Chapter One: Bad News or Good news?

It was a sunny Saturday afternoon; Lucy was in the kitchen washing dishes while Savannah sat in her highchair pushing cheerios around. The front door clicked and Lucy turned off the water she grabbed a wash clot and dried off her hands.

"Hey Luce," Kevin sad as he entered the kitchen. Lucy turned around smiling at him. She walked over and kissed him softly on the lips, everything felt so simple at that moment like nothing bad could happen. Savannah broke the kiss by letting out a high pitch giggle at the sight of her mother and father entwined.

"Hey Hun," Lucy said and she pulled away smiling over at Savannah. She walked over to her and began to clean up the cheerios Savannah had crushed. Kevin watched. He was thinking hard; he had something to tell her but didn't know if it was the right time. Then again if not now, then when?

"Luce…" Kevin began. She looked up momentarily to acknowledge she'd heard him, before returning to cleaning up Savannah.

"Hmm…what's up?" She asked picking Savannah up pulling her out of the chair. Kevin looked at her nervously. "What's wrong?" Her voice shifted as she caught sight of his face.

"I need to talk to you." He took a deep breath running his hand through his hair and back down over his face.

"Is everything all right?" She waited for his answer becoming increasingly more worried by the second.

"Yes…it depends…" He walked over to her and took Savannah and motion for her to sit down. She sat down but kept eye contact willing him to tell her. He sat down next to her with Savannah in his arms. "I got…a job offer…sorta…" His words stumbled out nervously, Lucy had never seen Kevin so Nervous.

"What do you mean a job offer?" She kept her voice calm, she didn't want to make him anymore nervous.

"I've been promoted to detective…" He said slowly. Her face brightened every trace of confusion and worry erased.

"That's wonderful!" She cried.

"But they want to transfer me to New York…City…" Her smile faded.

"But…You came from New York…" She was completely confused, why would they want to transfer him back to New York, New York City no less!

"And they've been trying to…get me…back ever since…especially since they've seen how good I've been doing here in Glenoak. You remember how unwilling they were to let me go--" Kevin was watching Lucy carefully as he spoke afraid of when she would explode.

"You mean there have been other offers!" She cut in her voice raising slightly.

"Yes. I didn't want to ask you to move for me! So much has been going on and they weren't offers I wanted..." He trailed off, realizing he had given away what he had planned to keep secret.

"So...you want to move?" Lucy's expression made his heart hurt. She looked shocked and dissappointed.

"I would never...we don't have to..." But Kevin didn't know what to say. He let the room fall silent. Finally Lucy spoke up. "Okay..." It was Kevin's turn to look shocked.

"What?" She looked up at him and placed one hand on his cheek.

"If this is important to you Kevin, then we'll do it. You moved out here for me now its my turn to return the favor." She smiled sweetly at him and kissed him gently on the lips. "So when do we leave?"

"In a month..."

A/N: Hey readers. I hope you liked the first chapter. Yes I know it's short the first two are but it is a very long story and most of the chapters will be longer.

I have to put out this warning though. This story is rated M for good reasons it is not a child story its a great story (I think) but it's not light and happy. So read if you want to and know that I have warned you.

Anyway I hope you do read it because I think the story is very good. So please R&R