p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"He left. He left with no explanation. Andy watched him leave the parking lot. She wanted him back. There was one more thing she wanted to tell him. She stood there when he was long gone. She didn't feel Vic come up behind her and touch her shoulder. She stood there and waited to see if he was coming back. "Andy, he's not coming back," she encouraged. She was lost for words. He quit his job for her. She didn't want this to happen and it did. She walked off without saying a word to Vic and went for her bunk. She shut the door so no one would try and come in./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"She wanted quiet. She missed him. That pain she felt a couple of months ago returned. This pain was familiar to the last one she had. She had feelings for him. But she was scared to admit it. She cried herself to sleep that night in the bunk. She woke up a few hours later to find the time was 2:00 am. She got up and decided to go home. Everyone else was asleep, so they wouldn't notice her gone. She climbed into her car and started driving. But she didn't go home first. She drove around Seattle. Which brought her to her favorite spot with Jack./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"She got out of the car and looked over at Seattle. She didn't get it. Why did he have to leave her? They had a pact as friends. But for her, that developed into something more. But he wasn't here to hear her say it. She wanted to listen to his voice one more time. But she couldn't. There were a lot of things she wanted again. But he wasn't here. She needed a hug. But there was no one around. She wrapped her arms around her and pretended that someone invisible was hugging her. It still didn't feel real. She wanted her dad back, so she could cry on him. But he wasn't. She was alone. The only other person she could trust was Ben. But he had Miranda./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"She didn't care what time it was. She wanted him back. She lay on top of her car looking up at the sky for another hour. This was her favorite thing to do with him. Lay on either her car or his truck and look at the stars, and listen to the crickets in the background. This is the only thing that helped her cope. She didn't know what else to do. She decided it was time to go home. She threw her keys on the kitchen table, threw her hair into a messy bun, and lay on the couch. She could go into his bedroom and steal one of his shirts that smelled like him./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"And that she did. She grabbed one that was in his drawer. As she put it on, she inhaled the lingering scent of his cologne on the shirt. She sunk into his bed as well. Everything in his bed smelled like him. His pillow, his blanket. Everything. This is where she needed to be in his bed. She slept well that night because she was in his bed. But she wanted him here. By her side. She forced herself to go to work that following day after taking off yesterday. She walked in that morning to find everyone on the apparatus bay working away. She walked into the locker room and put her station uniform on./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Ben looked at Andy as she walked into the locker room. She was a mess. And he knew what was wrong. He pulled out his phone and walked out of the station. He dialed Jack's number in his phone and brought it up to his ear. It kept ringing and ringing and ringing. It went to voicemail. "Jack, I know you won't listen to this voicemail. But you need to fix this with you and Andy. She's hurting but doesn't want to open up to it, because she's hiding something, now I know I can't get through to her but I know you can, where ever you are. Please come back to fix this, because I know there's no way I can," he says in Jack's voicemail box. He hangs up and walked back inside and got back to work before she came out of the locker room to find him missing./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"He returned to stocking the aid car and getting an inventory of what they needed from Grey Sloan. He didn't notice her come out and start walking around. She observed everything they were doing. Every move. But she stopped at Ben. He didn't make eye contact and kept doing inventory. Vic and Travis were bickering about something while doing hoses, Maya was doing her own thing, and Theo was in the beanery. She never said a word to him and stood there for another minute before she went to start on assignments./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"He knew it wasn't like her to stand there like that. It wasn't. He knew something was wrong. He hoped that the voicemail got through to Jack. He needed to fix this. Jack was driving down the road, he didn't know where he was going. His phone was ringing, but he knew it was Andy. So he ignored it. But his phone pinged with a message. It was a voicemail from Warren. He pulled over on the side of the road and decided to listen to it. He hurt her. His heart sank when he found out that he caused her pain. He wanted to fix it. But he was still hurt by what his mom did. He wasn't that far from Seattle. He turned his truck back around and made the drive back./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"He was 3 hours from Seattle. So he had two options. Go to the station or go to their place and wait for