Again I own nothing, the pat on the back goes to the awsome JE

Oh my God I can believe he had kept this from me. Now he is going to leave me, just when I thought everything was going great everything changes.

"I know how you feel about moving away from your family. I haven't accepted the position yet I wanted to talk to you first, I have until tomorrow to decide.

My heart dropped; this is was such an amazing opportunity for him. He has worked to hard to escape the shadows of the Morelli men. I can't be selfish and keep him from going. That whole situation sucked when I finally commit to a future with Joe, giving him all of myself then the other shoe dropped. Go figure. I started to cry and Joe pulled me to his lap, rocking me back and forth in a smooth peaceful way. He stroked my hair, giving me time to calm down. Realizing I had to let him go I took a deep breath sealing my fate.

"You have to do this Joe you deserve it. I know you will be so amazing with this position and there is no doubt in my mind you will be the best Chief of Police Boston has ever seen it." I give him a weak smile.

"Thanks Cupcake, it means so much to me that you think I can do this." We stayed like that for what seemed like hours but in all reality it was probably about 10 minutes. Finally Joe broke the silence. "Will you come with me?" his eyes begged me.

"Oh Joe" I touched his cheek with my palm he started to cry now full tears running down his cheek. "I wish I could, but Grandma Mazur's cancer is getting worse and she depends on me. My mother can't do it on her own I need to be here to help out."

"What about us?"

"I will always love you Joe but long distance relationships don't work between us. I don't want you to be something you're not; I want you to be yourself that's who I fell in love with."

"Oh Cupcake I love you so much."

"So when will you leave?"

"In three weeks, I have to go find a place to stay, would you like to go with me for a weekend and help me look your opinion means so much to me."

I smiled "I would love to" we sat and talked some more, really about nothing just talked. It had gotten late, and I figured it would be best if I went home, so I got up bending over and kissed his cheek then headed for the door. Joe jumped up putting his arms around me.

"Where are you going?" he asks.

"Well I thought you needed time to get things straight. You know call your Mom and let her know your leaving, Mooch he's probably going to lose his mind without you so you will need to tell him sooner rather than later, and Boston needs to know you have accepted the position."

"Cupcake please don't go, stay please…we still have three weeks we could be together."

"It won't be the same in fact it will be so much harder in the end to say goodbye, is that what you want?"

"I don't want it to be hard, but I can't let you go so easily, not yet PLEASE" he begged and pressed his lips to mine, giving me the hottest kiss causing a jolt of energy to go straight to my doodah, which made me moan. "I Love you so much Cupcake" he started to unzip my pants.

"Uh huh… you just love the sex" he gave me that sexy smirk of his.

"That too" he winked and bent down to my shoulder trailing kisses down to my fingers. That night was Amazing.

***End of Flashback***

In those three weeks that followed we both came to the conclusion that even though we loved each other, it's a love of friendship. We stayed together out of comfort, and we would stay the best of friends after this ways said and done, but for now we might as well enjoy each other until he leaves. I mean seriously after he's gone I will probably become a born again virgin for the rest of my life. Great just Great. Joe and I were at out candle light dinner he made for us when his question brought me out of my daydream.

"So I was thinking we could go to your apartment and we could pick up the last of your things, turn in your key to your building manager, and then come back home and pack up the last of the boxes here and once we finish we can watch a movie."

"Are you sure you want me to stay here, I mean you know my history, firebombs, break-ins and now with the responsibility of Bob's safety for the next few months. I really don't want to risk losing you as my friend because your house burned down." He starts to laugh, men they think everything is so funny. "You do have insurance right." Still laughing he says.

"Yes Cupcake I'm sure. I was never going to sell this place in the first place, its home, our home. If you were going to come with me I was going to rent it out make a little extra money, but I would rather you be here where I know it's nice and safe since I can't be here to protect you. Plus it will help you save some money, and as for Bob you know my new apartment doesn't take dogs, so until I find a house he has to stay here, and I don't trust him with anyone else."

"Thanks Joe"

After dinner we cleaned up together and went over to my place, picked up the last of my boxes and turned in the key. At home after the last of the packing was done we cuddled on the couch to watched Ghostbusters.

