Liz stands motionless as she grips tightly onto her drink before knocking it down her throat and turns around to make her way towards the door.

'Wait Liz, let me explain'

Liz is furious with Jack as she has already guessed that Kaylie would have threatened to cancel the show in order for her to gain Jack's position in the company. A part of her wants to turn around and kiss him for the sacrifice that he has made for her and the other wants to slap him for being so foolish. Reaching for the handle she pulls the door open. Jack is fast on her heels and manages to shut the door before she is able to exit. Pushing her against the door she has no choice but to listen to him now.

'I don't want to hear it Jack'

Liz fights against Jack's arms that keep her steady against the door.

'I don't want to hear that you put me and my show before Avery and the baby'

Jack's hold softens as he hears the statement, because when he hears it out loud it suddenly becomes all too real the gesture he is making to her.

Liz is now able to break free from his hold and this time she is able to leave. Standing in the doorway Jack watches as she walks out but not before she turns round to leave him with her parting statement.

'Don't follow me Jack'

XX

Liz enters the elevator, her hands are shaking and her pulse is racing. She walks in circles in the restricted space to try and get her heart rate down. She replays the fight over in her head, tracing the memory of Jack's frame engulfing her body, his weight pushing against her and the sensation of his hot breath against her skin. Shaking the image from her head she tries to shake these momentarily feelings and delves deeper into why she reacted in such a furious outburst.

She doesn't dare delve deep because she would be lying to herself that these feelings are momentarily. These feelings, as much as she has tried to repress them, they have always been there and now floating just above the surface. Her feelings for Jack have only been getting stronger over the years and was it just confirmed to her that he is feeling it too? What if he was? Oh boy would she be terrified to tell him.

Rationalising with herself she comes to the conclusion that her outburst of rage is a result of her feelings for Jack manifesting into frustration as a way of coping with her near betrayal of Jack's wife and baby.

XX

It's Monday morning, Jonathan greets Jack from the elevator to hand him his morning papers. Following Jack into his office he heads over to brew Jack's morning cup of tea whilst Jack takes his seat at his desk and opens up his emails. Filtering through them Jack finds an email from Liz. As Jonathan pours the tea from the pot he can see that Jack is reading intensely.

'Mr Donaghy, are you reading the chain mail that I forwarded onto you? I only have 9 friends and it said I had to send it to 10 and if I didn't ...'

'No Jonathan, it's from Lemon'

Jonathan expresses a puzzled look, as much as he tries to understand Jack and Liz's relationship. He does know one thing and that is, they never send emails to each other. Jack and Liz prefer to communicate either face to face or over the phone, so for Liz to send an email is a little out of character.

'She wants me to take the CEO position despite the fact that it might mean losing...the show'

Jack is choosing to be very careful with his words here

'There is also a foot note at the bottom that states, if I don't agree to this she will pull the show anyway and there are a few angry emoticons towards the end.'

'Are you?'

'Jonathan, get me Lemon on the phone'

Jonathan scuttles through to his desk to pick up the phone and press the speed dial for Liz's office to which the call has been redirected to Cerie's line.

'Hey Jonathan'

'Cerie, can you put me through to Liz I need to speak with her right away'

Cerie covers the mouth piece even though Jonathan can hear everything she is saying.

'Liz is not here at the moment'

'I just heard her'

'Yeh, Liz can't talk right now'

'Fine, I see what you are doing here and if Ms Lemon doesn't want to talk to Mr Donaghy then that's her prerogative'

XX

It's not long until Liz receives the phone call to let her know that Hank Hooper is requesting to see her in his office.

Liz enters the corner office on the 70th floor to see Hank Hooper out on the roof top garden. She grabs his attention with a knock on the door to announce her arrival. Turning around and walking back into his office he greets her with a warm southern smile.

'Please Ms Lemon you're going to want to take a seat'

Sitting on a couch that is not too dissimilar to the one in Jack's office she sits down to hear her fate.

'I don't know if you are aware of why I called this meeting?'

'I have a suspicion'

'Woman and their intuition it's remarkable'

Hank moves to the chair opposite in order to make Liz feel more comfortable while he breaks the hard hitting news.

'Ms Lemon, this is our first meeting and so unfortunate that we are here under these circumstances'

'Yes Sir'

'Ms Lemon, I have come to the decision that your show will be on hiatus until further notice'

Liz is surprised to hear that her days at 30 Rock are perhaps not over.

'Hiatus? Why not just cancelled?'

'We plan on reassessing the show, seeing if we can keep it on the network despite its dwindling figures and revenue. There are still another 3 months before I officially hand over this company and I want to make sure I can be involved in making my successor happy before I leave.'

Liz moves from her seat and thanks Hank for taking a chance on her show. Hank walks her to the door and pats her on the back to say.

'You have someone, in great power that will be fighting your corner every step of the way'

Nodding her head in an agreement she steps out and makes her way to clear her office before telling the others.

XX

Entering the empty writer's room Liz runs her hands over the writer's table in a last attempt to delay the painful process of clearing out her office. She glances over at the TV monitor that shows the cast and crew in a brain storming session in the TGS studio. She smiles and reminds herself of how lucky she is to have even gotten to her 100th show.

She thinks back to how it all began her first episode with Tracy and more importantly her first meeting with Jack. Her reminiscing leaves her feeling nostalgic so she decides to take a seat at the table. She laughs off her first encounter with Jack and what she thought of him then and how quickly he changed her opinion of him.

Thinking of Jack was leaving her with a lump in the back of her throat. Instead of thinking of the past she was now thinking of the future and what did that involve? A future without Jack? This left a pain in her stomach, hell who was she kidding; it was leaving a pain in her heart.

Trying to rationalise her body's reaction her only conclusion was what she had known to be true all along. The truth that, Jack was rightly hers and always had been.

Frantically rising to her feet she knew now that she was ready, ready to tell him. Tell him that she was the one who had been foolish not giving into her emotions when Jack laid his heart on his sleeve that night in his office, knowing that he risked everything all for her. Her secret was finally going to be out and she wasn't prepared to wait another minute.

Moving forward she thinks of making her way to his office but is stopped with the thought of taking her cell in case he wasn't there. The thought of just missing him and being lost in the corridors of 30 Rock searching for him, for her to finally offload her feelings was leaving her impatient. Pushing open her office door she runs in to retrieve her cell, she halts to see Jack.

Walking towards Liz, she fights to catch her breath. With each step he takes she loses it a little more. Placing his hands on her waist and gently moving her against the door. Her eyes are fixed on his until they slowly close to focus on each other's lips...as this is their final destination.