'Here goes nothing.' Jack thought to himself as he walked towards the conference table in the middle of the bullpen. It was the start of another week. And from the letter he held in his hand he knew it wasn't going to be any better than the week previous. How they had all managed to get through the week he didn't know? Samantha and Danny had been at each other's throats all week. Well rather Danny had sniped at Samantha at every possible turn while she had sat and taken everything he had said, not answering back at all. "Morning all." He tried to sound as cheery as possible.
"Jack this isn't all. Where's Samantha?" Viv asked, looking at Jack for some sort of explanation.
"That's what I wanted to talk to you all about. I received this letter at home on Saturday morning. Let me read it to you. Dear Jack, I am sorry to do this to you right now but I am handing in my letter of resignation, which is effective immediately. I am just out of a meeting Van Doren and she has okayed it. I can no longer do my job to the best of my ability and feel that working on desk duty, while I have to do it, is not worthwhile. Again I apologise but it's something I have to do. Tell the others I am sorry that I have gone like this. You and Viv have always done right by me and I hope that you know it was appreciated. I understand why Danny is upset but he doesn't know the half of it. Can you let Melissa know that she has starting working in the best possible place. I will miss it but hope you understand why I have done this. Yours Samantha. PS can you ask Viv to bin the key to my apartment that she has. I no longer need it."
"Oh my God!" Was all Viv could find her voice to say.
"I know." Jack replied. "I went by her place on Sunday to try and talk her out of it but she has moved out and no one knows where she has gone."
"Do we treat it as a missing person?" Melissa asked. She felt sorry for the group in front of her. Not only had they lost one colleague but now another.
"No. Samantha is okay. No matter where she is. She will come back when she feels right. This is something we have to let her do." Jack told his new recruit. He looked to Danny. "You okay Danny?"
"Yeah, nothing to do with me." He said, but deep down he was hurting. He didn't want to think he had driven his best friend away. But still he felt angry with her for everything that she had put them all through.