It's a crisp morning and Jack is undecided if he should wear his winter coat. He decides that it's better to be safe than sorry and so grabs it from the coat stand and heads for the door.

'Jack, I cancelled your town car'

Jack turns round to see Avery ready to leave with the pram. Jack looks down to see his baby girl dressed appropriately for such a cold morning.

'I thought us girls could walk Daddy to his work today?'

Jack is a little surprised to see Avery so happy after his parting comment to her last night wasn't too kind. Maybe she was changing, maybe she was becoming more mature about the situation and perhaps he would give in to her small demand. Jack with a soft smile opens the door and helps Avery down the stoop with the pram and onto the sidewalk. They walk together down the leafy avenues of the Upper East Side to which Avery has a constant smile.

'What are you so happy about?'

Avery lets out an over enthusiastic laugh and wraps her arms around Jack to plant a kiss on his cheek. Jack is furious with her PDF and pulls her off him.

'I don't know what kind of stunt you are trying to pull?'

Avery is happy that she has riled Jack and decides that he is capable of walking the rest of his journey to work alone.

XX

It took Jack a little longer than expected to arrive at work, truth be told, he got a little lost. He isn't used to walking the streets of Manhattan and especially not without a guide. Jack enters 30 Rock and immediately knows his bearings as he makes his way to his office.

Walking past Jonathan who is currently on a call, Jack can hear that Hank Hooper is requesting a meeting with him. Jack walks back to hover over Jonathan as he waits for him to finish talking with Hank's assistant.

'Hank Hooper wants to see me?'

'Good morning Mr Donaghy, yes Mr Hooper is requesting a meeting with you'

'Do you know what it's about? Is it about TGS?'

'There was no mention of it'

Jonathan checks his watch to not so subtlety point out the time as Jack is already running behind for the day.

'Mr Donaghy, might I suggest you make your way upstairs now?'

In the hopes that it might be to discuss TGS, Jack makes a move to Hank's office.

XX

'Come in, come in Jack'

Hank opens up his arms and gives Jack a big southern hug and doesn't let go until he counts to ten out loud. Hank is in even higher spirits than usual which makes Jack think that he has good news regarding TGS's future.

'Good morning Sir, I mean Hank'

'It certainly is a good morning Jack'

Hank makes his way back to his desk and urges Jack to follow him.

'Have you seen this Jack? It's HOT OF THE PRESSES'

Jack looks closely on the computer monitor to read an article in the New York Times. The article names Jack as the new CEO. He is surprised to hear that the information has been leaked so soon and scrolls down to see the picture they have used. The picture they have is of Jack's morning walk with Avery. There is also a close up picture of Avery kissing his cheek, adding more insult to injury the blurb at the bottom reads – Family man Jack Donaghy enjoying his morning stroll with wife Avery Jessop and daughter Liddy.

Jack pulls away from the screen to cover his mouth in shock. He has a suspicion that Avery set him up for the photos and leaked the news about his CEO position to the press.

'Son, I'm not angry this is out, why quite the opposite. I'm thrilled to see that our next CEO will be a family man just like me. I mean look at you Jack; you're blessed.'

Jack begins to think how this will look to his colleagues? This photograph will be the one they will aspire too instead of the one of him shaking hands with Charlie Sheen. He thought about how it really was, he was currently filing for divorce after being married only a matter of months to then plan on running off with his friend the head writer of a show that is on the verge of being cancelled. As he looked at the photograph once more it represented his current reputation - having a beautiful wife, new baby and a great job. Was he finally at the stage in his life when he did in fact have it all? Just as he had it together, was he now going to turn his life upside down and to do it all for Lemon?

With these thoughts running through this mind, Jack excuses himself from Hank's office to do some more thinking.

XX

Jack enters Liz's building and greets Pawel the doorman. They shake hands in their Poland meets American way and despite their differences the two have build a rapport over the years. Riding in the elevator Jack fidgets with the key as he waits to reach the third floor. Shortly Jack arrives outside Liz's apartment and notices that his hands are shaking from nerves. He tells himself to man up and pushes the key into the lock and enters.

'Hello?'

Hearing Jack enter Liz lifts her laptop off her knee and makes her way towards the doorway.

'Huh, Jack, I'm a little surprised to see you here? I thought you might be at home with your wife Avery Jessop and your daughter Liddy...so tell me; did you enjoy your walk to work this morning?

'You saw the article?'

'It came up on my Google alerts'

'Liz, you need to know that Avery set me up for those photo's'

'Jack, if you want to call it quits, just say it!'

As Jack looks at Liz, he sees that she has had a rough morning, she is poorly dressed with some serious bed head hair, her eyes are puffy from crying and she looks exhausted. She barely has enough energy to go on but does regardless.

'You want to be friends don't you Jack? You want to go back to the way it was and have it all be normal again?

'Is that what you want?'

As Liz looks back at Jack, looking at him waiting for her answer she can see he's shaking. Liz has never seen Jack vulnerable like this and reaches out to him.

'Jack, you're shaking'

Placing a hand on his cheek she reassures him.

'Jack, you're scaring me'

Breaking away from Liz, Jack takes off his jacket and removes his tie to pop his top button to help slow his breathing. Liz is fixed on Jack's movements as he paces the doorway and she watches while he removes the cufflinks from his shirt.

'Liz, all my life I have been searching for the high power job, a family and the perfect woman'

'What are you saying Jack?'

'Now that I have this, I'm scared to death of losing it. No one is going to stop me Liz, not Hank and those work morons telling me that I'm crazy for doing this and certainly not Avery.'

'What now?'

'I'm not going to let her stop me from getting you pregnant right away...Liz I don't want to wait! I'm not going to have her blackmail me and stop her from me telling the world that I am in love with you!'

Liz takes hold of his collar and wishes that he was still wearing his tie so she could pull him deeper into their open mouth kiss. With barely a gap between their lips Liz mentions Jack's jittering movements.

'Jack, you're still shaking?'

'I'm nervous; this will be a first for me'

'A first?'

'I have never been in love like this before'

'Me neither'

Liz takes Jack's hand and leads him into the bedroom and that night, they did in fact add to their growing family.