Disclaimer: I don't own these characters except for Liz.

Liz Buchanan walked off the beach and into headquarters the next morning. Last night she found out that her father no longer gave the tower assignments so she hoped that the tower assignments were good. When she walked into the locker room there wasn't anyone in there which she smiled about. Since she'd left they'd combined the showers and so she jumped in not thinking that anyone else was there. In fact there was someone there who felt the same way.

"Lizzie? I guess some habits die hard?" said J.D. standing in the doorway

"J.D. good morning and yes I still have my morning routine. I'd better get going."

"Yea," he smiled at her as her towel came flying back in at him.

Everyone got there and Lizzie was bombarded with all the old staff laughing it up. Some people tried to introduce themselves, but most were scared. When they gave the tower assignments Liz got one of the old towers that one of the others had. Liz, J.D. and Cody were all goofing around the trucks with Newman and a bunch of the girls walked by. One of them called out to J.D. who smile and waved.

"What do you say we get going?" said J.D. to Liz

"Yea, Cody I'll see you at lunch."

"I'll see you."

As they left though out of the corner of her eye she spotted a man who looked like her ex. When they got closer he spotted her and started yelling at her. Lizzie tried her best to hide with her sunglasses and he kept yelling her. Cody didn't want to stop, but the guy had pulled up in his car now along side them. Lizzie told J.D. to keep going, but he said no and got out of the car to talk to the man. Liz took one good look at the man and sure enough it was Tyler. She had no desire to talk to him so she stayed in the car and let J.D. handle the situation. After about ten minutes though Tyler had opened the truck door to talk to her, but Lizzie wouldn't talk to him.

"Liz would you please just tell me what you are doing? You didn't even tell me why. Don't you think I deserve an explanation as to why you just take off on me? Liz, I know that I have been gone a lot, but I really love you and I wouldn't do a thing to hurt you. Please let's talk about this."

"Hey, we need to get going."

"I'm not leaving until I get an explanation."

Lizzie just sat there and then leaned over to grab the radio. She called into headquarters for someone to come out and take Tyler away. Two guys came out to talk to the guy as Lizzie and J.D. left the parking lot. After a few moments J.D. could see the anguish in her face and had to make sure that she was alright.

"That's Tyler? What is he doing here?"

"Tyler isn't the brightest guy when it comes to taking hints. I'm really sorry about that, but I can't deal with him. I gave him a hundred chances."

"Are you going to be alright? I can call for someone to be out here with you."

"J.D. thanks, but I can handle this. Have a good day."

"Yea," he said confused by her calmness as she got out of the truck and walked up the ramp. He knew that she'd be alright, but he had no idea that Tyler was the violent type.

The morning ran smoothly with an occasional rescue for some kid who went in too deep. For the most part Liz loved working her shift. Mitch had heard about the parking lot incident and decided to go and make sure that Liz was alright. He had noticed a change in her last night, but though that it was only because she had been working so hard to transfer back home. He also wanted to make sure that things between her and the Lieutenant were alright. He knew that Taylor wasn't someone that was easy to understand. Mitch pulled up and found Liz sitting and watching the beach. She called someone to watch her water for a few minutes.

"Checking up on me already? I thought at least a couple more hours."

"I just want to make sure that you are alright. I heard about the parking lot incident. You want to fill me in on the whole story? They are charging him for harassment. Liz if there's something more I need to know."

"I can't tell you here. He's changed and I didn't pick up the clues right away. I spend everyday of my job at the clinic talking to women who are afraid of the people they are supposed to feel safe with. When I saw it happening to me I didn't know because I just keep telling myself that it's not really happening. He really loves me for who I am."

"Sweetheart, he…baby," he said hugging her

"I don't know what to do Dad. I thought he loved me."

"Come on let's get you back to headquarters and figure this out. I'll have them close your tower."

Liz got back to headquarters and she finished telling her father everything that had happened. Cody happened to be on his break and told her that if she needed anything that he'd be there for her. She took him up on that offer and asked if he wanted to get out and go talk. Cody took her to one of their spots from when they were together. For awhile they just sat there as Lizzie leaned against Cody to feel safe. Of all the people that she'd ever dated Cody knew when to talk and when not to.

"I'm not going to say I'm sorry because I know that's not what you want to hear right now. I just want you to know that I care about you. I've never stopped caring about you and I never will. So you want to fill in the blank spaces?"

"There aren't really any blank spaces. I fell in love with a guy who hit me and cheated on me. I left and he followed. I have papers drawn up for it, but I just couldn't make myself give them to him because I didn't want to have to face him. He'd stopped trying to call me these past few weeks. I feel so stupid that I can't see what's right in front of me," she said with tears in her eyes.

"Sometimes we don't want to see the truth," he said squeezing her hand

"Come on, I'm hungry let's go eat," she said getting up and walking to the car. Cody sat there a few minutes praying that he'd be able to protect her.