her to get off of shift. He chose the safer option. Waiting at the house that they shared until she got home. He unlocked the door with his key and shut the door behind him when he walked inside. He threw his duffel on his bed and took a shower. As he stepped out of the shower, he heard his phone ringing from where it was on the charger in his bedroom. He saw it was Andy calling again./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"He debated on answering. He wanted to tell her he was here. But he wanted to surprise her. He ignored the call and got dressed and decided to find something to eat. He heard his phone go off again in the bedroom, knowing it was Andy; he ignored it. He looked at the sunset going down, which meant he needed to get to bed so he could wake up before Andy got home that following morning. He finished eating his dinner and went to bed. He set an alarm for 6:00 am that following day. He changed and opened his curtain to let the Seattle light come into his room./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"He made a pot of coffee and poured some for him in a mug. He looked out to see the sun rising from under the clouds. He looked at the time on his Apple watch. It was 6:45, Andy was due home in 30 minutes. He cooked himself eggs, hashbrowns, and a piece of toast and started eating. He heard the door unlocking minutes after he put his plate in the sink to clean it. He looked up as she walked in the door. She hadn't even noticed that he was standing there until she heard the plate drop in the sink./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Jack? What are you doing here? I thought you left," she says. "Well, someone influenced me to come back. Because they told me that I hurt you, and I needed to fix that. Because they told me that you weren't the same," he tells her. "I-i-I" she was lost for words. "I know I was angry about my mom only putting me up for adoption. I shouldn't have left. I should've stayed here. With you. With the others. My friends. But there's something more to it," he says. "What?" she asks. "Andy, ever since you first joined 19. I fell for you, I was head over heels. I always pictured myself with someone who understood me and the life I had. I waited over the years to find the one. And you were it. But you were with Ryan. So I couldn't tell you then. And now, is perfect," he says./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"She walked closer to him, to where she was across the kitchen island. "Before you say anything, I understand if you don't feel the same. I do, trust me. I mean, I had to let it out before I regretted it one day," he finishes on what he was saying. "Jack… I feel the same way, but I was scared. And selfish because I let it slide by me when we had conversations. Because I-i I didn't know if I would be perfect with you since it would be my first relationship since Ryan. I was scared because I didn't know how it would go. But I never knew I would find myself right here, with you here. With you it's different. I feel more comfortable. Happier, and if I was with someone else; I wouldn't be happy at all. With you. It's different. We connected ever since I first joined the station, and since my case; we never let go of each other. We had each other's backs, no matter what the situation was; you were there for me Jack Gibson. When I lost Ryan, when I lost my dad, everything," she says./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"He rounds the island, to where he was face to face with her. "And I never lost my feelings for you. Even when I was driving out of Seattle," he whispers. "I never did either," she whispers, looking down and grabbing his hand. "I love you, Jack Gibson," she says, looking up and making eye contact. "I love you too, Andrea Herrera," he whispers, bringing his head closer as his lips brushed hers. He brought his free hand up to her cheek and run it through her hair. They made eye contact before colliding. He brought her body closer to his and he could feel her body heat radiating against his./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"He needed this. This is what he wanted. It was her. Her all along. This is where he needed to be. Creating a life with the one that he thought was right. It was Andy. He knew it was her all along. No matter what, the situation was perfect. Because they were going to be there for each other no matter what the situation was. They both were where they needed to be. Right here, holding each other. Now Jack was happy with what he was going to be coming home to, to her; with her right by his side. They kept their relationship a secret from the others while they were still discovering what they were./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"But they did eventually after 3 months. 