"This day is going to suck." Julie mumbled to herself as she stared out the car window, her head resting on the cold glass. It was 6:30 in the morning on one of the stormiest days they've had all winter.

"What?" Jerry questioned. It was the third time this week that Julie's car had broken down and he was the only person who would bother getting out of their warm beds before sunrise to take her to work.

"Nothing. Oh there's Mark!" Mark was her partner. They worked together since Julie's first day and they had become close. She knew everything there was to know about him, and he knew everything about her. And by the way he was standing on the side of the road in the middle of a storm told her that he and his girlfriend were fighting again.

Jerry pulled over and let Mark jump into the backseat. The icy wind hit the back of Julie's neck and caused her to shiver. She zipped her jacket up as far as it could go and greeted her partner.

"Hey man."

"Hey Julie. What's up Jerry?"

"Nothing much man just getting up at the wee hours of the morning and leaving my warm bed, my wife and kids to drive you two to work" Jerry answered.

"Stop your bitching." Julie laughed throwing a mitten at Jerry and hitting him square in the head.

"So Mark…trouble in paradise?"

"Man Julie don't get me started, that girl is driving me crazy."

"That's what you say every second day, yet you still go back to her." Julie replied, causing Jerry to laugh.

"Shut up the both of you. Fuck what a shitty day. I really hope he don't get many calls, I have no problem just sitting in that nice warm ambulance all shift."

"You know were not that lucky."

"Yeah I know but a man can hope cant he?"

Six hours and four calls later Julie and Mark returned to the firehall to get changed and head home. The weather had gotten worse as the day wore on and it seemed that everyone was in a bad mood. Julie said a quick good bye to Mark who was on his way to buy his girlfriend something expensive to say he was sorry and headed out into the storm to see who Jerry managed to trick, force or even bribe into heading out in the weather to pick her up. Looking up the road she saw Bobby's car parked on the side of the road, and then she noticed Bobby walking towards her. He walked up to her and took her bags.

"Hey, you ready to go?"

"Yeah I just want to get home and get warm. I swear to fuck my feet are frozen solid."

Bobby put her work bag in the truck and they both got in the car and headed home. Silence filled the car, so Julie decided to break it,

"So what are you up to these days?"

"Same old stuff." Bobby answered. Another silence fell upon the car but this one was slightly more awkward. After a while Julie said,

"I'm sorry about your mom."

"Yeah me too," Bobby said coldly. Julie thought he looked like was about to cry, he kept looking out the side window as if he was trying to hide his face, but of course he never. She felt like she should do something. She knew that he was hurting and a part of her wanted to comfort him. Seeing Bobby, strong, never asks twice Bobby like this hurt her. She wanted to do something, but instead she turned her head, resting her forehead on the glass of the window and watched the snow covered objects fly by as they passed them.

The rest of the trip home was silent.

I want to thank ephona and angelofdeadlydarkness0010 for reviewing andI want to thank The Mercer Sister and Aragorn4ever for the ideas, they are both really good.Thanks again! You guys rock!