I have to say that my thoughts and prayers are with the people in Brussels and Belgium. I am absolutely horrified of what people can do to each other, it reminds me on the terrorists in Paris four months ago. I mean, those people are saying they kill in the name of Allah? Yeah, sure, no. I do know that the Qur'an condemn such things, just like the bible. Acts like that shows us again that we all have to stand together and stand up to show that we won't be intimidated by terrorists, particularly not from terrorism!
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Jane is sitting at a table and is frowning deeply while she is watching her daughter, who is keeping the little boy in Adam's arms busy. Get used to that. Except the fact that your daughter is not a little girl anymore, when thinks to herself and sips her beer. She is a grown woman who is getting married soon. And that you perhaps become a grandmother anytime soon.
"I know that look." Chaz' father Pablo Montoya says and sits down next to her. "I had that kind of frown since the day I knew that Chaz becomes an adult."
She smiles a little and starts to pick at the label. "Has it been any easier because Chaz was a boy?"
"No," he laughs and sighs heavily. "No, not at all, I still see him when he made his fist steps and now he is a father himself."
Jane nods slowly and has to swallow hard. She can see that this man knows where she is coming from. She runs an hand through her hair and chuckles nostalgically. She is watching out for her own wife and finds Maura standing with Chaz mother, she seems to have a similar conversation with the other woman.
"They are nostalgic too." Pablo says and chuckles, shrugging.
Jane looks long at him and drops laughingly her chin to her chest.
He leans back in the chair and is rubbing his hands. "You know, Jane, no matter what kind of girl Chaz brought home, she never was enough for him. Either she was chesty or the completely opposite."
Jane is furrowing her eyebrows now. "You have been skeptical about Leslie too?"
"A lot. She is a attractive woman, you know.
"Well, your son is a handsome man."
"And dewy-eyed when it comes to redheads." The man adds with a smile.
The Italian chuckles amused and sips her beer. She liked the man since they got to know each other and she doesn't mind to show it. "What has changed your mind about Leslie?"
Pablo takes a deep breath and wiggles his brows. "The say Leslie is looking at him."
Jane doesn't need to hear more because she knows exactly what he means. The look someone is having when no one else but the partner is existing for the person. She had it, and still does have it for Maura. And she knows that her daughter is having it for Adam. "I know what you mean." She says absentmindedly and sighs.
Liz is grinning like a Cheshire cat as soon as her godson Damian is smiling at her. "You are really a bundle of joy." She says gently and tickles his belly.
Adam is smiling from ear to ear and is watching the interaction of his fiancée with the boy.
Liz is still smiling like an idiot as she sees that something in his eyes is changing, tilting her head to the side. "What?"
He opens his mouth to say something and suddenly he looks over her head.
"Can I have my son back?" Chaz asks arches an eyebrow.
Adam turns away with the dark-haired boy and shakes his head. "No."
Chaz chuckles and takes Damian from Adam's arms. "You have to make something like that yourself."
"Why? We only have to get rid of you and Leslie." Adam replies and groans as soon as he feels Liz' elbow in the pit of his stomach.
Leslie is joining them and can't wipe the smile off her face as soon as she is laying eyes on the baby. "Hi there." She says and Chaz hands Damian to her.
Li has to laugh heartily and wraps her left arm around her fiancé's waist.
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Adam is sitting in the sand and is watching the sunset. He looks up when the view is blocked from a pair of legs and smiles, taking the offered beer from Liz hand.
She is smiling back at him and sits down between his legs, leaning back against him. "We never have been here since the day with TJ and Sam."
"And Sandy, I think." He adds and she chuckles. "I don't know why we didn't come back until today."
"Me neither." Liz says and enjoys the view, interlacing their fingers. This time they aren't surrounded by a loud bunch of people, this time they are all by themselves.
He is looking at her engagement ring that she is wear all the time so everyone can see that she is already taken. "It was exactly this place where I realized that I was falling hard for you. I told you that I like to spend my time with you, and that I could drown in your eyes."
She is smiling broadly as she turns her head to look at him. "And I said that you are saying all the right words to get into the panties of a woman."
"You did," he chuckles and takes a deep breath. "That evening I did not know that we would get married." He pauses and frowns. "Only two months left to go, Liz."
She looks up and smiles. "Are you going to be the one whose running now?"
Adam is kissing her shoulder and shakes his head. "I could marry you tomorrow already. You are the love of my life."
Liz is looking long and deep into his eyes and she could cry right in this moment, because she can see that he means every single word. And he didn't kill other cops because you broke up with him, the annoying voice in her head adds and she rolls her eyes.
"What?" He chuckles amused and furrows his eyebrows.
She shakes her head and rolls her eyes once again. "It was just -"
"The nagging voice that makes you run?"
"Yes."
He nods and perks his eyebrows. "Did it tell you to run again."
She shakes her head and furrows her eyebrows. "No, it told me that you didn't freaked out after we had broken up."
Adam nods slowly and knows what she is implying in this moment, but he knows better than to mention his name. They haven't had thought for so long about him and he won't change it right now.
He takes a deep breath and holds her tighter. "Can I tell you that I am a little bit nervous?"
Liz is looking up and frowns. "About what?" She can see the answer in his eyes and nods slowly. "I am nervous about that too, Adam. I mean, it is a big step we are going to make."
"Hell, yeah." He agrees and is laughing with her heartily. He looks over her head into nowhere and nods to himself. "I can't wait that we are making this step."
"Me neither." She whispers and is following his gaze. She can feel how her heart is speeding up when she thinks about their big day and the change that is going to happen.
