"Did you shoot anyone?" Jess asked when she saw Don return to her apartment. She was stood outside placing rubbish into the bin when his car pulled up and he climbed out. His eyes showed tiredness as he carried an evidence bag with all the things that had been taken in it and shook his head.

"No. Mac wouldn't have let me" Don grinned lopsidedly at her and she smiled back to him

"And then Hannah would have killed you probably. She's upstairs watching Friends. I offered to make her dinner but she declined in a polite manner. She seems a little better however I do keep seeing her looking at her reflection in the mirror" Jess told him. The two of them were stood on the sidewalk as people went passed them every so often.

"She still looks beautiful to me" Don shrugged and Jess kissed him on the cheek

"She's your daughter. You have to think that" Jess said and she inclined her head to the left so that the two of them began to head back up into the apartment building

"Well...yes...true...Anyway, Mac said that the chance of Michaels getting bail is slim due to his repeat offences and all that and I basically told him his life will be made hell until I'm not around" Don told Jess

"Unless Hannah goes into the force and makes his life hell" Jess stated and Don snorted

"I'm not having my baby go into the force...it's too dangerous for her. I don't want that as a career option for her" Don told Jess

"To be fair you have to wonder why we joined...we could have done anything" Jess told him but Don shook his head

"There was never anything but NYPD for me...my dad made me sure of that" Don said and he thought about his old man. The legendary Donald Flack Senior who he rarely saw anymore. He had raised Don to believe that NYPD was the only job which he should have and Don had taken his advice.

"Anyhow...she's doing fine and seems to have calmed down a lot since last night. No doubt this news will be good for her" Jess began to climb the stairs

"Well to be fair, I am kind of fed up of nothing ever going smoothly in life" Don complained

"Part of the job baby...part of the Big Apple" Jess smiled but Don didn't smile back to her. Instead he remained frowning.

"Is something wrong Don?" she asked him as she stood in the corridor.

"The Big Apple is Jess...ever since Hannah's been here from school...well nothing has gone right...nothing at all...she's been kidnapped, had her life threatened, brawl at a party and now she's had to see the place she called home be broken into, not to mention her own father was in a coma for a week...is it really best for us to stay here?" Don asked her and Jess blinked.

"You want to move?" she whispered

"I don't want to Jess. But I've seen Hannah suffer enough recently and I don't know if I can keep doing it...I want my little girl to be safe at all times and at the moment I can't help but think she's always in danger here" Don told her honestly and he slumped against the wall and allowed himself to fall down it so that he was sat on the floor. Jess did the same but she didn't say anything to him.

"When did you start feeling this way?" she asked

"Last night...last night when I had to rock my daughter to sleep and tell her she was safe and nothing was going to hurt her again...he had a knife pointed at her Jess...then I remembered how my wife died because of some psycho and then I remembered how Hannah was captured. Everything came back to me and I just wondered if I could do it anymore. Cope with the worry of wondering if she would be safe" Don explained

"It's natural to be worried Don...but she has a family here...you have a job and not to mention Mark..." Jess tried to persuade him

"But I am her only family here Jess. Mark is moving away to college so God only knows if they'll make it and the job is workable..." Don counteracted all her points

"I'm here Don" Jess looked into his blue eyes

"I know Jess...and I don't think I could leave you now if I tried" he sighed "I love you too much"

"And I love you too Don...but places anywhere else can be bad and have violence...not just here...you've just been unlucky baby" Jess placed a hand onto his arm and he shrugged

"I'm tired of being unlucky. I'm just tired of nothing ever going right" Don told her

"I know baby...but please don't do anything you might regret. Think of what you've built for yourself in this city. This is your. The only place you've ever known. You're friends are here...I know there is a high crime rate Don but maybe this is just a bad streak in your life and things will get better" Jess tried to be optimistic

"But do I want to wait for another bad thing to happen to me or Hannah...or you, Jess?" Don asked her

"But I don't want you to leave" she couldn't answer his question and he sighed.

"And I don't really want to" he told her truthfully "I'll think about it. It has to be Hannah's decision too and...I need your input too Jess"

"Don't go" she whispered "I love you Don but I don't know if I would want to move away...we're not even married Don...it would be a big commitment and one which neither of us is willing to jump into at the moment"

"I know. I know that Jess. I do. But you told me Hannah has to come first right?" Don checked and Jess nodded

"She's your child Don. I've always known she would come first" Jess told him

"So I have to do what is right by her and if it is to leave a place where she doesn't feel safe then so be it" Don said "but...I'm not going to jump into something which we may regret"

"That is all I ask of you Don" Jess kissed him on the cheek softly.