Do I need to find a place to hide, I wonder...?

It was another twelve hours before Jess began to stir. Becker almost missed it, having been focusing half-heartedly to what was going on in the room around him.

Connor and Sarah, both in wheelchairs, had been listening to Matt and Danny theorise on why the two men from the future had left the way they had, without a word of goodbye. Abby had been trying to engage Becker in conversation, trying to encourage him to take a break and get some fresh air.

When he felt her hand twitch in his, he thought it was his imagination or wishful thinking or both. It was only when Abby gasped, having seen Jess's hand move, and reached for the call button that Becker realised it wasn't.

Leaning over her, ignoring the doctor and medics that rushed into the room and started fighting a losing battle to get everyone else out of it, Becker smoothed her hair back from her face, watching her intently.

"What's going on?" Out of breath and red faced, having obviously run from his office, Lester appeared in the doorway. "Is she...?"

"She's waking up. I think," Doctor Robson added pointedly, glaring at the people that weren't part of his team and were clamouring around the gurney. "Really, Lester, we can't do our jobs and check Miss Parker is alright if we can't get near her."

Lester nodded, though he looked as reluctant to leave as the others. "You heard the man, people. Outside. We'll wait in the corridor," he added, giving Doctor Robson a look that told him it wasn't up for negotiation. "That'll give you space enough."

"I'm not going anywhere," Becker protested, tearing his gaze away from Jess just long enough to cast a warning glare over his shoulder at the medic who'd moved closer to him.

"Of course you're not." Lester all but rolled his eyes. "The rest of us will be outside."

The following ten minutes were the longest he could remember in recent years. Becker held her hand, watching her face as the medics bustled around him, taking readings and making notes and murmuring things that didn't make sense to him.

Eventually, Jess's eyes fluttered open, her lips parting on a gasp as if she'd woken from a bad dream. She looked around blindly, her brow creasing in confusion as it took a while for her vision to clear.

And the first face she saw was his.

"Beck... Becker." Her voice hoarse through lack of use and a dry throat, the corners of her mouth quirked upwards.

"Hey." Relief flooded his features and he was powerless to stop the smile that arranged his lips in response. "You're going to be okay," he told her quietly, making a promise to himself that he'd make sure of it.

"Con... Connor and Sarah?" Giving him a thankful look when he helped her take a sip of water in a gesture that brought back feelings of déjà vu for both of them, Jess's shadowed eyes were concerned.

"They're fine. Better. Danny came back, just in time." He ran his fingers through her hair, ignoring everything and everyone else.

For several minutes, they just gazed at one another, as if committing the sight of each other to memory. Finally, realising they weren't as alone as she thought when a medic began to change the bag attached to her IV, Jess blushed.

"You don't have to stay," she told him quietly. "You must have things to do."

"Like security stuff?" Deciding he'd bring it up before she could, Becker allowed himself a small, sheepish grin. One that faded as a serious expression arranged his features. "I'm not going anywhere, Jess. I'm exactly where I want to be."

He half expected the wedding band on his finger to disappear when he stepped through the anomaly. Had prepared himself mentally for its familiar weight to disappear.

What he hadn't prepared himself for was for the physical weight of his wife as she threw herself at him once the anomaly behind him had closed.

Becker's eyes closed as he wound his arms around her, memories of a life he'd once thought they'd never have but could now recall in glorious Technicolor crashing over him.

Jess waking up in the medical bay, the bright smile she'd given him when he'd told her he wasn't going anywhere.

Dancing with her at Connor and Abby's wedding, ignoring the smug looks his friends exchanged in favour of concentrating on what he was doing to avoid standing on her toes too much.

Proposing to her on the balcony of their flat as the sun began to set.

Watching her walk down the aisle on Lester's arm, almost but not quite oblivious to the smirks of the three men standing beside him.

"You are an idiot." Her eyes were bright, her cheeks damp. "I remember it now. I remember all of it."

"Me, too." He stared at her intently, his heart pounding in his chest. "God, Jess. I remember losing you."

"You didn't. You saved me." Leaning up, she drew his head down with a hand at the base of his neck, kissing him softly. "I'm here."

"You are." He kissed her again, sweetly with a hint of desperation. "You're here."

How long they remained lost in their own world, they weren't sure. No matter how long it was, it wasn't long enough for two people who remembered losing each other so painfully.

"Oi! You two!" Danny called out from across the room, smirking when they reluctantly pulled away to look at him. "Get a room."

Rolling her eyes, Sarah nudged him in the ribs, earning a half-hearted 'ow' as she threw Jess an apologetic look. "They were having a moment."

"They have lots of moments," Danny protested, grinning down at his fiancée even as he defended himself. "They're almost as bad as Connor and Abby for their 'moments'."

As Connor began to defend himself and Abby, with Matt joining in to side with Danny, Abby, Sarah and Emily exchanged a knowing glance. Asides from Lester, who was watching as always from his office, they were the only ones to notice the newly returned Captain and his wife made their way out of the room to continue their reunion in private.

End.

*happy sigh*

Thanks for the reviews and lovely feedback - I hope you're all happy with the fluff!tastic ending! (C'mon... Really? Did anyone seriously think one of my favourites was going to die and the other was going to have a broken heart? I've only done that, what, once or twice, and I fixed it pretty quick both times! ;))