Liz has to smile as she thinks about how supportive her mothers had been as she was breaking her head with the details of her wedding and the advises they had given her. Jane had told her that she had been scared to the bone at the day of their wedding and that she almost had been running off but that Korsak had calmed her down.
"What are you smiling at?" Adam whispers into her ear and smiles too.
"My parents," she simply answers.
"Speaking of, I didn't know that Jane is so traditional."
"What do you mean?"
Adam shrugs and is smiling wryly. "Jane told me that I have to stay away from you for three days before the wedding."
"What," Liz asks with an high-pitched voice and furls her eyebrows, turning a little to him. "That is not going to happen."
"Are you going to tell her that," he asks laughingly.
She makes a pouty face and is slumping back against him. "No."
"We're going to survive three days, Liz."
"We'll see," she mumbles and is crossing her arms over her chest.
Adam rolls his eyes and kisses her head. "Can I ask you something?"
"Everything." She says and inhales deeply the fresh air.
He is hesitating for a moment and has to swallow hard. "I have seen how you act with Damian after the baptism. Do you … do you wanna have children?"
Liz' heart is skipping a beat and she licks her lips. It actually had surprised her that Adam never had asked her this question until now, and she haven't had thought about it anymore. This isn't surprising her too, because she hasn't been with anyone who'd be worth it to think about until now. "I do, some day. What about you?"
"Likewise." Adam answers and glances down at her. "But I want to enjoy the time with you first before we take that step. Do you know what I mean?"
She nods slowly and smiles a little. "Yes, I do."
Adam smiles back and takes a deep breath. "Good."
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Liz is emerging from the bedroom and stops dead as soon as she sees the skeptical look of Adam. "What?"
"Where are you going?" He asks and gets up from the couch.
She is blinking a couple of times a frowns. "To the grocery."
"Now?"
"Yes. Why are you asking me that?"
He is blinking a couple of times and frowns. "Uh -"
Liz is narrowing her eyes and tilts her head to the side. "What's going on?"
Adam's shoulders are slumping and he walks over to her. "Nothing, I just thought that we could spend some time together today. You know, after you had been working all by yourself the whole week."
She smiles broadly and takes his hand in her own. "I won't be gone for too long. I think you're gonna survive an hour or two."
He furls his eyebrows and pulls her against his body. "I thought you're just going to the grocery."
Liz shrugs and arches an eyebrow. "You never know who you gonna meet on the street."
"So you're meeting with Leslie?"
"No," she says and shakes her head. "She is currently too busy with Damian and Chaz."
A deep frown is crawling up on his forehead now.
She is rolling her eyes and stands on her tiptoes to give him a peck. "Calm down, Adam."
"I am calm." He replies but is still frowning.
Liz is chuckling and gets her purse and keys. "Yeah, I can see that. You are totally relaxed."
He chuckles as well and walks back to the couch.
"Should I bring you something?" She asks and looks long at him.
Adam is squinting up at the ceiling and takes a moment. "Uh … No, I am good."
"You sure? It is your only chance."
He is nodding and focuses back on the TV. "I'm sure."
"All right," she says and is about to leave the apartment. "I'll be back in a bit."
Adam is raising his hand without looking at her and stuffs a couple of chips into his mouth.
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Liz frowns deeply and is staring at the screen of her laptop like she is begging it to give her the right answer. She takes a deep breath and runs both of her hands over her face. She already had been working on difficult cases and most of the times she got help from Jane or Frankie, but this one is feeling personal. The female victim has been in her age and had been raped several times.
Somehow, Liz has felt connected with the woman as soon as she got to know more about her and realized that it also could have been her who end up on a autopsy table if she wouldn't have changed her way of life.
"What are you looking at," Adam asks and sits down next to her.
Liz is briefly looking at him and frowns. "The data that Frankie had loaded up on my laptop in my lunch break. I am trying to understand Vanessa."
"You shouldn't let it that close to you." He states and looks worriedly at his fiancée.
"I … don't let it get to me, Adam." She replies and glances long at him and knows that she is only telling the half-truth. "Adam, it could have been me."
Adam is scrutinizing her and isn't quite sure if he is understanding what she is talking about. "What do you mean?"
Liz has a deep frown on her forehead and she leans back. "Vanessa had been going out a lot and exuberant change of sex partners -"
"Stop right there," he cuts her off and turns his body to her after he had closed the lid of the laptop. "You have nothing in common with Vanessa Harrison, Liz. Yes, maybe some things that you did in your private life, but you are not her. Did you have had several sexual encounters after we haven't been together anymore? Oh, sure you did, but -"
"Some idiot could have get that wrong, Adam." Liz is cutting him off now and has her eyebrows high. "I could have met Brian Monroe in that time, and I could have been the one who reject him. And I don't want to think about how many Brian Monroe's are still on the streets. It's not that she only got raped. No, that hasn't been enough. He first at her up, raped her for two days and then strangled her, I quote, accidentally."
Adam is blinking a couple if times and something deep inside of him is telling him that Liz isn't that wrong at all. And that there are still people like Brian Monroe out there, no matter where, and it makes him sick too.
He grabs her hand and is pulling her to him, wrapping an arm around her shoulder. He could say so much about it, but it wouldn't say anything at all. He knows that Vanessa Harrison had lived a excessive life after her fiancé had called the engagement off, just like Liz has done in the past.
Liz is heaving a sigh and put her head on his shoulder and is still frowning deeply. She is glad that he doesn't say anything anymore, because she needs a moment of silence.
