Thanks to Courtney for being someone to bounce ideas off. This fic is dedicated to her, as usual.
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Planes roared overhead as she paid the cab driver and stood in front of Newark Airport, looking at the city. Her city. So many memories had been made here, hidden between the skyscrapers and apartment blocks. Clutching her suitcase in one hand and her carry on luggage in the other, she turned and said good bye to everything. Her home, her life, her family. New York was all she knew, and leaving was truly stepping into uncharted waters.
So many memories, but that one memory was following her, choking all other memories, choking them like smoke chokes a young tree, engulfing it in darkness and death. She blinked away tears that threatened to fall, bringing a never ending stream of sadness.
She checked her watch. 10:51. She had nine minutes to check in and board her flight. Reaching into her pocket and puling out an orange iPod, she clicked the stop button, and The Script were silenced, never to play again. Not to her, not in this city.
Leaving was a lonely thing to do, especially when your best friends were busy looking after their pregnant girlfriend or working a homicide in The Bronx. She knew Danny would be here if he could, but Lindsay was using some dirty tricks to keep him on a short leash. Threats of not being able to see his child did a lot to a man to whom family was so important.
She checked her watch again as she walked into the airport, turning for one last glimpse of New York from the ground level, and pushed all thoughts of Danny Messer from her mind, replacing them with names of the people she would be working with, and pictures of her new home.
The check-in rushed past as she was plagued with visions of her new life, her new job. Would she find a home here, like she had in New York? She would only find out by going. Taking her seat on the plane, she blocked out the air hostess babbling on about safety measures and stared aimlessly out of the window. Taking her last look at the city she had grown up in, had made herself a family and a life and she knew that she would never return.
Taylor Mason was leaving New York and going to Miami. But what would she find there?
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You can learn more about Taylor in my fic Soundtrack To Life, over in the New York thread, and the second chapter will follow sometime around New Year. I hope you like it.
