The next morning, Abby awoke in her own bed with a smile on her face. She had had the most wonderful dream about her and……….. She suddenly looked down and saw a shirt lying on floor. Thinking it was hers, she put it on, only to realize it was a man's shirt. She fell back onto the bad realizing her dream had been real. Thoughts raced into her mind and she remembered what had happened the night before. Not being intoxicated this time, she remembered everything very clearly. As she thought of Carter, she had to smile. She then realized she hadn't seen him yet that morning and decided to get up and see where he was. She walked towards her kitchen as she realized that a strong smell was coming from that direction.

"You cook too?" Abby said as she walked into the kitchen and saw John dancing around with only his boxers on.

"Oh, yes. Gamma made sure I had proper training in everything." Carter said with a sly smile.

"So, what are you making?" Abby asked going to sit down at the counter that was across from the cooking area in the kitchen.

"Well, I woke up early and searched through your refrigerator. Everything I could find went into omelets. And it appears yours in ready now." Carter placed the plate in front of her and watched her as she took the first bite.

"Mmmm…..delicious!" Abby exclaimed as she took the first gooey bite.

"Uh-oh, you seemed to have gotten some…here…." Carter took the napkin and attempted to clean up where Abby had gotten part of the egg to the left of her lip. As Carter reached in to wipe it away, Abby took a close look at him. God was he handsome. "He must be working out." She thought to himself as she noticed his lightly toned body.

"So, what time are you on today?" Carter said out loud, bursting Abby's thoughts.

"Uh, 10. You?" Abby responded while trying to shake the previous thoughts out of her head.

"Actually, not until 1."

Abby looked down at her watch and realized it was not even eight o'clock yet.

"But I think I'm going to get going anyway. I need to go back to my place." Carter said as he started walking back towards the bedroom to find all of his clothes. In a couple minutes he emerged with only his pants on.

"Uh…Abby…." Carter asked somewhat embarrassed.

"Yeah?" Abby said still eating her breakfast.

"Can I please have my shirt back?" With this, Abby looked down and looked back up realizing exactly whose shirt she had on.

"Oops, sorry about that. It was the first thing I saw when I got out of bed." Abby said getting up and starting to go back to the bedroom also. A few minutes later, she too returned with a robe on and the shirt in her hand.

"Why isn't this awkward?" Abby asked as she handed the shirt to Carter.

"Huh?" Carted said as he started putting his shirt on.

"Us. Why didn't we do this sooner?"

"Luka."

"Oh, yeah, him."

"Abby, you never did tell me what was up the other night."

"Oh, um, I was upset. I'm sorry."

"No, not that. You were drunk."

"Yeah, I realized that the next morning. I just couldn't control myself anymore. I tried and I tried, but I kept thinking about Maggie and then I thought about Luka. And, uh, then I thought about you." Abby said this and turned away from Carter.

"Me?"

"Yeah. I suddenly had all these emotions in my head and I wanted them all out. And that was the only way."

"You could have come and talked to me, I will always listen to you." With that, Carter came up behind Abby and wrapped his arms around her waist and kissed her cheek. Abby shut her eyes and enjoyed the moment. "I'll see you at the hospital, if I don't leave now, I never will." Carter whispered in her ear and quietly slipped away and out the door.