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Chapter 4

The next morning, Audrey woke up from the sound of the door opening. She jolted out of bed and ran to the bathroom. She quickly brushed through her hair and wiped her face clean of the massacre that had run down her face the night before. She went back into the bedroom and found Jack standing in the doorway of the bedroom.

"Hey," Audrey said, feeling completely heartbroken.

"Hey," Jack said. "I just came to get the rest of my things before work."

He set his empty suitcase down by his closet and started to empty it. Audrey sat on the bed trying really hard not to cry. She knew she brought this on herself. She had been pushing him away. She wanted to say something. To tell him not to leave. But, part of her kept remembering Paul dying. He finished packing and walked towards the door.

"I'll see you at work?" Audrey asked, wondering whether or not he would shut her out completely from his life.

"Yeah," he said, quietly.

Jack got into his car and cursed himself. Why did he go when he knew she'd be there? Did he really think she'd ask for him back? He drove to work trying to put his thoughts away. One of the greatest parts of being an agent was that he learned shut out his emotions. Why was this so hard?

When he got to work, he was happy to see the mound of paperwork. It would keep his mind off things. Around ten, Jack was interrupted by a knock on his door.

"Come in," he said. The door opened slowly and he saw Audrey.

"Secretary Heller wants us to join his eleven o'clock meeting with Senator Lewis," Audrey said.

"Okay," Jack said. "I'll be there."

"He also wants us to go over the bill we'll be talking about real quickly," Audrey said.

"Okay," Jack said, moving some papers off of the chair next to him so that Audrey could sit. Jack was amazed when Audrey sat down and they started discussing the bill. He and Audrey had always worked well together but he thought it was only because they were friends and then more than that. He thought since they were over, they wouldn't work together comfortably anymore. But, he felt more comfortable with her now than he had in three days.

When they were done, Audrey was happy that they could still work together. Maybe they still had a chance. They walked together to the meeting and sat next to each other. The meeting went along in the same fashion as every other meeting except this time Audrey and Jack were not glancing at each other as much as possible. When the meeting was over, Audrey walked down to her office.

"Hey," Jack said, catching up to her right next to her office.

"What's up?" Audrey asked.

"I was thinking that we could get some lunch," Jack said. "Together."

Audrey took his hand and led him through the door to her office. She shut it behind her. She sighed knowing that she had no idea what she was going to say.

"Look, Jack, I'm going to talk and I need you to not interrupt," Audrey said. Jack nodded. "I want to. Because even though I'm angry with you, I'd hate to lose you. I love you so much. But, dating you is like slapping Paul in the face a million times. I understand that why you had to save that man. And, I understand that it was just bad timing. But, he still died. And, I know I was dead set on leaving him for the longest time but I did love him for a long time too."

Audrey paused. Jack apologized to her. Audrey said, "I'm not done. Paul's funeral is on Friday. But, after that, I really hope we can work things out. But, it might not be for a while after that."

"And, until then?" Jack asked.

"Friends?" Audrey asked, scared that he'd say no.

"Of course," Jack said. He felt broken. He had always liked being her friend before they dated. But, he never thought he'd be going back to that. He was just glad he wasn't losing her permanently. He walked back to his office and got back to work. When he finally got through all of the day's paperwork, he decided to head home. No, not home. To his hotel room. Audrey was his home.

Just as the elevator door was about to close to bring Jack to the parking lot, Audrey stopped it from closing. She got in. Jack wanted to say something. Anything that would lighten the mood. To show her that he was okay with being friends for now.

"Did you have a lot of paperwork to do today?" Audrey asked, not letting the elevator ride consist of an awkward silence.

"Yeah," Jack said. "Remind me never to miss a day of work again. What about you?"

"Not that much. I think my father lightened the load for me a little bit. He was going to make me miss this entire week."

"Probably took it from you and gave it to me based on how much I had," Jack said, jokingly.

"Sorry," Audrey said.

"I was kidding," Jack said. "It wasn't that bad."

Audrey smiled slightly at him before stepping out of the elevator. "Goodnight, Jack."

"Goodnight," Jack said, wanting so badly to kiss her. Instead he got into his car and watched as Audrey got into her car and drove away.