"Hey Joe"

"Yea"

"I'm really going to miss you" I started to cry

"Please don't cry Cupcake" he kissed my tears away. "I'm going to miss you to."

Joe moved us so that he was lying over top of me. He bent down and gave me the sweetest kiss, but it soon turned into more; need, passion and acceptance that this is going to be our last night together and tomorrow will be the end. His hand moved to the hem of my shirt lifting. Then his mouth trailed down from my neck to the top of my breast, magically my bra had disappeared and he was sucking at my left nipple while his other hand was lightly pinching my right. He put his teeth on my nipple and gently pulled to the point that it felt so good it hurt. He then proceeded down the path of my stomach to the edge of my jeans, going to the button, and with his teeth he unbuttoned them, along with unzipping the zipper. I moaned expressing my appreciation, but I need him to go faster. I shifted our position by flipping over with him sitting up against the couch and me straddling him. Going for his buttons on his shirt I decide to take a different approach because he just had way too many, I grabbed each side of his shirt and pulled causing buttons to go flying everywhere. Taking a minute to enjoy the view I bent down to one of his nipples repaying him in kind.

"Last time Joe let's make this good."

"Anything you want Cupcake" he says, and we made are way to the bedroom.

After several hours we finally fell asleep tired and sated. It's was to early when the alarm went off signaling the begging of an end. Joe rolled over me reaching for the alarm to turn it off. Groaning he wrapped me in his warm, safe arms and kissed my shoulder, I sighed in both contentment and anxiety wanting that feeling to never end but knowing I had to let him go. I turned over so that I was facing him.

"Morning" I say.

"Good Morning Cupcake, ready to start our day."

No! "Sure." I say hoping I sounded convincing.

He laughed full on head back, loss of breath type of laughing. "You have always been an awful liar; I don't want it to start either, I would rather stay in bed just holding you."

"If only; but seriously we need to get up and get you packed, because even though this hurts right now we both know it's for the best, and I'm going to be behind you 100%." I said making him smile. "If you love someone let them go right?" We stayed curled up for a few more minutes when I said. "I want you to know that even though it will be hard for me, I want you to find someone who will love you and support you as much as I do, because you are one of the greatest men I know, not to mention sexy as hell" I add to lighten the mood.

"No one will ever compare to you Cupcake."

"Of course not; they will know how to cook!" I said making us both laugh.

Joe started to get up but stopped and turned to me smiling. "Before we get started I have something for you."

"Really?" I said starting to get excited.

"Of course' he smiled and got up going to the closet coming back with a bag and sitting it on the bed in front of me. "Open it" he grinned.

"Wait!" I jumped up going under the bed and coming back out with a bag as well handing it to him. "You know I couldn't forget you….You go first."

Joe proceeded to open the bag and pulled out a Devils Hockey Jersey, with MORELLI printed on the back of it. When the was flipping it over his eyes widen finding the signature of Jason Arnott who played forward and always plays his heart out. Secretly I always liked him, however I will never admit that to Joe.

"Wow Cupcake how did you manage to pull this off it's amazing I can't believe you got Arnott to sign it."

"Well working for Rangeman does have its perks and knowing the right people can help with those connections. Lester is good friends with Arnott and talked him into signing it for me when they went out at the club one night."

"That is so awesome I love it." Laying it down he continued to look in the bag, the next thing he pulled out was a new little black book but this one is electronic. He looked up and smiled.

"What?" I asked.

"I can't believe you got me a PDA, do you really think I will get that many numbers?" he laughed.

"I really do."I said shaking my head trying and failing to force a smile. "It won't even take a week for you to hit 20."

"Right, but thanks for the compliment" he pulled out the last gift which was a 5x7 framed picture of Joe, Bob and myself. Joe had his arms around my waist, and we were face to face with my hand on his chest. We were looking in each other's eyes both about to laugh, because Bob had managed to jump up on his hind legs putting his front paws on both of our arms. He is behind us so he is facing the camera and licking his nose. The frame was a wooden antique that my Grandma Mazur gave me. It looked rugged and manly just like Joe.