3 months is when they knew what they were. Complete. That was the perfect word for it. The word they needed. Complete and loving each other were the best 4 words that described them both. They loved each other, til death does us part. They were a commitment. This is where they needed to be. With each other. She was happier. Happier than she ever was. He made her happy. She needed this. This. They bought a house a year later. They welcomed a furry bundle of joy; Skipper a few months after. After that, Andy found out she was expecting./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"9 months later, they welcomed Parker Ryan Gibson on April 23rd, 2023, born at 5:06 am weighing 8 lbs and 1 oz, 20 inches long. They got married a year after that. They took a different route than what they were wanting but it got them where they wanted to be. Complete. As a family. And a furry one. This. This is what she wanted./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"She wanted quiet. She missed him. That pain she felt a couple of months ago returned. This pain was familiar to the last one she had. She had feelings for him. But she was scared to admit it. She cried herself to sleep that night in the bunk. She woke up a few hours later to find the time was 2:00 am. She got up and decided to go home. Everyone else was asleep, so they wouldn't notice her gone. She climbed into her car and started driving. But she didn't go home first. She drove around Seattle. Which brought her to her favorite spot with Jack./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"She got out of the car and looked over at Seattle. She didn't get it. Why did he have to leave her? They had a pact as friends. But for her, that developed into something more. But he wasn't here to hear her say it. She wanted to listen to his voice one more time. But she couldn't. There were a lot of things she wanted again. But he wasn't here. She needed a hug. But there was no one around. She wrapped her arms around her and pretended that someone invisible was hugging her. It still didn't feel real. She wanted her dad back, so she could cry on him. But he wasn't. She was alone. The only other person she could trust was Ben. But he had Miranda./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"She didn't care what time it was. She wanted him back. She lay on top of her car looking up at the sky for another hour. This was her favorite thing to do with him. Lay on either her car or his truck and look at the stars, and listen to the crickets in the background. This is the only thing that helped her cope. She didn't know what else to do. She decided it was time to go home. She threw her keys on the kitchen table, threw her hair into a messy bun, and lay on the couch. She could go into his bedroom and steal one of his shirts that smelled like him./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"And that she did. She grabbed one that was in his drawer. As she put it on, she inhaled the lingering scent of his cologne on the shirt. She sunk into his bed as well. Everything in his bed smelled like him. His pillow, his blanket. Everything. This is where she needed to be in his bed. She slept well that night because she was in his bed. But she wanted him here. By her side. She forced herself to go to work that following day after taking off yesterday. She walked in that morning to find everyone on the apparatus bay working away. She walked into the locker room and put her station uniform on./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Ben looked at Andy as she walked into the locker room. She was a mess. And he knew what was wrong. He pulled out his phone and walked out of the station. He dialed Jack's number in his phone and brought it up to his ear. It kept ringing and ringing and ringing. It went to voicemail. "Jack, I know you won't listen to this voicemail. But you need to fix this with you and Andy. She's hurting but doesn't want to open up to it, because she's hiding something, now I know I can't get through to her but I know you can, where ever you are. Please come back to fix this, because I know there's no way I can," he says in Jack's voicemail box. He hangs up and walked back inside and got back to work before she came out of the locker room to find him missing./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"He returned to stocking the aid car and getting an inventory of what they needed from Grey Sloan. He didn't notice her come out and start walking around. She observed everything they were doing. Every move. But she stopped at Ben. He didn't make eye contact and kept doing inventory. Vic and Travis were bickering about something while doing hoses, Maya was doing her own thing, and Theo was in the beanery. She never said a word to him and stood there for another minute before she went to start on assignments./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"He knew it wasn't like her to stand there like that. It wasn't. He knew something was wrong. He hoped that the voicemail got through to Jack. He needed to fix this. Jack was driving down the road, he didn't know where he was going. His phone was ringing, but he knew it was Andy. So he ignored it. But his phone pinged with a message. It was a voicemail from Warren. He pulled over on the side of the road and decided to listen to it. He hurt her. His heart sank when he found out that he caused her pain. He wanted to fix it. But he was still hurt by what his mom did. He wasn't that far from Seattle. He turned his truck back around and made the drive back./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"He was 3 hours from Seattle. So he had two options. Go to the station or go to their place and wait for her to get off of shift. He chose the safer option. Waiting at the house that they shared until she got home. He unlocked the door with his key and shut the door behind him when he walked inside. He threw his duffel on his bed and took a shower. As he stepped out of the shower, he heard his phone ringing