Hello everyone! This is just a quick oneshot about our favorite heroine and her breaking heart. Please let me know what you thought and if i should continue writing Stephanie plum fan fic's as this is my first!

He was leaving. He was going to walk away and never see her again. She couldn't let that happen. She couldn't let the only thing in her life- she couldn't let everything good in her life just walk away, not with out a fight.

She dragged her self to her feet and ran to the door. He didn't get to do this not after everything they had been through. She made it to the hallway just in time to see the elevator close. He never took the elevator. She didn't let her mind linger on that fact for very long before she began flying down the stairs. She missed the steps a few times as she ran, the tears made it difficult to see wear her feet were going. By the time she got to the bottom she had sustained a few bruises from hitting the hand rail. But she made it. Bruises and all she made it. The elevator was still on the second floor.

Oh god. She hadn't thought about what she was going to say. He had to believe her, he had to stay. He had to know that he was it for her. There was no other choice, never had been. That she would follow him into battle, to the ends of the world, forever. He had to know that she loved him only him from the moment they met. He had to know how terrified that made her feel, how she had pretended not to feel what had been right in front of her, because of what could happen if he didn't feel the same. He had to know that she didn't care anymore. That she didn't care that she could get hurt, that she could crash and burn so hard that she would never be able to put out the flames. He had to know that she would never want to.

She gasped in air when the elevator announced its arrival. Oh god. The second it took for the door to open seemed to take hours, giving her plenty of time to watch the reaction on his face when he saw her there. There were tears in his eyes. He hadn't allowed them to run down his face like she had, but they were there. And for a moment she was able to see the confusion in his eyes before they glazed over blocking what he was thinking from her.

"You don't get to do that." Her words seemed silent the first time she said them, her voice sore from sobbing, "You don't get to do that!"

"Stephanie-"

"No. You got your say upstairs." She cried out, "And i listened now its your turn!"

He was silent. Waiting for her to continue. "You sure can drive a girl wild you know that? I mean you tell her you love her and then you say you know nothing can ever come of it. I deserve better, that you can't provide the kind of life i need. That you love me to much to hold me back. And i know i never helped you think any differently. That i was so so scared of telling you the truth, that i let you believe the worst. But you can't just make the decisions in this relationship!

She started pacing in front of the elevator door not letting him leave the thresh hold causing the elevator door to open and shut in confusion. Her voice raised, drawing attention from other people in the lobby "I love you! I have loved only you for so long! I love what you do, how you know exactly what to say when I'm this close to giving up, i love that you know when to give me space and when i need you to hold me. I love how you know me better than anyone else." She took a gasp and let the air fill her lungs and then lowered her voice, " But most of all i love the fact that if all i ever do in this life, is love you then i will have done something worth while. Even if you don't love me back."

" God I sound like a sap don't I? But that's what you make me." A quiet cry escaped her lips before she could continue, "But you needed to know before you packed up and ran away to Miami or Boston or god knows where. You need to know that i love you."

Her words hung in the air for what seemed like eternity. She was too afraid to meet his eyes, to see the rejection that they could hold. She had done it laid it all out on the line. Her emotions , her love for him to take or for him to through away.

And then she felt it. His fingers on her chin. They turned her head towards his then raised here eyes so they met his. The wall was down and shining out at her was his emotions, so loud that she would have known what he was thinking from a mile away.

"Babe."

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