YAY! You've done it! Here is your Wednesday Chapter! Enjoy!

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About an hour later, Sue and Jack were dining at their favorite restaurant, and their favorite meals.

"Mhm, I forgot how good this was," Sue said, smiling.

Jack nodded while swallowing. "Yeah, I haven't been here in years. I forgot too." He didn't mention he hadn't been there because it reminded him too much of her. Now that she was back, it felt good. Really good. And the food was exceptional. Or maybe it was the company. Or maybe it was both.

"Sooo," Sue hesitated, not exactly wanting to bring up what she really wanted to bring up. "What have I missed with the FBI?"

"A lot of criminals. They seem to get more creative every year. We could've really used your help on a lot of them, though. Might've helped us catch them sooner."

With that, they both looked away, both thinking in their own way about what happened, regrets and all.

Jack cleared his throat, therefore trying to clear his mind. Once she turned back to him, he said, "What about you? How has it been living in Ohio with your Mom again?"

"As good as it could be. My Mom can always get on my nerves." They both laughed. "Soon after I moved back, the local High School asked me to teach ASL, and that is what I have been doing since. Other than that, I haven't been doing much."

Jack nodded. "Yeah, other than work, I haven't been doing much either. I was working a lot for a while, but found a better work/life balance, but I don't do very much in my free time. I haven't found a go-to thing to do, other than laundry." He laughed, and she laughed with him.

Sue didn't want to bring it up, but he already sort-of brought it up, so she thought she might as well ask. "No girlfriends?

Jack shook his head. "A date here and there, but none, uh" he looked at his food, unsure how to put it. "None that I wanted to keep in touch with." He finished. "None like you." He added in his head. "You?" he asked.

Sue shook her head as well. "There was someone a while back, but we broke up a few months later. It just didn't work out." She then added mentally, "No one was like you."

They both sat there in an awkward silence. Jack was too nervous to say what he really wanted to say. Sue was the first one to talk.

"I just wanted to say I'm sorry for not talking to you after I left. It just seemed better if I just broke off from everybody in D.C., including you. I'm sorry if I hurt you."

"Nah, it's Ok." Jack replied, but really, he was thinking how much it had hurt. It still does now.

Sue smiled. "I'm glad. Maybe," she hesitated. "We could go back to the way it was before?" she looked at him, hopeful.

Jack was about to say something, but she interrupted him. "Good friends, I mean."

"Yeah, yeah, that's fine. No hard feelings. Everything's great. I mean like, yeah." Why was he rattling on and on? She was getting to him in a good way, but he knew she didn't want that, so he put those thoughts away – for now.

"I'm just glad you're here." He paused. "To help with this case."

She smiled. "Yeah, me too." She signed and said at the same time.

They went on to finish their dinner, talking about old friends, catching up, and just about everything under the sun, except the one thing that they should talk about. The one thing they needed to talk about.

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"Sooo, how was dinner?" Carla asked when Sue came in the door of their hotel room, prying for more information. She always knew there was something going on between the two, but never figured out why Sue never went back. She clearly missed Jack, but hid it so well, only her Mother could tell.

"Good." Sue responded, walking to her bed.

Her Mom tried to get the attention of her daughter, to no avail.

"Oh well," she shrugged. "I'll get it from Jack tomorrow."

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When Sue and Carla got to work the next morning, everyone was gone, except for Sarah, the rotor, and Mya, Tara's intern.

"Where is everybody?" Sue asked.

"Gone out to save the world." Mya said sarcastically, still hiding behind her computer. Sue did not see that she said anything.

"Ignore her." Sarah said as she got up and walked over. "All teams are out looking through all the parks. They hopefully will be back soon, safe."

Sue nodded in understanding. Then she remembered what Jack said last night. She walked over to Mya.

"Jack said that you went over the video, can you tell me what you found?"

Without looking up, Mya quickly picked up a USB drive, and handed it to her. Sue looked at it a little questioningly, but walked over to her desk, and plugged in the drive into her computer. About 50 image files came up.

About an hour later, and about 40 photos in, the team came back. Jack waved to get her attention.

"Nothing. We tried every park, scoured every inch. Nothing. Are you sure there is nothing else you could've read in the video?"

"Maybe, when the video said 'park', there was another word between that and 'northwest', such as road, or something. Here, look at these photos."

Jack came behind her as she flipped through them quickly. The first ones were of the White House, then of some houses in a neighborhood, then of a road in the middle of a forest. The last few pictures were of a broken down house in the middle of the forest. In between these map-like pictures were really random photographs, such as pictures of products, dogs, and random people. Sue turned to him.

"I think this is sort-of like a treasure map. What if Park is a road, northwest of the White House, not an actual park?"

"On it." Tara said. When Jack looked up at Tara, Sue figured she said something of the like.

Turning back to Sue, Jack said, "If it is what you think, a treasure map, we need to check it out ASAP."

"Got it! There's a Park Road Northwest, I think that is what we are looking for." She leaned in closer to her computer screen. "It looks like some parts are in a wooded area, which would match your description."

"Perfect. Alright, let's split up, and find these guys." Jack said in reply.