from where it was on the charger in his bedroom. He saw it was Andy calling again./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"He debated on answering. He wanted to tell her he was here. But he wanted to surprise her. He ignored the call and got dressed and decided to find something to eat. He heard his phone go off again in the bedroom, knowing it was Andy; he ignored it. He looked at the sunset going down, which meant he needed to get to bed so he could wake up before Andy got home that following morning. He finished eating his dinner and went to bed. He set an alarm for 6:00 am that following day. He changed and opened his curtain to let the Seattle light come into his room./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"He made a pot of coffee and poured some for him in a mug. He looked out to see the sun rising from under the clouds. He looked at the time on his Apple watch. It was 6:45, Andy was due home in 30 minutes. He cooked himself eggs, hashbrowns, and a piece of toast and started eating. He heard the door unlocking minutes after he put his plate in the sink to clean it. He looked up as she walked in the door. She hadn't even noticed that he was standing there until she heard the plate drop in the sink./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Jack? What are you doing here? I thought you left," she says. "Well, someone influenced me to come back. Because they told me that I hurt you, and I needed to fix that. Because they told me that you weren't the same," he tells her. "I-i-I" she was lost for words. "I know I was angry about my mom only putting me up for adoption. I shouldn't have left. I should've stayed here. With you. With the others. My friends. But there's something more to it," he says. "What?" she asks. "Andy, ever since you first joined 19. I fell for you, I was head over heels. I always pictured myself with someone who understood me and the life I had. I waited over the years to find the one. And you were it. But you were with Ryan. So I couldn't tell you then. And now, is perfect," he says./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"She walked closer to him, to where she was across the kitchen island. "Before you say anything, I understand if you don't feel the same. I do, trust me. I mean, I had to let it out before I regretted it one day," he finishes on what he was saying. "Jack… I feel the same way, but I was scared. And selfish because I let it slide by me when we had conversations. Because I-i I didn't know if I would be perfect with you since it would be my first relationship since Ryan. I was scared because I didn't know how it would go. But I never knew I would find myself right here, with you here. With you it's different. I feel more comfortable. Happier, and if I was with someone else; I wouldn't be happy at all. With you. It's different. We connected ever since I first joined the station, and since my case; we never let go of each other. We had each other's backs, no matter what the situation was; you were there for me Jack Gibson. When I lost Ryan, when I lost my dad, everything," she says./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"He rounds the island, to where he was face to face with her. "And I never lost my feelings for you. Even when I was driving out of Seattle," he whispers. "I never did either," she whispers, looking down and grabbing his hand. "I love you, Jack Gibson," she says, looking up and making eye contact. "I love you too, Andrea Herrera," he whispers, bringing his head closer as his lips brushed hers. He brought his free hand up to her cheek and run it through her hair. They made eye contact before colliding. He brought her body closer to his and he could feel her body heat radiating against his./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"He needed this. This is what he wanted. It was her. Her all along. This is where he needed to be. Creating a life with the one that he thought was right. It was Andy. He knew it was her all along. No matter what, the situation was perfect. Because they were going to be there for each other no matter what the situation was. They both were where they needed to be. Right here, holding each other. Now Jack was happy with what he was going to be coming home to, to her; with her right by his side. They kept their relationship a secret from the others while they were still discovering what they were./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"But they did eventually after 3 months. 3 months is when they knew what they were. Complete. That was the perfect word for it. The word they needed. Complete and loving each other were the best 4 words that described them both. They loved each other, til death does us part. They were a commitment. This is where they needed to be. With each other. She was happier. Happier than she ever was. He made her happy. She needed this. This. They bought a house a year later. They welcomed a furry bundle of joy; Skipper a few months after. After that, Andy found out she was expecting./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"9 months later, they welcomed Parker Ryan Gibson on April 23rd, 2023, born at 5:06 am weighing 8 lbs and 1 oz, 20 inches long. They got married a year after that. They took a different route than what they were wanting but it got them where they wanted to be. Complete. As a family. And a furry one. This. This is what she wanted./p