phone call he had been waiting for!

"Hi honey. How is Washington?" Emma asked

"It's okay. It would be better if you were here though." He tried to comfort Emma as he know she was lost.

"Aww thank you. I love you" Emma loved saying and hearing those words. She never had anyone to say that to before.

"I love you to honey. Go get ready for work now. I don't want you to be late." Will explained.

The long day had passed at school for Emma. She visited the glee club when they had practice; they were very comforting towards her because they all could read here like an open book. They all knew Will had left yesterday. All the kids could see that Emma was stressed, and they tried to cheer her up by singing her a song that was rudely interrupted by Sue needing to see Emma "in her office."

"Yes Sue?" Emma had not hidden the fact that she did not want to be there.

"Emera, as I was pondering the internet for striping metal, I could hear these awful screaming and hollering high pitched noises. As I walked towards it, I discovered it was the glee club. I wanted to bring you in here to waste your time hoping that screaming club of Will's would root away and disappear!" Sue explained.

Emma looked long and hard at Sue, "So you mean to tell me that there is no point for me to be talking to you right now?"

"Nope" Sue answered quickly

Emma walked out and she went to tell the glee kids that she was sorry for Sue and how she had to go to her office.

A few days had passed much the same way for Emma; however, while in Washington, Will had been looking online for houses that he would like to look at with Emma, when he went back to Lima. Will had found one house that had drawn him to look into closer.

It was a beautiful house. When you walk in, there is a hallway branching off to the left that leads to the family room. Straight ahead is a big open kitchen with a peninsula counter. The kitchen connects to the family room to make one grand open room. Off to the right of the kitchen and family room is a back porch with a small green yard and a swinging wood bench; this is where Will could imagine himself and their son playing, with Emma in the kitchen cooking and taking care of the baby. A small staircase in a hallway branches off the kitchen, which leads to the second level of the house where the master bedroom is, with an en suite bathroom. On the other side of the upstairs are the kids' rooms and a guest room with a bathroom between them. Back downstairs in the family room, right beside the hallway that leads to the front door is another stair case that leads to a one roomed basement where there is a fireplace. Will could see him and Emma spending long hours there cuddling by the fire.

This house made Will want to go back to Lima to look at the house with Emma. The second that Will thought of going back to Lima he went to order tickets to surprise Emma, but only for 3 days because he could only miss so many days.

Back in Lima, Beiste and Emma had been in the teachers' lounge sitting and talking together.

"So what is Will going to do with the glee club?" Beiste asked.

"Will left the Glee club to Finn to coach for a little while, until he is back." Emma replied.

"How long is he out for?" Beiste replied, with a follow up question.

"Umm 3 months, and he will come for like competitions and holidays." Emma hesitated.

"I'm going to take you out for dinner so that I can get your mind off of Will being gone." she told Emma.

"Ok. That will be fine" Emma smiled "when would you like to go out?"

Beiste thought about it for a minute. "Tonight, if that's ok with you?"

"Tonight would be great!" Emma was surprised how greatly supporting and caring Bieste was towards her.

In Washington, Will called Emma before she went out. In the back of his mind was the surprise, making him countdown to his departure to Lima tomorrow.

"Hello?" Emma answered. She has been waiting for this call all day!

"Hi honey. How are you doing?" Will asked, concerned.

"I'm doing fine. Getting ready to go out with Shannon. How are you doing?" Emma refuses to call Shannon Beiste.

Will was surprised. "I'm doing good. I miss you! You're going out with Shannon? I didn't know you two were that close!" He exclaimed.

"Yea, we were talking at lunch and she offered to take me to dinner to get my mind off of you being gone." Emma hated having to explain to Will that she missed him. Feeling guilty about not going with Will.

"Ok honey. Well I will let you go get ready." Will tried to let Emma know that he was not sad about the fact that Emma had to try to not miss him too much.

"Ok, I will talk to you tomorrow. I love you!" Those words made Emma have the chills.

"I love you to." Will had thought about the surprise after he hung up the phone with her, knowing that she had no clue, and that he was dying to surprise her tomorrow.

At dinner Emma and Shannon got really close talking about their lives, like woman do! Shannon was talking about a man she meet on Facebook by accident. His name was Mark and he was 41! (8 years older then Emma.) Emma couldn't tell if Shannon liked him or if he was just a friend of hers.

At dinner Emma did not once think of Will, which was a good thing for her at that point and time! Emma went home and turned the TV on to the news to watch while she was getting ready for bed. On the news was all things Emma could care less about, until a news story with Sue talking about the arts program came on. She was saying how in their school there is not even a real qualified teacher coaching the glee club. Emma could not even stop to think on what Sue was trying to get to, so she just turned off the TV and went to bed.

"Ok everyone please put on your seatbelts as we will be landing in a few minutes" the plane attendant announced. It was 6:33pm and the plane was about to land on time. It was as if Will's nerves were running up a wall and back down. The plane landed and Will got off to go home and surprise Emma.

About an hour later it was 7:25pm and he called Emma outside of the apartment's bedroom window…

"Hello?" Emma answered as always!

"Hi honey. So I had a question, and I called so that you could answer it" Will excitedly said!

"Ok? Ask away" Emma was eager to hear this question.

"So I was outside walking home tonight and I was looking at the full moon. I wondered if you can see it too and if you can, then we know that we are both safe and know where we are in the world"

"Ok so do you want me to look at the moon?" She was confused.

"Yea go look outside of the bedroom window" Will replied.

"Ok honey" Emma got up and looked outside of the window.

"Emma?" Will questioned

"Yes" She replied

"Now look down" Will said so excitedly.

"OH MY GOODNESS, OH MY GOODNESS!" Emma saw Will, and ran down outside to hug him!

"Emma?" Will asked.

"Yes!" She answered and she was hugging him.

"SURPRISE!" Will said softly into her ear.