I actually started this as a multi-chapter fic and it was going to be much more complex than this. But I always have problems with those and ended up writing a one-shot instead. Set three years after the Astraeus launch and the crew has just found their way back. Lyrics in italics are Florence+the Machine.
Disclaimer: I do not own Eureka, the characters, etc.
I'd do anything to make you stay…tell me what you want me to say.
Years ago they had been friends (with benefits). In another life they had been lovers. At the moment they were just memories.
Until Jo stepped out of her house and found Zane sitting on her steps. He had a beard that would rival a lumberjack's. "Zane?"
He stood at her voice and picked up the suit jacket that had been lying beside him. "Lupo."
They talked. He couldn't tell her much. Just that he had been in D.C. for the Astraeus mission debriefing and had heard that she was in Quantico. She told him that she had taken a job with a FBI. Recruit training.
He had to catch a flight back to Oregon. She was going to head to the gym. They hugged and Jo watched from her porch as he walked back to his rental car.
In another life, she hadn't said yes and she lost him. In this life, she had told him that she couldn't wait, and she had gone the past three years without him.
And now she watched as he walked towards his car, back towards a life that she was no longer a part of.
She didn't know him, not anymore. He had changed. Whatever had happened up there, it had changed him. She wasn't the same person, either.
It would be completely crazy. She knew that. "Zane, wait."
He turned.
She had a life here. He had a life to go back to.
"Yeah, JoJo?"
It would be completely crazy.
"Don't leave. Not yet."
"I was hoping that you would say that."