A/N: Hey everyone! Here you go and enjoy. Hopefully the action will start to pick up.

Disclaimer: Not mine.

Back at the office the team were writing up their case reports. Sam finished hers first, and went into Jack's office to give it to him and ask him about when he went to see Riley. Martin looked after her with a worried glance.

"Hey Jack." she said walking into his office. "Here's the report." She walked over and handed it to him.

"Thanks." said Jack.

"Jack? When you went to see Riley, what did he say?"

Jack sighed, and looked up at Samantha who was looking at him with an anxious look on her face.

"Just be careful Sam." he said not wanting to worry Sam with what Riley had actually said.

Sam looked at him sensing he wasn't telling her everything. But she ignored it deciding she didn't want to know. "Okay. I'm going to head home now."

"Bye." said Jack.

Samantha walked back out into the bullpen where everyone was still writing.

"I'm going now. Bye guys." she called.

"Bye." replied the others. Sam locked gazes with Martin for a moment, and smiled sadly before walking away.

Danny glanced between Martin and Sam and sighed. He had thought they were both so happy with each other- he didn't understand why Sam had broken up with him. He sped through the rest of his report planning to go and talk to Samantha. He handed it into Jack, and walked to his car calling Sam on the way to find out what hotel she was in.

"Hey." said Sam when she opened the door to Danny. Danny smiled and looked at her carefully, noticing the traces of fallen tears.

"Hey." he replied sitting down on the couch. Samantha shut the door and walked over to join him, her shoulders slumped.

"What happened? You were so happy with him."

Sam shrugged. "It was just moving to fast, and with everything that had happened- I just needed to be by myself." she told Danny the same thing that she had told Martin.

Truth was, she hadn't been as happy as she had been in the time she spent with Martin in so long. But she couldn't ask him to give up having a family. He should have someone who could give him everything, someone without all the baggage she had. They both knew that she would never fully get over everything that had happened in her life. Since she had found out about that Perry guy, the nightmares had started to come back, she would never be completely rid of them.

"Really there's nothing else?" asked Danny.

"There's nothing." She lied. If Danny knew he would proably tell Martin, and he wouldn't understand.

"Are you going to stay here?" he asked.

Sam nodded. "I can't ask Martin to move out. I know he won't really want to stay there by himself, but he can stay as long as he wants."

"If there's anything you need, I'm here."

"Thanks." said Samantha smiling at Danny.

Martin sighed as he went into an empty apartment. He missed seeing Sam there even though it hadn't yet been 24 hours. He was sure that there was something else bothering her but he didn't know what. He had thought they were happy. Yes, their relationship had moved quickly but it had just felt so right. He sank down on the couch and picked up the engagement ring that was lying on the coffee table. Holding it tightly, he sighed again remembering when he had given it to her. She had looked so surprised yet so happy, and she had agreed with the widest smile on her face. It hadn't been too long after the incident with Riley and the trial, and she hadn't been smiling a lot the past few months. To see her like that so much joy in her eyes- it made him almost ache with joy and love.

Martin dropped the ring back on the table listening to the small clink it made. He made up his mind to talk to Samantha tomorrow after she finished working (he had the day off) and find out what was wrong.

Samantha yawned, and rolled over glancing at her clock. 7:00. The start of a new day. Getting up she had a shower and got ready and made some of the hotel provided coffee. Grimacing at the taste, she decided to grab a cup at Starbucks on her way in.

Sam got to the office at around 8:15, Vivian and Jack were there, it was Danny and Martin's day off.

"Hey Viv, Jack." said Sam.

"Morning." they replied.

"I just got to go to a meeting with Van Doren, I'll be back soon." said Jack.

"Alright." said Vivian.

Sam sighed and sat down at her desk, trying to sort out some of the paperwork.

"You wanna talk?" said Vivian.

Samantha looked at her, her eyes betraying her feelings.

"You want to go on the balcony?"

Samantha and Vivian walked out onto the balcony, and gazed out over the wide expanse of the city.

"So what's been going on?" asked Vivian looking intently at Samantha, seeing the carefully masked sadness in her eyes. "Why did you break it off?"

Samantha glanced down at the empty space on her fourth finger of her left hand. "With everything that happened, I just need some time to myself. I know it doesn't sound like much- it's complicated Viv."

Vivian sighed. "But you were happy Samantha."

"Yeah I was." Sam whispered mostly to herself. She cleared her throat. "Believe me, it was for the best."

Vivian raised an eyebrow. "Samantha you know you can talk to me. Please tell me what's wrong."

Samantha sighed. "Viv...I can't." Sam internally debated with the idea of telling Vivian, she was a woman and a mother at that which would help her understand the devastating impact of being told that you weren't able to have children. But she was still Martin's co-worker and the others, and she didn't really want to ask Vivian to keep secrets from the others.

"Sam, please."

"After I lost the baby, they did some tests and later some follow up tests. I went to get the results the other day. They said that there was some internal damage...and that I wouldn't be able to have children." she choked.

Vivian was shocked, she hadn't been expecting something like this. She couldn't imagine how crushed Samantha would be feeling. She had been so happy when she had Reggie, there was no feeling like carrying your own child- Samantha would never get to experience that. Poor Sam. She wrapped the taller woman in a hug.

"Please don't tell the others, especially Martin. Please." pleaded Sam.

"I won't." promised Vivian.

Samantha was heading back to the hotel later that afternoon when she had finished working. She felt relieved that she had told someone, glad that she could now talk to one of her friends about it. She was just walking down the street from where she had parked the car about to go into the hotel when a shout attracted her attention. She looked across the road and saw Martin. Martin had called the office a few minutes after Sam left and found that she had gone back to the hotel. He had then called Danny to get the name of the hotel, then driven over so he could talk to her.

Martin looked across the street, it was quite busy so he couldn't cross yet. He saw Sam step out ready to cross on her side. Before he even had a chance to process what was happening, a red Toyota truck pulled up in front of Sam, paused for a few moments and then drove away. Samantha was nowhere in sight.