A/N: Thank you everyone for the comments! I'm posting the next few chapters up that I have finished editing, however after that it may take some time til I get new chapters up. I kind of know where I want the story to go, but I just haven't written it yet.
A year later
Jack was walking through the crowded bar of a popular new Denver restaurant. He was meeting Daniel there for dinner. As he searched for Daniel someone else collided with him, he in turn bumped into someone sitting at the bar. "I'm sorry," he replied before he looked down at the person he had disturbed.
"It's okay," was the response from the woman at the bar without looking up at who had bumped into her, it had been happening all night long.
Jack froze as he looked down at the woman. His mind refused to communicate with any part of his body as he stared at her in open-eyed shock.
Sensing that someone was standing over her, the woman looked up. She too froze when she saw who was standing beside her. They stared at each other in silence as the noise and commotion all around them disappeared. Sam was the first to find her voice, albeit barely, "Hi."
Jack swallowed the lump that had formed in his throat before hoarsely whispering, "Hey."
The stare and silence continued for another few moments before Sam was pulled from her trance when a man came up to her arm, "Mí amor, venga. La mesa ya està listo."
Sam tore her gaze from Jack to her companion. When she registered who was speaking and what was being said, she got up and grabbed her coat without looking back at Jack who silently watched her movements not knowing what to do. "Sí, claro…"
As he watched her he knew what he wanted to do. He wanted to grab her and demand where she had been for the past year. He wanted to wrap his arms around her. He wanted to kiss her. But his mind never ordered his body around. Instead he just watched her gather her things and head for the hostess who was waiting for them at the entrance to the bar.
As Sam and her date approached the hostess she stopped and looked back at Jack. His hopes went up in that moment. But as quickly as she had turned to look at him she looked away and turned to her companion, "Vamos de aquí… No quiero comer aquí."
Jack watched as Sam's date reached for her coat and began to slide it on her as he explained to the hostess that they wouldn't be needing their table after all. He continued to stare at the door that Sam had just exited through when Daniel came up behind him, "Jack, come on. I got our table already."
Daniel barely heard Jack, "She was here…"
Daniel looked at Jack and where he was looking at but saw nothing, "Who was?"
"Sam."
TBC
