Jack walked back over the desert like land, back to his home. He jingled his keys in his pockets to occupy himself. He had left his new ride by the barn, he'd let Dante sort it out for him before he decided to take it anywhere. He finally got home and he went straight inside and headed to the small and dark kitchen. He poured a cool glass of water to swallow down the doctors pills, his head was beginning to ache and he wanted to kill it off before it really got started. He paced around for a few minutes trying to gather his thoughts, and realised he was just bored. To occupy himself he decided to get rid of the broken bolt attached to the door, preventing it from closing fully. He rummaged around in the junk draw and grabbed a screwdriver. He patiently unscrewed all six screws and pulled the metal from the wood of the door, he then closed it, happy with himself for not being as lazy as he usually was, leaving things to fix themselves.

After this he was fully at a loss of what to do, so he slumped down in front of the couch and began flipping through different stations. Nothing caught his attention as being interesting, and as he was about to switch it off his phone rang. He answered without hesitating, "Hello?"

"Jack, its Ramon, fancy going for a drink?"

"Um, sure."

"Great," he said, "I'll pick you up in 15 minutes and well go into town, pull a few ladies.." He broke off chuckling to himself.

"Sure." He said, before hanging up. He pulled himself up and headed to the room to change into something nicer, after all, whenever he went out with Ramon he ended up with some woman, and so he had to look presentable!

Claudia combed the brush through her hair, thinking about tomorrow, Hectors return. She dreaded it and wanted it at the same time. As if on que, Hector walked through her door that very moment.

"Hector!" She exclaimed, excitement, shock, and surprise evident in her voice. She ran up to him and threw her arms around his neck as he pulled her into a close kiss.

"Oh I missed you." He said between kisses.

"Why are you home early?" She asked, still excited by his early return.

"I couldn't bear to be away another minute from you." He said. "And to celebrate my return, I made reservations for tonight." He paused to watch Claudia's smile as he said this, he knew how much it meant to her when he made the effort.

"Where are we going?" She asked.

"Mintello's."

"That's wonderful, thank you sweetheart."

They hugged for a few minutes, before Hector broke away to look around the room. "Where's Sergio?"

"Oh, he's in his room. He has been pining for you every night."

"Iv missed the little fellow, I'm going to go see him, Iv bought him something he's going to love." He said smiling. "Oh, I saw Jack earlier, he wanted me to thank you for him, for helping him last night, after what Ramon did." He explained.

"Oh... he did?" She asked, taken off guard by his mention of Jack. She tried to act normal and remain calm.

"Yeah, he seemed fine. Anyway, I'm off to see Sergio, our reservation is at 8."

With that he turned and left the room. Claudia sat down on the edge of the bed, chewing on her nails, she had just realised what had happened. She was genuinely happy by Hectors return. What did this mean? She knew she had feelings for Jack, she just didn't know her feelings for Hector was as strong. She tried to convince herself that she had put on a great act to fool Hector, but deep down she admitted that there was no acting, she just displayed her true emotions. Silently she sighed, she would see how the next few days went, but she knew that no matter what happened, or how she felt, she could never tell anyone about them, or they would both be killed.