New York City at night
Vivian walked back into the missing persons unit. Aimee jumped up knowing that now was the moment of truth time. Had Tony Preston fulfilled his promise or not? Vivian smiled at her.
"She's ok." Aimee sighed with relief and almost collapsed forward into Vivian's arms, sobbing on her shoulder. It was finally over.
City Hospital, LA
Silently along the corridor Sean Mason was wheeled out of the the OR. Dr Kate Turner still in scrubs followed him, keeping a lonely vigil on her best friend. Wordlessly her husband Detective Turner joined her at the end of the corridor, he had concussion and was meant to be kept in over night for observation. However, he'd checked himself out an hour earlier, he would be spending the night at the hospital anyway. He was going to make Kate's vigil a little less lonely.
A beach in Malibu, LA
Jack and Sam sat on a bench staring out at the dark sea as it crashed in on the beach below them. They'd been here for about half an hour, ever since the LAPD had decided they could go. They'd walked out of the hospital, Jack had hailed a cab and told the driver to take them to the nearest beach, explaining that they couldn't go back to New York without visiting at least one Californian beach, even if it was one o'clock in the morning. Ever since they'd got there neither of them had said a word, they drank in the fresh sea air and thought.
"You know I got my divorce finalised day before yesterday." Jack broke the silence, he'd been meaning to tell her ever since he'd signed the papers but what with the case he hadn't had a chance, he didn't even know if it meant anything though.
"I know," Sam replied, wondering why he'd brought it up.
"Oh." Jack didn't know what to say now, not that he knew what to say before that is. They sat in silence for a few minutes more, Jack thought about Sean Mason, about what he'd said in the interview room.
'Yeah with Aimee. I'm not proud of it, I mean even considering the subsequent relationship that developed from it, it was the wrong thing to do, starting another relationship before I finished the first one. Chloe fell pregnant as I was about to tell her it was over. I couldn't break it off then, I mean I was going to be a dad, so instead I broke it off with Aimee. After she miscarried I couldn't tell her either and then she died.'
He'd had an affair with Sam, and like Sean he wasn't proud of that fact. It was the wrong thing to do, starting another relationship before he finished the first one. Sean was dead right about that. However, his marriage had ended just like Sean's had done, albeit for a different reason. Sean had managed to rebuild his life with Aimee, did that mean he could rebuild his life with Sam? How had he gone about doing that? Had he just one day met up with Aimee had told her that he loved her? How had he known that she'd feel the same? Perhaps he hadn't, perhaps he had just taken his chances. Could he take his chances? There were so many complications with him and Sam, there was work and regulations there, there was the fact that Sam might be with Martin, there was Kate and Hanna. What if she wasn't interested? Could he deal with that? He wouldn't know unless he tried.
"Sam I . ." Sam turned to look at him, their eyes met and they told each other all they needed to know. Slowly they leaned forward, their lips met and they kissed gently and lovingly. " . . love you," Jack finished smiling, knowing that whatever problems tomorrow brought, they would face them together.
The End
A/N: I'm sorry that there wasn't that much Jack and Sam in it, I tried to keep it like an episode, this was why I was going to rewrite it. However, I can't so even though it's only a tiny bit of JS goodness it goes back up anyway. I am going to finish my trilogy now I've sorted out my strategy. I'm also working on a one shot and an 'after it all faded to black' for season 4. Hope you all enjoyed.
