Author's Note: hey guys I just wanted to thank you all for the awesome reviews. I am so happy you enjoyed the story. I am currently working on the next 'Book' so I hope you stay tuned for it. ~ Pari


Agent Jones realized a moment too late that there was someone standing right behind him. Jones' partner Agent Jovovich was already on the ground clutching at his throat and gasping for air, before Agent Jones could even turn and aim his gun. "I'm trying really hard right now to keep myself from killing you, so don't." Reese warned and Agent Jones moved his hand away from his holstered gun, raised his hands and slowly turned to face his assailant. The underground parking garage, of the NYC FBI headquarters was well lit and covered with cameras, so Jones was very surprised to see that the man before him was none other than the fugitive John Reese. "Det. Jocelyn Carter of the NYC police, you don't know her do you?" Reese asked.

"Why is she a friend of yours?" Jones asked casually and was rewarded with a less debilitating swift blow to the throat that his partner Jovovich had received. Reese reached out to Jones who had crumbled to the ground and pulled him back up by his hair, "Ahhhrrrrrggh!" Jones yelped out in pain.

"Det. Jocelyn Carter of the NYC police, you don't know her do you?" Reese asked again and Agent Jones gaged his meaning and quickly shook his head.

"No…no, I don't know a Det. Jocelyn Carter of the NYC Police." Jones wheezed out.

"If you ever approach her again or if I see you or any of your goons tailing her I will find you and I will kill each and every one of you." Reese said as his lip curled up in a snarl and his eyes held a glint of rage. "You want me then 'you' come and get me. Understood?" Agent Jones simply nodded his head in agreement and Reese released him and allowed him to fall to the ground. "You should send her some thank you flowers, because the only reason I won't killed you now is because I know she wouldn't approve because she's a good cop," Reese then turned and began buttoning up his jacket as he walked off.


A week Later


"Grace," Carter contemplated the name for a moment and she bent and pulled the granola bar from the vending machine that was housed the precinct's lounge area. "Yeah I like Grace it's a nice traditional name." She nodded as she spoke into her cell.

"Then there's Elizabeth, Vivian, and Marilyn too." Reese tossed out other girl names as he continued taking snapshots of his latest 'number'.

"Hmm," She mumbled out as she opened her snack and took a bite. "Those are nice too, and are there any other actresses you want to name our daughter after?" Carter asked as she finally noticed a theme to the names Reese had spent the last half hour spouting out to her. She could hear him chuckle over the phone and it brought a broad smile to her face. "Have you thought of any boy names?"

"Don't need too," He stated as he focused his camera on the female who suddenly appeared beside the man he had been tailing.

"Riight, because according to you we're having a girl," Carter finished for him. "What in the world?" She gasped out as she made her way back to her desk. Her outburst got Reese's full attention.

"What's wrong?" He asked with concern in his tone.

"Oh, uhm nothing…there's just a huge bouquet of tulips on my desk."

"Who are they from?" Reese questioned further even as he calmed and focused back on the job at hand.

"Agent Jones," She replied perplexed. "It's a thank you for helping them with their investigation." Her words made Reese smile.

"Well that was thoughtful of Agent Jones."

"Yeah but I didn't help him in fact I told him to stay out of my face. So why would he…John did you go after him?" Carter asked as she lowered her voice.

"I'm torn between Elizabeth Reese Carter and Vivian Reese Carter…hmm I guess either would work." Reese said ignoring Carter's question.

"I like Vivian Reese Carter better," She responded with a smile. Carter knew that Reese had no intentions of answering her question about Jones and she really didn't care enough to push the issue.

"Good now that that's settled when are we going to tell Taylor he's going to have a baby sister?"

"Uhhhnnn," Carter scrunched up her face at the thought of having such a conversation with her teenage son. "I figured in a couple of month he'll figure it out himself." Again she heard him chuckle.

"What are you afraid of Joss?"

"I don't know if I'm ready to talk about where babies come from with Taylor." She said and Reese had to pause a moment to tell whether she was serious or not. He smirked at the fact that she honestly thought her 15 year old son didn't know about the birds and the bees.

"Joss I promise you Taylor will not be shocked to hear about sex. Although he'll probably be horrified to learn that you're having sex," He teased. "But if he has questions about sex then I'll talk with him."

"You will?" Carter asked as her heart filled with a newfound joy at the thought of John being there in such a way for her son. She was also relieved that she herself wouldn't have to have that talk with Taylor. "Thank you."

"No need to thank me, I'm a wolf who will always take care of his pack. You, Taylor, and Vivian are my pack now. Your lunch break is over Detective,"

"So it is," Carter concurred as she looked at her watch. "See you later?" She asked even though she knew she didn't have to since Reese had practically moved into her brownstone, sneaking in at night and leaving in the wee hours during the week days.

"Yeah and I'll bring dinner, how does Italian sound?"

"Sounds like I don't have to cook." She joked with a huge smile.

"Later," Reese said and then ended the call.

"Later," Carter sighed out as she closed her phone and seated herself at her desk. She found herself hurrying through the reports she had to typing up while looking forward to an evening at home with her 'family'.

Fin