A/N: As always please read and review. Be patient with Carter and Abby. Remember they have been apart for 18 months and separated not on the best of terms. This story isn't all fuzz, life's not always perfect and neither are they…I am trying to keep them as Carter and Abby as I can, but you know that there has to be a little bit of real life in there. This isn't a fairy tale.

Chapter 13: John Carter, I'm talking to you

"What! What did he just do?" The bells went off in my head. Carter did not just walk away from me. "John Truman Carter get back here." I yelled as I got back up onto my tired feet and stormed after him. I let him just walk away once but he was not going to do that a second time. It was time for the two of us to stop running away from each other. There might have been a lot that had gone on between us but I knew in my heart that we were not flogging a dead horse here; there was some sort of spark between the two of us. I also knew that I was not imagining it and he felt it too.

I watched him stop dead in his tracks with his back still to me. "You don't have to turn around but you are going to listen to what I have to say now. Carter I have been more than patient with you. I have been extremely understanding with you." I started trying to keep from yelling so that everyone didn't hear us fighting, if you could call it that. "You are not going to run away from me again. I let you walk away from me in Chicago but all be damned Carter I am not going to let you do it to me again. I love you Carter!"

There was still nothing from John. Not a muscle of his even twitched. I didn't know if he was standing there thinking of what to say or how to get away from the crazy woman who was now chasing after him.

"Carter you are the best thing that has happened to me in a long time. That is not something that I am just willing to throw away with the trash. We might not be able to be what we were in Chicago before everything started downhill, but we can try to start over again and do this the right way." I said to him.

Still there was nothing. What was this man deaf and ignoring me now? "Carter say something, say anything to me." I practically screamed at him now. "This is not the way that this is going to end. I'm not ready to give up on it yet and neither should you."

The silence in that hallway was now deafening. My nerves and patients were shot not to mention the fact that I was extremely tired and having an argument with the man who I had given my heart too. My hopes were starting to sink the longer he went on with out saying anything. What was he thinking? Did he have any idea what he was doing to me? I wished that I could show him how badly all of this was hurting me too.

"Carter, I am not going to blink my eyes and have what I feel for you disappear. You put an ocean between us and I still feel as strong for you now as I did over 2 years ago. We are going to miss out on the best things that ever happened to us because we are too stubborn just to admit it and try to work this out. It's not broken, there's still something here that can be fixed. We just have to work at it John, it's worth fighting for."