You're Never Alone
Disclaimer: Nope, I still don't own anything.
A/N: Thanks for the reviews! This is my second-to-last chapter, so there's only one more left. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. On with the story...
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She lifted the envelope again and realized that there was more than just paper in there. She tore the top open and looked inside. Jack's ring. He never took this off. She thought to herself, puzzled. She picked up the letter that was inside opened it. She picked up the ring in her other hand and held it as she read the letter. Tears began to well up in her eyes. She needed to go find him. She stood up, grabbed her car keys from her desk drawer, and left a confused-looking Danny behind.
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She hurriedly got into her car and drove off. "Think Samantha, Think!" She repeated to herself. She thought of all the long talks they used to have, while they were curled up in her bed. The talks that would end when the sun rose. "Think!" One night came to her mind...
It was nearly morning and they both needed to go to work. They had been talking all night, and the conversation was still going on.
"You know I ran away too." Jack said as he pulled Sam closer to him.
"Really?" She accepted the pull and moved closer.
"Yeah."
"How come?"
"Well, Hannah had just been born and I freaked!" He took in the smell on her hair, her room, her apartment. They had been lying in her bed, curled up next to each other the entire night. "I mean, she was my first child and, I dunno, I just felt the pressure."
"Where'd you go?" She grabbed his hand that hand been hanging over her waist and interlaced their fingers.
"I went to this place, up by the Hudson. It's beautiful. Nobody knows about it. You go there and all you hear is the sound of the waves. It's like you're not even in New York City. I just went there to get away from it all."
"Did it work?"
"Yeah, it did."
"What'd Maria say?"
"I never told her. I just told her I had gone to some bar." They laughed.
"Why didn't you tell her?"
"I dunno. It was kinda like that was my little secret. Somewhere that I was able to go to, where nobody knew about."
"I see."
"You know, I should take you up there one of these days. How about tomorrow after work?"
"That'd be nice."
"Great. You're gonna love it, I guarantee it."
That was it! That's where he was. Just as he promised, Jack had taken her the next day to see it, and she still remembered the route. She went as fast as she could. Thank god that it wasn't far away.
TBC...