NOTE TO Guest: I agree to disagree on this :) I just wish I knew which way they were going to go in the show. Honestly, I don't think they would've continued your way, cause I read in an interview that they didn't want to even do the Sue/Jack thing at all, even though they wrote in the chemistry, and EVERYONE wants them together. I personally would have written that in so that everyone would be happy, but hey, I'm not one of the original writers. Unless one of my readers were one of the writers, we'll never know what they were planning, so it's a free for all on what happens with everyone!
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After Jack's appointment, he drove his car over to Charlie's Garage to have Troy look at it.
"Hi!" Maddy said as soon as Jack came inside.
"Hi." Still wondering about the young woman, he watched her more closely than he would normally any other person.
"What can I do for you today?"
"I, uh, my car wasn't working. I want Troy to look at it."
Maddy could feel that he was studying her, but she shrugged it off. She figured it was just because he was a FBI agent and couldn't shut off the suspicious glare in his personal life. "Sure! He's working on another car right now, but he'll get to it later today. Do you have transportation back?"
"Yeah, I'll just call-" he paused. Sue was in New York. Bobby was in LA. All the first choices were busy. D was with Donna and didn't want to bother him again, he didn't dare bother Myles or Mya, and Tara said she had a date tonight. Surely she would be getting ready right now. "No one." He finished.
"I can give you a lift!" Maddy replied.
"Really? You'd do that for me?"
"Sure! Just give me a minute, and I'll be ready."
"Thanks," he said, shocked that a girl he hardly knew would go out of her way to help him.
"Alright, where are we going?" she asked once in the car a few minutes later. Jack gave her the address, and they were on their way.
"How do you like D.C.?" he asked.
"It's great! I like working with Troy. Everyone-well, almost everyone I've met has been really nice."
"Don't you miss your family?"
Maddy paused, thinking. "Yeah I guess, but I am also glad to be free. It was one or the other, and I chose freedom."
Jack thought about that. It was the most she had ever said about her family, and so he had to think about that for a while.
Soon enough, they pulled up to his apartment building.
Thanks for driving me." He said before getting out.
"No problem. Do you need me to pick you up when your car is ready?"
Jack looked at her through the open car window, where he had closed the door and stood outside.
"No, I'm good. Thanks anyway, though!"
"Ok, see you later!" she said, then drove off.
"Wow, that is one kind girl." He said to himself. Maybe he shouldn't be so hard on her after all.
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Sue, Lucy, Mark, Deedee and Nick were eating lunch outside on the back porch.
"So, how did you both meet?" Sue asked between bites. Knowing Lucy, it would be a long story.
"We met on a case." Lucy said, smiling at her husband.
"Yeah, I was the defense lawyer, and-"
"I saw you across the room." Lucy remembered dreamily.
"We didn't actually meet until several months later." Mark continued.
"Until I spilled coffee all over his shirt at our favorite coffeehouse." She said, laughing. Everyone laughed.
"We dated soon after that, and the rest is history." She smiled at her friend. "I so wished you would've been there. I sent you an invitation, but I never received anything back."
"You did? I never received anything. If I did, I surely would've come up for that!"
"I wasn't sure you wanted to talk to any of us, so I just let it go."
"What made you think that?" Sue asked.
"Well, you just left without really saying goodbye. We all missed you, and Jack really took it hard."
"Really?" Sue asked, concerned.
Lucy nodded. He buried himself in work, trying to make his feelings go away. It almost affected his judgement on a few cases a few times in the beginning, but thankfully he got it together."
"Wow," she replied, shocked that she didn't know this before, but it all made sense, that conversation at Slappy's.
They all sat there, thinking about 10 years prior. The kids decided to go play in the yard.
Sue looked at her watch. "Oh, I have to go. I'm sorry, but if I want to make it to D.C. before dark, I have to leave now. I got lost on the way up here, so I don't want to do that again."
"Really? Oh, I've missed you so much," Lucy said before getting up and hugging her.
"Me too." Sue said and signed.
"We have to do this again, Ok?"
Sue nodded. "Deal." She said and signed.
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"Tell me about this envelope." Bobby said once they arrived in her apartment and sat down on the couch.
"The letters started coming about 2 months ago. I get one once a week. Sometimes twice a week. They don't have any identification on them."
"What does it say on the inside?" Bobby prodded.
"They're threats. Demeans on me and my reporting style. Sometimes it says if I report on a specific topic, I would pay for it. Others say that what I said was untrue and that I was a liar, but I know that what I said was the truth. A few of them even say that I am to say certain words on a specific topic, but I never do."
"Have you contacted the police?" he asked, worried about her safety.
Darcy shook her head again. "That's another threat. The letters say that if I tell the police about them, I will pay for that as well. They claim they are watching me."
"Well, they're not watching me." Bobby said determinedly.
Darcy put a hand on his arm as he started getting up. "Don't-don't do anything. I don't want you to get hurt."
He sat back down. "So you want them to bully you all the time?"
She looked away. "No, but I don't want you involved."
"Darcy, I care for you. I always have, and always will. Just because you decided to leave D.C. didn't mean I wouldn't stop loving you. I'm going to figure this out for you. I have a friend in the San Diego Postal Inspection Service. I will go down there with this letter and a few others that you have tomorrow, and see what he says."
Darcy nodded her head in defeat. "Ok, but just be careful."
"Don't worry, I always am." He smiled at her.
