A/N: Title prompt taken from Torino's Olympics moto. (And, actually in the ep, Jimmy went to a friend's house for the night. That made no sense to me, so here he went somewhere else.)

Passion Lives Here - Heartbreakers Episode Tag (canon)

He'd left her in cyberspace hours ago, but Diana was still dancing to herself and humming as she oversaw the running of Delta City and Old Detroit. As much as she hadn't wanted to lie to him about why it just couldn't be between them, Alex had been right to let Charlie down easily. It wouldn't have been fair to Charlie to tell him the truth, that she'd been unlucky (or was that incredibly lucky?) victim number thirteen of the DogTown Rippers, also known by and large as Doctor Cray Z. Mallardo and Chip Chaykin.

Presently, she ran across the access pathway that the corrupt business pipsqueak had used to get to Alex's OmniCon Classified profile and her eyes widened in disbelief at how much hacking he'd done under the radar. How had she not noticed that?!

Shaking her head, Diana put the information under even more encryption and security locks. They didn't need a repeat performance of this mess. At all.

At home, Nancy was greeted by a silent, darkened house, and a note on the kitchen table from her son.

Mom,
Robocop came and got me, and I'll be at Grandma and Grandpa's house when you get home.
-Jimmy

Nancy stared at the note, wondering what else had gone down while she'd been a guest of that criminal who hadn't seemed entirely sane. Why… or how had Robocop known to get Jimmy out of the house? Why would he have thought of it?

Sitting down in a chair at the kitchen table, Nancy let the questions hang in the air and let the horrors of the previous day wash over her. In the silence of the kitchen, a woman stares at nothing for half an hour.

It had been a very long and trying day.

It is two days before he sees his mother, standing on his grandparents front porch with an odd expression on her face. He'd opened the door with his grandmother's permission to find her there, and Jimmy wondered at the wistfulness in her eyes. "Mom?" And how had she gotten that bruise on her cheek?

"We are all family," she murmured as she pulled him into a crushing embrace. "Family!" They stood there in the doorway for long minutes before her grip loosened and she pulled back to look at him, and saw the confusion. "What?"

"What happened? You went out for groceries and then there was Robocop promising you'd be home soon but I also couldn't stay home alone!"

She blinked down at him, then raised her head to look over his shoulder. "That's a long story, and I'm not sure I understand the why of it either. Can I come in, Dorothy?"

"Of course," his grandmother told her. "Hard day?"

"Yes."

As the door shut behind them, she let him go, but her arm stayed around his shoulders. It was odd and comforting all at once.

The atmosphere at Metro South was hectic as always, Lisa reflected as she set her purse in a drawer at her desk and then stood up again and looked around. For some reason, Sargent Parks was standing at his office door, watching her with a passively blank expression. It was very unnerving, but then he always had that kind of an expression whenever she had a day off and something went strange in her absence. Sighing, she walked over to him. "So, I assume since the station is still here, nothing happened to destroy it, right Sarge?"

He blinked at her forthrightness, then shook his head. "No, nothing like that. Robo acted odd for understandable reasons, but on the whole… everything is fine. How was the conference?"

Lisa smiled. "Boring. There a report to read on the incident?"

"Isn't there usually?"

They were saved from further awkwardness by Gadget suddenly latching onto her and hugging her waist. "Lisa! You're back!"

Lisa laughed and patted Gadget's head. "Yep! Shouldn't you be off to school by now?"

Gadget smiled up at her, nodded enthusiastically. "Wanted to see you first! Going now!"

Lisa watched as Gadget picked up her backpack and ran out the door, dodging police officers and other people as she went. She nodded to the Sarge and returned to her desk. There was a report she needed to read, post haste.

Nancy opened her front door with caution and found Lisa standing there, biting her lip with impatience. "Hi. Aren't you on duty today?"

"I read the report of what happened when I was at the conference and had to see you for myself." Lisa paused, suddenly realizing how awkward that sounded. "How are you?"

"Better now," Nancy answered as she let Lisa in. "And thank you for checking up on me. Coffee?"

"I can't stay long, so no."

Nancy found herself on the receiving end of an impromptu hug and accepted it and the unspoken comfort that was offered.

"Call if you need to talk about it, all right?"

Nancy nodded, and then Lisa was out the door again.