"This is great, when did you get it; I don't remember it being taken?" he asked.

I laughed "My mom took it the night we told our family you were leaving and I was staying. She thought I would like it; so she gave us each a copy. Remember we were trying to tell everyone we were both ok with this change when Bob farted."

"Oh God that's right he had just gotten into the trash and found something so awful we had to give him three baths to get rid of that smell. I have never smelt something so rancid in my life."

"I know I tried to hold my breath all the way home. Mom managed to snap the picture before everyone cleared the room." We were both laughing so hard now that we had tears in our eyes from the memory.

"I love it Cupcake thank you" he said and brushed a soft kiss on my lips.

"You're very welcome."

"Now it's your turn." He said picking up the bag and placing it in my lap. The first thing I pulled out was a year supply to Tasty Pastry Card. The back of the card said *** This coupon is good for a half dozen doughnuts every day for one year starting*** and written for the start date was tomorrow. Yummy!

"Oh my God Joe this is the best thing anyone could give to me."

He smiled "I know the way to your heart. Just don't go overboard; I also know you will kill me if you gain weight, not that you wouldn't be beautiful however you look."

"Thanks Joe"

"Keep going"

Next was a container of baby wipes. What the….I looked at him and his body was shacking with silent laughter. Not knowing what to think about this I say the first thing that came to my mind.

"Ok…."

"It's for all those "It's not my fault" incidents."

"Joe!" I screech "You know I don't do that on purpose, it's always an accident sheesh!" I tried to act mad but, I couldn't even muster an eye roll, because it was actually funny.

Laughing I said "Thanks Joe this is actually a great idea." The next thing I pulled out was a beautiful sapphire necklace. It was so pretty it took my breath away.

"Joe it's so beautiful, and to much you shouldn't have."

"As soon as I saw it I knew it would be perfect for you, the color looks so close to your eyes but your color is more beautiful."

"It really is beautiful Joe can you help me put it on?" I asked as I handed him the necklace and lifted my hair. Joe put it around my neck and once he finished he ran is finger along the back of my neck." Kissing his cheek I pulled the last item out of the bag. It was a dual sterling silver picture frame. On the left side was a picture of Joe and I as kids, we were dressed up for Halloween. I was a princess and he was a prince. Joe had his arm around my shoulder and mine was around his, we were both looking at the camera with the biggest smiles on our face. This was right before the "Choo Choo incident", because when my mother saw us coming out of the garage and my Wonder Woman panties on backwards; she tried to keep the distance between us after that day. The right picture was also of us in front of the Devil's stadium. Joe was wearing his Devils jersey and I was wearing my N.Y Rangers jersey we were both wearing our foam fingers. I was standing in front of Joe and he had one arm wrapped around my waist both of us smiling at the camera. The frame was engraved with "I will always be there for you Cupcake" I ran my finger over the pictures and started to cry.

"I can't believe you found this picture."

"My Mom had it, she said she always thought that you were special even if it was just being friends; her exact words were, "That Stephanie she will keep you straight you should make sure you listen to her." She always liked you even when I was FTA and you were bugging her to find me. When she gave this to me she said that even though we had decided to just stay friends we were connected and would remain the best of friends, and that if I didn't believe her my Grandma Bella had a "vision"." That had us both laughing again. "Steph always remember I will be there for you whenever you may need me. I might be out of the state; but I'm just a phone call away. You're my best friend and I will always love you." He wrapped his arms around me embracing me in his warm comfort.

"Always?" I asked.

"Always no matter what." He replied kissing my cheek.

Getting up I grabbed his hand "Come on let's get going, we have some Packing to do."

Special thanks to Emilie Martel and sweetdreams-sunnymornings for helping me figure out how to post chapter 2, I really do appriciate the time you took to help. Also thanks for all the reviews I lost the first few trying to work out my Posting issue and I ended up deleting my first post, which ment I also lost your reviews but I did read all of them and I am greatful for your input and constructive criticism, because they were very valid points. Thanks again and hope you enjoy!